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Excerpt from The Shoemakers Holiday: A Comedy In 1618 a third edition of the Shoemakers' Holiday was pu lblished (at London, Printed for John Wright, and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Bible, without New-gate. Two copies of this edition (c) have been accessible to us, the one preserved in the Bodleian Library (malone, the other con tained in a miscellaneous volume, belonging to the Municipal Li brary of Dantzic (comoediae Anglicanas XVII. F. 5. Of the latter Professor Elze, Halle, had a careful transcript made, which he with his wonted liberality put at our disposal. (a glance at the readings of C shows that B was the basis of it} Common mistakes occur I. I. 197, 198 of f. In, and in f. Of, II. 5. 10 (stage-dir.) Homer f. Horns, 1v. 2. 1 a'owne om. Cp., besides, IV. 5. 137 pasta f. Passe, ib. Pz'na'y-pmyl f. Pz'na'y-panajx, V. 2. 190 a'oor f. A'oores, V. 5. 73 then f. Tlzem, ib. 5. 174 this f, feasts, ih. 197 words f. Sportes, ib. 198 we f. Warres. On the other hand, C offers a number of readings differing from ab. But as most of them are either arbitrary or insignificant, we have fixed upon the reading of C only in those cases in which both A and B are in the wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.