Mucedorus Q3: Collation

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[Q1]: Mucedorus Q1 (1598)
[Q3M]: Mucedorus Q3 (1610)
[Q3 Corrected]: Transcription of Mucedorus Q3, corrected by Sofia Spiteri
[Q16]: Mucedorus Q16 (1663)
[Tyrrell]:
Tyrrell, Henry. Mucedorus. The Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare. London and New York: John Tallis, 1853 . 350–372.
[Hazlitt]:
Hazlitt, W. Carew. Mucedorus. A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744. 4th ed. Vol. 7. London: Reeves and Turner, 1874.
[Tucker Brooke]:
Tucker Brooke, C.F. Mucedorus. The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. Rpt. 1929. 103–126.
[Baskervill]:
Baskervill, Charles Read, Virgil B. Heltzel, and Arthur H. Nethercot. Mucedorus. Elizabethan and Stuart Plays. New York: Henry Holt, 1934. Rpt. 1957. 525–552.
[Fraser]:
Fraser, Russell A. and Norman Rabkin. Mucedorus. Drama of the English Renaissance I: The Tudor Period. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1976. 463—480.
[Jupin]:
Jupin, Arvin H. A Contextual Study and Modern-Spelling Edition of Mucedorus . New York: Garland, 1987. The Renaissance Imagination 29.
[Bate]:
Bate, Jonathan and Eric Rasmussen. Mucedorus. William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 503—550. WSB aaac460.
[This edition]: This edition, edited by Sofia Spiteri.
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England—nay, the world—admires,
Q3M:
England; nay, the World admires:
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doe? thus
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doe, thus
Q16:
do: Thus
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a white Beare.
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the white Bear.
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My name:
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My name?
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My name,
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What plain Mouse.
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What, plain Mouse?
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Why do
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Why, do
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King of the land, I neuer see him.
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King of the whole land! I never saw him.
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young Prince Prisoner.
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young prisoner,
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your
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our
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could
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should
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name?
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name.
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feede on fancies
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feed our fancies
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commander within these woods,
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commands within these woods?
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my
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his
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Mu.
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Ama.
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halfe an houre.
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my comfort in the cold,
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the comfort of my cold,
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Amadine.
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Amadine–
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with
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to
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Asse are you:
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ass are you.
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ass are you?
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Exeunt.
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Nor
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For
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my
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the
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looking about, hastily takes
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looking about hastily, takes
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words, I thirst to sucke thy bloude?
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words. I thirst to sucke thy bloud
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words? I thurst to suck thy blood.
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how
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now
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force:
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force?
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strike;
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strike!
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Shall I spare her Bremo? Spare her, do not kill, Saith spare her, which neuer spared any.
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Saith, spare her Bremo, spare her, do not kill: Shall I spare her that never spared any?
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one certaine thing
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on certain things
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him,
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it
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goes
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runs
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Why
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Why,
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How,
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How?
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Shepheard?
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Shepherd;
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Why,
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Why
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Thou not decieuʼst me; I euer thought thee / What I find thee now, an vright loyall man.
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Thou not deceivest me, / I ever thought thee what I find thee now, / An upright loyal man.
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thee?
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her?
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die.
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die?
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Away I say,
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Away, I say
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Reason, some
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reason, soon
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your
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spare
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save
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it
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he
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any
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any,
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A
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Ah
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neuer, is my
Q16:
never it is
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Amadine.
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Amadine?
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so.
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no.
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no.
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so.
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we
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heere a Shepheard standes,
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a second here,
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sees
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saies
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Thou sot,
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Then (Sot)
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deare
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Oh impudent; a Shepheard, and so insolent?
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Oh impudent, a shepheard and so insolent.
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Oh impudent! A Shepherd and so insolent.
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we
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he
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pastimes, you
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pastimes you
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combining
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combined
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heart
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head
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Fiend,
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friend,
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your
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our
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desertfull
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deceitful
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Yon splendant Maiestie hath feld my sting,
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sir?
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sirrah?
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sir,
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sirrah;
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sir,
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to sirrah,
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cald?
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callʼd;
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so
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of
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Why
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Whatʼs that same King,
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What is that King,
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doubts;
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doubts,
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doubts:
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thinke
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have
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Sire;
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Sir,
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Golden treasures:
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golden tresuries,
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gold and treasures:
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and
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if
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sight-fort;
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sight forʼt,
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Least
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Lest
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praue
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braue
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prove
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lieue
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live
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you?
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you.
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A Shepheard (Lady)
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A Shepherd, Ladie!
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desgusseth
Q3 Corrected:
disguiseth
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discloseth
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Let the musicke cease
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Musick ceaseth
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In Q16, this stage direction is placed to the right with a curly bracket next to it. The word Musick appears next to the final line of the Kingʼs speech, while ceaseth appears next to the first line of Roderigoʼs speech.
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Muc.
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In Q16, this speech is attributed to Anselmo as a continuation of his previous speech.
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True my Anselmo, both thy Lord and friend
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Ans.
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Because Q16 attributes the previous lines of speech to Anselmo as well, his speaker tag on this line is omitted.

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Sofia Spiteri

Sofia Spiteri is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Victoria. During the summer of 2023, she had the opportunity to work with LEMDO as a recipient of the Valerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Award (VKURA). Her work with LEMDO primarily includes semi-diplomatic transcriptions for The Winterʼs Tale and Mucedorus.

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Witnesses

Baskervill, Charles Read, Virgil B. Heltzel, and Arthur H. Nethercot. Mucedorus. Elizabethan and Stuart Plays. New York: Henry Holt, 1934. Rpt. 1957. 525–552.
Bate, Jonathan and Eric Rasmussen. Mucedorus. William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 503—550. WSB aaac460.
Fraser, Russell A. and Norman Rabkin. Mucedorus. Drama of the English Renaissance I: The Tudor Period. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1976. 463—480.
Hazlitt, W. Carew. Mucedorus. A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744. 4th ed. Vol. 7. London: Reeves and Turner, 1874.
Jupin, Arvin H. A Contextual Study and Modern-Spelling Edition of Mucedorus . New York: Garland, 1987. The Renaissance Imagination 29.
Mucedorus Q1 (1598)
Mucedorus Q16 (1663)
Mucedorus Q3 (1610)
This edition, edited by Sofia Spiteri.
Transcription of Mucedorus Q3, corrected by Sofia Spiteri
Tucker Brooke, C.F. Mucedorus. The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. Rpt. 1929. 103–126.
Tyrrell, Henry. Mucedorus. The Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare. London and New York: John Tallis, 1853 . 350–372.

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