The First and Second Parts of the Fair Maid of the West; Or, a Girl Worth Gold - Professor Thomas Heywood

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...speech of the first speaker conveys this needful intelligence to the auditory. Page 56, line 31. Enter Bess, &c i.e., on board her victorious ship, off Fayal, as we find just afterwards. Page 58, line 16. The man that ought the field. i.e., owued (or owed, as it was often printed) the field. So in Beaumont and Fletcher's " Double Marriage," act iii., sc. 3--" She did it for her husband, and she ought it." Page 59, line 2. A piece. A piece of artillery is discharged from the ship, against the church at Fayal. Page 59, line 10. Bounce, quoth the gun. Misprinted guns in the old copy; but only one gun seems to have been fired. Page 59, line 28. Up with your fights. Fights were, technically, defences placed round the ship, to protect the crew on deck. Page 60, line 28. Now, you Don Diegos. The allusions to this dirty exploit of a Spaniard in St. Paul's are innumerable in our old dramatists, and for many years it continued a subject of reproach and laughter. See Middleton's " Blurt, Master Constable," act iv., sc. 3; Dekker and Webster's "Sir Thomas Wyatt," 1607; "Beaumont and Fletcher's "Captain," act iii., sc. 2, &c. Those who wish for a more minute explanation of the matter may consult the Kev. A.Dyce's edition of Webster's Works, ii., 298, and iv., 293. Page 61, line 15. I am a London, bound for Barbary. The measure is complete, but the word " merchant," after " London," is necessary for the sense. Perhaps we ought to read Londoner. Page 62, line 14. This omitted stage-direction (as well as some others not specified) is clearly required. Page 63, line 12. The words "Act long" are inserted to show that, in order to make due preparation'for what follows, the interval be...