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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10

Chapter 71: THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE.
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This collection brings together five early modern stage plays that move between tragicomedy, historical drama, satire, and romantic comedy. One play stages courtly intrigue and contested honor around a widowed ruler and the violent aftermath of an affront. Another dramatizes military conflict and a defiant leader resisting occupation, emphasizing courage and loyalty under strain. A farcical piece deliberately undermines theatrical conventions, inserting self-conscious parody and comic interruption into its narrative. Romantic entanglements, mistaken identities, and journeys of reconciliation supply light comic texture in one play, while the final drama examines marriage and political settlement through intertwined relationships. Across the volume the language shifts from elevated rhetoric to earthy comedy, blending lively dialogue, song, and stagecraft.

THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE.

A = First Folio. B = Second Folio.

p. 321, ll. 3 to end of page, not in A.
l. 34. B] matchlesess.

P. 323, l. 24. A] believe ye.

p. 324, l. 24. B] goverment.
l. 38. B] force,

p. 325, l. 18. B] meu.

p. 326, l. 9. B] envy,
ll. 33, 34. B] it. That

p. 327, ll. 17, 18. B] spirit. With

p. 328, l. 14. B] now I.
l. 36. B] enough, and

p. 330, ll. 7, 8. B] you. So

p. 331, l. 2. B] happy King [no exclamation mark].
l. 17. A] fool. [instead of comma].
l. 18. A] Vil. Grown...
l. 27. B] chice.

p. 332, l. 8. A] tume.
l. 26. B] I.
l. 27. B] of.

p. 333, l. 8. B] All.

p. 334, l. 7. B] sits.
l. 14. A] are five.
l. 25. A] which one.
l. 33. B] death of victory.

p. 336, l. 23. A] recover with my friend; his.
l. 30. A] with her.

p. 337, l. 31. B] righ. A] right, fir'd.

p. 338, l. 17. B] sail-boy.

p. 340, l. 9. B] all.
l. 18. A] dispaires.
l. 37. B] dyating.
l. 40. A] The infamous.

p. 343, l. 18. A] You shall.
l. 22. A] ake, hoy.

p. 344, l. 7. A] Trumpet.

p. 346, l. 11. A] Candy.

p. 347, l. 34. A] faire, but by.
l. 36. A] But to.

p. 348, l. 15. B] Hohoys.

p. 349, l. 24. B] Assca.

p. 350, l. 6. A] on. Unbolt him.
l. 19. A] I admire.

p. 351, l. 11. B] thau.
l. 34. B] self some.
l. 39. A] Go in,

p. 352, l. 20. A] angers.
l. 35. A adds stage direction] She claps on all her Oares.
l. 37. B omits] Mast.

p. 353, l. 21. A] I hurt.
l. 33. B omits the words in brackets.

p. 354, l. 2. A] her; come, cut.

p. 355, l. 14. B] Rom.
l. 20. A] it might,
l. 31. B] roar?

p. 356, l. 5. A] so low.
1. 35. A] Of a.

p. 357, l. 5. A] Ha? who.
ll. 8, 9. B] deserve. Your
ll. 13, 14. B] feel. The
l. 27. A omits] our.
l. 34. A] all the men.

p. 358, l. 12. A] my most lov'd.

p. 359, l. 5. B] disguise. our
l. 8. B] you; is A] made knave.
ll. 10, 11. B] off. And
l. 21. B] laugh;
l. 31. A adds stage direction] En. Citizens severally.
l. 37. B] bush he.
l. 38. A] gallants, now be.

p. 360, l. 30. A omits] save.

p. 361, l. 15. B] b.
l. 25. B] commendatinos.
l. 28. A] wear a face ... fellowes comming.
l. 38. A] shew your.

p. 362, l. 3. A] 'em; no, no.
l. 7. B] slaevs.
l. 37. B] distur'd.

p. 363, l. 6. A] swing.
l. 12. B] Knaves Will.

p. 364, l. 36. B] here.

p. 367, l. 3. A] men of.
l. 13. B] one;

p. 368, l. 30. A] me that it's.
l. 34. B] wonder l.

p. 369, l. 29. B] love:

p. 370, l. 2. B] then:
l. 10. A] thee Tirant,

p. 371, l. 11. A omits] a.
l. 28. A] not thou.

p. 372, l. 5. A omits] are.
ll. 10, 11. B] ashes I.

p. 374, ll. 22, 23. B] up. Most
ll. 33, 34. B] heart. And

p. 375, l. 20. B] Goverment

p. 376, l. 10. B] matter:

p. 379. l. 37. B] (Blest opportunity).

p. 380, l. 22. A] friends would.
l. 30. A] turn.
l. 31. B] propogate.

p. 382, l. 20. A] accus'd.

p. 383, l. 11. A omits stage direction.

p. 384, l. 17. B] Jnl.

p. 389, l. 5. A] erst we.

p. 390, l. 3. B] Bortsw.

p. 391, l. 12. A] let 'em.
ll. 12, 13. B] rejoycing. Just
l. 25. A omits] Doct.
l. 26. A] Doct. 'Tis.

p. 392, l. 33. A omits stage direction.

p. 393, l. 9. B] you.
l. 17. A] a strict and excellent.
l. 18. A omits] Sir.

p. 394, l. 26. B gives this line to Asca., two lines above, after in earnest Sir.

p. 395, l. 5. A] One of crying Liberty and freedome.
l. 18. B] Boatswine.
l. 23. B] liberty, liberty?
l. 33. A] womans.

p. 396, l. 9. B] do not.
l. 37. A] That is to put her.

p. 397, l. 17. A] it the.
l. 38. A] name ever.

p. 398, l. 18. A omits stage direction.

p. 399, l. 6. B] Pond.
l. 26. A prints Boy in roman, thus: Boy he.
l. 37. B] fit.

p. 400, l. 35. B] pefect.

p. 402, l. 29. B] Mer.

p. 403, l. 23. B] Sorns.

End of Vol. Vi.


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Transcriber's Notes:

Simple typographical and spelling errors were corrected.