. Representative English comedies, with introductory essays and notes, an historical view of our earlier comedy . e original fromwhich the idea of Miltons Comus might be borrowed, I communi-cated to Mr. Reed. . Only a single copy of his [j/V] OldWives Tale has hitherto appeared, and even that is at present out ofmy reach. . ^ As to the rhythmic structure, E. Penner notes ^that of 964 lines of this play 192 are five-stress or ordinary heroicverse, 7 are hexameters, and lOO short verses. The rest is best edition is, of course, that of Bullen, in 3 vols., i888-[B];but there were excelle
. Representative English comedies, with introductory essays and notes, an historical view of our earlier comedy . e original fromwhich the idea of Miltons Comus might be borrowed, I communi-cated to Mr. Reed. . Only a single copy of his [j/V] OldWives Tale has hitherto appeared, and even that is at present out ofmy reach. . ^ As to the rhythmic structure, E. Penner notes ^that of 964 lines of this play 192 are five-stress or ordinary heroicverse, 7 are hexameters, and lOO short verses. The rest is best edition is, of course, that of Bullen, in 3 vols., i888-[B];but there were excellent editions by Dyce, one in 1828 fF., andanother in i86i-[Dy.]. The present text of The Old Wives*Tale is from the 1595 quarto in the British Museum; the title-page is, with the exception of the vignettes, a fair representation ofthe original. F. B. GUMMERE. 1 G. P. Untersuchungen, etc., Rostock, 1862, pp. 62 ff. 2 Biogr. Mem. of the late Jos. fVarton, DD., London, 1806, p. 398. 3 Metrische Untersuchungen -zu George Peele, in the Archi-v fur das Studium d. neuerenSpracben,&tc. (1890), LXXXV. THE Old Wiues Tale A pleafant conceited Come- die played by the Queenes Ma- iefties players Written by G. P. VIGNETTE Printed at London by John Danter^ and are to be fold by Raph Hancocke^ and lohn Hardie, 1^95- [The Persons of the Play* Sacrapant. First Brother, named Calypha. Second Brother, named Thelea. eumenides. Erestus. Lampriscus. Huanebango. Corebus. WiGGEN. Churchwarden. Sexton. Ghost of Jack. Friar, Harvest-men, Furies, Fiddlers, etc. Delia, sister to Calypha and Thelea. Venelia, betrothed to Erestus. Zantippa 1 ^ * \daughters to Lampriscus. Celanta, j ^ Hostess. Antic. Frolic. Fantastic. Clunch, a smith, Madge, his wifeS^ * Not in inserted by Dy. On the history of the characters see Appendix A. The Old Wives Tale.
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