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CONTENTS.

THOMAS DEKKER.

THE OLD FORTUNE THEATRE.

THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY; OR A PLEASANT COMEDY OF THE GENTLE CRAFT.

THE HONEST WHORE. IN TWO PARTS. Part the First.

THE HONEST WHORE. Part the Second.

THE PLEASANT COMEDY OF OLD FORTUNATUS.

THE WITCH OF EDMONTON.

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Note

Title: The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.

Unexpurgated Edition

Author: Thomas Dekker

Editor: Ernest Rhys

Language: English

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THE MERMAID SERIES.

Edited by Havelock Ellis.

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The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.

Thomas Dekker.

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In Half-Crown Monthly Volumes uniform with the present Work.

THE MERMAID SERIES.

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.

The following comprise the earlier Volumes of the series:—

MARLOWE. Edited by Havelock Ellis. With a General Introduction by J. A. Symonds.

MASSINGER. Edited by Arthur Symons.

MIDDLETON. With an Introduction by A. C. Swinburne.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER (2 vols.). Edited by J. St. Loe Strachey.

CONGREVE. Edited by Alexander C. Ewald.

DEKKER. Edited by Ernest Rhys.

NERO and other plays. Edited by H. P. Horne, etc.

WEBSTER & CYRIL TOURNEUR. Edited by J. A. Symonds.

SHIRLEY. Edited by Edmund Gosse.

BEN JONSON (2 vols.). Edited by C. H. Herford.

OTWAY. Edited by the Hon. Roden Noel.

THOMAS HEYWOOD. Edited by J. A. Symonds.

FORD. Edited by Havelock Ellis.

ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM, and other Plays attributed to Shakespeare. Edited by Arthur Symons.

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.
THOMAS DEKKER

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,
By Ernest Rhys.

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“I lie and dream of your full Mermaid wine.”—Beaumont.

UNEXPURGATED EDITION.

LONDON:
VIZETELLY & CO., 42, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1887.

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“What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been
So nimble, and so full of subtle flame,
As if that every one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And had resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.”
Master Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson.
“Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?”
Keats.

LONDON:
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

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