ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Palace. ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. An Orange Grove, near the Palace. ACT THE THIRD. SCENE I. The same. ACT THE FOURTH. SCENE I. The Ante-Chamber to the Queen's Apartment . ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. An Apartment in the Palace. THE ORPHAN ; OR , THE UNHAPPY MARRIAGE . ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. An Ante-Room in Acasto's House . ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. A Room in Acasto's House . ACT THE THIRD. SCENE I. The Garden before Acasto's House . ACT THE FOURTH. SCENE I. A Room in Acasto's House . ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. The Garden before Acasto's House . ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. The Mall in St. James's Park. ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. The Street before Whitehall. ACT THE THIRD. SCENE I. Outside Sir Davy Dunce 's House in Covent Garden . ACT THE FOURTH. SCENE I. A Tavern. ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. Sylvia's Chamber . VENICE PRESERVED; OR, A PLOT DISCOVERED. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. A Public Place. ACT THE SECOND. SCENE I. Before the House of Aquilina . ACT THE THIRD. SCENE I. A Room in Aquilina's House . ACT THE FOURTH. SCENE I. A Public Place. ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. Before Priuli's house . The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. THE MERMAID SERIES. Edited by Havelock Ellis. The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists. Thomas Otway. In Half-Crown Monthly Volumes uniform with the present Work. THE MERMAID SERIES. The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists. The following Volumes are in preparation:— BEN JONSON (3 vols.). Edited by Brinsley Nicholson and H. C. Herford. PATIENT GRISSIL AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by Ernest Rhys, etc. THE PARSON'S WEDDING AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by W. C. Ward and A. W. Verity. DRYDEN (2 vols.). Edited by R. Garnett. CHAPMAN (2 vols.). Edited by Brinsley Nicholson and W. G. Stone. SHADWELL. Edited by George Saintsbury. ARDEN OF FEVERSHAM, and other Plays attributed to Shakespeare. Edited by Arthur Symons. VANBRUGH. Edited by W. C. Ward. FARQUHAR. Edited by A. C. Ewald. THE SPANISH TRAGEDY AND OTHER PLAYS. Edited by W. H. Dircks, etc. LEE. Edited by Edmund Gosse and A. W. Verity. ETHEREGE AND LACY. Edited by Arthur Symons and W. C. Ward. The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.THOMAS OTWAY WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY The Hon. Roden Noel. UNEXPURGATED EDITION. LONDON: VIZETELLY & CO., 16, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1888. "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. |