A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 · Chapter 2Preface to the Former Edition.[1
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This play agrees perfectly with the description given of it in the title; it is certainly a most pleasant conceited comedy, rich in humour, and written altogether in a right merry vein. The humour is broad and strongly marked, and at the same time of the most diverting kind; the characters are excellent, and admirably discriminated; the comic parts of the play are written with most exquisite drollery, and the serious with great truth and feeling. Of the present piece there were seven editions, within a short period, with all of which the present reprint has been carefully collated, and is now, for the first time, divided into acts and scenes.
OLD MASTER ARTHUR. OLD MASTER LUSAM. YOUNG MASTER ARTHUR. YOUNG MASTER LUSAM.[2] MASTER ANSELM. MASTER FULLER. SIR AMINADAB, a Schoolmaster. JUSTICE REASON. BRABO. HUGH, Justice Reason's Servant. PIPKIN, Master Arthur's Servant. Boys, Officers, &c. MISTRESS ARTHUR. MISTRESS MARY. MISTRESS SPLAY. MAID.
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