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1842-51. B. Field and J. P. Collier, The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood. 2 vols. (Shakespeare Society). [Intended for a complete edition, although issued in single parts; a title-page for vol. i was issued in 1850 and the 10th Report of the Society treats the plays for 1851 as completing vol. ii. Twelve plays were issued, as cited infra.] 1874. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood. 6 vols. (Pearson Reprints). [All the undoubted plays, with Edward IV and Fair Maid of the Exchange; also Lord Mayors' Pageants and part of Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas.] 1888. A. W. Verity, The Best Plays of Thomas Heywood (Mermaid Series). [Woman Killed with Kindness, Fair Maid of the West, English Traveller, Wise Woman of Hogsdon, Rape of Lucrece.] Dissertations: K. L. Bates, A Conjecture as to Thomas Heywood's Family (1913, J. G. P. xii. 1); P. Aronstein, Thomas Heywood (1913, Anglia, xxxvii. 163). ''The Four Prentices of London. 1592 (?) S. R.'' 1594, June 19. 'An enterlude entituled Godfrey of Bulloigne with the Conquest of Jerusalem.' John Danter (Arber, ii. 654). 1615. The Foure Prentises of London. With the Conquest of Ierusalem. As it hath bene diuerse times Acted, at the Red Bull, by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants. Written by Thomas Heywood. For I. W. [Epistle to the Prentices, signed 'Thomas Heywood' and Prologue, really an Induction.] 1632. Written and newly reuised by Thomas Heywood. Nicholas Okes.

Editions in Dodsley^{2, 3} (1780-1827) and by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. iii).

The Prologue gives the title as ''True and Strange, or The Four Prentises of London''. The Epistle speaks of the play as written 'many yeares since, in my infancy of iudgment in this kinde of poetry, and my first practice' and 'some fifteene or sixteene yeares agoe'. This would, by itself, suggest a date shortly after the publication of Fairfax's translation from Tasso under the title of ''Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem'' in 1600. But the Epistle also refers to a recent revival of 'the commendable practice of long forgotten armes' in 'the Artillery Garden'. This, according to Stowe, Annales (1615), 906, was in 1610, which leads Fleay, i. 182, followed by Greg (Henslowe, ii. 166), to assume that the Epistle was written for an edition, now lost, of about that date. In support they cite Beaumont's K. B. P. iv. 1 (dating it 1610 instead of 1607), 'Read the play of the Foure Prentices of London, where they tosse their pikes so'. Then, calculating back sixteen years, they arrive at the anonymous Godfrey of Bulloigne produced by the Admiral's on 19 July 1594, and identify this with The Four Prentices, in which Godfrey is a character. But this Godfrey of Bulloigne was a second part, and it is difficult to suppose that the first part was anything but the play entered on the S. R. earlier in 1594. This, from its