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 and cheape, any the peculiar & sufficient deserts of the Actors; but rather (whereas many Censures flutter'd about it) to giue all leaue, and leisure, to iudge with Distinction'; Induction, by Asper, who becomes Macilente and speaks Epilogue, Carlo Buffone who speaks in lieu of Prologue, and Mitis and Cordatus, who remain on stage as Grex or typical spectators.]

Q_{2}, 1600. [Peter Short] For William Holme. [W. W. Greg (1920, 4 Library, i. 153) distinguished Q_{1}, of which he found a copy in Brit. Mus. C. 34, i. 29, from Q_{2}, (Bodl. and Dyce).]

Q_{3}, 1600. For Nicholas Linge. ['A careless and ignorant reprint' (Greg) of Q_{1}.]

F_{1}, 1616. Euery Man Out Of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. Acted in the yeere 1599. By the then Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. The Author B. I. William Stansby for Iohn Smithwicke. [Epistle to the Inns of Court, signed 'Ben. Ionson'. After text: 'This Comicall Satyre was first acted in the yeere 1599. By the then Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. The principall Comœdians were, Ric. Burbadge, Ioh. Hemings, Aug. Philips, Hen. Condel, Wil. Sly, Tho. Pope. With the allowance of the Master of Revels.']

Facsimile reprints of Q_{1} by W. W. Greg and F. P. Wilson (1920, M. S. R.) and of Q_{2, 3} by W. Bang and W. W. Greg (1907, Materialien, xvi, xvii).—Dissertations: C. A. Herpich, ''Shakespeare and B. J. Did They Quarrel? (1902, 9 N. Q.'' ix. 282); Van Dam and C. Stoffel, The Authority of the B. J. Folio of 1616 (1903, Anglia, xxvi. 377); W. Bang, B. J. und Castiglione's Cortegiano (1906, E. S. xxxvi. 330).

In the main the text of F_{1} follows that of Q_{1} with some slight revision of wording and oaths. The arrangement of the epilogues is somewhat different, but seems intended to represent the same original stage history. In Q_{1} Macilente speaks an epilogue, 'with Aspers tongue (though not his shape)', evidently used in the theatre as it begs 'The happier spirits in this faire-fild Globe' to confirm applause

as their pleasures Pattent: which so sign'd, Our leane and spent Endeuours shall renue Their Beauties with the Spring to smile on you.

Then comes a 'Finis' and on the next page, 'It had another Catastrophe or Conclusion at the first Playing: which ([Greek: dia to tên basilissan prosôpopoieisthai]) many seem'd not to relish it: and therefore 'twas since alter'd: yet that a right-ei'd and solide Reader may perceiue it was not so great a part of the Heauen awry, as they would make it; we request him but to looke downe vpon these following Reasons.' There follows an apology, from which it is clear that originally Macilente was cured of his envious humour by the appearance on the stage of the Queen; and this introduces a different epilogue of the nature of an address to her. At the end of all comes a short dialogue between Macilente, as Asper, and the Grex. There is no mention of the Globe, but as the whole point of the objection to this epilogue, which it is not suggested that Elizabeth herself shared, lay