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Explanatory Notes

 * ignomious: i.e. “ignominious.”—Dyce. Ignomy for ignominy is frequently found. We have it in sc. iii, l. 31.—Bullen.


 * prest: ready.


 * As pearls taste to filthy swine: Dyce and Bullen both emend taste to cast in reference to Matthew 7:6, "Do not cast your pearls before swine."

Prologue (old spelling)
The Prologue.
 * As lately lifting vp the leaues of worthy writers workes,
 * Wherein the Noble acts and deeds of many hidden lurks,
 * Our Author he hath found the Glaſſe of glory ſhining bright,
 * Wherein their liues are to be ſeen, which honour did delight,
 * To be a Lanthorne vnto thoſe which dayly do deſire,
 * Apollos Garland by deſert, in time for to aſpire,
 * Wherein the froward chances oft, of Fortune you ſhall ſee,
 * Wherein the chearefull countenance, of good ſucceſſes bee:
 * Wherein true Louers findeth ioy, with hugie heapes of care,
 * Wherein as well as famous facts, ignomious placed are:
 * Wherein the iuſt reward of both is manifeſtly ſhowne,
 * That vertue from the roote of vice, might openly be knowne.
 * And doubting nought right Courteous all, in your accuſtomed woont
 * And gentle eares, our Author he, is preſt to bide the brunt
 * Of bablers tongues, to whom he thinks, as fruſtrate all his toile,
 * As peereles taſte to filthy Swine, which in the mire doth moile.
 * Well, what he hath done for your delight, he gaue not me in charge,
 * The Actors come, who ſhall expreſſe the ſame to you at large.