o ax 1 LIBRARY OF THK University of California. Class f5l9 CASE V. B ^ Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from Microsoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/contractofmarriaOOmerbrich C!)e Cutior jFacstmilc Ccrtg ^ Contract of iHarriage bettoeen Igatt anb Wi0liom Written, c. 1579 [B.ilf. ^^^. Af^.S. 26,782] Reproduced in Facsimile, ^909 Under the Supervision and 'Editorship of JOHN S. FARMER a Contract of jMarrmse ftettoeen [c- 1579] OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Issued for Subscribers by T. C. & E. C. JACK, 1 6 HENRIETTA STREET LONDON, W.C.: AND EDINBURGH MCMIX ^0%^^ a Contract of i^arriage licttoeen Wit anti mt0tiom This play exists in manuscript only. The original is national property, and is press-marked in the British Museum Catalogue Add. MSS. 26,782. The probable date of the play is c. 1 579. The MS. is a small quarto volume, containing thirty-two leaves^ measuring ^\ by d inches. For other points of interest the student may consult the ''^Shakespeare Society's'' reprint of the play, as also that published more recently by " The Early English Drama Society:' Mr, y. A. Herbert (Manuscript Department, British Museum), after comparing this facsimile with the original, says, " The reproduction is quite excellent. There are two or three places only where the readings are a little plainer in the MS. ; more often it is the other way about. The ^ V. 27* at top of title-page is in red; the marks next ' \ini\printed ' on same page are in different ink, later ; the ^ e' of *■ knowe ' {foL 20 verso, last line but one) is partly lost, but still legible ; and fol. 25 recto, the ink showing through from the other side, is rather too dark in places, especially in the words * list^ ' honour^ ' halfepeny.' " JOHN S. FARMER. 189314 ,utA-»..ti*(r;/s«!f7- .- ■,: sc'saaaat*.. 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