materials which will assist the scholar to enter into the spirit of London and of the Smithfield Fair at the time of our play.

A portion of the expense of printing this thesis has been borne by the Modern Language Club of Yale University from funds placed at its disposal by the generosity of Mr. George E. Dimock, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1874.

The only edition of Bartholomew Fair of real importance is that of the second volume of the first folio of Jonson's Works, the title-pages in which are dated 1631, 1640, or 1641. This volume has caused not a little confusion to scholars, because it is made up of several parts originally designed for separate sale, and variously arranged in different copies. Thus Miss Bates in her English Drama1 gives the date of the second volume of the first folio as 1631, reprinted in 1640, and again in 1641; and Ward in his History of the English Drama2 gives the same. But Brinsley Nicholson, after a careful collation, comes to the conclusion that although title-pages in different copies vary, and certain minor dissimilarities occur, these three volumes belong to the same edition. Hazlitt* re-affirms this,

As the copy of the Yale Library on which the present work is based differs in several particulars from the copies collated by Nicholson and Hazlitt, it has seemed worth while to give a somewhat detailed collation.

There is no general title-page, although in some copies that of the first volume of the 1640 folio is inserted.5 Folio. Signatures in fours.

1. Bartholomew Fair has a title-page as follows:

BARTHOLMEW | FAYRE: | A COMEDIE, | ACTED IN THE YEARE, 1614. By the Lady ELIZABETHS | SERVANTS. | And then dedicated 1p. 78.

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22. 296.

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Bibliographical Collections and Notes (1882), 320. "Cf. Hazlitt.

to King IAMES, of | most Blessed Memorie; | By the Author, BENIAMIN IOHNSON. |

Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus: nam
Spectaret populum ludis attentius ipsis,
Vt sibi præbentem, mimo spectacula plura.
Scriptores autem narrare putaret assello
Hor. lib. 2. Epist. I.

Fabellam surdo.

LONDON, Printed by I. B. for ROBERT ALLOT, and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare, in Pauls | Churchyard. 1631. |

Following the quotation from Horace there is a woodcut with device of a wolf's head, erased, etc. Verso of t. p. is blank. This is the first of five leaves preceding B, the second marked A3, the others without signature or pagination. The Prologue to the Kings Majesty, A3: verso, The Persons of the Play. The Induction occupies the next six pages. The play begins B, p. 1, and ends M, p. 88.

Following Bartholomew Fair are:

2. The Staple of News, Aa, [p. 1], changed after Cc2 to a single letter,-I, [p. 76]; I has six leaves.

3. The Devil is an Ass, [N, p. 91]-Y, p. 170. The pagination and signatures indicate that this should have followed immediately after Bartholomew Fair. Pp. 89, 90, between the plays, are omitted. These three plays have separate t. pp., and were printed by I. B. for Robert Allot, 1631. Hazlitt says they are usually found in a volume together, and that they were doubtless intended by Jonson to supplement the folio of 1616.

4. Christmas, his Masque, etc., no t. p., Underwoods, t. p. London, Printed MDCXL, and Mortimer, t. p. Printed MDCXL: B, p. 1-Qq, p. 292. R, Y, and Pp have each but two leaves. There are also a few irregularities in the pagination of this and some of the following sections of the folio.

5. Horace, the English Grammar, t. pp. Printed MDCXL, and Timber, t. p. London, Printed MDCXLI: [A], p. 1—R, p. 132. L has but two leaves.