...Sheppard. Jonson says in the Preface to Sejanus (1605), — " Lastly I would informe you, that this Booke, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the publike Stage, wherein a second Pen had good share : in place of which I have rather chosen, to put...

...altered and revised version of it, thus prefaced — " Lastly, I would informe you that this Booke, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the publike Stage, wherein a second Pen had good share ; in place of which I have rather chosen to put...

...altered and revised version of it, thus prefaced — " Lastly, I would informe you that this Booke, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the publike Stage, wherein a second Pen had good share ; in place of which I have rather chosen to put...

...pen. When Jonson had it printed in 1604, he gave the following warning to the reader in a preface : ' This book in all numbers is not the same with that...wherein a second pen had good share ; in place of which lhave ratFe? chosen to put weaker and no doubt less pleasing of mine own than to defraud so happy a...

...company at the Globe Theatre in 1603, we find from Ben Jonson's preface to the play, that it was " not the same with that which was acted on the public stage," the fact seeming to be that Shakespeare or some of the company, but Shakespeare for choice, had inserted...

...book, in all numbers, is not tht same ivith that which was acted on the public stage; wherein a sfcond pen had good share: in place of which I have rather...put •weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine o~,vn, than to defraud so happy a gfnius of his right fry my loathed usurpation.* Wer war dieser glückliche...

...1603. Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, 1 [Sejanus] in all numbers, is not the same with'that which was acted on the public stage; wherein a second pen had® good share: in place of which, I have chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius 8...

...passage de l'Avis aux Lecteurs, où il nous fait part de ce changement : « Lastly I would inform i,'n. that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage ; whercin a second pen had good sharc : in place of which, I have rather chosen to put weaker, and...

...the play, refused to accept gifts even at the hand of the gods. ' I have rather chosen,' he says, ' to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation.' 1 In the whole history of our literature...

...the Reader" of the quarto of Sejanus, 1605, further complicates the subject. This passage informs us that "this book, in all numbers, is not the same with...chosen to put weaker and, no doubt, less pleasing, 1 Casar, n, i, 191 ; The Humorous Lieutenant, iv, iv ; cf. also the similar anachronism in Pericles,...