...or whether it was something introduced in the printed version of 1605 which, as Jonson advertised, 'in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage' (Epistle, To the Readers). It is clear, however, that Eastward Ho did not come before the Master of...

...the rest, as Sueton, Seneca, etc. the chapter doth sufficiently direct, or the edition is not varied. Lastly I would inform you, that this book, in all...good share : in place of which I have rather chosen, 14 observations upon Horace: lost in Jonson's fire 16 elocution: 'an applying of apt wordes and sentences...

...direct, or the edition is not varied. 35 Lastly, I would inform you that this book, in all numbers0, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage, wherein a second pen had good share;0 in place of which I have rather chosen to put weaker — and no doubt less pleasing — of...

...the version acted by the King's Men because "a second Pen had good share" in the text of the latter: "in place of which I have rather chosen, to put weaker (and no doubt lesse pleasing) of mine own, then to defraud so happy a Genius of his right, by my lothed usurpation"...

...texts. Jonson tells the reader of Sejanus that, like the printed text of Every Man Out, "this Booke, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the publike Stage,"69 and he goes on to explain that whereas the 1603 staged version of the play had been...

...Chapmanl. As he notified readers of the 1605 Quarto, Lastly I would inform you that this book, in all its numbers, is not the same with that which was acted...on the public stage, wherein a second pen had good show: in place of which I have rather chosen to put weaker (and no doubt less pleasing) of mine own,...

...informe you. that this Booke. ín all numhers. is not the same with that which was acted on the publike Stage. wherein a second Pen had good share: in place of which 1 have rather chosen. to put weaker iand no doubt lessepleasing1of mine own. then to defraud so happy...

...contains "more than hath been Publickely Spoken or Acted," while the former states that "this Booke, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the publike Stage."4 According to this view, the publication of the Workes in 1616 is only the culmination...

...contributions of other playwrights ('this Booke ... 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 . . . put . . . mine own'); he also chose, sometimes, to print quotation marks around what he decided...

...depicted eleven years earlier when he informed readers of the Sejanus, His Fall quarto 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...