Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE WORKS
OF
THOMAS MIDDLETON.

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VOL. III.

CONTAINING

THE HONEST WHORE. (PART I.)
THE HONEST WHORE. (PART II.)
THE WITCH.
THE WIDOW.
A FAIR QUARREL.
MORE DISSEMBLERS BESIDES WOMEN.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN,
46 St. Martin’s Lane.

THE WORKS

OF

THOMAS MIDDLETON,

=Now first collected,=

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR,

AND

NOTES,

BY

THE REVEREND ALEXANDER DYCE.

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_IN FIVE VOLUMES._

VOL. III.

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LONDON:

EDWARD LUMLEY, CHANCERY LANE.

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1840.

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THE HONEST WHORE.
(PART FIRST.)

_The Honest Whore, with, The Humours of the Patient Man, and the Longing Wife. Tho: Dekker. London Printed by V. S. for John Hodgets, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules church-yard._ 1604. 4to. Other eds. in 1605,[1] 1615, 1616, 1635, 4to.

It has also been reprinted (with the grossest and most unpardonable incorrectness) in the various editions of Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, vol. iii.

This drama (both First and Second Parts) ought to have occupied an earlier station among our author’s works. I originally rejected it, because the name of Dekker alone appears on the title-page; but I have since felt convinced that, with such authority for ascribing a portion of it to Middleton as that of Henslowe in the following entry, I should not be justified in excluding it from the present collection:

“March 1602-3. The Patient Man and Honest Whore, by Thomas Dekker and
_Thomas Middleton_.” Malone’s _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), vol. iii. p.
328.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

GASPARO TREBAZZI, _duke of Milan_.
HIPPOLITO, _a count_.
CASTRUCHIO.
SINEZI.
PIORATTO.
FLUELLO.
MATHEO.
BENEDICT, _a doctor_.
ANSELMO, _a friar_.
FUSTIGO, _brother to Viola_.
CANDIDO, _a linen-draper_.
GEORGE, _his servant_.
_First Prentice._
_Second Prentice._
CRAMBO.
POH.
ROGER, _servant to Bellafront_.
_Porter._
_Sweeper._
_Madmen, Servants, &c._

INFELICE, _daughter to the duke_.
BELLAFRONT, _a harlot_.
VIOLA, _wife to Candido_.
MISTRESS FINGERLOCK, _a bawd_.

Scene, MILAN, and the neighbourhood.

THE HONEST WHORE.

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