Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE WORKS
OF
THOMAS MIDDLETON.

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VOL. IV.

CONTAINING

A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE.
THE SPANISH GIPSY.
THE CHANGELING.
A GAME AT CHESS.
ANY THING FOR A QUIET LIFE.
WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY LEVEY, ROBSON, 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.

_IN FIVE VOLUMES._

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VOL. IV.

LONDON:
EDWARD LUMLEY, CHANCERY LANE.

1840.

A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE.

_A Chast Mayd in Cheape-side. A Pleasant conceited Comedy neuer before printed. As it hath beene often acted at the Swan on the Banke-side, by the Lady Elizabeth her Seruants. By Thomas Midelton Gent. London, Printed for Francis Constable dwelling at the signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard._ 1630. 4to.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

SIR WALTER WHOREHOUND.
SIR OLIVER KIX.[1]
TOUCHWOOD _senior_.
TOUCHWOOD _junior_.
ALLWIT.
YELLOWHAMMER, _a goldsmith_.
TIM, _his son_.
_Tutor to Tim._
DAVY DAHANNA,[2] _Sir Walter’s poor kinsman and
attendant._
_Parson._
WAT } _sons to Sir Walter by mistress Allwit_.
NICK}
_Two Promoters._
_Porter, Watermen, &c._
LADY KIX.
MISTRESS TOUCHWOOD, _wife to Touchwood senior_.
MISTRESS ALLWIT.
MAUDLIN, _wife to Yellowhammer_.
MOLL, _her daughter_.
_Welshwoman, mistress to Sir W. Whorehound._
_Country Girl._
SUSAN, _Maid, Midwife, Nurses, Puritans and other
gossips, &c._

Scene, LONDON.

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A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE.

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