eet street, between the two |
Temple Gates. 1652.

On the back of the title-page (which contains the device of a crown)
is a list of books printed or sold by William Leake. (H) Philaster |
or, | Love lies a Bleeding: | Acted at the Globe, and Blackfriers,
By his Majesties servants. | The Authors being Francis Beaumont, and
John Fletcher, Gent. | The sixth Impression. | London, | Printed for
William Leake, and are to be sold at his shop at the | signe of the
Crown in Fleet street, between the two | Temple Gates.

This edition, conjecturally dated 1660 in the British Museum
Catalogue, contains, on the back of the title-page and at the foot
of the list of persons represented, lists of books printed or sold
by William Leake at the Crown in Fleet Street.

A The first few pages and the last few pages of the play as printed
in A vary so completely from the other texts that it has been
necessary to print them separately. See _post_, pp. 401--3, 413--17.

B contains the following Address to the Reader:

_'To the Reader_.

'Courteous Reader. _Philaster_, and _Anthusa_ his love, have laine
so long a bleeding, by reason of some dangerous and gaping wounds,
which they received in the first Impression, that it is wondered how
they could goe abroad so long, or travaile so farre as they have
done. Although they were hurt neither by me, nor the Printer; yet I
knowing and finding by experience, how many well-wishers they have
abroad, have adventured to bind up their wounds, & to enable them to
visite upon better tearmes, such friends of theirs, as were pleased
to take knowledge of them, so mained [? maimed] and deformed, as
they at the first were; and if they were then gracious in your
sight, assuredly they will now finde double favour, being reformed,
and set forth suteable, to their birth, and breeding.

_By your serviceable Friend_,

Thomas Walkley.'

C prefixes to the play the following Address repeated with
variations of spelling in the five later quartos:

'The Stationer, To the Understanding Gentrie.

'This play so affectionatly taken, and approoved by the Seeing
Auditors, or Hearing Spectators, (of which sort, I take, or conceive
you to bee the greatest part) hath received (as appeares by the
copious vent of two [D and E three; F, G and H four] Editions,) no
lesse acceptance with improovement of you likewise the Readers,
albeit the first Impression swarm'd with Errors, prooving it selfe
like pure Gold, which the mo