re it hath beene tried and refined,
the better is esteemed; the best Poems of this kind, in the first
presentation, resemble [D--H resembling] that all tempting Minerall
newly digged up, the Actors being onely the labouring Miners,
but you the skilfull Triers and Refiners: Now considering [D--H
consider] how currant this hath passed, under the infallible stampe
of your judicious censure, and applause, and (like a gainefull
Office in this Age) eagerly sought for, not onely by those that have
heard & seene it, [F--H _omit_ heard and] but by others that
have meerely heard thereof: here you behold me acting the
Merchant-adventurers part, yet as well for their satisfaction, as
mine owne benefit, and if my hopes (which I hope, shall never lye
like this LOVE A BLEEDING,) doe fairely arrive at their intended
Haven, I shall then be ready to lade a new Bottome, and [D--H _omit_
and] set foorth againe, to game the good-will both of you and them.
To whom respectively I convey this hearty greeting: ADIEU.'

P. 75 1. 3. A and B _omit_] or, Love lies a Bleeding. II. 4 _et seq_. A]

THE ACTORS NAMES.

King of Cecely
Arathusa, the Princesse.
Phylaster.
Pharamont, a Spanish Prince,
Leon, a Lord.
Gleremon} Two Noble Gentlemen
Trasilm }
Bellario a Page, Leon's daughter.
Callatea, a Lady of Honor.
Megra, another Lady.
A Waiting Gentlewoman.
Two Woodmen.
A Countrey Gallant.

An Old Captaine.

And Souldiers.
A Messenger.

B _omits_ the list of Persons Represented in the Play and also
_The Scene_, etc.1. 5. C--H] The persons presented are these,
viz. In A the play, down to I. 26 of p. 78, begins as follows]

_Actus_ I. _Scoen_. I.

_Enter at severall doores _Lord Lyon, Trasiline, _followes him_,
Clerimon _meetes them_.

TRASILINE.
Well ore tane my Lord.

LYON. Noble friend welcome, and see who encounters
us, honourable good _Clerimon_.

CLE. My good Lord _Lyon_, most happily met worthy
_Trasiline_,
Come gallants, what's the newes,
the season affoords us variety,
the novilsts of our time runnes on h