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The Interlude of Wealth and Health By: Anonymous |
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This early English text was printed in a black letter font. Some of
the letters used are not found on a typewriter. In the e text those
letters that have no modern equivalent are transcribed with their
meaning. For example, there is a letter that looks like a "w" with a
"t" over it. This means with. You will find this in the text as
[with]. Others you will find are [per], [the], [that], and [thou].
You will also find the suffix [us]. All typos were kept as close as possible to the original. This
e text is based on the 1907 edition which included a long list of
these typos and some of their possible meanings along with the
editor's note. This list had many letters typeset upside down. For
this e text they were righted. Long s has been changed to standard short s. In the plain text version, letters with a macron over them are
denoted by placing them in brackets with an = beside them, such as
[=e] for an e with a macron over it. For smoother reading, a and o
are shown with tilde. Speaker names are surrounded by like Health. For those that wish to consult the original, black and white pngs
have been included in the archive.]
PRINTED FOR THE MALONE SOCIETY BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM & CO. AT THE CHISWICK PRESS THE INTERLUDE OF WEALTH AND HEALTH THE MALONE SOCIETY REPRINTS 1907 This reprint of Wealth and Health has been prepared by the General
Editor and checked by Percy Simpson. March 1907. W.W. Greg.
Early in the craft year which began on 19 July 1557, and was the first
of the chartered existence of the Stationers' Company, John Waley, or
Wally, entered what was no doubt the present play on the Register along
with several other works. The entry runs as follows: To master John wally these bokes Called Welth and helthe/the
treatise of the ffrere and the boye / stans puer ad mensam another
of youghte charyte and humylyte an a b c for cheldren in englesshe
with syllabes also a boke called an hundreth mery tayles ij^s
[Arber's Transcript, I. 75.] That Waley printed an edition is therefore to be presumed, but it does
not necessarily follow that the extant copy, which though perfect bears
neither date nor printer's name, ever belonged to it. Indeed, a
comparison with a number of works to which he did affix his name
suggests grave doubts on the subject. Though not a high class printer,
there seems no reason to ascribe to him a piece of work which for
badness alike of composition and press work appears to be unique among
the dramatic productions of the sixteenth century. 'Wealth and health' appears among the titles in the list of plays
appended to the edition of Goffe's Careless Shepherdess , printed for
Rogers and Ley in 1656. The entry was repeated with the designation
'C[omedy].' in Archer's list of the same year, and, without the
addition, in those of Kirkman in 1661 and 1671. In 1691 Langbaine wrote
' Wealth and Health , a Play of which I can give no Account.' Gildon has
no further information to offer, nor have any of his immediate
followers. Chetwood, in 1752, classes it among 'Plays Wrote by Anonymous
Authors in the 16th [by which he means the seventeenth] Century,' calls
it 'an Interlude' and dates it 1602. This invention was only copied in
those lists which depended directly on Chetwood's, such as the
Playhouse Pocket Companion of 1779. Meanwhile, in his Companion to
the Play House of 1764, D.E. Baker, relying upon Coxeter's notes, gave
an essentially accurate description of the piece, except that he
asserted it to be 'full of Sport and mery Pastyme,' and described it as
an octavo. This entry has been copied by subsequent bibliographers, none
of whom have seen the original. The play was among those discovered in Ireland in the spring of 1906 and
sold at Sotheby's on 30 June, when it was purchased for the British
Museum at the price of one hundred and ninety five pounds... Continue reading book >>
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