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    The Scottish History of James the Fourth 1598
    The Scottish History of James the Fourth 1598
    The Scottish History of James the Fourth 1598
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    The Scottish History of James the Fourth 1598

    By A. E. H. Swaen and Robert Greene

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Scottish History of James the Fourth 1598 - A. E. H. Swaen

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Scottish History of James the Fourth, by

      Robert Greene

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: The Scottish History of James the Fourth

             1598

      Author: Robert Greene

      Editor: A. E. H. Swaen

      Release Date: September 8, 2013 [EBook #43668]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCOTTISH HISTORY OF JAMES 4TH ***

      Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      Transcriber's Note

      The Table of Contents was created by the transcriber.

      All inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation has been retained as printed.

      In addition to those listed in the List of Doubtful and Irregular Readings, the following apparent errors have been retained as printed:

      l. 677 inscription

      l. 1021 Doug.

      l. 1179 bog

      l. 1275 a fraid

      l. 1346 harpe

      l. 1354 Iaque

      l. 1634 An.

      l. 1671 Tay.

      l. 1822 swoord

      No speaker is given for lines 2400-2405

      Contents

      PRINTED FOR THE MALONE SOCIETY BY FREDERICK HALL AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

      THE SCOTTISH HISTORY

      OF JAMES THE FOURTH

      1598

      THE MALONE SOCIETY

      REPRINTS

      1921

      This reprint of James IV has been prepared by A. E. H. Swaen with the assistance of the General Editor.

      Nov. 1921.

      W. W. Greg.

      The following entries are found in the Register of the Stationers’ Company for 1594:

      xiiij^o maij /

      Thomas

      Creede./.

      Entred for his copie vnder thand of master Cawood warden / a booke

      intituled /. The famous victories of henrye the ffyft / conteyninge the honorable

      battell of Agincourt / . . . . . . . . . . . . . vj^d C

      Thomas

      Creede/

      Entred vnto him by the like warrant a booke intituled the Scottishe story

      of Iames the ffourthe slayne at Fflodden intermixed with a plesant Comedie

      presented by Oboron kinge of ffayres . . . . . . . . . . vjd C /

      [Arber’s Transcript, II. 648.]

      No edition, however, is known before 1598, and it would be natural to suspect that the original impression had perished were it not for the fact that 1598 is also the date of the earliest known edition of the Famous Victories. In the circumstances we may suppose that publication was for some reason delayed. The impression of 1598 is a quarto printed by Creede in roman type of a size approximating to modern pica (20 ll. = 84 mm.). Of this four copies are known to survive. That in the British Museum wants the leaf A 4, which has been supplied in very inaccurate modern reprint. Fortunately the leaf is present in the Dyce copy at South Kensington, though in this H 1 is defective (a corner being supplied in not quite accurate facsimile) and sheet K is wrongly perfected. Another copy, formerly at Bridgewater House, is now in the possession of Mr. Henry E. Huntington; while a fourth is in a collected volume once in the possession of Charles II, which formed lot 8258 in the Huth Sale (25 June 1920). All four want the first leaf, which was presumably blank, except perhaps for a signature. It has not been possible to use more than the first two copies mentioned in preparing the present reprint.

      The title-page bears the name of Robert Greene as author, together with a motto used by him in other works, which suggests that the manuscript may have been in some manner prepared for press before his death in 1592. Three passages from the play are quoted, rather inaccurately, in England’s Parnassus, 1600, above Greene’s name. The title-page also states that the play had been ‘sundrie times publikely plaide’, without, however, mentioning any company.

      The plot is entirely unhistorical, and P. A. Daniel and W. Creizenach independently traced its source to the first novel of the third day of the Ecatommiti of Giraldi Cintio, a story in which, however, the identity of the characters is quite different. Whether Greene was also acquainted with Cintio’s play Arrenopia, based on the same story, is not known.

      List of Doubtful and Irregular Readings.

      The play, evidently printed from a much altered and probably illegible manuscript, abounds in errors of every description. The following list is confined to such readings as are to some extent doubtful in the original and to a few literal misprints which might otherwise perhaps be thought due to the reprint. No irregularities recorded by previous editors are included. No variations of any importance have been found between the two copies collated.

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