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                           FRANCIS BEAUMONT

                               Born 1584
                               Died 1616

                             JOHN FLETCHER

                               Born 1579
                               Died 1625




                        _BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER_

                         THIERRY AND THEODORET

                            THE WOMAN-HATER

                              NICE VALOUR

                       THE HONEST MAN'S FORTUNE

                    THE MASQUE OF THE GENTLEMEN OF
                    GRAYS-INNE AND THE INNER-TEMPLE

                          FOUR PLAYS OR MORAL
                        REPRESENTATIONS IN ONE


                          THE TEXT EDITED BY

                           A.R. WALLER, M.A.

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                              Cambridge:

                        at the University Press

                                 1912

                      CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

                       London: FETTER LANE, E.C.

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PREFACE


In 1905, the Syndics of the University Press asked me to complete, upon
the lines laid down in the preface to volume I, the editing of the
reprint of the Second Folio of the works of Beaumont and Fletcher which
had been begun by Arnold Glover. The present volume sees the end of the
task. In 1906, it was announced that a volume or, possibly, two volumes
of notes would follow the text. These, together with a critical text of
the scattered poems, must be left to other