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- lo Merry Wives of Windsor
bene diuers times Acted by the right Honorable | my
Lord Chamberlaines servants Both before her | Mai-
estie, and else-where. | London | Printed by T. C. for
Arthur lohnson ; and are to be sold at | his shop in
Powles Churchyard, at the signe of the | Flower de
Leuse and the Crowne. | 1602."
A second quarto was published in 1619. These edi-
tions appear to be a pirated version of the play as first
written, probably in 1599.
This early sketch was afterward revised and enlarged
to about twice the original length ; and this is the form
in which it appears in the folio of 1623. Internal evi-
dence shows that this revision was made after James
came to the throne, and probably about 1605. In i. i.
no "king" is substituted for the '^council" of the
quarto. " These knights will hack," in ii. i. 50, is sup-
posed to allude to the 237 knights created by James in
1603. "When the court lay at Windsor," in ii. 2. 62,
may refer to July, 1603 ; the court was usually held at
Greenwich in the winter. The mention of " coach after
coach," in ii. 2. 66, is not likely to have been made
much before coaches came into general use, which,
according to Howe's Continuation of Stowe's Chronicle,
was in 1605. "Outrun on Cotsall," i. i. 89, appears
to allude to the reviving of the Cots wold games about
1603.
The entry in the Accounts of the Revels, according to
which the play was acted at Whitehall on Sunday, Nov.
4, 1604, is now known to be a forgery, but there is
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