The MS. from which the play is printed bears every appearance of being a
play-house copy. Numerous passages have been cancelled, seemingly (for
the most part) by the hand of some reviser. In most instances I have
restored the cancelled passages to the text--though the task of
deciphering them has been cruelly difficult.
THE CAPTIVES; OR, THE LOST RECOVERED.
A Comedy by THOMAS HEYWOOD.
Licensed by Sir Henry Herbert in 1624,
and now first printed from Egerton MS. 1994.
_Actus primus_.
SCENA PR.
_Enter Mr. Raphael a younge marchaunt, Mr. Treadway
his companione and frend_.
_Raphael_. You talke to one thats deaf; I am resolv'd.
_Treadway_. I knwe [_sic_] you are not of that stupid sence
But you will lyst to reason.
_Raphael_. Alls but vayne.
_Treadway_. You saye shees fayre.
_Raphael_. And there-fore to bee lov'd.
_Treadway_.[46] No consequent
To trust to collour. Are not the bewtyous lyllyes,
The gardens pryde and glorye of the feilds,
Thoughe to the eye fayre and delectable,
Yet ranke in smell? the stayneles swanne
With all the Oceans water cannot wash
The blacknes from her feete, tis borne with her.
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