PREFACE. I. THE TRAGEDIE OF ANTHONIE, AND CLEOPATRA, was printed for the first time in the Folio of 1623. An adaptation of the play for the stage, published by Capell in 1758, is quoted in our notes as 'Capell's Version.' THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE, which likewise first appeared in the Folio of 1623, is the last play in that volume. The edition of 'Garrick's Version,' quoted in our notes, was published in 1762. 3. PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE, was first published, in Quarto, in the year 1609, with the following title-page: THE LATE, And much admired Play, | Called | Pericles, Prince of Tyre. | With the true Relation of the whole Historie, | aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince: | As also, | The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, | in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter | MARIANA. | As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by | his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare. | Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster row, &c. | 1609. | Another edition was issued in the same year. As the title-pages are absolutely identical, it has hitherto been supposed that there was but one edition, and that the discrepancies between the copies were due to printers' corrections made while the sheets were passing through the press. A careful examination of the different copies has however convinced us that there were two distinct editions, and certain minute indications have enabled us to decide which of the two was the earlier. This we call Q.. The second we term Q2. We have consulted three copies of Q.; which are found in the Bodleian, the Capell Collection, and the British Museum. The last is marked in the catalogue C. 12. h. 5. Of Q, we have collated two copies, one in the Duke of Devonshire's library and one in the British Museum, marked C. 34. k. 36. Another copy of Pericles 1609, is in the Public Library at Hamburg. From a sample of the various readings given in a note by M. Tycho Mommsen, in the preface to his reprint of Wilkins' Novel, we recognize it as a copy of Q.. Besides these, we know of no other copies of the two editions of 1609. There is also in the British Museum (C. 34. k. 37) a unique copy of an edition in Quarto dated 1611, which formerly belonged to Mr Halliwell. The title-page is as follows: THE LATE, And much admired Play, | Called | Pericles, Prince of Tyre. | With the true Relation of the whole History, | aduentures, and fortunes of the sayd Prince: | As also, | The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, | in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter | MARIANA. | As it hath beene diuers and sundry times acted by | his Maiestyes Seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. | By VVilliam Shakespeare. | Printed at London. by S. S. | 1611. | This we call Q,. It is printed from a copy of the second Quarto. Two leaves containing part of the second Act are wanting. It is so extremely ill printed, especially in the latter part, that it is in many cases impossible to determine with certainty the punctuation and even the reading. The Quarto of 1619, our Q1, of which there are two copies in the British Museum and one in the Capell Collection, has the following title-page: THE LATE, And much admired Play, | CALLED, | Pericles, Prince of Tyre. | With the true Relation of the whole Hi-| story, aduentures, and fortunes of the saide Prince. | Written by W. SHAKESPEARE. | Printed for 7. P. 1619. |