The Scottish History of James the Fourth. Robert Greene

1917 ouerthtow. 1924 slrange (read strange) 1990 wartes: 1993 Dambac 2000 slaine. (sl not quite certain, possibly broken ss) 2002 but 2007 Doro, 2019 effate: (ff broken, read estate:) 2024 but on the (perhaps buton th e) 2037 Nana, 2060 fontre 2092 purschase 2101 place (read plow) 2113 Lyon, (king 2114 slaine? (sl not certain, perhaps broken ss) 2142 Exeunt, (original Exeunt, or Fxeunt, apparently the latter, but the letter may be a broken E) 2144 state, (so the Dyce copy, the B.M. copy apparently has a full point, but this is probably a broken comma) 2162 sect, 2166 countriees (first e not quite certain, possibly c) 2169 toexcept: 2182 greatmens 2189 guise, (perhaps gu ise,) 2204 warre? 2215 summonies 2241 ofcontention: 2254 true, .Exeun.. (what appears like a full point after the n may be the remains of a very broken t) 2260 sarre Twearde. 2283 mistresse: 2294–5 he … she 2300 Alhough 2310 Qeene, 2331 change, 2355 these (perhaps th ese) 2370 wasmisled, (sl not quite certain, possibly broken ss) 2383 K. of S. (apparently S: in the B.M. copy, but the upper dot is accidental) 2424 (indentation doubtful) 2426 for (perhaps fo r) 2438 ttumpets 2443 Cutber tohis 2463 Scortish 2509 missed: (ss broken, read misled:) 2522 Thou (original Tho_u) 2540 our (perhaps ou r) 2545 ffaies, (ff broken, read staies,) 2547 reeoncile 2562 Auteukin, 2579 when,

      In ll. 1062, 1090 the speaker’s name is given as ‘8. Atten.’ Whatever this may be meant for it is clear that the speeches belong to the Bishop of St. Andrews. In ll. 2015–6 a complicated error has occurred, the ‘e’ of ‘her’ in the lower line having worked its way up into an accidental space after the ‘d’ of ‘and’ in the upper.

List of Characters

       Table of Contents

      in order of appearance.

      In the Induction and Chorus:

      Oberon, king of fairies.

       Bohan, a Scot.

       Slipper } his sons.

       Nano }

       an antic (dance), fairies, a dancer ‘boy or wench’.

      In the Dumb Shows:

      Semiramis, queen of Assiria.

       Stabrobates, king of India.

       Cyrus, king of Persia.

       Olive Pat, (?).

       Alexander, king of Macedon.

       Sesostris, king of Egypt.

      In the Play:

      The King of Scots.

       The King of England.

       Dorothea, his daughter, wife of the King of Scots.

       The Countess of Arran.

       Ida, her daughter.

       Ateukin (or Gnato).

       Andrew Snoord, a servingman.

       Slipper, a clown.

       Nano, a dwarf.

       Sir Bartram, a Scottish gentleman.

       Sir Eustace (Dick), an English gentleman.

       (A Servant of Sir Bartram.)

       The Bishop of Saint Andrews.

       Earl Douglas.

       Lord Morton.

       a Purveyor.

       Jaques, a Frenchman.

       Lord Ross.

       a Huntsman.