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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ your selfe Bar. Long liue the King -*** + * * * * * As I understand it, the printers often ran out of certain words or letters they had often packed into a "cliche". . .this is the @@ -47,45 +47,46 @@ made by our volunteer who prepared this file: you may see errors that are "not" errors. . . . So. . .with this caveat. . .we have NOT changed the canon errors, -here is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Shakespeare's The Second -Part of Henry the Fourth. +here is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Shakespeare's play. Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Director -*** + * * * * * -Scanner's Notes: What this is and isn't. This was taken from -a copy of Shakespeare's first folio and it is as close as I can -come in ASCII to the printed text. +Scanner's Notes: + +What this is and isn't. This was taken from a copy of +Shakespeare's first folio and it is as close as I can come in +ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S's have been changed to small s's and the -conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, -punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the -printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put -together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the -Geneva Bible and Shakespeare's First Folio and have unified +conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, +punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed +text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put +together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of +the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare's First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo's and expanded -abbreviations as I have come across them. Everything within -brackets [] is what I have added. So if you don't like that -you can delete everything within the brackets if you want a -purer Shakespeare. - -Another thing that you should be aware of is that there are textual -differences between various copies of the first folio. So there may -be differences (other than what I have mentioned above) between -this and other first folio editions. This is due to the printer's -habit of setting the type and running off a number of copies and -then proofing the printed copy and correcting the type and then -continuing the printing run. The proof run wasn't thrown away but -incorporated into the printed copies. This is just the way it is. -The text I have used was a composite of more than 30 different -First Folio editions' best pages. +abbreviations as I have come across them. Everything within +brackets [] is what I have added. So if you don't like that you +can delete everything within the brackets if you want a purer +Shakespeare. + +Another thing that you should be aware of is that there are +textual differences between various copies of the first folio. So +there may be differences (other than what I have mentioned above) +between this and other first folio editions. This is due to the +printer's habit of setting the type and running off a number of +copies and then proofing the printed copy and correcting the type +and then continuing the printing run. The proof run wasn't thrown +away but incorporated into the printed copies. This is just the +way it is. The text I have used was a composite of more than 30 +different First Folio editions' best pages. David Reed -====================================================================== +===================================================================== @@ -4207,6 +4208,7 @@ Come, will you hence? Exeunt. FINIS. + EPILOGVE. First, my Feare: then, my Curtsie: last, my Speech. My Feare, is your @@ -4239,64 +4241,5 @@ you good night; and so kneele downe before you: But (indeed) to pray for the Queene. -THE ACTORS NAMES. - - Rumour the Presentor. - King Henry the Fourth. - Prince Henry, afterwards Crowned King Henrie the Fift. - Prince Iohn of Lancaster. - Humphrey of Gloucester. - Thomas of Clarence. - Sonnes to Henry the Fourth, & brethren to Henry 5. - Northumberland. - The Arch Byshop of Yorke. - Mowbray. - Hastings. - Lord Bardolfe. - Trauers. - Morton. - Coleuile. - Opposites against King Henrie the - Fourth. - Warwicke. - Westmerland. - Surrey. - Gowre. - Harecourt. - Lord Chiefe Iustice. - Of the Kings - Partie. - Shallow. - Silence. - Both Country - Iustices. - Dauie, Seruant to Shallow. - Phang, and Snare, 2. Serieants - Mouldie. - Shadow. - Wart. - Feeble. - Bullcalfe. - Country Soldiers - Pointz. - Falstaffe. - Bardolphe. - Pistoll. - Peto. - Page. - Irregular - Humorists. - Drawers - Beadles. - Groomes - Northumberlands Wife. - Percies Widdow. - Hostesse Quickly. - Doll Teare-sheete. - -Epilogue. The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing his -Death: and -the Coronation of King Henry the Fift. - - *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 2252 *** + diff --git a/cover.jpg b/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3033737 --- /dev/null +++ b/cover.jpg |
