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Notes
For Parts I, II, III, IV, and V of this series, see Studies in Bibliography, vols. VIII, IX, XI, XII, and XIII.
Unless otherwise indicated, references in parentheses are to page and column number of the 1647 folio.
The Simpsons (X, 293-4) quote the Q1 version of the Cook's speech (evidenced by the exclamation "Pish" which occurs in Q2 as "Peuh") but change Q1 'hem to Q2 'em.
Where its occurrence may be significant. Yo' is used in Love's Pilgrimage in the contraction "Yo'are"; it appears in what, elsewhere in the present study (SB, XI, p. 92), I have designated as I,1c, a Beaumont scene. This falls between passages (I,1b and I,1d) which are generally supposed to have been transported into the play by a post-Beaumont and Fletcher adapter from Jonson's New Inn. But the occurrence of the distinctly Jonsonian yo' in what is usually regarded as Beaumont's share of the scene, together with the occurrence of the equally Jonsonian contraction h'had earlier in the same I,1c of Love's Pilgrimage, makes one wonder whether Oliphant might not have been right when he conjectured (The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, p. 439) that Jonson, about the time of Fletcher's death, began a revision of Love's Pilgrimage which was never carried beyond the first half of I,1, portions of which revision he subsequently incorporated into his New Inn.
Abbreviations. (References to the quarto text upon which statistics for the plays of Chapman listed in the table above have been based are given in parentheses after each title. Statistics for the five plays of Jonson given there are based on the edition of Herford and Simpson, volume VI [Oxford, 1938]). BF, Bartholomew Fair; Bus., Bussy d'Ambois (Q 1607); Consp. The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron (Q 1608); DA, The Devil is an Ass; Gent., The Gentleman Usher (Q 1606); MD, May Day (Q 1611); ML, The Magnetic Lady; NI, The New Inn; Rev., The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois (Q 1613); SN, The Staple of News; Trag., The Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (Q 1608); Wid., The Widow's Tears (Q 1612).
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