Folger MS X.d.206, 1r 2v

Back to Scenario of a play set in Thrace and Macedon (Folger MS X.d.206)



(The following transcription is based on Joseph Quincy Adams' in "The Author Plot of an Early Seventeenth Century Play," The Library, 4th ser., 26 (1945-46): 22-23.)

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Folger X.d.206, 1v-2r
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Folio 1, verso

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Thrace.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mountaynes
Hemus. . . . . called ye chayne of ye world, a bounder bet Thrace

. . . . . . . . . . . . . and Mysia and also bet Mysia and Macedon

Rhodope. . . .in middle of Thrace.
Orbelus.
Pangaeus
Messapus.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rivers.
Hebrus.
Nesus
Strymon. . . . a bounder bet Thrace and Macedon.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cittyes and Townes and places
Byzantium.
Perinthus.
Sestos.
Abdera . . . . . .neare to macedon.
Bistonis . . . . . Lake. toward macedon.
Chersonesus. . peninsula.
Thassus . . . . . Iland
Mastusia . . . . pmontory in ye Cheronesus.
Tenedos . . . . Iland in ye Hellespont.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The old names of Thrace.
. . . . . . . . . .Odrysa . . . AEmonia . . . Bistonia. . . . Crestonia.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nationall propriety's.
. . . . . . .Zalmoxis (once a scholler to Pythagoras) pswaded them that theire
. . . . . . . . . . .soules did not dy but passe out of one world to another : in wch
. . . . . . . . . . .beleefe hauing settled them, he strangely vanished and they
. . . . . . . . . . .long after admitted no other deity, but worshipped < . . . . >
. . . . . . . . . . .Zalmoxis.
. . . . . . . . . . . .Heerevpon Joy was att death of freind's whom they thought
. . . . . . . . . . .to passe wither theire God was God. <att whose f> and att
. . . . . . . . . . .funeralls ye nearest freind did chuce one wife out of
Speede . . . . . many of ye deceased, to <sacri> be killed att her hus-
in . . . . . . . . -band's graue: which she ioyously vnderwent and ye rest
Greece. . . . .. with shame and sorrow surviving.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .They bemoaned ye birth of Infant's, counting vp what he
. . . . . . . . . . .should suffer before yt he passe to Zalmorix
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .They shott arrowes agst heauen when itt thundred.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .The K. elective: who is chosen neither yong nor father of any
. . . . . . . . . . .children least ye Kingdome proue inheritable.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .If ye K. misgoverne they punish him without force, but with-
. . . . . . . . . . .-drawing all necessary's euen to death.



Folio 2, recto

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Macedon.
lyeth bet ye AEgean and Ionian or Adriaticke Sea's, on ye
North is Dalmatia and Mysia. on ye South Epirus
and Achaia. . . and hath had ye names of AEma-
-thia and Paeonia. <name>


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .prouinces
. . . . . . . . . . . .The <Countrys> of Macedon are.
AEmathia. . . . . .Pieria. . . . . .Pelasgia.
Estiotis. . . . . .Thessalia. . . . . .Phthiotis.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mountaynes.
Olympus . . .crowned with box and lawrell
Athos . . . . in a peninsula toward Thrace: not farre from
. . . . . . . . .Thassus.
Pelion. . . .} . . . ' . . . . . Pelasgia
Ossa. . . . .} . . . . .do with Olympus ly in <Pieria> to ye East seaward.
Pindus divideth Macedon and Epirus.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rivers.
Strymon . . . aforesd a bounder toward Thrace.
Chabris.
Echedorus.
Axius.
Erigon.
Aliacmon.
Pharius.
Peneus.
Sperchius.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cittyes Townes and places.
In Bisaltia. _ _ _ _ . . . .Euporia. C.
In Amphaxitis _ _ _ _ . Arethusa. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stagira. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thessalonica. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acanthus. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Athos. M.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stratonica. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nymphaeum pm:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Appollonia. C. Antigonia. C. Terpilus. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epidamnus. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aulon. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macedon so called from
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Appollonici. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . Macedo Grandchild of
In Arnathia. . . . . . . . <Antigonia> Aedessa. C. . . . . . .Deucalion.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <Terpilia.> Pella. C. . . . . . Thassaly ye cheife prouince
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gordema. C. . . . . . . . . . . .of Macedon, wherein is
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lydius. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . .ye delicious Vale of Tem-
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyrissa. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .-pe. betwixt Ossa and
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aegaea. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pelion.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Citarius. M.
In Pieria. . . . . . . . . . Pidna. C.
In Pelasgia. . . . . . . . .Olympus. Pelion. Ossa. M.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laritsa. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sepias. Pm.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magnesia. Pm.
In Phthiotis _ _ _ _ . . .Demetrias. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larissa. C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <Thebe> C.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sperchia. C.