Folger MS X.d.206, p6

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(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): 27.)

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Folger X.d.206, p6. Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[Act. 4.]

. . . . .Sc. 9.

Aristocles disguised (now Philocles) resolues a letter to Sua-

-vina that he is changed for his safety. <meet> Phonops coming

in P complayne's for want of an agent in y^e future

work of Ascania. Philocles like a cast soldiers wants

imployment. being quaestion of his darings, answers any

thing: of his feare of y^e Gods sayth he neuer saw any.

is entertayned of Phonops: and put to present vse.

told that Ascania must be kill'd. they study what

death: He aduiseth to putt her downe into a vast profound

hollownes which he describes toward y^e seas side in y^e

rocks there, but indeed y^e priuate passage from y^e

Sibyll's caue where eastward euery morn she makes

her orisons. itt is agreed.

. . . . .Sc. 10.

Ascania meditating in y^e priuate walkes of her garden

Phonope with y^e pas key and Philocles enter: cast a

hood over her and carry her away. Phonops bidd's

him gagge her and bind her: he warrants her and

leades her by y^e two thumbes. leads her of y^e

stage and brings her on againe. <vnco> tells her her

doome then vncovers her, discovereth himself and

palaceth her with y^e Sibyll..

. . . . .S

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Act. 4.