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, p2. Reproduced by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .In Thrace.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mountaynes

Hemus. . . . . called y^e chayne of y^e 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 y^e Cheronesus.

Tenedos . . . . Iland in y^e 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 w^ch

. . . . . . . . . . .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 y^e nearest freind did chuce one wife out of

Speede . . . . . many of y^e deceased, to <sacri> be killed att her hus-

in . . . . . . . . -band's graue: which she ioyously vnderwent and y^e rest

Greece. . . . .. with shame and sorrow surviving.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .They bemoaned y^e birth of Infant's, counting vp what he

. . . . . . . . . . .should suffer before y^t 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 y^e Kingdome proue inheritable.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .If y^e K. misgoverne they punish him without force, but with-

. . . . . . . . . . .-drawing all necessary's euen to death.