Pilades and Horestes (Folger MS X.d.391)

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Anon. (unknown date)


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Folger MS X.d.391

A single quarto leaf of the manuscript of this lost play exists (Folger Shakespeare Library MS X.d.391). The following transcription is taken from Richard Proudfoot's Malone Society edition of "Five Dramatic Fragments":

τ τελοσ y<ea> ust m<e.> S . . .τελοσ . . .he<

σσσσ . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q . . . <H> . . .B
σ

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. . . . . . .Pilades. / horestes. / Campo.

py. . . . .Ho ho sir? I pray yow from what qu<a
. . . . . . the world haue yow travelled toe<
. . . . . . good my frend horestes? / ho. / no no not <
. . . . . . I pray yow old acquaintance from wh<
. . . . . . haue yow landed tell me frend myn<e> p<
py. . . . surly your question smelethe frend an<
ho./ . . .yow haue sayde, your questione indede may b<
. . . . . . in the foles caldron and by the in y<
. . . . . . therofe increase more foles. pi’/ what what ? m<
. . . . . . yow as hot as a tost al[e]redye. I pce<a
. . . . . . pathe wch I walke in liethe hid from <
. . . . . . and yet yt shoewethe the readye<.t>way that I <
. . . . . . to goe. / ho./ harke o pilades <
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . smith<
. . .<E>nd . . .I . . . . . . . . . .Ihon . . . . . .[When as v we
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R M for]*
. . . . . .Wh
. . . . . . . . . . /12695

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