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The quarto title-page reads:
THE / THRACIAN / WONDER. / A COMICAL / HISTORY. /
As it hath been several times Acted / with great
Applause. // Written by John VVebster and /
VVilliam Rowley. // Placere Cupio. // L O N D O N:
/ Printed by Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by
Francis Kirkman, / at his Shop at the Sign of John
Fletchers Head, over / against the Angel-Inn, on
the Back-side of St. Cle- / ments, without Temple-
Bar. 1661.
There was only one seventeenth century edition. In his
preface to A Cure for a Cuckold, Francis Kirkman notes of
his first three publications: "I have now this Tearm printed
and published three, viz. This called A Cure for a Cuckold,
and another called, The Thracian Wonder; and the third
called, Gammer Gurtons Needle. Two of these three were never
printed, the third, viz. Gammer Gurtons Needle, hath been
formerly printed, but it . . .
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THE
THRACIAN
WONDER.
A COMICAL
HISTORY.
Asit hath been several times Acted
with great Applause.
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Written by JOHN VVEBSTER and
VVILLIAM ROWLEY.
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Placere Cupio.
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LONDON:
Printed by Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by Francis
Kirkman, at his Shop at the Sign of John Fletchers Head,
over against the Angel-Inn, on the Back-side of St. Cle-
Ments, without Temple-Bar, 1661.
<A2r> The Stationer to the Reader.
Gentlemen,
IT is now the second time of my appearing in Print in this
nature, I should not have . . .
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Old-Spelling Apparatus Dramatis Personae A2v (line 6) Husband to Ariadne.] The period is often faint and, in photocopies, sometimes absent. B3v (line 26) by your leave:] No true colon has been noted. However, the upper half is ghosting in all copies, either faintly or strongly. B4r (line 36) Snick-fail] Only a faint hyphen is noted, and nothing is seen in some copies, particularly the photocopies. C1v (line 16) fits the time.] The period may actually be a possible colon. The period is clear, but the upper half is not: a half-dot smudge is just visible. D2r (line 8) Exeunt:] The upper-half of the colon is obscure or absent in some copies. D4r (line 32) mid-way] The hyphen is faint; sometimes nothing is visible. E2r (line 6) no coward] Sometimes printed "n ocoward," but the words are corrected for majority of copies. E4v (line 12) Lover] Some copies read "Loufe." G3r (line 37) defiance.] This is a very slight period, often nothing is seen. G4v ( . . .
