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THE SPANISH TRAGEDIE

Thomas Kyd


[Edited by John Matthews Manly, 1897. This electronic text is based on the
earliest extant edition, which is undated but was printed before 1618. Some
bracketed text is verbatim from Manly's edition. However, some bracketed text
is taken from alternate editions which Manly originally supplied in footnotes.
As the editor of this electronic edition, I have sometimes chosen the clearer
of two alternatives, sacrificing the specificity of Manly's footnoted edition
in favor of a text that has a better chance of being read and understood by a
modern audience. I have also excluded the insertions supposed to have been
written by Ben Johnson, as well as the additional dialogue from III.xiii and
IV.iii. Some alternate dialogue has been included as has been labeled as
such.]


Containing the lamentable end of DON HORATIO, and BEL-IMPERIA:
with the pittiful death of olde HIERONIMO.


Newly corrected and amended of such grosse faults as passed in the
first impression.

At London
Printed by Edward Allde, for