The works of Beaumont and Fletcher Author:Francis Beaumont Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DRAMATIS PERSONJE.1 Theseus, Duke of Athens. Palamon, The Two Noble Kinsmen, in love with Arcite, j Emilia. Perithous, an Athenian general. Artes... more »ius, a captain. Valerius, a Theban nobleman. Six valiant knights. Herald. Jailor. Wooer to the Jailor's daughter. Brother . ., T ., Friends f o the Jailor. Gerrold, a schoolmaster. A Taborer, Countrymen, Soldiers, 8$c. Hippolita, bride to Theseus. Emilia, her sister. Three queens. Jailors daughter, in love with Palamon. Servant to Emilia. Nymphs, Wenches, $c. SCENE,—Athens, and in Part of the first Act Thebes. Hymen has hitherto stood as a personage of this drama, and even the first: As he only appears in the dumb-show, we have expunged the name. The Wooer, though a character of some . consideration, has always been omitted; and so has Valerius.— Ed. 1778. The editors have still passed over the Brother and the Friends of the Jailor, and Artesius, who, however, is only a mute. TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. ACT I. SCENE I. Athens. Before the Temple. Music. Enter Hymev with a torch burning; a Boy, in a while robe, before, singing, and strewing flowers; after Hymen, a Nymph, encompassed in her tresses, bearing a wheat en Garland; then Theskus, between two other Nymphs, with wheat- en chaplets on their heads; then Hippolita, led by Perithous,' and another holding a Garland over her head, her tresses likewise hanging ; after her, Emilia, holding up her train. Artesius and Attendants. SONG. Roses, their sharp spines being gone, Not royal in their smells alone, 1 Then Hippolila the bride led by Theseus.] Mr Theobald very justly changed Thcxus here to PeritkouSf—Seward. But in their hue ; Maiden pinks, oj odour faint, Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And ...« less