Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE WORKS
OF
THOMAS MIDDLETON.

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VOL. I.

CONTAINING

THE OLD LAW.
THE MAYOR OF QUEENBOROUGH.
BLURT, MASTER-CONSTABLE.
THE PHŒNIX.
MICHAELMAS TERM.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN,
46 St. Martin’s Lane.

_Vera Effigies_
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THE WORKS

OF

THOMAS MIDDLETON,

=Now first collected,=

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR,

AND

NOTES,

BY

THE REVEREND ALEXANDER DYCE.

_IN FIVE VOLUMES._

VOL. I.

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LONDON:

EDWARD LUMLEY, CHANCERY LANE.

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1840.

TO

JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ.

=These Volumes=

ARE INSCRIBED

BY

HIS VERY SINCERE FRIEND,

ALEXANDER DYCE.