Chapter I: Front Matter

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Footnotes have been gathered at end of the scene in which they are referenced.

In Volume 1 of this work, the editor provided a section of ‘Addendum and Corrigiendum’, with errata of the following volumes, including this. The errata for Volume 5 have been copied from that volume for straightfoward reference, and are included in the transcribers’s endnotes.

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THE WORKS
OF
THOMAS MIDDLETON.

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VOL. V.

CONTAINING

NO { WIT / HELP } LIKE A WOMAN’S.
THE INNER-TEMPLE MASQUE.
THE WORLD TOST AT TENNIS.
PART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT TO KING JAMES.
THE TRIUMPHS OF TRUTH.
CIVITATIS AMOR.
THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND ANTIQUITY.
THE SUN IN ARIES.
THE TRIUMPHS OF INTEGRITY.
THE TRIUMPHS OF HEALTH AND PROSPERITY.
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON PARAPHRASED.
MICRO-CYNICON.
ON THE DEATH OF BURBAGE.
TO WEBSTER, ON THE DUCHESS OF MALFI.
THE BLACK BOOK.
FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES.
APPENDIX. THE TRIUMPHS OF HONOUR AND INDUSTRY.
INDEX TO THE NOTES.

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

THE WORKS

OF

THOMAS MIDDLETON,

=Now first collected,=

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR,

AND

NOTES,

BY

THE REVEREND ALEXANDER DYCE.

_IN FIVE VOLUMES._

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VOL. V.

LONDON:
EDWARD LUMLEY, CHANCERY LANE.

1840.

NO {WIT/HELP} LIKE A WOMAN’S.

_No_ { _Wit_ } _like_
{ _Help_}

_A Woman’s. A Comedy, By Tho. Middleton, Gent. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince’s Arms in St. Pauls Churchyard. 1657._ 8vo.—is generally found appended to the _Two New Playes_, &c. of the same date: see vol. iii. p. 553, and vol. iv. p. 513.

Among Shirley’s Poems (_Works_, vol. vi. p. 492) is _A Prologue to a play there_ [at Dublin], _called, No Wit to A Woman’s_—most probably to the present play.