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Excerpt from Shakspere's King Henry the Fourth, Vol. 1: The First Quarto, 1598; A Facsimile in Photo-Lithography
In the same year probably 1mmediate1y after the above entry had been made W1th the Stat1oners' Company, the play was prmted for the first t1me, and of thls ed1t10n the present volume 15 a fac31m1le In th1s year too, Franc1s Meres pubhshed h1s Pal/aa'zs T amza, 1n the often-quoted passage of Wth treat1se Henry IV. 15 one of the plays menttoned as ev1dence of Shakspere's excellence ln Tragedy 1 Both parts of the play are here 111tended by Meres m all probab111ty, for 1t can be demonstrated, as I shall have occasmn to show 1n the Forewords to Part II that both parts had been already wr1tten 2 Next year (1599) we have an a11u51on to Falstaff 1n Ben Jonson's Every Alan out of Izzy {yuma}; whlch I g1ve here, not as throwmg any add1t1ona1 l1gbt upon the date of Henry IV, but as ev1dence how early one of 1ts leadmg characters had become well known and popular.
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