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    The Scottish History of James IV,
    The Scottish History of James IV,
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    The Scottish History of James IV,

    By Robert Greene

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    First published in 1598. The plot of this "historical" play is entirely unhistorical. The text contains nothing to identify either the English or the Scottish king, and the date 1520 given in the Induction is seven years after the death of James IV at Flodden. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. He is said to have been born in Norwich.[1] He attended Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateNov 4, 2018
    ISBN9781455448210
    The Scottish History of James IV,
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    Robert Greene

    Robert Greene is the author of three bestselling books: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War. He attended U.C. Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a degree in classical studies. He has worked in New York as an editor and writer at several magazines, including Esquire, and in Hollywood as a story developer and writer. Greene has lived in London, Paris, and Barcelona; he speaks several languages and has worked as a translator. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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      The Scottish History of James IV, - Robert Greene

      The Scottish History Of James The Fourth, Slaine at Flodden by Robert Greene

      Entermixed with a pleasant Comedie, presented by Oboram King of Fayeries:

      As it hath bene sundrie times publikely plaide.

      Written by Robert Greene, Maister of Arts.

      Omne tulit punctum.

      LONDON

      Printed by Thomas Creede. 1598.

      THE MALONE SOCIETY REPRINTS 1921

      PRINTED FOR THE MALONE SOCIETY BY FREDERICK HALL AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

      This reprint of James IV has been prepared by A. E. H. Swaen with the assistance of the General Editor. W. W. Greg.

      Published as ebook by Seltzer Books. seltzerbooks.com/books/catalogue.html

      established in 1974, as B&R Samizdat Express

      offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

      LIST OF CHARACTERS

      Actus Primus. Schena Prima.

      Actus Secundus. Schena Prima.

      Actus Tertius. Schena Prima.

      Actus Quartus. Schena Prima.

      Actus Quintus. Schena Prima.

      EDITORIAL NOTES

      LIST OF DOUBTFUL AND IRREGULAR READINGS.

      LIST OF CHARACTERS

      in order of appearance.

      In the Induction and Chorus:

      OBERON, king of fairies.

      BOHAN, a Scot.

      SLIPPER } his sons.

      NANO    }

      an antic (dance), fairies, a dancer ‘boy or wench’.

      In the Dumb Shows:

      SEMIRAMIS, queen of Assiria.

      STABROBATES, king of India.

      CYRUS, king of Persia.

      OLIVE PAT, (?).

      ALEXANDER, king of Macedon.

      SESOSTRIS, king of Egypt.

      In the Play:

      The King of SCOTS.

      The King of ENGLAND.

      DOROTHEA, his daughter, wife of the King of Scots.

      The Countess of ARRAN.

      IDA, her daughter.

      ATEUKIN (or GNATO).

      ANDREW SNOORD, a servingman.

      SLIPPER, a clown.

      NANO, a dwarf.

      Sir BARTRAM, a Scottish gentleman.

      Sir EUSTACE (DICK), an English gentleman.

      (A Servant of Sir Bartram.)

      The Bishop of SAINT ANDREWS.

      Earl DOUGLAS.

      Lord MORTON.

      a Purveyor.

      JAQUES, a Frenchman.

      Lord Ross.

      a Huntsman.

      a Tailor.

      a Shoemaker.

      a Cutler.

      Sir CUTBERT ANDERSON.

      Lady ANDERSON.

      a Servant of the Countess of Arran.

      a Lawyer.

      a Merchant.

      a Divine.

      a Scout.

      Lady Douglas, Sir Egmond, Lord Percy, Samles, an English Herald, lords, ladies, huntsmen, soldiers, antics.

      Robert Greene from a pamphlet published in 1598.

      King James IV

      King James IV

      James III and Margaret of Denmark, parents of James IV.

      Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII, sister of King Henry VIII, wife of King James IV

      Henry VII in 1505.

      Eighteen-year-old Henry VIII after his cornonation in 1509.

      King Henry VIII by Hans Holbein

      Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII.

      Thomas Howard, Second Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey, commander of the English troops at the Battle of Flodden.

      The Reconciliation of Titania and Oberon by Joseph Noel Paton

      Actus Primus. Schena Prima.

      Musicke playing within.                                       I. Chor.

      Enter ~After Oberṏ~, King of Fayries, an Antique, who dance about

      a Tombe, plac’st conueniently on the Stage, out of the which, suddainly

      starts vp as they daunce, ~Bohan~ a Scot, attyred like a ridstall

      man, from whom the Antique flyes.      ~Oberon~ Manet.

      Bohan.

      Ay say, whats thou?

      Oberon. Thy friend Bohan.

      Bohan. What wot I, or reck

      I that, whay guid man, I reck

      no friend, nor ay reck no foe, als                                    10

      ene to me, git the ganging, and

      trouble not may whayet, or ays

      gar the recon me nene of thay friend, by the mary masse sall I.

      Ober. Why angrie Scot, I visit thee for loue: then what

      mooues thee to wroath?

      Bohan. The deele awhit reck I thy loue. For I knowe

      too well, that true loue tooke her flight twentie winter sence to

      heauen, whither till ay can, weele I wot, ay sal nere finde loue:

      an thou lou’st me, leaue me to my selfe. But what were those

      Puppits that hopt and skipt about me year whayle?                     20

      Oberon. My subiects.

      Boh. Thay subiects, whay art thou a King?

      Ober. I am.

      Bohan. The deele thou art, whay thou look’st not so big as

      the king of Clubs, nor so sharpe as the king of Spades, nor so

      faine as the king Adaymonds, be the masse ay take thee to bee

      the king of false harts: therfore I rid thee away, or ayse so curry

      your Kingdome, that yous be glad to runne to saue your life.

      Ober. Why stoycall Scot, do what thou dar’st to me, heare is

      my brest strike.                                                      30

      Boh. Thou wilt not threap me, this whiniard has gard many

      better mẽ to lope thẽ thou: but how now? Gos sayds what wilt

      not out? whay thou wich, thou deele, gads sute may whiniard.

      Ober. Why pull man: but what an twear out, how then?

      Boh. This then, thou weart best begon first: for ayl so lop

      thy lyms, that thouse go with half a knaues carkasse to the deele

      Ober. Draw it out, now strike foole, canst thou not?

      Boh. Bread ay gad, what deele is in me, whay tell mee thou

      skipiack what art thou?

      Ober. Nay first tell me what thou wast from thy birth, what         40

      thou hast past hitherto, why thou dwellest in a Tombe, & leauest

      the world? and then I will release thee of these bonds, before

      not.

      Boh. And not before, then needs must needs sal: I was borne

      a gentleman of the best bloud in all Scotland, except the king,

      when time brought me to age, and death tooke my parents, I

      became a Courtier, where though ay list not praise my selfe, ay

      engraued the memory of Boughon on the skin-coate of some of

      them, and reueld with the proudest.

      Ober. But why liuing in such reputation, didst thou leaue to        50

      be a Courtier?

      Boh. Because my pride was vanitie, my expence losse, my reward

      faire words and large promises, & my hopes spilt, for that

      after many yeares seruice, one outran me, and what the deele

      should I then do there. No no, flattering knaues that can cog

      and prate fastest, speede best in the Court.

      Ober. To what life didst thou then betake thee?

      Boh. I then chang’d the Court for the countrey, and the wars

      for a wife: but I found the craft of swaines more vile, then the

      knauery of courtiers: the charge of children more heauie then         60

      seruants, and wiues tongues worse then the warres it selfe: and

      therefore I gaue ore

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