Excerpt from The Miseries of Enforced MarriageThis facsimile is from the e.m. Copy of the earliest known edition of 1607. Other impressions were issued in 1611, 1629 and 1637, it may thus be inferred that the play was popular. An adaptation by Mrs. Aphra Behn was published in 1677 under the title of The Town Fop.The article by Sir Sidney Lee in The Dictionary of National Biography, narrates all that is known of the author, touching upon and discussing the question of Wilkins' connection as collaborateur with Shakespeare, Dekker, Day, Rowley and others, having especial regard to Wilkins' probable share in the early drafts of Timon of Athens and Pericles.The British Museum copy of this facsimile is in a very bad state, having been apparently much handled. The condition of the first and last portions of the book may be thus accounted for: many of the central pages are much cleaner and less blurred. The reproduction is, having regard to this fact, quite satisfactory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.