title: The Virtuous Octavia
variant_description: The end of the playbook exists in two states: Greg 147a(i) does not contain an epilogue; in Greg 147a(ii), a single leaf with "The Epilogue" was added after H8. See also Greg 
title_page_title: THE TRA<i>GICOMOEDI</i> of the vertuous <i>Octauia</i>.
title_page_author: Done by S<small>AMVEL</small> B<small>RANDON</small>.  1598.
title-page_latin_motto: <i>Carmen amat, quisquis carmine digna gerit</i>.
title_page_imprint: LONDON  Printed for William Ponsonbye, and are to be  soulde at his shop in S. Paules Church-yarde.
paratext_dedication: Verses <i>to</i>: Lucy (Mervyn) Touchet, Lady Audley; <i>from</i>: Samuel Brandon [A2r]. "The Dedicat." <i>to</i>: Maria Thynne; <i>from</i>: Samuel Brandon [F7r]
paratext_charachter_list: "The Actors" [A4v]
paratext_other_paratexts: "Prosopopeia al libro" (verses) signed "S. B." (Samuel Brandon) [A3r]; verse epistles from "Octauia to Antonius" and "Antonius to Octauia" [F7r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Oct 5, 1598: Entered to William Ponsonby: "A booke, intituled, The Tragicomoedye of the Vertuous Octavia, donne by Samuell Brandon".
transcript_modern_spelling: The tragicomedy of the virtuous Octavia done by Samuel Brandon 1598 Carmen amat quisquis carmine digna gerit London printed for William Ponsonby and are to be sold at his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard