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and Emilia.
In the original edition the title is “Riche his farewell to military profes- sion,” which is a running title in this. The incidents in the first novel are similar to those in the play “The weakest goes to the wall.” Those of the second are similar to the story upon which Shakespeare founded his “Twelfth Night.” This latter novel is reprinted in Malone’s edition, Collier’s “Shakespeare’s library,” and Halliwell-Phillipps’s folio edition. The amount of original work done by Rich is not easy to determine, but several of the “novels” are founded upon older stories, some of them Italian.
Tiis card was printcd at the Boston 6s Public Library, July 1, rgi9.