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Excerpt from Worke for Cutlers; Or a Merry Dialogue Betweene Sword, Rapier and Dagger: Acted in a Shew in the Famous Universitie of Cambridge 1615
The following reprint of what, taking a hint from Beaumont and Fletcher, may be called a Combat of Wit at several Weapons, or, in still earlier language, a Wappenschaw - is from one of the rarest of early English plays, if so minute an opuscule may assert a claim to so dignified a title. My attention being drawn to Warke fir Cutler: in the modernised version of the Harlet'on Miscellany (io vols. 1808 - 191, I at first naturally accepted the current belief that the only known copy of the original (of which this is an exact line-for-line and word-for-word reproduction) was the one in the British Museum.
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