Excerpt from Fortune by Land and Sea, a Tragi-Comedy IT was with the greatest reverence that I approached the task of reconstructing Thomas Heywood's play for modern stage produc tion. Any variation from the original, either in the arrangement of scenes or in omissions, has been made with a view to bringing out the dramatic value of the work, and placing before the public the story of the play in a connected form, that its picturesque beauties may be more quickly grasped and appreciated. Sometimes a word or sentence has been changed after a careful study of the context, where the meaning was vague or the word obsolete. The opening of Scene 2, Act I, has been introduced from Heywood's Fair Maid of the West, in order to give a more vivid picture of tavern life of the time. As such innovations were frequent during the Elizabethan period, it cannot be taken amiss to follow the example of those dramatists, and add a touch of color to the scene in Heywood's own words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.