Every Man In His Humour was published in quarto in 1601 and then in substantially revised form in the folio of 1616 . It is first mentioned in the Stationers’ Register, 4 August 1600: ‘Euery man in his humour / a booke . . . to be staied’ (Arber, Transcript, 3.37 ). As You Like It, Henry V, and Much Ado about Nothing are included in this entry. All are identified as ‘My lord chamberlens mens plaies’. The view once championed by A. W. Pollard (1937) that this staying entry was a device to forestall the tactics of would-be pirates is now discounted in favour of some more routine business arrangement as a possible explanation for a delay in printing. At any rate, the delay was brief. Ten days later, on 14 August, the S.R. contains the following entry:

Master Burby. Entred for yeir copie vnder the handes of
Walter Burre. master PASVILL and the Wardens.
a booke called Euery man in his humour. vj^d
(Arber, Transcript, 3.169)

‘PASVILL’ is Zachariah Pasfield, a corrector of books. The quarto was published in 1601 with the title, ‘EVERY MAN IN / his Humor. / As it hath beene sundry times / publickly acted by the right / Honorable the Lord Cham- / berlaine his seruants. / Written by BEN. IOHNSON. / Quod non dant procures, dabit Histrio. / Haud tamen inuidias vati, quem pulpita pascunt. / Imprinted at London for Walter Burre, and are to / be sould at his shoppe in Paules Church-yarde. / 1601.’ Collation: A-A2, B-L4, M1-2. A1 contains the title page, with the verso blank; A2 gives ‘The number and names of the Actors’, with a blank verso. The play text runs from B to M2^v. The book was co-printed, a common procedure at this time. Simon Stafford was the printer for sheets B-G; the printer of the other sheets has recently been identified by Adrian Weiss as Richard Read (cited in Miola, 2000, 38-9 ; see also Lavin, 1970 ). Fifteen copies of the quarto survive.

The quarto presents few challenges to the editor. The following press variants have been noted (for the distribution of variants, see the end of this essay):

	State 1	State 2
Sig. C4v
2	stockada	stockado
11	Phoebus	Phoebus
G1
34	wound,	wound
G3
29	abruptly?	abruptly
I1v
4	neere	vvere
I4v
33	the.	thee.
L1
20	messago	message