A manuscript text of the masque is also extant, in the collection of Newcastle manuscripts.

The oldest extant manuscript text was written in 1501, the first publication in print dates to 1545.

For example, it is common for the manuscript texts to contain a mix of dialectal variants not found in a single dialect.

While previous editions followed the magazine text, the 1991 Bridge edition reportedly restores the author's original manuscript text.

There are no known printed versions prior to nineteenth and twentieth century transcriptions of this unique manuscript text.

This form occurs occasionally in runic inscriptions, and more often in manuscript texts.

There are no known printed versions prior to 19th and 20th-century transcriptions of the manuscript texts.

Adapted forms of the play were published in 1697 and 1717, while the manuscript text was first printed by Alexander Dyce in 1830.

The play also exists in two manuscript texts; one is part of MS. Harl.

The play also exists in a manuscript text, probably created in 1642, that displays significant differences from the later printed version.