FOOTNOTES:
[4] A dor, dorne, or drone is the lazy male bee that makes no honey: hence Doron, the dorne (pronounce dor´un). There was a myth that dors or drones were produced by mules, hence Muli-dor (see Minshew drone). But a drone is also the drone of a bagpipe, or the bagpipe itself, which was called chevrau (see Cotgrave, chevrau) or cheveril: and chevrau is Kyd. It is evident from Greene's tracts that Doron was meant for the writer of The Taming of a Shrew, and Mulidor for the same author—there cannot be a doubt of the identity of the characters. Nash's address identifies The Taming of a Shrew writer with Kyd.
[5] These dates are so given by Henslow: they should be June 5 and June 15.
[6] Simpson. But rather in 1 Tamburlane v. 2: "Hell and Elysium swarm with ghosts of men," and similarly a few lines before "where shaking ghosts," &c.
[7] Henry V. was transferred to T. Pavier on 14th August.
[8] Mr. Halliwell (Outlines, p. 128, 2d edition) says they performed four plays at Whitehall, but quotes no authority.
[9] This performance was at Southampton's house before Queen Anne.
[10] Mr. Halliwell (Outlines, p. 150) gives December 1609 as the date of this change. This is certainly not in accordance with other facts which I shall adduce in the following pages; he gives no authority for his statement.
[11] Cuthbert Burbadge in 1635 adds Field by a slip of memory.