FOOTNOTES:

[1137] Greene's Groatsworth and Short Discourse of My Life (appended to the Repentance). Grosart's Introduction and Storojenko's Life in Grosart's Greene, 12 vols., Huth Library; Dyce's Account of R. Greene and his Writings; Bernhardi's R. Greene's Leben u. Schriften; Ward's Hist. Engl. Dram. Lit. Also Grosart's Nashe and Harvey.

[1138] Youthe Recalleth his Former Follies with an Inward Repentance. Not extant.

[1139] Clare Hall, July 1.

[1140] First pub. 1584.

[1141] If the Isabel in Never Too Late represents Greene's wife Doll, I may be pardoned for conjecturing that the Caerbranck and Dunecastrum of that story stand for Corby and Donington, twelve miles apart, in Lincolnshire, near the Norfolk line.

[1142] See Prefaces to Perimedes (S. R. March 29, 1588); Pandosto, pub. 1588; Menaphon, pub. August 1589 (perhaps before July, 1588); and Ciceronis Amor, pub. 1589. The dates are of historical importance.

[1143] Philomela, 1592, is of earlier style and composition.

[1144] As "chiefe agent of the companie" of poets and writers (Lyly, Nashe, Greene, and probably Lodge and Peele) whom Richard Harvey in his Lamb of God had "mistermed piperly makeplaies and make-bates." Nashe, Strange Newes, etc.

[1145] Sister to Cutting Ball, "trust under a tree" at Tyburn.

[1146] Foure Letters and Certain Sonnets, London, 1592.

[1147] "Physique is ... to techen ... of everichon" (herbs, stones, etc.),

"That ben of bodely substaunce

The nature and the substance."

—Gower, Conf. Am., VII.

[1148] Chaucer, Prol. C. T., 414-420.

[1149] As Dr. Grosart thinks he was.

[1150] In Grosart: XII. 174-179, Short Discourse of the Life, etc., which has every mark of authenticity.

[1151] Life of Sh., 92, 105; Hist. Stage, 82; but cf. Cohn, Shakesp. in Germany, xxi-xxxi (1865), and Creizenach, Schauspiele d. engl. Komōdianten, ii-iv (Kürschner, Nat. Litt. Bd. XXIII).

[1152] Bp. Grindal's Register, fol. 225, as in Grosart, I. Prefatory Note.

[1153] See respectively Have with You, and Strange Newes; To the Gent. readers of The Repentance, 1592; A Knight's Conjuring, Ch. IX. 1607; Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels, 1635; Kind-Hart's Dreame, 1592.

[1154] Dyce, Account of Greene, pp. 35, 36; and Harvey's Foure Letters, pp. 9, 25.

[1155] Brown (Grosart's Greene, Vol. I., Introduction, xi. et seq.) arranges: A., O. F., and F. B. (1584-87); Jas. IV., and Pinner (1590-91); L.-G. (1591-92). Storojenko (Grosart, I., 167-226) arranges: A. (after Tamburl., 1587-88), O., and L.-G. (1588-89); Jas. IV., F. B., Pinner (1589-92).

[1156] No mention of the M. A., which is given when his name is attached to other plays. Alphonsus is neither mentioned by Henslowe, nor recorded S. R.

[1157] Acted by the Admiral's men, 1587, according to Fleay. Ep. to Menaphon, which refers to it, may have been written as early as 1587 (Storojenko).

[1158] Act. IV.; the lines 1578, 1579 do not look like additions.

[1159] Prologue to Alph., l. 28.

[1160] Ward, E. D. L. l. 324 n.

[1161] To the Famous and Fortunate Generals: "Mahomet's pow and mighty Tamberlaine" (see Fleay, Life of Shakesp., pp. 96-97).

[1162] See Perymedes, Menaphon, Anatomie of Absurditie, and the opening of Greene's Vision (written before 1590).

[1163] "The mad preest of the sonne."

[1164] Venus's lines, 40-45, which would place this play after a series of love pamphlets, and before the treatment of graver themes. See Simpson, 2: 352. Mr. Fleay unhesitatingly assigns its production to 1587 (Life of Shakesp., pp. 96, 97).

[1165] See for this, Grosart, Introd. xxv. xli.; Simpson, 2: 382; and Ward.

[1166] Cf. The Knack, etc., which as a "new" play was acted thrice in the fortnight (Henslowe).

[1167] Fleay assigns "most and best" of the play to Lodge. Grosart disagrees, but does not specify. A comparative investigation satisfies me that only the following passages can be assigned to Lodge: Sc. iii. (Dy., pp. 120-122; Gros., ll. 319-480) Usurer, Thrasyb., Alcon, as far as Enter Remilia; Sc. v. (Dy., pp. 124-126; Gros., ll. 654-868) Alcon, Thr., Lawy., Judge, Usur., as far as Enter Adam; Sc. vii. (Dy., pp. 129, 130; Gros., ll. 1070-1169) Jonas, Angel, Merchants, etc.; Sc. x. (Dy., pp. 134, 135; Gros., ll. 1512-1604), Merchants, etc.; Sc. xiii. (Dy., pp. 138-139; Gros., ll. 1900-2020) Thr., Alcon, etc.—Sc. viii. (Dy., p. 130; Gros., ll. 1180-1363) Alcon, etc., to Exit Samia, shows signs of Lodge principally, but some of the lines are Greene's. In general, each of the prophetic interludes is by the author of the scene preceding. E.g. ll. 1591-1653, Jonas, Angel, Oseas, by Lodge. From l. 2020 all is by Greene; therefore most of Jonas.

[1168] He vows:—

"To write no more of that whence shame doth grow

Or tie my pen to penny-knaves delight,

But live with fame and so for fame to write."

[1169] Nat. Dict. Biog., art. Lodge.

[1170] Fleay, Life of Shakesp., p. 98. Mr. Fleay, conjecturing that Lodge was associated with Marlowe in the attack upon Greene's unsuccessful heroic play, and that Lodge is satirized under the (Perymedes) mention of the "mad preest," assigns the L.-G. to a later date. But we find no evidence of coolness between Lodge and Greene during 1588 and 1589. On the contrary, Lodge prefixes to the Span. Masquer. (S. R. February 1, 1589), verses calling Greene his doux ami and compagnon de Dieux, and rejoices to be associated with his fame. The friendship was still fresh when Greene died. Lodge was not the "mad preest." Nor can I adopt Mr. Fleay's other conjecture (Biog. Chron. II. 31) that the "preest" was Hieronimo.

[1171] The direction A band, etc., might well follow close upon "tempt you me?" of line 1764. The passage, ll. 1764-1782, interrupts a scene otherwise sufficient to itself, with a pageant of supernumeraries whose utterance is a veritable "fa-burden." The bit looks almost like an afterthought, aping Marlowan style; but it is manifest Greene, not Lodge.

[1172] For the distribution of authorship, see note 3, p. 405.

[1173] Lines 80-116, 481-508.

[1174] Grosart, XIII. vii., and Arber's S. R. there quoted.

[1175] By the author of The Defence of Connycatching.

[1176] Fleay, Hist. Stage, pp. 76-82.

[1177] Lee, Life of Shakespeare, p. 37.

[1178] Probably the Rose; Henslowe's Diary. For Alleyn's copy of the title role see Dyce, ed. O. F.

[1179] Fleay, Life of Shakespeare, p. 108.

[1180] So Ulrici and Storojenko.

[1181] E.g., Orlando's espousal of Angelica's cause and his challenge to Oliver (ll. 1485-1486):

"Yet for I see my Princesse is abusde,

By new-come straglers from a forren coast."

[1182] 1588, Dec. 26; 1589, Feb. 9 (?), Dec. 26; 1590, Mar. 1, Dec. 26; 1591, Jan. 1, 3, 6; Feb. 14, Dec. 26. Fleay, Hist. Stage, pp. 76-80.

[1183] The date is assigned also to the Admiral's men.

[1184] Lodge's prefatory Sonnet.

[1185] The 'Sacrapant' of both; cf. also O. F. ll. 73-76 with O. W. T. ll. 808-811.

[1186] So Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn; Fleay, Shakespeare, p. 96.

[1187] Dr. Ward has mentioned the 'Sacrapant'; but even more striking is the appearance in Perymedes' Tale of the Third Night's Exercise not only of 'Melissa' and her cousin 'Angelica,' but of 'Brandamant' and 'Rosilius,' who at once suggest the Brandimart and Rosillion of Orlando.

[1188] Life of Shakespeare, p. 96.

[1189] Grosart, I. xxvi.

[1190] See above, p. [404].

[1191] Between 1584 and 1588 (see Induction to Barth. Fayre). Maybe as early as 1583-1587 (Schick, Span. Trag.).

[1192] Note the frequent calls for "revenge"; and cf. the "Hamlet, revenge!" a cant phrase in 1588-89. Grosart gives reason for believing that the Menaphon first appeared before July, 1588 (Greene, I. 104). In the Epistle prefixed to it, Nashe ridiculed the Hamlet.

[1193] Cf. O. F. ll. 83, 84, with Tullie's Love (1589), "one orient margarite richer than those which Cæsar brought," etc.; and O. F. ll. 461, 462, with N. T. L. (published 1590); "If the Cobler hath taught thee to say Ave Cæsar."

[1194] E.g., Helen's "scape"—O. F. l. 176, F. B. VI. 32; "Gihon," etc.—O. F. l. 47, F. B. XVI. 66; "Demogorgon," etc.—O. F. ll. 1287, 1411, and F. B. XI. 108; "Mars's paramour"—O. F. l. 1545, F. B. XIII. 47.

[1195] Arber's Transcript, II. 649.

[1196] Bernhardi, Greene's Leben u. Schriften, p. 40; Storojenko in Grosart, I. 253. Cf. Greene's Fair M., the Keeper's Daughter of Fresingfield, "the proxy-wooing," etc.

[1197] "O, tis a jollie matter when a man hath a familiar stile and can endite a whole yeare and never be beholding to art? but to bring Scripture to prove anything he says ... is no small piece of cunning." (Grosart, IX. 233.)

[1198] Spanish Tragedy, Preface, xxvi.

[1199] Arber, and Storojenko in Grosart, I. 119.

[1200] Storojenko, as above, I. 235.

[1201] Ward, O. E. D. cxix.

[1202] For Mr. Fleay's arguments, see Ward's O. E. D. cxliii-cxliv.

[1203] Dropping the qui miscuit, etc.

[1204] I. 86. See Ward, O. E. D., and O. Ritter, F. B. and F. B. (Diss.. Thorn, 1886).

[1205] F. Q.. III. 3. 10 (pub. 1590, but privately circulated as early as 1587).

[1206] W. must be mistaken when he refers Scene xv. of Bacon to Chaps. XII., XIV., of the story-book. For the Miles of the play does no conjuring; and the devil who carries him off is the instrument of Bacon's vengeance.

[1207] Cf. the summoning of Burden and his hostess with that of Alexander and his paramour.

[1208] Grosart, I. 184.

[1209] But Grosart (I xxxvii.-xl.) appropriately recalls the preëxistence of the Taming of a Shrew. He queries the sequence,—James IV., M.N.D.,—but without upsetting it.

[1210] See Storojenko and Grosart as above; and in the S.R., Creede, May 14, 1594.

[1211] In Ward, O.E.D. cxliii.

[1212] Life of Shakesp., p. 309.

[1213] Continuing:—

"That like a Bee, Love hath a little sting.

He lurkes in flowres, he pearcheth on the trees,

He on king's pillowes, bends his prettie knees...."

[1214] Continuing:—

"It is a pricke, it is a sting,

It is a prettie, prettie thing.

It is a fire, it is a cole

Whose flame creeps in at everie hole...."

This is the version of the Drummond Ms. fragment, which differs from the Rawlinson Ms. See Dyce, Greene and Peele, p. 603. Fainter resemblances might be cited.

[1215] July 1 or November 2:—

"Ah, what is love? It is a prettie thing

As sweete unto a shepheard as a king."

—The Shepheard's Wife's Song, as in Dyce, p. 305.

Grosart's transcript of Q. 1616 (IX. 144) accidentally omits all but the last two lines of this song.

[1216] Besides the frequent identity of tone, note such coincidences as James IV. l. 2669, 'aldertruest,' M. G. (Descript. of Sheph. and Wife), 'alderliefest,' an archaism found nowhere else in Greene,—but in the Folio of 2 Henry VI. l. 28 (prob. by Greene, Fleay, Shakespeare, p. 269). The sentiment of Philador's Scrowle and Ode in M. G. is a variant of the Ovidian precept of James IV. l. 1108.

[1217] Lines 1575-1580, 2655-2699.

[1218] Lines 1901-1902.

[1219] To the Gentlemen Readers of Perymedes.

[1220] S. R. 1594.

[1221] Fleay, Hist. Stage, pp. 399, 400; Life of Shakesp., p. 255 et seq. He guesses also True Chron. Hist. of Leir, Valentine and Orson, and Robin Hood (Hist. Stage, 89, 400).

[1222] Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum.

[1223] Grosart in Englische Stud. XXII. (1896).

[1224] See under 'Young Juvenall' below.

[1225] Line 48.

[1226] Page [401], above.

[1227] Kind Harts Dreame, 1592.

[1228] Have with You, etc., 1596.

[1229] Making "the apparriter eate his citation," Strange Newes, etc., 1592.

[1230] Dumps, affects, quaint, fair (for beauty), vail, bonnet (but the last two come from the prose romance).

[1231] "Why, who art thou?" "Why, I am George," etc.

[1232] "Painting my outward passions," ll. 311-312.

[1233] Bonfield to Bettris, ll. 215-226.

[1234] As described in my Appendix to Friar Bacon.

[1235] On Delaie, ll. 503-509; on Damocles, ll. 853-857.

[1236] In Vol. I. of Greene's Works, and in the Temple Dramatists.

[1237] Hist. E. D. L. Vol. I.

[1238] Lines 1980-1983 of Selimus are reproduced in Mucedorus (H. Dods. VII. 214).

[1239] Cf. Civ. W., H. Dods. VII. 137, 147, 187, 192-193.

[1240] Cf. Dyce, Malone, Fleay.

[1241] Grosart, Greene, I. pp. lvii-lxv, who quotes Simpson, Greene on Nashe, Academy, 11th April, 1874, and Symonds, Predecessors of Shakespeare, p. 574. Of this opinion are also Farmer, Staunton, and Ward.

[1242] In Kind Harts Dreame, 1592.

[1243] Strange Newes, Sig. l. 4.

[1244] Ibid., Sig. c. 2, 3.

[1245] See Saffron Walden (1596), Sig. v. 2.

[1246] "Blame not schollers [the Harveys'] vexed with sharpe lines if they reprove thy too much libertie of reproofe." Grosart, xii. 143, Groatsw.

[1247] Strange Newes, Sig. h. and e. 4.

[1248] "Ocnus, that makes ropes in hell"—who in truth survived them all.

[1249] Privately acted between July 27 and August 21, 1592, at Croydon. Fleay, H. S. p. 78.

[1250] "What publishing of frivolous and scurrilous prognostications, as if Will Summers were again revived," etc. "And yet they shame not to subscribe 'By a graduate in Cambridge' 'In Artibus Magister.' ... They are the Pharisees of our time," etc. Note the plural. But though Nashe had revived Will Somers in the L. W. and T., though he was entitled to subscribe himself "Graduate in C.," as Greene had done, and though Greene is the A. M. and intended "Pharisee," etc., the "scurrilous prognostications" and the other earmarks are hard to find in L. W. and T., as we have it. The "lute-string" passage (Dods. IX. 22) recalls Thrasybulus' remarks in Lk.-Gl. Sc. v.; but that scene is probably by Lodge, and Nashe himself parallels the passage more closely in Christ's Tears (1593).

[1251] Life of Shakesp., p. 109.

[1252] Greene, I. lxii.

[1253] Cf. Kn. (H. Dods. 514) with F. B., Sc. i. 155, "the vicarious wooing."

[1254] Cf. Kn., Episode of Philarchus, with Lk.-Gl., that of Radagon.

[1255] Cf. the sequel of the vicarious wooing in Kn. with that in F. B.; Smith and Cobbler, Kn. (p. 566), "God of our occupation ... cuckold," with same conversation, Lk.-Gl., Sc. ii. 254-255; Thankless son, Kn. (p. 523), "Thou hast been fostered," etc., with Lk.-Gl., Sc. viii. 1247; Kn. (p. 523), "disdain ... want," with Lk.-Gl. 1273; Kn. (p. 526), "Mother's curse ... hated," etc., with Lk.-Gl. l. 1275. Resemblances to Lodge's lines are: Usurer, Kn. (pp. 548-549), and Lk.-Gl., Scs. iii. v.; Kn., "My house ... goods," and Lk.-Gl. iii. 419, "My cow," etc.

[1256] Cf. Kn. (H. Dods. VI. 514), Ethenwald's "to show your passions ... fairer than the dolphin's eye," etc., to the end, and (H. Dods. VI. 562) Ethenwald's "purpled main ... wanton love," etc., and (p. 570) Alfrida's "Beset with orient pearl," etc., with F. B., Sc. viii. ll. 26, 50-73.

[1257] On this basis, I see something to be said in favour of Mr. Fleay's conjecture of Wilson, but not of Peele and Wilson.

[1258] Fleay, Life of Shakesp., and in Ward's O. E. D., p. cxliv.

[1259] Born 1214; student at Oxford and Paris; Franciscan at Oxford; because of his mathematical and philosophical lore suspected of necromancy and forbidden to lecture; imprisoned 1278-1292; died 1294. See Ward, O. E. D., xxi-xxiv.

[1260] O. E. D., pp. 207-210; O. Ritter, De Rob. Greens Fabula 'F. B. and B.' The summoning of shades occurs in the Odyssey and 1 Sam. 28. 7. Magical images were made by Vergil, the Enchanter; the Brazen H. speaks in Valent. and Orson. The wall of brass is found in Gir. Cambrensis, and Spenser. The Speculum is assigned to Cæsar, and the Enchanter, Vergil. See also Chaucer and Spenser.

SCROLL ORNAMENTATION

THE
HONORABLE HISTORIE
of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay.

As it was plaid by her Maiesties seruants.
Made by Robert Greene Maister of Arts.

SCROLL ORNAMENTATION VIGNETTE SCROLL ORNAMENTATION

LONDON,
Printed for Edward White, and are to be sold at his shop, at
the little North dore of Poules, at the signe of
the Gun. 1594.

The Persons of the Play[1261]

A Devill, and a Fiend like Hercules; a Dragon shooting fire; etc.