FOOTNOTES:

[1580] Nos. 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22.

[1581] Catalogue of the MSS. and Muniments of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich, Lond.: 1881, pp. 157-162. See also H. B. Wheatley, John Payne Collier; Lond.: 1884, p. 61.

[1582] Collier says this name was added "in a different hand to indicate" the author.

[1583] Witnesses.

[1584] Nos. 18, 21, 23, 24 are consecutive on p. 94, and in Henslowe's writing, but with Porter's signature after 24.

[1585] After this follows an item, p. 149, to the effect that the "boocke of the spencers" had helped Chettle to pay off "xˢ of a debt with the companye."

[1586] The whole of this acknowledgment is in Porter's handwriting.

[1587] British Museum, C. 39, b. 21.

[1588] Heber (Bibl. Heber), Pt. IV., No. 2872, in B. M.

[1589] British Museum: Add. MS., 24487-92, Vol. II. 302.

[1590] Fasti, I. 284.

[1591] Boase and Clark, Vol. II., Pt. 1, p. 147.

[1592] As above, p. 145.

[1593] Douce, in a note in the unique copy in the Bodleian, says that according to the date of the print by Cecill, Weever was twenty-three in 1599. The epigram in which Weever says that he is not yet twenty may therefore have been written as early as 1596.

[1594] Mermaid Series, Porter, p. 90.

[1595] With this opinion I find that Mr. Bayne agrees, D. N. B. Art., Porter.

[1596] Hunter, II, 300, and Hist. Reg. Univ. Oxford, 1888.

[1597] Boase and Clark, Vol. II., Pt. 2, p. 170.

[1598] Alex. was acted fifteen times during the next six months, That Will Be twelve times. The Woman ran for four months and was acted ten times. Alex. brought in almost as much as the others combined.

[1599] Henslowe, p. 78. Fleay conjecturally identifies it with the Challenge for Beauty.

[1600] Henslowe, pp. 123, 128; May 16, and July 18, 1598.

[1601] Henslowe, p. 101.

[1602] Two A. W. A., Pt. II., £18 5s.; The Spencers, £30 10s. Properties rarely cost more than £15.

[1603] Henslowe, p. 129, August 26, October 28.

[1604] £18 5s., if we may assume (as Mr. Fleay does) that the entries, pp. 143-144, of January 26 and February 1, refer to this play.

[1605] Sic.: Henslowe, p. 130.

[1606] Not the other way around as Collier thinks (Henslowe, p. 146, n.) for Edw. II. had been in print since 1594.

[1607] Henslowe, pp. 130, 146. Cf. the advance from £10 8s. on May 27, 1599, to £16 12s. on June 3, the day after Dekker and Chettle's Agamemnon was licensed and probably first acted; and the advance from £3 14s. on October 27, 1599, to £8 16s., the week ending November 3 (Henslowe, p. 152), during which the successful Sʳ John Oldcastell had "ferste" been played.

[1608] But, of course, we cannot with certainty attribute the increase of April 16 to The Spencers alone. It may have proceeded, in part, from the revival of Alex. and Lodowick, for the properties required by which Henslowe had, on March 31, advanced £5 to Juby. Henslowe had, moreover, obtained license during March for the 4 Kynges, Brute Grensbillde, and "four other plays" (pp. 146, 147).

[1609] pp. 82-91.

[1610] Title-page of E. M. i. H., edited by B. J., 1616.

[1611] Diary, p. 276.

[1612] p. 124.

[1613] Notice the résumé of the action in the speeches of Goursey and Sir Raph, Sc. xiv., ll. 277-289, the "crossing of true love." I am pleased to find that in this conjecture, which I had imagined to be new, I have been anticipated by Mr. Fleay, Chron. Engl. Drama. 2, 163.

[1614] Halliwell-Phillips assigns Palladis Tamia to the early part of 1598, but there are no notes in the S. R. to aid us in the investigation. Mr. Fleay assigns it to November, 1598.

THE

PLEASANT
HISTORY OF
the two angry women
of Abington.

With the humorous mirth of Dicke Coomes
and Nicholas Prouerbes, two
Seruingmen.

As it was lately playde by the right Honorable
the Earle of Nottingham, Lord high
Admirall his seruants

By Henry Porter Gent.

VIGNETTE

Imprinted at London for William Ferbrand,
and are to be solde at his shop at the corner of
Colman streete neere Loathbury.
1599.

The Names of the Speakers[1615]