| “xxvito Maii [1595] | |||
| “Raffe Hancock | Entred for his copie vnder the handes of the Wardens, Phillips his gigg of the slyppers.... | vid.” |
(Liber B. fol. 132 b.)
George Chalmers erroneously makes the date of this entry “1593,” Malone’s Shakespeare (by Boswell), iii. 469.
[xxii:2] Pp. 10. 13.
[xxii:3] Liber B. fol. 304. As this entry is nearly in the words of the title-page, I have not cited it at length. In Malone’s Shakespeare (by Boswell), iii. 197, and Collier’s Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. iii. 27, the date is wrongly given “Sept. 7.”
[xxii:4] Malone’s Shakespeare (by Boswell), iii. 299.
[xxiv:1] Sig. F.—This play is not divided into acts.
[xxiv:2] Ritson (vide Bibl. Poet.) was evidently not aware that these “Merriments” formed part of an extant drama.
[xxv:1] He played, I presume, the Cobler.
[xxv:2] Sig. E. 4.—Mr. Collier’s conjecture (Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. iii. 33) that Nash “refers possibly” to the “Merrimentes of the men of Goteham” was thrown out, I think, somewhat hastily.