[792] Parker Correspondence (Parker Soc.), 226.
[793] Strype, Annals (1824), III. i. 496. Smith had said, 'Si illud verum sit quod auditione accepi, istius modi certe ludos diris devoveo et actores et spectatores'.
[794] I am not writing the history of the Oxford stage, but it is pertinent to note that a statute of 1584, just as Case was writing, had excluded common stage-plays from the University, both on grounds of health and economy, and that 'the younger sort ... may not be spectatours of so many lewde and evill sports as in them are practised' (Boas, 225).
[795] Northbrooke, 103. Stubbes took the same line in the Preface to his first edition, but afterwards cancelled the passage.
[796] Cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 18.
[797] Gosson, P. C. 195.
[798] Gosson, P. C. 169.
[799] Gosson, P. C. 197.
[800] Gosson, P. C. 188; Munday, 145.
[801] A. Y. L. III. iii. 17.