And by a cat hath divers wonders wrought:
But Fortune (not his cat) makes it appear,
He may dispend a thousand marks a year.
Dr. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 65) has dispersed Collier’s myth of one Whittington ‘perhaps a sleeping partner in the speculation of the Fortune’.
[549] Most of the play-dates of 1605–12 are in Apps. A and B.
[550] A. for L. II. i. In III. iv a drawer says, ‘all the gentlewomen [from Bess Turnup’s] went to see a play at the Fortune, and are not come in yet, and she believes they sup with the players’.
[551] Cf. ch. xv, s.v. Garlick.
[552] Nichols, James, ii. 495.
[553] M. S. C. i. 275, from P. R. 10 Jac. I, pt. 25; also from signet bill in Collier, i. 366, and Hazlitt, E. D. S. 44. Greg (Henslowe, ii. 263) notes copies in Addl. MS. 24502, f. 60v, and Lincoln’s Inn MS. clviii.
[554] Henslowe Papers, 106.