[1436] The Southwark vestry order of 1 May 1598 (App. D, No. cxv) seems to connect him with ‘play-houses’, but I doubt whether anything but the bear garden is meant.
[1437] Cf. Satiromastix, 1247, ‘Th’ast a breath as sweet as the Rose that growes by the Beare-Garden’.
[1438] Alleyn Memoirs, 159.
[1439] Ordish, 235. No date can be assigned to A North Countrey Song in Wit and Drollery (1656):
When I’se come there [to Paris Garden], I was in a rage,
I rayl’d on him that kept the Beares,
Instead of a Stake was suffered a Stage,
And in Hunkes his house a crue of Players.
[1440] Collier, iii. 102.
[1441] Cf. p. 375.