1622. For Thomas Dewe.
N.D. M. Flesher.
Editions in Dodsley1–4 (1744–1875) and by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. ii) and J. S. Farmer (1913, S. F. T.).
Heywood writes ‘to gratulate the love and memory of my worthy friend the author, and my entirely beloved fellow the actor’, both of whom were evidently dead. Satire of Coryat’s Crudities gives a date between its publication in 1611 and the performances of the play by the Queen’s men at Court on 27 Dec. 1611 and 2 Feb. 1612 (cf. App. B). In Aug. 1612 died Thomas Greene, who had evidently played Bubble at the Red Bull (ed. Dodsley, p. 240):
Geraldine. Why, then, we’ll go to the Red Bull: they say Green’s a good clown.
Bubble. Green! Green’s an ass.
Scattergood. Wherefore do you say so?
Bubble. Indeed I ha’ no reason; for they say he is as like me as ever he can look.
Chetwood’s assertion of a 1599 print is negligible. The Queen of Bohemia’s men revived the play at Court on 6 Jan. 1625 (Variorum, iii. 228).
AQUILA CRUSO (c. 1610).