[106] I put this interpretation upon the account of Heywood's receiving 40 shillings from Queen Mary "for pleying an interlude with his children."

[107] Ward, Dict. of Nat. Biog., Heywood.

[108] Bond, ii. p. 238.

[109] 1566.

[110] Gayley, p. lxxxv.

[111] Dict. of Nat. Biog., Gascoigne, George.

[112] Bond, ii. p. 237.

[113] George Gascoigne, whose importance does not seem to have been realised by Elizabethan students, also produced a drama in blank verse.

[114] From Prologue at the Court.

[115] "Alii bella gerunt, tu felix Austria nube."