[531] Printed in The Malone Society's Collections, i, 271.
[532] See Keysar v. Burbage et al., printed by Mr. Wallace, in his Shakespeare and his London Associates, pp. 80 ff.
[533] Ibid., p. 90.
[534] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, p. 95.
[535] Miss Gildersleeve, in her valuable Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama, p. 112, says: "Just what is the meaning of 'a new Play without Book' no one seems to have conjectured." And she develops the theory that "it refers to the absence of a licensed play-book," etc. The phrase "to learn without book" meant simply "to memorize."
[536] Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (ed. 1672), p. 402. The letter is dated merely 1612-13. In connection with the play one should study The Hector of Germany, 1615.
[537] Malone, Variorum, iii, 52.
[538] See the [chapter] on "Rosseter's Blackfriars." The documents concerned in this venture are printed in The Malone Society's Collections, i, 277.
[539] The Shakespeare Society's Papers, iv, 90. The document printed by Collier in New Facts Regarding the Life of Shakespeare (1835), p. 44, as from a manuscript in his possession, is, I think, an obvious forgery.
[540] The agreement has been lost, but for a probably similar agreement, made with the actor Nathaniel Field, see Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 23.