[23] ["The Birth of Merlin," 1662.]
[24] [Halliwell's "New Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare," 1875, pp. 29, 30, where a curious anecdote of him is given.]
[25] The title of "All's Lost by Lust" might, at least with equal propriety, be given to the others.
[26] [In the old copy and by Dilke the name is given as Bruin.]
[27] [See further Stow, edit. 1720, bk. i. p. 21.]
[28] [This and the two following plays were in Warburton's collection of MSS. dramas, and appear to have perished.]
[29] [Chalmers, and after him Dilke, confounded Samuel with William Rowley, supposing the latter to be the writer of the historical play on the reign of Henry VIII. 4o, 1605, 1613, &c.]
[30] [Hazlitt's "Handbook," in v.]