[199a] Return from Parnassus, V. i. 10-16.
[199b] Cf. H[enry] P[arrot]’s Laquei Ridiculosi or Springes for Woodcocks, 1613, Epigram No. 131, headed ‘Theatrum Licencia:’
Cotta’s become a player most men know,
And will no longer take such toyling paines;
For here’s the spring (saith he) whence pleasures flow
And brings them damnable excessive gaines:
That now are cedars growne from shrubs and sprigs,
Since Greene’s Tu Quoque and those Garlicke Jigs.
Greens Tu Quoque was a popular comedy that had once been performed at Court by the Queen’s players, and ‘Garlicke Jigs’ alluded derisively to drolling entertainments, interspersed with dances, which won much esteem from patrons of the smaller playhouses.
[200] The documents which are now in the Public Record Office among the papers relating to the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, were printed in full by Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 312-19.
[202] In 1613 Robert Daborne, a playwright of insignificant reputation, charged for a drama as much as £25. Alleyn Papers, ed. Collier, p. 65.
[203] Ten pounds was the ordinary fee paid to actors for a performance at the Court of James I. Shakespeare’s company appeared annually twenty times and more at Whitehall during the early years of James I’s reign, and Shakespeare, as being both author and actor, doubtless received a larger share of the receipts than his colleagues.
[204a] Cf. Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 312-19; Fleay, Stage, pp. 324-8
[204b] Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 17-19.
[206a] See p. 195.