[2] It was acted on the 2d and 3d September 1566.
[3] [Warton’s “H.E.P.,” by Hazlitt, iv., 215-16.]
[4] “Annals of the Stage,” iii., 1.
[5] “British Bibliographer,” Introduction to the “Paradise of Dainty Devices,” p. vi. The reader may also be referred to Brydges’ “Restituta,” i., 367; “Brit. Bibl.” i., 494; “Censura Literaria,” first edit. vii., 350.
[6] [Warton’s “H.E.P.,” by Hazlitt,” iv., 215.]
[7] See “Nugæ Antiquæ,” vol. ii., p. 392, ed. 1804.
[8] [As to the song of the “Willow Garland,” mentioned by Warton as by Edwards, see “H.E.P.” by Hazlitt, iv., 216.]
[9] “History of English Poetry,” by Hazlitt, iv., p. 21. [A writer in the “Shakespeare Society’s Papers,” vol. ii., printed from what he supposed to be a fragment of a later impression of this book the story of the “Waking Man’s Dream,” which is also to be found narrated in Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 1621.]
[10] [See Warton’s “H.E.P.” by Hazlitt, iv., 214. Warton is very positive in asserting that the first edition was not in 1571, but in 1570, yet no such edition is at present known. The play, however, having been licensed in 1567 (Collier’s “Extr. from Stat. Reg.” i., 166), it is extremely probable that it was published even before 1570.]
[11] A specimen of the elegy on Edwards by Turbervile printed in the editions of his poems in 1567 and 1570, is here subjoined: