SANITONELLA. By no means:
We cannot have a cause of any fame,
But you must have some scurvy pamphlets and lewd ballads
Engendered of it presently.
In Heywood's "Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas," 1637, he complains that some persons by stenography had drawn the plot of his play, and put it into print; but he adds (which certainly does not tell much in favour of the perfection of the art as then practised) that it was "scarce one word true."
[59] In the margin opposite "Sol should have been beholding to the barber, and not to the beard-master," the words "Imberbis Apollo, a beardless poet," are inserted in the margin.
[60] From what is said here, and in other parts of the play, we may conclude that it was performed either by the children of St Paul's, of the Queen's Chapel, or of the Revels. Afterwards Will Summer, addressing the performers, says to them: "Learn of him, you diminutive urchins, how to behave yourselves in your vocations," &c. The epilogue is spoken by a little boy, who sits on Will Summer's knee, and who, after it is delivered, is carried out.
[61] [See Keightley's "Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy," p. 411, edit. 1854.]
[62] [In allusion to the proverb.]
[63] Arre is meant to indicate the snarling of a dog.
[64] So Machiavelli, in his complete poem, "Dell' Asino d'Oro," makes the Hog, who is maintaining the superiority of the brute creation to man, say of beasts in general—
"Questa san meglior usar color che sanno
Senz' altra disciplina per se stesso
Seguir lor bene et evitar lor danno."—Cap. viii.
[65] [Old copy, I, and his deep insight.]