[1606] Not the other way around as Collier thinks (Henslowe, p. 146, n.) for Edw. II. had been in print since 1594.
[1607] Henslowe, pp. 130, 146. Cf. the advance from £10 8s. on May 27, 1599, to £16 12s. on June 3, the day after Dekker and Chettle's Agamemnon was licensed and probably first acted; and the advance from £3 14s. on October 27, 1599, to £8 16s., the week ending November 3 (Henslowe, p. 152), during which the successful Sʳ John Oldcastell had "ferste" been played.
[1608] But, of course, we cannot with certainty attribute the increase of April 16 to The Spencers alone. It may have proceeded, in part, from the revival of Alex. and Lodowick, for the properties required by which Henslowe had, on March 31, advanced £5 to Juby. Henslowe had, moreover, obtained license during March for the 4 Kynges, Brute Grensbillde, and "four other plays" (pp. 146, 147).
[1609] pp. 82-91.
[1610] Title-page of E. M. i. H., edited by B. J., 1616.
[1611] Diary, p. 276.
[1612] p. 124.
[1613] Notice the résumé of the action in the speeches of Goursey and Sir Raph, Sc. xiv., ll. 277-289, the "crossing of true love." I am pleased to find that in this conjecture, which I had imagined to be new, I have been anticipated by Mr. Fleay, Chron. Engl. Drama. 2, 163.
[1614] Halliwell-Phillips assigns Palladis Tamia to the early part of 1598, but there are no notes in the S. R. to aid us in the investigation. Mr. Fleay assigns it to November, 1598.