[1204] I. 86. See Ward, O. E. D., and O. Ritter, F. B. and F. B. (Diss.. Thorn, 1886).

[1205] F. Q.. III. 3. 10 (pub. 1590, but privately circulated as early as 1587).

[1206] W. must be mistaken when he refers Scene xv. of Bacon to Chaps. XII., XIV., of the story-book. For the Miles of the play does no conjuring; and the devil who carries him off is the instrument of Bacon's vengeance.

[1207] Cf. the summoning of Burden and his hostess with that of Alexander and his paramour.

[1208] Grosart, I. 184.

[1209] But Grosart (I xxxvii.-xl.) appropriately recalls the preëxistence of the Taming of a Shrew. He queries the sequence,—James IV., M.N.D.,—but without upsetting it.

[1210] See Storojenko and Grosart as above; and in the S.R., Creede, May 14, 1594.

[1211] In Ward, O.E.D. cxliii.

[1212] Life of Shakesp., p. 309.

[1213] Continuing:—