“So! I have labored to change it.”
“Marry, but thou hast not” [[note 41]].
“Then it is like my skin, a part of me.”
“No more to be changed than thy countenance, it seems, which with age and experience may get new lines and grow wiser looking, but still shows the old familiar expressions with every change of feeling.”
“Then there is no help.”
“But thou must change thy methods of treatment of some subjects.”
“Again I ask, why should I?”
Peele surveyed him like a father might his recreant son, and Shakespere slowly shook his head as though the case were one beyond all cure, exclaiming as he did so: “Why, man, for thine own safety.”
“Is that in danger?”
“It will be,” continued Peele, “Gabriel Harvey and George Chapman were in my hearing discussing the drama of Titus Andronicus as presented by the Earl of Sussex’ actors at the Rose, a week since; and, although the play was sold to Henslowe, as one written by Shakespere, Harvey swore it must be thine.”