"Ibi Comoediam scripsit, _Capitis Caput_ plenam nigri salis &
acerbitatis adversus Monachum, qui ejus vitæ insidiatus erat.
Ibi & alteram Comoediam edidit _fabulam Gallicam_, plenam
candidi salis; in qua forensia sophismata præcipue taxat. Hanc
narrabat hac occasione scriptam & actam esse. Cum alteram de
Monacho scipsisset, fama sparsa est de agenda Comoedia, quod
illo tempore inusitatum erat. Dalburgius lecta, illius Monachi
insectatione, dissuasit editionem & actionem, quod eodem tempore
& apud Philipum Palatinum Franciscanus erat _Capellus_, propter
potentiam & malas artes invisus nobilibus & sapientibus viris in
aula. Intellexit periculum Capnio & hanc Comoediam occultavit.
Interea tamen, quia flagitabatur actio, alteram dulcem fabellam
edit, & repræsentari ab ingeniosis adolescentibus, quorum ibi
extant nomina, curat."
Mr. Hallam (_Literat. of Europe_, vol. i. p. 292., {90} 1st ed.), misled
by Warton and others, gives a very defective and erroneous account of
the _Progymnasmata Scænica_, which he supposed to contain several
dramas; but he concludes by saying, "the book is very scarce, and I have
never seen it." Gottsched, in his _History of the German Drama_, merely
says he had seen some notice of a Latin drama by Reuchlin. Hans Sachs
translated it into German, after his manner, and printed it in 1531
under the title of _Henno_.