[1137] Greene's _Groatsworth_ and _Short Discourse of My Life_
(appended to the _Repentance_). Grosart's _Introduction_ and
Storojenko's _Life_ in Grosart's _Greene_, 12 vols., Huth Library;
Dyce's _Account of R. Greene and his Writings_; Bernhardi's R. Greene's
_Leben u. Schriften_; Ward's _Hist. Engl. Dram. Lit._ Also Grosart's
_Nashe_ and _Harvey_.
[1138] _Youthe Recalleth his Former Follies with an Inward Repentance._
Not extant.
[1139] Clare Hall, July 1.
[1140] First pub. 1584.
[1141] If the Isabel in _Never Too Late_ represents Greene's wife Doll,
I may be pardoned for conjecturing that the Caerbranck and Dunecastrum
of that story stand for Corby and Donington, twelve miles apart, in
Lincolnshire, near the Norfolk line.
[1142] See Prefaces to _Perimedes_ (_S. R._ March 29, 1588);
_Pandosto_, pub. 1588; _Menaphon_, pub. August 1589 (perhaps before
July, 1588); and _Ciceronis Amor_, pub. 1589. The dates are of
historical importance.
[1143] _Philomela_, 1592, is of earlier style and composition.
[1144] As "chiefe agent of the companie" of poets and writers (Lyly,
Nashe, Greene, and probably Lodge and Peele) whom Richard Harvey in his
_Lamb of God_ had "mistermed piperly makeplaies and make-bates." Nashe,
_Strange Newes_, etc.
[1145] Sister to Cutting Ball, "trust under a tree" at Tyburn.
[1146] _Foure Letters and Certain Sonnets_, London, 1592.
[1147] "Physique is ... to techen ... of everichon" (herbs, stones,
etc.),
"That ben of bodely substaunce
The nature and the substance."
--GOWER, _Conf. Am._, VII.
[1148] Chaucer, _Prol. C. T._, 414-420.
[1149] As Dr. Grosart thinks he was.
[1150] In Grosart: XII. 174-179, _Short Discourse of the Life_, etc.,
which has every mark of authenticity.
[1151] _Life of Sh._, 92, 105; _Hist. Stage_, 82; but cf. Cohn,
_Shakesp. in Germany_, xxi-xxxi (1865), and Creizenach, _Schauspiele d.
engl. Komōdianten_, ii-iv (Kürschner, Nat. Litt. Bd. XXIII).
[1152] Bp. Grindal's _Register_, fol. 225, as in Grosart, I. Prefatory
Note.
[1153] See respectively _Have with You_, and _Strange Newes; To the
Gent. readers of The Repentance_, 1592; _A Knight's Conjuring_, Ch. IX.
1607; _Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels_, 1635; _Kind-Hart's Dreame_,
1592.
[1154] Dyce, _Account of Greene_, pp. 35, 36; and Harvey's _Foure
Letters_, pp. 9, 25.
[1155] Brown (Grosart's _Greene_, Vol. I., Introduction, xi. _et
seq._) arranges: _A._, _O. F._, and _F. B._ (1584-87); _Jas. IV._,
and _Pinner_ (1590-91); _L.-G._ (1591-92). Storojenko (Grosart, I.,
167-226) arranges: _A._ (after _Tamburl._, 1587-88), _O._, and _L.-G._
(1588-89); _Jas. IV._, F. B., _Pinner_ (1589-92).
[1156] No mention of the _M. A._, which is given when his name is
attached to other plays. _Alphonsus_ is neither mentioned by Henslowe,
nor recorded _S. R._
[1157] Acted by the Admiral's men, 1587, according to Fleay. _Ep._ to
_Menaphon_, which refers to it, _may_ have been written as early as
1587 (Storojenko).
[1158] Act. IV.; the lines 1578, 1579 do not look like additions.
[1159] _Prologue_ to _Alph._, l. 28.
[1160] Ward, _E. D. L._ l. 324 n.
[1161] _To the Famous and Fortunate Generals_: "_Mahomet's pow_ and
mighty Tamberlaine" (see Fleay, _Life of Shakesp._, pp. 96-97).
[1162] See _Perymedes_, _Menaphon_, _Anatomie of Absurditie_, and the
opening of _Greene's Vision_ (written before 1590).
[1163] "The mad preest of the sonne."
[1164] Venus's lines, 40-45, which would place this play after a series
of love pamphlets, and before the treatment of graver themes. See
Simpson, 2: 352. Mr. Fleay unhesitatingly assigns its production to
1587 (_Life of Shakesp._, pp. 96, 97).
[1165] See for this, Grosart, _Introd._ xxv. xli.; Simpson, 2: 382; and
Ward.
[1166] Cf. _The Knack_, etc., which as a "new" play was acted thrice in
the fortnight (_Henslowe_).
[1167] Fleay assigns "most and best" of the play to Lodge. Grosart
disagrees, but does not specify. A comparative investigation satisfies
me that only the following passages can be assigned to Lodge: Sc. iii.
(Dy., pp. 120-122; Gros., ll. 319-480) Usurer, Thrasyb., Alcon, as
far as _Enter Remilia_; Sc. v. (Dy., pp. 124-126; Gros., ll. 654-868)
Alcon, Thr., Lawy., Judge, Usur., as far as _Enter Adam_; Sc. vii.
(Dy., pp. 129, 130; Gros., ll. 1070-1169) Jonas, Angel, Merchants,
etc.; Sc. x. (Dy., pp. 134, 135; Gros., ll. 1512-1604), Merchants,
etc.; Sc. xiii. (Dy., pp. 138-139; Gros., ll. 1900-2020) Thr., Alcon,
etc.--Sc. viii. (Dy., p. 130; Gros., ll. 1180-1363) Alcon, etc., to
_Exit Samia_, shows signs of Lodge principally, but some of the lines
are Greene's. In general, each of the prophetic interludes is by the
author of the scene preceding. _E.g._ ll. 1591-1653, Jonas, Angel,
Oseas, by Lodge. From l. 2020 all is by Greene; therefore most of Jonas.
[1168] He vows:--
"To write no more of that whence shame doth grow
Or tie my pen to penny-knaves delight,
But live with fame and so for fame to write."
[1169] _Nat. Dict. Biog._, art. _Lodge_.
[1170] Fleay, _Life of Shakesp._, p. 98. Mr. Fleay, conjecturing
that Lodge was associated with Marlowe in the attack upon Greene's
unsuccessful heroic play, and that Lodge is satirized under the
(_Perymedes_) mention of the "mad preest," assigns the _L.-G._ to a
later date. But we find no evidence of coolness between Lodge and
Greene during 1588 and 1589. On the contrary, Lodge prefixes to the
_Span. Masquer._ (_S. R._ February 1, 1589), verses calling Greene his
_doux ami_ and _compagnon de Dieux_, and rejoices to be associated
with his fame. The friendship was still fresh when Greene died. Lodge
was not the "mad preest." Nor can I adopt Mr. Fleay's other conjecture
(_Biog. Chron._ II. 31) that the "preest" was Hieronimo.
[1171] The direction _A band_, etc., might well follow close upon
"tempt you me?" of line 1764. The passage, ll. 1764-1782, interrupts a
scene otherwise sufficient to itself, with a pageant of supernumeraries
whose utterance is a veritable "fa-burden." The bit looks almost like
an afterthought, aping Marlowan style; but it is manifest Greene, not
Lodge.
[1172] For the distribution of authorship, see note 3, p. 405.
[1173] Lines 80-116, 481-508.
[1174] Grosart, XIII. vii., and Arber's S. R. there quoted.
[1175] By the author of _The Defence of Connycatching_.
[1176] Fleay, _Hist. Stage_, pp. 76-82.
[1177] Lee, _Life of Shakespeare_, p. 37.
[1178] Probably the _Rose_; Henslowe's _Diary_. For Alleyn's copy of
the title role see Dyce, ed. _O. F._
[1179] Fleay, _Life of Shakespeare_, p. 108.
[1180] So Ulrici and Storojenko.
[1181] _E.g._, Orlando's espousal of Angelica's cause and his challenge
to Oliver (ll. 1485-1486):
"Yet for I see my Princesse is abusde,
By new-come straglers from a forren coast."
[1182] 1588, Dec. 26; 1589, Feb. 9 (?), Dec. 26; 1590, Mar. 1, Dec. 26;
1591, Jan. 1, 3, 6; Feb. 14, Dec. 26. Fleay, _Hist. Stage_, pp. 76-80.
[1183] The date is assigned also to the Admiral's men.
[1184] Lodge's prefatory Sonnet.
[1185] The 'Sacrapant' of both; cf. also _O. F._ ll. 73-76 with _O. W.
T._ ll. 808-811.
[1186] So Collier, _Memoirs of Alleyn_; Fleay, _Shakespeare_, p. 96.
[1187] Dr. Ward has mentioned the 'Sacrapant'; but even more striking
is the appearance in _Perymedes' Tale of the Third Night's Exercise_
not only of 'Melissa' and her cousin 'Angelica,' but of 'Brandamant'
and 'Rosilius,' who at once suggest the Brandimart and Rosillion of
_Orlando_.
[1188] _Life of Shakespeare_, p. 96.
[1189] Grosart, I. xxvi.
[1190] See above, p. 404.
[1191] Between 1584 and 1588 (see _Induction_ to _Barth. Fayre_). Maybe
as early as 1583-1587 (Schick, _Span. Trag._).
[1192] Note the frequent calls for "revenge"; and cf. the "Hamlet,
revenge!" a cant phrase in 1588-89. Grosart gives reason for believing
that the _Menaphon_ first appeared before July, 1588 (_Greene_, I.
104). In the _Epistle_ prefixed to it, Nashe ridiculed the _Hamlet_.
[1193] Cf. _O. F._ ll. 83, 84, with _Tullie's Love_ (1589), "one orient
margarite richer than those which Cæsar brought," etc.; and _O. F._ ll.
461, 462, with _N. T. L._ (published 1590); "If the Cobler hath taught
thee to say _Ave Cæsar_."
[1194] _E.g._, Helen's "scape"--_O. F._ l. 176, _F. B._ VI. 32;
"Gihon," etc.--_O. F._ l. 47, _F. B._ XVI. 66; "Demogorgon," etc.--_O.
F._ ll. 1287, 1411, and _F. B._ XI. 108; "Mars's paramour"--_O. F._ l.
1545, _F. B._ XIII. 47.
[1195] Arber's _Transcript_, II. 649.
[1196] Bernhardi, Greene's _Leben u. Schriften_, p. 40; Storojenko
in Grosart, I. 253. Cf. Greene's _Fair M., the Keeper's Daughter of
Fresingfield_, "the proxy-wooing," etc.
[1197] "O, tis a jollie matter when a man hath a familiar stile and
can endite a whole yeare and never be beholding to art? but to bring
Scripture to prove anything he says ... is no small piece of cunning."
(Grosart, IX. 233.)
[1198] _Spanish Tragedy_, Preface, xxvi.
[1199] Arber, and Storojenko in Grosart, I. 119.
[1200] Storojenko, as above, I. 235.
[1201] Ward, _O. E. D._ cxix.
[1202] For Mr. Fleay's arguments, see Ward's _O. E. D._ cxliii-cxliv.
[1203] Dropping the _qui miscuit_, etc.
[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_:--
"That like a Bee, _Love hath a little sting_.
He _lurkes_ in flowres, he pearcheth on the trees,
He on king's pillowes, bends his _prettie_ knees...."
[1214] _Continuing:_--
"It is a _pricke_, it is a _sting_,
It is a _prettie_, _prettie_ thing.
It is a fire, it is a cole
Whose flame _creeps_ in at everie hole...."
This is the version of the Drummond Ms. fragment, which differs from
the Rawlinson Ms. See Dyce, _Greene and Peele_, p. 603. Fainter
resemblances might be cited.
[1215] July 1 or November 2:--
"Ah, what is love? It is a prettie thing
As sweete unto a shepheard as a king."
--_The Shepheard's Wife's Song_, as in Dyce, p. 305.
Grosart's transcript of _Q._ 1616 (IX. 144) accidentally omits all but
the last two lines of this song.
[1216] Besides the frequent identity of tone, note such coincidences as
_James IV._ l. 2669, 'aldertruest,' _M. G._ (Descript. of Sheph. and
Wife), 'alderliefest,' an archaism found nowhere else in Greene,--but
in the Folio of 2 _Henry VI._ l. 28 (prob. by Greene, Fleay,
_Shakespeare_, p. 269). The sentiment of Philador's _Scrowle and Ode_
in _M. G._ is a variant of the Ovidian precept of _James IV._ l. 1108.
[1217] Lines 1575-1580, 2655-2699.
[1218] Lines 1901-1902.
[1219] _To the Gentlemen Readers_ of _Perymedes_.
[1220] _S. R._ 1594.
[1221] Fleay, _Hist. Stage_, pp. 399, 400; _Life of Shakesp._, p. 255
_et seq._ He guesses also _True Chron. Hist. of Leir, Valentine and
Orson_, and _Robin Hood_ (_Hist. Stage_, 89, 400).
[1222] Phillips's _Theatrum Poetarum_.
[1223] Grosart in _Englische Stud._ XXII. (1896).
[1224] See under 'Young Juvenall' below.
[1225] Line 48.
[1226] Page 401, above.
[1227] _Kind Harts Dreame_, 1592.
[1228] _Have with You_, etc., 1596.
[1229] Making "the apparriter eate his citation," _Strange Newes_,
etc., 1592.
[1230] Dumps, affects, quaint, fair (for _beauty_), vail, bonnet (but
the last two come from the prose romance).
[1231] "Why, who art thou?" "Why, I am George," etc.
[1232] "Painting my outward passions," ll. 311-312.
[1233] Bonfield to Bettris, ll. 215-226.
[1234] As described in my _Appendix_ to _Friar Bacon_.
[1235] On _Delaie_, ll. 503-509; on _Damocles_, ll. 853-857.
[1236] In Vol. I. of _Greene's Works_, and in the _Temple Dramatists_.
[1237] _Hist. E. D. L._ Vol. I.
[1238] Lines 1980-1983 of _Selimus_ are reproduced in _Mucedorus_ (H.
Dods. VII. 214).
[1239] Cf. _Civ. W._, H. Dods. VII. 137, 147, 187, 192-193.
[1240] Cf. Dyce, Malone, Fleay.
[1241] Grosart, _Greene_, I. pp. lvii-lxv, who quotes Simpson, _Greene
on Nashe_, Academy, 11th April, 1874, and Symonds, _Predecessors of
Shakespeare_, p. 574. Of this opinion are also Farmer, Staunton, and
Ward.
[1242] In _Kind Harts Dreame_, 1592.
[1243] _Strange Newes_, Sig. L. 4.
[1244] _Ibid._, Sig. c. 2, 3.
[1245] See _Saffron Walden_ (1596), Sig. v. 2.
[1246] "Blame not schollers [the Harveys'] vexed with sharpe lines if
they reprove thy too much libertie of reproofe." Grosart, xii. 143,
_Groatsw._
[1247] _Strange Newes_, Sig. H. and E. 4.
[1248] "Ocnus, that makes ropes in hell"--who in truth survived them
all.
[1249] Privately acted between July 27 and August 21, _1592_, at
Croydon. Fleay, _H. S._ p. 78.
[1250] "What publishing of frivolous and scurrilous prognostications,
as if Will Summers were again revived," etc. "And yet _they_ shame not
to subscribe 'By a graduate in Cambridge' '_In Artibus Magister_.'
... _They_ are the Pharisees of our time," etc. Note the plural. But
though Nashe had revived Will Somers in the _L. W. and T._, though he
was entitled to subscribe himself "Graduate in C.," as Greene had done,
and though Greene is the _A. M._ and intended "Pharisee," etc., the
"scurrilous prognostications" and the other earmarks are hard to find
in _L. W. and T._, as we have it. The "lute-string" passage (Dods. IX.
22) recalls Thrasybulus' remarks in _Lk.-Gl._ Sc. v.; but that scene is
probably by Lodge, and Nashe himself parallels the passage more closely
in _Christ's Tears_ (1593).
[1251] _Life of Shakesp._, p. 109.
[1252] _Greene_, I. lxii.
[1253] Cf. _Kn._ (H. Dods. 514) with _F. B._, Sc. i. 155, "the
vicarious wooing."
[1254] Cf. _Kn._, Episode of Philarchus, with _Lk.-Gl._, that of
Radagon.
[1255] Cf. the sequel of the vicarious wooing in _Kn._ with that in
_F. B._; Smith and Cobbler, _Kn._ (p. 566), "God of our occupation ...
cuckold," with same conversation, _Lk.-Gl._, Sc. ii. 254-255; Thankless
son, _Kn._ (p. 523), "Thou hast been fostered," etc., with _Lk.-Gl._,
Sc. viii. 1247; _Kn._ (p. 523), "disdain ... want," with _Lk.-Gl._
1273; _Kn._ (p. 526), "Mother's curse ... hated," etc., with _Lk.-Gl._
l. 1275. Resemblances to Lodge's lines are: Usurer, _Kn._ (pp.
548-549), and _Lk.-Gl._, Scs. iii. v.; _Kn._, "My house ... goods," and
_Lk.-Gl._ iii. 419, "My cow," etc.
[1256] Cf. _Kn._ (H. Dods. VI. 514), Ethenwald's "to show your passions
... fairer than the dolphin's eye," etc., to the end, and (H. Dods. VI.
562) Ethenwald's "purpled main ... wanton love," etc., and (p. 570)
Alfrida's "Beset with orient pearl," etc., with _F. B._, Sc. viii. ll.
26, 50-73.
[1257] On this basis, I see something to be said in favour of Mr.
Fleay's conjecture of Wilson, but not of _Peele_ and Wilson.
[1258] Fleay, _Life of Shakesp._, and in Ward's _O. E. D._, p. cxliv.
[1259] Born 1214; student at Oxford and Paris; Franciscan at Oxford;
because of his mathematical and philosophical lore suspected of
necromancy and forbidden to lecture; imprisoned 1278-1292; died 1294.
See Ward, _O. E. D._, xxi-xxiv.
[1260] _O. E. D._, pp. 207-210; O. Ritter, _De Rob. Greens Fabula 'F.
B. and B.'_ The summoning of shades occurs in the _Odyssey_ and 1 Sam.
28. 7. Magical images were made by Vergil, the Enchanter; the Brazen
H. speaks in Valent. and Orson. The wall of brass is found in Gir.
Cambrensis, and Spenser. The Speculum is assigned to Cæsar, and the
Enchanter, Vergil. See also Chaucer and Spenser.
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