[1580] Nos. 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22.
[1581] _Catalogue of the MSS. and Muniments of Alleyn's College of
God's Gift at Dulwich_, Lond.: 1881, pp. 157-162. See also H. B.
Wheatley, _John Payne Collier_; Lond.: 1884, p. 61.
[1582] Collier says this name was added "in a different hand to
indicate" the author.
[1583] Witnesses.
[1584] Nos. 18, 21, 23, 24 are consecutive on p. 94, and in Henslowe's
writing, but with Porter's signature after 24.
[1585] After this follows an item, p. 149, to the effect that the
"boocke of the spencers" had helped Chettle to pay off "xˢ of a debt
with the companye."
[1586] The whole of this acknowledgment is in Porter's handwriting.
[1587] British Museum, C. 39, b. 21.
[1588] Heber (Bibl. Heber), Pt. IV., No. 2872, in B. M.
[1589] British Museum: Add. MS., 24487-92, Vol. II. 302.
[1590] _Fasti_, I. 284.
[1591] Boase and Clark, Vol. II., Pt. 1, p. 147.
[1592] As above, p. 145.
[1593] Douce, in a note in the unique copy in the Bodleian, says that
according to the date of the print by Cecill, Weever was twenty-three
in 1599. The epigram in which Weever says that he is not yet twenty may
therefore have been written as early as 1596.
[1594] Mermaid Series, _Porter_, p. 90.
[1595] With this opinion I find that Mr. Bayne agrees, _D. N. B_. Art.,
_Porter_.
[1596] Hunter, II, 300, and _Hist. Reg. Univ. Oxford_, 1888.
[1597] Boase and Clark, Vol. II., Pt. 2, p. 170.
[1598] _Alex._ was acted fifteen times during the next six months,
_That Will Be_ twelve times. The _Woman_ ran for four months and was
acted ten times. _Alex._ brought in almost as much as the others
combined.
[1599] Henslowe, p. 78. Fleay conjecturally identifies it with the
_Challenge for Beauty_.
[1600] Henslowe, pp. 123, 128; May 16, and July 18, 1598.
[1601] Henslowe, p. 101.
[1602] _Two A. W. A._, Pt. II., £18 5_s._; _The Spencers_, £30 10_s._
Properties rarely cost more than £15.
[1603] Henslowe, p. 129, August 26, October 28.
[1604] £18 5_s._, if we may assume (as Mr. Fleay does) that the
entries, pp. 143-144, of January 26 and February 1, refer to this play.
[1605] _Sic._: Henslowe, p. 130.
[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 8_s._ on May
27, 1599, to £16 12_s._ on June 3, the day after Dekker and Chettle's
_Agamemnon_ was licensed and probably first acted; and the advance from
£3 14_s._ on October 27, 1599, to £8 16_s._, 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.
THE
PLEASANT
HISTORY OF
_the two angry women_
of Abington.
With the humorous mirth of _Dicke Coomes_
and _Nicholas Prouerbes_, two
Seruingmen.
_As it was lately playde by the right Honorable_
the Earle of Nottingham, Lord high
Admirall his seruants
By _Henry Porter_ Gent.
[VIGNETTE]
_Imprinted at London for William Ferbrand_,
and are to be solde at his shop at the corner of
Colman streete neere Loathbury.
1599.