about 1604 are given by Oliphant,
Engl. Studien, XV, 338-339, and Thorndike,
Infl. of B. and F., 70-71. In its present form, however, the play dates later than Jonson's
Epicoene, 1610. See Gayley,
Rep. Eng. Com., III,
Introd., § 15.
54
I heartily concur with W. W. Greg's interpretation, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama, p. 274.
55
See Fleay, Chron. Eng. Dr., I, 312, and Thorndike, Infl. of B. and F., 64.
56
Folio, 1647, 'mortallitie'; a misprint.
57
See Chap. XXIII, below.
58
See Guskar, Anglia, XXVIII, XXIX.
59
Stiefel, Zeitschr. f. Vergl. Litt., XII (1898), 248; Engl. Stud., XXXVI; Hatcher, Anglia, Feb. 1907; and Macaulay, C. H. L., VI, 156.
60
French Influence in English Literature, pp. 300, 308.
61
Adapted from Cartwright in the Commendatory Poems, Folio of B. and F., 1647.
62
Details in Inderwick, op. cit., Vols. I and II, passim.
63
Aubrey's Brief Lives, Ed. Clark, I, 94-95.
64
Dyce, B. and F., I, XXVI, n.
65
Based upon Dekker's Bellman of London, 1608. Acted at Court, 1622.
66
See Chapter XXV, below.
