THO. RANDOLPH, 1634 (?).

Pen. VVho would carry you up to London, if the VVaggondriver should think himself as good a man as his master?

Dic. VVhy we would ride thither on our own HackneyConfciences.

Pen. Nay if this were so, the very Tailers though they damn'd you all to hell under their thop-boards, would scorn to come to the making up of as good a man as Pericles Prince of Tyre. Tho. Randolph. Hey for Honesty, ed. 1651.

(R. died 1634. See Thomas Randolph, 1651.-J. O. H.-P.

ANONYMOUS, 1635.

Huth, where is this fidle? in the ayre? I can perceave nothing. The Lady Mother. 1635. Act II. sc. i. Bullen's Old Plays, vol. ii. p. 132.

Warme charity, no more inflames my breft

Than does the glowewormes ineffectual fire

The ha[n]d that touches it.

Ibid. Act IV. sc. i. p. 178.

The allusions are to Tempest, I. ii. 387, and Hamlet, I. v. 89-90. The 'file' defile, Macbeth (III. i. 65), occurs later:

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Send him (Death) to file thy house,

Strike with his dart thy Children and thyselfe.

Ibid. Act V. sc. ii. p. 193.

Till doomsday alters not complexion:

Death's the best painter then: &c. &c.

H. A. EVANS.

Besides the other passages referred to in the above, pages 110 and 137, these may be added: A Mad World, III. i., with Rom. and Jul., I. iv. 35 ; The Honest Whore, IV. i., with Hamlet, I. v. 29; Ibid. IV. iii., with Falstaff's exclamation, 1 Henry IV., V. iii. 51.

One or two of these may be coincidences of expressions used at that time. But none can doubt that Middleton was influenced by Shakspere, and I add these references, because they bear on the question-Which was the more likely to borrow "Black spirits and white," &c.? though for my own part, I believe it can be shown that these lines were popularly known.-B. N.

Rob. Greene.

THOMAS HEYWOOD, 1635.

Our moderne Poets to that paffe are driven,
Those names are curtal'd which they first had given;
And, as we wisht to have their memories drown'd,
We scarcely can afford them halfe their found.
Greene, who had in both Academies ta'ne
Degree of Mafter, yet could never gaine
To be call'd more than Robin: who had he
Profeft ought fave the Mufe, Serv'd, and been
Free

After a seven yeares Prentiseship; might have
(With credit too) gone Robert to his grave
Christ. Mario. Marlo, renown'd for his rare art and wit,
Could ne're attaine beyond the name of Kit ;
Although his Hero and Leander did

Thomas Kid. Merit addition rather. Famous Kid

Thom. Watson. Was call'd but Tom. Tom Watson, though he wrote Able to make Apollo's felfe to dote

Upon his Mufe; for all that he could strive,

Yet never could to his full name arrive.

Thomas Nash. Tom Nash (in his time of no small efteeme)
Could not a fecond fyllable redeeme.

Francis Bew- Excellent Bewmont, in the formoft ranke

mont.

William

Shakespeare.

Of the rar'ft Wits, was never more than Franck.
Mellifluous Shake-fpeare, whofe inchanting Quill
Commanded Mirth or Paffion, was but Will.

Benjam.

Johnson.

And famous Johnson, though his learned Pen
Be dipt in Caftaly, is ftill but Ben.

John Fletcher Fletcher and Webster, of that learned packe

John Webster,

&c.

1 Sic.

None of the mean'st, yet neither was but Jacke.
Deckers but Tom; nor May, nor Middleton.
And hee's now but Jacke Foord, that once were1 John.

The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. Lib. 4. 1635. p. 206. [Fo.]

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[In the affectionate familiarity of his friends Shakespere was but Will" or "good Will" (see John Davies of Hereford, before, p. 219), though they did not often express his "curtal'd" name in print. He himself made delicate and skilful use of this common abbreviation in his Sonnets 135 and 136. L. T. S.]

THOMAS HEYWOOD, 1635.

CHAP. II.

A Catalogue of fundry Helluoes, and great quaffers amongst the Grecians: Infamous for their vinofity.

Come now to fpeake of the ancient Carowfers: I will first begin with the merry Greekes. From whom the Good-fellowes of this age would borrow that name, and see what frollike healthers I can find amongst them He that dranke immoderately, and above his ftrength, had the denomination of Philocothonifia: Among whom Nestor a great * Old Nefior, even in his third age, was numberd;

drinker.

He was observed to take his rowse freely, and more at the fiege of Troy, then the Generall Agamemnon, whom Achilles upbraided for his immoderate drinking: Neither in the hottest of the battell, was hee ever knowne to venter further then within fight of his Bottle: To whom Sir John Falstaffe may not unfitly be compared, who never durft ride [p. 11] without a Pistoll, charg'd with Sacke, by his fide.

Philocothonista, Or, The / Drvnkard, / Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized. / [woodcut: see next page] London,/ Printed by Robert Raworth: and are to be sold at his house / neere the White-Hart Taverne in Smithfield. 1635./

"Curious if an allusion to old play of Tr. & Cr."-J. O. HII.-P. Part sent by Dr. Ingleby. The Title to this little book has the well-known foreign cut of some old drunkards at table. I got it from the Ballad Society some time ago to use elsewhere for certain swinish Shakspereans of our own day, whose performances it represents; but as the occasion has past by, I may as well add the cut here. Falstaff's pistol, or bottle of sack, is in 1 Henry IV, V. iii. 51-4.-F. J. F.

1 There is an odd list of 25 euphemistic names of a Drunkard, on p. 44, 45.