die pligens andenly using with him, found h with a batte i sine a satin, that, struck will, they (on) and mannmended him to the house, in Je me first bitted in a very low station, but he did not mir les distinguished himself, if not tert lest as a fine weiter." In quoting

His entert Congial ays: The gentleman who hea Se 1: Joto vs mintedly either Dr. Johnson, mits àt linell, or his mess, Shield, who wrot mal part of Tilbe's Line of the Pots"

De. Jobson, in his price to the Plays says -Sabogace one to Lamina needy adventurer and Siew fine by vagy nem employments"

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The poet's knowledge of the law and its terms has suggested the probability that he is alluded to by Thomas Nash in the following passage in his prefatory epistle to Greene's Menaphon: "It is a common practise now a daies amongst a sort of shifting companions, that runne through every arte and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint whereto they were borne, and busie themselves with the indevors of Art, that could scarcelie Latinize their necke-verse if they shoulde have neede2; yet English Seneca read by candle light yeeldes manie good sentences, as Bloud is a begger, and so foorth: and if you intreate him faire in a frostie morning, he will affoord you whole Hamlets, I should say handfulls of tragical speaches." It is, however, considered doubtful whether this is an allusion to Shakespeare or his Hamlet.

Another tradition relating to Shakespeare's early employment in the theatre is recorded by Malone: "There is a stage tradition, that his first office in the theatre was that of Callboy, or prompter's attendant; whose employment it is to give the performers notice to be ready to enter, as often as the business of the play requires their appearance on the stage." 3

The story of the revelry at Bidford and the naming of Luddington Chapel as the place of the marriage appear to have remained unnoticed by authors until later dates, and cannot therefore be regarded as possessing the same value, althongh they may not be wholly spurious. Only three of ing accounts give, ev proximately, the date of

allusions to Marlowe and s of Shakespeare, i. xxix..97.

to Verse Translators; first s been thought that herein ly, and our great poet is Introduction to Robert rary of Old and Modern