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+Title: Kemps Nine Daies Wonder
+       Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
+
+Author: William Kemp
+
+Editor: Alexander Dyce
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+Release Date: July 2, 2007 [EBook #21984]
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+  KEMPS NINE DAIES WONDER:
+  PERFORMED IN A DAUNCE
+  FROM
+  LONDON TO NORWICH.
+
+  WITH
+  AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
+  BY
+  THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  LONDON:
+  PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY,
+  BY JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS AND SON, PARLIAMENT-STREET.
+
+  M.DCCC.XL.
+
+
+
+
+  COUNCIL
+  OF
+  THE CAMDEN SOCIETY,
+  ELECTED MAY 2, 1839.
+
+  _President_,
+  THE RIGHT HON. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P.
+
+  THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ. F.R.S. Treas. S.A. _Director_.
+  THE REV. PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L., F.S.A., Registrar of the University
+    of Oxford.
+  JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. F.S.A. _Treasurer_.
+  JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  C. PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.
+  RT. HON. THOMAS PEREGRINE COURTENAY.
+  T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. F.S.A., M.R.I.A.
+  THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
+  SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A.
+  THE REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A.
+  JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  JOHN GAGE ROKEWODE, ESQ. F.R.S., Director S.A.
+  THOMAS STAPLETON, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  WILLIAM J. THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A. _Secretary_.
+  THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A., F.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+
+William Kemp was a comic actor of high reputation. Like Tarlton, whom he
+succeeded "as wel in the fauour of her Maiesty as in the opinion and
+good thoughts of the generall audience,"[v:1] he usually played the
+Clown, and was greatly applauded for his buffoonery, his extemporal
+wit,[v:2] and his performance of the Jig.[v:3]
+
+That at one time,--perhaps from about 1589 to 1593 or later--he
+belonged to a Company under the management of the celebrated Edward
+Alleyn, is proved by the title-page of a drama[vi:1] which will be
+afterwards cited. At a subsequent period he was a member of the Company
+called the Lord Chamberlain's Servants, who played during summer at the
+Globe, and during winter at the Blackfriars. In 1596, while the
+last-mentioned house was undergoing considerable repair and enlargement,
+a petition was presented to the Privy Council by the principal
+inhabitants of the liberty, praying that the work might proceed no
+further, and that theatrical exhibitions might be abolished in that
+district. A counter petition, which appears to have been successful, was
+presented by the Lord Chamberlain's Servants; and, at its commencement,
+the names of the chief petitioners are thus arranged:--Thomas Pope,
+Richard Burbadge, John Hemings, Augustine Phillips, William Shakespeare,
+_William Kempe_, William Slye, and Nicholas Tooley.[vi:2]
+
+When _Romeo and Juliet_ and _Much ado about Nothing_ were originally
+brought upon the stage, Kemp acted Peter and Dogberry;[vi:3] and it has
+been supposed that in other plays of Shakespeare,--in _The Two Gentlemen
+of Verona_, _As you like it_, _Hamlet_, _The Second Part of Henry the
+Fourth_, and _The Merchant of Venice_, he performed Launce, Touchstone,
+the Grave-digger, Justice Shallow, and Launcelot. On the first
+production of Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, a character[vii:1]
+was assigned to him; and there is good reason to believe that in _Every
+Man out of his Humour_, by the same dramatist, he represented Carlo
+Buffone.
+
+In 1599 Kemp attracted much attention by dancing the morris from London
+to Norwich; and as well to refute the lying ballads put forth concerning
+this exploit, as to testify his gratitude for the favours he had
+received during his "gambols,"[vii:2] he published in the following year
+the curious pamphlet which is now reprinted. A _Nine daies wonder_ was
+thus entered in the Stationers' Books:
+
+                     "22 Aprilis [1600]
+
+  "Mr. Linge   Entered for his copye vnder the  }
+               handes of Mr. Harsnet & Mr.      } vi^d."
+               Man warden a booke called Kemps  }
+               morris to Norwiche.[vii:3]       }
+
+Ben Jonson alludes to this remarkable journey in _Every Man out of his
+Humour_, originally acted in 1599, where Carlo Buffone is made to
+exclaim "Would I had _one of Kemp's shoes_ to throw after you!"[viii:1]
+and again in his _Epigrams_:--
+
+                                    "or which
+    Did dance the famous morris unto Norwich."[viii:2]
+
+So also William Rowley in the prefatory Address to a very rare tract
+called _A Search for Money_, &c., 1609, 4to.:--"Yee haue beene either
+eare or eye-witnesses or both to many madde voiages made of late yeares,
+both by sea and land, as the trauell to Rome with the returne in
+certaine daies, _the wild morrise to Norrige_," &c. And Brathwait in
+_Remains after Death_, &c. 1618, 12mo. has the following lines:--
+
+    "_Vpon Kempe and his morice, with his Epitaph._
+
+    "Welcome from Norwich, Kempe! all ioy to see
+    Thy safe returne moriscoed lustily.
+    But out, alasse, how soone's thy morice done!
+    When Pipe and Taber, all thy friends be gone,
+    And leaue thee now to dance the second part
+    With feeble nature, not with nimble Art;
+    Then all thy triumphs fraught with strains of mirth
+    Shall be cag'd vp within a chest of earth:
+    Shall be? they are: th'ast danc'd thee out of breath,
+    And now must make thy parting dance with death."[viii:3]
+
+Towards the end of a _Nine daies wonder_, Kemp announces his intention
+of setting out shortly on a "great journey;"[ix:1] but as no record of
+this second feat has come down to us, we may conclude that it was never
+accomplished.[ix:2]
+
+The date of his death has not been determined. Malone, in the
+uncertainty on this point, could only adduce the following passage of
+Dekker's _Guls Horne-booke_, 1609, from which, he says, "it may be
+presumed"[ix:3] that Kemp was then deceased: "Tush, tush, Tarleton,
+_Kemp_, nor Singer, nor all the litter of fooles that _now_ come
+drawling behinde them, neuer plaid the Clownes more naturally then the
+arrantest Sot of you all."[ix:4] George Chalmers, however, discovered an
+entry in the burial register of St. Saviour's, Southwark--"1603,
+November 2d _William Kempe, a man_;"[ix:5] and since the name of Kemp
+does not occur in the license granted by King James, 19th May, 1603, to
+the Lord Chamberlain's Company (who in consequence of that instrument
+were afterwards denominated his Majesty's Servants) there is great
+probability that the said entry relates to the comedian, and that he had
+been carried off by the plague of that year.
+
+Two scenes of two early dramas, which exhibit Kemp _in propria persona_,
+must necessarily form a portion of the present essay. _The Retvrne from
+Pernassvs: Or The Scourge of Simony. Publiquely acted by the Students in
+Saint Johns Colledge in Cambridge_, 1606,[x:1] 4to. furnishes the first
+extract:
+
+     "Act 4. Scen. 5. [3.]
+
+     _[Enter] Burbage [and] Kempe._
+
+     "_Bur._ Now, Will Kempe, if we can intertaine these schollers at a
+     low rate, it wil be well; they haue oftentimes a good conceite in a
+     part.
+
+     "_Kempe._ Its true indeed, honest Dick; but the slaues are somewhat
+     proud, and, besides, it is a good sport, in a part to see them
+     neuer speake in their walke but at the end of the stage, iust as
+     though in walking with a fellow we should neuer speake but at a
+     stile, a gate, or a ditch, where a man can go no further. I was
+     once at a Comedie in Cambridge, and there I saw a parasite make
+     faces and mouths of all sorts on this fashion.
+
+     "_Bur._ A little teaching will mend these faults, and it may bee,
+     besides, they will be able to pen a part.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Few of the vniuersity pen plaies well; they smell too
+     much of that writer Ouid, and that writer Metamorphosis,[xi:1] and
+     talke too much of Proserpina and Juppiter. Why, heres our fellow
+     Shakespeare puts them all downe, I,[xi:2] and Ben Jonson too. O
+     that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow! he brought vp Horace giuing
+     the Poets a pill,[xi:3] but our fellow Shakespeare hath giuen him a
+     purge that made him beray his credit.
+
+     "_Bur._ Its a shrewd fellow indeed. I wonder these schollers stay
+     so long; they appointed to be here presently that we might try
+     them: oh, here they come.
+
+     [_Enter Philomusus and Studioso._]
+
+     "_Stud._ Take heart, these lets[xi:4] our clouded thoughts refine;
+              The sun shines brightest when it gins decline.
+
+     "_Bur._ M[aster] Phil. and M. Stud., God saue you.
+
+     "_Kemp._ M. Pil. and M. Otioso, well met.
+
+     "_Phil._ The same to you, good M. Burbage. What, M. Kempe, how doth
+     the Emperour of Germany?
+
+     "_Stud._ God saue you, M. Kempe; welcome, M. Kempe, from dancing
+     the morrice ouer the Alpes.[xi:5]
+
+     "_Kemp._ Well, you merry knaues, you may come to the honor of it
+     one day: is it not better to make a foole of the world as I haue
+     done, then to be fooled of the world as you schollers are? But be
+     merry, my lads: you haue happened vpon the most excellent vocation
+     in the world for money; they come North and South to bring it to
+     our playhouse; and for honours, who of more report then Dick
+     Burbage and Will Kempe? he is not counted a Gentleman that knowes
+     not Dick Burbage and Wil Kempe; there's not a country wench that
+     can dance Sellengers Round[xii:1] but can talke of Dick Burbage and
+     Will Kempe.
+
+     "_Phil._ Indeed, M. Kempe, you are very famous, but that is as well
+     for workes in print as your part in kue.
+
+     "_Kempe._ You are at Cambridge still with sice kue,[xii:2] and be
+     lusty humorous poets; you must vntrusle:[xii:3] I road this my last
+     circuit purposely, because I would be iudge of your actions.
+
+     "_Bur._ M. Stud., I pray you take some part in this booke, and act
+     it, that I may see what will fit you best. I thinke your voice
+     would serue for Hieronimo:[xii:4] obserue how I act it, and then
+     imitate mee.
+
+     "_Stud._ 'Who call[s] Hieronomo from his naked bed,
+              And,' &c.
+
+     "_Bur._ You will do well after a while.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Now for you, me thinkes you should belong to my tuition,
+     and your face me thinkes would be good for a foolish Mayre or a
+     foolish iustice of peace. Marke me.[xii:5] 'Forasmuch as there be
+     two states of a common wealth, the one of peace, the other of
+     tranquility; two states of warre, the one of discord, the other of
+     dissention; two states of an incorporation, the one of the
+     Aldermen, the other of the Brethren; two states of magistrates, the
+     one of gouerning, the other of bearing rule; now, as I said euen
+     now, for a good thing cannot be said too often, Vertue is the
+     shooing-horne of iustice, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne of
+     doing well, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne of doing iustly,
+     it behooueth mee and is my part to commend this shooing-horne vnto
+     you. I hope this word shooing-horne doth not offend any of you, my
+     worshipfull brethren, for you, beeing the worshipfull headsmen of
+     the towne, know well what the horne meaneth. Now therefore I am
+     determined not onely to teach but also to instruct, not onely the
+     ignorant but also the simple, not onely what is their duty towards
+     their betters, but also what is their dutye towards their
+     superiours.' Come, let me see how you can doe; sit downe in the
+     chaire.
+
+     "_Phil._ 'Forasmuch as there be,' &c.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Thou wilt do well in time, if thou wilt be ruled by thy
+     betters, that is by my selfe, and such graue Aldermen of the
+     playhouse as I am.
+
+     "_Bur._ I like your face and the proportion of your body for
+     Richard the 3; I pray, M. Phil., let me see you act a little of it.
+
+     "_Phil._ 'Now is the winter of our discontent
+              Made glorious summer by the sonne of Yorke.'
+
+     "_Bur._ Very well, I assure you. Well, M. Phil. and M. Stud., wee
+     see what ability you are of: I pray walke with vs to our fellows,
+     and weele agree presently.
+
+     "_Phil._ We will follow you straight, M. Burbage.
+
+     "_Kempe._ Its good manners to follow vs, Maister Phil. and Maister
+     Otioso.
+
+     [_Exeunt Burbage and Kempe._]"[xiii:1]
+
+The other drama in which Kemp personally figures is of great rarity,
+and has escaped the notice of those writers who have touched on his
+biography. It was the joint work of Day, William Rowley, and
+Wilkins;[xiv:1] and is entitled _The Travailes of The three English
+Brothers. Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, Mr. Robert Shirley. As it is now
+play'd by her Maiesties Seruants_, 1607,[xiv:2] 4to. Sir Anthony Shirley
+having been sent to Italy as ambassador from the Sophy, the following
+scene is supposed to take place at Venice.
+
+     "_Enter seruant._
+
+     "_Ser._ Sir, heres an Englishman[xiv:3] desires accesse to you.
+
+     "_Sir Ant._ An Englishman? whats his name?
+
+     "_Ser._ He calls himselfe Kempe.
+
+     "_Sir Ant._ Kemp! bid him come in. [_Exit Seruant_]. _Enter Kempe._
+     Welcome, honest Will; and how doth all thy fellowes in England?
+
+     "_Kemp._ Why, like good fellowes, when they haue no money, liue
+     vpon credit.
+
+     "_Sir Ant._ And what good new Plays haue you?
+
+     "_Kemp._ Many idle toyes; but the old play that Adam and Eue[xiv:4]
+     acted in bare action vnder the figge tree drawes most of the
+     Gentlemen.
+
+     "_Sir Ant._ Jesting, Will.
+
+     "_Kemp._ In good earnest it doth, sir.
+
+     "_S. Ant._ I partly credit thee; but what Playe[s] of note haue
+     you?
+
+     "_Kemp._ Many of name, some of note; especially one, the name was
+     called _Englands Ioy_;[xv:1] Marry, hee was no Poet that wrote it,
+     he drew more Connies in a purse-nette, then euer were taken at any
+     draught about London.
+
+     "_[Re]Enter Seruant._
+
+     "_Seru._ Sir, heres an Italian Harlaken come to offer a play to
+     your Lord-ship.
+
+     "_Sir Ant._ We willingly accept it. [_Exit Seruant._] Heark, Kempe:
+                 Because I like thy iesture and thy mirth,
+                 Let me request thee play a part with them.
+
+     "[_Enter Harlaken and Wife._]
+
+     "_Kem._ I am somewhat hard of study, and like your honor, but if
+     they well inuent any extemporall meriment, ile put out the small
+     sacke of witte I ha' left in venture with them.
+
+     "_S. Ant._ They shall not deny 't. Signior Harlaken, he is content.
+     I pray thee question him. _Whisper._
+
+     "_Kemp._ Now, Signior, how many are you in companie?
+
+     "_Harl._ None but my wife and my selfe, sir.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Your wife! why, hearke you; wil your wife do tricks in
+     publike?
+
+     "_Harl._ My wife can play.
+
+     "_Kemp._ The honest woman, I make no question; but how if we cast a
+     whores part or a courtisan?
+
+     "_Harl._ Oh, my wife is excellent at that; she's practisd it euer
+     since I married her, tis her onely practise.
+
+     "_Kemp._ But, by your leaue, and she were my wife, I had rather
+     keepe her out of practise a great deale.
+
+    "_Sir Anth._ Yet since tis the custome of the countrie,
+                 Prithe make one, conclude vpon the proiect:
+                 We neither looke for Schollership nor Arte,
+                 But harmlesse mirth, for thats thy vsuall part.
+
+     "_Kemp._ You shall finde me no turne-coate. _[Exit Sir Anth.]_ But
+     the proiect, come; and then to casting of the parts.
+
+     "_Harl._ Marry, sir, first we will haue an old Pantaloune.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Some iealous Coxcombe.
+
+     "_Harl._ Right, and that part will I play.
+
+     "_Kemp._ The iealous Cox-combe?
+
+     "_Harl._ I ha plaid that part euer since--
+
+     "_Kemp._ Your wife plaid the Curtizan.
+
+     "_Harl._ True, and a great while afore: then I must haue a peasant
+     to my man, and he must keepe my wife.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Your man, and a peasant, keepe your wife! I haue knowne a
+     Gentleman keepe a peasants wife, but 'tis not vsuall for a peasant
+     to keepe his maisters wife.
+
+     "_Harl._ O, 'tis common in our countrey.
+
+     "_Kem._ And ile maintaine the custome of the country. _Offer to
+     kisse his wife._
+
+     "_Harl._ What do you meane, sir?
+
+     "_Kemp._ Why, to rehearse my part on your wiues lips: we are
+     fellowes, and amongst friends and fellowes, you knowe, all things
+     are common.
+
+     "_Harl._ But shee shall bee no common thing, if I can keepe her
+     seuerall: then, sir, wee must haue an Amorado that must make me
+     Cornuto.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Oh, for loue sake let me play that part!
+
+     "_Harl._ No, yee must play my mans part, and keepe my wife.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Right; and who so fit to make a man a Cuckold, as hee that
+     keepes his wife?
+
+     "_Harl._ You shall not play that part.
+
+     "_Kemp._ What say you to my boy?
+
+     "_Harl._ I, he may play it, and you will.
+
+     "_Kemp._ But he cannot make you iealous enough?
+
+     "_Harl._ Tush, I warrant you, I can be iealous for nothing.
+
+     "_Kemp._ You should not be a true Italian else.
+
+     "_Harl._ Then we must haue a Magnifico that must take vp the matter
+     betwixt me and my wife.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Any thing of yours, but Ile take vp nothing of your wiues.
+
+     "_Harl._ I wish not you should: but come, now am I your Maister.
+
+     "_Kemp._ Right, and I your seruant.
+
+     "_Harl._ Lead the way then.
+
+     "_Kemp._ No, I ha more manners then so: in our countrie 'tis the
+     custome of the Maister to go In-before his wife, and the man to
+     follow the maister.
+
+     "_Harl._ In--
+
+     "_Kemp._ To his Mistresse.
+
+     "_Harl._ Yee are in the right--
+
+     "_Kemp._ Way to Cuck-holds-hauen; Saint Luke bee your speede!
+
+     _Exeunt._"[xvii:1]
+
+When, in the former of these scenes, Kemp is said to be "famous for
+_workes_ in print," I understand the ironical compliment as an allusion
+to his _Nine daies wonder_ only; for I feel assured that all the other
+pieces which I now proceed to notice, have been erroneously attributed
+to his pen.
+
+_A Dvtifvl Invective, Against the moste haynous Treasons of Ballard and
+Babington: with other their Adherents, latelie executed. Together with
+the horrible attempts and actions of the Q. of Scottes: and the Sentence
+pronounced against her at Fodderingay. Newlie compiled and set foorth,
+in English verse: For a Newyeares gifte to all loyall English subiects,
+by W. Kempe. Imprinted at London by Richard Jones, dwelling at the signe
+of the Rose and crowne, neere Holborne bridge_, 1587. 4to. (four leaves)
+is assigned to our comedian in Ritson's _Bibl. Poet._, Collier's _Hist.
+of Engl. Dram. Poet._[xviii:1] &c., &c. The writer calls it "the first
+fruites of his labour," and dedicates it "To the right honorable my very
+good Lord, George Barne, L. Maior of the Cittie of London." It opens
+thus:
+
+    "What madnes hath so mazd mens minds, that they cannot forsee
+    The wretched ends of catiues vile, which work by treacherie,
+    To ouerthrowe the blessed state of happie common wealth,
+    Or to depriue their soueraigne prince of her long wished health.
+    If feare of God and of his lawes were clearlie out of minde,
+    If feare of death (by Princes lawes) might not their dueties binde,
+    If vtter ruine of the Realme, and spoile of guiltlesse blood,
+    Might not suffice to stay the rage of traitors cruell moode,
+    Yet might they well consider howe treasons come to nought,
+    But alwaies worke their ouerthrowe by whom they first were wrought,"
+         &c.
+
+Towards the end, the loyalty of the author becomes so extravagant, that
+in a prayer for Queen Elizabeth, he exclaims:--
+
+    "Prolong her daies we pray thee, Lord, and if it be thy will,
+    Let vs not ouerliue her raigne, but let vs haue her still!"
+
+As the comedian expressly declares that the _Nine daies wonder_ was the
+"first Pamphlet that euer Will Kemp offred to the Presse,"[xix:1] there
+can be no doubt that this _Dvtiful Invective_ was written by some other
+individual of the name; perhaps by the William Kempe who published in
+the following year a book entitled _The Education of Children in
+learning_, and who is supposed to have been a schoolmaster at
+Plymouth.[xix:2]
+
+During the earlier period of the English stage, after the play was
+concluded, the audience were commonly entertained by a _Jig_. As no
+piece of that kind is extant, we are unable to ascertain its nature with
+precision; but it appears to have been a ludicrous metrical composition,
+either spoken or sung by the Clown, and occasionally accompanied by
+dancing and playing on the pipe and tabor. More persons than one were
+sometimes employed in a jig; and there is reason to believe that the
+performance was of considerable length, occupying even the space of an
+hour.[xx:1] The following entries are given verbatim from the
+Stationers' Books:
+
+                            "28 December [1591]
+
+  "Thomas Gosson      Entred for his copie vnder thand      }
+                      of M^r Watkins, the Thirde and last   } vi^d."
+                      parte of Kempes Iigge, soe yt         }
+                      apperteyne not to anie other."[xx:2]  }
+
+                            "11^do die Maii [1595]
+
+  "William Blackwall  Enterd for his copie vnder M^r warden }
+                      Binges hande, a ballad, of M^r        }
+                      Kempes Newe Jigge of the              } vi^d."
+                      Kitchen stuffe woman.[xx:3]           }
+
+                            "21 October [1595]
+
+  "Tho. Gosson        Entred for his copie vnder thande of  }
+                      the Wardenes, a Ballad                }
+                      called Kemps J[xxi:1] newe Jygge      }  vi^d."
+                      betwixt a souldior and a Miser        }
+                      and Sym the clown.[xxi:2]             }
+
+These entries are quoted (imperfectly) by several antiquarian writers
+who have enumerated the comedian's "works;" but his own express
+declaration, which has already[xxi:3] removed the _Dvtiful Invective_
+from the list, can only be evaded, in the present case, by weakly
+arguing--that he did not consider a Jig as a _pamphlet_, or that the
+preceding entries relate to pieces which had been conveyed to the
+printer without his permission. My belief is that the Jigs in question
+were composed by regular dramatists, and that they were called "Kemp's"
+merely because he had rendered them popular by his acting, and probably
+by flashes of extemporal wit. He tells us that he had "spent his life in
+mad Jigges[xxi:4]"; and to one of those many entertainments Marston
+alludes in _The Scovrge of Villanie_, 1599:
+
+    "Praise but Orchestra and the skipping Art,
+    You shall commaund him; faith, you haue his hart
+    Even capring in your fist. A hall, a hall,
+    Roome for the spheres! the orbes celestiall
+    Will daunce _Kempes Jigge_."[xxii:1]
+
+I may also remark, that, if Kemp had been a practised jig-maker, he
+would hardly have required the assistance of a friend to furnish him
+with verses for the _Nine daies wonder_.[xxii:2]
+
+_A most pleasant and merie new Comedie, Intituled, A Knacke to knowe a
+Knaue. Newlie set foorth, as it hath sundrie tymes bene played by Ed.
+Allen and his Companie. With Kemps applauded Merrimentes of the men of
+Goteham, in receiuing the King into Goteham_, was printed in 1594, 4to.,
+having been entered in the Stationers' Books[xxii:3] to Rich. Jones, 7th
+January of the preceding year. The accounts of Henslowe shew that it was
+performed, not as a new piece, 10th June, 1592[xxii:4]; and there is no
+doubt that it was originally produced several years before that date.
+The name of its author has not been ascertained. That portion of it
+which the title-page distinguishes as "Kemps applauded Merrimentes of
+the men of Goteham" is comprehended in the following scene:
+
+     _"Enter mad men of Goteham, to wit, a Miller, a Cobler, and a
+     Smith._
+
+     "_Miller._ Now let vs constult among our selues how to misbehaue
+     our selues to the Kings worship, Iesus blesse him! and when he
+     comes, to deliuer him this peticion. I think the Smith were best to
+     do it, for hees a wise man.
+
+     "_Cobler._ Naighbor, he shall not doe it as long as Jefferay the
+     Translater is Maior of the towne.
+
+     "_Smith._ And why, I pray? because I would haue put you from the
+     Mace?
+
+     "_Miller._ [_Cobler._] No, not for that, but because he is no good
+     fellow, nor he will not spend his pot for companie.
+
+     "_Smith._ Why, sir, there was a god of our occupation; and I charge
+     you by vertue of his godhed to let me deliuer the petition.
+
+     "_Cob._ But soft you; your God was a Cuckold, and his Godhead was
+     the horne; and thats the Armes of the Godhead you call vpon. Go,
+     you are put down with your occupation; and now I wil not grace you
+     so much as to deliuer the petition for you.
+
+     "_Smith._ What, dispraise our trade?
+
+     "_Cob._ Nay, neighbour, be not angrie, for Ile stand to nothing
+     onlie but this.
+
+     "_Smith._ But what? bear witnesse a giues me the But, and I am not
+     willing to shoot. Cobler, I will talke with you: nay, my bellowes,
+     my coletrough, and my water shall enter armes with you for our
+     trade. O neighbour, I can not beare it, nor I wil not beare it.
+
+     "_Mil._ Heare you, neighbour; I pray conswade yourself and be not
+     wilful, and let the Cobler deliuer it; you shal see him mar all.
+
+     "_Smith._ At your request I will commit my selfe to you, and lay
+     myselfe open to you lyke an Oyster.
+
+     "_Mil._ Ile tell him what you say. Heare you, naighbor: we haue
+     constulted to let you deliuer the petition; doe it wisely for the
+     credite of the towne.
+
+     "_Cob._ Let me alone; for the Kings Carminger was here, he sayes
+     the King will be here anon.
+
+     "_Smith._ But heark, by the Mas he comes.
+
+     "_Enter the King, Dunston, and Perin._
+
+     "_King._ How now, Perin, who haue we here?
+
+     "_Cob._ We the townes men of Goteham,
+             Hearing your Grace would come this way,
+             Did thinke it good for you to stay--
+             But hear you, neighbours, bid somebody ring the bels--
+             And we are come to you alone,
+             To deliuer our petition.
+
+     "_Kin._ What is it, Perin? I pray thee reade.
+
+     "_Per._ Nothing but to haue a license to brew strong Ale thrise a
+     week, and he that comes to Goteham and will not spende a penie on a
+     pot of Ale if he be a drie, that he may fast.
+
+     "_Kin._ Well, sirs, we grant your petition.
+
+     "_Cob._ We humblie thanke your royall Maiesty.
+
+     "_King._ Come, Dunston, lets away. _Exeunt omnes._"[xxiv:1]
+
+Like the pieces already noticed, "Kemps applauded Merrimentes of the
+men of Goteham" have been inserted in the catalogue of his
+"works."[xxiv:2] But surely the words of the title-page mean nothing
+more than 'merriments in which Kemp had been applauded;' and since it is
+not easy to imagine that the scene, as preserved in the printed copy,
+could have been received with any unusual degree of approbation even by
+the rudest audience, the probability is, that he enlivened his
+part,[xxv:1] not only by his ever-welcome buffoonery, but also by sundry
+speeches of extemporal humour: see a passage in _The Travailes of The
+three English Brothers_, cited at p. xv. There can be no doubt that Kemp
+figured in other "merrimentes" besides those "of the men of Goteham,"
+though they have not descended to our times: "But," says Nash to Gabriel
+Harvey, "by the meanes of his [Greene's] death thou art depriued of the
+remedie in lawe which thou intendedst to haue had against him for
+calling thy Father Ropemaker. Mas, thats true, what Action will it
+beare? _Nihil pro nihilo_, none in law; what it will doe vpon the stage
+I cannot tell, for there a man maye make action besides his part, when
+he hath nothing at all to say: and if there, it is but a clownish action
+that it will beare; for what can bee made of a Ropemaker more than a
+Clowne? Will Kempe, I mistrust it will fall to thy lot for a _merriment_
+one of these dayes." _Strange Newes, Of the intercepting certaine
+Letters_, &c. 1592.[xxv:2]
+
+I have only to add, that the present edition of the _Nine daies wonder_
+exhibits faithfully the text of the original 4to, which is preserved in
+the Bodleian Library,[xxvi:1] and which Gifford declared to be "a great
+curiosity, and, as a rude picture of national manners, extremely well
+worth reprinting."[xxvi:2]
+
+  A. DYCE.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[v:1] Heywood's _Apology for Actors_, Sig. E 2, 1612, 4to.--Tarlton died
+in Sept. 1588. A tract by Nash, entitled _An Almond for a Parrat_, n. d.
+but published about 1589, is dedicated "To that most Comicall and
+conceited Caualeire Monsieur du Kempe, Jestmonger and Vice-gerent
+generall to the Ghost of Dicke Tarlton."
+
+[v:2]
+
+    "_Letoy._--But you, Sir, are incorrigible, and
+             Take licence to yourselfe to adde unto
+             Your parts your owne free fancy; and sometimes
+             To alter or diminish what the writer
+             With care and skill compos'd; and when you are
+             To speake to your coactors in the Scene,
+             You hold interloquutions with the Audients.
+
+    _Byplay._--That is a way, my Lord, has bin allow'd
+             On elder stages to move mirth and laughter.
+
+    _Letoy._--Yes, in the dayes of Tarlton and _Kempe_,
+             Before the stage was purg'd from barbarisme,
+             And brought to the perfection it now shines with;
+             Then fooles and jesters spent their wits, because
+             The Poets were wise enough to save their owne
+             For profitabler uses."
+
+    --Brome's _Antipodes_, 1640, Act ii. sc. 1, Sig. D. 3.
+
+
+The passage on this subject in _Hamlet_, Act iii. sc. 2, must be
+familiar to every reader.
+
+[v:3] The term _Jig_ will be afterwards explained.
+
+[vi:1] _A Knack to know a Knaue._--Alleyn was concerned in several
+theatres: the Company mentioned above seems to have acted at the Rose.
+
+[vi:2] Collier's _Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._ i. 297, 298.
+
+[vi:3] In the second 4to. of the former play, 1599, and in the only 4to.
+of the latter, 1600, "_Kemp_" is prefixed to some speeches of Peter and
+Dogberry.
+
+[vii:1] What character is uncertain: see the names of "The principall
+Comoedians" at the end of the play in B. Jonson's _Workes_, 1616, fol.
+
+[vii:2] See pp. 1, 2, 19.
+
+[vii:3] Liber C. fol. 58 b.
+
+[viii:1] Act iv. sc. 4.--_Works_, ii. 165, ed. Gifford.
+
+[viii:2] _On the Famous Voyage_, Ibid. viii. 242.
+
+[viii:3] Sig. F. 8.--In Dekker's _Owles Almanacke_, 1618, 4to, under "A
+memoriall of the time sithence some strange and remarkeable Accidents
+vntill this yeare 1617," we find "Since the horrible dance to Norwich
+... 14 [years]." Sig. B. 4,--a mistake either of the author or printer.
+Allusions to Kemp's morris may also be found in Dekker and Webster's
+_Westward Ho_, 1607, Act v. sc. 1,--see my ed. of Webster's _Works_,
+iii. 103; and in _Old Meg of Herefordshire for a Mayd Marian, and
+Hereford Towne for a Morris Daunce_, &c. 1609, 4to.,--see p. 10 of
+reprint in _Miscell. Ant. Anglic._ 1816.
+
+[ix:1] P. 20.
+
+[ix:2] The passages in _The Retvrne from Pernassus_ (see p. xi.) "What,
+M. Kempe, how doth the Emperour of Germany?" and "Welcome, M. Kempe,
+from dancing the morrice ouer the Alpes," are, I conceive, only sportive
+allusions to his journey to Norwich.
+
+[ix:3] Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 198.
+
+[ix:4] Sig. B. 2.--Malone chose to read "played the clownes _part_ more
+naturally," &c.
+
+[ix:5] Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 490--Yet the name
+_William Kemp_ appears to have been not uncommon; for Chalmers (_ubi
+supra_) mentions that he found "in the parish register of St.
+Bartholomew the Less, the marriage of William Kempe unto Annis Howard,
+on the 10th of February, 1605-6;" and I shall presently shew that
+another individual so called has been confounded with the actor.
+
+[x:1] It was probably written about 1602,--certainly before the death of
+Queen Elizabeth.
+
+[xi:1] George Chalmers, who cites the present passage, observes, that
+Kemp "was as illiterate, probably, as he was certainly jocose. The
+Cambridge scholars laughed at his _gross illiterature_." Malone's
+_Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 491. What folly to take the measure of
+Kemp's acquirements from such a scene as this! He may have had no
+classical learning; but assuredly, as the _Nine daies wonder_ shews, he
+was not grossly illiterate.
+
+[xi:2] i. e. ay.
+
+[xi:3] An allusion to B. Jonson's _Poetaster_, _Works_, ii. 525, _seq._
+ed. Gifford: the words "Shakespeare hath given him a purge," &c. have
+occasioned considerable discussion; see Gifford's _Memoirs of Jonson_,
+p. lx. and p. cclv.
+
+[xi:4] i. e. hindrances.
+
+[xi:5] See note p. ix.
+
+[xii:1] i. e. St. Leger's Round, an old country dance.
+
+[xii:2] Terms used in the Buttery Books at the universities: see Minsheu
+in v. v. _Size_ and _Cue_.
+
+[xii:3] An allusion to Dekker's _Satiromastix, or The Vntrussing of the
+Humorous Poet_.
+
+[xii:4] A character in Kyd's _Spanish Tragedy_. The speech here given by
+Studioso from that celebrated piece (and which Burbage of course ought
+previously to recite), begins in the earlier 4tos.
+
+    "_What outcries pluck me_ from _my_ naked bed;"
+
+and in the later--
+
+    "_What outcry calls_," &c.
+
+See Dodsley's _Old Plays_, iii. 130, last ed.
+
+[xii:5] From this passage it has been conjectured that Kemp acted
+Justice Shallow.
+
+[xiii:1] Sigs. G. 2, 3.
+
+[xiv:1] Their names are attached to the Dedication.
+
+[xiv:2] It must have been produced, however, at an earlier date. It is
+not divided into Acts.
+
+[xiv:3] As early as 1589, in the Dedication to a tract already cited (p.
+v.), Nash had fabled that Kemp was known by reputation in
+Italy:--"Comming from Venice the last Summer, and taking Bergamo in my
+waye homeward to England, it was my happe soiourning there some foure or
+fiue dayes, to light in felowship with that famous Francatrip'
+Harlicken, who, perceiuing me to bee an English man by my habit and
+speech, asked me many particulars of the order and maner of our playes,
+which he termed by the name of representations: amongst other talke he
+enquired of me if I knew any such Parabolano here in London as Signior
+Chiarlatano Kempino. Very well (quoth I), and haue beene oft in his
+company. He hearing me say so, began to embrace me a new, and offered me
+all the courtesie he colde for his sake, saying, although he knew him
+not, yet for the report he had hard of his pleasance, hee colde not but
+bee in loue with his perfections being absent."--_An Almond for a
+Parrat_, Sig. A. 3.
+
+[xiv:4] Dr. W. Marriott, the editor of _A Collection of English Miracle
+Plays_, &c. Basel, 1838, has been led into a strange mistake by this
+passage, which, in his Introductory Essay, p. lxii. he cites from
+_Bibliographical Memoranda_, Bristol, 1816. After observing that
+according to the stage direction in one of the Chester Plays, Adam and
+Eve _stabunt nudi et non verecundabuntur_, he continues, "Perhaps our
+forefathers thought it no indecency to give such representations,
+considering they had the authority of Scripture for such exhibitions;
+but it must, nevertheless, strike us as not a little extraordinary, that
+at least as late as the close of the sixteenth century such scenes were
+to be found in England. We learn this fact [!!] from a play entitled
+_The Trailes of The three English Brothers_, 1607," &c.
+
+[xv:1] This piece was an allegorical representation of some of the chief
+events of the reign of Elizabeth, who was personated under the character
+of _England's Joy_: the author was named Vennard: see Collier's _Hist.
+of Eng. Dram. Poet._ iii. 405. _The Plot of the Play called England's
+Joy. To be playd at the Swan this 6. of Nov. 1602_, is reprinted (from a
+broadside) in _The Harl. Miscell._ x. 198, ed. Park.
+
+[xvii:1] Sigs. E. 4., F.
+
+[xviii:1] iii. 28.
+
+[xix:1] P. 19.
+
+[xix:2] "_The Education of Children in learning; declared by the
+dignitie, vtilitie, and methode thereof, by W. K._ (Wm. Kempe, who seems
+to have been a schoolmaster at Plymouth). Dedicated to Maister Wm.
+Hawkins, Esq. maior of Plymouth, &c. Quarto, 1588." Ames's _Typ. Antiq._
+by Herbert, ii. 1242.
+
+I may here observe that Herbert (ii. 1046) has given by mistake the
+following prose piece to "W. Kempe," in consequence, probably, of having
+seen it bound up with the "Dvtiful Invective," in a volume of the Royal
+Library: _The Censure of a loyall Subiect: Vpon certaine noted Speach
+and behauiours, of those fourteene notable Traitors, at the place of
+their executions, the xx. and xxi. of September last past. Wherein is
+handled matter of necessarye instruction for all dutifull Subiectes:
+especially, the multitude of ignorant people. Feare God: be true to thy
+Prince: and obey the Lawes. At London. Printed by Richarde Jones,
+dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and Crowne, neere Holborne bridge_,
+1587, 4to. The author was George Whetstone. An Address to the Reader
+signed T. C. [Thomas Churchyard] sets forth that "my good friend M. G.
+W. at his departure into the Country, left this most honest work to be
+censured by me; being right well assured, by the continuance of our true
+friendshippes, that I would not deceiue him with a flattering iudgement:
+and (trust me) vpon a considerate reading, I found it a little booke,
+containing a large testimony of his loyaltie to his prince and
+countrie," &c. Then follows the Dedication "To the Right honorable, Sir
+William Cicill, knight, Baron of Burleigh," &c. signed G. W., who trusts
+that this piece "will merite the acceptance of my former bookes."
+
+[xx:1] See Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell) iii. 135, seq., Collier's
+_Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._ iii. 378, seq.
+
+[xx:2] Liber B. fol. 282 b.
+
+[xx:3] Liber B. fol. 132.
+
+[xxi:1] So in MS.
+
+[xxi:2] Liber C. fol. 3 b.
+
+[xxi:3] P. xix.
+
+[xxi:4] P. 2.
+
+[xxii:1] Lib. iii. Sat. xi. p. 225. ed. 1764.--"Orchestra" is an
+allusion to Sir J. Davies's poem of that name.
+
+Augustine Phillips, an actor contemporary with Kempe, has also been
+mentioned as "an author," in consequence of the following entry in the
+Stationers' Books:
+
+                          "xxvi^to Maii [1595]
+
+  "Raffe Hancock     Entred for his copie vnder the   }
+                     handes of the Wardens, Phillips  } vi^d."
+                     his gigg of the slyppers....     }
+
+  (_Liber_ B. fol. 132 b.)
+
+George Chalmers erroneously makes the date of this entry "1593,"
+Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 469.
+
+[xxii:2] Pp. 10. 13.
+
+[xxii:3] Liber B. fol. 304. As this entry is nearly in the words of the
+title-page, I have not cited it at length. In Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by
+Boswell), iii. 197, and Collier's _Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._ iii. 27,
+the date is wrongly given "_Sept._ 7."
+
+[xxii:4] Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 299.
+
+[xxiv:1] Sig. F.--This play is not divided into acts.
+
+[xxiv:2] Ritson (vide _Bibl. Poet._) was evidently not aware that these
+"Merriments" formed part of an extant drama.
+
+[xxv:1] He played, I presume, the Cobler.
+
+[xxv:2] Sig. E. 4.--Mr. Collier's conjecture (_Hist. of Engl. Dram.
+Poet._ iii. 33) that Nash "refers possibly" to the "Merrimentes of the
+men of Goteham" was thrown out, I think, somewhat hastily.
+
+[xxvi:1] Among the books given to it by Robert Burton. No other copy is
+extant. Blomefield mistook it for a MS.: "In 1599 ... one Kemp came
+dancing the whole Way from London to Norwich, and there is a MSS. in the
+Bodleian Library containing an Account of it."--_Hist. of Norf._ ii.
+250.
+
+[xxvi:2] Note on B. Jonson's _Works_, ii. 166.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+  Kemps nine daies vvonder.
+  Performed in a daunce from
+  London to Norwich.
+
+  _Containing the pleasure, paines and kinde entertainment_
+  of _William Kemp_ betweene _London_ and that Citty
+  in his late Morrice.
+
+  Wherein is somewhat set downe worth note; to reprooue
+  the slaunders spred of him: many things merry,
+  nothing hurtfull.
+
+  _Written by himselfe to satisfie his friends._
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  LONDON
+
+  Printed by _E. A._ for _Nicholas Ling_, and are to be
+  solde at his shop at the west doore of Saint
+  Paules Church 1600.
+
+
+
+
+  To the true Ennobled Lady, and his most bountifull Mistris, Mistris
+    Anne Fitton, Mayde of Honour to the most sacred Mayde, Royall Queene
+    Elizabeth.{1:2}
+
+
+Honorable Mistris, in the waine of my litle wit I am forst to desire
+your protection, else euery Ballad-singer will proclaime me bankrupt of
+honesty. A sort{1:6} of mad fellows, seeing me merrily dispos'd in a
+Morrice, haue so bepainted mee in print since my gambols began from
+London to Norwich, that (hauing but an ill face before) I shall appeare
+to the world without a face, if your fayre hand wipe not away their
+foule coulors. One hath written _Kemps farewell_ to the tune of Kery,
+mery, Buffe;{1:11} another, His desperate daungers in his late trauaile;
+the third, His entertainement to New-Market; which towne I came neuer
+neere by the length of halfe the heath. Some sweare, in a
+Trenchmore{1:14} I haue trode a good way to winne the world; others that
+guesse righter, affirme, I haue without good help daunst my selfe out of
+the world; many say many thinges that were neuer thought. But, in a
+word, your poore seruant offers the truth of his progresse and profit to
+your honorable view: receiue it, I beseech you, such as it is, rude and
+plaine; for I know your pure iudgement lookes as soone to see beauty in
+a Blackamoore, or heare smooth speech from a Stammerer, as to finde any
+thing but blunt mirth in a Morrice dauncer, especially such a one as
+Will Kemp, that hath spent his life in mad Iigges{2:2} and merry iestes.
+Three reasons mooue mee to make publik this iourney: one to reproue
+lying fooles I neuer knew; the other to commend louing friends, which
+by the way I daily found; the third to shew my duety to your honorable
+selfe, whose fauours (among other bountifull friends) makes me (dispight
+of this sad world) iudge my hart Corke and my heeles feathers, so that
+me thinkes I could flye to Rome (at least hop to Rome, as the olde
+Prouerb is) with a morter on my head.{2:8} In which light conceite I
+lowly begge pardon and leaue, for my Tabrer strikes his huntsup{2:11}, I
+must to Norvvich: Imagine, noble Mistris, I am now setting from my Lord
+Mayors, the houre about seauen, the morning gloomy, the company many, my
+hart merry.
+
+  Your worthy Ladiships most
+  vnworthy seruant,
+  WILLIAM KEMP.
+
+
+
+
+  KEMPS NINE DAIES WONDER,
+
+  PERFORMED IN A MORRICE FROM LONDON TO NORWICH.
+
+  Wherein euery dayes iourney is pleasantly set downe, to satisfie
+    his friends the truth against all lying Ballad-makers; what he did,
+    how hee was welcome, and by whome entertained.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The first daies iourney, being the first Munday in cleane Lent, from the
+right honorable the Lord Mayors of London.
+
+The first mundaye in Lent, the close morning promising a cleere day,
+(attended on by Thomas Slye{3:10} my Taberer, William Bee my seruant,
+and George Sprat, appointed for my ouerseer, that I should take no other
+ease but my prescribed order) my selfe, thats I, otherwise called
+Caualiero Kemp, head-master of Morrice-dauncers, high Head-borough of
+heighs, and onely tricker of your Trill-lilles and best
+bel-shangles{3:15} betweene Sion and mount Surrey,[3:1] began frolickly
+to foote it from the right honorable the Lord Mayors of London towards
+the right worshipfull (and truely bountifull) Master Mayors of Norwich.
+
+My setting forward was somewhat before seauen in the morning; my Taberer
+stroke up merrily; and as fast as kinde peoples thronging together would
+giue mee leaue, thorow London I leapt. By the way many good olde people,
+and diuers others of yonger yeers, of meere kindnes gaue me bowd
+sixepences and grotes, blessing me with their harty prayers and
+God-speedes.
+
+Being past White-chappell, and hauing left faire London with all that
+North-east Suburb before named, multitudes of Londoners left not me: but
+eyther to keepe a custome which many holde, that Mile-end is no walke
+without a recreation at Stratford Bow with Creame and Cakes, or else
+for loue they beare toward me, or perhappes to make themselues merry if
+I should chance (as many thought) to giue over my Morrice within a Mile
+of Mile-end; how euer, many a thousand brought me to Bow; where I rested
+a while from dancing, but had small rest with those that would haue
+vrg'd me to drinking. But, I warrant you, Will Kemp was wise enough: to
+their ful cups, kinde thanks was my returne, with Gentlemanlike
+protestations, as "Truely, sir, I dare not," "It stands not with the
+congruity of my health." Congruitie, said I? how came that strange
+language in my mouth? I thinke scarcely that it is any Christen worde,
+and yet it may be a good worde for ought I knowe, though I neuer made
+it, nor doe verye well understand it; yet I am sure I have bought it at
+the word-mongers at as deare a rate as I could haue had a whole 100 of
+Bauines{4:18} at the wood-mongers. Farwell, Congruitie, for I meane now
+to be more concise, and stand upon eeuener bases; but I must neither
+stand nor sit, the Tabrer strikes alarum. Tickle it, good Tom, Ile
+follow thee. Farwell, Bowe; haue ouer the bridge, where I heard say
+honest Conscience was once drownd: its pittye if it were so; but thats
+no matter belonging to our Morrice, lets now along to Stratford Langton.
+
+Many good fellows being there met, and knowing how well I loued the
+sporte, had prepared a Beare-bayting; but so unreasonable were the
+multitudes of people, that I could only heare the Beare roare and the
+dogges howle; therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies{4:30} to
+Ilford, where I againe rested, and was by the people of the towne and
+countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowses in
+the great spoon,[4:1] one whole draught being able at that time to haue
+drawne my little wit drye; but being afrayde of the olde Prouerbe (He
+had need of a long spoone that eates with the deuill), I soberly gaue my
+boone Companyons the slip.
+
+From Ilford, by Moone-shine, I set forward, dauncing within a quarter of
+a myle of Romford; where, in the highway, two strong Iades (hauing
+belike some great quarrell to me vnknowne) were beating and byting
+either of other; and such through Gods help was my good hap, that I
+escaped their hoofes, both being raysed with their fore feete ouer my
+head, like two Smithes ouer an Anuyle.
+
+There being the end of my first dayes Morrice, a kinde Gentleman of
+London lighting from his horse, would haue no nay but I should leap into
+his saddle. To be plaine with ye, I was not proud, but kindly tooke his
+kindlyer offer, chiefely thereto vrg'd by my wearines; so I rid to my
+Inne at Romford.
+
+In that towne, to giue rest to my well-labour'd limbes, I continued two
+dayes, being much beholding to the townsmen for their loue, but more to
+the Londoners that came hourely thither in great numbers to visite me,
+offring much more kindnes then I was willing to accept.
+
+
+The second dayes iourney, beeing Thursday of the first weeke.
+
+Thursday being Market day at Burnt-wood, Tom Slye was earlyer up then
+the Lark, and sounded merrily the Morrice: I rowsed my selfe, and
+returned from Romford to the place wher I tooke horse the first night,
+dauncing that quarter of a myle backe againe thorow Romford, and so
+merily to Burnt-wood. Yet, now I remember it well, I had no great cause
+of mirth, for at Romford townes end I strained my hip, and for a time
+indured exceeding paine; but being loath to trouble a Surgeon, I held
+on, finding remedy by labour that had hurt mee, for it came in a turne,
+and so in my daunce I turned it out of my seruice againe.
+
+The multitudes were so great at my comming to Burntwood, that I had much
+a doe (though I made many intreaties and staies) to get passage to my
+Inne.
+
+In this towne two Cut-purses were taken, that with other two of their
+companions followed mee from London (as many better disposed persons
+did): but these two dy-doppers{6:9} gaue out when they were apprehended,
+that they had laid wagers and betted about my iourney; wherupon the
+Officers bringing them to my Inne, I iustly denyed their acquaintance,
+sauing that I remembred one of them to be a noted Cut-purse, such a one
+as we tye to a poast on our stage, for all people to wonder at, when at
+a play they are taken pilfring{6:13}.
+
+This fellow, and his half-brother, being found with the deed, were sent
+to Iayle: their other two consorts had the charity of the towne, and
+after a dance of Trenchmore{6:18} at the whipping crosse, they were sent
+backe to London, where I am afraide there are too many of their
+occupation. To bee short, I thought myselfe well rid of foure such
+followers, and I wish hartily that the whole world were cleer of such
+companions{6:22}.
+
+Hauing rested well at Burntwood, the Moone shining clearely, and the
+weather being calme, in the euening I tript it to Ingerstone, stealing
+away from those numbers of people that followed mee; yet doe I what I
+could, I had aboue fiftie in the company, some of London, the other of
+the Country thereabout, that would needs, when they heard my Taber,
+trudge after me through thicke and thin.
+
+
+The third dayes iourney, being Friday of the first weeke.
+
+On Friday morning I set forward towardes Chelmsford, not hauing past two
+hundred, being the least company that I had in the day-time betweene
+London and that place. Onward I went, thus easily followed, till I come
+to Witford-bridge, where a number of country people, and many Gentlemen
+and Gentlewomen were gathered together to see mee. Sir Thomas Mildmay,
+standing at his Parke pale{7:7}, receiued gently a payre of garters of
+me; gloues, points{7:9}, and garters, being my ordinary marchandize,
+that I put out to venter for performance of my merry voyage{7:9}.
+
+So much a doe I had to passe by the people at Chelmsford, that it was
+more than an houre ere I could recouer my Inne gate, where I was faine
+to locke my selfe in my Chamber, and pacifie them with wordes out of a
+window insteed of deeds: to deale plainely, I was so weary, that I could
+dance no more.
+
+The next morning I footed it three myle of my way toward Braintree, but
+returned backe againe to Chelmsford, where I lay that Satterday and the
+next Sunday. The good cheere and kinde welcome I had at Chelmsford was
+much more than I was willing to entertaine; for my onely desire was to
+refraine drinke and be temperate in my dyet.
+
+At Chelmsford, a Mayde not passing foureteene yeares of age, dwelling
+with one Sudley, my kinde friend, made request to her Master and Dame
+that she might daunce the Morrice with me in a great large roome. They
+being intreated, I was soone wonne to fit her with bels{7:26}; besides
+she would haue the olde fashion, with napking on her armes{7:26}; and to
+our iumps we fell. A whole houre she held out; but then being ready to
+lye downe I left her off; but thus much in her praise, I would haue
+challenged the strongest man in Chelmsford, and amongst many I thinke
+few would haue done so much.
+
+
+The fourth dayes iourney, beeing Munday of the second weeke.
+
+On Munday morning, very early, I rid the 3 myles that I daunst the
+satterday before; where alighting, my Taberer strucke up, and lightly I
+tript forward; but I had the heauiest way that euer mad Morrice-dancer
+trod; yet,
+
+    With hey and ho, through thicke and thin,
+      The hobby horse quite forgotten{8:8},
+    I follow'd, as I did begin,
+      Although the way were rotten.
+
+This foule way I could finde no ease in, thicke woods being on eyther
+side the lane; the lane likewise being full of deep holes, sometimes I
+skipt vp to the waste; but it is an old Prouerb, that it is a little
+comfort to the miserable to haue companions, and amidst this miry way I
+had some mirth by an vnlookt for accident.
+
+It was the custome of honest Country fellows, my vnknowne friends, upon
+hearing of my Pype (which might well be heard in a still morning or
+euening a myle), to get vp and beare mee company a little way. In this
+foule way two pretty plaine youthes watcht me, and with their kindnes
+somewhat hindred me. One, a fine light fellow, would be still before me,
+the other euer at my heeles. At length, comming to a broad plash{8:23}
+of water and mud, which could not be auoyded, I fetcht a rise, yet fell
+in ouer the anckles at the further end. My youth that follow'd me tooke
+his iump, and stuck fast in the midst, crying out to his companion,
+"Come, George, call yee this dauncing? Ile goe no further," for, indeede
+hee could goe no further, till his fellow was faine to wade and help him
+out. I could not chuse but lough to see howe like two frogges they
+laboured: a hartye farwell I gaue them, and they faintly bad God speed
+me, saying if I daunst that durtie way this seauen yeares againe, they
+would neuer daunce after me.
+
+Well, with much a doo I got unto Braintree by noone, tarried there
+Munday night and the next day; onely I daunst three miles on Tewsday, to
+ease my Wednesdaies iourney.
+
+If I should deny that I was welcome at Braintree, I should slander an
+honest crew of kind men, among whome I far'd well, slept well, and was
+euery way well usde.
+
+
+The fift dayes iourney, being Wednesday of the second weeke.
+
+Taking aduantage of my 3 miles that I had daunst y^e day before, this
+wednesday morning I tript it to Sudbury; whether came to see a very
+kinde Gentleman, Master Foskew, that had before trauailed a foote from
+London to Barwick, who, giuing me good counsaile to obserue temperate
+dyet for my health, and other aduise to bee carefull of my company,
+besides his liberall entertainment, departed, leauing me much indebted
+to his loue.
+
+In this towne of Sudbury there came a lusty, tall fellow, a butcher by
+his profession, that would in a Morrice keepe mee company to Bury: I
+being glad of his friendly offer, gaue him thankes, and forward wee did
+set; but ere euer wee had measur'd halfe a mile of our way, he gaue me
+ouer in the plain field, protesting, that if he might get a 100 pound,
+he would not hold out with me; for indeed my pace in dauncing is not
+ordinary.
+
+As he and I were parting, a lusty Country lasse being among the people,
+cal'd him faint hearted lout, saying, "If I had begun to daunce, I would
+haue held out one myle though it had cost my life." At which wordes many
+laughed. "Nay," saith she, "if the Dauncer will lend me a leash of his
+belles, Ile venter to treade one mile with him my selfe." I lookt vpon
+her, saw mirth in her eies, heard boldnes in her words, and beheld her
+ready to tucke vp her russet petticoate; I fitted her with bels, which
+[s]he merrily taking, garnisht her thicke short legs, and with a smooth
+brow bad the Tabrer begin. The Drum strucke; forward marcht I with my
+merry Maydemarian, who shooke her fat sides, and footed it merrily to
+Melfoord, being a long myle. There parting with her, I gaue her (besides
+her skinfull of drinke) an English crowne to buy more drinke; for, good
+wench, she was in a pittious heate: my kindnes she requited with
+dropping some dozen of short courtsies, and bidding God blesse the
+Dauncer. I bad her adieu; and to giue her her due, she had a good eare,
+daunst truely, and wee parted friendly. But ere I part with her, a good
+fellow, my friend, hauin writ an odde Rime of her, I will make bolde to
+set it downe.
+
+    A Country Lasse, browne as a berry,
+    Blith of blee{10:15}, in heart as merry,
+    Cheekes well fed, and sides well larded,
+    Euery bone with fat flesh guarded,
+    Meeting merry Kemp by chaunce,
+    Was Marrian in his Morrice daunce.
+    Her stump legs with bels were garnisht,
+    Her browne browes with sweating varnish[t];
+    Her browne hips, when she was lag
+    To win her ground, went swig a swag;
+    Which to see all that came after
+    Were repleate with mirthfull laughter.
+    Yet she thumpt it on her way
+    With a sportly hey de gay{10:27}:
+    At a mile her daunce she ended,
+    Kindly paide and well commended.
+
+At Melford diuers Gentlemen met mee, who brought me to one Master
+Colts, a very kinde and worshipfull Gentleman, where I had vnexpected
+entertainment till the Satterday. From whose house, hauing hope somewhat
+to amend my way to Bury, I determined to goe by Clare, but I found it to
+be both farther and fouler.
+
+
+The sixt dayes iourney, being Satterday of the second weeke.
+
+From Wednesday night til Satterday hauing bin very troublesome but much
+more welcome to master Colts, in the morning I tooke my leaue, and was
+accompanied with many Gentlemen a myle of my way. Which myle master
+Colts his foole would needs daunce with me, and had his desire, where
+leauing me, two fooles parted faire in a foule way; I keeping on my
+course to Clare, where I a while rested, and then cheerefully set
+forward to Bury.
+
+Passing from Clare towards Bury, I was inuited to the house of a very
+bountifull widdow, whose husband during his life was a Yeoman of that
+Countrie; dying rich no doubt, as might well appeare, by the riches and
+plentie that abounded in euery corner of the house. She is called the
+widdow Eueret.
+
+At her house were met aboue thirty Gentlemen. Such, and so plentifull
+variety of good fare I haue very sildome seene in any Commoners house.
+Her behauiour being very modest and freendly, argued her bringing vp not
+to be rude. She was a woman of good presence, and, if a foole may iudge,
+of no smal discretion.
+
+From this widdowes I daunst to Bury, comming in on the Satterday in the
+afternoone, at what time the right Honorable the Lord Chiefe
+Justice{11:25} entred at an other gate of the towne. The wondring and
+regardles multitude making his honor cleere way, left the streetes where
+he past to gape at me; the throng of them being so great that poore Will
+Kemp was seauen times stayed ere hee could recouer his Inne. By reason
+of the great snow that then fell, I stayd at Bury from Satterday in the
+second week of my setting foorth til Thursday night the next weeke
+following.
+
+
+The seauenth dayes iourney, being Friday of the third weeke.
+
+Vpon Fryday morning I set on towardes Thetford, dauncing that tenne mile
+in three houres; for I left Bury somewhat after seauen in the morning,
+and was at Thetford somewhat after ten that same forenoone. But, indeed,
+considering how I had been booted the other iourneys before, and that
+all this way, or the most of it, was ouer a heath, it was no great
+wonder; for I far'd like one that had escaped the stockes, and tride the
+vse of his legs to out-run the Constable: so light was my heeles, that I
+counted the ten mile no better than a leape.
+
+At my entrance into Thetford the people came in great numbers to see
+mee; for there were many there, being Size time. The noble Gentleman,
+Sir Edwin Rich{12:13}, gaue me entertainment in such bountifull and
+liberal sort, during my continuance there Satterday and Sunday, that I
+want fitte words to expresse the least part of his worthy vsage of my
+vnworthines; and to conclude liberally as hee had begun and continued,
+at my departure on Munday his worship gaue me fiue pound.
+
+
+The eyght dayes iourney, being Munday of the fourth weeke.
+
+On Munday morning I daunst to Rockland ere I rested, and comming to my
+Inne, where the Hoast was a very boone companion, I desired to see him;
+but in no case he would be spoken with till he had shifted himselfe from
+his working dayes sute. Being armed at all poyntes, from the cap to the
+codpeece, his blacke shooes shining and made straght with copper buckles
+of the best, his garters in the fashion, and euery garment fitting
+Corremsquandam (to use his owne word), hee enters the Hall, with his
+bonnet in his hand, began to crye out:
+
+"O Kemp, deere Master Kemp! you are euen as welcome as--as--as--," and
+so stammering he began to study for a fit comparison, and, I thanke him,
+at last he fitted me; for saith he, "thou art euen as welcome as the
+Queenes best grey-hound." After this dogged yet well-meaning salutation,
+the Carrowses were called in; and my friendly Hoast of Rockland began
+withall this, blessing{13:5} the houre vppon his knees, that any of the
+Queenes Maiesties well-willers or friends would vouchsafe to come within
+his house; as if neuer any such had been within his doores before.
+
+I tooke his good meaning, and gaue him great thankes for his kindenesse;
+and hauing rested mee well, began to take my course for Hingham, whether
+my honest Hoast of Rockland would needs be my guide: but, good true
+fat-belly, he had not followed mee two fieldes, but he lyes all along,
+and cryes after me to come backe and speake with him. I fulfild his
+request: and comming to him, "Dauncer," quoth hee, "if thou daunce a
+Gods name, God speede thee! I cannot follow thee a foote farther; but
+adieu, good dauncer; God speed thee, if thou daunce a Gods name!"
+
+I, hauing haste of my way, and he being able to keep no way, there wee
+parted. Farewell he: he was a kinde good fellow, a true Troyan; and if
+euer be my lucke to meete him at more leasure, Ile make him full amendes
+with a Cup full of Canarie. But nowe I am a little better aduis'd, wee
+must not thus let my madde Hoast passe; for my friend, late mentioned
+before, that made the odde rime on my Maide-marian, would needes
+remember my Hoast. Such as it is, He bluntly set downe.
+
+    He was a man{13:26} not ouer spare;
+    In his eyebals dwelt no care.
+    "Anon, anon," and "Welcome{13:28}, friend,"
+    Were the most words he vsde to spend,
+    Saue sometime he would sit and tell
+    What wonders once in Bullayne fell{13:31},
+    Closing each Period of his tale
+    With a full cup of Nut-browne Ale.
+    Turwin and Turneys siedge were hot{14:1},
+    Yet all my Hoast remembers not:
+    Kets field{14:3} and Muscleborough{14:3} fray
+    Were battles fought but yesterday.
+    "O, 'twas a goodly matter then
+    To see your sword and buckler men!
+    They would lye heere, and here and there,
+    But I would meete them euery where:
+    And now a man is but a pricke;
+    A boy, arm'd with a poating sticke{14:10},
+    Will dare to challenge Cutting Dicke{14:11}.
+    O 'tis a world{14:12} the world to see!
+    But twill not mend for thee nor mee."
+    By this some guest cryes "Ho, the house!"
+    A fresh friend hath a fresh carouse:
+    Still he will drinke, and still be dry,
+    And quaffe with euery company.
+    Saint Martin send him merry mates,
+    To enter at his hostree gates!
+    For a blither lad than he
+    Cannot an Inkeeper be.
+
+Well, once againe farewell mine Hoast at Rockland. After all these
+farewels, I am sure to Hingham I found a foule way, as before I had done
+from Thetford to Rockland.
+
+Yet, besides the deep way, I was much hindred by the desire people had
+to see me. For euen as our Shop-keepers will hayle and pull a man with
+"Lack ye? what do you lack, Gentlemen?"{14:27} "My ware is best," cryes
+one, "Mine best in England," sayes an other, "Heere shall you haue
+choyse," saith the third; so was the dyuers voyces of the young men and
+Maydens, which I should meete at euerie myles ende, thronging by
+twentie, and sometime fortie, yea, hundreths in a companie; one crying
+"The fayrest way was thorow their Village," another, "This is the
+nearest and fayrest way, when you haue past but a myle and a halfe;" an
+other sort{15:2} crie "Turne on the left hand," some "On the right
+hand;" that I was so amazed I knewe not sometime which way I might best
+take; but haphazard, the people still accompanying me, wherewith I was
+much comforted, though the wayes were badde; but as I said before at
+last I ouertooke it.
+
+
+The ninth dayes iourney, being Wednesday of the second weeke.
+
+The next morning I left Hingham, not staying till I came to
+Barford-bridge, fiue young men running all the way with me, for
+otherwise my pace was not for footemen.
+
+From Barford bridge I daunst to Norwich; but comming within sight of the
+Citty, perceiuing so great a multitude and throng of people still
+crowding more and more about me, mistrusting it would be a let{15:15} to
+my determined expedition and pleasurable humour, which I long before
+conceiued to delight this Citty with (so far as my best skill and
+industry of my long trauelled sinewes could affoord them), I was
+aduised, and so tooke ease by that aduise, to stay my Morrice a little
+aboue Saint Giles his gate, where I tooke my gelding, and so rid into
+the Citty, procrastinating my merry Morrice daunce through the Citty
+till better opportunitie.
+
+Being come into the Citty, Master Roger Wiler the Maior{15:23}, and
+sundry other of his worshipfull Brethren, sent for me; who perceiuing
+howe I intended not to daunce into the Cittye that nyght, and being well
+satisfied with the reasons, they allotted me time enough not to daunce
+in till Satterday after; to the end that diuers knights and Gentlemen,
+together with their wiues and children (who had beene many dayes before
+deceyued with expectation of my comming), might nowe haue sufficient
+warning accordingly by satterday following.
+
+In the meane space, and during my still continuaunce in the Cittye
+afterwardes, they not onely very courteously offered to beare mine owne
+charges and my followers, but very bountifully performed it at the
+common charges: the Mayor and many of the Aldermen often times besides
+inuited vs priuately to theyr seuerall houses.
+
+To make a short end of this tedious description of my entertainment;
+Satterday no sooner came but I returned without the Citty through Saint
+Giles his gate, and beganne my Morrice where I left at that gate, but I
+entred in at Saint Stephens gate, where one Thomas Gilbert in name of
+all the rest of the Cittizens gaue me a friendly and exceeding kind
+welcome; which I haue no reason to omit, vnlesse I would condemne my
+selfe of ingratitude, partlye for the priuate affection of the writer
+towardes me, as also for the generall loue and fauour I found in them
+from the highest to the lowest, the richest as the poorest. It followes
+in these few lynes.
+
+      Master Kemp his welcome to Norwich.
+
+    W With hart, and hand, among the rest,
+    E Especially you welcome are:
+    L Long looked for as welcome guest,
+    C Come now at last you be from farre.
+    O Of most within the Citty, sure,
+    M Many good wishes you haue had;
+    E Each one did pray you might indure,
+    W With courage good the match you made.
+    I Intend they did with gladsome hearts,
+    L Like your well willers, you to meete:
+    K Know you also they'l doe their parts,
+    E Eyther in field or house to greete
+    M More you then any with you came,
+    P Procur'd thereto with trump and fame.
+                              your well-willer,
+                                    T. G.
+
+Passing the gate, Wifflers{17:1} (such Officers as were appointed by
+the Mayor) to make me way through the throng of the people which prest
+so mightily vpon me, with great labour I got thorow that narrow
+preaze{17:4} into the open market place; where on the crosse, ready
+prepared, stood the Citty Waytes, which not a little refreshed my
+wearines with toyling thorow so narrow a lane as the people left me:
+such Waytes (under Benedicite be it spoken) fewe Citties in our Realme
+haue the like, none better; who, besides their excellency in wind
+instruments, their rare cunning on the Vyoll and Violin, theyr voices be
+admirable, euerie one of them able to serue in any Cathedrall Church
+in Christendoome for Quiristers.
+
+Passing by the Market place, the presse still increasing by the number
+of boyes, girles, men and women, thronging more and more before me to
+see the end; it was the mischaunce of a homely maide, that, belike, was
+but newly crept into the fashion of long wasted peticotes tyde with
+points{17:17}, and had, as it seemed, but one point tyed before, and
+comming vnluckily in my way, as I was fetching a leape, it fell out that
+I set my foote on her skirts: the point eyther breaking or stretching,
+off fell her peticoate from her waste, but as chance was, thogh hir
+smock were course, it was cleanely; yet the poore wench was so ashamed,
+the rather for that she could hardly recouer her coate againe from
+vnruly boies, that looking before like one that had the greene
+sicknesse, now had she her cheekes all coloured with scarlet. I was
+sorry for her, but on I went towards the Maiors, and deceiued the people
+by leaping ouer the church-yard wall at S. Johns, getting so into M.
+Mayors gates a neerer way; but at last I found it the further way about,
+being forced on the Tewsday following to renew my former daunce, because
+George Sprat, my ouer-seer, hauing lost me in the throng, would not be
+deposed that I had daunst it, since he saw me not; and I must confesse I
+did not wel, for the Cittizens had caused all the turne-pikes to be
+taken vp on Satterday that I might not bee hindred. But now I returne
+againe to my Jump, the measure of which is to be seene in the Guild-hall
+at Norwich,{18:2} where my buskins, that I then wore and daunst in from
+London thither, stand equally deuided, nailde on the wall. The plenty of
+good cheere at the Mayors, his bounty and kinde vsage, together with the
+general welcomes of his worshipful brethren, and many other knights,
+Ladies, Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, so much exceeded my expectation, as I
+adiudg'd my selfe most bound to them all. The Maior gaue me fiue pound
+in Elizabeth angels{18:10}; which Maior (faire Madame, to whom I too
+presumptuously dedicate my idle paces) is a man{18:11} worthy of a
+singuler and impartiall admiration, if our criticke humorous mindes
+could as prodigally conceiue as he deserues, for his chast life,
+liberality, and temperance in possessing worldly benefits. He liues
+vnmarried, and childlesse; neuer purrchased house nor land, the house he
+dwels in this yeere being but hyred: he liues vpon marchandies, being a
+Marchant venturer. If our marchants and gentlemen wold take example by
+this man, Gentlemen would not sell their lands to become banckrout
+Marchants, nor Marchants liue in the possessions of youth-beguiled
+gentlemen, who cast themselues out of their parents heritages for a few
+out-cast commodities{18:22}. But, wit, whither wilt thou?{18:22} What
+hath Morrice tripping Will to do with that? it keeps not time w^t his
+dance; therefore roome, you morral precepts, giue my legs leaue to end
+my Morrice, or, that being ended, my hands leaue to perfect this
+worthlesse poore tottered{18:26} volume.
+
+Pardon me, Madame, that I am thus tedious; I cannot chuse but commend
+sacred liberality, which makes poore wretches partakers of all
+comfortable benefits: besides the loue and fauour already repeated, M.
+Weild the mayor{18:30} gaue me 40.s. yeerely during my life, making me a
+free man of the marchant venterers. This is the substance of al my
+iourney; therefore let no man beleeue, how euer before by lying ballets
+and rumors they haue bin abused, y^t either waies were laid open for me,
+or that I deliuered gifts to her Maiesty. Its good being merry, my
+masters, but in a meane, and al my mirths, (meane though they be) haue
+bin and euer shal be imploi'd to the delight of my royal Mistris; whose
+sacred name ought not to be remembred among such ribald rimes as these
+late thin-breecht lying Balletsingers haue proclaimed it.
+
+It resteth now that in a word I shew what profit I haue made by my
+Morrice. True it is I put out some money to haue threefold gaine at my
+returne{19:8}: some that loue me, regard my paines, and respect their
+promise, haue sent home the treble worth; some other at the first sight
+haue paide me, if I came to seek them; others I cannot see, nor wil
+they willingly be found, and these are the greater number. If they had
+al usd me wel, or al ill, I would haue boldly set downe the true sum of
+my smal gain or losse; but I wil haue patience, some few daies longer:
+at y^e end of which time, if any be behinde, I wil draw a cattalogue of
+al their names I ventur'd with; those y^t haue shewne themselues
+honest men, I wil set before them this Caracter, H. for honesty; before
+the other Bench-whistlers{19:19} shal stand K. for ketlers and
+keistrels{19:19}, that wil driue a good companion without need in them
+to contend for his owne; but I hope I shall haue no such neede. If I
+haue, your Honourable protection shall thus far defend your poore
+seruant, that he may, being a plain man, call a spade a spade. Thus
+fearing your Ladyship is wearier with reading this toy then I was in all
+my merry trauaile, I craue pardon; and conclude this first Pamphlet that
+euer Will Kemp offred to the Presse, being thereunto prest on the one
+side by the pittifull papers, pasted on euery poast, of that which was
+neither so nor so, and on the other side vrg'd thereto in duety to
+expresse with thankefulnes the kind entertainment I found.
+
+  Your honors poore seruant,
+  W. K.
+
+
+
+
+  Kemps humble request to the impudent generation of Ballad-makers
+    and their coherents; that it would please their rascalities to
+    pitty his paines in the great iourney he pretends{20:3}, and not
+    fill the country with lyes of his neuer done actes, as they did in
+    his late Morrice to Norwich.
+
+
+To the tune of Thomas Delonies Epitaph.
+
+My notable Shakerags, the effect of my sute is discouered in the Title
+of my supplication; but for your better vnderstandings, for that I know
+you to be a sort{20:9} of witles beetle-heads that can understand
+nothing but what is knockt into your scalpes, These are by these
+presentes to certifie vnto your block-headships, that I, William Kemp,
+whom you had neer hand rent in sunder with your vnreasonable rimes, am
+shortly, God willing, to set forward as merily as I may; whether I my
+selfe know not. Wherefore, by the way, I would wish ye, imploy not your
+little wits in certifying the world that I am gone to Rome, Jerusalem,
+Venice, or any other place at your idle appoint. I knowe the best of ye,
+by the lyes ye writ of me, got not the price of a good hat to couer your
+brainles heads: if any of ye had come to me, my bounty should haue
+exceeded the best of your good masters the Ballad-buiers, I wold haue
+apparrelled your dry pates in party coloured bonnets, and bestowd a
+leash of my cast belles to haue crown'd ye with cox-combs. I haue made a
+priuie search what priuate Jigmonger{20:24} of your jolly number hath
+been the Author of these abhominable ballets written of me. I was told
+it was the great ballet-maker T. D., alias Tho. Deloney, Chronicler of
+the memorable liues of the 6. yeomen of the west, Jack of Newbery, the
+Gentle-craft{20:26}, and such like honest men, omitted by Stow,
+Hollinshead, Grafton, Hal, froysart, and the rest of those wel
+deseruing writers; but I was giuen since to vnderstand your late
+generall Tho. dyed poorely, as ye all must do, and was honestly buried,
+which is much to bee doubted of some of you. The quest of inquiry
+finding him by death acquited of the Inditement, I was let to wit y^t
+another Lord of litle wit, one whose imployment for the Pageant was
+vtterly spent, he being knowne to be Eldertons immediate heyre{21:7},
+was vehemently suspected; but after due inquisition was made, he was at
+that time knowne to liue like a man in a mist, hauing quite giuen ouer
+the mistery{21:11}. Still the search continuing, I met a proper vpright
+youth, onely for a little stooping in the shoulders, all hart to the
+heele, a penny Poet, whose first making{21:14} was the miserable stolne
+story of Macdoel, or Macdobeth{21:15}, or Macsomewhat, for I am sure a
+Mac it was, though I neuer had the maw to see it; and hee tolde me there
+was a fat filthy ballet-maker, that should haue once been his Journeyman
+to the trade, who liu'd about the towne, and ten to one but he had thus
+terribly abused me and my Taberer, for that he was able to do such a
+thing in print. A shrewd presumption! I found him about the
+bankside{21:21}, sitting at a play; I desired to speake with him, had
+him to a Tauerne, charg'd a pipe with Tobacco, and then laid this
+terrible accusation to his charge. He swels presently, like one of the
+foure windes; the violence of his breath blew the Tobacco out of the
+pipe, and the heate of his wrath drunke dry two bowlefuls of Rhenish
+wine. At length hauing power to speake, "Name my accuser," saith he, "or
+I defye thee, Kemp, at the quart staffe." I told him; and all his anger
+turned to laughter, swearing it did him good to haue ill words of a
+hoddy doddy{21:29}, a habber de hoy{21:30}, a chicken, a squib, a
+squall{21:30}, one that hath not wit enough to make a ballet, that, by
+Pol and Aedipol, would Pol his father, Derick{21:32} his dad, doe anie
+thing, how ill so euer, to please his apish humor. I hardly beleeued
+this youth that I tooke to be gracious had bin so graceles; but I heard
+afterwards his mother in law was eye and eare witnes of his fathers
+abuse by this blessed childe on a publique stage, in a merry Hoast of an
+Innes part. Yet all this while could not I finde out the true
+ballet-maker, till by chaunce a friend of mine puld out of his pocket a
+booke in Latine, called Mundus Furiosus{22:6}, printed at Cullen,
+written by one of the vildest and arrantest lying Cullians{22:7} that
+euer writ booke, his name Jansonius, who, taking vpon him to write an
+abstract of all the turbulent actions that had beene lately attempted or
+performed in Christendome, like an vnchristian wretch, writes onely by
+report, partially, and scoffingly of such whose pages shooes hee was
+vnworthy to wipe, for indeed he is now dead: farewell he! euery dog must
+haue a day. But see the luck on't: this beggerly lying busie-bodies name
+brought out the Ballad-maker{22:13}, and, it was generally confirmd, it
+was his kinsman: he confesses himselfe guilty, let any man looke on his
+face; if there be not so redde a colour that all the sope in the towne
+will not washe white, let me be turned to a Whiting as I passe betweene
+Douer and Callis. Well, God forgiue thee, honest fellow, I see thou hast
+grace in thee; I prethee do so no more, leaue writing these beastly
+ballets, make not good wenches Prophetesses, for litle or no profit, nor
+for a sixe-penny matter reuiue not a poore fellowes fault thats hanged
+for his offence; it may be thy owne destiny one day; prethee be good to
+them. Call vp thy olde Melpomene, whose straubery quill may write the
+bloody lines of the blew Lady, and the Prince of the burning crowne; a
+better subiect, I can tell ye, than your Knight of the Red Crosse. So,
+farewel, and crosse me no more, I prethee, with thy rabble of bald
+rimes, least at my returne I set a crosse on thy forehead that all men
+may know thee for a foole.
+
+  WILLIAM KEMP.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[3:1] Sion neere Brainford, and Mount Surrey by Norwich _(Marg. note in
+old ed.)_.
+
+[4:1] A great spoone in Ilford, holding aboue a quart _(Marg. note in
+old ed.)_.
+
+
+
+
+NOTES.
+
+
+Page 1, line 2, Mistris Anne Fitton, Mayde of Honour to ... Queene
+Elizabeth.]--A _Mary_ Fitton, daughter to Sir Edward Fitton, of
+Gawsworth, and _maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth_, is mentioned by
+Ormerod, _Hist. of Cheshire_, iii. 293; and "_Mrs._ Fitton" is noticed
+as holding that office in several letters of Rowland Whyte, printed
+among the _Sydney Papers_. It seems unlikely that the Queen should have
+had two maids of honour called Fitton; and yet we can hardly suppose
+that Kemp mistook the Christian name of his patroness. I may add, that
+an examination of Sir E. Fitton's will in the Prerogative Court has
+proved to me that his daughter was named _Mary_.
+
+P. 1, l. 6, sort.]--set, band.
+
+P. 1, l. 11, Kery, mery, Buffe.]--Compare Nash's _Haue with you to
+Saffron-walden_, 1596, "Yea, without _kerry merry buffe_ be it spoken,"
+&c. Sig. F. 4; and Middleton's _Blurt Master Constable_, "Tricks,
+tricks; _kerry merry buff_." Act i. sc. 1; _Works_, i. 235, ed. Dyce.
+
+P. 1, l. 14. Trenchmore.]--a boisterous sort of dance to a lively tune
+in triple time.
+
+P. 2, l. 2, Jigges.]--See Introduction.
+
+P. 2, l. 8, I could flye to Rome (at least hop to Rome, as the olde
+Proverb is) with a morter on my head.]--So in Fletcher's _Fair Maid of
+the Inn_, "He did measure the stars with a false yard, and may now
+_travel to Rome with a mortar on 's head_, to see if he can recover his
+money that way," Act v. sc. 2, _Works_, ix. 498, ed. Weber; and in
+Middleton and Rowley's _Spanish Gipsy_, "A cousin of mine in _Rome,
+I['ll] go to him with a mortar_," Act ii. sc. 2, Middleton's _Works_,
+iv. 135, ed. Dyce.
+
+P. 2, l. 11, huntsup.]--a tune played to rouse the sportsmen in a
+morning.
+
+P. 3, l. 10, Thomas Slye.]--A relation, probably, of William Slye,
+the actor.
+
+P. 3, l. 15, bel-shangles.]--A cant term, which is also used by Nash:
+"Canonizing euerie _Bel-shangles_ the water-bearer for a Saint."--_Haue
+with you to Saffron-walden_, 1596, Sig. I.
+
+P. 4, l. 18, Bauines.]--small faggots.
+
+P. 4, l. 30, hey-de-gaies.]--a kind of rural dance: the word is
+variously written.
+
+P. 6, l. 9, dy-doppers.]--didappers, dabchicks.
+
+P. 6, l. 13, a noted Cut-purse, such a one as we tye to a poast on our
+stage, for all people to wonder at, when at a play they are taken
+pilfring.]--Mr. Collier, who has cited the present passage, observes,
+that this method of treating cutpurses, when detected at theatres, is no
+where else adverted to by any writer.--_Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._ iii.
+413.
+
+P. 6, l. 18, Trenchmore.]--See note, p. 25.
+
+P. 6, l. 22, companions.]--scurvy fellows--a play on the word.
+
+P. 7, l. 7, Sir Thomas Mildmay, standing at his Parke pale.]--Sir
+Thomas Mildmay, Knt., of Moulsham-hall. He married the Lady Frances,
+only daughter, by his second wife, of Henry Ratcliffe, Lord Fitzwalter
+and Earl of Sussex; from which marriage his descendants derived their
+title and claim to the Barony of Fitzwalter. He died in 1608.--Morant's
+_Hist. of Essex_, ii. 2; Dugdale's _Baron._ ii. 288.
+
+P. 7, l. 9, points.]--tagged laces.
+
+P. 7, l. 9, being my ordinary marchandize, that I put out to venter
+for performance of my merry voyage.]--This "marchandize" was instead of
+a deposit in money: but we learn from a passage towards the end of the
+tract (p. 19), that our Morrice-dancer had also "put out some money to
+have threefold gain at his return,"--it being then a common custom for
+those who undertook expeditions to put out sums of money on condition of
+receiving them back trebled, quadrupled, or quintupled, at the
+completion of the voyages or journies. Kemp (_ibid._) complains that the
+greater number of those with whom he had deposited money would not
+"willingly be found:" compare _A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry
+Come-twang; Wherein John Taylor hath Satyrically suted seuen hundred and
+fifty of his bad debtors, that will not pay him for his returne of his
+iourney from Scotland_. Taylor the Water-poet's _Workes_, 1630, p. 36.
+
+P. 7, l. 26, bels.]--"The number of bells round each leg of the
+morris-dancers amounted from twenty to forty. They had various
+appellations, as the fore-bell, the second bell, the treble, the tenor,
+the base, and the double-bell. Sometimes they used trebles only; but
+these refinements were of later times. The bells were occasionally
+jingled by the hands, or placed on the arms or wrists of the
+parties."--Douce's _Illust. of Shakespeare_, ii. 475. The same writer
+mentions that in the time of Henry the Eighth the Morris-dancers had
+"garters to which bells were attached," 473.
+
+P. 7, l. 26, the olde fashion, with napking on her armes.]--"The
+handkerchiefs, or napkins, as they are sometimes called, were held in
+the hand, or tied to the shoulders." Douce, _ubi supra_, 475.
+
+P. 8, l. 8, The hobby-horse quite forgotten.]--When the present tract
+was written, the Puritans, by their preachings and invectives, had
+succeeded in banishing this prominent personage from the Morris-dance,
+as an impious and pagan superstition. The expression in our text seems
+to have been almost proverbial; besides the well-known line cited in
+Shakespeare's _Hamlet_, Act iii. sc. 2, (and in his _Love's Labours
+Lost_, Act iii. sc. 1.)
+
+    "For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot,"
+
+parallel passages are to be found in various other early dramas. As the
+admirable scene in Sir Walter Scott's _Abbot_, I. ch. xiv. (_Wav.
+Novels_, xx.) must be familiar to every reader, a description of the
+hobby-horse is unnecessary.
+
+P. 8, l. 23, plash.]--pool.
+
+P. 10, l. 15, blee.]--complexion, countenance.
+
+P. 10, l. 27, hey de gay.]--See note, p. 26.
+
+P. 11, l. 25, the Lord Chiefe Justice.]--Sir John Popham: he was
+appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1592.
+
+P. 12, l. 13, Sir Edwin Rich.]--Third son of Robert Lord Rich, was
+knighted at Cadiz in June 1596: see Account of the expedition to Cadiz
+in Hakluyt's _Voyages_, I. 617. ed. 1599 (where, by mistake, he is
+called Sir _Edmund_), and Stow's _Annales_, p. 775. ed. 1631. About
+three years after, he purchased the manor of Mulbarton in Norfolk from
+William Gresham, Esq. In 1604, when Sir Anthony Shirley went as
+ambassador from the Emperor of Germany to the King of Morocco, in his
+suite was Sir Edwin Rich, "whose behauiour was good, and well spoken of
+in euery place where he came," &c. He married Honora, daughter of
+Charles Worlick, Esq.; and died, and was buried (I know not in what
+year) at Hartlepool. A monument is erected to his memory, and to that of
+his sons, Robert and Sir Edwin, in Mulbarton church. Collins's _Baron._
+III. P. ii. 592. ed. 1741; Le Neve's _Mon. Angl._ Suppl. 113; Purchas's
+_Pilgrimes_, Sec. Part. p. 863. ed. 1625; Blomefield's _Hist. of Norf._
+III. 52.
+
+P. 13, l. 5, began withall this, blessing, &c.]--Old ed. "began with.
+All this: blessing," &c.
+
+P. 13, l. 26, He was a man, &c.]--Warton thinks that this description
+of the Innkeeper at Rockland, "which could not be written by Kemp, was
+most probably a contribution from his friend and fellow player
+Shakespeare [?]. He may vie with our Host of the Tabard." _Hist. of Eng.
+Poet._ IV. 63, ed. 4to.
+
+P. 13, l. 28, Welcome.]--"coming," apud Warton (ubi supra, 64,) by
+mistake.
+
+P. 13, l. 31, What wonders once in Bullayne fell.]--At the siege of
+Boulogne: on the 14th of Sept. 1544, it surrendered to Henry the Eighth,
+who entered it in triumph on the 18th of the month.
+
+P. 14, l. 1, Turwin and Turneys siedge were hot.]--After the Battle of
+the Spurs, which took place August 16th, 1513, Terouenne surrendered to
+Henry the Eighth on the 22nd of that month, and on the 27th its defences
+were razed to the ground: Tournay surrendered to the English monarch on
+the 29th of the ensuing September. Historians differ somewhat as to the
+dates of these events: I have followed Lingard.
+
+P. 14, l. 3, Kets field.]--The battle near Norwich, August 27th, 1549,
+when the Earl of Warwick routed Ket and the Norfolk rebels.
+
+P. 14, l. 3, Muscleborough fray.]--The battle of Pinkey, in which the
+Protector Somerset defeated the Scots with great slaughter, September
+10th, 1547.
+
+P. 14, l. 10, poating sticke.]--Or _poking-stick_, an instrument for
+setting the plaits of ruffs. Poting-sticks were originally made of wood
+or bone; afterwards of steel, that they might be used hot.
+
+P. 14, l. 11, Cutting Dicke.]--Is thus mentioned by Wither:
+
+    "Yet this is nothing; if they looke for fame,
+    And meane to haue an everlasting name
+    Amongst the Vulgar, let them seeke for gaine
+    With Ward the Pirat on the boisterous maine;
+    Or else well mounted keepe themselues on land,
+    And bid our wealthy trauellers to stand,
+    Emptying their full-cram'd bags; for that's a tricke
+    Which sometimes wan renoune to _Cutting Dicke_."
+
+    _Abvses Stript and Whipt_, Lib. II. Sat. 2. Sig. P. ed. 1613.
+
+From the following entry by Henslowe we learn that this worthy figured
+in a play: "Pd. unto Thomas Hewode, the 20th of september [1602], for
+the new adycions of _Cutting Dick_, the some of xxs." Malone's
+_Shakespeare_, (by Boswell,) III. 333.
+
+P. 14, l. 12, 'tis a world.]--Equivalent to--it is a wonder.
+
+P. 14, l. 27, Lack ye? what do you lack, Gentlemen?]--The usual
+address of the London tradesmen to those who passed by their shops,
+which were formerly open like booths or stalls at a fair.
+
+P. 15, l. 2, sort.]--set, band.
+
+P. 15, l. 15, let.]--hindrance.
+
+P. 15, l. 23, Master Roger Wiler the Maior.]--An error, it would seem,
+not of the author, but of the printer, for afterwards (p. 18), the name
+is given more correctly, _Weild_. In the list of Mayors of Norwich
+during Elizabeth's reign, drawn up by Blomefield, we find--
+
+  "1598, Francis Rugg, 2.
+   1599, _Roger Weld_.
+   1600, Alex. Thurston."
+
+  _Hist. of Norf._ ii. 252.
+
+P. 17, l. 1, Wifflers.]--Persons who clear the way for a procession:
+see Douce's _Ill. of Shakespeare_, I. 506. I may just notice that when
+Grose compiled his _Prov. Gloss._, the word _whifflers_ had not become
+obsolete in the city of which Kemp is now speaking.
+
+P. 17, l. 4, preaze.]--press.
+
+P. 17, l. 17, points.]--tagged laces.
+
+P. 18, l. 2, my Jump, the measure of which is to be seene in the
+Guild-hall at Norwich, &c.]--It is hardly necessary to inform the
+reader that no memorial of Kemp is now extant in that building.
+
+P. 18, l. 10, angels.]--Gold coins, worth about 10s. each.
+
+P. 18, l. 11, is a man.]--Old ed. "as _a man_."
+
+P. 18, l. 22, commodities.]--goods, in which needy prodigals took
+either part or whole of the sum they wanted to borrow, and for which
+they gave a bond: these commodities (sometimes consisting of brown
+paper!) they were to turn into ready money. Our early writers have
+innumerable allusions to the custom.
+
+P. 18, l. 22, wit, whither wilt thou?]--A kind of proverbial
+expression, by no means unfrequent: see, for instance, Shakespeare's _As
+you like it_, Act iv. sc. 1.
+
+P. 18, l. 26, tottered.]--tattered.
+
+P. 18, l. 30, M. Weild the mayor.]--See note, p. 29.
+
+P. 19, l. 8, I put out some money to haue threefold gaine at my
+returne.] See note, p. 26.
+
+P. 19, l. 19, Bench-whistlers.]--perhaps, sottish idlers on ale-house
+benches; see Gifford's note in B. Jonson's _Works_, i. 103.
+
+P. 19, l. 19, ketlers and keistrels.]--The first of these terms I am
+unable to explain; but it occurs in Middleton's _Black Book_, "So,
+drawing in amongst bunglers and _ketlers_ under the plain frieze of
+simplicity, thou mayest finely couch the wrought velvet of knavery;" and
+in his _Father Hubburd's Tales_, we find "like an old cunning bowler to
+fetch in a young _ketling_ gamester:" see Middleton's _Works_, v. 543,
+589, ed. Dyce. _Keistrels_ are hawks of a worthless and degenerate
+breed.
+
+P. 20, l. 3, pretends.]--intends.
+
+P. 20, l. 9, sort.]--set, band.
+
+P. 20, l. 24, Jigmonger.]--ballad maker.
+
+P. 20, l. 26, the great ballet-maker T. D., alias Tho. Deloney,
+Chronicler of the memorable liues of the 6. yeomen of the west, Jack of
+Newbery, the Gentle-craft.]--Thomas Deloney succeeded Elderton as the
+most popular ballad-writer of the time: for an account of his poetical
+pieces, see Ritson's _Bibl. Poet._ and Collier's _Hist. of Engl. Dram.
+Poet._ iii. 100. The pleasing ballad of _Fair Rosamond_, reprinted in
+Percy's _Rel. of An. Engl. Poet._ ii. 143. ed. 1794, is probably the
+composition of Deloney, as it is found in more than one of his
+publications. In 1596, had he not eluded the search of the Mayor of
+London, he would have been punished for writing "a certain Ballad,
+containing a Complaint of great Want and Scarcity of Corn within the
+Realm ... bringing in the Queen speaking with her People Dialogue-wise,
+in very fond and undecent sort," &c., Stow's _Survey_, B. v. 333. ed.
+1720, where he is described as "an idle Fellow, and one noted with the
+like Spirit in printing a Book for the Silk Weavers, wherein was found
+some such like foolish and disorderly matter." Nash terms him "the
+Balletting Silke-weauer," _Haue with you to Saffron-walden_, 1596, Sig.
+N. 3. Deloney was no less celebrated among the vulgar for his
+prose-romances than for his ballads. _Thomas of Reading, or the sixe
+worthie Yeomen of the West_, is noticed in the present passage as a
+well-known work, and was dramatized in 1601 (Malone's _Shakespeare_, by
+Boswell, iii. 325-6; Collier's _Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._ iii. 99),
+but no impression has been discovered earlier than the fourth, 1612,
+4to: this tale is reprinted in Thoms's _Early Prose Rom._ i. Of _The
+pleasant Historie of John Winchcomb, in his younguer yeares called Jack
+of Newbery, the famous and worthy Clothier of England; declaring his
+life and loue, together with his charitable deeds and great
+Hospitalitie_, &c., the earliest edition extant is the eighth, 1619,
+4to: its entry in the Stationers' Books stands thus:
+
+                            "7 Maii [1596].
+
+  "Tho. Millington    Entered for his copie a book           }
+                      called Jack of Newbery So              }  vi^d."
+                      that he haue yt lawfully aucthorised   }
+
+  (_Liber_ C. fol. 19)
+
+_The Gentle Craft, A most merry and pleasant History, not altogether
+vnprofitable, nor any way hurtfull: very fit to passe away the
+tediousnes of the long winters euenings_, in Two Parts, 1598, 4to., is
+probably the first edition, for the following entry in the Stationers'
+Books seems to relate to it:
+
+                            "19^o Octobris [1597]
+
+  "Raphe Blore        Entred for his copie vnder thande      }
+                      of Mr. Dix and Mr. Man a booke         } vi^d."
+                      called The gentle crafte intreatinge   }
+                      of Shoomakers....                      }
+
+  (_Liber_ C. fol. 25.)
+
+Verses of various kinds are inserted in these novels.
+
+P. 21, l. 7, one whose imployment for the Pageant was vtterly spent, he
+being knowne to be Eldertons immediate heyre.]--An allusion to Anthony
+Munday. During a long life he figured in various capacities,--as a
+player, an apprentice to Allde the printer, a retainer of the Earl of
+Oxford, a Messenger of her Majesty's Chamber, Poet to the City,
+dramatist, writer in verse and prose, and draper. He also excited
+considerable attention, and drew much trouble on himself, by his efforts
+in detecting the treasonable practices of the Jesuits. According to the
+inscription on his monument in the church of St. Stephen, Coleman
+Street, he died in his 80th year, August 10th 1633. (Stow's _Survey_, B.
+iii. 61. ed. 1720.) For a fuller account of Munday and his writings, see
+Chalmers's _Biog. Dict._, Collier's _Supplementary volume to Dodsley's
+Old Plays_, Warton's _Hist. of Engl. Poet._, iii., 290, _seq._ ed. 4to.,
+_Ritson's Bibl. Poet._, and Lowndes's _Bibl. Man._ His _Downfall of
+Robert Earl of Huntington_, and _Death of Robert_, &c. (in the latter of
+which, if not in the former, he was assisted by Chettle) are reprinted
+by Mr. Collier in the volume just mentioned; his _English Romayne Life;
+Discovering the Lives of the Englishmen at Rome, the orders of the
+English Seminarie, &c._ and his _Banquet of daintie Conceits, &c._ may
+be found in _The Harl. Miscell._ VII. 136, IX. 219, ed. Park; his
+_Triumphes of Reunited Britania_, _Metropolis Coronata_, and
+_Crysanaleia, the Golden Fishing_, are included in Nichols's _Prog. of
+K. James_, i. 564, iii. 107, 195; and extracts from his translations of
+various romances are given in Sir E. Brydges's _Brit. Bibl._ i. 225,
+135, ii. 561.
+
+Gifford thinks it probable that most of the annual pageants from 1591
+to the death of Elizabeth were produced by Munday (Note on B. Jonson's
+_Works_, vi. 328). Though Kemp declares here that his "imployment for
+the pageant was utterly spent," yet Anthony furnished the city shows for
+1605, 1611, and (in spite of an attack made on him by Middleton in
+1613--see my ed. of Middleton's _Works_, v. 219, note), for 1614, 1615,
+and 1616.
+
+Except a "Song of Robin Hood and his Huntesmen" in _Metropolis
+Coronata_, I am not aware that any of Munday's ballads are
+extant--unless indeed the "ditties" in _The Banquet of daintie Conceits_
+may be regarded as such; but there is no doubt that they were numerous,
+and hence, in the present passage, he is termed the "immediate heyre" of
+William Elderton. This personage,--who is said to have been, at
+different periods of his life, an actor, the master of a company of
+players, and an attorney in the Sheriff's Court, London,--obtained great
+notoriety by his ballads. See a list of his pieces in Ritson's _Bibl.
+Poet._: vide also Warton's _Hist. of Engl. Poet._ iv. 40, ed. 4to. His
+song "The God of love," &c. (of which a puritanical moralization still
+exists) is quoted in Shakespeare's _Much ado about Nothing_, act v. sc.
+2. His _Verses on the Images over the Guild-hall Gate_ may be read in
+Stow's _Survey_, B. iii. 41, ed. 1720; his ballad of _The King of Scots
+and Andrew Browne_, in Percy's _Rel. of An. Engl. Poet._ ii. 207, ed.
+1794; his _New Yorkshyre Song_, in Evans's _Old Ballads_, i. 20, ed.
+1810; and his _Newes from Northumberland_, _The Dekaye of the Duke_,
+_The daungerous Shooting of the Gunne at the Court_ and _A moorning Diti
+upon Henry Earl of Arundel_, in _The Harl. Miscell._ X. 267, _seq._ ed.
+Park. Elderton appears to have ceased pouring forth his doggrel about
+the time that Deloney began to write. In 1592 he was dead: see Nash's
+_Strange Newes, Of the intercepting certaine Letters_, &c., 1592, Sig.
+D. 4. He was nearly as famous for drinking as for rhyming: of two
+epitaphs on him, preserved by Camden, I subjoin the first:
+
+    "Hic situs est sitiens, atque ebrius Eldertonus;
+      Quid dico, hic situs est? hic potius sitis est."
+
+    _Remaines--Epitaphes_, 56, ed. 1605.
+
+P. 21, l. 11, mistery.]--art, trade.
+
+P. 21, l. 14, making.]--poetical composition.
+
+P. 21, l. 15, Macdobeth.]--This mention of a piece anterior to
+Shakespeare's tragedy on the same subject has escaped the commentators.
+
+P. 21, l. 21, the bankside.]--In Southwark, where the Globe and other
+theatres were situated.
+
+P. 21, l. 29, hoddy doddy.]--A term of contempt, which occurs in B.
+Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act iv. sc. 8, _Works_, i. 141, ed.
+Gifford, and is used by a comparatively recent writer, Swift. See
+Richardson's _Dict._ in v.
+
+P. 21, l. 30, habber de hoy.]--"A _Hober-de-hoy_, half a man and half
+a boy." Ray's _Proverbs_, p. 57, ed. 1768.--The word is variously
+written: see Jamieson's _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Hobbledehoy_.
+
+P. 21, l. 30, squall.]--probably, poor effeminate creature. Taylor,
+the water-poet, describes the rich foolish gallant calling his harlot,
+
+    "Ducke, Lambe, _Squall_, Sweet-heart, Cony, and his Doue."
+
+    _A Whore_, p. 112.--_Workes_, 1630.
+
+and Middleton, who employs the word several times, seems to use it in
+the sense of wench: see his _Works_, iii. 55, v. 575. ed. Dyce.
+
+P. 21, l. 32, Derick.]--hang,--the name of the common hangman when
+this tract was written: he is frequently mentioned in our old plays.
+
+P. 22, l. 6, Mundus Furiosus.]--_Mundi Fvriosi sive P. A. Iansonii
+Narra[tio]nis Rervm Tota Europa Gestarum, Continvatio ab Anno 1597 vsque
+ad annum pręsentem 1600._ _Colonię_, 1600, 8vo.
+
+P. 22, l. 7, Cullians.]--scoundrels.
+
+P. 22, l. 13, this beggerly lying busie-bodies name brought out the
+Ballad-maker.]--Kemp, I conceive, alludes here to Richard Johnson, who
+is still remembered by his _Famous Historie of the Seuen Champions of
+Christendome_, in two Parts, of which the earliest extant edition
+(_what_ edition the title-page does not indicate) was printed in 1608,
+4to. Ritson remarks that this celebrated romance is mentioned in Meres's
+_Palladis Tamia_ (fol. 268), 1598. _Observ. on Warton's Hist. of Engl.
+Poet._ p. 23; but I can produce a notice of it anterior to that date
+from the Stationers' Books:
+
+                            "20 Aprilis [1596]
+
+  "Jo Danter          Entred for his copie vnder thande of   }
+                      the Wardens, A booke Intituled the     }
+                      famous Hystory of the Seven Champions  }
+                      of Christiandom, St. George of         }  vi^d."
+                      England, St. Dennys of Fraunce, St.    }
+                      James of Spayne, St. Anthony of Italy, }
+                      St. Andrewe of Scotland, St. Patrick   }
+                      of Irland, and St. David of Wales,     }
+
+                            "6 Sept. [1596]
+
+  "Cuthbert Burby     Entred for his copie by assigment      }
+                      from John Danter, Twoo                 }
+                      bookes, viz. the first pte and second  }
+                      pte of the vii Champions               } vii^d."
+                      of Christiandom. Reservinge            }
+                      the workmanship of the printinge       }
+                      at all tymes to the said Jo            }
+                      Danter....                             }
+
+  (_Liber_ C. fol. 10 b., fol. 13 b.)
+
+Johnson's _Nine Worthies of London: Explaining the honourable Exercise
+of Armes, the Vertues of the Valiant, and the memorable Attempts of
+magnanimous Minds, &c._ (a poem somewhat resembling the _Mirror for
+Magistrates_,) is reprinted in _The Harl. Miscell._ viii. 437, ed. Park.
+He was also the compiler, and probably in part the author, of _The Crown
+Garland of Golden Roses_, &c. See Ritson's _Bibl. Poet._
+
+
+
+
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