ch 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 mistak