not goe forward, but after long stay and silence, was
compelled abruptly to leave the stage, whereupon beeing to play
another part, hee was so dasht, that hee did nothing well that night.

"After him Good-wife Spiggot, comming forth before her time, was most
miserably at a non plus & made others so also, whilst her selfe
staulked in the middest like a great Harry-Lion (as it pleased the
audience to terme it), either saying nothing at all, or nothing to the
purpose.

"The drunken-man, which in the repetitions had much pleased and done
very well, was now so ambitious of his action, that he would needs
make his part much longer than it was, and stood so long upon it all,
that he grew most tedious, whereuppon it was well observed and said by
one that

----'twas pitty there should bee
In any pleasing thing satiety.

"To make up the messe of absurdities the company had so fil'd the
stage, that there was no roome to doe any thing well, to bee sure many
thinges were mistaken and therefore could not but bee very
distastfull, for it was thought that particular men were aymed at, and
disciphered by the drunken-man, and Justice Bryar, though it was fully
knowne to our-selves that the author had no such purpose.

"In fine, expectation the devourer of all good endeavours had
swallowed more in the very name and title of the interlude than was
either provided or intended in the whole matter, for wee onely
proposed to our selves a shew, but the towne expected a perfect and
absolute play, so that all things mett to make us unhappy that night,
and had not Time him selfe (whose lines and actions were thought good)
somewhat pleased them, they would never have endured us without
hissing, howsoever in the end they gave us two or three cold
plaudites, though they departed no way satisfyed, unlesse it were in
the shew about the quadrangle, wherein the Prince was carryd to his
chamber in the same state that hee came from thence in the beginning
(as is above mentioned), the whole company of actors beeing added to
his traine who immediately followed him before the guard in this
order:

First, Time alone, attended, with two pages and lightes.

Next, Veritas alone, likewise attended.

Then Error and Opinion, which all the way they went pull'd Veritas by
the sleeve, one by one and the other by the other, but shee would not
harken to them.

After these came Studioso and Philonices, both pleading the case, one
upon his ringer