locke,
and was performed in manner following:

PERIANDER.

CHORUS

The Master of the Revels. Detraction.
The Master of the Revels Boy. Resolution.
Ingenuity a Doctor of Physicke.

INTERLOCUTORES.

Periander, Tyrannus Corinthi.
Cypsilus, Haeres Periandri, Stultus.
Lycophron Frater Cypsili.
Neotinos, Puer, Satelles Lycoph.
Lysimachos}
Aristhaeus } Nobiles et a Consilijs Periandri.

Philarches}
Eriterus } Juuenes Nobiles in Aula Periandri.
Symphilus }

Crataea Mater Periandri.
Melissa Uxor Periandri.
Melissae Umbra.
Eugenia Filia Periandri.

Pronaea }
Zona } Duae Meritriculae Periandri.

Larissaea Soror Philarchis.
Europe Aristhaei Filia.
Faeminae Quatuor Corinthiae cum 4 or Pueris Inseruientibus.
Arion Celebris Musicus.
Nantae Quatuor.
Cines Duo Togati.
Vigiles Duo.
Calistus }
Stratocles } Satellites Periandri.
Borius }
Tres Aut 4 or Alij Satellites.
Epilogus.

* * * * *

"EPILOGUE.

"Gentlemen, welcome! our great promises
Wee would make upp, your selves must needs confesse,
But our small timbred actors, narrow roome,
Necessity of thrifte make all short come
Of our first apprehensions; wee must keepe
Our auntient customes though wee after creepe.
But wee forgett times limitts, Nowe tis Lente--
Old store this weeke may lawfully be spente
Our former shewes were giv'n to our cal'd Lorde,
This, and att his request, for you was storde.
By many hands was Periander slaine,
Your gentler hands will give him live againe.

FINIS.

"A certain gentlewoman, upon the hearing of these two last verses,
made two other verses, and in way of an aunswer sent them to the
Prince, who having first plaied Periander afterwards himselfe also
pronounced the Epilogue.

"The verses were these

If that my hand or hart him life could give,
By hand and hart should Periander live.

"But it is almost incredible to thinke how well this Tragedy was
performed of all parties, and how well liked of the whole, which (as
many of them as were within the hall) were very quiet and attentive.
But those that were without and could not get in made such an hideous
noice, and raised such a tumult with breaking of windows all about the
colledge, throwinge of stones into the hall and such like ryott, that
the officers of the coll: (beeing first dar'd to appeare) were faine
to rush forth in the beginning of the play, with about a dozen