1599, November 9th, 24th, 30th.-Dekker received six pounds for The whole History of Fortunatus. November 31st (December 1st,) one pound for alterations. December 12th, two pounds for "the end, for the Court," where it was acted 1st January, 1600. This is a satirical play directed against deceased dramatists. It was entered 20th of February, 1600, but not printed then.

1600, January 18th, 30th.-Dekker received two pounds in earnest of Truth's Supplication to Candlelight.

1600, February 13th.-Dekker, "Harton," and Day received three pounds in part payment for The Spanish Moor's Tragedy. This was published in 1657 as Lust's Dominion, or The Lascivious Queen, by Christofer Marloe. It is not included in the so-called collected editions of Dekker or Day, nor is Patient Grissel. Dekker's share in Lust's Dominion is act I, i, ii; II, i; IV, iv, v; V, i, ii, iii. Friar Cole in this play is alluded to in Look About You.

1600, March 1st, 2d, 8th.-Dekker, Haughton, Chettle, and Day receive six pounds in full for The Seven Wise Masters.

1600, March 18th.-The printer (C. Burby) was paid two pounds to stay the printing of Patient Grissel. It was printed for H. Rocket, in 1603.

1600, April 27th, May 10th, 14th.-Dekker, Day, and Chettle received in full for The Golden Ass, Cupid, and Psyche, six pounds.

1600, June 3d, 14th.-Drayton, Hathaway, Munday, and Dekker received five pounds nine shillings in full for 1 Fair Constance of Rome. It appears from the Variorum Shakespeare xxi, 395, that eleven shillings (printed there xl. s. for xi. s.) was retained for Wilson, who also had a hand in this play. Hence it follows that the absence of authors' names in Henslow's Diary must not be taken as absolute proof that they had no share in a play.

1600, June 20th.-Henslow lends "them, Hathaway," one pound in earnest of 2 Constance of Rome. "Them" probably includes Dekker.

1600, September 6th.-A mysterious entry occurs of one pound paid to Dekker for the book of Forteion Tenes, evidently some old play, but not Fortunatus, as Collier thinks. "Tenes" is Henslow's way of spelling "tennis."

All the preceding plays were acted at the Rose; those next following at the Fortune; but still by the Admiral's men.

1600, December 14th.-Dickers receives ten shillings" for his pains in Phaeton."

1600, December 22d.-A further payment of thirty shillings is made to Deckers for "altering of Phaeton," for the Court, where it was performed, probably on 28th December.

1601, April 18th, May 16th, 22d.-Dekker and Chettle receive six pounds in full for King Sebastian of Portugal. This play probably contained part of the same matter as acts IV, V, of The Life and Death of

Captain Thomas Stukeley, which was acted as a new play 11th December, 1596. In Satiromastix, scene iv, Dekker makes Horace (Jonson) say that Crispinus (Marston) and Fannius, his play-dresser (Dekker), "to make the Muses believe their subjects' ears were starved, and that there was a dearth of poesy, cut an innocent Moor i' th' middle, to serve him in twice, and when he (Dekker) had done, made Pant's work of it." The Moor here alluded to is the Moor of Peele's Battle of Alcazar, reintroduced in Stukeley by Dekker, Peele, and Marston, and ridiculed in Jonson's Poetaster. The prose story of Stukeley was entered S. R. 11th August, 1600. The cutting the Moor in half probably alludes to the Stukeley play. On 30th March, 1601, Munday's prose account of Sebastian was entered S. R., and 12th April, 1601, a ballad on the same subject.

1601. Satiromastix, in answer to Jonson's Poetaster, was acted first by the Chamberlain's men at the Globe, then by the Children of Paul's. This play is a storehouse of allusions to the theatrical controversy of 1599-1601, and cannot be studied too carefully by the dramatic historian. It was entered S. R., 11th November, 1601.

1601. Grey, Earl of Warwick, entered as by Dekker and Day, S. R., 16th January, 1620 (not 1619, as Halliwell says), and published as by Ben Jonson, 1661, is stated by Taylor, in his Penniless Pilgrimage, to have been acted by Derby's men. If so, it must be of this date, but I have not yet studied this play, which, like many others, is omitted in the collected editions of Dekker and Day.

The prose story of Grey, Earl of Warwick, was entered. S. R., 23d June, 1608.

1602, January 6th.-Henslow paid three pounds in part payment for The Spanish Fig; author unknown. This was doubtless the same play as The Noble Spanish Soldier, in which the king is poisoned by a Spanish fig. This play was entered along with The Wonder of a Kingdom, S. R. 16th May, 1631, as by Thomas Deckar; and again 9th December, 1633. It was published in 1634 as by S. R. (Samuel Rowley). It was written, I think, in the main by Rowley: but II, i; III, ii; IV, ii; by Day, who reclaimed part of his contribution in The Parliament of Bees, and there are traces of Dekker in III, iii. The character of Signior No=Roderigo, Carlo, Alonzo Alba and Cockadilio are due to Day. There are allusions to Hamlet and Julius Cæsar (1600), but the important one for Shakespearian readers is in V, iv, "as of a new play; if it ends well, all's well." This shows that Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well was produced in 1601, a conclusion I had reached on other grounds. See my paper on Marston.

1602, January 12th.-Dekker having returned to Henslow, receives ten shillings for Prologue and Epilogue to "Ponesciones Pillet" (Pontius Pilate).

1602, January 16th.-Dekker receives twenty shillings "toward the

altering of Tasso ;" i. e., Tasso's Melancholy, acted as a new play on 11th August, 1594, and very likely originally his work.

1602, May 5th.-Munday and Deckers receive five pounds in earnest of "Jeffta" Jephtha): on May 17th (?) it was read (rehearsed) at the tavern, and two shillings was paid for wine; on July 5th the "Cuter " was paid for "Jeffa" twenty-two shillings.

1602, July 19th, 31st.-Dekker received four pounds for his Medicine for a Curst Wife from the Admiral's company: these payments, however, were probably accounted for in some other way, as on August 27th, September 1st, 2d, he obtained from Worcester's men (also under Henslow's management) full payment of six pounds for the same play, and on 27th September ten shillings " over and above his price." All these payments are lumped together by Mr. Collier for controversial purposes.

1602, August 17th, September 7th.-Dekker receives two pounds and ten shillings for new additions to Oldcastle. The original authors, Munday, Drayton. and Wilson, did not write for Worcester's men ; nor did Hathaway till 17th November. The play was originally written for the Admiral's men; as Dekker's additions do not appear in the later editions of the published play, they were probably made to the second part.

1602, October 15th, 21st.-Deckers, Heywood, Smith, and Webster were paid eight pounds for Lady Jane, in full.

1602, October 27th.-Dekker received five shillings for a second part of the same play "in earnest." Dekker and Webster's part of these plays was published 1607, as The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt.

1602, November 3d, December 4th.-Dekker returned to the Admiral's men, and obtained three pounds for "mending" Tasso.

1603.-During this year, the theatres being closed on account of the Plague, Dekker published The Wonderful Year 1603 and The Bachelor's Banquet; of the latter, there were reprints in 1604 and 1630.

1604.-Verses by Dekker were prefixed to The Fasting of a Maiden of Confolens.

1604, May 14th.-The King's Entertainment, on his entrance to the city 15th March, 1604, was entered S. R. Dekker was to have written all the speeches for this pageant as projected in 1603, but Jonson was afterward chosen to replace him in the first and last, viz., at Fenchurch Street and Temple Bar. It is only by careful collation that we can ascertain what actually took place. The speakers in Jonson's part were Alleyn of the Admiral's company and boys of the Revels children; in Dekker's boys of Paul's, Mulcaster being then Head Master. Dekker was aided in one speech by Middleton.

1604, c. April.-The Honest Whore (part I) was written by Dekker and Middleton. (Henslow's Diary.) The long siege of Ostend is alluded to in IV, i. Leap-year when "knaves wear smocks" in IV, ii;

the "fat court fool" (Query Falstaff) and "lean city fool" in IV, iii. It was entered S. R. 9th November, 1604. It contains allusions to Hamlet and Othello. Dekker wrote I, i, iii; V, xiii, xiv, xv. Towne was one of the actors. It was played by Prince Henry's men, formerly the Admiral's.

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1604, c. May.-The Honest Whore (part II) was written by Dekker alone. The sixteen hundred soldiers who went aboard" not much more than twelve months since (scene xiv) no doubt alludes to Cecil's proceedings in April, 1603, when eight hundred vagabonds were seized in London in two nights, and sent to serve in the Dutch fleet. The purging of the suburb houses in scene x shows contemporaneity with Measure for Measure. There are also allusions to passages in Othello, Satiromastix, and As You Like It. Bots seems to be a caricature of Jonson. The "fireworks on lines" in scene iv is a mark of Dekker's handiwork. Entered 29th June, 1630, S. R.

1604-5, after November, 1604.-The Roaring Girl was written by Dekker with a little help from Middleton. Westward Ho! is alluded to, scene xix, as if on the stage. It was probably revived c. 1610, and published "as lately acted" in 1611. Day had written a prose account of Moll Cutpurse S. R. 7th August, 1610, and a book on the same subject was entered S. R. 18th February, 1612. This play was written after Westward Ho! (November, 1604), and before St. Dunstan's day, 19th May, 1605; see IV, i; but probably was not acted till 1610, when Middleton's additions or alterations were made. It had been "expected long," as we are told in the Prologue by Middleton. The omission of Middleton's address to the reader in the careless reprint in Dekker's works led me wrongly to ascribe in my Annals of Middleton the 1610 production to Dekker. Middleton's part is probably II, ii; IV, i; V, ii. In IV, ii, Dekker's "fireworks on lines" again occur.

1604, November.-Dekker leaves the Prince's men and with Webster produces Westward Ho acted by the Paul's children. 1605, Early.-The same writers produce Northward Ho! those two plays see Annals of Webster.

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1605.-The Whore of Babylon was acted by the Prince's men. In scene ii, The Isle of Gulls is alluded to, and that play was subsequent to Westward, Eastward, and Northward Ho! Dekker had left the company. He says Lectori: "How true Fortune's dial hath gone whose players like so many clocks have struck my lines and told the world how I have spent my hours I am not certain; because my ears stood not within the reach of their alarums." But that this was the earliest form of the play I greatly doubt. In scene x, a passage beginning with how "a jury of bright stars" had found the Moon that borrowed light from Elizabeth, i. e., Mary Queen of Scots, "unworthy to shine again," goes on in allusion to Essex, who is quite beyond the scope of this play. All the "she's" in this passage have palpably been

changed to "he's." In fact, the original play was written in Elizabeth's reign, and everything distasteful to James has been altered very clumsily and not by Dekker himself. Among the epithets applied in Satiromastix (1601), by Tucca to Minerva, which are taken from play titles, Whore of Babylon is one. The date is probably c. 1600, and I think this is the same play as Truth's Supplication to Candlelight, before noticed. The passage, scene v, on James, "For let me whisper-it may not be," is a palpable interpolation. The inevitable "fireworks on lines" occurs in the same scene.

1606.—Dekker now gave up writing for the theatre and took to pamphleteering. News from Hell was printed this year, and in 1607 with the title of A Knight's Conjuring. The Return of the Knight of the Post from Hell had been entered S. R. 15th January, 1606, and the entry canceled by order of the Court. On 25th January The Devil's Let Loose was entered by Perbrand, who published the News from Hell, and this entry also was canceled.

1605, December 9th.-S. R. A Papist in arms, etc., encountered by a Protestant, etc., was published S. R. 17th February, 1606. Middleton's Papistomastix, of which I have discovered the entry since I wrote the Annals of his career, appeared very shortly afterward.

1606, October 6th.-The Seven Deadly Sins of London was entered S. R.

1607, October 6th.-Jests of Cock Watt to Make you Merry, by T. D. and G. Wilkins, was entered S. R.

1608.-The Dead Term was published.

1608, March 14th.-The Bellman of London was entered S. R. There were three editions issued this year.

1608, July 7th.-The Raven's Almanac was entered S. R. Extant copies date 1609.

1608, October 25th.-Lanthorn and Candlelight was entered S. R. Other editions in 1609, 1612 (with Oper Seo), 1616, 1620, 1632, 1638, etc. The 1632 edition has quite a new title: English Villainy six several times pressed to death, etc. In the dedication of the 1638 edition Dekker mentions his "threescore years," but this edition is palpably a mere reprint of the preceding, just as the 1648 is of it. I have no doubt that the Dedication belongs properly to the 1632 edition, and that Dekker died in 1633. I have not, however, been able to see a copy of that edition or even to ascertain where one exists. The date of Dekker's birth is, however, so important for Shakespearian criticism, as will be seen when I treat of Greene, that I feel justified in asking any reader who can get access to a 1632 copy to let me know if the "threescore years "Dedication occurs in it. Meanwhile I take it that Dekker's birth cannot be placed later than 1571, and is probably earlier.

1609.-The Gull's Hornbook was published. 1609.- Work for Armourers was published.