hirde 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 acc