the
Stationers' Books:

"xxvi^to Maii [1595]

"Raffe Hancock Entred for his copie vnder the }
handes of the Wardens, Phillips } vi^d."
his gigg of the slyppers.... }

(_Liber_ B. fol. 132 b.)

George Chalmers erroneously makes the date of this entry "1593,"
Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 469.

[xxii:2] Pp. 10. 13.

[xxii:3] Liber B. fol. 304. As this entry is nearly in the words of the
title-page, I have not cited it at length. In Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by
Boswell), iii. 197, and Collier's _Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._ iii. 27,
the date is wrongly given "_Sept._ 7."

[xxii:4] Malone's _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), iii. 299.

[xxiv:1] Sig. F.--This play is not divided into acts.

[xxiv:2] Ritson (vide _Bibl. Poet._) was evidently not aware that these
"Merriments" formed part of an extant drama.

[xxv:1] He played, I presume, the Cobler.

[xxv:2] Sig. E. 4.--Mr. Collier's conjecture (_Hist. of Engl. Dram.
Poet._ iii. 33) that Nash "refers possibly" to the "Merrimentes of the
men of Goteham" was thrown out, I think, somewhat hastily.

[xxvi:1] Among the books given to it by Robert Burton. No other copy is
extant. Blomefield mistook it for a MS.: "In 1599 ... one Kemp came
dancing the whole Way from London to Norwich, and there is a MSS. in the
Bodleian Library containing an Account of it."--_Hist. of Norf._ ii.
250.

[xxvi:2] Note on B. Jonson's _Works_, ii. 166.

Kemps nine daies vvonder.
Performed in a daunce from
London to Norwich.

_Containing the pleasure, paines and kinde entertainment_
of _William Kemp_ betweene _London_ and that Citty
in his late Morrice.

Wherein is somewhat set downe worth note; to reprooue
the slaunders spred of him: many things merry,
nothing hurtfull.

_Written by himselfe to satisfie his friends._

[Illustration]

LONDON

Printed by _E. A._ for _Nicholas Ling_, and are to be
solde at his shop at the west doore of Saint
Paules Church 1600.

To the true Ennobled Lady, and his most bountifull Mistris, Mistris
Anne Fitton, Mayde of Honour to the most sacred Mayde, Royall Queene
Elizabeth.{1:2}

Honorable Mistris, in the waine of my litle wit I am forst to desire
your protection, else euery Ballad-singer will proclaime me bankrupt of
honesty. A sort{1:6} of mad fellows, seeing me merrily dispos'd in a
Morrice, haue