and
Robert Laneham respectively, were published in 1576.

{163} Reprinted by the Shakespeare Society in 1844.

{164} All these details are of Shakespeare's invention, and do not
figure in the old play. But in the crude induction in the old play the
nondescript drunkard is named without prefix 'Slie.' That surname,
although it was very common at Stratford and in the neighbourhood, was
borne by residents in many other parts of the country, and its appearance
in the old play is not in itself, as has been suggested, sufficient to
prove that the old play was written by a Warwickshire man. There are no
other names or references in the old play that can be associated with
Warwickshire.

{165} Mr. Richard Savage, the secretary and librarian of the Birthplace
Trustees at Stratford, has generously placed at my disposal this
interesting fact, which he lately discovered.

{167} It was licensed for publication in 1594, and published in 1598.

{168a} The quarto of 1600 reads Woncote: all the folios read Woncot.
Yet Malone in the Variorum of 1803 introduced the new and unwarranted
reading of Wincot, which has been unwisely adopted by succeeding editors.

{168b} These references are convincingly explained by Mr. Justice Madden
in his _Diary of Master Silence_, pp. 87 seq., 372-4. Cf. Blunt's
_Dursley and its Neighbourhood_, Huntley's _Glossary of the Cotswold
Dialect_, and Marshall's _Rural Economy of Cotswold_ (1796).

{170} First adopted by Theobald in 1733; cf. Halliwell-Phillipps, ii.
257.

{172a} _Remarks_, p. 295.

{172b} Cf. Shakespeare Society's reprint, 1842, ed. Halliwell.

{172c} This collection of stories is said by both Malone and Steevens to
have been published in 1603, although no edition earlier than 1620 is now
known. The 1620 edition of _Westward for Smelts_, _written by Kinde Kit
of Kingston_, was reprinted by the Percy Society in 1848. Cf.
_Shakespeare's Library_, ed. Hazlitt, I. ii. 1-80.

{174} _Diary_, p. 61; see p. 167.

{175} Nichols, _Progresses of Elizabeth_, iii. 552.

{176a} Cf. Domestic MSS. (Elizabeth) in Public Record Office, vol.
cclxxviii. Nos. 78 and 85; and Calendar of Domestic State Papers,
1598-1601, pp. 575-8.

{176b} Cf. Gilchrist, _Examination of the charges_ . . . _of Jonson's
Enmity towards Shakspeare_, 1808.

{177} Latten is a mixed metal resembling brass. Pistol in _Merry Wives
of Windsor_ (I. i. 165) likens Slender to a 'latten bilbo,' that is, a
sw