ord made of the mixed metal. Cf. _Anecdotes and Traditions_, edited
from L'Estrange's MSS. by W. J. Thoms for the Camden Society, p. 2.

{179} This, or some synonym, is the conventional epithet applied at the
date to Shakespeare and his work. Weever credited such characters of
Shakespeare as Tarquin, Romeo, and Richard III with 'sugred tongues' in
his _Epigrams_ of 1595. In the _Return from Parnassus_ (1601?)
Shakespeare is apostrophised as 'sweet Master Shakespeare.' Milton did
homage to the tradition by writing of 'sweetest Shakespeare' in
_L'Allegro_.

{180} A hack-writer, Wentworth Smith, took a hand in producing thirteen
plays, none of which are extant, for the theatrical manager, Philip
Henslowe, between 1601 and 1603. _The Hector of Germanie_, an extant
play 'made by W. Smith' and published 'with new additions' in 1615, was
doubtless by Wentworth Smith, and is the only dramatic work by him that
has survived. Neither internal nor external evidence confirms the theory
that the above-mentioned six plays, which have been wrongly claimed for
Shakespeare, were really by Wentworth Smith. The use of the initials
'W.S.' was not due to the publishers' belief that Wentworth Smith was the
author, but to their endeavour to delude their customers into a belief
that the plays were by Shakespeare.

{181} Cf. p. 258 infra.

{182} There were twenty pieces in all. The five by Shakespeare are
placed in the order i. ii. iii. v. xvi. Of the remainder, two--'If music
and sweet poetry agree' (No. viii.) and 'As it fell upon a day' (No.
xx.)--were borrowed from Barnfield's _Poems in divers Humours_ (1598).
'Venus with Adonis sitting by her' (No. xi.) is from Bartholomew
Griffin's _Fidessa_ (1596); 'My flocks feed not' (No. xvii.) is adapted
from Thomas Weelkes's _Madrigals_ (1597); 'Live with me and be my love'
is by Marlowe; and the appended stanza, entitled 'Love's Answer,' by Sir
Walter Ralegh (No. xix.); 'Crabbed age and youth cannot live together'
(No. xii.) is a popular song often quoted by the Elizabethan dramatists.
Nothing has been ascertained of the origin and history of the remaining
nine poems (iv. vi. vii. ix. x. xiii. xiv. xviii.)

{184} A unique copy of Chester's _Love's Martyr_ is in Mr.
Christie-Miller's library at Britwell. Of a reissue of the original
edition in 1611 with a new title, _The Annals of Great Brittaine_, a copy
(also unique) is in the British Museum. A reprint of the original
edition w