of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_, edit. 1612, p.
82 _b_. The passage begins:

Ye ayres and windes, ye elves of hills, ye brookes and woods alone.

{254} _Variorum Shakespeare_, 1821, xv. 423. In the early weeks of 1611
Shakespeare's company presented no fewer than fifteen plays at Court.
Payment of 150 pounds was made to the actors for their services on
February 12, 1610-11. The council's warrant is extant in the _Bodleian
Library MS._ Rawl. A 204 (f. 305). The plays performed were not
specified by name, but some by Shakespeare were beyond doubt amongst
them, and possibly 'The Tempest.' A forged page which was inserted in a
detached account-book of the Master of the Court-Revels for the years
1611 and 1612 at the Public Record Office, and was printed as genuine in
Peter Cunningham's _Extracts from the Revels' Accounts_, p. 210, supplies
among other entries two to the effect that 'The Tempest' was performed at
Whitehall at Hallowmas (_i.e._ November 1) 1611 and that 'A Winter's
Tale' followed four days later, on November 5. Though these entries are
fictitious, the information they offer may be true. Malone doubtless
based his positive statement respecting the date of the composition of
'The Tempest' in 1611 on memoranda made from papers then accessible at
the Audit Office, but now, since the removal of those archives to the
Public Record Office, mislaid. All the forgeries introduced into the
Revels' accounts are well considered and show expert knowledge (see p.
235, note I). The forger of the 1612 entries probably worked either on
the published statement of Malone, or on fuller memoranda left by him
among his voluminous manuscripts.

{255a} Cf. _Universal Review_, April 1889, article by Dr. Richard
Garnett.

{255b} Harmonised scores of Johnson's airs for the songs 'Full Fathom
Five' and 'Where the Bee sucks,' are preserved in Wilson's _Cheerful
Ayres or Ballads set for three voices_, 1660.

{257a} Cf. Browning, _Caliban upon Setebos_; Daniel Wilson, _Caliban_,
_or the Missing Link_ (1873); and Renan, _Caliban_ (1878), a drama
continuing Shakespeare's play.

{257b} When Shakespeare wrote _Troilus and Cressida_ he had formed some
conception of a character of the Caliban type. Thersites say of Ajax
(III. iii. 264), 'He's grown a very land-fish, languageless, a monster.'

{258a} Treasurer's accounts in Rawl. MS. A 239, leaf 47 (in the
Bodleian), printed in New Shakspere Society's _Transactions_, 1895-6,