the play of _Henry VIII_' (_Court and Times of James I_, 1848,
vol. i. p. 253). A contemporary sonnet on 'the pittifull burning of the
Globe playhouse in London,' first printed by Haslewood 'from an old
manuscript volume of poems' in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1816, was
again printed by Halliwell-Phillipps (i. pp. 310, 311) from an authentic
manuscript in the library of Sir Matthew Wilson, Bart., of Eshton Hall,
Yorkshire.

{263a} _Bodl. MS._ Rawl. A 239; cf. Spedding in _Gentleman's Magazine_,
1850, reprinted in New Shakspere Society's _Transactions_, 1874.

{263b} Cf. Mr. Robert Boyle in New Shakspere Society's _Transactions_,
1884.

{264} Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 87.

{265a} Manningham, _Diary_, March 23, 1601, Camd. Soc. p. 39.

{265b} Cf. Aubrey, _Lives_; Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 43; and art. Sir
William D'Avenant in the _Dictionary of National Biography_.

{267} The indenture prepared for the purchaser is in the
Halliwell-Phillipps collection, which was sold to Mr. Marsden J. Perry of
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., in January 1897. That held by the
vendor is in the Guildhall Library.

{268} Shakespeare's references to puritans in the plays of his middle
and late life are so uniformly discourteous that they must be judged to
reflect his personal feeling. The discussion between Maria and Sir
Andrew Aguecheek regarding Malvolio's character in _Twelfth Night_ (II.
iii. 153 et seq.) runs:

MARIA. Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.

SIR ANDREW. O! if I thought that, I'd beat him like a dog.

SIR TOBY. What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason, dear
knight.

SIR ANDREW. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason
good enough.

In _Winter's Tale_ (IV. iii. 46) the Clown, after making contemptuous
references to the character of the shearers, remarks that there is 'but
one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.' Cf. the
allusions to 'grace' and 'election' in Cymbeline, p. 250, note 1.

{269a} The town council of Stratford-on-Avon, whose meeting-chamber
almost overlooked Shakespeare's residence of New Place, gave curious
proof of their puritanic suspicion of the drama on February 7, 1612, when
they passed a resolution that plays were unlawful and 'the sufferance of
them against the orders heretofore made and against the example of other
well-governed cities and boroughs,' and the council was therefore
'content,' the re