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![io6 NOTES ON THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMA. apothecary shall find, in consideration of the rise in salary, everything except coals and a kettle for the boiling. This diet drink is much run after; the out-patients and the disease, which was more or less of wrong living or vice, appeared greatly to increase. 1584. The apothecary’s salary became ^36, and ^36 was an enormous sum then ; 210 patients were soon counted, and the salary became ^40. Soldiers and sailors come in, and more is added in 1597. The diet drink got so popular that it is not too much to say that it might have crippled the finances ; so it was checked, and in no long time abandoned. The apothecary, Mr. Brygge, announces to the governors that “ he is going to give over the trade,” and Mr. Young is appointed at a salary of j£6o. Mr. Brygge now appears as a Barber Surgeon ; but he soon dies, and his widow is to have the reversion of Mother Cornelly’s shoppe in the Close. IBIDliograpbical anti litcrarg jftotcs on rfjc ©ID (English Drama. By W. Carew Hazlitt. (1Continued from p. 63.) AMON AND PYTHIAS. — By Richard Edwards, 1571 and 1582. Printed from a collation of these two editions in my Dodsley. No undated one is known, although the former has the year as portion of the title, apparently to induce the public to believe that it was a new play in 1571; whereas it had been registered by the printer in 1567-8. Dead Man’s Fortune.—Johnson and Steevens, in their edition of Shakespear, 1793, vol. ii., give the plot in letterpress only; but it was printed by the late Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, folio, i860, 26 copies, in full, with two other similar relics. Destruction of Jerusalem. — By Thomas Legge. This is referred to by Francis Meres in his Palladis Tarnia, 1598. It also occurs as a printed book in the list at the end of the Old Law, 1656. Device [A) of a Masque for the Right Honour- able the Lord Mountacute.—By George Gascoigne. In his Posies, 1575 ; Flowers, xliii. (Hazlitt’s Gascoigne, i. 77). Device (The) before the Queen's Majesty at her Court at Gree match, the 12 th Nerve tu- ber, 1588.—Entered on the Stationers’ Registers, but not otherwise known. Device (The) of the Pageant borne before the Right Hon. Martyn Colthorpe, Lord Maior of the Citie of London, 29 October, 1588.—Licensed for the press this year, but not at present known. See my Handbook, 1867, p. 450. Dance (The) of the Pageant: set forth by the IVorshipfull Companie of the Fishmongers for the right honorable John Allot, es- tablished Lord Maire of London, and Maire of the Staple 1590.—By T. Nelson. 4tQ., 1590. Reprinted entire in the Antiquary, xiil 54-56.* Dance (The) for the Queen's Day [Nov. 17], I592-t Device (The) for the Queen's Day, 15954 Danse (The) to entertayne Hir Ma‘y at Har- fielde, the house of S' Thomas Egerton, Lo. Keeper, and his Wife, the Countess of Darbye [in July, 1602].—Printed from the Conway MS. in the Shakespear Society’s Papers, ii. Devill (The) of Dowgate.—By J. Fletcher. See Dyce’s Beaumont and Fletcher, xi., Introd. to the Night- Walker, of which Weber conjectures that the present play was an alteration by Shirley. Dick of Devonshire.—Printed by Mr. A. H. Bullen from the Charlemont MS. now in the British Museum, for which it was probably acquired at Lord Charle- mont’s sale in 1865. On the 16th October, 1594, was licensed to E. ^Vhite “A ballad of the Devill of Devonshire, and William of the West, his sonn^” Dick Scorner.— Doubtless an error for Hick- scorner. It is also mentioned in the list at the end of the Old Law, 165^ where it is called a comedy. Dido.—It is not perfectly clear to me that the Dido exhibited before the Queen at Cambridge in 1564, and that variously * See my Collections and Notes, 3rd Series, p. 160. J See Bacon’s Conference of Pleasure, ed. Spedding, Introd. t Ibid.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22433430_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
