Kemps nine daies wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich / With an introduction and notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce.

  • William Kempe
Date:
1840
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Credit: Kemps nine daies wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich / With an introduction and notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one of discord, the other of dissention ; two states of an incorporation, the one of the Aldermen, the other of the Brethren ; two states of magistrates, the one of gouerning, the other of bearing rule; now, as I said euen now, for a good thing cannot be said too often, Vertue is the shooing-horne of ius- tice, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne of doing well, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne of doing iustly, it behooueth mee and is my part to commend this shooing-horne vnto you. I hope this word shooing-horne doth not offend any of you, my worshipfull brethren, for you, beeing the worshipfull headsmen of the towne, know well what the horne meaneth. Now there- fore I am determined not onely to teach but also to instruct, not onely the ignorant but also the simple, not onely what is their duty towards their betters, but also what is their dutye towards their superiours. Come, let me see how you can doe; sit downe in the chaire. «“ Phil. ‘ Forasmuch as there be,’ &c. “ Kemp. Thou wilt do well in time, if thou wilt be ruled by thy betters, that is by my selfe, and such graue Aldermen of the playhouse as I am. “ Bur. Llike your face and the proportion of your body for Richard the 3; I pray, M. Phil., let me see you act a little of it. “ Phil. ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by the sonne of Yorke.’ “ Bur. Very well, I assure you. Well, M. Phil. and M. Stud., wee see what ability you are of: I pray walke with vs to our fellows, and weele agree presently. «“ Phil. We will follow you straight, M. Burbage. “ Kempe. Its good manners to follow vs, Maister Phil. and Maister Otioso. [Ewxeunt Burbage and Kempe. }”* The other drama in which Kemp personally figures is of great rarity, and has escaped the notice of those writers who have touched on his biography. It was the joint * Sigs. G. 2, 3. CAMD. soc. 1]. b