In honour of Dame Danaë's luckless death; * That, when I come to finish up his life, &c.] This proves that Greene intended to write a Second Part of Alphonsus. You may be ready for to succour me: Adieu, dear dames; farewell, Calliope. Cal. Adieu, you sacred goddess of the sky. Well, loving sisters, since that she is gone, Melpom. Then make you haste her mind for to fulfill. [Exeunt omnes, playing on their instruments, Perhaps, indeed, he did write one: "possibly," observes Mr. Collier (Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. iii. 171), "the continuation has perished." * did lately will] Qy. "did us lately will"? (i. e., according to the phraseology of Greene's time, "did lately desire us.") A Pleasant conceyted comedie of George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield. As it was sundry times acted by the seruants of the right Honourable the Earle of Sussex. Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford, for Cuthbert Burby: And are to be sold at his shop neere the Royall Exchange. 1599. 4to. Reprinted in the different editions of Dodsley's Old Plays. DRAMATIS PERSONA. EDWARD, King of England. EARL OF KENDAL. EARL OF WARWICK. LORD BONFIELD. LORD HUMES. SIR GILBERT ARMSTRONG, SIR NICHOLAS MANNERING. GEORGE-A-GREENE, MUSGROVE. CUDDY, his son. NED-A-BARLEY. GRIME. ROBIN HOOD. MUCH, the Miller's son. SCARLET. JENKIN, George-a-Greene's man. WILY, George-a-Greene's boy. JOHN. Justice. Townsmen, Shoemakers, Soldiers, Messengers, c. JANE-A-BARLEY. BETTRIS, daughter to Grime. MAID MARIAN. |