...but also interesting for the light it casts upon the theatre in that year, 1592. It opens thus : ' To those gentlemen his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities.' After calling upon Marlowe,...

...Thomas Creede,for Richard Oliue, dwelling in long long [sic] Lane, and are there to be solde. 1596. To those Gentlemen, his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to preuent his extremities. If wofull experience...

...we meet with the Greene's menwell-known first allusion to Shakespeare in Greene's notorious "address to those gentlemen his quondam acquaintance that spend their wits in making plays," affixed to the pamphlet written on his deathbed, A Groatsworth of Wit purchased with a Million...

...and ... (p. 141): to my fellow Schollers about this Cittie, will I direct these few ensuing lines. To those Gentlemen his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plates, R. G. wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to preuent his extremities. If woefull experience...

...to the others is: IG = Israel Gollancz, MA ; HNH= Henry Norman Hudson, AM; CHH= CH Herford, LittJ). To those Gentlemen, his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to present his extremities. Thou famous gracer of...

...to the others is: IG = Israel Gollancz, MA; HNH= Henry Norman Hudson, AM; CHH= CH Herford, Litt.D. To those Gentlemen, his Quondam, acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to present his extremities. Thou famous gracer of...

...I give it its natural meaning, viz. that two of the playwrights ad1 The whole of Greene's address " To those Gentlemen his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies," to whom he " wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to prevent bis extremities," should be...

...a pamphlet written a short time before his death in September, 1592. In the parting words addressed "To those Gentlemen his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies," he says : " Yes, trust them not : for there is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers,...

...CHAPTER Six. CONTEMPORARY ALLUSIONS, REAL AND SUPPOSED, TO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1592. In an address "To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG [Robert Greene] wisheth a better exercise and wisdom to prevent his extremeties," and said,...

...thin veil of fiction. Appended to it is an address to his fellow-playwrights, with this heading : " To those Gentlemen, his Quondam acquaintance, that...Playes, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisedome to prevent his extremities." The persons addressed by Greene were Marlowe, Lodge, and Peele. After reproving...