and rapsodies, most heartilie entreating his Honorable Lordshippe (as hee once promised mee) to accept of them as a sign and token of my service and affection to his honor and for my sake to place them in his library, either at Wilton or else at Baynards Castle at London, humbly desiring him to give way and favourable assistance that my dictionarie and dialogues may bee printed and the profitt therof accrud unto my wife. Item, I doe likewise give and bequeath unto his noble Lordship the Corinne Stone as a jewell fitt for a Prince which Ferdinando the great Duke of Tuscanie sent as a most precious gift (among divers others) unto Queen Anne of blessed memory; the use and vertue wherof is written in two pieces of paper, both in Italian and English being in a little box with the Stone, most humbly beseeching his honour (as I right confidently hope and trust hee will in charity doe if neede require) to take my poore and deere wife into his protection and not suffer her to be wrongfully molested by any enemie of myne, and also in her extremity to afforde her his helpe good worde and assistance to my Lord Treasurer, that she may be payed my wages and the arrearages of that which is unpayed or shall bee behind at my death. The rest the residue and remainder of all whatsoever and singular my goods, cattles, chattles, jewells, plate, debts, leases, money, or monie worth, household stuffe, utensills, English bookes, moveables or immoveables, named or not named, and things whatsoever by mee before not given disposed or bequeathed (provided that my debts bee paid and my funerall discharged). I wholly give, fully bequeath, absolutely leave, assigne and unalterably consigne unto my deerly beloved wife Rose Florio, most heartily greiving and ever sorrowing that I cannot give or leave her more in requitall of her tender love, loving care painfull dilligence, and continuall labour, to me and of mee in all my fortunes and many sicknesses; then whome never had husband a more loving wife, painfull nurce, or comfortable consorte, And I doe make institute, ordaine, appoint and name the right Reverend Father in God, Theophilus Feild Lord bishoppe of Landaffe and Mr. Richard Cluet Doctor of Divinity vicar and preacher of the word of God at Fulham, both my much esteemed, dearely beloved and truely honest good frendes, my sole and onely Executors and overseers; And I doe give to each of them for their paines an ould greene velvett deske with a silver inke and dust box in each of them that were sometymes Queene Annes my Soveraigne Mistrisse, entreating both to accept of them as a token of my hearty affection towards them, and to excuse my poverty which disableth mee to requite the trouble, paines, and courtesie, which I confidently beleeve they will charitably and for Gods sake undergoe in advising directing and helping my poore and deere wife in executing of this my last and unrevocable will and testament, if any should be soe malicious or unnaturall as to crosse or question the same; And I doe utterly revoke and for ever renounce, frustrate, disanull, cancell and make void, all and whatsoever former wills, legacies, bequests, promises, guifts, executors or overseers (if it should happen that anie bee forged or suggested for untill this tyme, I never writt made or finished any but this onely) And I will appoint and ordaine that this and none but this onely written all with mine owne hand, shall stand in full force and vigor for my last and unrevocable will and Testament, and none other nor otherwise. As for the debts that I owe the greatest and onelie is upon an obligatory writing of myne owne hand which my daughter Aurelia Molins with importunity wrested from me of about threescore pound, wheras the truth, and my conscience telleth mee, and soe knoweth her conscience, it is but thirty-four pound or therabouts, But let that passe, since I was soe unheedy, as to make and acknowledge the said writing, I am willing that it bee paid and discharged in this forme and manner, My sonne in lawe (as daughter his wife knoweth full well) hath in his handes as a pawne, a faire gold ring of mine, with thirteene faire table diamonds therein enchased; which cost Queene Anne my gracious Mistrisse seaven and forty pounds starline, and for which I might many tymes have had forty pounds readie money: upon the said ring my sonne in the presence of his wife lent me Tenne pound. I desire him and pray him to take the overplus of the said Ring in parte of payment, as also a leaden Ceasterne which hee hath of myne standing in his yard at his London-house that cost mee at a porte-sale fortie shillings, as also a silver candle cup with a cover worth about forty shillings which I left at his house being sicke there; desiring my sonne and daughter that their whole debt may bee made up and they satisfied with selling the lease of my house in Shoe lane, and soe accquitt and discharge my poore wife who as yet knoweth nothing of his debt. Moreover I entreat my deare wife that if at my death my servant Artur [blank] shall chance to bee with mee and in my service, that for my sake she give him such poore doubletts, breeches, hattes, and bootes as I shall leave, and therwithall one of my ould cloakes soe it bee not lyned with velvett. In witnesse whereof I the said John Florio to this my last will and Testament (written every sillable with myne owne hande, and with long and mature deliberation digested, contayning foure sheetes of paper, the first of eight and twenty lines, the second of nine and twenty, the third of nyne and twenty and the fourth of six lines) have putt, sett, written and affixed my name and usual seale of my armes. The twentyth day of July in the yeare of our Lord and Savyour Jesus Christ 1625, and in the first yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord and King (whom God preserve) Charles the First of that name of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King. By mee John Florio being, thankes bee ever given to my most gracious God, in perfect sence and memory.

Proved 1 June 1626 by Rose Florio the relict, the executors named in the Will for certain reasons renouncing execution.

NOTE

Florio was eighty years of age at his death in 1625. From significant references by Shakespeare, in Henry IV., to Falstaff's age, I have long been of the opinion that Florio was more than forty-five years old in 1598, when the First Part of this play was revised and the Second Part written; yet if the age of fifty-eight, which Florio gives himself in the medallion round his picture in the 1611 edition of his Worlde of Wordes is to be believed, he was only forty-five in 1598. I have now found Anthony Wood's authority for dating his birth in 1545.

In Registrium Universitalus Oxon., vol. ii., by Andrew Clark, I find: "1st May 1581, Magd. Co., John Florio, aet. 36, serviens mei Barnes."

In a copy of Florio's first edition of his Worlde of Wordes in my library, which evidently belonged to his friend William Godolphin, as his name is written in it, there is also written in an old hand, under Florio's name on the title-page, "born 1545."



INDEX

Achilles Shield, 120

Admiral's company, the Lord, 6, 10, 12, 50, 51, 52, 53; at Dover, 54; 56, 57, 59; identity between 1585 and 1589, 60; 65; under Henslowe, 73; 78, 81, 82, 84, 14

Agamemnon, 114

Allen, Giles, 39, 43, 45, 75

Alleyn, Edward, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 38, 61, 62, 65, 70; manager of Strange's men, 77; 82, 85; as Roscius, 98; 100, 101

Alleyn, John, 8, 62; servant to the Lord Admiral, 63; 102

Alleyn, Richard, 105

All's Well that Ends Well, 163, 170, 171, 193, 194, 195, 205

Anatomy of Absurdity, 98, 99

Anna, Queen, 222

Antonio, 134

Arden, Mary, 21, 23

Arden, Robert, 21

Arden, the name, 21

Ardens of Parkhill, the, 21-22

Armada, the, 2, 131, 132

Armado, 18, 182, 206

Armin, Robert, 114 n.

Arundell's players, Lord, 44, 48

Ave Caesar, 99

Avisa, 129

Aylmer, Bishop, 140

Bacon, Sir Francis, 185

Barnes, Barnabe, 127

Barnstaple, 9

Biron, 134

Blacke Bookes Messenger, The, 47 n.

Bodleian Library, 128

Brandes, Georg, 8 n.

Brayne, John, 39, 43, 75

Brown, John, 26

Brown, Ned, 47

Browne, Robert, 8, 62, 65, 102

Browning, Robert, 19

Bryan, George, 29, 55, 60, 83

Burbage, Cuthbert, 44, 45, 75

Burbage, James, 5, 9, 11, 38; as theatrical manager, 38, 42, 43, 45, 52, 53, 58, 63, 65, 67, 70, 75, 106, 126

Burbage, Richard, 5, 8, 14, 55, 66, 70, 75, 77, 83, 126

Burbie, Cuthbert, 96 n.

Burghley, Lord, 11, 17, 73, 154, 155, 173, 174

Carey, Henry, Lord Hunsdon, 50

Castle, William, parish clerk of Stratford, 68

Cecil-Howard faction, 73

Cecil, Sir Robert, 17, 154, 175, 194, 216

Cecil, Sir William, 157

Censor, Public, 17

Chamberlain's company, the Lord, 10, 12, 13, 14, 38, 42, 52, 57, 59, 84; leave Henslowe, 86

Chamberlain's musicians, the Lord, 54; at Coventry, 50, 60

Chambers, E.K., 56

Chandos portrait, the, 110

Chapman, George, 15, 23, 31, 92, 93, 109, 114, 115, 119, 128, 167, 184, 185, 186

Chettle, Henry, 93, 110, 151

Choice of Valentines, The, 128

Chrisoganus, 120

Classical allusions, 79

Cobham, Lord, 215, 217

Comedy of Beauty and Housewifery, A, 49

Comedy of Errors, The, 8, 17, 83, 148, 152, 172

Contention, and True Tragedie, The, 80, 147

Cornwallis, Sir William, 221

Coronet for my Mistress Philosophy, A, 124, 130

Court performances, 82

Court records, 13

Coventry, 9

Coventry records, 54

Cowdray House, 37, 165, 166

Cranmer, Archbishop, 157

Crosskeys, the, 51, 53, 55, 70, 72, 73, 77, 81

Curtain Theatre, the 6, 14, 39, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 72, 74

Cymbeline, 3

Dame Pintpot, 198

Daniel, Samuel, 159, 162

Davenant, Mistress, 123, 125, 184

Davenant, Sir William, 36, 127

Davies, John, 81, 90-91

Davison, William, 178

De Guiana Carmen Epicum, 116

Dekker, Thomas, 93, 218

Delphrygus, 103, 104

Derby, Countess of, 55

Derby, Earl of, 55, 115, 179

Devereux, Dorothy, 139

Dialogue of Dives, 104

Diary, Henslowe's, 7, 8, 67, 68, 75, 77, 80, 127

Doll Tearsheet, 197

Dulwich College, 99

"Duttons, The Two," 74

Edward I., 78, 80, 81, 101

Edward II., 85, 88, 131

Edward III., 101, 105, 131

Edward VI., 135, 143

Elizabeth, Queen, as Cynthia, 119

English Dramatic Companies, 41 n., 96 n.

Ephemeris Chrisometra, 120

Essaies of Montaigne, 191, 222

Essex, Earl of, 140, 154, 175-78, 216

Essex faction, 73

Euthymia Raptus, 120

Every Man out of his Humour, 108, 220

Faerie Queen, The, 161

Fair Em, 95, 105

Falconbridge, as Sir John Perrot, 133-34

Falstaff, Sir John, 181, 182, 206, 215

Famous Victories of Henry V., 200, 202, 215

Farewell to Folly, 95, 168

Feis, Jacob, 74

Field, Theophilus, Bishop of Llandaff, 160

First Fruites, 92, 196

Fleay, F.G., 66, 74, 80, 95, 96, 107

Fleetwood, Recorder, as an enemy of the players, 11; 44, 46; as Burghley's gossip, 49

Florio, John, 15; as Falstaff's original, 18; 91, 92, 108; as Landulpho, 122, 123; 125, 157-60, 183-91; as Parolles, 171, 193; 201; signs as "Resolute," 221

Fluellen, 182, 191

Four Plays in One, 87

Froude, James Anthony, 1, 16

Gardiner, S.R., 1, 16

Golding, Arthur, 118

Gray's Inn, 156, 172

Greene, Robert, 5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 30, 35, 69, 80, 85, 88, 92, 94; as Roberto, 103; 106, 110, 117, 130, 151, 169

Greg, W.W., 101 n.

Groatsworth of Wit, A, 5, 15, 102, 110, 117, 150

Grooms of the Privy Chamber, 58

Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O., 43, 45, 50, 60

Hall's Chronicles, 141

Halpin, Rev. J.H., 15, 159, 161

Hamlet, 4, 81, 86, 105, 107, 198

Harriot, Thomas, 115, 120

Hart, Joan, 36

Hart, John, Lord Mayor of London, 72

Harvey, Gabriel, 92

Hatton, Sir Christopher, 138-39, 140

Heneage, Sir Thomas, 36; as Lafeu, 171; 189

Henry IV., 80, 198

Henry IV., Part I., 199, 200, 202, 203, 204

Henry IV., Part II., 32, 197, 199, 203

Henry V., 80, 121

Henry VI., Part I., 7, 14, 77, 78, 131, 147

Henry VI., Part III., 7, 87, 88

Henry VIII., 134, 135

Henslowe, Philip, 6, 8, 10, 11, 38, 59, 61, 69, 70, 82

Heralds, The College of, 32, 90, 92

Highway to Heaven, The, 104

Histriomastix, 93, 108, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 167

Holinshed's Chronicles, 141

Honour of the Garter, 92, 113, 115, 117

Howard of Effingham's company, Lord Charles, at Ipswich, 1591, 60

Howe's Additions to Stowe's Chronicles, 58

"H.S.," 217-18, 219

Hunsdon, Lord, 9, 10, 43, 46, 50

Hunsdon's company, Lord, 42, 45, 48; at Ludlow, 49; 53, 55; disappear from records, 55

Hyde, John, 43, 45

Hymns to the Shadow of Night, 93, 115, 116, 118, 124, 128, 186

Iliad, Homer's, 197

Intonsi Catones, 125, 126, 219

Jacques, 134

Jacquespierre, 21

"J.F.," 217-18, 219

James I., 186, 221

Jaquenetta, 206

Jeffes, Humphrey, 87, 147

Jones, Richard, 8, 62, 65, 102

Jonson, Ben, 90, 93, 108, 109, 147, 186, 220

Keats, John, 19, 31

Kempe, William, 29, 55, 60, 83, 126

Kildare, Countess of, 166

Kinde Heartes Dreame, 150, 152

King John, 8, 17, 34, 80, 83, 131, 132, 133, 139, 146, 152, 172

King Lear, 3

King of the Fairies, The, 103, 104

Kyd, Thomas, 107, 117, 131

"Lanam and his fellowes," 51

Laneham, John, 43, 51, 58

Langley, William, 13

Leases, Elizabethan, 43

Lee, Sir Sidney, 6 n., 46 n.

Leicester's company, Earl of, 5, 9, 13; at Stratford, 29; 43, 45; 52; at Dover, 54; disappear from records, 55; 55, 57, 58, 59, 66, 67, 84

Leicester, Earl of; death, 29; 49, 154, 173-75

Leicester's musicians, Earl of, 9, 54

Leicester Records, City of, 8

Life of Jack Wilton, 128

Lodge, Thomas, 114 n.

Loftus, Archbishop, 138

Love's Labours Lost, 8, 83, 116, 119, 121, 152, 166, 168, 170, 197, 206

Love's Labour's Won, 8, 83, 123, 162, 170, 171

Lucrece, 13, 82; dedication, 128; 153

Lucy, Sir Thomas, alleged deer preserves, 32

Malvolio, 182

Manners, Roger, 156, 179

Markham, Gervase, 128

Marlowe, Christopher, 12, 30, 80, 85, 88; as "Merlin," 95; as "the cobbler," 101; 107, 131

Marston, John, 93, 109, 119, 185, 186

Martin Marprelate Controversy, 72

Martin's Month's Mind, 51

Mary, Queen, 135-36

Mary, Queen of Scots, 178

Master of the Revels' company, the, 64

Measure for Measure, 198

Menalcas, 161

Menaphon, Greene's, 67, 98, 102, 107, 118

Merchant of Venice, The, 121

Meres, Francis, 31, 193, 199

Merry Wives of Windsor, 171

Metamorphosis of Ajax, 51

Midsummer Night's Dream, A, 8, 83, 121, 152, 168

Miles, Robert, 76

Minto, Prof. William, 126

"Mirabella," 161, 162

Montague, Lady, 169-70

Montague, Viscount, 155, 169-70

Moral of Man's Wit, 104

Morgann, Maurice, 181, 202

Murray, John Tucker, 9 n., 41 n.

Nashe, Thomas, 7, 12, 14, 67, 69, 78, 80, 92, 94, 98, 100, 102, 104, 107, 108, 117, 128, 130, 169

Never too Late to Mend, 98, 109

News Out of Purgatory, 51

Nichol's Progresses, 168-69

Nightwork, Jane, 213

Nine Worthies, The, 195, 197

Northumberland, Earl of, 115

Nottingham's company, Lord, 127

Oldcastle, Sir John, 200, 215, 217

O'Roughan, Denis, 138

Outlines for the Life of Shakespeare, 45

Ovid's Banquet of Sense, 120, 124, 130

Ovid's Elegies, 118

Oxford, Earl of, 190

Palladis Tamia,199

Parolles, 18, 171, 206

Peckham, Edward, 75

Peele, George, 12, 31, 78, 79, 80, 81, 92, 98; as Tully, 98, 99; 101, 113, 117, 131

Pembroke, Earl of, 136, 148

Pembroke's company, Earl of, 7, 12, 13, 14, 57, 71, 75, 76, 84, 85; pawn their apparel, 86; plays, 86; 107, 113

Penelope's Web, 106

Perrot, Sir John, 134-39; recalled from Ireland, 138; death of, 139

Perrot, Sir Thomas, 139

Phillip II. of Spain, 138, 139

Pierce Penniless, 51

Pipe Rolls, the, 56, 73

Plague, the, 85

Planetomachia, 106

Pope, Thomas, 29, 55, 60, 83

Privy Council, Acts of the, 56, 73

Prodigal Child, The, 120, 123

Prodigal Son, The, 123

Puritanism, 132

Queen's company, Old Plays of the, 14, 74

Queen's company, the, 6, 11, 43, 46, 48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 59, 75, 84, 131, 146, 147

Queen's progress to Cowdray and Tichfield, the, 37, 119, 165

Queen's tumblers, the, 56 n.

Quickly, Mistress, 200, 204

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 115, 154, 175, 185

Richard II., 8, 80, 83, 88, 131, 146

Richard III., 8, 80, 83

Romeo and Juliet, 152

"Rosalinde," 160, 161, 162

Roscius, 98, 102

Rose, Edward, 142

Rose Theatre, the, 6, 10, 11, 51, 59, 61, 69, 70, 76, 81, 146

Rowe, Nicholas, 67, 127, 215, 216

Roydon, Matthew, 15, 31, 93, 109, 114 n., 124, 125, 167, 168, 184, 200, 218

Saexberht, 20

Saunder, Nicholas, 158

Scapula, 24

Schlegel, 198

School of Shakespeare, 95

Second Fruites, 123, 164, 196, 203, 205, 206; extracts from, 207-14

Seven Deadly Sins, The, 147

Shakespeare families, 19; the name, 19

Shakespeare, Hamnet, 26

Shakespeare, John, 21, 25; applies for grant of arms, 32

Shakespeare, Judith, 26

Shakespeare, Richard, of Snitterfield, 21

Shakespeare, William; as Burbage servitor, 13; brothers and sisters of, 19; Norman origin, 19; his mother, 22; as Johannes factotum, 22; boyhood, 24; marriage, 26; leaves Stratford, 28; alleged poaching adventure, 30; return to Stratford in 1597, 30; grant of arms, 30; "Shakespeare's boys," 35; "rude groome," 35; a bonded servitor, 67; early training with Lord Hunsdon's and the Lord Admiral's companies, 68; in kingly parts, 81; co-operates with Marlowe, 88; leader of Pembroke's company, 88; Groom of the Privy Chamber, 91; as an "idiot art-master," 105; alluded to as a serving man, 108; as Mullidor in Never too Late, 109; Chandos portrait of, 110; rejoins Chamberlain's company, 126; indicated as "W.S.," an "old actor," 129; distrust of Florio, 187

Shallow, Justice, 213

Shaxper, 19

Sheffield's company, Lord, 62, 63

Shepheards Calendar, The, 159, 160, 163

Shepherd's Slumber, The, 168

Sidley, Ralph, 109

Sidney, Lady, 140, 178

Sidney, Sir Robert, 216

Simpson, Richard, 74, 95, 114, 116

Sinkler, John, 87, 147

Smith, Mr. J.M., 36

Smithe, Humprey, 47

Sonnets, The, 17, 82

Southampton, Countess of, 171, 189

Southampton, Earl of, 13, 17, 18, 36, 74, 91; as Mavortius, 121; 124, 126; bounty to Shakespeare, 127; 153, 156, 164, 167, 172; early relations with Essex, 176; as Bertram, 189; 194, 216

Spencer, Gabriel, 86, 87; death of, 90; 147

Spenser, Edmund, 30, 162

Spicer, Rose, 159-60

Stanhope, Sir Thomas, 155

Stanley, Sir William, 138

Star Chamber, the, 45

Stopes, Mrs. C.C., 39 n., 76

Strange, Lord, 55

Strange's company, Lord, 6, 9, 11, 12, 52, 53, 57, 59, 74, 82, 83, 95, 107, 126, 147

Strange's tumblers, Lord, 6, 55, 56, 59, 67, 84

Stratford Free Grammar School, 23

Stratford-on-Avon, 5, 25

Sussex's company, Earl of, 12, 14, 57; disrupted, 86-87

Swan Theatre, the, 13

"Symons and his fellowes," 56

Talbot Scenes, 7, 14, 78, 80

Taming of a Shrew, The, 86, 102, 105, 107

Tarleton, Richard, 43, 50, 96

Tears of Peace, The, 116, 120, 121

Tempest, The, 3

"Temple Garden" Scene, the, 79

Theatre, the, 6, 9, 11, 36, 39, 44, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 72, 75, 77, 81, 106

Three Ladies of London, The, 95

Three Lords and Three Ladies, The, 95

Tichfield House, Queen's progress to, 37, 165

Tilney, Edmund, Master of the Revels, 43, 59, 96

Timon of Athens, 3

Titus Andronicus, 12, 14, 86

Titus and Vespasian, 12

Troilus and Cressida, 114, 120, 195, 197

Troublesome Raigne of King John, The, 132, 140, 143, 146

True Tragedie of the Duke of York, The, 7, 85, 87, 88, 113, 147

Twelfth Night, 121

Twelve Labours of Hercules, The, 103

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, 8, 83, 152

Tyburn "T," 90

Valdracko, 106

Venus and Adonis, 13, 82, 114, 118, 119, 127, 128, 151, 152, 153, 180

Venus' Tragedy, 106

Vere, Lady Elizabeth, 155, 179

Vernon, Elizabeth, 177, 180, 194, 198

Volumnia, a reflection of Shakespeare's mother, 23

Wallop, Sir Henry, 138

Walsingham, Sir Francis, 178

War of the Theatres, the, 15

Wars of the Roses, 79

Williams, Sir Roger, as Fluellen, 191, 192

Willobie his Avisa, 93, 125, 129, 184, 186, 187

Wilson, Robert, 43, 58, 95, 96, 98

Winter's Tale, A, 3

Wood, Anthony, 157

Woodward, Joan, 9

Worcester, Earl of, 61, 63, 64

Worcester's company, Earl of, 8, 9, 10, 61, 62; in trouble at Ipswich and Leicester, 63

Worlde of Wordes, A, 15, 94, 108, 158, 185, 188, 196, 217

Wriothesley, Henry. See Earl of Southampton

Wriothesley, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, 153

Yorke, Edmund, Jesuit, 180

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