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194 He studied at Oxford, according to Wood, "in that ancient hostel called Broadgates, in the Parish of St. Aldgates." But "the crabbedness of Logick not suiting with his airie genie, he returned to London," where, in the course of time, with his "Mixed Plays" or "Interludes," he " began to revolutionize the Stage, and to usurp, with his inventions, the place of the earlier Mysterie and Myracle Plays"; giving, as it were, a sort of variety-entertainment flavor to the dramatic productions of the mediaeval minstrels, and inserting, after a fashion, a little of "Too-Much-Johnson"-" Half-a-King" sentiment into the serious Middle-Aged "School-for-Scandal"-"London-Assurance" dramas which had immediately preceded them.

William Camden went to Broadgates from Magdalen in 1567, where he spent some two or three years; composing there certain short Latin graces, which were said before, and after, meat, much later than his own time; and turning his attention seriously to the study of antiquated things.

Fulke Greville, friend and schoolmate of Sidney and his pall-bearer, an alleged student at Broadgates, was one of the two men of the earlier days whom Charles Lamb would have liked to have seen in the flesh, the other man being Sir Thomas Browne, also a Son of Broadgates. No