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Shakespeare of Stratford From A Remembrance of Some English Poets.

(C) MS. notes by Gabriel Harvey, written in his copy of Speght’s Chaucer (1598).

''The younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis; but his Lucrece and his tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, have it in them to please the wiser sort. Excellent matter of emulation for Spencer, Constable, France, Watson, Daniel, Warner, Chapman, Silvester, Shakespeare, and the rest of our flourishing metricians.''

Note in the Jonson Folio of 1616.

''This Comedy was first acted in the year 1598 by the then L. Chamberlain his Servants. The principal Comedians were Will. Shakespeare, Aug. Philips, Hen. Condel, Will. Slye, Will. Kempe, Ric. Burbadge, Joh. Hemings, Tho. Pope, Chr. Beeston, Joh. Dyke.''

Rowe (1709) records the anecdote that Shakespeare’s influence caused the Chamberlain’s company to produce Every Man in His Humour after they had