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 joining the King's, wrote a defence of the stage, in the form of a remonstrance to Mr. Sutton, a preacher of St. Mary Overies (App. C, No. lxiii). A portrait of Field is at Dulwich.

FLETCHER, LAWRENCE. Scotland, 1595, 1599, 1601; Admiral's (?), 1596; King's, 1603. Although included as a King's man in the royal patent, there is no reason to suppose that Fletcher ever joined the company acting at the Globe; the absence of his name from the actor-list in the Shakespeare F_{1} of 1623 is strong evidence that he did not. He lived in St. Saviour's, where he had a homonym, a victualler, who survived him. One of the two is shown by the token-books as housed in Hunt's Rents, Maid Lane, during 1605-7; probably this was the actor, who was buried on 12 September 1608. The description 'Lawrence Fletcher, a man: in the church' of the register is amplified in a fee-book to 'Lawrence Fletcher, a player, the King's servant, buried in the church, with an afternoon's knell of the great bell, 20s.' (Collier, Memoirs of the Actors^1, x; Rendle, Bankside, xxvii).

FLOWER. Admiral's (?), c. 1600.

FOSTER, ALEXANDER. Lady Elizabeth's, 1611, 1618; Charles's, 1616.

FREYERBOTT, BARTHOLOMEUS. Germany, 1615.

FRITH, MOLL. It appears to be suggested in the Epilogue to ''The Roaring Girl'' (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Dekker) that this lady was to appear in person on the Fortune stage, c. 1610.

FROST, JOHN. Chapel, 1601.

GARLAND, JOHN. Queen's, 1583, 1588; Lennox's, 1605; Duke of York's, 1610. He appears to have dwelt in 1605 at 'the ould forde' (H. ii. 267).

GARLICK. In I. H., This World's Folly (1615), an actor of this name is apparently said to have personated himself on the Fortune stage, 'behung with chaynes of Garlicke' (App. C, No. lix); cf. Dekker, If This be not a Good Play (1610-12), sc. x (ed. Pearson, iii. 325), 'Fortune fauours no body but Garlicke, nor Garlike neither now, yet she has strong reason to loue it; for tho Garlicke made her smell abhominably in the nostrills of the gallants, yet she had smelt and stuncke worse but for garlike'; H. Parrot, Laquei Ridiculosi (1613), Epig. 131, 'Greene's Tu Quoque and those Garlicke Jigs'; in Tailor, Hog Hath Lost his Pearl (1614, ed. Dodsley^4, p. 434), a jig will draw more whores 'than e'er Garlic had'.

GARRET, JOHN. Anne's, 1619.

GEDION. Admiral's, 1602.

'GERRY.' King's Revels, 1607.

GEW. A blind player, referred to in ''1 Ant. Mellida'' (1599), ind. 142, ''t had been a right part for Proteus or Gew. Ho! blind Gew would ha' done 't rarely, rarely'; E. Guilpin, Skialetheia (1598), Sat. v, 'One that for ape tricks can put Gue to schoole', and Epig. xi, 'Gue, hang thy selfe for woe, since gentlemen Are now grown cunning in thy apishness'; Jonson, Epig. cxxix, 'Thou dost out-zany Cokely, Pod; nay, Gue.' Pod was a puppet-showman.

GIBBS. Admiral's, 1602.