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 for which popular tunes, such as Fading, were utilized. This transformation was perhaps due to the initiative of Tarlton, to whom several jigs are attributed. But he was followed by Kempe and others, and in the last decade of the sixteenth century the jig may be inferred from the Stationers' Register to have become almost a literary type. Nashe in 1596 threatens Gabriel Harvey with an interlude, and 'a Jigge at the latter end in English Hexameters of O neighbour Gabriell, and his wooing of Kate Cotton'. In 1597 Henslowe bought two jigs from two young men for the Admiral's at a cost of 6s. 8d. In 1598 'Kemps Jigge' was being sung in the streets. The Middlesex justices made a special order against the lewd jigs, songs, and dances at the Fortune in 1612. Unfortunately few jigs have survived except from a late date or in German adaptations. Two or three, however, appear amongst collections of ballads to which they are cognate