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 iii. 310, says: 'Susanna. By Thomas Garter 4^{to} 1578. The running-title of this play is, The Commody of the moste vertuous and godlye Susanna.' According to Greg, Masques, cxxiii, the original authority for the statement is a manuscript note by Thomas Coxeter (ob. 1747) in a copy of G. Jacob's Lives of the Dramatic Poets (1719-20). 'Susanna' is in Rogers and Ley's list, and an interlude 'Susanna's Tears' in Archer's and Kirkman's.  GEORGE GASCOIGNE (c. 1535-77). George Gascoigne was son of Sir John Gascoigne of Cardington, Bedfordshire. He was probably born between 1530 and 1535, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn. He misspent his youth as a dissipated hanger-on at Court, under the patronage of Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton and others, and won some reputation as a versifier. About 1566 he married Elizabeth Breton of Walthamstow, widow of a London merchant, and mother of Nicholas Breton, the poet. From March 1573 to Oct. 1574 he served as a volunteer under William of Orange in the Netherlands. In 1575 he was assisting in preparing shows before Elizabeth at Kenilworth and Woodstock. It is possible that he was again in the Netherlands and present at the sack of Antwerp in 1576. On 7 Oct. 1577 he died at Stamford. Collections

[1573] A Hundreth sundrie Flowres bounde up in one small Poesie For Richard Smith. [Datable by a prefatory epistle of 20 Jan. 1573, signed 'H. W.' and a reference in Gascoigne's own epistle of 31 Jan. 1575 to Q_{2}. Includes Jocasta, Supposes, and the Mask.] 1575. The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. Corrected, perfected, and augmented by the Authour. H. Bynneman for Richard Smith. [A second issue, For Richard Smith.] 1587. The whole workes of George Gascoigne Esquyre: Newlye compyled into one Volume Abel Jeffes. [Adds the Princely Pleasures. A second issue, 'The pleasauntest workes'] 1869-70. W. C. Hazlitt, The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne. 2 vols. (Roxburghe Library). [Adds Glass of Government and Hemetes.] 1907-10. J. W. Cunliffe, The Complete Works of George Gascoigne. 2 vols. (C. E. C.). Dissertation: F. E. Schelling, The Life and Writings of George Gascoigne (1893, Pennsylvania Univ. Publ.). ''Jocasta. 1566''

With Francis Kinwelmershe.

[MS.] ''B.M. Addl. MS.'' 34063, formerly the property of Roger, second Lord North, whose name and the motto 'Durum Pati [15]68' are on the title.

1573. Iocasta: A Tragedie written in Greke by Euripides, translated and digested into Acte by George Gascoyne, and Francis