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 title, clearly left no room for a second part covering the same ground as The Four Prentices, which ends with the capture of Jerusalem. If then Heywood's play is as old as 1594 at all, it must be identified with the first part of Godfrey of Bulloigne. And is not this in its turn likely to be the Jerusalem played by Strange's men on 22 March and 25 April 1592? If so, Heywood's career began very early, and, as we can hardly put his Epistle earlier than the opening of the Artillery Garden in 1610, his 'fifteene or sixteene yeares' must be rather an understatement. There is of course nothing in the Epistle itself to suggest that the play had been previously printed, but we know from the Epistle to Lucrece that the earliest published plays by Heywood were surreptitious. Greg, Henslowe, ii. 230, hesitatingly suggests that a purchase by Worcester's of 'iiij lances for the comody of Thomas Hewedes & M^r. Smythes' on 3 Sept. 1602 may have been for a revival of The Four Prentices, 'where they tosse their pikes so', transferred from the Admiral's. But I think his afterthought, that the comedy was Heywood and Smith's Albere Galles, paid for on the next day, is sound. ''Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1602''

See s.v. Dekker.

''The Royal King and the Loyal Subject. 1602 (?) S. R.'' 1637, March 25 (Thomas Herbert, deputy to Sir Henry Herbert). 'A Comedy called the Royall king and the Loyall Subiects by Master Heywood.' James Beckett (Arber, iv. 376). 1637. The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. As it hath beene Acted with great Applause by the Queenes Maiesties Servants. Written by Thomas Heywood. ''Nich. and John Okes for James Becket. [Prologue to the Stage and Epilogue to the Reader.] Editions by J. P. Collier (1850, Sh. Soc.) and K. W. Tibbals (1906, Pennsylvania Univ. Publ.).—Dissertation: O. Kämpfer, Th. Heywood's The Royal King and Painter's Palace of Pleasure (1903, Halle diss.''). The Epilogue describes the play as 'old', and apparently relates it to a time when rhyme, of which it makes considerable use, was more looked after than 'strong lines', and when stuffed and puffed doublets and trunk-hose were worn, which would fit the beginning of the seventeenth century. An anonymous Marshal is a leading character, and the identification by Fleay, i. 300, with the Marshal Osric written by Heywood and Smith for Worcester's in Sept. 1602 is not the worst of his guesses. ''A Woman Killed With Kindness. 1603''

1607. A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse. Written by Tho: Heywood. William Jaggard, sold by John Hodgets. [Prologue and Epilogue.] 1617. As it hath beene oftentimes Acted by the Queenes Maiest. Seruants The third Edition. Isaac Jaggard.

Editions in Dodsley^{1, 2, 3} (1744-1827) and by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. ii), J. P. Collier (1850, Sh. Soc.), A. W. Ward (1897, T. D.), F. J. Cox (1907), W. A. Neilson (1911, C. E. D.), K. L. Bates