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The Disobedient Child, c. 1560

S. R. 1569-70. 'An enterlude for boyes to handle and to passe tyme at christinmas.' Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 398). [The method of exhaustions points to this as the entry of the play.]  A pretie and Mery new Enterlude: called the Disobedient Child. Compiled by Thomas Ingelend late Student in Cambridge. Thomas Colwell.

Editions by J. O. Halliwell (1848, Percy Soc. lxxv), in Dodsley^4 (1874, ii), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, T. F. T.).—Dissertation: F. Holthausen, Studien zum älteren englischen Drama (1902, E. S. xxxi. 90). J. Bolte, Vahlen-Festschrift, 594, regards this as a translation of the Iuvenis, Pater, Uxor of J. Ravisius Textor (Dialogi, ed. 1651, 71), which Holthausen reprints, but which is only a short piece in one scene. Brandl, lxxiii, traces the influence of the Studentes (1549) of Christopherus Stymmelius (Bahlmann, Lat. Dr. 98). The closing prayer is for Elizabeth. JAMES I (1566-1625). ''An Epithalamion on the Marquis of Huntly's Marriage. 21 July 1588''

R. S. Rait, Lusus Regis (1901), 2, printed from Bodleian MS. 27843 verses by James I, which he dated c. 1581. The occasion and correct date are supplied by another text, with a title, in A. F. Westcott, New Poems of James I (1911). The bridal pair were George Gordon, 6th Earl and afterwards 1st Marquis of Huntly, and Henrietta Stuart, daughter of Esme, Duke of Lennox. The verses consist of a hymeneal dialogue, with a preliminary invocation by the writer, and speeches by Mercury, Nimphes, Agrestis, Skolar, Woman, The Vertuouse Man, Zani, The Landvart Gentleman, The Soldat. The earlier lines seem intended to accompany a tilting at the ring or some such contest, but at l. 74 is a reference to the coming of 'strangers in a maske'. Westcott, lviii, says that James helped William Fowler in devising a mimetic show for the banquet at the baptism of Prince Henry on 23 Aug. 1594. JOHN JEFFERE (?-?). Nothing is known of him, beyond his possible authorship of the following play: ''The Bugbears. 1563 <''

[MS.] Lansdowne MS. 807, f. 57. [The MS. contains the relics of John Warburton's collection, and on a slip once attached to the fly-leaf is his famous list of burnt plays, which includes 'Bugbear C. Jo^n. Geffrey' (Greg in 3 Library, ii. 232). It appears to be the work of at least five hands, of which one, acting as a corrector, as well as a scribe, may be that of the author. The initials J. B. against a line or two inserted at the end do not appear to be his, but, as there was no single scribe, he may be writer of a final note to the text, written in printing