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 ch. xxii), which suggests actual production. The action of C. and C. Errant is during the time of the Armada, but the composition must be later than the death of Tarlton, as his ghost prologizes. Here the author notes, 'Rather to be omitted if for Powles, and another Prologue for him to be brought in Place'. Faery Pastoral uses (p. 97) the date '1647'; it is in fairy time, but points to some revision when the MS. was written. There are alternative final scenes, with the note, 'Be this the foresayd for Powles, For Actors see the Direction at later end of this Pastorall, which is separate by itself, Extra Olens, as they say'. Similarly in Aphrodysial a direction for beards is noted 'Thus for Actors; for Powles without', and another s.d. is 'Chambers (noise supposd for Powles) For Actors'. A reference to 'a showre of Rose-water and confits, as was acted in Christ-Church in Oxford, in Dido and Aeneas' is a reminiscence of Gager's play of 12 June 1583, and again makes a seventeenth-century date seem odd.  PETER (?) PETT (c. 1600).  Henslowe's diary records a payment of £6 on 17 May 1600 for the Admiral's 'to pay Will: Haulton [Haughton] and Mr. Pett in full payment of a play called straunge newes out of Poland'. Fleay, i. 273, says: 'Pett is not heard of elsewhere. Should it not be Chett., i.e. Chettle? The only Pett I know of as a writer is Peter Pett, who published Time's journey to seek his daughter Truth, in verse, 1599.' To which Greg, Henslowe, ii. 213, replies: 'Henslowe often has Cett for Chettle, which is even nearer, but only where he is crowded for room and he never applies to him the title of Mr.'  JOHN PHILLIP (> 1570- > 1626). John Phillip or Phillips was a member of Queens' College, Cambridge, and author of various ballads, tracts, and elegies, published between 1566 and 1591. I do not know whether he may be the 'Phelypes', who was apparently concerned with John Heywood and a play by Paul's (q.v.) in 1559. A John Phillipps, this or another, is mentioned (1619) as a brother-in-law in the will of Samuel Daniel (Sh. Soc. Papers, iv. 157). Dissertation: W. W. Greg, J. P.—Notes for a Bibliography (1910-13, 3 Library, i. 302, 395; iv. 432). ''Patient Grissell. 1558-61''

S. R. 1565-6. 'An history of meke and pacyent gresell.' ''Thomas Colwell'' (Arber, i. 309).

1568-9. 'The history of payciente gresell &c.' Thomas Colwell (Arber, i. 385).

The Commodye of pacient and meeke Grissill, Whearin is declared, the good example, of her patience towardes her husband: and lykewise, the due obedience of Children, toward their Parentes. Newly. Compiled by Iohn Phillip. Eight persons maye easely play