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 (ii) 1 Cardinal Wolsey.

With Chettle, Drayton, and Munday, Aug.-Nov. 1601.

(iii), (iv) 1, 2 The Six Clothiers.

With Hathway and Haughton, Oct.-Nov. 1601. Apparently Part 2 was not finished.

(v) Too Good to be True.

With Chettle and Hathway, Nov. 1601-Jan. 1602.

(vi) Love Parts Friendship.

With Chettle, May 1602, conjectured to be the anonymous Trial of Chivalry (q.v.). (vii) Merry as May be.

With Day and Hathway, Nov. 1602.

Plays for Worcester's, 1602-3

(viii) Albere Galles.

With Heywood, Sept. 1602, possibly identical with the anonymous Nobody and Somebody (q.v.). (ix) Marshal Osric.

With Heywood, Sept. 1602, conceivably identical with The Royal King and the Loyal Subject, printed (1637) as by Heywood (q.v.). (x) The Three (or Two) Brothers. Oct. 1602. (xi) 1 Lady Jane.

With Chettle, Dekker, Heywood, and Webster, Oct. 1602. It is not certain that Smith, or any one but Dekker, had a hand in Part 2, which was apparently not finished. Part 1 is doubtless represented by the extant Sir Thomas Wyatt of Dekker (q.v.) and Webster, in which nothing is at all obviously traceable to Smith. (xii), (xiii) 1, 2 The Black Dog of Newgate.

With Day, Hathway, and another, Nov. 1602-Feb. 1603.

(xiv) The Unfortunate General.

With Day and Hathway, Jan. 1602.

(xv) The Italian Tragedy.

March 1603.

EDMUND SPENSER (1552-99).

The only record of Spenser's dramatic experiments, unless they are buried amongst the anonymous plays of the Revels Accounts, is to be found in his correspondence of April 1580 with Gabriel Harvey, who wrote, 'I imagine your Magnificenza will hold us in suspense for your nine English Commedies', and again, 'I am void of all judgment if your Nine Comedies, whereunto in imitation of Herodotus, you give the names of the Nine Muses (and in one mans fancy not unworthily) come not nearer Ariosto's Comedies, either for the fineness of plausible elocution, or the rareness of Poetical Invention, than that Elvish Queen doth to his Orlando Furioso' (Two other Very Commendable Letters, in Harvey's Works, i. 67, 95). I can hardly