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 cxxiii, 45), and extracts by Halliwell (1852, Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 15).—Dissertations: W. W. Greg, Notes on Publications (1909, M. S. C. i. 218); F. Flügge, Fidele und Fortunio (1912, Breslau diss.). The epistle says 'I commende to your freendly viewe this prettie Conceit, as well for the inuention, as the delicate conueiance thereof: not doubting but you will so esteeme thereof, as it dooth very well deserue, and I hartely desire'. This praise of the 'conueiance' (which I take to mean either 'style' or possibly 'translation') does not suggest that M. A. (or A. M.) was the translator. It is true that ll. 224-41 appear in England's Helicon (1600) signed 'Shep. Tonie', and that this signature is often taken to indicate Munday. On the other hand, two lines of this passage also appear in England's Parnassus (1600, ed. Crawford, 306) over the initials S. G., which suggest Gosson. Another passage in E. P. (231) combines ll. 661-2 and 655-6 of the play over the signature G. Chapman. This has led Crawford (E. S. xliii. 203), with some support from Greg, to suggest Chapman's authorship. I do not think the suggestion very convincing, in view of the inconsistency and general unreliability of E. P. and the fact that Chapman's first clear appearance as a writer is ten years later, in 1594. The evidence is quite indecisive, but of Munday, Chapman, Gosson, I incline to think Gosson the most likely candidate. On the other hand, if M. R. is Matthew Roydon, he was the dedicatee of poems by Chapman in 1594 and 1595. For M. A. I hardly dare guess Matthew Arundel. In any case, the play is only a translation from L. Pasqualigo's Il Fedele (1576).  2 Fortune's Tennis c. 1602

[MS.] ''Add. MS.'' 10449. 'The [plott of the sec]ond part of fortun[s Tenn]is.' [A fragment, probably from Dulwich.] The text is given by Greg, Henslowe Papers, 143. The actors named show that it belonged to the Admiral's, and Greg suggests that it may be Dekker's 'fortewn tenes' of Sept. 1600. Is it not more likely to have been a sequel to that, possibly Munday's Set at Tennis of Dec. 1602? ''Frederick and Basilea. 1597''

[MS.] ''Add. MS.'' 10449. 'The plott of Frederick & Basilea.' [Probably from Dulwich.] The text is given by Steevens, Variorum (1803), iii. 414; Boswell, Variorum (1821), iii. 356; Greg, Henslowe Papers, 135; and a facsimile by Halliwell, The Theatre Plats of Three Old English Dramas (1860). The play was produced by the Admiral's on 3 June 1597, and the actors named represent that company at that date (cf. ch. xiii). George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield > 1593

S. R. 1595, April 1. 'An Enterlude called the Pynder of Wakefeilde.' Cuthbert Burby (Arber, ii. 295).