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 Moore Smith (M. L. R. iii. 143), who is responsible for the title, thinks that it was written at the seminary of Valladolid, perhaps in Elizabeth's reign.

Richardus Tertius (March 1580).

By T. Legge (q.v.).

Romeus et Julietta (c. 1615).

Sloane MS. 1775, f. 242.

According to H. de W. Fuller in M. P. iv (1906), 41, this is a fragment based on A. Brooke's Romeus and Juliet, probably a student's exercise, with corrections. It is datable by two poems in the same hand on the royal visit to Cambridge in 1615.

Roxana (c. 1592).

By W. Alabaster (q.v.).

Sapientia Solomonis (1565-6).

''Addl. MS.'' 20061. 'Sapientia Solomonis: Drama Comicotragicum.'

This is an expanded version of the Sapientia Solomonis of Sixt Birck (1555). A performance is recorded at Trinity, Cambridge, in 1559-60 (Boas, 21, 387), but the prologue and epilogue to this version make it clear that it was acted before Elizabeth and the ''inclita princeps Cecilia'', i. e. Cecilia of Sweden, who was in England during 1565-6 (cf. ch. i), by a

puellorum cohors Nutrita magnificis tuis e sumptibus.

These were the Westminster boys, who gave the play in 1565-6 (cf. ch. xii). The elaborately bound and decorated MS. bears Elizabeth's initials in several places, and was evidently the 'book' officially provided for her.

Scyros (3 March 1613).

By S. Brooke (q.v.).

Silvanus (13 Jan. 1597).

''Bodl. Douce MS.'' 234. 'Acta haec fabula 13º Januarii an. dmi. 1596.'

The actor-list belongs to St. John's, Cambridge, and is headed by the name of [Francis] Rollinson, whose authorship has been unjustifiably assumed.

Solymannidae (5 March 1582).

''Lansd. MS.'' 723. 'Solymannidae, Tragoedia 1581 Martii 5º.'

Susenbrotus or Fortunia (March 1615).

''Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS.'' 195, f. 79. 'Susenbrotus Comoedia. Acta Cantabrigiae in Collegio Trin. coram Rege Jacobo & Carolo principe Anno 1615.'

Bridgewater MS. 'Fortunia.'

The accounts of the royal visit of 7-11 March 1615 do not mention the play, and the date of this visit would be '1614'. It may be the unnamed play given by Cambridge men, not at Cambridge, but at Royston in March 1616; the actors are 'extra Lyceum', cf. ch. iv.