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 The Maiden's Holiday.

Ascribed to Marlowe (q.v.) and Day.

Manhood and Misrule (?). In Rogers and Ley's list; presumably identical with the comedy of Manhood and Wisdom in those of Archer and Kirkman. The Second Maiden's Tragedy.

Extant in MS. (cf. ch. xxiv).

Marriage of Wit and Wisdom.

By Merbury (q.v.); extant in MS.

Mother Rumming.

A comedy in Archer's list. Greg, Masques, xc, suggests an error for T. Thompson's late Mother Shipton, which Archer omits. Elinor Rumming, however, might well have made a play-theme. The Netherlands.

In Rogers and Ley's list.

Niniveh's Repentance.

An interlude in Rogers and Ley's and Archer's lists.

Ninus and Semiramis.

S. R. 1595, May 10. 'The tragedie of Ninus and Semiramis, the first Monarchs of the world.' Hardy (Arber, ii. 297). The Nobleman.

By Tourneur (q.v.).

2 Sir John Oldcastle.

By Drayton (q.v.).

Ortenus.

Archer's list has both Ortenas, a tragedy, and Ortenus, a comedy. The Owl.

By Daborne (q.v.).

Philenzo and Hippolyta.

By Massinger (q.v.).

The Queen.

A tragedy in Archer's list. Fletcher's name is given, but Greg, Masques, c, says this has 'crept in from another entry'.

Richard Whittington.

S. R. 1605, Feb. 8. 'The history of Richard Whittington of his lowe byrthe, his great fortune, as yt was plaid by the prynces servantes.'

Pavier (Arber, iii. 282). The play is referred to in K. B. P. ind. 22. Robin Hood and Little John.

S. R. 1594, May 14. 'A booke entituled a pastorall plesant Commedie of Robin Hood and Little John.' Islip (Arber, ii. 649).

Arber, v. 176, describes the play as printed by Islip for E. White, to whom the copy was passed by a cancel. It appears in Rogers and Ley's and Archer's lists of 1656. Greg, Henslowe, ii. 190, finds an allusion to its 'merry jests' in Munday's Downfall of Robin Hood, iv. 2.