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[ 284 ] pamphlet, entitled Pymlico or Run away Redcap, publihed in 1596, acertains it to have been written and exhibited on the tage, prior to that year:

“ Amaz’d I tood, to ee a crowd “ Of civil throats tretch’d out o lowd: “ As at a new play, all the rooms “ Did warm with gentles mix’d with grooms, “ So that I truly thought, all thee “ Came to ee Shore, or Pericles.”

In this piece are introduced many dumb hews, which were much admired at this time; and they afford one argument againt its being the produdcton of Shakpeare; he having never admitted erious dumb hew in any play unqetionably his: and having in Hamlet, four years after the date here aSS undefinedigned to Pericles, expresly marked his diapprobation of them, by calling them inexplicable. Dryden, however, eems to have thought Pericles genuine, and our author’s firt compoition:

“ Shakepeare’s own mue his Pericles firt bore, “ The Prince of Tyre was elder than the Moor ,”

7. Locrine, 1593.

Entered on the Stationers’ books July 20, 1594. Printed in 1595, without any author’s name. In the title-page this piece is aid to be newly et fourth, overeene and corrected by W.S.