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[ 315 ] Dr. Farmer is of the ame opinion, and thinks he ees omething of Jonon’s hand, here and there, in the dialogue alo. After our author’s retirement to the country, Jonon was perhaps employed to give a novelty to the piece by a new title and prologue, and to furnih the managers of the Globe with a decription of the coronation ceremony, and of thoe other decorations, with which, from his connection with Inigo Jones, and his attendance at court, he was peculiarly converant.

The piece appears to have been revived with ome degree of plendour; for Sir Henry Wotton gives a very pompous account of the repreentation. The unlucky accident that happened to the houe during the exhibition, was occaioned by dicharging ome mall pieces, called chambers, on K. Henry’s arrival at cardinal Woley’s gate at Whitehall, one of which, being injudiciouly managed, et fire to the thatched roof of the theatre.