PLAYS OF THE WEEK |_3IbT JAN
PLAYS OF THE WEEK
At the Rose this week are played Buckingham, Titus Andron-
icus and Abraham and Lot
1st February BARNFIELD'S c GREENE'S FUNERALS '
Dantei hath printed Grecnis Funerals, by R B , gentleman,
contrary to the author's expectation and wish , wherein Greene's
death and works are celebrated m fourteen sonnets of various
metres In the seventh, written in the English hexameter,
R B protesteth against those
That inveigh against the dead, like deadly maligners,
What if he was a man, as bad or worse than a hell-hound ?
As shall I think that he was as bad or worse than a hell-hound *
Yet it ill became sweet minds to haunt in Avernus,
111 became such cutes, to bark at a poor silly carcase,
Somehad cause to moan, and mourn, and murmur against him,
Others none at all, yet none at all so against him,
For myself I wish that none had written against him,
But such men which had just cause t'have written against him
2nd February THE ALCHEMIST'S BEQUEST
In the matter of Roloff Peterson's letter concerning the
three glasses or bodies in alchemy bequeathed to the Queen by
Mr Ouldfield, Mr. Robert Smith now promiseth Sir Thomas
Wilkes, at peril of his head, to bring 40,000 dollars to the Queen's
coffers for these glasses without one penny of expense, if it
shall please her not to meddle with the receiving of them
Since doubts have been moved as to how the Queen might
consider the virtues of these glasses as being without error or
deceit, and whether she would accept them or the money, he
confirmeth on his allegiance and life the first two particulars,
offering to bring Peterson, if he be alive, and the glasses before
the Queen to be examined after which, if she shall refuse them,
he will be bound to procure the money at his own charge
yd February BURGLARY AT WINDSOR
Yesterday four of the gentlemen pensioners of the Court were
robbed at Windsor In their absence at six o'clock at night
their chamber door, which is in one of the five towers of the
tiltyard, was broken open, and all their trunks likewise, out of
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