^{Note 1 in page 631} PMLA, XLIII, 800-809.

^{Note 2 in page 631} First printed by Professor Hyder Rollins (PMLA, XXXIX (1924) 837-871) from a MS then belonging to Mr. W. A. White. Professor Rollins held that the manuscript was in the handwriting of the author and that the play was intended for performance, perhaps at Reading (cf. line 263), by amateurs, possibly schoolboys.

^{Note 3 in page 633} One coincidence of expression is very puzzling. We have in The Drinking Academy 11. 627-629, ‘tho the rosmary were dip'd [Cp. Herrick, ‘Come set we under yonder tree’ 1. 25: ‘we'll draw lots who shall buy and gild the bays and rosemary’— for a wedding]. The wedding dinner prepared nay tho your hands were ioyn'd and you had say'd I Ihon take ffrancis.’ Similarly in the lines Upon a Hermaphrodite included in the 1640 edition of Randolph's poems, we have ‘The Nuptial sound, I John take Frances’ (Hazhtt p. 642). But unfortunately, this poem was claimed by Cleveland and is considered to be his. The Prayerbook has (I N. take thee M.' It is hard to see how Cleveland can have got the formula from the play, unless the play was indeed acted at Trinity and he saw it there. He came up to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1627. Perhaps the names John and Frances had become popularly associated with the marriage formula.