(viii) Christmas Comes but Once a Year. With Chettle, Dekker, and Webster, Nov. 1602. (ix) The Blind Eats many a Fly. Nov. 1602-Jan. 1603. (x) [Unnamed play.] With Chettle, Jan. 1603, but apparently not finished, or possibly identical with the Shore of Chettle (q.v.) and Day. The title Like Quits Like, inserted into one entry for this play, is a forgery (Greg, Henslowe, i. xliii). (xi) A Woman Killed With Kindness. Feb.-March 1603. Vide supra.
Heywood's hand or 'finger' has also been suggested in the Appius and Virginia printed as Webster's (q.v.), in Pericles, and in Fair Maid of the Exchange, George a Greene, How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, Thomas Lord Cromwell, and Work for Cutlers (cf. ch. xxiv). GRIFFIN HIGGS (1589-1659). A student at St. John's, Oxford (1606), afterwards Fellow of Merton (1611), Chaplain to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia (1627), and Dean of Lichfield (1638). The MS. of The Christmas Prince (1607) was once thought to be in his handwriting (cf. ch. xxiv, C). THOMAS HUGHES (c. 1588). A Cheshire man, who matriculated from Queens' College, Cambridge, in Nov. 1571 and became Fellow of the College on 8 Sept. 1576.
The Misfortunes of Arthur. 28 Feb. 1588
1587. Certain deuises and shewes presented to her Maiestie by the Gentlemen of Grayes-Inne at her Highnesse Court in Greenewich, the twenty-eighth day of Februarie in the thirtieth yeare of her Maiesties most happy Raigne. Robert Robinson. ['An Introduction penned by Nicholas Trotte Gentleman one of the society of Grayes-Inne'; followed by 'The misfortunes of Arthur (Vther Pendragons Sonne) reduced into Tragicall notes by Thomas Hughes one of the societie of Grayes-Inne. And here set downe as it past from vnder his handes and as it was presented, excepting certaine wordes and lines, where some of the Actors either helped their memories by brief omission: or fitted their acting by some alteration. With a note at the ende, of such speaches as were penned by others in lue of some of these hereafter following'; Arguments, Dumb Shows, and Choruses between the Acts; at end, two substituted speeches 'penned by William Fulbecke gentleman, one of the societie of Grayes-Inne'; followed by 'Besides these speaches there was also penned a Chorus for the first act, and an other for the second act, by Maister Frauncis Flower, which were pronounced accordingly. The dumbe showes were partly deuised by Maister Christopher Yeluerton, Maister Frauncis Bacon, Maister Iohn Lancaster and others, partly by the saide Maister Flower, who with
