Variorum (1803), iii. 404; Boswell, Variorum (1821), iii. 348; Collier, iii. 197; Greg, Henslowe Papers, 129; and a photographic facsimile by W. Young, History of Dulwich (1889), ii. 5. The 'platt' names a number of actors and may thereby be assigned to a revival by the Admiral's or Strange's men about 1590 (cf. ch. xiii). The play consisted of three episodes illustrating Envy, Sloth, and Lechery, together with an Induction. This renders plausible the conjecture of Fleay, 83, supported by Greg, Henslowe, ii. 153, that it is the Four Plays in One revived by Strange's for Henslowe on 6 March 1592. And if so, the original two parts may be traceable in the Five Plays in One and the Three Plays in One of the Queen's men in 1585. Tarlton was of course a Queen's man, and evidence of his authorship is furnished by Gabriel Harvey, who in his Four Letters (1592, Works, i. 194) attacks Nashe's Pierce Penilesse (1592) as 'not Dunsically botched-vp, but right-formally conueied, according to the stile, and tenour of Tarletons president, his famous play of the seauen Deadly sinnes; which most deadly, but most liuely playe, I might haue seene in London; and was verie gently inuited thereunto at Oxford by Tarleton himselfe'. Nashe defends himself against the charge of plagiarism in his Strange News (1592, Works, i. 304, 318), and confirms the indication of authorship.
Doubtful Play Tarlton has been suggested as the author of the anonymous Famous Victories of Henry V (cf. ch. xxiv). JOHN TAYLOR (1580-1653). Known as the Water Poet. His description of the festivities at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth in 1613 (cf. ch. xxiv, C) is only one of innumerable pamphlets in verse and prose, several of which throw light on stage history. Many of these were collected in his folio Workes of 1630, reprinted with others of his writings by the Spenser Society during 1868-78. There is also a collection by C. Hindley (1872). CHARLES TILNEY (ob. 1586). Said, on manuscript authority alleged by Collier, to be the author of Locrine (cf. ch. xxiv). THOMAS TOMKIS (> 1597-1614 <). Tomkis entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1597, took his B.A. in 1600 and his M.A. in 1604, and became Fellow of Trinity in the same year. He has been confused by Fleay, ii. 260, and others with various members of a musical family of Tomkins.
Lingua. 1602 < > 7
S. R. 1607, Feb. 23 (Wilson). 'A Commedie called Lingua.' Simon Waterson (Arber, iii. 340).
1607. Lingua: Or The Combat of the Tongue, And the fiue Senses. For Superiority. G. Eld for Simon Waterson. [Prologue.]
1617; 1622; n.d.; 1632; 1657.
