My lord, I fear we sit but overlong, Unless our dainties were more delicate: But welcome are you to the best we have. Now let us in, that you[87] may be despatch'd; I think our council is already set. [_Exeunt omnes._ _Enter_ ANDREA'S GHOST, _with_ REVENGE. ANDREA. Come we for this from depth of underground, To see him feast that gave me my death's wound? These pleasant sights are sorrow to my soul; Nothing but league, and love, and banqueting? REVENGE. Be still, Andrea; ere we go from hence, I'll turn their friendship into fell despite; Their love to mortal hate, their day to-night; Their hope into despair, their peace to war; Their joys to pain, their bliss to misery. FOOTNOTES: [1] Its great popularity, no doubt, was one cause. Prynne, in his "Histriomastix," fol. 556, has a curious passage, which in all probability refers to the "Spanish Tragedy." He is quoting the authority of the "English Gentlewoman," by R. Brathwaite, who, it is stated in the margin, was present at the occurrence: "To these two former precedents (says Prynne) I shall annex the parallel example of a late English Gentlewoman of good ranke who, daily bestowing the expense of her best hours upon the stage, and at last falling into a dangerous sickness of which she died, her friends in her extremity sent for a minister to comfort, counsel, and prepare her for her ende; who, coming to instruct her, and advising her to repent, and call upon God for mercy, she made him no reply at all, but cried out, '_Hieronimo, Hieronimo!_ O, let me see Hieronimo acted' (calling out for a play, instead of crying unto God for mercy), and so closed her dying eyes."--_Collier._ [2] ["Apology for Actors," 1612, repr. 1841, p. 45.] [3] This fact depends merely upon the evidence of Decker, which is denied by Mr Gifford. At the same time, it is a point of little importance; for, were it true, it could form no imputation against Ben Jonson. Mr Gifford also (Jonson's "Works," i. xvii.) notices the _adicions_ made by Jonson to "Jeronimo." This fact rests upon the following quotations from Henslowe's "Diary," edit. 1845, pp. 201, 223:-- "Lent unto Mr Alleyn, the 25 of September, 1601, to lend unto Bengemen Johnson, upon his writing of his adicions in Geronymo, the some of xxxxs." "Lent unto Bengemy Johnson, at the apoyntment of E. Alleyn and Wm. Byrde, the 24 of June, 1602, in earneste of a boocke called Richard Crockbacke, and for new adicyons for Jeronymo, the some of xli." Unquestionably these additions[4] bear marks of a hand greatly superior to that of Kyd, though Mr Hawkins says "they were foisted in by the players." They are mentioned on the title-page of the edition of 1602 of the "Spanish Tragedy". Henslowe confounds "Jeronimo" and the "Spanish Tragedy," and it does not appear that any additions were made to the former.