[140] In the margin, opposite what Feesimple says, are inserted the words _Pistols for Bro._, meaning merely to remind the keeper of the properties that at this point it was necessary that Frank, the brother, should be provided with pistols. [141] [Edits., _For_.] [142] Old copies read-- "'Twixt this gentleman There have been some love-passages, and myself, Which here I free him, and take this lady." GREEN'S TU QUOQUE; OR, THE CITY GALLANT. _EDITIONS._ (1.) _Greenes Tu quoque, Or, the Cittie Gallant. As it hath beene diuers times acted by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants. Written by Io. Cooke Gent. Printed at London for Iohn Trundle. 1614. 4º. Woodcut on title._ (2.) _Greenes Tu quoque, Or the Cittie Gallant ... Printed at London for Thomas Dewe and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstons Church-yard in Fleetstreet. 1622. 4º._ (3.) _Greenes Tu Quoque, Or, the Cittie Gallant. As it hath beene divers times acted by the Queenes Majesties Servants. Written by Jo. Cooke Gent. Printed at London by M. Flesher. 4º_.[143] [143] This edition, without a date, was obviously printed after that of 1614, although it has been hitherto placed first on the list of editions, as if it might be that mentioned by Chetwood, and supposed to have been published in 1599.--_Collier._ [Mr Collier does not cite the 4º of 1622.] INTRODUCTION. John Cook, the author of this play, is totally unknown. No contemporary writer has taken the least notice of him, nor has any biographer since given the slightest account of his life. All that we are informed of is, that he wrote the following dramatic performance. Langbaine,[144] and the writers since, ascribe the first title of it to the excellent performance of Thomas Green in the part of Bubble, whose universal repartee to all compliments is _Tu quoque_. Green was both a writer and actor,[145] and with great probability[146] is supposed to have been a relation of Shakespeare's, and the person by whom he was introduced to the theatre. He was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, which is ascertained by the following lines,[147] spoken by him in one of the old comedies, in the character of a clown:-- "I prattled poesy in my nurse's arms, And, born where late our swan of Avon sung, In Avon's streams we both of us have lav'd, And both came out together."