When _Romeo and Juliet_ and _Much ado about Nothing_ were originally brought upon the stage, Kemp acted Peter and Dogberry;[vi:3] and it has been supposed that in other plays of Shakespeare,--in _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_, _As you like it_, _Hamlet_, _The Second Part of Henry the Fourth_, and _The Merchant of Venice_, he performed Launce, Touchstone, the Grave-digger, Justice Shallow, and Launcelot. On the first production of Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, a character[vii:1] was assigned to him; and there is good reason to believe that in _Every Man out of his Humour_, by the same dramatist, he represented Carlo Buffone. In 1599 Kemp attracted much attention by dancing the morris from London to Norwich; and as well to refute the lying ballads put forth concerning this exploit, as to testify his gratitude for the favours he had received during his "gambols,"[vii:2] he published in the following year the curious pamphlet which is now reprinted. A _Nine daies wonder_ was thus entered in the Stationers' Books: "22 Aprilis [1600] "Mr. Linge Entered for his copye vnder the } handes of Mr. Harsnet & Mr. } vi^d." Man warden a booke called Kemps } morris to Norwiche.[vii:3] } Ben Jonson alludes to this remarkable journey in _Every Man out of his Humour_, originally acted in 1599, where Carlo Buffone is made to exclaim "Would I had _one of Kemp's shoes_ to throw after you!"[viii:1] and again in his _Epigrams_:-- "or which Did dance the famous morris unto Norwich."[viii:2] So also William Rowley in the prefatory Address to a very rare tract called _A Search for Money_, &c., 1609, 4to.:--"Yee haue beene either eare or eye-witnesses or both to many madde voiages made of late yeares, both by sea and land, as the trauell to Rome with the returne in certaine daies, _the wild morrise to Norrige_," &c. And Brathwait in _Remains after Death_, &c. 1618, 12mo. has the following lines:-- "_Vpon Kempe and his morice, with his Epitaph._ "Welcome from Norwich, Kempe! all ioy to see Thy safe returne moriscoed lustily. But out, alasse, how soone's thy morice done! When Pipe and Taber, all thy friends be gone, And leaue thee now to dance the second part With feeble nature, not with nimble Art; Then all thy triumphs fraught with strains of mirth Shall be cag'd vp within a chest of earth: Shall be? they are: th'ast danc'd thee out of breath, And now must make thy parting dance with death."[viii:3] Towards the end of a _Nine daies wonder_, Kemp announces his intention of setting out shortly on a "great journey;"[ix:1] but as no record of this second feat has come down to us, we may conclude that it was never accomplished.[ix:2]