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Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to NorwichKemp, William, active 1600

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Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich

Name: Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
Author: Kemp, William, active 1600

Kemp, William, active 1600

Dance -- England; Morris dance

P. 21, l. 32, Derick.]--hang,--the name of the common hangman when
this tract was written: he is frequently mentioned in our old plays.

P. 22, l. 6, Mundus Furiosus.]--_Mundi Fvriosi sive P. A. Iansonii
Narra[tio]nis Rervm Tota Europa Gestarum, Continvatio ab Anno 1597 vsque
ad annum præsentem 1600._ _Coloniæ_, 1600, 8vo.

P. 22, l. 7, Cullians.]--scoundrels.

P. 22, l. 13, this beggerly lying busie-bodies name brought out the
Ballad-maker.]--Kemp, I conceive, alludes here to Richard Johnson, who
is still remembered by his _Famous Historie of the Seuen Champions of
Christendome_, in two Parts, of which the earliest extant edition
(_what_ edition the title-page does not indicate) was printed in 1608,
4to. Ritson remarks that this celebrated romance is mentioned in Meres's
_Palladis Tamia_ (fol. 268), 1598. _Observ. on Warton's Hist. of Engl.
Poet._ p. 23; but I can produce a notice of it anterior to that date
from the Stationers' Books:

                            "20 Aprilis [1596]

  "Jo Danter          Entred for his copie vnder thande of   }
                      the Wardens, A booke Intituled the     }
                      famous Hystory of the Seven Champions  }
                      of Christiandom, St. George of         }  vi^d."
                      England, St. Dennys of Fraunce, St.    }
                      James of Spayne, St. Anthony of Italy, }
                      St. Andrewe of Scotland, St. Patrick   }
                      of Irland, and St. David of Wales,     }

                            "6 Sept. [1596]

  "Cuthbert Burby     Entred for his copie by assigment      }
                      from John Danter, Twoo                 }
                      bookes, viz. the first pte and second  }
                      pte of the vii Champions               } vii^d."
                      of Christiandom. Reservinge            }
                      the workmanship of the printinge       }
                      at all tymes to the said Jo            }
                      Danter....                             }

  (_Liber_ C. fol. 10 b., fol. 13 b.)

Johnson's _Nine Worthies of London: Explaining the honourable Exercise
of Armes, the Vertues of the Valiant, and the memorable Attempts of
magnanimous Minds, &c._ (a poem somewhat resembling the _Mirror for
Magistrates_,) is reprinted in _The Harl. Miscell._ viii. 437, ed. Park.
He was also the compiler, and probably in part the author, of _The Crown
Garland of Golden Roses_, &c. See Ritson's _Bibl. Poet._




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