The people laughed heartily, for he had a queane to his wife. *** Gabriel Harvey, in his “Four Letters and certain Sonnets,” 1592, speaking of Tarlton's “famous play” (of which no copy is known) called “_The Seven Deadly Sins_,” says, “which most deadly, but lively playe, I might have seen in London, and was verie gently invited thereunto at Oxford by Tarlton himselfe; of whom I merrily demanding, which of the seaven was his own deadlie sinne? * Tom Weston, of facetious memory, received a similar compliment from an orange. Tom took it up very gravely, pretended to examine it particularly, and, advancing to the footlights, exclaimed, “Humph! this is not a Seville (civil) orange.” On reference to Polly Peachem's Jests (1728) the same bon-mot is given to Wilks. ** Mapple means rough and carbuncled. Ben Jonson describes his own face as rocky: the bark of the maple being uncommonly rough, and the grain of one of the sorts of the tree, as Evelyn expresses it, “undulated and crisped into a variety of curls.” *** It was the scandal of the time, that Tarlton owed not his nasal peculiarity to the Bruins of Paris-garden,but to another encounter that might have had something to do with making his wife Kate the shrew she was. He bluntly answered after this manner, 'the sinne of other gentlemen, letchery!'” Ben Jonson's _Induction to his Bartholomew Fair_, makes the stage-playur speak thus: “I have kept the stage in Master Tarlton's time, I thank my stars. Ho! an' that man had lived to play in Bartholomew Fair, you should ha seen him ha' come in, and ha' been cozened i' the cloth * quarter so finely!” “There was one Banks (in the time of Tarlton) who served the Earle of Essex, and had a horse of strange qualities: and being at the Crosse-keyes in Gracious-street, getting money with him, as he was mightily resorted to; Tarlton, then (with his fellowes) playing at the Bell by, (should not this be the Bull in Bishopsgate-street?) came into the Crosse-keyes (amongst many people) to see fashions; which Banks perceiving, (to make the people laugh,) saies, f Signor,' (to his horse,) 'go fetch me the very est foole in the company.' The jade comes immediately, and with his mouth drawes Tarlton forth. Tarlton (with merry words) said nothing but 'God a mercy, horse!' In the end Tarlton, seeing the people laugh so, was angry inwardly, and said, 'Sir, had I power of your horse, as you have, I would doe more than that.' 'Whate'er it be,' said Banks, (to please him,) 'I will charge him to do it.' 'Then,' saies Tarlton, 'charge him to bring me the veriest wh--e-master in the company.' 'He shall,' (saies Banks,) 'Signor,' (saies he,) ' bring Master Tarlton the veriest wh--e-master in the company.' The horse leads his master to him. * Cloth Fair, where the principal theatrical booths were erected.