10 No doubt it required courage to present a Jesuit in this way so soon after Gunpowder Plot; and the curious argument in _The Renegado_, V., 1, 28-41, in favour of lay-baptism certainly shows a mind interested in ecclesiastical problems. _ 11 The Renegado_, I., 1, 24-32. _ 12 Two Gentlemen of Verona_, V., 1. 13 Friar Paulo takes an important part in _The Maid of Honour_, ad finem. Octavio, disguised as a priest, elicits Alonzo’s repentance in _The Bashful Lover_, IV., 2. The same expedient occurs in _The Emperor of the East_, V., 3, where Theodosius, disguised as a friar, convinces himself of his wife’s innocence. Shakspere disguises the Duke as a friar in _Measure for Measure_, II., 3, III., 1, 2, IV., 1, 2, 3. 14 See the photograph at the beginning of the book. _Cf._ also Greg’s Henslowe Papers, article 68. Fleay identifies the play referred to in the document as _The Honest Man of Fortune_, acted in 1613. In the first Dublin poem, after referring to the patronage which had befriended Jonson and Fletcher, Massinger goes on thus: “These are precedents I cite with reverence; my low intents Look not so high; yet some work I might frame That should not wrong my duty, nor your name; Were but your lordship pleased to cast an eye Of favour on my trod-down poverty.” _ 15 Cf._ W. W. Greg’s _Henslowe’s Diary_, vol. ii., pp. 110-147. Mr. Greg points out (p. 113) that “there is no record of any speculations of Henslowe’s own as far as the evidence of the Diary is concerned. The accounts are company accounts”—_i.e._, of The Rose and Fortune Theatres. We have also at Dulwich a bond from R. Daborne and P. Massinger to Philip Henslowe for payment of £3, dated July 4th, 1615. _Cf._ Greg’s Henslowe Papers, article 102. 16 Licensed March 4th, 1631. 17 Licensed May 6th, 1631. 18 See poem “Sero sed serio” (Cunningham, p. 628); _Picture_, II., 2, 37; _City Madam_, I., 2, 116; _Emperor of the East_, II., 1, 45. _Cf._ _Catiline_; II, 1. 19 Aubrey, in his _Natural History of Wiltshire_ (ed. J. Britton, 1847, p. 31), distinctly says that the poet had a pension of twenty or thirty pounds per annum, which was “payed to his wife after his decease.” 20 Younger brother of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. 21 The dedication begins thus: “However I could never arrive at the happiness to be made known to your lordship,” etc.