JOHN-HOLD-MY-STAFF (R188,_a_), a parasite, lickspittle. "And here it is the fortune of a man to be married to a woman of so peevish and domineering a temper that she will wear the breeches and the cap too: so that the poor fop at home is like _John-Hold-my-Staff_; she must rule, govern, insult, brawl," etc.--_Fifteen_ _Comforts of Matrimony._ JOHN IRISCHE (WH304,_d_), the allusion is lost. JOHN SHOLE (WH304,_d_), see previous entry. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. The text of this play is given on pages 349-368, together with a reduced facsimile of the title-page. Until recently _John the_ _Evangelist_ was looked upon as one of the innumerable "lost" plays of the Tudor period. It has now been recovered under the notable circumstances narrated in the preface to this volume. Curiously enough, _John the Evangelist_ was at first, in the sale catalogue, confused with Bishop Bale's _John_ _Baptist's Preaching in the Wilderness_, no copy of which also is now traceable, being known only through the reprint in the _Harleian Miscellanies_. However, there is no doubt that if a choice of "finds" had to be made the lot would fall to the present play, which has been untraceable in any form, save that of mere mention, for hundreds of years. The British Museum Catalogue entry is: JOHN SAINT AND APOSTLE. Here begynneth the interlude of Johan the Evangelist [with a woodcut]. B.L. John Waley, London [1560?]. 4^o. [c. 34. i. 20.]