=The Present Text= is based upon Arber's reprint of July 1, 1869, which has been carefully collated by Professor Gayley with the unique copy in the library of Eton College. The courtesy of the librarian, F. Warre Cornish, M.A., and the other authorities of Eton College, is hereby heartily acknowledged. In the present text all variations from the original are inclosed in brackets. But, in uniformity with the regulation adopted for this series, _j_ and _v_ have been substituted for _i_ and _u_ when used as consonants, and _u_ has been printed for _v_ when used as a vowel. References in the footnotes to previous editions are thus indicated: A., Arber's reprint; C., W. D. Cooper's edition for the Shakespeare Society, 1847; H., Hazlitt's Dodsley (edition in Vol. III.), Lond. 1874; M., Professor J. M. Manly's edition in "Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama," Vol. II., Boston, 1897. References to the Eton copy are indicated by E. EWALD FLÜGEL. FOOTNOTES: [285] Wood's _Fasti_, quoted by Arber. Arber assigns 1504 as the year of Udall's birth, but makes him "æt. 18" in 1524. Cf. Cooper's Extracts from C. C. C. Register. [286] Cf. Bale, _Catal._ ed. 1557, Cent. 9, 45 (fol. 717; general statement concerning Udall's Protestantism). _Lutheranis disciplinis dum in academia studuit addictus fuit_, Tanner after Wood, cf. Cooper, XII. It is remarkable, however, that we do not find Udall in correspondence with the reformers "in exile." [287] In March, 1521, cf. Ellis, _Original Letters_, I. i, 239 _sqq._ [288] Reprinted from Leland's _Collectanea_, V. by Cooper, XII. XIV. XXVI. [289] Cf. the epigram "_de liberalitate Nic. Odoualli_," quoted by Cooper, XII. [290] Original among the _Royal Mss._, 18 A. L. XIV. Cf. _Calendars_, etc., VI., No. 564; _Ib._ 565, referring to Latin verses on this coronation by Richard Coxe, Udall's predecessor at Eton (from _Harl. Ms._ 6148, f. 117). Udall's verses are reprinted by Arber, _English Garner_, 2, 52; parts of them published by Collier and Fairholt. Cf. Cooper (XIII.), who dates the pageant 1532 (as does Ward, _Hist. Dram. Poetry_, I. 141). This pageant shows Udall's earliest connection with the revels, and may have given him a name at the side of Heywood. [291] U. speaks later of the Eton mastership as "that roume which I was neuer desirous to obtain." [292] Cf. Arber, p. 3.