And in the first scene of the second act Greene plays upon the repetition of this rhyme. Peele himself again uses the refrain in _Decensus Astræ_, licensed October 1591. The argument from the fact that "weel I wot" in Ida's line seems to reflect the same clause in _The Hunting of Cupid_ would be stronger were it not that "weel I wot" occurs only in the Drummond manuscript and is not found in the fragment quoted by Dyce[17] from the Rawlinson manuscript. Here instead of "weel I wot" is found "for sure." As Greene himself has used the refrain in a song sung by a shepherd's wife it leaves room to doubt that either the swains of _The Hunting_ or Peele himself was the shepherd. It is clear that the first general use of the motive had occurred in Greene's _Mourning Garment_. The positive objections to placing _James IV._ subsequent to July 1591 lead one to one of three conclusions: (1) Peele's lyric had long been written before it was entered in the _Stationers' Registers_, and in manuscript form inspired the strains in the _Mourning Garment_ and _James IV._; (2) Greene himself provides the prototype of Peele's lyric in his _Mourning Garment_ verse and its cognate form in _James IV._; (3) or, as seems most probable, fragmentary strains that have been found are reminiscences of a popular song that has not yet been traced. We have, a little arbitrarily perhaps, grouped the four indubitable plays of Greene's unassisted composition in order to formulate the developing characteristics of his dramatic genius. Yet there are other plays that raise problems no less interesting than those we have considered, and that might, were we able unquestioningly to assign them to Greene, go far to clarify the obscure places in his biography and his art. That Greene had a part in _A Looking-Glass for London and England_ there is, of course, no doubt, but we are not yet able to say how much of the play is his composition, and the question of its date provides some difficulties. We incline to the view that it was an early play. Lodge was absent from England in 1588 on a voyage with Captain Clark to the Islands of Terceras and the Canaries. In August 1591 he sailed from Plymouth with Cavendish and did not return until 1593, after Greene's death. _A Looking-Glass_ was then either written before 1588 or between 1589 and 1591. Collins, arguing from passages in the play remotely paralleled by biblical allusions in _Greene's Vision_ and the _Mourning Garment_, decides that it was produced in 1590. This conclusion cannot be accepted because, as Collins himself admits, references to Nineveh and Jonas are frequent in the literature of the time. Of the three reasons given by Collins for supposing that the play was not written before 1588 one is based on the slender hypothesis that as it is not proved that Greene wrote plays before 1590 this one could not have been earlier; and another is based on a gratuitous assumption that this play is that comedy "lastly writ" with "Young