=Page 172.=--_The Cage._ This house, on the corner of Fore Bridge Street (see map on page 42), was occupied by Thomas Quiney after he married Judith Shakespeare. "The house has long been modernized, the only existing portions of the ancient building being a few massive beams supporting the floor over the cellar" (Halliwell-Phillipps). =Page 173.=--_Sir Thomas Browne_ (1605-1682) was an eminent physician and author. Among his books were the _Religio Medici_ (1643), _Vulgar Errors_ (1646), etc. _Sir John Suckling_ (baptized Feb. 10, 1609, and supposed to have died by suicide at Paris about 1642) was a Royalist poet in the Court of Charles I. He wrote some plays, but is best known by his minor poems, one of the most noted of which is the _Ballad upon a Wedding_. =Page 174.=--_Izaak Walton_ (1593-1683) is famous as the author of _The Complete Angler_ (1653), one of the classics of our literature. He also wrote Lives of Donne, Hooker, Herbert, and other English divines. _Richard Hooker_ (1553?-1600) was a celebrated theologian, author of _Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity_, four books of which appeared in 1592, a fifth in 1597, and the remaining three after his death. =Page 180.=--_Warner's Albion's England._ William Warner (1558?-1609) was the author of _Albion's England_ (1586), a rhymed history of the country, and the translator of the _Menæchmi_ of the Latin dramatist Plautus (1595), on which Shakespeare founded the plot of the _Comedy of Errors_. =Page 182.=--_Watchet-colored._ Light blue. Compare Spenser, _F. Q._ iii. 4. 40: "Their watchet mantles frindgd with silver rownd." _Like a wild Morisco._ That is, a morris-dancer. The quotation is from _2 Henry VI._ iii. 1. 365:-- "I have seen Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells." =Page 183.=--_The featliest of dancers._ The most dexterous. Compare _The Winter's Tale_, iv. 4. 176: "She dances featly"; and _The Tempest_, i. 2. 380: "Foot it featly," etc. _William Browne_ (1591-1643?) published book i. of _Britannia's Pastorals_ in 1613. He also wrote _The Shepherd's Pipe_ (1614) and other poems. =Page 184.=--_A carved hook_, that is, a shepherd's crook (called a "sheep-hook" in _The Winter's Tale_, iv. 4. 431), as the _scrip_ is his pouch or wallet. Compare _As You Like It_ (iii. 2. 171), where Touchstone says to Corin: "Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage." _John Aubrey_ (1626-1697), besides assisting Anthony Wood in his _Antiquities of Oxford_ (1674), wrote _Miscellanies_, a collection of short stories and other tales of the supernatural. =Page 185.=--_The Puritan Stubbes._ Concerning this Philip Stubbes little appears to be known except that he was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, but became a rigid Puritan, and wrote several books besides the famous _Anatomie of Abuses_.