His earliest appearance in any list of actors is at the end of Jonson’s _Catiline_, 1611, with the King’s Majesty’s Servants. He was probably the youngest member of the company, and doubtless sustained a female part. Gifford believes that he took the part of Wittipol in the present play, though this is merely a conjecture. ‘The only female character he is known to have filled is the lady of Giovanus in _The Second Maiden’s Tragedy_, but at what date is uncertain; neither do we know at what period he began to represent male characters.’ Of the plays in which he acted, Collier mentions Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Bonduca_, _Double Marriage_, _Wife for a Month_, and _Wild Goose Chase_ (1621); and Webster’s _Duchess of Malfi_, 1622. His name is found in the patent granted by James I. in 1619 and in that granted by Charles I. in 1625. Between 1629 and 1647 no notice of him occurs, and this is the last date at which we hear of him. ‘His name follows that of Lowin in the dedication to the folio of Beaumont and Fletcher’s works, published at that time.’--Collier, _Memoirs_, p. 268. Jonson not infrequently refers to contemporary actors. Compare the _Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy_, _Ep._ 120; the speech of Venus in _The Masque of Christmas_, _Wks._ 7. 263; and the reference to Field and Burbage in _Bart. Fair_ 5. 3. =2. 8. 73 send frolicks!= ‘_Frolics_ are couplets, commonly of an amatory or satirical nature, written on small slips of paper, and wrapt round a sweetmeat. A dish of them is usually placed on the table after supper, and the guests amuse themselves with sending them to one another, as circumstances seem to render them appropriate: this is occasionally productive of much mirth. I do not believe that the game is to be found in England; though the drawing on Twelfth Night may be thought to bear some kind of coarse resemblance to it. On the continent I have frequently been present at it.’--G. The _NED._ gives only one more example, from R. H. _Arraignm._ _Whole Creature XIV._ § 2. 244 (1631) ‘Moveable as Shittlecockes ... or as Frolicks at Feasts, sent from man to man, returning againe at last, to the first man.’ =2. 8. 74, 5 burst your buttons, or not left you seame.= Cf. _Bart. Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 359: ‘he breaks his buttons, and cracks seams at every saying he sobs out.’ =2. 8. 95, 103.= See variants. =2. 8. 100 A Forrest moues not.= ‘I suppose Trains means, “It is in vain to tell him of venison and pheasant, the right to the bucks in a whole forest will not move him.”’--C. =2. 8. 100 that forty pound.= See 3. 3. 148.