We have now reached the crucial matter of the address which, according to the speculative opinion of many of Shakspere’s biographers, contains all the words and sentences which they hope, when racked, may be made to yield support to their tramp conjecture that Robert Greene was the first to discover Shakspere as a writer of plays, or the amender of the works of other poets. The identifiable words, so called, are contained in the following sentences: “Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his Tyger’s heart wrapt in a Player’s hide.” “Upstart Crow” in Elizabethan English meant in general, one who assumed a lofty or arrogant tone, a bragging, boastful, swaggerer suddenly raised to prominence and power, as was Kemp after the death of Richard Tarlton (1589). In an epistle prefixed to Greene’s “Arcadia” (1587), Thomas Nash speaks of actors “As a company of taffaty fools with their feathers;” and “The players decked with poets’ feathers like Aesop’s Crow” (R. B.); and again, “That with his Tyger’s heart wrapt in a Player’s hide.” Tiger in the plain language of the day stood for bully, a noisy, insolent man, who habitually sought to overbear by clamors, or by threats. These characteristics are identifiable with Kemp; but the biographers of Shakspere are content to conjecture that Robert Greene’s parody on the line “Oh Tyger’s heart wrapt in a woman’s hide” is not only a contumelious reference to actor, William Shakspere, but also a declaration of his authorial integrity by their assignment of “Henry VI. Part III,” which was in action at the “Rose,” when Greene’s celebrated address was written.