_The Knight_ was still an acting play in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. During the past thirteen years it has been acted by academic amateurs five times in America. FOOTNOTES: [186] IV, 1; and II, 2. [187] V, 3, 4. [188] IV, 1. [189] Between _Oriana sits down_ and _exit Oriana_, as in Dyce, Vol. I, pp. 43-48. [190] I, 1; I, 2; II, 2; II, 3; III, 1; IV, 4. [191] _E. g._, the "lets" and the "alls" of IV, 4, 36-40, as numbered in Alden's edition. The play is devoid of Fletcherian jolts. [192] V, 2, 63, _et seq._ [193] II, 2, 90. [194] IV, 4, 5. [195] Macaulay, Oliphant, Bullen, and Alden. [196] _Engl. Studien_, IX. [197] Wallace, _Shakspere's Money Interest in the Globe, Cent. Maga._, Aug., 1910, p. 510. [198] Fleay, _Chr. Eng. Dr._, II, 277. [199] Fleay, _H. S._, p. 356. [200] Wallace, _Shakspere and the Blackfriars, Century Maga._, Sept., 1910, p. 751. [201] Murray, _Eng. Dram. Comp._, I, 353, who cites Nichols, _Progresses_, IV, 1074; but Whitefriars had been destined by Keysar and others for the Queen's Revels' Children since 1608. [202] Rawlidge, _A Monster lately found out_, etc., 1622, as quoted by Fleay, _H. S._, 36; Wallace, _Cent. Maga._, Aug., 1910; and Thorndike, _Infl. of B. and F._, p. 60. [203] See the impressive array of evidence, internal and external, presented by Thorndike, _Infl. of B. and F._, pp. 59-63; and by Alden, _K. B. P._, pp. 166-169 (Belles Lettres Series). [204] Accounts in _Athenaeum_, 2, 1903, 220. [205] Wallace, _Cent. Maga._, _Sept._ 1910, p. 747. See also Greenstreet Papers in Fleay, _H. St._, 249. [206] For this argument see _Engl. Studien_, XII, 309. [207] Baudouin's French version of 1608 is merely of the episodic narrative of _The Curious Impertinent_. [208] _On the Influence of Spanish Literature upon English_ (_Romanische Forschungen_, XX, 613-615, _et seq._). [209] Of this I am assured by my colleague, Professor Rudolph Schevill, who has made a special study of the plays and their sources, and has published some of his conclusions in the article in _Romanische Forschungen_, already cited; others, communicated by him to Dr. H. S. Murch, appear in _Yale Studies in English_, XXXIII, _The K. B. P._, Introduction. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach's unpublished conclusions, as cited by Miss Hatcher, _John Fletcher_, etc., 1905, p. 42, are to the same effect. [210] Wilkins, _Miseries of Enforced Marriage_, III; Middleton, _Your Five Gallants_, IV, 8; cited by Schevill, _ut supra_. [211] See Schevill, _u. s._ [212] H. V. Routh, in _C. H. L._, IV, 410. [213] The lines, Who like Don Quixote do advance Against a windmill our vaine lance, occur in a copy of verses _To the Mutable Faire_ included among _The Poems of Francis Beaumont_ in the edition of 1640. But the volume includes numerous poems not written by Beaumont, and is one of the most uncritical collections that ever was printed. This poem is by Waller. CHAPTER XXV THE FIVE CENTRAL PLAYS