During the years of Beaumont's apprenticeship to Poetry cloaked as Law things had changed but little in his world of the Inner Temple. In its parliament, Sir Edward Coke, judicial, intrepid, and devout is still most potent. The chamber, lodging, and rooms which his father, Mr. Justice Beaumont, and his uncle Henry had built and occupied near to Ram Alley in the north end of Fuller's Rents are still held by Richard Daveys, who as Treasurer moved into them in 1601. Dr. Richard Masters is still Master of the Temple; and in the church, where Francis was obliged to receive the Sacrament at stated times, he, sitting perhaps by his uncle Henry's tomb, would hear the assistant ministers, Richard Evans and William Crashaw. The sacred place was still the refuge of outlaws from Whitefriars who claimed the privilege of sanctuary. If Beaumont wished to steal, after hours, into the Alsatia beyond Fuller's Rents, he must skirt or propitiate in 1607 as in 1602 the same Cerberus at the gates,--William Knight, the glover. Outside awaited him the hospitality of the Mitre Inn, or of Barrow at the "Cat and Fiddle," or of the slovenly Anthony Gibbes in his cook's shop of Ram Alley.[62] FOOTNOTES: [46] The King's letter to Salisbury (undated, but of 1608). Gardiner, _Hist. Engl._ 1603-1642, II, 43-45. [47] This much more distinguished favour has been overlooked by Thorndike and other critics. But it is possible that Shaw, _Knights of England_, I, 154, may be confounding him with another Carr, a favourite of Queen Anne's. [48] Dyce, _B. and F._, Vol. I, p. 53. [49] Act IV, 14, 50-54. [50] _Cf._, Lazarillo's _Farewells_, Act III, 3. [51] See Chap. XXIV, below. [52] Prologue, for a revival, in 1649, of _The Woman-Hater_, which D'Avenant mistakenly attributes to Fletcher. [53] Reasons for dating an earlier version of the play about 1604 are given by Oliphant, _Engl. Studien_, XV, 338-339, and Thorndike, _Infl. of B. and F._, 70-71. In its present form, however, the play dates later than Jonson's _Epicoene_, 1610. See Gayley, _Rep. Eng. Com._, III, _Introd._, Sec. 15. [54] I heartily concur with W. W. Greg's interpretation, _Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama_, p. 274. [55] See Fleay, _Chron. Eng. Dr._, I, 312, and Thorndike, _Infl. of B. and F._, 64. [56] Folio, 1647, 'mortallitie'; a misprint. [57] See Chap. XXIII, below. [58] See Guskar, _Anglia_, XXVIII, XXIX. [59] Stiefel, _Zeitschr. f. Vergl. Litt._, XII (1898), 248; _Engl. Stud._, XXXVI; Hatcher, _Anglia_, Feb. 1907; and Macaulay, _C. H. L._, VI, 156. [60] _French Influence in English Literature_, pp. 300, 308. [61] Adapted from Cartwright in the _Commendatory Poems_, Folio of _B. and F._, 1647. [62] Details in Inderwick, _op. cit._, Vols. I and II, passim. CHAPTER VII THE "BANKE-SIDE" AND THE PERIOD OF THE PARTNERSHIP