the jewels found about her, she was known to be Leontes’ daughter and was then sixteen years old. Remember also the rogue that came in all tottered like Coll Pipci,[1] and how he feigned him sick and to have been robbed of all that he had, and how he cozened the poor man of all his money, and after came to the sheep-shear with a pedlar’s pack and there cozened them again of all their money; and how he changed apparel with the King of Bohemia his son, and then how he turned courtier, &c. Beware of trusting feigned beggars or fawning fellows.
XV. Henry VIII, 1613.
Letter of Thomas Lorkins to Sir Thomas Puckering, June 30, 1613.
London, this last of June, 1613.
No longer since than yesterday, while Burbage his company were acting at the Globe the play of Henry VIII, and there shooting off certain chambers in way of triumph, the fire catched and fastened upon the thatch of the house, and there burned so furiously as it consumed the whole house, and all in less than two hours, the people having enough to do to save themselves.[2]
XVI. The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale, 1614.
From Induction to Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
If there be never a servant-monster i’ the Fair, who can help it, he says; nor a nest of antics? He is loath to make Nature afraid in his plays, like those that
- ↑ Tattered like Coltpixie (a roguish sprite).
- ↑ For a more detailed account of this fire, written two days later by Sir Henry Wotton, see the edition of Henry VIII in this series, pp. 150 f.
