Combe. Vide supra A° 1602, May 1, No. 79. (Public Record Office.)

Inter Willielmum Shakespere, generosum, querentem, et Willielmum Combe, armigerum, et Johannem Combe, generosum, deforciantes, de centum et septem acris terre et viginti acris pasture, cum pertinentiis in Old Stratforde et Stratforde-super-Avon; unde placitum convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos . . ., scilicet, quod predicti Willielmus Combe et Johannes recognoverunt predicta tenementa, cum pertinenciis esse jus ipsius Willielmi Shakespere ut illa quae idem Willielmus habet de dono predictorum Willielmi Combe et Johannis et illa remiserunt et quietum clamaverunt de ipsis Willielmo Combe et Johanne et heredibus suis predicto Willielmo Shakespere et heredibus suis imperpetuum; et praeterea idem Willielmus Combe concessit pro se et heredibus suis, quod ipsi warantizabunt predicto Willielmo Shakespere, et heredibus suis predicta tenementa, cum pertinenciis, contra predictum Willielmum Combe et heredes suos, in perpetuum. Et ulterius idem Johannes concessit, pro se et heredibus suis, quod ipsi warantizabunt predicto Willielmo Shakespere, et heredibus suis, predicta tenementa, cum pertinenciis, contra predictum Johannem, et heredes suos, imperpetuum. Et pro hac . . . . idem Willielmus Shakespere dedit predictis Willielmo Combe et Johanni centum libras sterlingorum. Trinity Term, 8 Jac. I.

128 1610 and 1611. Extract from Dr. Simon Forman's diary with accounts of the representation of "A Winter's Tale," "Cymbeline," and

'Macbeth," (Bodl. Lib. MS. Ashm. 208, fol. 2016).

In the Winters Talle at the Glob, 1611, the 15 of Maye, Wednesday.—Observe ther howe Lyontes, the Kinge of Cicillia, was overcom with jelosy of his wife with the Kinge of Bohemia, his frind, that came to see him, and howe he contrived his death, and wold have had his cupberer to have poisoned, who gave the King of Bohemia warning therof and fled with him to Bohemia. Remember also howe he sent to the orakell of Appollo, and the aunswer of Apollo that she was giltles, and that the king was jelouse, &c., and howe, except the child was found again that was loste, the kinge should die without yssue; for the child was caried into Bohemia, and ther laid in a forrest, and brought up by a sheppard, and the Kinge of Bohemia his sonn maried that wentch; and howe they fled into Cicillia to Leontes, and the sheppard, having showed the letter of the nobleman by whom Leontes sent a (sic) was that child, and the jewells found about her, she was knowen to be Leontes daughter and was then 16 yers old. Remember also the rog that cam in all tottered like Coll Pipci, and howe he feyned him sicke and to have bin robbed of all that he had, and howe he cosoned the por man of all his money; and after cam to the shep-sher with a pedlers packe, and ther cosoned them again of all their money; and howe he changed apparrell with the Kinge of Bomia his sonn, and then howe he turned courtiar, &c. Beware of trustinge feined beggars or fawninge fellouse. [71⁄2 pp. following are blank.]

Fol. 202.

Of Cimbalin King of England.'-Remember also the storri of Cymbalin, King of England in Lucius tyme; howe Lucius cam from Octavus Cesar for tribut, and, being denied, after sent Lucius with a greate armi of souldiars, who landed at Milford Haven, and affter wer vanquished by Cimbalin, and Lucius taken prisoner; and all by means of three outlawes, of the which two of them were the sonns of Cimbalim, stolen from him when they were but two yers old by an old man whom Cymbalin banished, and he kept them as his own sonns twenty yers with him in a cave; and howe of of them slewe Clotan, that was the quens sonn, goinge to Milford Haven to sek the love of Innogen, the kinges daughter, whom he had banished also for lovinge his daughter; and howe the Italian that cam from her love conveied himself into a cheste, and said yt was a chest of plate sent from her love and others to be presented to the kinge; and in the depest of the night, she being aslepe, he opened the cheste, and came forth of yt, and vewed her in her bed, and the markes of her body, and toke awai her braslet, and after accused her of adultery to her love, &c., and in thend howe he came with the Romains into England, and was taken prisoner, and after reveled to Innogen, who had turned herself into mans apparrell, and fled to mete her love at Milford Haven, and chanchsed to fall on the cave in the wodes wher her two brothers were; and howe, by eating a sleping dram, they thought she had bin deed, and laid her in the wodes, and the body of Cloten by her in her loves apparrell that he left behind him; and howe she was found by Lucius, &c.

1 Fol. 206.

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In' Mackbeth at the Glob, 1610, the 20 of Aprill, Saturday, ther was to be observed, firste, howe Mackbeth and Bancko, two noble men2 of Scotland, ridinge thorowe a wod, the stode befor them three women feiries or ninumphes, and saluted Mackbeth, sayinge three tyms unto him, Haille, Mackbeth, King of Codon; for thou shalt be a kinge, but shalt beget no kinges, etc. Then said Bancko, what all to Mackbeth, and nothing to me? Yes, said the ninumphes, haille to thee, Banko, thou shalt beget kinges, yet be no kinge; and so they departed and cam to the courte of Scotland to Dunkin, King of Scotes, and yt was in the dais of Edward the Confessor. And Dunkin bad them both kindly wellcom, and made Mackbeth forthwith Prince of Northumberland, and sent him hom to his own castell, and appointed Mackbeth to provid for him, for he wold sup with him the next dai at night, and did soe. And Mackebeth contrived to kill1 Dumkin and thorowe the persuasion of his wife did that night murder the kinge in his own castell, beinge his guest; and ther were many prodigies seen that night and the dai before. And when Mack Beth had murdred the kinge, the blod on his handes could not be washed of by any means, nor from his wives handes, which handled the bluddi daggers in hiding them, by which means they became both moch amazed and affronted. The murder being knowen, Dunkins two sonns fled, the on to England, the [other to] Walles to save them selves. They beinge fled, they were supposed guilty of the murder of their father,

which was nothinge so. Then was Mackbeth crowned kinge; and then he, for feare of Banko, his old companion, that he should beget Kinges but be no kinge him self, he contrived the death of Banko, and caused him to be murdred on the way as he rode. The next night, beinge at supper with his noble men whom he had bid to a feaste, to the which also Banco1 should have com, he began to speake of noble Banco, and to wish that he wer ther. And as he thus did, standing up to drincke a carouse to him, the ghoste of Banco came and sate down in his cheier be-hind him. And he, turninge about to sit down again, sawe the goste of Banco, which fronted him so, that he fell into a great passion of fear and fury, utteringe manny wordes about his murder, by which, when they hard that Banco was murdred, they suspected Mackbet. Then Mack Dove fled to England to the kinges sonn, and soe they raised an army and cam into Scotland, and at Dunston Anyse overthrue Mackbet. In the mean tyme, whille Macdovee was in England, Mackbet slewe Mackdoves wife and children, and after in the battelle Mackdove slewe Mackbet. Observe also howe Mackbetes quen did rise in the night in her slepe, and walke and talked and confessed all, and the docter noted her wordes.

129 1611. Title-page of "Titus Andronicus."

THE MOST LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE OF TITUS ANDRONICUS. As it hath sundry times beene plaide by the Kings Maiesties Servants. London, Printed for Edward White, and are to be solde at his shoppe, 1 Bamco, MS.