Lansdowne MS 807/4

4. A fragment, beginning with Act III. Sc. 4, of Dr. Robert Wild's comedy of The Benefice. This was probably the author's copy, his name occurring at the end of it. On the back of the first leaf of this volume, the contents of which are all that remained of a most valuable collection of old manuscript plays made by Mr. Warburton, and most unfortunately destroyed by the ignorance of his servant, he has fastened a slip of paper on which is written the follow. ing list of them;

"Manuscripts. The Hon^r Loves, by Will. Rowley. Henry y^e 1^st, by will. Shakespear and Rob. Davenport. The fair favourit. Minervas Sacrifise, Phill. Masenger. Duke Humphery, Will. Shakespear. Citty Shuffler. S^r Joⁿ Suckling's Workes. Nothing imposeble to love, T. C. S^r Rob. le Green. The forc'd Lady A T. Phill. Massinger. The Governer T. S^r Corn. Fermido. The Lovers of Loodgate. The flying Voice, by Ra. Wood. The Mayden Holaday, by Chrisr Marlowe, The Fatal Love. The Puritan Maid, the Modest Wife, and the Wanton Widow, by Tho. Middleton. The London Marchat, A Com. by Jo. Ford. The King of Swedland. Love hath found out his Eyes, by Tho. Jorden. Antonio and Vallia by Phill. Massinger. The Dutches of Fernandina, T. Hen. Glapthorn. Jocondo, and Astolfo, C. Tho. Decker. S. Geo' for England, by Will. Smithe. The Parliament of Love, by W^m Rowley. The Widows Prise, C. W^m Sampson. The Inconstant Lady, W^m Wilson. The Womans Plott, Phill. Massinger. The Marchants Sacrifice Crafty Marchat, C. Shacky Marmion. N.B. The words in italics have been struck out afterwards. An Interlude, by Ra. Wood, worth nothing. The Tyrant, a Tragedy, by Phill. Massinger. The Yorkshire Gentlewoman and her son T. The whole of this article afterwards struck out. The Nonesuch, a C. W^m Rowley. The Royal Combate, a C. by Jon Forde. Philenzo and Hipolito, a C. by Phill. Massenger. Beauty in a Trance, Mr Jon Forde. The Judge, a C. by Phill. Massenger. A good beginning may have a good end., by Joⁿ Ford. Fast and Welcome, by Phill. Massinger. Belive as you list, C. by Phill. Massinger. Hist of Jobe, by Rob. Green. The Vestall, a Tragedy, by H. Glapthorn. The noble Tryall, T. H. Glapthorn. Yorkshire Gentlewoman and her son T. The Hear of Women, a C. by P. Massinger. Alexias or the Chast Gallant, T. P. Massinger. The Vestal, a Tragedy, H. Glapthorn. The Noble Choise, T. C. P, Maninger. A Mask, R. Govell.

2^d p^t Maiden's Trag. Geo. Chapman. The Great Man, T. The Spanish Purchas, C. The Queen of Corsica, T. by F. Jaques. The Trage of Jobe Good. The Nobleman, T. C. Cyrill Turnuer. A Play by Will. Shakespear. Bugbear, C. Jon Geffrey. Orpheus, C. Tis good sleeping in a whole Skin, W. Wager. Farry Queen. After I had been many years collecting these MSS. Playes, through my own carlesness and the ignorance of my ser. . . . . . .in whose hands I had lodged them, they was unluckely burnd or put under [pye bottoms, excepting y^e three which followes. J. W."] The last line is on the fly-leaf, where the slip was the partial arms. See the end of "The chronological order of Shakespeare's plays," in Steevens's or Reid's editions.