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"I told you so, Master Alleyn, when the fellow was fresh from the Netherlands," said Carew; "but your ears were plugged with your own conceit. Young Jonson is no flatfish, if he did lay brick; he's a plum worth anybody's picking." "But, plague take it, Carew, those Burbages have all the plums! Since they weaned Will Shakspere from us everything has gone wrong.
The authors of the additions must have been friends of Shakspere; for, as we shall find, the enemies of the latter are also theirs. 2: Act iv. sc. 3. 3: In The Poetaster, of which we shall speak farther on. 4: According to certain indications in Satiromastix, he had an 'ambling' walk, or dancing kind of step. 5: Collier's Memoirs of Alleyn, pp. 50 and 51. 6: Conversations with Drummond.
Collier has misrepresented the contents of the postscript of a letter from Mistress Alleyn to her husband, Edward Alleyn, the eminent actor of Shakespeare's day. This letter was first published by Mr. Collier in his "Memoirs of Edward Alleyn" in 1841, where he represents the following broken passage as part of it:
Nay, Master Alleyn, what I am coming at is this: I'll place him at the Rose, to do his turn in the play with the rest of us, or out of it alone, as ye choose, for one fourth of the whole receipts over and above my old share in the venture. Do ye take me?" "Take you? One fourth the whole receipts! Zounds! man, do ye think we have a spigot in El Dorado?" "Tush!
Come, one fourth over my old share, and I will fill your purse so full of gold that it will gape like a stuffed toad. His is the sweetest skylark voice that ever sugared ears!" "But, man, man, one fourth!" "Better one fourth than lose it all," said Carew. "But, pshaw! Master Ned Alleyn, I'll not beg a man to swim that's bent on drowning!
Edward Alleyn, the greatest player of his time, and a man of real piety and goodness; he founded and endowed Dulwich hospital in Surry; he was so great an actor, that Betterton, the Roscius of the British nation, used to acknowledge that he owed to him those great attainments of which he was master. Lust's Dominion; or the Lascivious Queen, published by Mr. Kirkman, 8vo. London, 1661.
Why, Nick's mere shadow on the stage is worth a ton of Jemmy Bristows. 'Twas casting pearls before swine, Nick, to offer thee to Henslowe and Alleyn; but we've found a better trough than theirs hey, Cicely Goldenheart, haven't we? Thou art to be one of Paul's boys." "Paul who?" Carew lay back in his chair and laughed. "Paul who? Why, Saint Paul, Nick, 'tis Paul's Cathedral boys I mean.
How can I leave him go?" "Oh, fie for shame upon the man I took thee for!" cried Heywood. "But, Tom," cried Carew, brokenly, "look it straightly in the face; I am no such player as I was, this reckless life hath done the trick for me, Tom, and here is ruin staring Henslowe and Alleyn in the eye. They cannot keep me master if their luck doth not change soon; and Burbage would not have me as a gift.
"You have been at the Bankside you say, young Sir? On my credit, you must cross the river again and visit the theatres the Globe or the Rose. Our great actor, Dick Burbadge, plays Othello to-day, and, I warrant me, he will delight you. A little man is Dick, but he hath a mighty soul. There is none other like him, whether it be Nat Field or Ned Alleyn.
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