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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 159. 



and the following October 12, " To pave unto Mr. 

 Chapmane, in fuUe payment for his playe called 

 The Fowntayne of new Facions, xx'," pp. IS-I-G. 

 For this work, therefore, we see he was paid 41. 



At p. 106. there is the following entry : 



" Lent unto Bengemen Johnsone, the 3rd of De- 

 sembr, 1597, upon a booke W' he was to writte for us 

 befor Crysraas next after the date herof, w"^ he showed 

 the plotte unto the company : I saye lente in redy 

 money unto hirae the some of xx'." 



I cannot help thinking Mr. Collier wrong in 

 supposing that, "having proceeded so far as to 

 have shown the plot of it," he had " no doubt 

 ■written much of it." The plot would of course 

 have been arranged before a single scene was 

 written ; and the above entry distinctly states he 

 •was to write it (not finish it) before Christmas. 

 Doubtless he was sanguine, and he wanted twenty 

 shillings ; but he found that three weeks, with the 

 best will in the world, was too short a time to pro- 

 duce a tragedy, and consequently we hear nothing 

 more of it. On the 23rd October, 1598, however, 

 we find, lent " unto Mr. Chapman one his playe- 

 boocke, and ij ectes of a tragedie of Bengemen's 

 plotte, the some of iij"." Jonson and Chapman 

 did write in conjunction ; and it seems hardly 

 questionable that, in the present instance, the 

 latter took up " Bengemen's plotte," and com- 

 pleted the work the former had left unfinished. 



On the day following the date of the last entry. 

 Chapman appears to have borrowed of Henslow 

 lOZ. 10s. What the " playe-boocke," mentioned in 

 the entry of the 23rd October, was, does not ap- 

 pear ; but on the 1st December he received a 

 further 10s.: p. 140. Possibly the "playe-boocke" 

 was The Fountain of new Fashions, upon which 

 something additional was then paid, and the 10s. 

 of the 1st December a final payment on account of 

 the two acts of the tragedy of "Bengemen's plotte." 

 The next notice is at p. 141., where it appears that 

 on the 4th and 8th January, 1598-9, he received 

 61. for a tragedy, the name of which is not given. 



Chapman's works appear by this time to have 

 risen considerably in estimation, and, as a conse- 

 quence, he appears to have been paid higher sums. 

 The Blind Beggar of Alexandria yvas so success- 

 ful that, within five years of its first performance, 

 the company at some considerable expense revived 

 it. This occurred a year or two later ; but for 

 the next work referred to in this diary a larger 

 sum appears to have been paid than any he had 

 yet received. This work is called The World runs 

 on Wheels, and the payments are, — 



"1598-9. January 22 - £3 



February 13 - 1 



1599. June 2 - - 1 

 • June 21 - 2 



July 2 - - 1 10 



£8 10."— Pp. 143—154. 



The above title is mentioned in all the above 

 entries ; but the words of the last are " in full 

 paymente for his boocke called The World rones a 

 Whelles, and now All Foolles, but the Foolle." Mr. 

 Collier has the following note to this : 



'• In this memorandum we seem to have a notice of 

 three separate works by Chapman ; The World runs on 

 Wheels, All Fods, and The Fool. Of the last two no 

 mention is made by Malone ; but All Fools was printed 

 in 1605, and is reprinted in Dodsley's Old Plays, last 

 edition, vol. iv. p. 102. It may be doubted whether 

 Henslowe does not mean that the title of All Fools was 

 substituted for The World runs on Wheels." — P. 154. 



It appears to me that Henslowe means that the 

 title of All Fools but* the Fool was substituted for 

 The World runs on Wheels. If this be so, and if it 

 be identical with All Fools, of which there seems 

 little doubt, the title will then have been changed 

 twice ; and the question then arises, Are any of 

 the other plays referred to works known under 

 different names ? It would be curious to identify 

 (though, perhaps, there are scarcely sufficient 

 materials) The Will of a Woman, The Fountain of 

 new Fashions, and the tragedy of " Bengemen's 

 plotte." The last piece referred to is a pa.'itoral 

 tragedy, in earnest of which 40s. was paid in July 

 17, 1599, but of which we hear nothing farther. 



Samxiel Hickson. 



St. John's Wood. 



THE DODO. 



(Vol. vi., p. 172.) 



From some unfinished collections on the dodo, I 

 extract a memorandum on its discovery, in order 

 to correct an error into which all writers on the 

 subject have fallen — even those who have treated 

 it with most elaboration. The island Do Cerne, 

 and with it the dodo, was discovered in 1598, or re- 

 discovered, by vice-admiral Wibrant de Warwic, 

 not by admiral Nee. I say re-discovered, be- 

 cause the island appears in the charts which ac- 

 company the Voyages of John Huyghen van 

 Linschoten, which are of earlier date. 



I shall now trace the error to its source, and 

 endeavour to convince those who may be incredu- 

 lous on the point in question. The only authority 

 to which it can be necessary to refer, is the work 

 which has been cited in proof of the contrary 

 statement, viz. Le second livre, iovrnal ov comptoir, 

 contenant le vray discovrs et narration historiqve, dv 

 voyage fait par les huit navires d" Amsterdam, au 

 mois de Mars Van 1598, sous la conduite de V ad- 

 miral laques Cornille Nee, et du vice-admiral Wi- 

 brant de Warwic, etc. Amsterdam, chez Cornille 

 Nicolas. 1609. Fol. 



It appears from this narrative that the fleet 

 sailed from Amsterdam the 1st March, 1598. It 



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