602 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts , and Letters . 
Vlysses Redux | Tragoedia Nova. | In Aede Christi 
Oxoniae | PubliceAcademicis Re- | citata, Octavo Idvs | Febr- 
varii. 1591. | [Devicel | Oxoniae, excudebat Iosephvs Bar- | 
nesivs, M. D. LXXXXII. 
As has been noted above, * 1 this volume included the text of 
Momus 2 Some time between May 10 3 and July 10 4 a pres¬ 
entation copy was sent to Rainolds, accompanied by a letter 
from Gager explaining that since the performance, the 
Epilogus Responsivus attached to Momus had been enlarged, 
and declaring that in Momus he intended no application to 
Rainolds. 5 
V. Rainolds’ letter 6 of July 10, 1592, acknowledging the 
receipt of Ulysses Redux and of Gager’s accompanying 
letter. 
Honori tuo addictissimus, Guilielmus Gagerus.” [Ulysses Redux, Oxford 
1592, sig. A 4 recto.] 
6 A facsimile of the title-page, from the Bodleian exemplar, is given by 
Boas,opposite page 202. Boas (p. 197, note 1) observes that the date 
“Octavo IdvsFebrvarii. 1591.”,i. e. February 6, 1591 /2, must be erroneous, 
since Ulysses Redux was certainly performed on Sunday, February 5, 
1591 /2. See above, p. 595. 
1 See above, p. 595. 
2 It must be remembered, however, that in the performance, Momus 
was attached not to Ulysses Redux, but to Hippolytus. 
3 The date (sexto Idus Maij) of the dedication to Sackville. 
4 The date of Rainolds’ letter of acknowledgment. 
6 These last facts are established by the following passage from Rainolds’ 
communication of July 10, 1592: 
I am much to thank you, Maister D. Gager, for both your letters, 
and your Tragedie: the more, for that you haue enlarged the answer to 
Momus (as you signifie) because you understood that I Sc others should aske 
why those thinges were not aunswered which were obiected. Indeed, as our 
Savior when he was smitten by one for speaking nought but reason, saide, 
If I haue spoken evill, beare witnesse of the evill; but if well, why doest thou 
smite me? so they, whose obiections against playes you attributed to the 
person of Momus, & thereby noted them as uniust reproovers, might 
iustlie say in my iudgement; If our reasons be naught, discover their naughti- 
nes; if good, who doe you Mome us ? And what so euer others had cause to 
thinke of them selues, yet I must needes thinke my self touched therein: 
although I should yeeld unto your request (which I most gladlie doe) in 
that you pray me, not to mistake your meaning; protesting your intent is not 
to note any man, but onely Momus. [Th’ overthrow of Stage-Playes, p. 1.] 
6 This letter, under the heading “Maister D. Rainolds aunswere unto 
Maister D. Gager, concerning Theater-sights, Stage-playes, &c.”, occupies 
the first twenty-seven pages of a small volume bearing the following 
title: 
Th’ overthrow | of Stage-Playes, | By the way of controversie betwixt | 
D. Gager and D. Rainoldes, wherein all the reasons | that can be made 
for them are notably refuted; th’ ob- | jections aunswered, and the case 
so cleared and re- | solved, as that the iudgement of any man, that | 
