Note 231 — XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS
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At the same time the Earl of Worcester’s company was taken into the Queen’s patronage, and its members were known as ‘the Queen’s servants,’ while the Earl of Nottingham’s company was taken into the patronage of the Prince of Wales, and its members were known as the Prince’s servants. This extended patronage of actors by the royal family was noticed as especially honourable to the King by one of his contemporary panegyrists, Gilbert Dugdale, in his Time Triumphant, 1604, sig. B.