Note 198 — SCENE V.
Reading edition
[Of these books the two former are not at present known by such titles. The third, the "Life of Mistress Katherine Stubs," by her husband, the celebrated Philip Stubs, was originally published in 1591, and went through many editions.] The Author observes, in the opening of the tract: "At fifteen years of age, her father being dead, her mother bestowed her in marriage upon one Master Philip Stubbes, with whom she lived four years and almost a half, very honestly and godly."
Richard Brome, in his play of "The Antipodes," act iii. sc. 2, mentions one of them in the following manner—
"A booke of the godly life and death Of Mistress Katherine Stubs, which I have turn'd Into sweet meetre, for the vertuous youth, To woe an ancient lady widow with."
Again, Bishop Corbet in his "Iter Boreale," says—
"And in some barn hear cited many an author, Kate Stubbs, Anne Ascue, or the Ladies Daughter."