Note 105 — ACT V., SCENE I.

I suspect Arundel to have been of Cranmer's school, and to have prophesied of what had actually happened. The following extract from a pamphlet of that time called, "Thieves falling out, true Men come by their Goods," [1615,] justifies the supposition: "And Shoreditch will complain to Dame Ann a Clear, if we of the sisterhood, should not uphold her jollity." It is not through the inattention of the editor that this, and the preceding speech of Brewen's, halt so lamentably; he has, in fact, exercised his utmost skill; but, as with many other passages in this drama, his success has not equalled his exertion. [The pamphlet cited by Dilke is a re-issue, under a changed title, of Robert Greene's "Disputation between a He-Coneycatcher and a She-Coneycatcher," 1592.]