Note 70 — An Historical View OF THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH COMEDY (continued 2)
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Brandl, Quellen, LXII.; cf. Herford, Lit. Rel., p. 156. To trace the suggestion of the model of Barnabas to the Studentes of Stymmelius, 1549, is, I think, absurd. It is strange that Creizenach, Gesch. d. neu. Dr., I. 470, should assert, in face of the Nice Wanton and The Glasse of Government, that no English 'moral' avails itself of two representatives of the human race—a good and an evil.