Note 7 — An Historical View OF THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH COMEDY
Reading edition
See Wright's Early Mysteries, etc., Klein's Geschichte des Dramas, III. 638 et seq., Creizenach, Gesch. d. n. Dramas, I. 37 et seq. Quadrio speaks in his Storia, III. ii. 52, of a Pietro Babyone, an Englishman, who, according to Bale, wrote a Latin comedy in verse, c. 1366.