Note 359 — III THE REVELS OFFICE
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Feuillerat, Lyly, 237; Dramatic Records, 11, 39; Herbert, 7, 102; S. P. D. Jac. I (cxxxii, p. 432). Chalmers, 492, says, 'Yet, this was not old Ben, as it seemeth, who died in 1637, but young Ben, who died in 1635'. This seems rather improbable. Was Jonson already a suitor for the post in 1601, when Dekker wrote Satiromastix, iv. i. 244, 'Master Horace ... I have some cossens Garman at Court, shall beget you the reuersion of the Master of the Kings Reuels, or else be his Lord of Misrule now at Christmas'?