Note 561 — Chapter XXIV · PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES

Roper, Life and Death of Sir Thomas More (†1577, J. R. Lumby, More’s Utopia, vi) ‘would he at Christmas tyd sodenly sometymes stepp in among the players, and never studinge for the matter, make a parte of his owne there presently amonge them’; Erasmus, Epist. ccccxlvii ‘adolescens comoediolas et scripsit et egit.’ Bale, Scriptores (1557), i. 655, ascribes to him comoedias iuveniles. Lib. 1.’ In the play of Sir Thomas More (cf. p. 189) he is represented, even when Chancellor, as supplying the place of a missing actor with an improvised speech. Bale, ii. 103, says that Henry Parker, Lord Morley (1476-1556) ‘in Anglica sermone edidit comoedias et tragoedias, libros plures.’