In this Mrs. Behn exactly copies Shirley's excellent comedy, The Lady of Pleasure, produced at the Private House in Drury Lane, October, 1635, (4to 1637).

On Sept. 9, 1653, four plays of Henry Shirley's were entered on the Stationers' Lists, but they were never published: the names of these are, 1.

The Martyr'd Souldier, then, being his sole extant production, it must be confessed that Henry Shirley's claim to attention is not a very pressing one.

Long before Shirley's death the actors said, "Farewell!

Historians of the Turf say that Newmarket races date from 1640; but this statement is incorrect, for in Shirley's Hyde Park (V. 1),a play licensed in 1632 and printed in 1637,mention is made of a certain "Bay Tarrall that won the Cup at Newmarket."

In the notes I have pointed out several parallelisms to passages in Shirley's plays; and occasionally we find actual repetitions, word for word.

But apart from these strong proofs, it would be plain from internal evidence that the present piece is a domestic comedy of Shirley's, written in close imitation of Ben Jonson.

Night's Dream, III., i.; Shirley's Wedding, k. v., &c. Middleton says somewhere (in A Fair Quarrel, I think):

This speech of Sir Richard's is very much in Shirley's style: cf.

Shirley's Constant Maid, i. 1, "Buoy, Close, buoy, honest Close: we are blanks, blanks.

a similar passage in Shirley's Brothers (iii. 1).

Mr. Shirley's work was carried on by Mr. Harding Cox, who devoted much time and energy to the production of good Retrievers, many of which were of Mr. Shirley's strain.

And again: "In Shirley's nature prevailed at times an easy indolence: there were periods when she took delight in perfect vacancy of hand and eyemoments when her thoughts, her simple existence, the fact of the world being aroundand heaven above her, seemed to yield her such fulness of happiness, that she did not need to lift a finger to increase the joy.

But there was really no need of haste; for the lines of notables on Shirley's walls stand there from generation to generation, yet receiving always with such dignity and courtesy as permit not the slightest sign of weariness or expression of being bored.

" When, in the restoration of Mount Vernon, the kitchen was reached, recourse was had to Shirley's kitchen.

Suggestive of the days when colonial belles were toasted about Shirley's table, are the old punch bowl and the punch strainer and the wine coasters; though a more noteworthy object, having the same associations, is an antique mahogany wine chest with many of the original cut glass bottles still in its compartments.

And looking at Shirley's old silver in Shirley's old dining-room, we thought of the lavish colonial entertainments in which both had played their part.

And looking at Shirley's old silver in Shirley's old dining-room, we thought of the lavish colonial entertainments in which both had played their part.

And, along with our thoughts of Shirley's hospitality, came the recollection of a pretty story that had been told to us one day at Brandon by Miss Mary Lee, daughter of General Robert E. Lee.

There were no signs of that long by-gone life upon Shirley's stairway, save for a dimming of the old rail where countless handsstrong, feeble, fairhad lightly rested or, more helpless, clung; and save for that worn trail of the generations that followed up the dull, dark treads.

But the bullet had scarcely left his barrel when another ball, from Shirley's gun, struck Cardatas under his uplifted left arm, and stretched him on the sand.

These passages display the tenderer side of Shirley's gift at its best, and prove that, had he but set himself the task, he possessed the very style needed for a successful imitation of the Italian pastoral adapted to the temper of the English romantic drama.

But Shirley's, though the most complete, was not the earliest attempt at placing Sir Philip's romance upon the boards.

The main plot of the above reappears in Andromana, a play which was published in 1660 as 'By J. S.' It had probably never been performed when it was printed, and though the initials were possibly intended to suggest Shirley's authorship, there can be little doubt that he was wholly innocent of its parentage.

Shirley's play was licensed in 1626.