Part ii

in the early winter of 1599. Clearly the painter scene cannot, as Fleay, ii. 75, suggests, be motived by a casual allusion to a painter in _Cynthia’s Revels_ (F_{1}) 2673 or the painter scene added on revision to Kyd’s _Spanish Tragedy_, since both are later. The ‘armed Epilogue’ of Part i seems to me clearly a criticism of the armed prologue of Jonson’s _Poetaster_ (1601); it may have been an addition of 1601.