Part III
,” which was in action at the “Rose,” when Greene’s celebrated address was written.
There is _prima-facie_ evidence that Greene authored the line, which he semi-parodied in the address, which is found in two places. It appears in its initial form “Oh Tyger’s heart wrapt in a serpent’s hide” in the play called, “The Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York,” and “The Death of Good King Henry the Sixth,” and later with “woman” substituted for “serpent,” again, it is found in the third part of “Henry VI.”, founded on the true tragedy, which was acted by Lord Pembroke’s company, of which, as Nash tells us, Greene was chief agent, and for which he wrote more than four other plays. “Henry VI.