[Footnote 255: Of course we do not know that he did work on it.]
[Footnote 256: I find that I have been anticipated in this remark by H. Türck (Jahrbuch for 1900, p. 267 ff.)]
[Footnote 257: I do not know if it has been observed that in the opening of the Player-King's speech, as given in Q2 and the Folio (it is quite different in Q1), there seems to be a reminiscence of Greene's Alphonsus King of Arragon, Act IV., lines 33 ff. (Dyce's Greene and Peele, p. 239):
Thrice ten times Phoebus with his golden beams Hath compassed the circle of the sky, Thrice ten times Ceres hath her workmen hir'd, And fill'd her barns with fruitful crops of corn, Since first in priesthood I did lead my life.]