. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. 336 ILLUSTRATIONS. [act »^ [The Bed of Ware ACT III. ^ Scene I.—Dost thou live hy thy , the celebrated clown of the ancientstage, was represented with a tabor in a printprefixed to his Jests, 1611. The instrument,says Douce, is found in the hands of fools longbefore the time of Shakspeare. At the end ofthe Introductory Remarks we have given a por-trait of Tarleton with his tabor; but this is notcopied from the Jests. It is taken from theHarleian MS. No. 3885—An Alphabet of InitialLetters, by John Scottow
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. 336 ILLUSTRATIONS. [act »^ [The Bed of Ware ACT III. ^ Scene I.—Dost thou live hy thy , the celebrated clown of the ancientstage, was represented with a tabor in a printprefixed to his Jests, 1611. The instrument,says Douce, is found in the hands of fools longbefore the time of Shakspeare. At the end ofthe Introductory Remarks we have given a por-trait of Tarleton with his tabor; but this is notcopied from the Jests. It is taken from theHarleian MS. No. 3885—An Alphabet of InitialLetters, by John Scottowe. On the title are thearms of Queen Elizabeth and the folloAving in-scription :— God save Queene Elizabeth longeto reygne. This circumstance proves this por-trait of Mr. Tharlton (as his name is speltby Scottowe) to be an earlier performance thanthe figure prefixed to the Jests, 1611; and, asthe two are exactly alike, our portrait is pro-bably the original from which the old woodcutwas copied. The figure in the Alphabet stands in thecentre of a letter T : the following verses in themarg
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