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I n 1592 the poet Samuel Daniel was living in London in the household of one of his first patrons, Sir Edward Dymoke. Dymoke was on very bad terms with his uncle, the earl of Lincoln, and on 1 March 1592 he wrote a letter to the earl's son complaining of the earl's hostility and threatening to repay it in kind. Dymoke later decided against sending the letter and gave it to Daniel to burn. Daniel, however, put the letter in a hole in the wall of Dymoke's house. Four years later, after an improvement of relations, Dymoke sold the house to the earl, who discovered the letter as he was pulling down walls for repairs. The earl was angry enough to start legal action against Dymoke, which finally ended in 610o with a very heavy fine.' Daniel seems to have suffered no lasting consequences from the mistake he made in 1592, but it did set a kind of precedent for a more serious problem that he encountered in 1605 over the publication of his play Philotas. The story is fairly well known and needs only to be summarized here.2 In January of 16o5, Daniel was called before the Privy Council on account of a recent performance of the play by the Children of the Queen's Revels. (This was the same theatrical company that, while Daniel had been acting as licenser of plays, had been in trouble for Marston's The Dutch Courtesan and would remain in disgrace for its performance of Philotas and later Eastward Ho.) Composition of Philotas had originally begun in 1596, according to Daniel, under the patronage of Lord Mountjoy, and three acts were completed by the time of the Essex rebellion in 1601. At that point Daniel abandoned the play, whether motivated by prudence
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