After leading a profligate life, he left behind him a pamphlet entitled, "A Groat's-worth of Wit, bought with a Million of Repentance:" this is full of contrition, and of advice to his fellow-actors and fellow-sinners.

It is mainly remarkable for its abuse of Shakspeare, "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers;" "Tygre's heart wrapt in a player's hide;" "an absolute Johannes factotum, in his own conceyt the onely _shakescene_ in the country." Most of these dramatists wrote in copartnership with others, and many of the plays which bear their names singly, have parts composed by colleagues.

Such was the custom of the age, and it is now very difficult to declare the distinct authorship of many of the plays..