supposes

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Gascoigne's Supposes was his model in both these innovations, and yet he would undoubtedly have adopted them of his own accord without any outside suggestion.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

Of these George Gascoigne wrote not only Sonnets, Odes and Madrigals, but also something to the Stage: as his Supposes, a Comedy; Glass of Government, a Tragi-Comedy; and Jocasta, a Tragedy.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley

Mr. Colman indeed hath been better employ'd: but if he had met with an old Comedy, called Supposes, translated from Ariosto by George Gascoigne, he certainly would not have appealed to Plautus.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

The Supposes, translated from the Italian of Ariosto by George Gascoigne, and acted at Gray's Inn in 1566, is chiefly remarkable as being the oldest extant play in English prose.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

Gascoigne translated a comedy of Ariosto, and called it "The Supposes."

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew