"On 17 June 1586 Kemp, with his apprentice (Daniel Jones) and six fellows, Thomas Stevens, George Bryan, Thomas King, Thomas Pope,
Robert Percy
and Thomas Bull, entered the service for three months of Frederick II at Elsinore.
From Kemp, Bryan and Pope, his fellows of after-years, Shakespeare would hear of Elsinore and the Danes. That the Englishmen, notwithstanding their reputation and the eagerness of the people to hear them (they broke down a wooden fence once in their desire to do so), did not find their stay altogether congenial is more than suggested by the disappearance of Bull, in or as a consequence of a brawl. Kemp received a month’s pay as a parting gift in September. He and his ‘boy’ soon after returned to England, while the rest travelled into Germany to sojourn in Dresden for a considerable time until 17 July 1587.’ "
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