post in the Queen's Revels, is a forgery, and this makes it impossible to attach much credit to the other, in which the writer mentions the 'preferment of my brother' and that he himself has 'bene constrayned to live with children'. Moreover, the manuscript was not forthcoming in 1861 (Ingleby, 247, 307). Daniel evidently took a part in the management of the Revels company; the indiscretion of his
Philotas did not prevent him from acting as payee for their plays of 1604-5. But his connexion with them probably ceased when Eastward Ho! led, later in 1605, to the withdrawal of Anne's patronage. The irrepressible Mr. Fleay (i. 110) thinks that they then satirized him as Damoetas in Day's Isle of Gulls (1606). Daniel wrote one more mask and two pastorals, all for Court performances. By 1607 he was Groom of Anne's Privy Chamber, and by 1613 Gentleman Extraordinary of the same Chamber. In 1615 his brother John obtained through his influence a patent for the Children of the Queen's Chamber of Bristol (cf. ch. xii). He is said to have had a wife Justina, who was probably the sister of John Florio, whom he called 'brother' in 1611. The suggestion of Bolton Corney (3 N. Q. viii. 4, 40, 52) that this only meant fellow servant of the Queen is not plausible; this relation would have been expressed by 'fellow'. He had a house in Old Street, but kept up his Somerset connexion, and was buried at Beckington, where he had a farm named Ridge, in Oct. 1619.
Collections
1599. The Poeticall Essayes of Sam. Danyel. Newly corrected and augmented. P. Short for Simon Waterson. [Includes Cleopatra.] 1601. The Works of Samuel Daniel Newly Augmented. For Simon Waterson. [Cleopatra.] 1602. [Reissue of 1601 with fresh t.p.] 1605. Certaine Small Poems Lately Printed: with the Tragedie of Philotas. Written by Samuel Daniel. G. Eld for Simon Waterson. [Cleopatra, Philotas.] 1607. Certain Small Workes Heretofore Divulged by Samuel Daniel one of the Groomes of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Chamber, and now againe by him corrected and augmented. I. W. for Simon Waterson. [Two issues. Cleopatra, Philotas, The Queen's Arcadia.] 1611. Certain Small Workes. . . . I. L. for Simon Waterson. [Two issues. Cleopatra, Philotas, The Queen's Arcadia.] 1623. The Whole Workes of Samuel Daniel Esquire in Poetrie. Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson. [Cleopatra, Philotas, The Queen's Arcadia, Hymen's Triumph, The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses. This was edited by John Daniel.] 1635. Drammaticke Poems, written by Samuel Danniell Esquire, one of the Groomes of the most Honorable Privie Chamber to Queene Anne. T. Cotes for John Waterson. [Reissue of 1623 with fresh t.p.] 1718. For R. G. Gosling, W. Mears, J. Browne.
1885-96. The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel. Edited by A. B. Grosart. 5 vols. [Vol. iii (1885) contains the plays and masks.]
