If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody

The full title of Part 2 was entered into the Stationers' Register on 14 September 1605 and was first printed in quarto in 1606, again by Nathaniel Butter.

Hobson agrees not to punish John, but insists on bringing the troublesome factor back to England with him, thereby preventing any further tricks.

In fact Hobson has been gulled by a cony-catcher into believing the Queen asked him to give her some money, which he graciously provided.

At this particular moment in the play, the action shifts from city comedy to history as the plot abruptly switches to the life of Queen Elizabeth.

She escapes Doctor William Parry's assassination plot and faces the Spanish Armada's attempted invasion of England with other characters of political importance (notably Sir Francis Drake).

Title page of If you Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie; Or, The troubles of Queene Elizabeth . London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1605. Folger Shelfmark STC 13328
Title page of If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody ; the image is of a mid-19th-century type facsimile title page, not that of the edition of 1605.