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[...]the popular writers of the time such as John Lyly, Anthony Munday, and Henry Chettle tended not to confine themselves to writing for one particular medium, producing work for the stage alongside prose fiction and various other forms. [...]writers such as Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle were actively involved in other aspects of book production, beginning their careers as apprentices in the printing trade. When it was reprinted in 1576, it had a new, more focussed (and faithful to the Italian) title, Houres of recreation. [...]it also had a new subtitle: or Afterdinners, Which may aptly be called The Garden of Pleasure. Plutarch's widely studied Moralia advocates leaving time between eating and sleeping in an evening so that "the meat bee well setled in the stomacke" and suggests that tales and light conversation are the best aid to digestion: we ought to exercise our wits and minds after a dinner or supper, not about any affaires of deepe studie, and profound meditation, nor in sophistical disputes, [. . .] many pretie tales and narrations there are, out of which a man may draw good considerations and wise instructions, for to traine and frame our manners; [. . .] [...]there be other sorts of pleasant talke besides these, and namely; to heare and recite fables, devised for mirth and pleasure; discourses of playing upon the flute, harpe, or lute which many times give more contentment and delight, than to heare the flute, harpe, or lute it selfe plaied upon.6 A search of the collocation "after dinner" on Early English Books Online suggests that it was barely in use before 1576 but that it makes more frequent appearances from then through the 1580s and after.