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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10

Note 410 — ACTUS IV., SCÆNA 1.

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Meaning a bill announcing that the plague had occasioned forty deaths. During the plague, the theatres were closed; and, to a new player such an event was doubly calamitous.—Collier.

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