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Shakespearean Playhouses

Note 279 — Chapter XI

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In Samuel Rowlands's Humors Looking Glass (1608), a rich country gull is represented as filling his pockets with money and coming to London. Here a servant "of the Newgate variety" shows him the sights of the city:

Brought him to the Bankside where bears do dwell, And unto Shoreditch where the whores keep hell.

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