Note 11 — II. THE FORTUNE THEATRE, LONDON.
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John Melton, in his Astrologaster: or the Figre Caster (1620), speaking of a visit to “the Fortune in Golding-lane,” says: “There indeed a man may behold shagge-hayr’d deuills runne roaring ouer the stage with squibs in their mouthes, while drummers make thunder in the tyring-house, and the twelve-penny hirelings make artificial lightning in their heauens.”