Note 661 — VI THE MASK (continued)

Four Plays in One, 2, 'Down with those City-Gentlemen, &c. Out with those —— I say, and in with their wives at the back door'; Love Restored, 'By this time I saw a fine citizen's wife or two let in; and that figure provoked me exceedingly to take it'. Here Robin Goodfellow is recounting his various attempts to secure admission, as an engineer, a tirewoman, a musician, a feather-maker of Blackfriars and the like. Carleton wrote of the mask on 27 Dec. 1604 (S. P. Dom. Jac. I, xii. 6), 'One woeman among the rest lost her honesty for which she was caried to the porters lodge being surprised at her bassnes on the top of the taras'.