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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

Note 699 — VII THE COURT PLAY

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S. P. D. Jac. I, xix. 12 (1606); Birch, i. 243; Winwood, iii. 461. A gallant might also have his private play at night in a tavern; cf. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1599, Works, iii. 148), 'To London againe he will, to reuell it, and haue two playes in one night, inuite all the Poets and Musitions to his chamber the next morning'; A Mad World, my Masters, v. i. 78, 'a right Mitre supper;—a play and all'.

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