Note 749 — VII THE COURT PLAY
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Ibid. 240. It was an old device. Graves, 27, quotes Palsgrave, Acolastus (1540), 'in stage-playes, when some god or some saynt made to appeare forth of a cloude; and succoureth the parties which seemed to be towardes some great danger, through the Soudans crueltie'.