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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

Note 945 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY

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'For lynks to give light in the euenyng' (Bristol, 1577); 'for candells and torches then spent' (Canterbury, 1574); 'for the skafowld' (Exeter, 1604-5); 'to make a scaffolde in the Bothall' (Gloucester, 1559-60, with similar entries in other years up to 1568); 'a pounde of candelles' (Gloucester, 1561-2); 'for nayles ... for layeing the tymber off ye stage together' (Maidstone, 1568-9); 'bordes that was borowed for to make a skaffold to the Halle' (Nottingham, 1572); 'for bearinge of bordes and other furniture' (Plymouth, 1580-1); 'for setting up stoopes for players' (Stafford, c. 1616).

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