Note 960 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY
Reading edition
'There shall not any playes ... be played ... on any Sabaothe dayes nor aboue twoe daies together at any tyme. And no players ... to be suffered to playe againe ... within twentie and eighte daies nexte after such tyme as they shall haue laste played.... And they shall not exceede the hower of nyne of the clocke in the nighte' (Canterbury, Burghmote Book, 1595); 'This day lycens ys graunted to the L. of Huntington his players to playe one daye & not vppon the Saboath daye' (Norwich, 1597); 'The Quenes players had leave guiven them to play for one weeke so that they play neither on the Saboth day nor in the night nor more then one play a day' (Norwich, 1611).