Note 998 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS
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Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho! IV. i. 1:
'Bellamont. Sirrah, I'll speak with none. Servant. What? Not a player? Bellamont. No; though a sharer bawl. I'll speak with none, although it be the mouth Of the big company.'
Cf. Dekker, News from Hell (1606, Works, ii. 99), 'Marrie players swarme there as they do here, whose occupation being smelt out, by the Caco-daemon, or head officer of the Countrie, to bee lucrative, he purposes to make vp a company, and to be chiefe sharer himselfe'; also A Mad World, my Masters, V. i. 42, where one of the sham Lord Owemuch's players is a 'politician', who 'works out restraints, makes best legs at court, and has a suit made of purpose for the company's business' and 'has greatest share and may live of himselfe'.