Note 1013 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS

Cf. Gosson, S.A. 39 (App. C, No. xxii), 'the very hyrelings of some of our players, which stand at reuersion of vi s by the weeke'; Dekker, News from Hell (Works, ii. 146), 'a companie of country players, being nine in number, one sharer, & the rest iornymen'; The Raven's Almanac (iv. 193), 'a number of you (especially the hirelings) shall be with emptie purses at least twice a week'; Jests to Make you Merrie (ii. 353), 'Nay, you mercenary soldiers, or you that are as the Switzers to players (I meane the hired men) by all the prognostications that I haue seene this yeare, you make but a hard and a hungry liuing of it by strowting [? 'strowling'] up and downe after the waggon. Leaue therefore, O leaue the company of such as lick the fat from your beards (if you haue any) and come hether, for here I know you shall be sharers'.