Note 1035 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS

Puttenham, i. 14, says that Roscius 'brought vp these vizards, which we see at this day vsed'. In The Longer Thou Livest, 1748, 1796, God's Judgement has 'a terrible visure' and Confusion 'an ill fauowred visure', and in All For Money, 389, 1440, 1462, Damnation, Judas, and Dives have vizards. But this is early evidence, and perhaps drawn from the private stage. Harington, Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596, An Anatomy, 5), speaks of 'an ill-favoured vizor, such as I have seen in stage plays, when they dance Machachinas', but this rather tells against the use by ordinary actors at that date.