Note 1042 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS
Reading edition
Cf. the account of Platter in 1599 (ch. xvi, introduction); also Donne, Satire, iv. 180 (ed. Muses' Library, ii. 196):
As fresh and sweet their apparels be, as be The fields they sold to buy them. 'For a king Those hose are,' cry the flatterers; and bring Them next week to the theatre to sell;
and Jonson, Underwoods, xxxii:
Is it for these that Fine-man meets the street Coached, or on foot-cloth, thrice changed every day, To teach each suit he has the ready way From Hyde Park to the stage, where at the last His dear and borrowed bravery he must cast.