Note 1047 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS

E. Hoe, IV. ii. 92, 'thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds plaid i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be call'd their get-peny'; Barth. Fair, V. i. 13 (of a 'motion'), 'the Gunpowder-plot, there was a get-peny! I haue presented that to an eighteene, or twenty pence audience, nine times in an afternoone'. Dekker, News from Hell (1606, Works, ii. 146), speaks of 'a Cobler of Poetrie called a play-patcher'.