Note 1637 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES (continued 4)
Reading edition
R. Flecknoe, Miscellania (1653), 141, ‘From thence passing on to the Black-fryers, and seeing never a Play-bil on the Gate, no Coaches on the place, nor Doorkeeper at the Play-house door, with his Boxe like a Churchwarden, desiring you to remember the poor Players, I cannot but say for Epilogue to all the Playes were ever acted there:
Poor House that in dayes of our Grand-sires, Belongst unto the Mendiant Fryers: And where so oft in our Fathers dayes We have seen so many of Shakspears Playes, So many of Johnsons, Beaumonts & Fletchers.’