Note 1771 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES (continued 5)
Reading edition
Cf. Wright (App. I). For the origin of the term, cf. the c. v. of L. Digges to Shakespeare’s Poems (1640):
Let but Beatrice And Benedicke be seene, loe in a trice The cockpit, galleries, boxes, are all full, To hear Malvoglio that crosse-garterd gull.