Note 1694 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES (continued 5)
Reading edition
Malcontent (1604, Globe), ind.:
‘Enter W. Sly, a Tire-man following him with a stool.
Tire-man. Sir, the gentlemen will be angry if you sit here.
Sly. Why, we may sit upon the stage at the private house. Thou dost not take me for a country gentleman, dost? dost think I fear hissing?...
Lowin. Good sir, will you leave the stage? I’ll help you to a private room.
Sly. Come, coz, lets take some tobacco’;
M. D’Olive (1606, Blackfriars), IV. ii. 173, ‘I’ll take up some other fool for the Duke to employ: every ordinary affords fools enow; and didst not see a pair of gallants sit not far hence like a couple of bough-pots to make the room smell?’