Note 1722 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES (continued 5)
Reading edition
Kempe, Nine Days Wonder, 6, ‘I remembred one of them to be a noted Cut-purse, such a one as we tye to a poast on our stage, for all people to wonder at, when at a play they are taken pilfring’; cf. Nobody and Somebody, 1893,
Somebody Once pickt a pocket in this Play-house yard, Was hoysted on the stage, and shamd about it;
also ch. xx, p. 75; ch. xxi, pp. 108, 141.