Note 1728 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES (continued 5)
Reading edition
H. Moseley, pref. verses to F1 of Beaumont and Fletcher (1647):
As after th’ Epilogue there comes some one To tell spectators what shall next be shown; So here am I.
This is, of course, only Caroline evidence; for the continuance of the practice after the Restoration, cf. Lawrence, ii. 187.