Note 1058 — BOOK IV THE PLAY-HOUSES
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There is, I suppose, no reason why Randolph’s Muses Looking Glass, 1. i. 55, should not have been written before Salisbury Court was built. Herein a ‘brother’ is said to pray—
That the Globe, Wherein (quoth he) reigns a whole world of vice, Had been consum’d: the Phoenix burnt to ashes: The Fortune whipp’d for a blind whore: Blackfriars, He wonders how it ’scaped demolishing I’ th’ time of reformation: lastly, he wish’d The Bull might cross the Thames to the Bear Garden, And there be soundly baited.