Note 223 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

Alphonsus, prol. (1), ‘After you haue sounded thrise, let Venus be let downe from the top of the stage’; epil. (1916), ‘Enter Venus with the Muses’ ... (1937), ‘Exit Venus; or if you can conueniently, let a chaire come down from the top of the Stage and draw her vp’. In Old Fortunatus, 840, Fortunatus, at the Soldan’s court, gets a magic hat, wishes he were in Cyprus, and ‘Exit’. The bystanders speak of him as going ‘through the ayre’ and ‘through the clouds’. Angels descend from heaven to a tower in the Wagner Book play (cf. p. 72).