Note 232 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

Florio, Dictionary, ‘Scena ... forepart of a theatre where players make them readie, being trimmed with hangings’ (cf. vol. ii, p. 539); Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels, ind. 151, ‘I am none of your fresh Pictures, that use to beautifie the decay’d dead Arras, in a publique Theater’; Heywood, Apology, 18 (Melpomene loq.), ‘Then did I tread on arras; cloth of tissue Hung round the fore-front of my stage’; Flecknoe (cf. App. I), ‘Theaters ... of former times ... were but plain and simple, with no other scenes, nor decorations of the stage, but onely old tapestry, and the stage strew’d with rushes’.