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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 144 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

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1 Contention, sc. xxii, 62 (with the alehouse), ‘Alarmes againe, and then enter three or foure, bearing the Duke of Buckingham wounded to his Tent’; 2 Tamb. IV. i. 3674, ‘Amyras and Celebinus issues from the tent where Caliphas sits a sleepe’ ... 3764 (after Caliphas has spoken from within the tent), ‘He goes in and brings him out’; Locrine, 1423, ‘mee thinkes I heare some shriking noise. That draweth near to our pauillion’; James IV, 2272, ‘Lords, troop about my tent’; Edw. I, 1595, ‘King Edward ... goes into the Queenes Chamber, the Queenes Tent opens, shee is discouered in her bed’ ... 1674, ‘They close the Tent’ ... 1750, ‘The Queenes Tent opens’ ... 1867, ‘The Nurse closeth the Tent’ ... 1898, ‘Enter ... to giue the Queene Musicke at her Tent’, and in a later scene, 2141, ‘They all passe ... to the Kings pavilion, the King sits in his Tent with his pages about him’ ... 2152, ‘they all march to the Chamber. Bishop speakes to her [the Queen] in her bed’; 1 Troilus and Cressida, plot (Henslowe Papers, 142), ‘Enter ... to them Achillis in his Tent’; Trial of Chivalry, C_{4}v, ‘this is the Pauilion of the Princesse .... Here is the key that opens to the Tent’ ... D, ‘Discouer her sitting in a chayre asleepe’ and a dialogue in the tent follows. The presence of a tent, not mentioned in dialogue or s.ds., can often be inferred in camp scenes, in which personages sit, or in those which end with a ‘Come, let us in’; e.g. Locrine, 564, 1147.

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