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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 154 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

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2 Troublesome Raigne, sc. viii, ‘Enter two Friars laying a Cloth’. One says, ‘I meruaile why they dine heere in the Orchard’. We need not marvel; it was to avoid interior action. In 2 Hen. IV, V. iii, the scene is Shallow’s orchard, ‘where, in an arbour, we will eat a last year’s pippin of mine own graffing, with a dish of caraways, and so forth’.

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