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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 180 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

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Thus in Rich. II, V. iii, iv (a continuous scene), Aumerle has leave to ‘turne the key’ (36). Then ‘The Duke of Yorke knokes at the doore and crieth, My leige ... Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there’. Cf. 1 Troublesome Raigne, sc. xiii. 81:

He stayes my Lord but at the Presence door: Pleaseth your Highnes, I will call him in.

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