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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

Note 186 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

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Sir T. More, scc. ix, xiii (stools, vide supra); x, where the Council ‘sit’ to ‘this little borde’ (1176); R. J. I. v (stools, vide supra); James IV, I. i. 141, ‘Enstall and crowne her’; Sp. Tragedy, I. iii. 8, ‘Wherefore sit I in a regall throne’; 1 Rich. II, II. ii. 81, ‘Please you, assend your throne’; 1 Tamburlaine, IV. ii. 1474, ‘He [Tamburlaine] gets vp vpon him [Bajazet] to his chaire’; Dr. Faustus, 1010 (addition of 1616 text), ‘His Maiesty is comming to the Hall; Go backe, and see the State in readinesse’; Look About You, sc. xix, ‘Enter young Henry Crowned ... Henry the elder places his Sonne, the two Queenes on eyther hand, himselfe at his feete, Leyster and Lancaster below him’; this must have involved an elaborate ‘state’.

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