Note 394 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 3)
Reading edition
Three English Brothers, ad fin. A court scene in Sir T. Wyatt ends (ed. Hazlitt, p. 10) with s.d. ‘pass round the stage’, which takes the personages to the Tower. Similarly in 1 If You Know Not Me (ed. Pearson, p. 246) a scene at Hatfield ends ‘And now to London, lords, lead on the way’, with s.d. ‘Sennet about the Stage in order. The Maior of London meets them’, and in 2 If You Know Not Me (p. 342) troops start from Tilbury, and ‘As they march about the stage, Sir Francis Drake and Sir Martin Furbisher meet them’.