Note 357 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 3)
Reading edition
M. D. of Edmonton, prol. 34, ‘Draw the Curtaines’ (s.d.), which disclose Fabel on a couch, with a ‘necromanticke chaire’ by him; Devil’s Charter, I. iv. 325, ‘Alexander in his study’; IV. i. 1704, 1847; v. 2421, 2437; V. iv. 2965; vi. 3016, ‘Alexander vnbraced betwixt two Cardinalls in his study looking vpon a booke, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine.... They place him in a chayre vpon the stage, a groome setteth a Table before him’.... (3068), ‘Alexander draweth the Curtaine of his studie where hee discouereth the diuill sitting in his pontificals’; Hen. VIII, II. ii. 63, after action in anteroom, ‘Exit Lord Chamberlaine, and the King drawes the Curtaine and sits reading pensiuely’; Catiline, I. i. 15, ‘Discouers Catiline in his study’; Duchess of Malfi, V. ii. 221 (a ‘cabinet’); cf. Massacre at Paris (Fortune), 434, ‘He knocketh, and enter the King of Nauarre and Prince of Condy, with their scholmaisters’ (clearly a discovery, rather than an entry).