Note 360 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 3)
Reading edition
E. M. O. IV. iii-v; cf. Roaring Girl (Fortune) (ed. Pearson, p. 50), ‘The three shops open in a ranke: the first a Poticaries shop, the next a Fether shop; the third a Sempsters shop’; Two Lamentable Tragedies (? Fortune), I. i, ‘Sit in his shop’ (Merry’s); I. iii, ‘Then Merry must passe to Beeches shoppe, who must sit in his shop, and Winchester his boy stand by: Beech reading’; II. i, ‘The boy sitting at his maisters dore’.... ‘When the boy goeth into the shoppe Merrie striketh six blowes on his head and with the seaventh leaues the hammer sticking in his head’.... ‘Enter one in his shirt and a maide, and comming to Beeches shop findes the boy murthered’; IV. iv, ‘Rachell sits in the shop’ (Merry’s); Bartholomew Fair (Hope), II-V, which need booths for the pig-woman, gingerbread woman, and hobby-horse man.