Note 632 — BOOK V PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
Reading edition
Birth of Hercules, 3, ‘Notae marginales inseruiant dirigendae histrion[ic]ae’; Nashe, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, 1813, ‘You might haue writ in the margent of your play-booke, Let there be a fewe rushes laide in the place where Back-winter shall tumble, for feare of raying his cloathes: or set downe, Enter Back-winter, with his boy bringing a brush after him, to take off the dust if need require. But you will ne’re haue any wardrobe wit while you live. I pray you holde the booke well, that we be not non plus in the latter end of the play.’