Note 459 — Chapter XXIII · MORALITIES, PUPPET-PLAYS, AND PAGEANTS
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Bartholomew Fair, v. 3; cf. v. 1. 8 ‘O, the motions that I, Lanthorn Leatherhead, have given light to in my time, since my master Pod died! Jerusalem was a stately thing, and so was Nineveh, and the City of Norwich, and Sodom and Gomorrah, with the rising of the prentices and pulling down the bawdy-houses there upon Shrove-Tuesday; but the Gunpowder Plot, there was a get-penny! I have presented that to an eighteen or twenty pence audience, nine times in an afternoon’; also Every Man out of His Humour, Induction:
‘Will show more several motions in his face Than the new London, Rome, or Nineveh.’