Note 553 — ACT I. SCENE I.

Ninevitical motion] Motion is a puppet-show; and that of Nineveh, often mentioned by our old writers, appears to have been very popular. “They say, there’s a new motion of the city of Nineveh, with Jonas and the whale, to be seen at Fleet-bridge.”—B. Jonson’s Every Man out of his Humour, act ii. sc. 1.