Note 463 — SCENE III.

cittern] “A lute or cittern formerly used to be part of the furniture of a barber’s shop, and, as Sir John Hawkins, in his notes on Walton’s Complete Angler, p. 236, observes, answered the end of a newspaper, the now common amusement of waiting customers. In an old book of enigmas, to every one of which the author has prefixed a wooden cut of the subject of the enigma, is a barber, and the cut represents a barber’s shop, in which there is one person sitting in a chair under the barber’s hands, while another, who is waiting for his turn, is playing on the lute; and on the side of the shop hangs another instrument of the lute or cittern kind.”—Reed.