Note 296 — SCENE III.

in the Family] The old ed. adds, as part of the text, “Let in;” but the words are a stage-direction.—In The Displaying of the Family of Loue, &c. (already mentioned, see p. 106), we are told: “They are called together euer in the night time: and commonly to suche houses as be far from neighbours, one of them doth alwayes warne an other: and when they come to the house of meeting, they knocke at the doore, saying, here is a Brother in Christ, or a Sister in Christ.” Sig. H iiii.