Note 217 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
Enter a Sweeper] Old eds. have, “Enter Towne like a sweeper,” and prefix “Towne” to his speeches,—and so in Dodsley’s Old Plays! Towne was the name of the actor who played this part: there were two performers so called,—John and Thomas Towne: see Collier’s Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet., vol. i. pp. 318, 351.