Note 45 — SCENE II.
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Before Allwit’s house] If the reader, during the earlier part of this scene, should wonder why I have not placed it within the house, he will presently see the reason. Perhaps, indeed, as there was no painted moveable scenery when the play was written, the author might have meant the audience to suppose that the stage represented a chamber, until the entrance of the Promoters, when it was suddenly to be taken for a street. See notes, vol. ii. pp. 142, 147.