Note 767 — FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES; OR, THE ANT AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
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the Blackfriars] The theatre so named, which stood near the present Apothecaries’ Hall, and which was occasionally occupied by the Children of the Revels (a nest of boys): see Collier’s Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 275.