id, in top of rage the lines she rents,--_A Lover's Complaint_.]

[Footnote 6: I presume it should be the present tense, _beratle_--except
the _are_ of the preceding member be understood: 'and so beratled _are_
the common stages.' If the _present_, then the children 'so abuse the
grown players,'--in the pieces they acted, particularly in the new
_arguments_, written for them--whence the reference to _goose-quills_.]

[Footnote 7: --of the play-going public.]

[Footnote 8: --for dread of sharing in the ridicule.]

[Footnote 9: _paid_--from the French _escot_, a shot or reckoning: _Dr.
Johnson_.]

[Footnote 10: --the quality of players; the profession of the stage.]

[Footnote 11: 'Will they cease playing when their voices change?']

[Footnote 12: Either _will_ should follow here, or _like_ and _most_
must change places.]

[Footnote 13: 'those that write for them'.]

[Footnote 14: --what they had had to come to themselves.]

[Footnote 15: 'to incite the children and the grown players to
controversy': _to tarre them on like dogs_: see _King John_, iv. 1.]

[Footnote 16: 'No stage-manager would buy a new argument, or prologue,
to a play, unless the dramatist and one of the actors were therein
represented as falling out on the question of the relative claims of the
children and adult actors.']

[Footnote 17: 'Have the boys the best of it?']

[Footnote 18: 'That they have, out and away.' Steevens suggests that
allusion is here made to the sign of the Globe Theatre--Hercules bearing
the world for Atlas.]

[Footnote 19: amateur-plays.]

[Footnote 20: whimsical fashion.]

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forty, an hundred Ducates a peece, for his picture[1]
[Sidenote: fortie, fifty, a hundred]
in Little.[2] There is something in this more then
[Sidenote: little, s'bloud there is]
Naturall, if Philosophic could finde it out.

_Flourish for tke Players_.[3] [Sidenote: _A Florish_.]

_Guil_. There are the Players.

_Ham_. Gentlemen, you are welcom to _Elsonower_:
your hands, come: The appurtenance of [Sidenote: come then, th']
Welcome, is Fashion and Ceremony. Let me
[Sidenote: 260] comply with you in the Garbe,[4] lest my extent[5] to
[Sidenote: in this garb: let me extent]
the Players (which I tell you must shew fairely
outward) should more appeare like entertainment[6]