This makes our boxes full; for men of sense
Pay their four shillings in their own defence.
The epilogue (spoken by Mrs. Bontell) to Corye’s The Generous Enemies (1671), has these lines:—
Though there I see—Propitious Angels sit [points at the Boxes.
Still there’s a Nest of Devils in the Pit,
By whom our Plays, like Children, just alive,
Pinch’d by the Fairies, never after thrive:
’Tis but your Half-crown, Sirs: that won’t undo.
Epilogue
[p. 330] Rotas. The Rota was a political club founded in 1659 by James Harrington. It advocated a system of rotation in filling government offices.