Alexander unbraced betwixt two Cardinalls in his study looking upon a booke, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine. [Sig. L3r]
This might be an echo of Richard III’s position between the Bishops as he receives the Lord Mayor’s embassy from London. A more dramatic use of symmetry can be found in the finale of Miseries of Enforced Marriage. At the last moment Scarborrow repents his wild courses. Surrounded by the brothers and sister he has ruined, the wife and children he has neglected, and the uncle he has abused, he is deeply shamed.
Harke how their words like Bullets shoot me thorow
And tel mee I have undone em, this side might say,
We are in want and you are the cause of it,
This points at me, yare shame unto your house,
This tung saies nothing, but her lookes do tell,
Shees married but as those that live in hel.
[Sig. K4r. My italics]
The demonstratives indicate brothers and sister on one hand, the uncle on the other, and his wife next to him.