[745] Cf. ch. xix.
[746] In 1572-3, 'an awlter for Theagines' (Feuillerat, Eliz. 175); in 1573-4, 'lathes for the hollo tree' ... 'one baskett with iiij eares to hang Dylligence in the play of Perobia ... a iebbett to hang vp Diligence' ... 'hoopes for tharbour' (199, 200, 203); in 1578-9 'a rope, a pulley, a basket' (296); in 1584-5, a well for Five Plays in One (365). For Cutwell, rehearsed but not performed in 1576-7 (277), 'the partes of yᵉ well counterfeit' were brought from the Bell to St. John's.
[747] In 1572-3, 'a tree of holly for the Duttons playe ... holly for the forest ... tymber for the forest ... provizion and cariage of trees and other things to the Coorte for a wildernesse in a playe' (Feuillerat, Eliz. 175, 180); in 1573-4, 'holly and ivye for the play of Predor' (203); in 1574-5, 'moss and styckes' and holly and ivy (239, 244).
[748] Feuillerat, Eliz. 306. There were rocks or mountains also in 1574-5, 1579-80, and 1584-5 (244, 320, 365).
[749] Ibid. 240. It was an old device. Graves, 27, quotes Palsgrave, Acolastus (1540), 'in stage-playes, when some god or some saynt made to appeare forth of a cloude; and succoureth the parties which seemed to be towardes some great danger, through the Soudans crueltie'.
[750] 'Andramedas picture' ... 'Benbow for playing in the monster' ... 'canvas for a monster' ... 'hoopes for the monster' (ibid. 175, 176, 181).
[751] Ibid. 265.
[752] Ibid. 140, 141. The 'hunters that made the crye after the fox (let loose in the Coorte) with their howndes, hornes, and hallowing' had already been a feature of Edwardes' Palaemon and Arcite at Oxford in 1566.
[753] Feuillerat, M. P. 57, gives an excellent summary of the data in the Accounts, but his schedule of properties does not attempt to disentangle masks and plays. The latter were liberally supplied. The Italians at Reading and Windsor during the progress of 1574, for example, were furnished with 'golde lether for cronetes', 'shepherdes hookes', 'lam-skynnes for shepperds', 'arrowes for nymphes', 'a syth for Saturne', 'iij deveils cotes and heades and one olde mannes fries cote' (Feuillerat, Eliz. 227). Probably the apparel used on the stage was of less costly materials than that worn by lords and ladies in masks, but it was doubtless calculated to present the same glittering effect.
[754] Cf. p. 226, and Plummer (from Bereblock), 138, 'Fiunt igitur in silvis septa marmorea' with three altars.