His dear and borrowed bravery he must cast.
[1043] Cf. App. C, Nos. xxx, xlvi; Case Is Altered, ii. 4, 'Theatres! ay, and plays too, both tragedy and comedy, and set forth with as much state as can be imagined'; cf. Graves, 68.
[1044] Cf. chh. xx, xxi passim, and Henslowe Papers, 113.
[1045] Wegener, 135.
[1046] Henslowe Papers, 117, 'j lyone skin; j beares skyne ... j dragon in fostes [Faustus] j lyone; ij lyone heades; j great horse with his leages; j black dogge'. For brown paper monsters, cf. App. C, Nos. xxii, xxx, and for a controversy as to the use of live animals, ch. xx.
[1047] E. Hoe, IV. ii. 92, 'thy name shall be written upon conduits, and thy deeds plaid i' thy lifetime by the best companies of actors, and be call'd their get-peny'; Barth. Fair, V. i. 13 (of a 'motion'), 'the Gunpowder-plot, there was a get-peny! I haue presented that to an eighteene, or twenty pence audience, nine times in an afternoone'. Dekker, News from Hell (1606, Works, ii. 146), speaks of 'a Cobler of Poetrie called a play-patcher'.
[1048] Henslowe, ii. 115; cf. ch. x. By the end of Sir Henry Herbert's time the fee had been raised to £2; even for an old play he exacted £1 (Variorum, iii. 266).
[1049] C. IS A. I. i.
[1050] Henslowe, i. 113, 136 (Admiral's, 1599, 1601), 181 (Worcester's, 1602), 'for Mʳ. Mundaye & the reste of the poets at the playnge of Sʳ John Oldcastell the ferste tyme' [in margin, 'as a gefte']; 'John Daye ... after the playinge of the 2 part of Strowde'; 'Thomas Deckers ... over & above his price of his boocke called A Medysen for a Cvrste Wiffe'. These are exceptional disbursements. The Daborne-Henslowe correspondence of 1613-14 (Henslowe Papers, 71, 75, 76, 82) suggests a more regular practice: 'I pay you half my earnings in the play'; 'We will hav but twelv pownds and the overplus of the second day'; 'You shall hav the whole companies bonds to pay you the first day of my play being playd'; 'I desyr you should disburse but 12ˡ a play till they be playd'. Probably the actual day selected for the poet's benefit varied; thus the third day is suggested by Dekker's prologue to If It be not Good, the Devil is in It (1612), a Red Bull play:
not caring, so he gains