[1174] Sloane MS. 2530, ff. 4, 12, 43, 44, 46.
[1175] Guilpin, Skialetheia (S. R. 8 Sept. 1598), Sat. v:
if my dispose
Perswade me to a play, I’le to the Rose,
Or Curtaine, one of Plautus comedies,
Or the patheticke Spaniards tragedies;
and in the Preludium, of a ‘Cittizen ... comming from the Curtaine’.
[1176] Scourge of Villainy (1598), xi. 37 (Works, iii. 372):
Luscus, what’s play’d to-day? Faith now I know
I set thy lips abroach, from whence doth flow