[1337] Dekker, Works, iv. 97; cf. p. 367.
[1338] Jeaffreson, ii. 64, 86.
[1339] Wither, Abuses Stript and Whipt (1613), i. 1,
‘His poetry is such as he can cull
From plays he heard at Curtain or at Bull’;
Albumazar, II. i. 16, ‘Then will I confound her with compliments drawn from the plays I see at the Fortune and Red Bull, where I learn all the words I speak and understand not’; Gayton, 24, ‘I have heard that the poets of the Fortune and Red Bull had always a mouth-measure for their actors (who were terrible tear-throats) and made their lines proportionable to their compass, which were sesquipedales, a foot and a half’.
[1340] Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn, 107; D. N. B. s.v. Alleyn. The Diary (Young, ii. 51) runs:
‘Oct. 1, 1617. I came to London in the coach and went to the red Bull. 2d.
Oct. 3. I went to the red bull and ℞ for the younger brother but 3. 6. 4, water 4d.’
The Younger Brother was entered in the Stationers’ Register in 1653, but is not extant.