[212] Cf. ch. xviii, p. 544.
[213] 2 Angry Women, sc. x. 2250, ‘A plague on this poast, I would the Carpenter had bin hangd that set it vp for me. Where are yee now?’; Englishmen for my Money, scc. vii-ix (continuous scene), 1406, ‘Take heede, sir! hers a post’ ... (1654) ‘Watt be dis Post?... This Post; why tis the May-pole on Iuie-bridge going to Westminster.... Soft, heere’s an other: Oh now I know in deede where I am; wee are now at the fardest end of Shoredich, for this is the May-pole’.... (1701) ‘Ic weit neit waer dat ic be, ic goe and hit my nose op dit post, and ic goe and hit my nose op danden post’.
[214] 3 Lords and 3 Ladies, sign. I_{3}v.
[215] Cf. p. 57, n. 4, and for Kempe, ch. xviii, p. 545.
[216] Cf. p. 57, n. 5; p. 58, n. 1.
[217] Cf. p. 64, n. 3; p. 67, n. 1.
[218] Graves, 88.
[219] Cf. ch. xix, p. 42; Mediaeval Stage, ii. 86, 142. Heywood, Apology (1608), thinks that the theatre of Julius Caesar at Rome had ‘the covering of the stage, which we call the heavens (where upon any occasion their gods descended)’.
[220] Battle of Alcazar, 1263 (s.d.), ‘Lightning and thunder ... Heere the blazing Starre ... Fire workes’; Looking Glass, 1556 (s.d.), ‘A hand from out a cloud, threatneth a burning sword’; 2 Contention, sc. v. 9 (s.d.), ‘Three sunnes appeare in the aire’ (cf. 3 Hen. VI, II. i. 25); Stukeley, 2272 (s.d.), ‘With a sudden thunderclap the sky is on fire and the blazing star appears’.
[221] 1 Troublesome Raign, sc. xiii. 131 (s.d.), ‘There the fiue Moones appeare’. The Bastard casts up his eyes ‘to heauen’ (130) at the sight, and the moons are in ‘the skie’ (163), but the episode follows immediately after the coronation which is certainly in ‘the presence’ (81). Perhaps this is why in K. J., IV. ii. 181, the appearance of the moons is only narrated.