[349] G. A. II, ‘A confused fray, an alarme.... Lycaon makes head againe, and is beat off by Iupiter and the Epirians, Iupiter ceazeth the roome of Lycaon’; II, ‘Enter with musicke (before Diana) sixe Satires, after them all their Nimphs, garlands on their heads, and iavelings in their hands, their Bowes and Quivers: the Satyrs sing’.... ‘Hornes winded, a great noise of hunting. Enter Diana, all her Nimphes in the chase, Iupiter pulling Calisto back’; III, ‘Alarm. They combat with iavelings first, after with swords and targets’; S. A. III, ‘Enter Ceres and Proserpine attired like the Moone, with a company of Swaines, and country Wenches: They sing’.... ‘A confused fray with stooles, cups and bowles, the Centaurs are beaten.... Enter with victory, Hercules’; B. A. IV, ‘Enter Aurora, attended with Seasons, Daies, and Howers’; V, ‘Hercules swings Lychas about his head, and kils him’.
[350] G. A. I, ‘Enter Saturn with wedges of gold and silver, models of ships and buildings, bow and arrowes, &c.’; II, ‘Vesta and the Nurse, who with counterfeit passion present the King a bleeding heart upon a knives point, and a bowle of bloud’.... ‘A banquet brought in, with the limbes of a man in the service’; B. A. V, ‘Enter to the sacrifice two Priests to the Altar, sixe Princes with sixe of his labours, in the midst Hercules bearing his two brazen pillars, six other Princes, with the other six labours’.
[351] G. A. V, ‘Pluto drawes hell: the Fates put upon him a burning Roabe, and present him with a Mace, and burning crowne’; S. A. II, ‘Jupiter appeares in his glory under a Raine-bow’; IV, ‘Thunder, lightnings, Jupiter descends in his maiesty, his Thunderbolt burning’.... ‘As he toucheth the bed it fires, and all flyes up’; V, ‘Fire-workes all over the house’.... ‘Enter Pluto with a club of fire, a burning crowne, Proserpine, the Judges, the Fates, and a guard of Divels, all with burning weapons’; B. A. II, ‘There fals a shower of raine’. Perhaps one should remember the sarcasm of Warning for Fair Women, ind. 51, ‘With that a little rosin flasheth forth, Like smoke out of a tobacco pipe, or a boys squib’.
[352] Revenger’s Tragedy (Dodsley4), p. 99; it recurs in 2 If You Know Not Me (ed. Pearson), p. 292.
[353] T. N. IV. ii; M. for M. IV. iii; Fair Maid of Bristow, sig. E 3; Philaster, V. ii.
[354] Tp. V. i. 172, ‘Here Prospero discouers Ferdinand and Miranda, playing at Chesse’.
[355] Tim. IV. iii.; V. i. 133.
[356] M. Wives, I. iv. 40, ‘He steps into the Counting-house’ (Q1); 2 Maid’s Tragedy, 1995, 2030, ‘Locks him self in’.
[357] M. D. of Edmonton, prol. 34, ‘Draw the Curtaines’ (s.d.), which disclose Fabel on a couch, with a ‘necromanticke chaire’ by him; Devil’s Charter, I. iv. 325, ‘Alexander in his study’; IV. i. 1704, 1847; v. 2421, 2437; V. iv. 2965; vi. 3016, ‘Alexander vnbraced betwixt two Cardinalls in his study looking vpon a booke, whilst a groome draweth the Curtaine.... They place him in a chayre vpon the stage, a groome setteth a Table before him’.... (3068), ‘Alexander draweth the Curtaine of his studie where hee discouereth the diuill sitting in his pontificals’; Hen. VIII, II. ii. 63, after action in anteroom, ‘Exit Lord Chamberlaine, and the King drawes the Curtaine and sits reading pensiuely’; Catiline, I. i. 15, ‘Discouers Catiline in his study’; Duchess of Malfi, V. ii. 221 (a ‘cabinet’); cf. Massacre at Paris (Fortune), 434, ‘He knocketh, and enter the King of Nauarre and Prince of Condy, with their scholmaisters’ (clearly a discovery, rather than an entry).
[358] 2 Maid’s Tragedy, 1725, ‘Enter the Tirant agen at a farder dore, which opened, bringes hym to the Toombe wher the Lady lies buried; the Toombe here discovered ritchly set forthe’; (1891) ‘Gouianus kneeles at the Toomb wondrous passionatly’.... (1926), ‘On a sodayne in a kinde of Noyse like a Wynde, the dores clattering, the Toombstone flies open, and a great light appeares in the midst of the Toombe’.