[496] At the end of II. ii, which is before Security’s, with Winifred ‘above’ (241), Quick-silver remains on the stage, for II. iii, before Petronel’s. The tavern is first used in III. iii, after which III. iv, of one 7–line speech only, returns to Security’s and ends the act. Billingsgate should be at some little distance from the other houses.
[497] E. Ho!, IV. i. 1, ‘Enter Slitgut, with a paire of oxe hornes, discovering Cuckolds-Haven above’.
[498] Clearly IV. i. 346–64 (ed. Schelling) has been misplaced in the Qq; it is a final speech by Slitgut, with his Exit, but without his name prefixed, and should come after 296. The new scene begins with 297.
[499] E. Ho!, IV. i. 92, ‘Enter the Drawer in the Taverne before [i.e. in III. iii], with Wynnyfrid’; he will shelter her at ‘a house of my friends heere in S. Kath’rines’ ... (297) ‘Enter Drawer, with Wynifrid new attird’, who says ‘you have brought me nere enough your taverne’ and ‘my husband stale thither last night’. Security enters (310) with ‘I wil once more to this unhappy taverne’.
[500] Y. F. Gallants has (a) Frippery’s shop (I. i); (b) Katherine’s (I. ii; V. ii); (c) Mitre inn (II. iii); (d) Primero’s brothel (II. i; III. iv; V. i); (e) Tailby’s lodging (IV. i, ii); (f) Fitzgrave’s lodging (IV. iii); (g) Mrs. Newcut’s dining-room (IV. vii); (h) Paul’s (IV. vi). There is action within in all these, and in V. i, which is before (d), spies are concealed ‘overhead’ (124).
[501] In Isle of Gulls the park or forest holds a lodge for the duke (I. i), a ‘queach of bushes’ (II. ii), Diana’s oak (II. ii; IV. iv), Adonis’ bower (II. ii; V. i), a bowling green with arbours (II. iii-v), and the house of Manasses (IV. iii).
[502] Law Tricks has (a) the palace (I. i; II; IV. i, ii; V. ii), within which (p. 64, ed. Bullen) ‘Discover Polymetes in his study’, and (p. 78) ‘Polymetes in his study’; (b) an arrased chamber in Lurdo’s (III. i), entered by a vault (cf. p. 148, supra); (c) Countess Lurdo’s (III. ii); (d) the cloister vaults (V. i, ii) where (p. 90) ‘Countesse in the Tombe’. Action passes direct from (a) to (d) at p. 89.
[503] Fleir has (a) the courtesans’ (I. 26–188; II; III. 1–193; IV. 1–193); (b) Alunio’s (IV. 194–287); (c) Ferrio’s (V. 1–54); (d) a prison (V. 55–87); (e) a law court (V. 178–end); (f) possibly Susan and Nan’s (I. 189–500). Conceivably (c), (d), (e) are in some way combined: there is action within at (b), ‘Enter Signior Alunio the Apothecarie in his shop with wares about him’ (194), (d) ‘Enter Lord Piso ... in prison’ (55), and (e); none above.
[504] The action of F. Shepherdess needs a wood, with rustic cotes and an altar to Pan (I. ii, iii; V. i, iii), a well (III. i), and a bower for Clorin (I. i; II. ii; IV. ii, v; V. ii, v), where is hung a curtain (V. ii. 109).
[505] K. B. P. I. 230, ‘Enter Rafe like a Grocer in ’s shop, with two Prentices Reading Palmerin of England’; at 341 the action shifts to Merrithought’s, but the episode at Venturewell’s is said to have been ‘euen in this place’ (422), and clearly the two houses were staged together. Possibly the conduit head on which Ralph sings his May Day song (IV. 439) was also part of the permanent setting.