Violet:

Farewell, Farewell. If I could only be a dozen women to please you, so that you might not think of Portia, hateful Portia! [Exit Violet.]

Scene V.

Burbage:

[Entering hurriedly.] Farce and tragedy and escape. A play within a play.

Fletcher:

[Enters just behind him, followed by Dekker, Marston, Chettle and Hughes.] A great scene! The revolt of the groundlings. Didn’t you hear them shouting, Shakespeare?

Shakespeare:

I heard nothing.

Fletcher: