Enter First Player.
1st Play. Sir, Mr. Ivory is not come yet; but he'll be here presently, he's but two doors off.[10]
Bayes. Come then, gentlemen, let's go out and take a pipe of tobacco. [Exeunt.
ACT II.—Scene I.
Bayes, Johnson, and Smith.
Bayes. Now, sir, because I'll do nothing here that ever was done before, instead of beginning with a scene that discovers something of the plot, I begin this play with a whisper.[11]
Smith. Umph! very new indeed.
Bayes. Come, take your seats. Begin, sirs.
Enter Gentleman-Usher and Physician.