Properties. In the theatrical sense of stage requisites, such as costumes and other equipments and appointments.
Incurious. Not curious, in the original sense of careful; not fastidious, and therefore pleased with these inferior actors.
And possess. The subject of possess is omitted, after the loose fashion of the time, being obviously implied in rustics. Compare Hamlet, iii. 1. 8:—
"Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof";
that is, he keeps aloof.
Page 207.—We see not its workings. We see the results, but not the processes by which they have been brought about.
The "green lap" in which the boy poet was "laid." The quotations are from the passage referring to Shakespeare in The Progress of Poesy by Thomas Gray (1716–1771):—
"Far from the sun and summer gale,
In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid,