At the sign of the White Hart; at the shop under the Dial.
III. In Paternoster Row—
At the sign of the Sun.
IV. Cornhill—
At the sign of the Cat and Parrots.
V. In Carter Lane, near the Paul Head.
Plays and masques were performed on Sunday as well as any other day; the feeling, however, was growing rapidly in favour of a stricter attention to the Sunday, which was confused with the Sabbath. In other words, the Puritans were fast increasing in numbers and in importance.
If amusement was wanted it might also be sought in the street, where the juggler with his music and his tumbler had his regular round. He was distinguished by his thin, coloured cloak and his yellow breeches trimmed with blue. For a modest fee he performed for any who summoned him. Another form of amusement, suitable to those who could not afford to pay the itinerant juggler, and had to consider the expenditure in candles, was to sit round the fire in the evening and tell stories.
“... some mery fit
Of Mayde-Marian, or else of Robin Hood.”