. London . INSIDE Ob THE RED BULL PLAYHOUSE into the gallery, sat beside her, and treated her to pippins,nuts, or wine. It was already one oclock when we arrived. As we tookour scats the music played its first sounding or flourish. Therewas a great hubbub in the place : hucksters went about withbaskets crying pippins, nuts,and ale ; in therooms booksellers 2,So LONDON boys hawked about new books; everybody was talking to-gether; everywhere the people were smoking tobacco, play-ing cards, throwing dice, cheapening books, cracking nuts,and calling for ale. The music played a second
. London . INSIDE Ob THE RED BULL PLAYHOUSE into the gallery, sat beside her, and treated her to pippins,nuts, or wine. It was already one oclock when we arrived. As we tookour scats the music played its first sounding or flourish. Therewas a great hubbub in the place : hucksters went about withbaskets crying pippins, nuts,and ale ; in therooms booksellers 2,So LONDON boys hawked about new books; everybody was talking to-gether; everywhere the people were smoking tobacco, play-ing cards, throwing dice, cheapening books, cracking nuts,and calling for ale. The music played a second hubbub continued unabated. Then it played the thirdand last. Suddenly the tumult ceased. The piece was aboutto begin. The stage was decorated with blue hangings of silkbetween the columns, showing that the piece was to be-in part, at least—a comedy. Across the raised gallery at theback was stretched a painted canvas representing a royalpalace. When the scene was changed this canvas becamethe wall of a cit
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