. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. [Group of Christening Gift9.] 389 EPILOGUE. T is ten to one, this play can never pleaseAll that are here: Some come to take their ease,And sleep an act or two; but those, we have frighted with our trumpets; so, tis 11 say t is naught: others, to hear the cityAhusd extremely, and to cry,—thats witty! Which we have not done neither : that, I fear,All the expected good we are like to hear,For this play at this time, is only inThe merciful construction of good women ;For such a one we showd them : If they smile,And say, t will d
. The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere. [Group of Christening Gift9.] 389 EPILOGUE. T is ten to one, this play can never pleaseAll that are here: Some come to take their ease,And sleep an act or two; but those, we have frighted with our trumpets; so, tis 11 say t is naught: others, to hear the cityAhusd extremely, and to cry,—thats witty! Which we have not done neither : that, I fear,All the expected good we are like to hear,For this play at this time, is only inThe merciful construction of good women ;For such a one we showd them : If they smile,And say, t will do, I know, within a whileAll the best men are ours ; for t is ill hap,If they hold, when their ladies bid them clap. 390. [Gardiner, Bishop of ^\ inchester.] ILLUSTRATIONS OF ACT V. Scene II.— ^t a window above. The old mode of building castles or mansions, bywhich a principal room could be commanded from awindow opening into it, is illustrated by a letter fromMatthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1573:— And if it please her Majesty, she may come inthrough my gallery, and see the disjjosition of thehall in dinner-time, at a window opening theremito. ^ Scene II.— You W spare your allusion is to the practice of sponsors at achiistening presenting the child with spoons, calledapostle spoons. The old plays contain many allu-sions to this custom ; as in a comedy of Middletons :— 2 Oos. What has he given her ?—what is it, gossip ?3 Gos. A fair high standing cup, and two great postlespoons, one of them gilt. ^ Scene III.—■ bear-garden on the Bankside, remarkableenough to be distinguished in the maps of London inthe time of Elizabeth. ■• Scene III.— Who crie
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