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 and the insolent poets and pamphleteers classed him with the groundlings as a 'stinkard'. His domain certainly included the top gallery, but about the other galleries I am not sure. There are some puzzling allusions to penny galleries and rooms, but probably, these are not distinct from the 'twopenny' ones, and the explanation is to be found in the practice of paying the twopence in two instalments, one on entrance, the other at the gallery door. It did not long remain possible to get one of the best seats for the 3d. quoted by Platter, even if there was not already in his time a higher charge for 'the priuate roomes of greater price'. There were both

night, my twopenny Tenants'; Mad World, my Masters (c. 1604-6), v. ii. 36, 'some that  took a good conceit of their parts into th' twopenny room'; Woman Hater (1607), prol. 5, 'I do pronounce this, to the utter discomfort of all twopenny Gallery men, you shall have no bawdery'; Fleire (1607), ii. 30, 'They (like your common players) let men come in for twopence a peece'; Dekker, News from Hell (1606, Works, ii. 96), 'You may take him in the afternoones, in the twopeny roomes of a Play-house, like a Puny, seated Cheeke by Iowle with a punke', Seven Deadly Sins (1606, ii. 53), 'Sloth will come and sit in the two-*pennie galleries amongst the gentlemen, and see their knaveries and their pastimes', The Dead Term (1608, iv. 55), 'Players prostitute themselues to the pleasures of euery two-penny drunken Plebeian', ''Lanthorn and Candle-Light'' (1608, iii. 216), 'Pay thy twopence to a Player, in his gallerie maist thou sitte by a Harlot', Raven's Almanac (1609, iv. 184), 'As if you sat in the moste perspicuous place of the two-penny gallerie in a play-house'; Roaring Girl (1611), v. 1, 'One of them is a nip; I took him once i' the two-penny gallerie at the Fortune'; &c., &c.]
 * [Footnote: for your two pence a peice agen before Ile loose your company Good