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 who fitted the dresses and the beards, furnished stools, and in the private theatres took charge of the lights; the stage-*keeper; the grooms and 'necessary attendants', waiting to draw curtains, to thrust out beds, and to carry benches and banquets on and off. Here, too, was the head-quarters of the music, although in the public theatres the music was largely incidental, and was often played on, or above, or even below the stage, as might seem most appropriate to any particular action. Music between the acts was not

their entrance'; R. J. iv. 7,
 * [Footnote: stare (God blesse us,) like a play-house book-keeper when the actors misse

Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke After the prompter, for our entrance.

The actor's signal for entrance was already his 'cue'; cf. M. N. D. i. 77, 'And so every one according to his cue'; Isle of Gulls, ii. 2, 'you know your que'; ii. 3, 'She hath entred the Dutches iust at her que'.]*