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 trumpeter is no doubt giving one of the three 'soundings' which preluded the appearance of the prologue in his traditional long black velvet cloak. Nor did the flag and the trumpet exhaust the resources of the Elizabethan art of advertisement. The vexillatores of the miracle-play would perhaps have been out of keeping with London conditions. But it was customary to announce after the epilogue of each performance what the next was to be. And public notification was given by means of play-bills, of which we hear from as early a date as 1564, and which were set up on posts in conspicuous places up and down the city and probably also at the play-house doors. Copies seem also to have been

(cf. p. 421). Heywood, Apology, 22, mistranslates Ovid's 'Tunc neque marmoreo pendebant vela theatro' as:
 * [Footnote: on the theatres. The Globe fire in 1613 'did not spare the silken flagg'

In those days from the marble house did waive No sail, no silken flag, no ensign brave. ]*