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 a date, we have to turn to the Red Bull, where we find it both in the Golden and the Silver Age, as well as the amateur Hector of Germany, or to the Swan, where we find it in ''The Chaste Maid of Cheapside''. The Golden Age particularly repays study. The whole of the last two acts are devoted to the episode of Jupiter and Danae. The scene is set in

the Darreine Tower Guirt with a triple mure of shining brasse.

Most of the action requires a courtyard, and the wall and gate of this, with a porter's lodge and an alarm-bell, must have been given some kind of structural representation on the stage. An inner door is supposed to lead to Danae's chamber above. It is in this chamber, presumably, that attendants enter 'drawing out Danae's bed', and when 'The bed is drawn in', action is resumed in the courtyard below.

'Exit Young Tullius, Phyladelphia and Rufinus. Then a rich Bed is thrust out and they enter again', and Tullius says 'This is the lodging called Elysium'. Later examples are Sir W. Berkeley, The Lost Lady (1638), i, 'Enter the Moor on her bed, Hermione, Phillida, and Irene. The bed thrust out'; Suckling, Aglaura (1646),, 'A bed put out. Thersames and Aglaura in it Draw in the Bed'; Davenport, ''City Night Cap'' (1661, Cockpit), i, 'A bed thrust out. Lodovico sleeping in his clothes; Dorothea in bed'.]*
 * [Footnote: Rufinus says, 'Lead to the chamber called Elysium'; then comes s.d.