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 A lady's bower,[1] a counting-house,[2] an inn parlour,[3] a buttery,[4] a gallery,[5] may also be represented.

on some part of the stage; in i. 1530, 'Enter Frier Bacon drawing the courtaines, with a white sticke, a booke in his hand, and a lampe lighted by him, and the brazen head and Miles, with weapons by him'. Miles is bid watch the head, and 'Draw closse the courtaines' and 'Here he [Bacon] falleth asleepe' (1568). Miles 'will set me downe by a post' (1577). Presently (1604), 'Heere the Head speakes and a lightning flasheth forth, and a hand appeares that breaketh down the Head with a hammer'. Miles calls to Bacon (1607) 'Out of your bed'; iii. 1744 begins 'Enter frier Bacon with frier Bungay to his cell'. A woodcut in Q_{2} of 1630, after the revival by the Palsgrave's men, seems to illustrate iii; the back-wall has a window to the left and the head on a bracket in the centre; before it is the glass on a table, with Edward gazing in it; Bacon sits to the right. Miles stands to the left; no side-walls are visible. In Locrine, iii. 309, 'Enter Strumbo aboue in a gowne, with inke and paper in his hand'; Dr. Faustus, ind. 28, 'And this the man that in his study sits', followed by s.d. 'Enter Faustus in his Study', 433, 'Enter Faustus in his Study (514) Enter [Mephastophilis] with diuels, giuing crownes and rich apparell to Faustus, and daunce, and then depart', with probably other scenes. In T. A. ii. 1, 'Enter Tamora, and her two sonnes disguised' (9) 'They knocke and Titus opens his studie doore'. Tamora twice (33, 43) bids him 'come downe', and (80) says, 'See heere he comes'. The killing of Tamora's sons follows, after which Titus bids (205) 'bring them in'. In Sir T. More, sc. viii. 735, 'A table beeing couered with a greene Carpet, a state Cushion on it, and the Pursse and Mace lying thereon Enter Sir Thomas Moore' (765) 'Enter Surrey, Erasmus and attendants'. Erasmus says (779), 'Is yond Sir Thomas?' and Surrey (784), 'That Studie is the generall watche of England'. The original text is imperfect, but in the revision Erasmus is bid 'sitt', and later More bids him in' (ed. Greg, pp. 84, 86). ''Lord Cromwell'' has three studies; in i, ii (continuous action at Antwerp), 'Cromwell in his study with bagges of money before him casting of account', while Bagot enters in front, soliloquizes, and then ( ii. 23) with 'See where he is' addresses Cromwell; in ii (Bologna), the action begins as a hall scene, for (15) 'They haue begirt you round about the house' and (47) 'Cromwell shuts the dore' (s.d.), but there is an inner room, for (115) 'Hodge [disguised as the Earl of Bedford] sits in the study, and Cromwell calls in the States', and (126) 'Goe draw the curtaines, let vs see the Earle'; in v (London), 'Enter Gardiner in his studie, and his man'. E. M. I. iii, is before Cob's house, and Tib is bid show Matheo 'vp to Signior Bobadilla' (Q_{1} 392). In iv 'Bobadilla discouers himselfe on a bench; to him, Tib'. She announces 'a gentleman below'; Matheo is bid 'come vp', enters from 'within', and admires the 'lodging'. In 1 Oldcastle, i. 2086, 'Enter Cambridge, Scroope, and Gray, as in a chamber, and set downe at a table, consulting about their treason: King Harry and Suffolke listning at the doore' (2114) 'They rise from the table, and the King steps in to them, with his Lordes'. Stukeley, i. 121, begins with Old Stukeley leaving his host's door to visit his son. He says (149), 'I'll to the Temple to see my son', and presumably crosses the stage during his speech of 171-86, which ends 'But soft this is his chamber as I take it'. Then 'He knocks', and after parley with a page, says, 'Give me the key of his study' and 'methinks the door stands open', enters, criticizes the contents of the study, emerges, and (237)]*
 * [Footnote: sits and looks in 'this glasse prospectiue' (620), but his vision is represented