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THE STRUGGLE OF COURT AND CITY
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be taken to be, rogues, . . . whether they be wanderers or no, and notwithstanding any license whatsoever from the King or any person or persons to that purpose'.[1] We, however, are now concerned, not with the decadence of the stage, but with its palmy days under Elizabeth and James.

  1. Hazlitt, E. D. S. 67.