So Mary took her station beside the Rhadamanthus at the stockade gatein a proper opera-house, he would have been the stage door-keeperto pick out the sheep from the goat-like herd of the merely curious who, but for firm measures, would have stormed the place.

The name of this Rhadamanthus of the birch occurs twice in entries of Elizabeth's paymaster, as receiving money for plays acted before her; and a certain proficiency as actors possessed by students of St. John's College at Oxford is ascribed to training given by old Mulcaster at the Merchant Taylors' school.