A Book of Burlesque: Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody

part in the performance. They want a play in which a grocer shall do

"admirable things," and Ralph is bound to do them. The apprentice, it would seem, is an amateur actor--he "hath played before," and so finds no difficulty in adapting himself to the situation. When he enters, it is "like a grocer in his shop, with two prentices, reading 'Palmerin of En...