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At three o'clock in the afternoon of the cold first Monday in March, 1601, a red flag rose, and a trumpet sounded thrice, from a little gabled turret protruding up out of a large wooden building in a field in that part of Southwark known as the Bankside and bordering on the Thames west of London Bridge. This rude edifice, or enclosure, was round (not like its successor, hexagonal) in shape; was in great part roofless; was built on a brick and stone foundation, and was encircled by a ditch for drainage. It was, in fact, the Globe Theatre; and the flag and trumpet meant. | A Gentleman Player by Robert Neilson Stephens 1 A Gentleman Player by Robert Neilson Stephens The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Gentleman Player by Robert Neilson Stephens This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A Gentleman Player His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth Author Robert Neilson Stephens Release Date December 14 2010 EBook 34650 Language English A Gentleman Player by Robert Neilson Stephens 2 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A GENTLEMAN PLAYER Produced by David Edwards Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive A GENTLEMAN PLAYER Works of ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS Illustration An Enemy to the King Twentieth Thousand The Continental Dragoon Seventeenth Thousand The Road to Paris Sixteenth Thousand A Gentleman Player Sixth Thousand Illustration L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY Publishers Incorporated 196 Summer St. Boston Mass. Illustration QUEEN ELIZABETH AND HARRY MARRYOTT. See Page 87. A GENTLEMAN PLAYER His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth BY ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS AUTHOR OF AN ENEMY TO THE KING THE CONTINENTAL DRAGOON THE ROAD TO PARIS ETC. And each man in his time plays many parts. --As You Like It. Illustration BOSTON L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY INCORPORATED 1899 Copyright 1899 BY L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY INCORPORATED 1899 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds Co. Boston Mass. U. S. A. A Gentleman Player by Robert Neilson Stephens 3 .