A stage direction in the 1630 quarto of Thomas Middleton's 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' sees a bed 'thrust out upon the stage, Allwits Wife in it.' Collier, pointing to similar directions in Brome's 'City Wit' and Davenport's 'New Trick to Cheat the Devil,' offers the practice as evidence that the seventeenth century stage had not yet developed moveable scenery.