Thomas Middleton's tract, 'The Ant and the Nightingale,' offers evidence that the Globe and Blackfriars may have run shows concurrently. An Inn of Court gallant, he suggests, might venture over the river after dinner 'to the Bank-side, where he must sit out the breaking up of a Comedie, or the first cut of a Tragedie; or rather (if his humour so serve him) to call in at the Black-fryers, where he should see a neast of Boyes, as die to ravish a man.'