Francis Lenton's satirical poem 'The Young Gallant's Whirligig' provides information concerning the private theatres of the late 1620s and their audiences. He writes of a gallant who 'aspireth now to sit vpon the stage, / Lookes round about, then views his glorious selfe[.]' The gallant moves up from the Cockpit to the Blackfriars: 'The Cockpit heretofore would serue his wit, / But now vpon the Fryers stage hee'll sit, / It must be so, though this expensiue foole / Should pay an angell for a paltry stoole.' The gallant must eventually pawn 'His silken garments, and his sattin robe / That hath so often visited the Globe, / And all his spangled rare perrum'd attires, / Which once so glistred in the Torchy Fryers[.]'