These are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages – so they call them – that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills and dare scarce come thither.

There was a trend in pop culture, just as I was leaving my adolescence, to make baby versions of things. Muppet Babies. Tiny Toons. It seemed like everything had a double in children. Was there Baby Magnum P.I.? Probably not. But there could have been and it would have been hilarious. Sounds like that trend blew through the English Renaissance as well and there may have been The Baby King’s Men or perhaps the King’s Babies or previously, Lord Chamberlain’s Children. I picture toddlers wandering around the stage in little ruffs, with little swords and skulls – maybe some tiny sized goblets.
It probably wouldn’t be as funny as this kid as a drunk tourist video  – but it would likely be pretty entertaining.

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