What kind of columns were used in the Globe and how they were ornamented, we do not know, but presumably they were round. Jonson, in _Every Man Out of His Humour_, presented on the occasion of, or shortly after, the opening of the Globe in 1599, says of one of his characters: "A well-timbered fellow! he would have made a good column an he had been thought on when the house was abuilding."[392] That Jonson thought well of the new playhouse is revealed in several places; he speaks with some enthusiasm of "this fair-fitted Globe,"[393] and in the passage already quoted he calls it "the glory of the Bank." [Footnote 392: _Jonson's Works_, ed. Cunningham, I, 71.] [Footnote 393: In the first quarto edition of _Every Man Out of His Humour_.] In shape the building was unquestionably polygonal or circular, most probably polygonal on the outside and circular within. Mr. E.K. Chambers thinks it possible that it was square;[394] but there is abundant evidence to show that it was not. The very name, Globe, would hardly be suitable to a square building; Jonson describes the interior as a "round";[395] the ballad on the burning of the house refers to the roof as being "round as a tailor's clew"; and the New Globe, which certainly was not square, was erected on the old foundation.[396] The frame, we know, was of timber, and the roof of thatch. In front of the main door was suspended a sign of Hercules bearing the globe upon his shoulders,[397] under which was written, says Malone, the old motto, _Totus mundus agit histrionem_.[398] [Footnote 394: _The Stage of the Globe_, p. 356.] [Footnote 395: Induction to _Every Man Out of His Humour_ (ed. Cunningham, I, 66).] [Footnote 396: I have not space to discuss the question further. The foreign traveler who visited a Bankside theatre, probably the Globe, on July 3, 1600, described it as "Theatrum ad morem antiquorum Romanorum constructum ex lignis" (London _Times_, April 11, 1914). Thomas Heywood, in his _Apology for Actors_ (1612), describing the Roman playhouses, says: "After these they composed others, but differing in form from the theatre or amphitheatre, and every such was called _Circus_, the frame _globe_-like and merely round." The evidence is cumulative, and almost inexhaustible.] [Footnote 397: See _Hamlet_, II, ii, 378.] [Footnote 398: Malone, _Variorum_, III, 67.]