No representation of the exterior of the Fortune has come down to us. In the so-called Ryther _Map of London_, there is, to be sure, what seems to be a crude representation of the playhouse (see page 278); but if this is really intended for the Fortune, it does little more than mark the location. Yet one can readily picture in his imagination the playhouse--a plastered structure, eighty feet square and approximately forty feet high,[446] with small windows marking the galleries, a turret and flagpole surmounting the red-tiled roof, and over the main entrance a sign representing Dame Fortune: I'le rather stand here, Like a statue in the fore-front of your house, For ever, like the picture of Dame Fortune Before the Fortune Playhouse.[447] [Footnote 446: The three galleries (twelve, eleven, and nine feet, respectively) were thirty-two feet in height; but to this must be added the elevation of the first gallery above the yard, the space occupied by the ceiling and flooring of the several galleries, and, finally, the roof.] [Footnote 447: Thomas Heywood, _The English Traveller_ (1633), ed. Pearson, IV, 84. We do not know when the play was written, but the reference is probably to the New Fortune, built in 1623. Heywood generally uses "picture" in the sense of "statue."] [Illustration: THE FORTUNE PLAYHOUSE (?) The curious structure with the flag may be intended to mark the site of the Fortune. (From the so-called Ryther _Map of London_, drawn about 1630-40.)] Nor is there any pictorial representation of the interior of the playhouse. In the absence of such, I offer the reader a verbal picture of the interior as seen from the stage during the performance of a play. In Middleton and Dekker's _The Roaring Girl_, acted at the Fortune, Sir Alexander shows to his friends his magnificent house. Advancing to the middle of the stage, and pointing out over the building, he asks them how they like it: _Goshawk._ I like the prospect best. _Laxton._ See how 't is furnished! _Sir Davy._ A very fair sweet room.