About this time, it seems, the playhouse was rebuilt and enlarged. The Fortune had been destroyed by fire in 1621, and had just been rebuilt in a larger and handsomer form. In 1625 one W.C., in _London's Lamentation for her Sins_, writes: "Yet even then, Oh Lord, were the theatres magnified and enlarged."[503] This doubtless refers to the rebuilding of the Fortune and the Red Bull. Prynne specifically states in his _Histriomastix_ (1633) that the Fortune and Red Bull had been "lately reedified [and] enlarged." But nothing further is known of the "re-edification and enlargement" of the Red Bull. [Footnote 503: Quoted by Collier, _The History of English Dramatic Poetry_ (1879), III, 121.] After its enlargement the playhouse seems to have acquired a reputation for noise and vulgarity. Carew, in 1630, speaks of it as a place where "noise prevails" and a "drowth of wit," and yet as always crowded with people while the better playhouses stood empty. In _The Careless Shepherdess_, acted at Salisbury Court, we read: And I will hasten to the money-box, And take my shilling out again; I'll go to the Bull, or Fortune, and there see A play for two-pence, and a jig to boot.[504] [Footnote 504: Malone, _Variorum_, III, 70.] In 1638, a writer of verses prefixed to Randolph's _Poems_ speaks of the "base plots" acted with great applause at the Red Bull.[505] James Wright informs us, in his _Historia Histrionica_, that the Red Bull and the Fortune were "mostly frequented by citizens and the meaner sort of people."[506] And Edmund Gayton, in his _Pleasant Notes_, wittily remarks: "I have heard that the poets of the Fortune and Red Bull had always a mouth-measure for their actors (who were terrible tear-throats) and made their lines proportionable to their compass, which were sesquipedales, a foot and a half."[507] Probably the ill repute of the large public playhouses at this time was chiefly due to the rise of private playhouses in the city. [Footnote 505: Randolph's _Works_ (ed. Hazlitt), p. 504.] [Footnote 506: Hazlitt's Dodsley, XV, 407.] [Footnote 507: _Pleasant Notes on Don Quixote_, p. 24.] In 1635 the Red Bull Company moved to the Fortune, and Prince Charles's Men occupied the Red Bull. Five years later, at Easter, 1640, Prince Charles's Men moved back to the Fortune, and the Red Bull Company returned to its old home. In a prologue written to celebrate the event,[508] the members of the company declared: Here, gentlemen, our anchor's fix't. [Footnote 508: J. Tatham, _Fancies Theatre_. For a fuller discussion of the shifting of companies in 1635 and 1640 see the chapter on "The Fortune."]