For lo! now peeping just above the vast / Vault of the German Sea, in east afar, / Appears full many a brig's and schooner's mast, / Their topsails strutting with the vernal harr

The director's action plot, prompt-book or regie-book — whichever he calls it — shows diagrammatically the relative positions and movements of the performers throughout the play.

It seems as if they sent the New-Born Guest To wait on the Procession of their Feast; And on their Sacred Anniverse decree'd To stamp their Image on the promis'd Seed

So she picked all the prettiest flowers she could find and strewed them over the door-slab, which they put in its right place again.