"A Man's Yard"

"A Man's Yard" was a bawdy song popular in England in the late sixteenth century. When Lord Westmoreland's Men were rehearsing Boudicca in 1597-98, a lookout would be stationed at the top of the Globe Theater. He would whistle "A Man's Yard" as a warning that Lope de Vega was approaching, and the actors would shift to rehearsals for King Philip.