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Bankes sold his possessions and used the money to purchase silver horseshoes for Marocco, then moved to London to work at inn-yard theatres.
According to Thomas Nashe, Bankes had Marocco's tail bobbed: " Wiser was our Brother Bankes of these latter daies, who made his iugling horse a Cut, for feare if at anie time hee should foyst, the stinke sticking in his thicke bushie taile might be noysome to his Auditors.
" Bankes lived at the Cross Keys Inn on Gracechurch Street, where their act performed.
A passage from Tarlton's Jests ( 1611 ) says:
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