The player-queen, when not robed for performance in the tragedy of "The Mousetrap," should wear a boy's dress.

"What, my young lady and mistress!" says Hamlet jestingly to the youthful apprentice; and he adds allusion to the boy's increase of stature: "By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last by the altitude of a _chopine!_"-- in other words: "How the boy has grown!"-- a chopine being a shoe with a heel of inordinate height.

And then comes reference to that change of voice from alto to bass which attends advance from boyhood to adolescence..