in our old writers.
# 454:
_the ring_] Qy. “_the ring_ and the finger”?
# 455:
_golden florens_] Pieces first coined by the
Florentines: the _floren_ of Spain (according to the
Dictionaries) is 4_s._ 4-1/2_d._—Does Beatrice offer
here a paper to De Flores?
# 456:
[_slept at ease_] Supplied by the editor of 1816.
# 457:
_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.
# 458:
_have_] Old ed. “has.”
# 459:
_the_] Old ed. “thy.”
# 460:
_love’s_] Old ed. “lovers.”—I suspect the author
wrote;
“I shall rest from all plagues then;
I live in pain now; that love-shooting eye.”
# 461:
_Dumb Show_] “These dumb shows are common enough in
the dramas of our poets' age.” Editor of 1816.—They
had fallen much into disrepute when the present play
was written.
# 462:
_smiling at the accident_] So old ed. The editor of
1816 gives “_smiling_ scornfully _at the_ ceremony;”
but I doubt if that be the meaning of the original
words.
# 463:
_who’s_] So editor of 1816. Old ed. “both.”
# 464:
_Secrets in Nature_] In _Antonii Mizaldi Monluciani De
Arcanis Naturæ, Libelli quatuor_, ed. tertia, 1558,
12mo, I find no passages resembling those which are
read by Beatrice.
# 465:
_slight_] i. e. artifice, contrivance.
# 466:
_incontinently_] i. e. immediately.
# 467:
_ow’d ’em not_] i. e. owned them not,—they were not
hers.
# 468:
_I'd_] Old ed. “I will.”
# 469:
_Briamata_] “_Briamata_, a fair house of his
[Vermandero’s] ten leagues from Alicant.” Reynolds’s
_Triumphs of God’s Revenge against Murther_, p. 36,
ed. 1726; see note, p. 205.
# 470:
_An_] Old ed. “One.”
# 471:
_round-pack’d_] Qy. “round-pac’d”?
# 472:
_sins and vices_] Surely the right reading is “chins
_and_ noses.”
# 473:
_'Twill_] Old ed. “I will.”
# 474:
_pretend_] i. e. offer.
# 475:
_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.
# 476:
_touch’d_] i. e. infected, stained.
# 477:
_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied.
# 478:
_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.
# 479:
_waning_] Old ed. “waiting.” “I am inclined to read,
Oh, heaven! is this the new or waning moon?”
Editor of
1816.
# 480:
_To the bright ... Pay the post_] Given to Lollio in
old ed.
# 481:
_Why_] Old ed. “We.”
# 482:
_Nay, the fair_, &c.] “i. e. Nay, understand my
speeches in the fair and modest sense in which they
are uttered.” Editor of 1816.
# 483:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 484:
_he_] Old ed. “she.”
# 485:
_straits_] Old ed. “streets.”
# 486:
_desire_] Qy. “desert”?
# 487:
[_off_] See p. 274.
# 488:
_true_] See note, p. 224.
# 489:
_begg’d_] See note, vol. iii. p. 16.
# 490:
_Pist_] See note, vol. ii. p. 460.
# 491:
_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.
# 492:
_harsh_] Qy. “rash”?
# 493:
_of_] i. e. on: see vol. iii. p. 556, and note.
# 494:
_And_] i. e. if.
# 495:
[_I threw_] Compare ninth line preceding.
# 496:
_Briamata_] Old ed. “Bramata:” see note, p. 267.
# 497:
_Alsemero’s apartment_] So, on account of what
follows, it is necessary to mark this scene; but as
Jasperino presently says, “She meets you opportunely
from that walk,” I suspect that Middleton intended the
audience to imagine that the earlier part of the scene
did not pass where the latter part certainly does, in
Alsemero’s apartment: see notes, pp. 28, 154, 195,
242.
# 498:
_garden has shew’d_] The editor of 1816 prints “garden
[must] _have_ shew’d;” but, probably, “garden” was
used here as a trisyllable.
# 499:
_Clip_] i. e. embrace.
# 500:
_hung_] Old ed. “hang.”
# 501:
_I ne’er_, &c.] The editor of 1816 gives the passage
thus:
“I ne’er could pluck it from him; [though] my
loathing
Was prophet to the rest, _I_ ne’er believ’d
Mine honour [should] _fall_ with him, and now my
life.”
# 502:
_barley-break_] See note, vol. iii. p. 114.
# 503:
_hence_] Old ed. “thence.”
# 504:
_innocence_] A play on the word,—idiotcy.
# 505:
_All we can do_, &c.] These lines in old ed. are
printed on a page by themselves, with the prefix
_Als._, and headed _Epilogue_.
# 506:
Gifford, misled by a MS. note of Oldys on Langbaine,
says that _A Game at Chess_ “was embellished with an
engraved frontispiece, where Gondomar was introduced
_in propria persona_ in no very friendly conversation
with Loyola.” Note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. v. p.
248. There is no figure of Ignatius in either of the
engraved title-pages.
# 507:
_States_] i. e. personages of high rank.
# 508:
_angle_] i. e. corner.
# 509:
_taste_] So two eds. Quarto C. “cast.”
# 510:
_Roch_] St. Roch “was honoured, especially in France
and Italy, amongst the most illustrious saints in
the fourteenth century.... Many cities have been
speedily delivered from the plague by imploring his
intercession,” &c.! Butler’s _Lives of the Saints_,
vol. viii. p. 206, sec. ed.
# 511:
_Main_] St. Main, an abbot; who appears to have been
of no great eminence. _Id._ vol. i. p. 172.
# 512:
_Petronill_] i. e. Petronilla, a holy virgin,
according to some the daughter, or, as seems to be
more generally supposed, only the spiritual daughter
of the apostle St. Peter. _Id._ vol. v. p. 439.
# 513:
_Your abbess Aldegund_] Or Aldegundes—“daughter of
Walbert of the royal blood of France,” &c. _Id._ vol.
i. p. 451.
# 514:
_Cunegund_] i. e. the Empress Cunegundes, wife of St.
Henry duke of Bavaria, afterwards king of the Romans:
she and her husband received the imperial crown at
Rome, &c. _Id._ vol. iii. p. 17.
# 515:
_the widow Marcell_] i. e. Marcella, the Roman lady
celebrated by St. Jerome. _Id._ vol. i. p. 459.—So two
eds. Quarto C. “Alarcell.”
# 516:
_parson Polycarp_] The famous bishop of Smyrna. _Id._
vol. i. p. 289.
# 517:
_Cecily_] See account of St. Cecily. _Id._ vol. xi. p.
395.
# 518:
_Ursula_] See account of “St. Ursula and her
Companions.” _Id._ vol. x. p. 463.
# 519:
_a lame soldier_] Ignatius had his leg broken by a
cannon-shot at the siege of Pampeluna, where he
displayed great valour. _Id._ vol. vii. p. 405.
# 520:
_mastery_] i. e. masterly operation (a sense of the
word common in our earliest poetry).
# 521:
_I behold_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_I_ could
_behold_.”
# 522:
_Le roc_, &c.] “In modern times,” says Strutt, “the
_roc_ is corruptedly called a _rook_, but formerly it
signified a rock or fortress, or rather, perhaps, the
keeper of the fortress.” _Sports_, &c., p. 233.
# 523:
_custode_] “A guardian, keeper.” Cotgrave in v.—Two
eds. “custodie”—better for the metre, but contrary to
the sense.
# 524:
_daughter_] So two eds. Quarto C. “daughters.”
# 525:
_Black_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 526:
_performents_] i. e. performances. So two eds. Quarto
C. “preferments.”
# 527:
_one_] So two eds. Quarto C. “me.”
# 528:
_weep_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wept.”
# 529:
_firmer_] So two eds. Quarto C. “firme.”
# 530:
_Disarms_] So two eds. Quarto C. “This-Armes.”
# 531:
_the_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 532:
_Can_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Will.”
# 533:
_Jesuitess_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Jesuite.”
# 534:
_worth_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wealth.”
# 535:
_the_] So two eds. Quarto C. “their.”
# 536:
_by_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_by_’th.”
# 537:
_important_] So both MSS. Eds. “importune” and
“importinant.”
# 538:
_Dost_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Doe you.”
# 539:
_made_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 540:
_the opening eyelids of the morn_] Adopted by Milton;
“Together both, ere the high lawns appear’d
Under _the opening eyelids of the morn_,” &c.
_Lycidas._
# 541:
_discovering_] So Bridge. MS. Eds. “disclosing.”
# 542:
_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 543:
_your night-counsels_] Two eds. and MS. Bridge, have
“yours might counsell _neerer_;” but that the reading
of Quarto C., which I have followed, is the right one,
appears from the second line of the next speech,
“Guilty of _that black time_.” MS. Lansd. differs only
from Quarto C. in having “counsell.”
# 544:
_fond_] i. e. foolish. So both MSS. Quarto C. “sound.”
Other eds. have “some sinful, some sound.”
# 545:
_Clad_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Cal’d.”
# 546:
_competitor_] So two eds. Quarto C. “competitors.”
# 547:
_fond_] See note in preceding page.
# 548:
_I_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Il’d.”
# 549:
_Have I_] So two eds. Quarto C. “I haue.”
# 550:
_of it_] So two eds. Quarto C. “of.”
# 551:
_destroy fruit_] “The leaues of Sauin boyled in Wine
and drunke ... expell the dead childe, and kill the
quick.” Gerarde’s _Herball_, p. 1378, ed. 1633.
# 552:
_resolved_] i. e. satisfied.
# 553:
_An_] So two eds. Quarto C. “And.”
# 554:
_casible_] Or _chesible_: “Fyrst do on the amys, than
the albe, than the gyrdell, than the manyple, than the
stoole, than _the chesyble_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_,
sig. E iiii. ed. 1530.
# 555:
_great_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 556:
_diviner_] So two eds. Quarto C. “diuine.”
# 557:
_have_] So two eds. Quarto C. “I _haue_.”
# 558:
_And what I've done_, &c.] “Gondomar was at this time
the Spanish Ambassador in England; a man whose
flattery was the more artful, because covered with the
appearance of frankness and sincerity; whose politics
were the more dangerous, because disguised under the
masque of mirth and pleasantry.” Hume’s _Hist. of
England_, vol. vi. p. 40, ed. 1763.
# 559:
_these_] So two eds. Quarto C. “this.”
# 560:
_guitonens_] A word of reproach, I suppose, formed
from the Spanish _guiton_, vagrant, vagabond.
Quarto C. and MS. Lansd. “Guytinens.” MS. Bridge.
“Guitenens.” Two eds. “great ones.”
# 561:
_pusills_] So Quarto C. and both MSS. Two eds.
“pupills.”—_Pusill_, written variously, _puzzel_, &c.,
meant a drab: see notes of the commentators on the
line “Pucelle or puzzel,” &c., in Shakespeare’s _Henry
VI. Part First_, act i. sc. 4.
# 562:
_the great work, the main existence_] So MS. Bridge.
Eds. “the maine worke, the great existence.”
# 563:
_fame_] So two eds. Quarto C. “name.”
# 564:
_jealious_] A trisyllable, for the metre.
# 565:
_heard_] So two eds. Quarto C. “read.”
# 566:
_gently_] So two eds. Quarto C. “lately.”
# 567:
_what have we here_] So MS. Lansd. Not in eds.
# 568:
_Strange!_ &c.] So two eds. The line not in Quarto C.
# 569:
_what_] So two eds. Quarto C. “that.”
# 570:
_Well here set down_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “Well,
here I set downe.” Other eds. “Well set her downe.”
# 571:
_in_] So two eds. Quarto C. “and.”
# 572:
_much_] So two eds. Quarto C. “most.”
# 573:
_stir_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “spread.” Other eds.
“flye.”
# 574:
_never was_] So two eds. Quarto C. “was neuer.”
# 575:
_safety_] MS. Bridge. “faith.”
# 576:
_Yours_] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. Quarto C. and MS.
Lansd. “Yon’d.”
# 577:
_offerer_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “Officer.” Other
eds. “offerors.”
# 578:
_thy_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 579:
_deep_] So two eds. Quarto C. “great.”
# 580:
_my love_] Qy. “_my_ loss”? MS. Lansd. “thy _loue_.”
# 581:
_make_] So both MSS. Eds. “_make_ me.”
# 582:
_But by_, &c.] So two eds. Quarto C. “_But_ thine
_Honors losse, that Act must_ arme _thee_.”
# 583:
_thou_] So MS. Bridge. Not in eds.
# 584:
_resist_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C.
“reiect.”
# 585:
_confound_] Eds. and MSS. “_confound_ noise.”
# 586:
_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 587:
_pliant_] So two eds. Quarto C. “pleasant.”
# 588:
_cautelous_] i. e. artfully cautious.
# 589:
_word_] i. e. motto: compare vol. iii. p. 537, note.
# 590:
_B. Bishop_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. Kin._”
# 591:
_hath_] To this word here and in the two following
lines Quarto C. prefixes “he;” but two eds. omit it.
# 592:
_trow?_] i. e. think you?
# 593:
_an_] So two eds. Quarto C. “one.”
# 594:
_able_] i. e. warrant, answer for.
# 595:
_me ’em_] So MS. Bridge. Quarto C. “_’em me._” In two
eds. “me” omitted.
# 596:
_all_] So two eds. and both MSS. Omitted in Quarto C.
# 597:
_in_] So two eds. Omitted in Quarto C.
# 598:
_Fat Bishop_] “He [Antonio] was of a comely personage,
tall stature, gray beard, graue countenance, fair
language, fluent expression, _somewhat abdominous, and
corpulent in his body_.” Fuller’s _Church History_, B.
x. p. 100, ed. 1655. “Allowing Spalato diligent in
writing, his expression was a notorious hyperbole,
when saying, _In reading, meditation, and writing I am
almost pined away_; otherwise his _fat cheeks_ did
confute his false tongue in that expression.” _Id._ B.
x. p. 95.
# 599:
_my books_] “He [Antonio] falls now [after receiving
his preferments in England] to perfect his Books. For
his Works were not now composed, but corrected;
not compiled, but completed; as being, though of
English birth, of Italian conception. For formerly
the Collections were made by him at Spalato, but
he durst not make them publick for fear of the
Inquisition. His Works (being three fair Folios, _De
Republica Ecclesiastica_) give ample testimony of his
sufficiency. Indeed he had a controversial head, with
a strong and clear stile, nor doth an hair hang at the
neb of his pen to blurre his writings with obscurity:
but, first understanding himself, he could make others
understand him. His writings are of great use for the
Protestant cause.” Fuller’s _Church History_, B. x. p.
95, ed. 1655.—When Bedell was at Venice (as chaplain
to Sir Henry Wotton, then ambassador there), Antonio
“discovered his secret to him, and shewed him his
ten Books _De Republica Ecclesiastica_, which he
afterwards printed at London: Bedell took the
freedom which he allowed him, and corrected many ill
applications of Texts of Scripture and Quotations of
Fathers. For that Prelate being utterly ignorant of
the Greek Tongue, could not but be guilty of many
mistakes both in the one and the other.” Burnet’s
_Life of Bedell_, p. 10, ed. 1692.
# 600:
_drink_] So two eds. Quarto C. “feede.”
# 601:
_cullis_] See note, vol. iii. p. 271.
# 602:
_master of the beds_] i. e. master of the Hospital of
the Savoy. On his first arrival in England Antonio
resided with the Archbishop of Canterbury; “and having
lived long at Lambeth House, they grew even weary of
him, for he was somewhat an unquiet man, and not of
that fair, quiet, civil carriage as would give
contentment. This he perceiving made bold to write
unto the king, desiring him that he might not live
always at another man’s table, but that he might have
some subsistence of his own: whereupon the King so
contrived it, that although the mastership of the
Savoy had been given to another, yet was it resigned
and conferred upon him.” Goodman’s _Court of King
James_, vol. i. p. 339—an interesting work, now at
press under the editorship of the Rev. J. S. Brewer.
# 603:
_shut and open_] Eds. “shuts and opens.”
# 604:
_the fistula_, &c.] Gondomar, as various writers
mention, was troubled with that disease.
# 605:
_prescrib’d_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “prouided.”
# 606:
_provided_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “inuented.”
# 607:
_what a most uncatholic jest_, &c.] “Amongst other of
his ill qualities, he [Antonio] delighted in jeering,
and would spare none who came in his way. One of his
sarcasmes he unhappily bestowed on Count Gondomar, the
Spanish Ambassador, telling him, That three turns at
Tiburne was the onely way to cure his Fistula. The
Don, highly offended hereat (pained for the present
more with this flout than his fistula) meditates
revenge, and repairs to King James. He told His
Majesty, that His charity (an errour common in good
Princes) abused His judgment, in conceiving Spalato a
true convert, who still in heart remained a Roman
Catholick. Indeed, His Majesty had a rare felicity in
discovering the falsity of Witches and forgery of such
who pretended themselves possessed: but, under favour,
was deluded with this mans false spirit, and, by His
Majesties leave, he would detect unto Him this his
hypocrisie. The King cheerfully embraced his motion,
and left him to the liberty of his own undertakings.
The Ambassadour writeth to His Catholick Majesty; He
to his Holinesse Gregory the fifteenth, that Spalato
might be pardoned, and preferred in the Church of
Rome, which was easily obtained. Letters are sent from
Rome to Count Gondomar, written by the Cardinal
Millin, to impart them to Spalato, informing him that
the Pope had forgiven and forgotten all which he had
done or written against the Catholick Religion; and
upon his return, would preferre him to the Bishoprick
of Salerno in Naples, worth twelve thousand crowns by
the year. A Cardinal’s Hat also should be bestowed
upon him. And if Spalato, with his hand subscribed to
this Letter, would renounce and disclaim what formerly
he had printed, an Apostolical Breve, with pardon,
should solemnly be sent him to Bruxels. Spalato
embraceth the motion, likes the pardon well, the
preferment better, accepts both, recants his opinions
largely, subscribes solemnly, and thanks his Holinesse
affectionately for his favour. Gondomar carries his
subscription to King James, who is glad to behold the
Hypocrite unmasked, appearing in his own colours; yet
the discovery was concealed and lay dormant some daies
in the deck [i. e. pack—of cards], which was in due
time to be awakened.” Fuller’s _Church History_, B. x.
p. 95, ed. 1655. The circumstances which led to
Antonio’s departure from England are differently
related, and without any mention of Gondomar, in
Goodman’s _Court of King James_, vol. i. p. 345.
# 608:
_balloon-ball_] i. e. a large inflated ball of
leather. The game of balloon, in which the player
strikes the ball with a flat piece of wood fastened to
the arm, is still (as Gifford observes,—note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, vol. iii. p. 216) very common on the
continent.
# 609:
_bishop absent_] So Quarto C. and MS. Lansd. Two eds.
“bishops dead.” MS. Bridge. deficient here, and to the
end of the act.—Neither reading agrees well with what
follows: see p. 353.
# 610:
_blindness_] So two eds. Quarto C. “boldnesse.”
# 611:
_I must confess_] So two eds. and MS. Lansd. Not in
Quarto C.
# 612:
_W. Bish._] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Wh. P._”
# 613:
_Have_] Eds. “Hath” and “Has.”
# 614:
_terrors_] So two eds. Quarto C. “terrour.”
# 615:
_Quit_] Eds. “Quits.”
# 616:
_wonder_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wounds.”
# 617:
_scar’d_] So two eds. Quarto C. “seiz’d.”
# 618:
_his_] So two eds. Quarto C. “this.”
# 619:
_B. Bish._] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. Bi. P._”
# 620:
_after_] So two eds. Quarto C. “following.”
# 621:
_or_] So two eds. Quarto C. “&.”
# 622:
_quit_] i. e. acquit.
# 623:
_remove_] So two eds. Quarto C. “roome.”
# 624:
_Craft_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “Crafts.” Other eds.
“Trust” (misprint for “Lust”).
# 625:
_more unclean_] So two eds. Quarto C. “vncleaner.”
# 626:
_Vild_] See note, p. 137.
# 627:
_more_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “most.” Not in other
eds.
# 628:
_Yesterday’s_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Yesterday.”
# 629:
_Ruin_] Eds. and MS. Lansd. “_Ruin_ enough.”
# 630:
_W. King_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “_Wh. Kni._”
# 631:
_W. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Wh. Kni._”
# 632:
_W. Kg.'s Pawn_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_Wh. Q. P._”
Two eds. “_W. Kt. p._” That the White King’s Pawn is
the speaker appears from the next speech; and compare
p. 326.
# 633:
_W. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Wh. Kni._”
# 634:
_strong_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wrong.”
# 635:
_W. Kg.'s Pawn_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_W. Qu. P._”
Two eds. “_W. Kt. p._”
# 636:
_endear’d_] Two eds. “indeede.” But compare p. 325,
last line.
# 637:
_W. King_] So two eds. here and at next speech but
one. Quarto C. “_Wh. Kni._”
# 638:
_that_] So MS. Lansd. Not in eds.
# 639:
_thou left_] So two eds. and MS. Lansd. Quarto C.
“_thou_ so _left_.”
# 640:
_flight_] Meant, in archery, a long, light-feathered,
straight-flying arrow.
# 641:
_niceness_] i. e. squeamishness, scrupulousness.
# 642:
_B. King_] So two eds. and MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_Bl.
Bish._”
# 643:
_luxury_] i. e. lust.
# 644:
_diseas’d bed-rid_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “disea’d
_Bed-rid_.” Other eds. “disease-bred.”
# 645:
_master of an hospital_
. . . . . . . .
_Or dean of the poor alms-knights that wear badges_]
See note, p. 339. The poor alms-knights—i. e. the
Poor Knights of Windsor.—“About half a year after
[his appointment to the Mastership of the Savoy,
Antonio received] the deanery of Windsor; both which
preferments might amount to four hundred and thirty
pounds per annum, or thereabout.” Goodman’s _Court of
King James_, vol. i. p. 340. According to Hacket,
“these together were worth to him 800_l._ per Annum.
They brought in no less, and he would not loose a Peny
of his Due; but studied to exact more than ever by
Custom had been received by any of those Dignitaries.
Of which Sharking, his Majesty once admonished him:
Yet his Veins were not full, but he got himself
presented by the Church of Windsor to a good Benefice,
says Mr. Ri. Montagu, West Ilsly in Barkshire, where
he made a shift to read the Articles of 1562 in
English, _pro more Clericali_, and subscribed to
them.” _Life of Archb. Williams_, P. i. p. 98, ed.
1693.
# 646:
_other titles_] “Now it happened a false rumour was
spread that Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of Yorke (who
died yearly in report) was certainly deceased.
Presently posts Spalato to Theobalds; becomes an
importunate Petitioner to the King for the vacant
Archbishoprick, and is as flatly denied; the King
conceiving, He had given enough already to him if
gratefull, too much if ungratefull. Besides the King
would never bestow an Episcopal charge in England on a
forraigner, no not on His own Countrey-men; some
Scotish-men being preferred to Deanries, none to
Bishopricks. Spalato offended at this repulse (for he
had rather had Yorke than Salerno [see quotation from
Fuller, note, p. 341], as equal in wealth, higher in
dignity, neerer in place) requests His Majesty by his
Letter to grant His good leave to depart the Kingdome,
and to return into Italy.” Fuller’s _Church History_,
B. x. p. 96, ed. 1655. See also Hacket’s _Life of
Archb. Williams_, P. i. p. 98. ed. 1693.
# 647:
_skip_] So both MSS. Eds. “slip.”
# 648:
_true_] So two eds. and both MSS. Omitted in Quarto C.
# 649:
_It is but penning
Another recantation_, &c.] So two eds. and both MSS.
Quarto C. thus: “It is but penning
Two or three bitter bookes against the White-house,
And inuenting another Recantation.”
# 650:
_And let forth_, &c.] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. The
line not in Quarto C. or MS. Lansd.
# 651:
_With_] So two eds. Quarto C. “In.”
# 652:
_gallant fleet_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto
C. “pretious safe-guard.”—“By his Artifices and
Negotiations (having been time enough Ambassador in
England to gain credit with the King) he [Gondomar]
got Sir Robert Mansell (the Vice-Admirall) to go into
the Mediterranean sea, with a Fleet of Ships to fight
against the Turks at Algier, who were grown too strong
and formidable for the Spaniard (most of the King of
Spains Gallions attending the Indian Trade, as Convoys
for his Treasures, which he wanted to supply his
Armies) and he transported Ordnance and other Warlike
Provisions to furnish the Spanish Arsenalls, even
while the Armies of Spain were battering the English
in the Palatinate.” Wilson’s _Life and Reign of
James_, p. 145, ed. 1653.
# 653:
_jails fly open_, &c.] “Count Gondomar was the active
Instrument to advance this Match [of Prince Charles
with the Infanta], who so carried himself in the
twilight of jest-earnest, that with his jests he
pleased His Majesty of England, and with his earnest
he pleasured his Master of Spaine. Having found out
the length of King James’s foot, he fitted Him with so
easie a shooe, which pained Him not (no, not when he
was troubled with the gout), this cunning Don
being able to please Him in His greatest passion.
And although the Match was never effected, yet
Gondomar whilst negotiating the same, in favour to
the Catholick cause, procured of his Majesty the
enlargment of all Priests and Jesuits through the
English Dominions.... These Jesuits, when at liberty,
did not gratefully ascribe their freedome to his
Majestie’s mercy, but onely to His willingnesse to rid
and clear His gaoles over-pestered with prisoners.”
Fuller’s _Church History_, B. x. p. 100, ed. 1655. See
also Wilson’s _Life and Reign of James_, p. 145, ed.
1653.
# 654:
_there’s_] So both MSS. Eds. “their.”
# 655:
_a silenc’d muzzle_] “The Pulpits were the most bold
Opposers, but if they toucht any thing upon the
Spanish policie, or the intended Treaties (for the
Restitution of the Palatinate was included in the
Mariage before it was the Spaniards to give) their
mouthes must be stopt by Gondamar ... and (it may be)
confined, or imprisoned for it.” Wilson’s _Life and
Reign of James_, p. 151, ed. 1653.
# 656:
_angle_] i. e. corner.
# 657:
_too_] So two eds. and both MSS. Not in Quarto C.
# 658:
_state-_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 659:
_pick_] So two eds. Quarto C. “pricke.”
# 660:
_every_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 661:
_The White Bishop’s Pawn_] So two eds. and MS. Bridge.
Quarto C. and MS. Lansd., more metrically, “The
Bishops White Pawne.”
# 662:
_flight_] See note, p. 349.
# 663:
_Enough of them in all parts_] So both MSS. Not in
Quarto C. Two eds. “There’s _enough_,” &c.
# 664:
_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 665:
_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 666:
_fames_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. and MS. Bridge. “fame.”
# 667:
_Duke_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “Piece.”
# 668:
_munificence_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “Magnificence.”
Two eds. “munificency.”
# 669:
_that’s_] So two eds. Quarto C. “’tis.”
# 670:
_I've maz’d ’em_] So two eds. Quarto C. “amaz’d.”
# 671:
_ships_] So two eds. Quarto C. “ship.”
# 672:
_the fleet
In eighty-eight_] i. e. the Spanish Armada in 1588.
# 673:
_W. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Wh.
Kni._”
# 674:
_attempter_] So two eds. Quarto C. “attempt.”
# 675:
_impudent_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C.
“impudence.”
# 676:
_piece_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “price.” Two eds.
“prize.”
# 677:
_value_] i. e. equal in value.
# 678:
_This_] So two eds. Quarto C. “The.”
# 679:
_however_] So two eds. Quarto C. and both MSS. “_How_
any.”
# 680:
_W. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Wh.
Kni._”
# 681:
_stand_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “stood.” Two eds.
“stands.”
# 682:
_W. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Wh.
Kni._”
# 683:
_B. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. _“W.
Kni._”
# 684:
_beside_] So both MSS. Eds. “besides.”
# 685:
_B. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. here and at next
speech but three. Quarto C. “_B. D._”
# 686:
_Do’t_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Doe.”
# 687:
_lock_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “tooke.”
# 688:
_W. King_] MS. Lansd. “_W. Knight_”—rightly, perhaps.
# 689:
_this_] Both MSS. “their”—rightly, perhaps.
# 690:
_B. Knight_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_W.
Kni._”
# 691:
_W. King_] MS. Lansd. “_W. Knight_”—rightly, perhaps.
# 692:
_B. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Fat
B._”
# 693:
_Spalato_] So the word _Spalatro_ was generally
written.—Eds. and MSS. “Spolletta,” “Spolleta,”
“Spallato.”
# 694:
_water_] Two eds. “water-gate.”
# 695:
_of_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “to.”
# 696:
_mazzard_] i. e. head.
# 697:
_know me_] Here, perhaps, the Black Knight thrust the
White King’s Pawn into the bag on the stage: compare
the concluding scene of the play.
# 698:
_my_] So two eds. Quarto C. “many.”
# 699:
_That_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Thus.”
# 700:
_us_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_vs_ all.”
# 701:
_handsome_] So two eds. Quarto C. “honest.”
# 702:
_in_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “for.”
# 703:
_person_] So two eds. Quarto C. “persons.”
# 704:
_the_] So two eds. Quarto C. “our.”
# 705:
_nor_] So two eds. Quarto C. “or.”
# 706:
_So ... prance it_] So two eds. Quarto C. “I’d ...
praunc’d.”
# 707:
_A pox on you_] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. Not in
Quarto C. MS. Lansd. omits the whole of this scene
between the Black Jesting Pawn and the other two
Pawns.
# 708:
_snapt_] So two eds. Quarto C. “scap’d.”
# 709:
_a monkey’s ordinary_] Compare Brome’s _City Wit_;
“Knavery is restoratiue to me, as spiders to monkeys.”
Sig. F V. (_Fiue New Playes_, 1653.)
# 710:
_firk_] i. e. beat.
# 711:
_Mass_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 712:
_old_] i. e. abundant: compare vol. ii. p. 538.
# 713:
_for_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 714:
_Exeunt._] Not in eds. Perhaps they went into the bag
on the stage: compare the concluding scene of the
play.
# 715:
_your_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 716:
_With stay_] So all the eds. and both MSS. The meaning
is far from clear. Qy. “Withstay”?
# 717:
_kind_] i. e. nature.
# 718:
_are_] So two eds. Quarto C. “is.”
# 719:
_passion_] i. e. sorrow, lament.
# 720:
_merely_] i. e. wholly.
# 721:
_In his gallant habit_] Not in Quarto C. nor MSS.:
found in two eds., printed as the first line of the
opening speech of the scene, thus;
“The Jesuit in his gallant habit,
_Tis he my Confessor_,” &c.
# 722:
_with_] So two eds. Quarto C. “by.”
# 723:
_feather_] So two eds. Quarto C. “father.”
# 724:
_highly_] So two eds. Quarto C. “mightie.”
# 725:
_trim_] So two eds. Quarto C. “trane.”
# 726:
_catholical_] So two eds. Quarto C. “catholicke.”
# 727:
_Suffices_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Suffice.”
# 728:
_’tis he_] In MS. Lansd. only.
# 729:
_A most regardless_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_A most_
strange _reguardles_.”
# 730:
_Merely_] i. e. wholly.
# 731:
_now_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 732:
_unclose_] Quarto C. “vncloses.” Other eds.
“incloses.”
# 733:
_Put_] Eds. “Puts.”
# 734:
_mark’d_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C.
“work’d.”
# 735:
_irrevocable_] So two eds. Quarto C. “irrecouerable.”
# 736:
_shame_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “chance.”
# 737:
_be man_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_be_ both _man_.”
# 738:
_grieves_] So two eds. Quarto C. “giues.”
# 739:
_marry_] So two eds. Quarto C. “be married.”
# 740:
_a' life_] i. e. as my life—exceedingly. So two eds.
Quarto C. has the more unusual form “of _life_.”
# 741:
_a foul flaw_, &c.] See note, p. 339.
# 742:
_treacher_] i. e. deceiver, cozener, cheater.
# 743:
_gull’d_] i. e. swallowed.
# 744:
_rear_] i. e. under-dressed.
# 745:
_poach’d_] So two eds. (where the line in other
respects is different). Quarto C. “pouch’d.”
# 746:
_Unjointed_, &c.] So two eds. The line not in Quarto
C.
# 747:
_stares_] i. e. starlings.
# 748:
_lightly_] So two eds. Quarto C. “titelie.”
# 749:
_three_] So two eds. Quarto C. “thee.”
# 750:
_turn_] So two eds. Quarto C. “turned.”
# 751:
_chares_] i. e. works, jobs.
# 752:
_learn’d_] So two eds. Quarto C. “and _learn’d_.”
# 753:
_murderers_] See note, p. 218.
# 754:
_breast_] So both MSS. Eds. “best.”
# 755:
_the jails_, &c.] See note, p. 355.
# 756:
_into_] So two eds. Quarto C. “in.”
# 757:
_Mass_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 758:
_or_] So two eds. Quarto C. “and.”
# 759:
_and_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 760:
_sums_] So two eds. Quarto C. “sinnes.”
# 761:
_thousand_] So two eds. Quarto C. “thousands.”
# 762:
_doctor Lopez_, &c.] Lopez, domestic physician to
Queen Elizabeth, was executed for having accepted
a bribe from Spain to destroy her. Taylor, the
water-poet, in the 13th stanza (or sonnet) of _The
Churches Deliuerances_, tells, in his own homely
and facetious manner, the story of Lopez, p. 145—
_Workes_, 1630. Dekker introduces him actually
making an attempt on the queen’s life, in the
following passage of _The Whore of Babylon_, 1607:
“TITANIA. Is Lupus here, our Doctor?
LUPUS. Gratious Lady.
TITANIA. You haue a lucky hand since you were ours,
It quickens our tast well; fill vs of that
You last did minister: a draught, no more,
And giue it fire, euen Doctor how thou wilt.
LUPUS. I made a new extraction, you shall neuer
Rellish the like.
TITANIA. Why, shall that be my last?
LUPUS. Oh my deere Mistres!
TITANIA. Go, go, I dare sware thou lou’st my very
heart.
. . . . . . . .
TITANIA. Sure ’tis too hot.
FIDELI. Oh roague!
TITANIA. Set it to coole.
FIDELI. Hell and damnation, Diuels.
FLORIMELL. What’s that?
FIDELI. The damned’st treason! Dog, you whorsen dog;
O blessed mayd: let not the toad come neere her:
What’s this? If’t be his brewing, touch it not,
For ’tis a drench to kill the strongest Deuill
That’s Druncke all day with brimstone: come sucke,
Weezell,
Sucke your owne teat, you—pray.
Thou art preseru’d.
TITANIA. From what? From whome?
FIDELI. Looke to that Glister-pipe:
One crowne doe’s serue thy tourne, but heere’s a
theefe,
That must haue 50000 crownes to steale
Thy life: Here ’tis in blacke and white—thy life.
Sirra thou Vrinall, Tynoco, Gama,
Andrada, and Ibarra, names of Diuels,
Or names to fetch vp Diuels: thou knowest these
Scar-crowes.
LUPUS. Oh mee! O mercy, mercy! I confesse.
FIDELI. Well sayd, thou shalt be hang’d then.
TITANIA. Haue we for this _Shee reades the
letter._
Heap’d fauours on thee? _Enter Gard._
FIDELI. Heape halters on him: call the Guard: out
polecat:
He smels, thy conscience stincks Doctor, goe purge
Thy soule, for ’tis diseas’d. Away with Lupus.
OMNES. Away with him: foh.
LUPUS. Here my tale but out.
FIDELI. Ther’s too much out already.
LUPUS. Oh me accursed! and most miserable.
_Exit with Guard._”
Sigs. G 4, H.
In the above passage the old ed. has, by a misprint,
“_Ropus_” instead of “_Lupus_:” when he appears in an
earlier scene he is called “_Lupus_,” which a marginal
note explains to mean “Lopes.” Sig. F.
# 763:
_estate_] So two eds. Quarto C. “state.”
# 764:
_B. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. Kni._”
# 765:
_Bishop_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Bishops.”
# 766:
_snapt_] So two eds. Quarto C. “snatch’d.”
# 767:
_next_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “at _next_.”
# 768:
_her night-attire ... his night-habit_] So MS. Lansd.
only.
# 769:
_virtue’s_] So two eds. Quarto C. “vertue.”
# 770:
_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.
# 771:
_eighty-eight_] i. e. 1588—the year of the Spanish
armada.
# 772:
_glittering’st_] So both MSS. Eds. “glittering.”
# 773:
_sit_] Eds. “sits.”
# 774:
_face_] So two eds. Quarto C. “falce.”
# 775:
_your_] So two eds. Quarto C. “you.”
# 776:
_sire_] So both MSS. Eds. “sir” and “sice.”
# 777:
_could_] Two eds. “would:” but see the third line
following.
# 778:
_Rumbant’s_] So all the eds. and both MSS. The right
reading, I have little doubt, is “_Rumbold’s_,” or
rather “_Rumold’s_.”—“A great and sumptuous church was
built at Mechlin to receive his [St. Rumold’s]
precious relicks, which is still possessed of that
treasure, and bears the name of this saint.” Butler’s
_Lives of the Saints_, vol. vii. p. 2, sec. ed. In the
title-page of his _Life_, 1662, written in Latin by
Ward, he is termed “advocati sterilium conjugum.”
# 779:
_hose_] i. e. breeches.
# 780:
_deliverance_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “deliuer” and
“deliuerer.”
# 781:
_luxury_] i. e. lust.
# 782:
_O_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
# 783:
_live_] Eds. “liues.”
# 784:
_were never_] So two eds. Quarto C. “neuer were.”
# 785:
_strong_] So two eds. Quarto C. “good.”
# 786:
_Loud music_] So MS. Bridge. only.
# 787:
_in his litter_, &c.] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.—“As
he [Gondomar] was carried in his Litter or bottomless
Chair (the easiest seat for his Fistula),” &c.
Wilson’s _Life and Reign of James_, p. 146, ed. 1653.
# 788:
_concise oration_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “course
_oration_.” Other eds. “consecration.”
# 789:
_triumphantis_] Eds. and MSS. “triumphanti.”
# 790:
_snapt_] So two eds. Quarto C. “snap.”
# 791:
_Hautboys again_] So MS. Bridge. only.
# 792:
_him_] i. e. the White Knight.
# 793:
_Enter Black King ... Latin oration_] So two eds.
Quarto C. has only “_Enter Bl. K. Q. D. K. and Wh.
Kni. and D._”
# 794:
_fix_] So two eds. Quarto C. “fixed.”
# 795:
_W. Duke. Th' erroneous relish_] So two eds. Not in
Quarto C.
# 796:
_the fair_] So both MSS. Eds. “thee _the faire_.”
# 797:
_approve_] i. e. prove.
# 798:
_B. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. K. P._”
# 799:
_more_] So two eds. Quarto C. “most.”
# 800:
_much has wrong’d_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “ill hath (and
“has”) vs’d.”
# 801:
_judgments_] So two eds. Quarto C. “judgement.”
# 802:
_when_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “if.”
# 803:
_cast_] So two eds. Quarto C. “last.”
# 804:
_by_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “aside.”
# 805:
_You’ll_] So MSS. Eds. “Youl’d.”
# 806:
_luxury_] i. e. lust, incontinence.
# 807:
_cunning_] So two eds. Quarto C. “cunnings.”
# 808:
_Thou_] Eds. and both MSS. “That.”
# 809:
_some_] So two eds. Quarto C. “a.”
# 810:
_ears_] So two eds. Quarto C. “eare.”
# 811:
_W. Queen_] So both MSS. Eds. “_W. Q. P._”
# 812:
_cockatrice_] A cant term for a harlot.
# 813:
_Death_] So two eds. Quarto C. “How.”
# 814:
_royal_] So two eds. Quarto C. “noble.”
# 815:
_Ebusus_] Quarto C. and both MSS. “Eleusis.” Two eds.
“Ebusis.”—“Circa Ebusum [i. e. Ivica] salpa.” Plin.
_Hist. Nat._ l. ix. c. 18. t. i. p. 511, ed. Hard.
1723.
# 816:
_frank’d_] i. e. stuft, crammed. (A _frank_ meant a
place to fatten hogs and other animals in).
# 817:
_far and sapa_] The remainder of the line is an
explanation of these words; yet it may be necessary to
add that _cocted_ is boiled.
# 818:
_Epicurean_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Epicidean.”
# 819:
_Orata_] Eds. and both MSS. “Crata.”—Sergius was so
called from the fish _orata_ or _aurata_: see Macr.
(_Sat._ l. ii. c. xi. p. 361, ed. 1670), Pliny,
Festus, &c.—Middleton, perhaps, intended only one of
the names—“Sergius” or “Orata”—to stand in the line.
# 820:
_his successor Julian_] Did Middleton confound Didius
Julianus (who purchased the empire on the murder of
Pertinax,) with Julian the apostate?
# 821:
_often_] So both MSS. Eds. “after.”
# 822:
_triumphs_] i. e. public shows.
# 823:
_the hogs which Scaliger cites_] An allusion, perhaps,
to the following passage: “Pinguescit autem longe
magis sus: adeoque pinguescit, ut pene totus immobilis
reddatur. Neque enim fabulosum est, in eorum clunibus
excavare sibi mures foveas; non equidem ut nidificent,
sed ut saginentur.” J. C. Scaliger _De Subtilitate ad
Cardanum, Exer._. cxcix. 2. p. 610, ed. 1634.
# 824:
_needle_] i. e. nestle.
# 825:
_Cyrene’s governor_] i. e. Magas: see Athenæus, l.
xii. c. 12, t. iv. p. 544, ed. Schw.
# 826:
_Sanctius_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Sauetius.”—Wanley
states that Sanctius, “by the advice of Garsia King
of Navarre, made peace with Miramoline King of
Corduba, went over to him, was honourably receiv’d,
and in his Court was cured by an herb prescribed by
the Physicians of that King.” _Wonders_, &c., p. 47,
ed. 1678. See also Grimeston’s (translation of
Turquet’s) _Historie of Spaine_, p. 205, ed. 1612.
# 827:
_stunk_] So both MSS. Eds. “strucke” and “stung.”
# 828:
_sure_] So both MSS. Eds. “sir.”
# 829:
_kid, cabrito, calf, and tons_] “Kid” and
“_cabrito_,”—the latter a Spanish word—are, I believe,
synonymous; _tons_ means, perhaps, tunny-fish.
# 830:
_frank’d_] See note, p. 401.
# 831:
_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied.
# 832:
_manchet_] i. e. small loaf or roll of fine white
bread.
# 833:
_Below the salt_] See note, vol. iii. p. 40.
# 834:
_voider_] i. e. basket or tray, into which the
trenchers, broken meat, &c., were swept from the table
with a wooden knife.
# 835:
_in_] So two eds. Quarto C. “on.”
# 836:
_faith_] So two eds. Quarto C. “faiths.”
# 837:
_her_] So two eds. Quarto C. “their.”
# 838:
_whom_] So two eds. Quarto C. “which.”
# 839:
_there_] So two eds. Quarto C. “within ’em.”
# 840:
_vild_] See note, p. 137.
# 841:
_a_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
# 842:
_Epistle to Nicholas the first_] _B. Udalrici,
Episcopi Augustani, pro conjugio clericorum ad
Nicolaum primum, Romanum Pontificem, epistola_,
contains the following passage: “Sunt vero aliqui, qui
sanctum Gregorium suæ sectæ sumunt adjutorium: quorum
quidem temeritatem rideo, ignorantiam doleo. Ignorant
enim, quod periculosum hujus hæresis decretum, a
sancto Gregorio factum, condigno pœnitentiæ fructu
postmodum ab eodem sit purgatum. Quippe quum die
quadem in vivarium suum propter pisces misisset, et
allata inde plus quam sex millia infantum capita
videret; intima mox ductus pœnitentia ingemuit, et
factum a se de abstinentia decretum, tantæ cædis
caussam confessus, condigno illud, ut dixi, pœnitentiæ
fructu purgavit, suoque decreto prorsus damnato,
Apostolicum illud (1 Cor. 9. 7.) laudavit consilium:
_Melius est nubere, quam uri_, addens ex sua parte,
Melius est nubere, quam mortis occasionem præbere.”
Appendix to _Calixti de Conjugio Clericorum Liber_,
Pars ii. p. 550, ed. Henke.
# 843:
_B. Knight_] One ed. and MS. Lansd. “_B. K._[_ing_],”
which may be right; B. B. Pawn presently says, “King
taken.”
# 844:
_B. King_] Two eds. and MS. Lansd. “_B. Kt._”
# 845:
_We_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “I.”—Compare l. 25 of
preceding page.
# 846:
_the bag, like hell-mouth_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “the
bags mouth like hell.”
# 847:
_The bag opens_, &c.] So MS. Lansd., except that it
makes no mention of the Fat Bishop. Quarto C. “_The
Bagge opens the Bl. Side in it._” Two eds. “_The Bag
opens, the B. B. slides in it._”—The bag, probably,
was either on one side, or at the back, of the stage,
during the whole of the play: see notes pp. 366, 370.
# 848:
_King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “King’s.”
# 849:
_given us the bag_] i. e. cheated, or rather, put a
trick on us: a colloquial phrase, common in our old
writers.
# 850:
_'Sfoot, this Fat Bishop_] Quarto C. “This Blacke
Bishop.” Other eds. “Sfoot this blacke Bishop.” MS.
Lansd. “This Fat Black Bishop.” MS. Bridge. “Slid this
fat Bishop.”
# 851:
_squelch’d_] i. e. crushed. So two eds. Quarto C.
“quelch’d.”
# 852:
_Spalato_] See note, p. 365.
# 853:
_so_] So MS. Bridge. Not in eds.
# 854:
_But I shall_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “I’em (and “I’me”)
sure to.”
# 855:
_greatness ever_] After these words MS. Bridge. has,
“For the Politician is not sound i’ th' vent,
I smell him hither.”
which does not connect well with the rest of the
speech.
# 856:
_Room for_, &c.] I have not ventured to insert a
stage-direction here, being doubtful which character
is meant by the “olive-coloured Ganymede.”
# 857:
_cease_] Though there is no corresponding rhyme to
this word, it does not appear that a line has dropt
out, the sense being complete.
# 858:
_yield_] Old ed. “yields.”
# 859:
_improve_] i. e. prove.
# 860:
_Nothing new there_] My attempt to restore the prose
speeches in this scene to the blank verse in which
they appear to have been originally written, proved on
the whole so unsuccessful, that I now give them as
exhibited in the 4to. The text of the play is, I
believe, corrupted throughout: and perhaps the reader,
when he meets with sundry passages which are scarcely
metrical, will be of opinion that I ought more
frequently to have left the prose of the old edition
undisturbed.
# 861:
_the Standard_] See note, vol. i. p. 438; but I find
nothing in Stow to illustrate the present passage.
# 862:
_brave_] i. e. finely dressed.
# 863:
_farcels_] Is, perhaps, a word formed from the verb
_farce_ (to stuff), though I have not elsewhere met
with it.
# 864:
_do_] Old ed. “does.”
# 865:
_George_] Old ed. “Franck.”
# 866:
_foxed_] i. e. drunk.
# 867:
_Artillery Garden_] “A field enclosed with a bricke
wall, without Bishopsgate.” Stow’s _Annales_, p. 1084,
ed. 1631: see, too, his account of “The practise in
the Artillery Garden reuiued [in 161O],” _ibid._ p.
995. At a later period, “the practice” was generally
held in Moorfields: vide Stow’s _Survey_, b. iii. p.
70, ed. 1720.
# 868:
_fustian and apes breeches_] May be right, though I
cannot explain it: but qy. “Naples breeches”? In _The
Rates of Marchandizes_ (reign of James I.) various
sorts of “Naples Fustians” are mentioned.
# 869:
_the Quest-house_] Was generally the chief watch-house
in a parish: to it those were brought who were taken
up by the common watchmen; and there, I believe, about
Christmas, the aldermen and citizens of the ward used
to hold a quest, to inquire concerning misdemeanours
and annoyances. Some parishes in London still have
Quest-houses; St. Giles, Cripplegate, for instance.
From the present passage it would seem that gambling
was sometimes carried on there.
# 870:
_voyage to Guiana_] i. e., I presume, the first
voyage, under Raleigh, in 1595: there were three
voyages to Guiana; see Southey’s excellent _Lives of
Brit. Admirals_, vol. iv. pp. 257, 317, 324.
# 871:
_mark_] See note, p. 10.
# 872:
_play at the ordinary_] See note, vol. i. p. 434.
# 873:
_bevers_] i. e. potations—(the word generally means—
refreshments between meals.)
# 874:
_possess’d_] i. e. informed: or, perhaps, convinced:
see note, vol. i. p. 420.
# 875:
_reclaim_] i. e. tame.
# 876:
_set up my rest for_] i. e. stand upon, take my chance
with: a metaphor from the game of primero: see the
long article in Nares’s _Gloss_. (_Rest, to set up._)
# 877:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 878:
_sumner_] i. e. apparitor.
# 879:
_stale_] See note, p. 213.
# 880:
_felfare_] A corruption of _fieldfare_.
# 881:
_even there_] Old. ed. “ever _there_.” Qy. “even
then”?
# 882:
_Have you drunk_, &c.] After arranging the whole of
this scene as blank verse, I found it so intolerably
rugged and halting, that, with the exception of a few
speeches, I have thrown it again into prose.
# 883:
_And_] i. e. if.
# 884:
_dead pays_] i. e. pay continued to soldiers who were
dead, taken by dishonest officers for themselves.
# 885:
_rushes_] With which the floor was strewed.
# 886:
_changeling_] i. e. fool.
# 887:
_Familists_] See note, vol. i. p. 104.
# 888:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 889:
_resolve_] i. e. inform, satisfy.
# 890:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 891:
_table_] i. e. palm of the hand.
# 892:
_manchet_] See note, p. 405.
# 893:
_brave_] i. e. fine.
# 894:
_shop_] See note, vol. iii. p. 54.
# 895:
_What is’t you lack_] See note, vol. i. p. 447.
# 896:
_carnadine_] Or _carnardine_—“Is,” says Steevens, who
quotes the present passage, “the old term for
carnation.” Note on Shakespeare’s _Macbeth_, act ii.
sc. 2.
# 897:
_tabine_] A sort of wrought silk: see in v. _The Rates
of Marchandizes_, &c. in the reign of James I. Old ed.
“Tobine.”
# 898:
_eyne_] i. e. eyes.
# 899:
_an ell_] i. e. an ell-wand: compare vol. iii. p. 166.
# 900:
_And_] i. e. if.
# 901:
_vent_] i. e. vend.
# 902:
_deceiving lights_] See note, vol. i. p. 482.
# 903:
_cousin_] See notes, vol. i. p. 499, vol. iii. p. 60.
# 904:
_gummed_] “Velvet and taffeta,” says Nares, “were
sometimes stiffened with gum, to make them sit
better.” _Gloss._ (in _Gumm’d velvet._)—Brathwait
gives another reason for the use of gum;
“If a penurious Master have a mind
To Satten-face his doublet, &c.
. . . . . . . . . .
Yet I confesse this Remnant that he bought
Such a commoditie ’twas good for nought,
_Being gumm’d throughout to make it neatly shine_,
Which gave content unto this spruce Divine.”
_Honest Ghost_, 1658, p.
189.
# 905:
_How_] Old ed. “for _how_.”
# 906:
_stript_] i. e. striped: why I have not altered the
old spelling will appear from what follows.
# 907:
_stript and whipt too_] An allusion, perhaps, to the
celebrated poetical work of Wither, entitled _Abuses
Stript and Whipt_.
# 908:
_the open part, which is now called the placket_]
Another passage which disproves the assertion of
Nares: see notes, vol. ii. p. 497, vol. iii. p. 241.
# 909:
_con him thanks_] i. e. feel thankful to him: see
Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. _Con._—Tyrwhitt thinks the
expression equivalent to the French _sçavoir gré_.
_Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_.
# 910:
_so forward for a knave_] i. e. so forward a knave:
compare vol. ii. p. 421, and note.
# 911:
_Right, right_, &c.] A speech originally, perhaps,
blank verse: see note, p. 421.
# 912:
_Why, when_] A frequent expression of impatience: see
notes, vol. i. pp. 289, 362.
# 913:
_Cole-Harbour_] See note, vol. ii. p. 58.
# 914:
_innocent_] i. e. foolish, silly.
# 915:
_cauterizer_] So old ed. afterwards (p. 454): here
“cauterize.”
# 916:
_luxinium_] Occurs twice afterwards; and (p. 466)
Ralph plays on the word: but qy. “_lixivium_”?
# 917:
_bolsters_] In Vigon’s _Workes of Chirurgerie_, 1571,
various kinds of _bolsters_ are described, that “must
be applyed in hollowe vlcers,” &c. fol. cxiii.
# 918:
_tabine_] See note, p. 440. Old ed. “Tobine.”
# 919:
_subeth_] “Subée: espèce d’apoplexie.” Roquefort,
_Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ in v.
# 920:
_luxinium_] See note, p. 451.
# 921:
_If it please you_, &c.] I suspect that the whole of
this scene was originally written in blank verse: see
note, p. 421.
# 922:
_bondage_] Here old ed. has a stage-direction “_Grasps
the skain between his hands_”—i. e. the feigned page
was to hold it so that his hands might seem to be
fettered.
# 923:
_condition_] i. e. disposition, nature.
# 924:
_next your leisure_] Old ed. “_your leisure next_.”
# 925:
_believe_] Qy. “receive”?—See first line of this
scene.
# 926:
_yield_] Old ed. “yields.”
# 927:
_fancy_] i. e. love.
# 928:
_corrupt a_] Old ed. “_a corrupt_.”
# 929:
_the body not_] Old ed. “_not the body_.”
# 930:
_bush_] An allusion both to the bush carried by the
man in the moon, and to the tavern-bush: see note, p.
177.
# 931:
_os coxendix_] Comes nearest to the reading of old ed.
“Oscox-Index:” but qy. “_os coccygis_”?
# 932:
_In your shop_, &c.] Compare p. 442 of this vol., and
p. 482 of vol. i.
# 933:
_retargé_] i. e. retardé: see Cotgrave in v.
# 934:
_Turnbull Street_] See note, p. 34.
# 935:
_luxinium_] See note, p. 451.
# 936:
_cacokenny_] Qy. “cacochymy”
# 937:
_United_] Old ed. “the _united_.”
# 938:
_wife_] There can be no doubt that this speech was
originally verse, however awkwardly, in the present
state of the text, it may read as such: the answer of
George is intended to rhyme with the second line.
# 939:
_toward_] i. e. at hand.
# 940:
_as_] Old ed. “is.”
# 941:
_Sir, I do now_, &c.] Were not this speech, and the
two preceding speeches of sir F. Cressingham,
originally blank verse? see note, p. 421.
# 942:
_wild benefits of nature_] This expression occurs in
Webster’s _Dutchess of Malfi_; see my edition of his
_Works_, vol. i. p. 253: but it may be traced to Sir
P. Sidney; “to have for food _the wild benefits of
nature_.” _Arcadia_, b. iv. p. 426, ed. 1633.
# 943:
_move_] Old ed. “moves.”
# 944:
_their_] Old ed. “your.”
# 945:
_Maria ... Edw._] Old ed. “1 Childe” ... “2 Childe.”
We learn their names from an earlier scene, p. 442.
# 946:
_grutched_] i. e. grudged.
# 947:
_wainscot-gown_] If there be no misprint here,
means, perhaps, a gown with a _waving_ pattern: see
Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. _Wainscot_: but qy.
“waistcoat-_gown_”?
# 948:
_cannot away with_] i. e. cannot endure.
# 949:
_Saint Patrick’s Purgatory_] See note, vol. iii. p.
131.
# 950:
_Scene II_] Here, instead of marking a new scene, the
old ed. has “_Exeunt. manet Knaves-bee_”; and the
audience were to imagine that, when the others had
gone out, the stage represented the interior of
Knavesby’s house: see note, p. 291.
# 951:
_mark_] See note, p. 10.
# 952:
_burst_] Perhaps a couplet was intended here.
# 953:
_new_] Qy. “_new_ thoughts”?
# 954:
_beholding_] See note, p. 40.
# 955:
_bugle-brow’d_] i. e. horned: _bugle_ meant several
kinds of horned cattle,—the bull, buffalo, &c.
# 956:
_byrlakins_] i. e. by our _lady-kin_ (the diminutive
of _lady_.)
# 957:
_too_] Here again, perhaps (see note, p. 477), a
couplet was intended.
# 958:
_the other_] Old ed. “_the_ t’_other_.”
# 959:
_towards_] i. e. at hand.
# 960:
_beholding_] See note, p. 40.
# 961:
_grow thorough_] An allusion to a proverbial saying;
“There is a nest of chickens which he doth brood
That will sure _make his hayre growe through his
hood_.”
Heywood’s _Dialogue_, sig. G 2,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
Ray gives “_His hair grows through his hood_—He is
very poor, his hood is full of holes.” _Proverbs_, p.
57, ed. 1768.
# 962:
_banes_] i. e. bans: see note, vol. i. p. 471.
# 963:
_be_] Old ed. “by.”
# 964:
_pantofles_] i. e. a sort of slippers.
# 965:
_grutch_] i. e. grudge.
# 966:
_dearest_] i. e. most hurtful, most injurious
(from the old verb _dere_, to hurt). So also in
Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_, (act i. sc. 2, “_dearest_
foe”), though Steevens explains it “most immediate,
consequential, important.”
# 967:
_defeat_] Qy. “deceit”?
# 968:
_ought_] i. e. owed.
# 969:
_do_] Old ed. “does.”
# 970:
_Dagger-pies_] i. e. pies made at _The Dagger_, a low
ordinary and public-house in Holborn; they were in
great repute, as well as its ale.
# 971:
_our Puritans_, &c.] Compare vol. ii. p. 153, and
note; also the following passage of the Latin comedy
_Cornelianum Dolium_, 1638; “imo membra sua vix
tolerare queunt quia Organa appellata sunt,” p. 6:
though the play just cited has on its title-page
“auctore T. R.” (i. e., as commonly explained, Thomas
Randolph), I have little doubt that it was written by
Brathwait.
# 972:
_away with_] i. e. endure.
# 973:
_ought_] i. e. owed.
# 974:
_provant breeches_] i. e. such breeches as were
supplied to the soldiers from the magazines of the
army: see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_,
vol. i. p. 70.—_Provant_ meant provision: “put in
apposition with any other thing,” says Nares, it
“implied that such an article was supplied for mere
provision; as we say ammunition bread, &c., meaning
a common sort.” _Gloss._ in v.
# 975:
_George_] Is printed in old ed. as the prefix to “Sir,
rest assured,” &c.
# 976:
_Scene changes_, &c.] There can be no doubt, I think,
that, on the departure of the two Franklins and
George, the poet intended the audience to suppose that
a change of scene took place as I have marked it. See
notes, pp. 291, 476.
# 977:
_countess_, &c.] i. e. Godeva: see Dugdale’s
_Warwickshire_, p. 86, ed. 1656.
# 978:
_mark_] See note, p. 10.
# 979:
_So inconsiderate_, &c.] Two lines, evidently, of
blank verse—in which, probably, more of this scene was
originally written than I have been able to arrange as
such: see note, p. 421.
# 980:
_desire_] Qy. “deserve”? compare p. 279, and note.
# 981:
_brooks no poison_] See note, vol. iii. p. 177.
# 982:
_a room_] Intent mainly on bringing together nearly
the whole of the _dramatis personæ_, Middleton appears
to have left the location of this scene to the
imagination of the audience. Soon after Water-Camlet
and George have been concealing themselves “_behind
the arras_,” Sweetball and Knavesby enter, and agree
(as if they were walking out of doors), that “the next
man they meet shall judge them.”
# 983:
_means_] i. e. tenor.
# 984:
_is but fiddling_] Old ed. “his _but_ sidling.”
# 985:
_wittol_] i. e. tame cuckold.
# 986:
_macrio_] i. e. pander, pimp.
# 987:
_sink at Queen-hive_, &c.] See note, vol. iii. p. 255.
# 988:
_The place I speak of_, &c.] See Malone’s Essay on the
Origin of _The Tempest_, reprinted in vol. xv. of his
_Shakespeare_ (by Boswell). At p. 425 of the Appendix
to that tract, Malone, having occasion to notice the
present passage, says, that _Any Thing for a Quiet
Life_ “appears from internal evidence to have been
written about the year 1619.”
# 989:
_george_] i. e. the insignia of St. George.
# 990:
_Bermothes_] Or _Bermoothes_—an old form of
_Bermudas_.
# 991:
_Divelin_] i. e. Dublin.
# 992:
_other_] Old ed. here and next line but one,
“to’ther.”
# 993:
_parle_] i. e. parley.
# 994:
_Make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 995:
_already come_] Old ed. “come already.”
# 996:
_bravely_] i. e. finely (in fine apparel).
# 997:
_the best I ever saw you at_] Old ed. “at the best I
ever saw you.”
# 998:
_came_] Old ed. “can.”
# 999:
_civil_] i. e. sober, grave, plain—opposed to
“_gallant_,” which follows.
# 1000:
_Your state_, &c.] A speech the whole of which seems
to have been originally verse: see note, p. 421.
# 1001:
_banquerout_] i. e. bankrupt.
# 1002:
_knew_] Old. ed. “know.”
# 1003:
_Thanks, and a thousand_] i. e. a thousand thanks:
compare note, vol. ii. p. 86.
# 1004:
_hire_] Old ed. “her.”
# 1005:
_triumph_] See note, p. 403.
# 1006:
_aton’d_] i. e. reconciled.
# 1007:
_censure_] i. e. judgment.
# 1008:
_Nath. Richards_] According to the _Biogr. Dram._, “was of Caius
College, Cambridge, where, in 1634, he took the degree of LL.B.” He
was author of _Messalina the Roman Empress_, a tragedy, 1640, and
_Poems Sacred and Satyricall_, 1641.
# 1009:
_Bianca_] Old ed., both in the list of characters and
throughout the play, “Brancha.” The violation of metre
which the latter name occasions would alone be
sufficient to prove it a misprint: e. g.:
“Sure you’re not well, _Brancha_; how dost, prithee?”
“What shall I think of first? Come forth, _Brancha_.”
“Thou hast been seen, _Brancha_, by some stranger.”
“_Brancha._
Would you keep me closer yet?”
“I should fall forward rather.
Come, _Brancha_.”
“Come sit, _Brancha_.
This is some good yet.”
“Here’s to thyself, _Brancha_.
Nothing comes.”
“Of bright _Brancha_; we sat all in darkness.”
Her family name, as we learn from act iii. sc. 1, was
Capello.—Most readers will recollect the celebrated
_Bianca Capello_, second wife of Francis de Medici,
grand duke of Tuscany: the earlier events in her
history, and in that of the Bianca of the tragedy,
have a sort of resemblance; both fled from Venice to
Florence, &c.
# 1010:
_unvalu’dst_] i. e. invaluablest.
# 1011:
_spoke_] Old ed. “spake.”
# 1012:
GUAR. _Light her now, brother_] Here, I apprehend,
is some corruption of the text, and something wrong
in the assignment of the speeches; but feeling
dissatisfied with the alterations which I attempted,
I leave the passage as it stands in the old ed.
# 1013:
_jacks_] i. e. fellows.
# 1014:
_cat and cat-stick_] “TIP-CAT, or perhaps more
properly, the _game_ of CAT, is a rustic pastime well
known in many parts of the kingdom. Its denomination
is derived from a piece of wood called a _cat_, with
which it is played; the cat is about six inches in
length, and an inch and a half or two inches in
diameter, and diminished from the middle to both the
ends, in the shape of a double cone; by this curious
contrivance the places of the trap and of the ball are
at once supplied, for when the cat is laid upon the
ground, the player with his cudgel [or cat-stick]
strikes it smartly, it matters not at which end, and
it will rise with a rotatory motion, high enough for
him to beat it away as it falls, in the same manner as
he would a ball.” _Sports_, &c. (p. 86), by Strutt,
who describes two of the various ways in which the
game is played.—The “trap-stick” with which the Ward
enters is, of course, the same as cat-stick; and
“tippings” is a term of the game.
# 1015:
_mar’l_] i. e. marvel.
# 1016:
_thy_] Old ed. “that.”
# 1017:
_Byrlady_] i. e. By our lady.
# 1018:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 1019:
_Walk’d_] Altered by the editor of 1816 to “Wak’d:”
but compare p. 526, “they _walk_ out their sleeps,”
&c.
# 1020:
_revel_] Old ed. “revels.”
# 1021:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 1022:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 1023:
_to_] i. e. compared with.
# 1024:
_And_] i. e. if.
# 1025:
_summ’d_] Old ed. “sow’d.”
# 1026:
_bless you._—_Simple, lead_, &c.] Qy. “bless you
_simply_.—Lead”? &c. Old ed. thus, “bless; you simple,
lead,” &c.
# 1027:
_towards_] i. e. in preparation.
# 1028:
_likes_] i. e. pleases.
# 1029:
_passage_] “It is a game at dice, to be played at but
by two, and it is performed with three dice. The
caster throws continually till he hath thrown doublets
under ten, and then he is out and loseth; or doublets
above ten, and then he _passeth_ and wins. _Complete
Gamester._” Editor of 1816.
# 1030:
_trow_] i. e. think you.
# 1031:
_pearl in eye_] See note, p. 125.
# 1032:
_bum-roll_] See note, vol. i. p. 432.
# 1033:
_It may take handsomely_] After this speech the editor
of 1816 puts a stage-direction, “_Guard. goes out and
returns almost immediately_,” and follows the old ed.
in marking the subsequent entrance thus, “_Enter
Mother_.”
# 1034:
_merrily_] Old ed. “meerly.”
# 1035:
_Attend the gentlewoman_] Part of the present scene,—
from the entrance of the Mother to these words,—is
given, with a few omissions, in _Specimens of Engl.
Dram. Poets_, by Lamb, who observes, “This is one of
those scenes which has the air of being an immediate
transcript from life. Livia, the ’good neighbour,' is
as real a creature as one of Chaucer’s characters. She
is such another jolly Housewife as the Wife of Bath.”
P. 155.
# 1036:
_condition_] See note, p. 457.
# 1037:
_duke_] See p. 311.
# 1038:
_above_] The upper-stage (see note, vol. ii. p. 125)
was probably intended to represent “for the nonce” a
gallery.
# 1039:
_Draws a curtain_, &c.] The upper-stage was furnished
with curtains. Old ed. has merely “_Duke above_.”
# 1040:
_here_] Old ed. “here’s.”
# 1041:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 1042:
_why_] Old ed. “who.”
# 1043:
_beholding_] See note, p. 40.
# 1044:
_cutted_] i. e. “cross, querulous.” Editor of 1816.
# 1045:
_of_] Qy. “or”?
# 1046:
_byrlady_] See note, p. 530.
# 1047:
_likes_] i. e. pleases.
# 1048:
_casting-bottle_] See note, vol. ii. p. 216.
# 1049:
_white boys_] There is a play on words here: “white
boy” was often used as a term of endearment;
“And that’s to talk of her _white boy_, she’s fond
on.”
Brome’s _New Academy_, p. 7 (_Five New Playes_,
1659.)
# 1050:
_is_] Old ed. “as.”
# 1051:
_dislik’d_] i. e. displeased.
# 1052:
_’tis_] Old ed. “’till.”
# 1053:
_Bianca Capello_] Old ed. “Brancha Capella:” see note,
p. 516.
# 1054:
_sucket_] i. e. sweetmeat.
# 1055:
_march-pane_] See note, vol. iii. p. 269.
# 1056:
_Livia’s house_] See pp. 573, 576, 593. She and
Guardiano, it appears, were inhabiting the same
mansion.
# 1057:
_deft_] i. e. neat, spruce.
# 1058:
_wine and sweetmeats_] Of which a banquet consisted:
see note, vol. iii. p. 252.
# 1059:
_Rouans’_] A misprint, I presume; but qy. for what?
# 1060:
_barren_] i. e. dull, stupid.
# 1061:
_trow_] i. e. think you.
# 1062:
_cat and trap_] See note, p. 527.
# 1063:
_breast_] i. e. voice. Compare vol. iii. p. 576.
# 1064:
_pricksong_] See note, vol. iii. p. 626.
# 1065:
_of_] Old ed. “_of_ a.”
# 1066:
_Aside_] “I think there is every reason to believe
Brancha’s [Bianca’s] speech and the Duke’s spoken, as
I have marked them, the one _aside_, and the other to
Brancha; they were certainly not intended to be
generally heard.” Editor of 1816.—Perhaps Bianca’s
speech is addressed to the Duke.
# 1067:
_unvalu’d_] i. e. invaluable.
# 1068:
_prick and praise_] See note, vol. ii. p. 133.
# 1069:
_measures_] See note, vol. i. p. 233.
# 1070:
_sinquapace_] Properly _cinque-pace_: see note, vol.
iii. p. 631.
# 1071:
_hay_] Or _hey_—according to some, an abbreviation of
_hey-de-guize_ (see note, p. 163): is “gay” formed
from the same variously-spelt word?
# 1072:
_round_] See note, vol. ii. p. 190.
# 1073:
_canaries_] See note, vol. iii. p. 39.
# 1074:
_passion_] i. e. sorrow.
# 1075:
_vild_] See note, p. 137.
# 1076:
_hearse_] “In imitation of which [cenotaph] our
_hearses_ here in England are set up in churches,
during the continuance of a yeare, or the space of
certaine monthes.” Weever—cited in Todd’s Johnson’s
_Dict._ v. _Hearse_.
# 1077:
_have_] Old ed. “has.”
# 1078:
_woodcock_] i. e. simpleton: compare vol. iii. p. 46.
# 1079:
_innocent_] i. e. idiot, fool: see pp. 299, 451.
# 1080:
_cried_] i. e. proclaimed as lost by the public crier.
# 1081:
_cater’s_] i. e. caterer’s.
# 1082:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 1083:
_do_] Old ed. “does.”
# 1084:
_stool-ball_] So called from being played with a stool
(or stools) and a ball: see _Sports_, &c., by Strutt,
who says, “it seems to have been a game more properly
appropriated to the women than to the men.” P. 77.
# 1085:
_rushes_] With which the floors were strewed.
# 1086:
_breed ’em all in your teeth_] “In allusion to a
superstitious idea, that an affectionate husband had
the toothache while his wife was breeding.” Editor of
1816.
# 1087:
_wait_] Old ed. “waits.”
# 1088:
_go_] Old ed. “goes.”
# 1089:
_in sadness_] i. e. in seriousness—seriously.
# 1090:
_three legs_] i. e. “three bows.” Editor of 1816.
# 1091:
_brave_] i. e. finely dressed.
# 1092:
_Will you_, &c.] I give these speeches as they stand
in old ed. In whatever way the lines are divided, the
metre will not run regularly.
# 1093:
_know_] Old ed. “knew.”
# 1094:
_cure’s_] Qy. “care’s”?
# 1095:
_low_] Old ed. “love.”
# 1096:
_set_] Old ed. “sets.”
# 1097:
_Sung for a hymn in heaven_] “It is needless to say
that our poet here alludes to a passage in the 15th
chapter of St. Luke.” Editor of 1816.
# 1098:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 1099:
_Break_] Old ed. “Breaks.”
# 1100:
_wilful murder_] After these words the editor of 1816
inserts a stage-direction “_They seize Hip._” But if
they lay hands on him now, it is plain, from what
follows, that they presently leave him at liberty.
# 1101:
_and_] i. e. if.
# 1102:
_breast_] See p. 583.
# 1103:
_sinquapace_] Properly _cinque-pace_: see note, vol.
iii. p. 631.
# 1104:
_pillowbeers_] i. e. pillow-cases.
# 1105:
_angels_] i. e. gold coins worth about ten shillings.
# 1106:
_all’s_] So old ed.—for “all as.”
# 1107:
_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied, convinced.
# 1108:
_thus_] Altered, unnecessarily I think, to “that’s,”
by the editor of 1816.
# 1109:
_And sets ’em all in order_] “Brancha [Bianca] here
evidently alludes to the 13th chapter of St. Paul’s
first Epistle to the Corinthians.” Editor of 1816.
# 1110:
_caltrop_] “A Caltrop; or iron engine of warre, made
with foure pricks, or sharp points, whereof one,
howsoeuer it is cast, euer stands upward.” Cotgrave’s
_Dict._ in v. _Chaussetrape_.
# 1111:
_triumph_] i. e. show, masque.
# 1112:
_stamp_] See vol. iii. p. 368.
# 1113:
_above_] i. e. on the upper stage: see note, vol. ii.
p. 125.
# 1114:
_sake ... part_] As the rest of the dialogue is in
rhyme, I suspect that something has dropt out here.
# 1115:
_antimasque_] i. e. an interlude introduced during the
masque, “something directly opposed to the principal
masque:” see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_,
vol. vii. p. 251.
# 1116:
_Ay, and makes love—take that_] The editor of 1816
follows the pointing of the old ed., “Ay, and makes
love take that,” remarking, in a note, “I confess I
have no very clear understanding of this passage.” The
difficulty lies in knowing what “that” is by which
Livia destroys Isabella.
# 1117:
_have_] Old ed. “has.”
# 1118:
_Runs on a sword_, &c.] i. e. perhaps on a sword
carried by one of the guard. The editor of 1816 gives
“_Falls on his sword_;” but see the preceding speech
of Hippolito.
# 1119:
_Drinks_, &c.] Here the editor of 1816 gives
“_Stabs herself_,” observing in a note, “I have
added this stage-direction, without which I cannot
otherwise understand the following speech of the
Lord Cardinal’s.” But it is evident, I think, from
the last words of Bianca,—
“Tasting the same death in a cup of love,”—
that she drains off the poisoned cup which she had
prepared for the Cardinal, and which Ganymede had by
mistake presented to the Duke.
# 1120:
_no enemy_] Old ed. “_no Enemy_, no Enemy.”
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Transcriber’s Note
The author shifted between prose speech and blank verse,
sometimes in mid-speech. In this rendering, verse
sections are given without blank lines between speeches,
with an indentation for each speech.
Stage directions, except for entrances, can be:
in-line
in the middle of a line and delimited with ‘[
]’,
end of line
right-justified on the same line (where there
is room), with only the leading ‘[’,
next line
right-justified on the following line, where
there is insufficent room, with a hanging
indent, if necessary.
The same convention is followed here. Since this version
is wider than the original, most directions are on the
same line as the speech.
Entrances were centered and separated slightly from
lines above and below. This is rendered here as a full
blank line.
The footnote scheme used lettered references, repeating
a-z. On numerous occasions, letters were repeated, and
sometimes skipped. The numeric resequencing of notes
here resolves those lapses. Footnotes are sometimes
referred to directly in a footnote by its letter
designation. The few direct references to a lettered
note use the new numeric value.
Note 891 regarding “Familists” of Amsterdam, refers the
reader to a note on p. 104 of Volume 1. No relevant note
appears there, but it is likely that the reference
should be to the introductory note to “The Family of
Love” in Volume 2, beginning on p. 103.
The cross-reference in note 194 for the term
‘_foisting_’ refers to p. 544 of vol. iii. The reference
is to note 1186 in vol. ii.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been
corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the
page and line in the original.
26.33 Thou[l’/’l]t make me play Transposed.
118.33 _foisting_] See note, vol. ii[i]., p. 544. Removed
119.33 a very small coin.[”] Added.
193.34 [“]First, promise me Added.
466.36 _cacokenny_] Qy. [“]cacochymy” Added.
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A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE.
Vol. iv. p. 5, last line.
_board_] The spelling of the old ed. is right—“_bord_,”
i. e. size. So in Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Knight of the
Burning Pestle_;
“underneath his chin
He plants a brazen piece of mighty _bord_.”
Act iii. sc. 2—_Works_, vol. i. p. 214, ed. Weber.
where, says M. Mason, “_bord_ means rim or
circumference.”
Vol. iv. p. 32, l. 4.
_corps_] So the word is used as a plural in _Epigrams
and Satyres_, by Richard Middleton, 1608;
“the Tyrants brazen bull
Of Agrigentine, which being crammed full
Of humane _corps_, did roare with such a maine,” &c.
p. 34.
Vol. iv. p. 66, note, read
“111 _Rider’s Dictionary_] _A Dict. Engl. and Lat. and
Lat. and Engl._, by John Rider, first printed at Oxford,
1589, was a work once in great repute.”
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THE SPANISH GIPSY.
Vol. iv. p. 145, last line but one.
“this she, trow;”
Read
“this she, trow?”
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A GAME AT CHESS.
Vol. iv. p. 310, l. 1.
_Roch, Main, and Petronill, itch and ague curers_]
Compare Taylor the water-poet: “he must be content with
his office, as ... Saint Roch with scabbes and scurfes
... Saint Petronella the Ague or any Feuer.” _A Bawd_,
p. 93—_Workes_, 1630.
Vol. iv. p. 407, l. 6.
_Epistle to Nicholas the first_, &c.] Since writing the
note on these words, I have found in the Κειμηλια
_Literaria_ of Colomesius what he calls a confirmation
of the absurd story of the six thousand infants’ heads.
“Simile quid narratur a Joscelino, in Episcoporum
Cantuariensium Vitis, p. 210. editionis Hanovianæ.
_Anno 1309_, inquit, _Radulphus Bourn Augustinensis
Ecclesiæ Abbas electus, cum ad Papam Avinioni agentem
confirmandus accessisset, reversus domum, testatur se
vidisse in itinere piscinam in quadam Monialium Abbatia,
quæ_ PROVINES _dicebatur; in qua, cum educta aqua luto
purgaretur, multa parvulorum ossa, ipsaque corpora adhuc
integra reperiebantur. Unde ad criminalia judicia
subeunda viginti septem Moniales Parisios ductæ et
carceribus mancipatæ fuerunt, de quibus quid actum
fuerit, nescivit_.” Col. _Opera_, p. 301, ed. Fabr.
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ANY THING FOR A QUIET LIFE.
Vol. iv. p. 489, l. 25.
_the new prophet, the astrological tailor_] Perhaps
Ball, who is thus mentioned by Osborn: “And, if common
Fame did not outstrip Truth, King James was by Fear led
into this extreme; finding his Son Henry not only averse
to any Popish Match, but saluted by the Puritans as one
prefigured in the Apocalyps for Rome’s destruction. And
to parallel this, one Ball, a Taylor, was inspired with
a like Lunacy, tho’ something more chargeable; for not
only he, but Ramsay his Majesty’s Watch-maker, put out
Money and Clocks, to be paid (but with small Advantage,
considering the Improbability) when King James should be
crowned in the Pope’s chair.” _Trad. Memor. on the Reign
of K. James_—_Works_, vol. ii. p. 153, ed. 1722; see
also B. Jonson’s _Works_ by Gifford, vol. v. p. 242.
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WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN.
Vol. iv. p. 520, l. 20.
_To take out_] i. e. to copy—a not uncommon expression
in our old writers.