Pray thee sit down,
Then shall I crown
Thy brows with flowery ring,
Whilst thus with shepherd's homely voice I sing.
He sang a passionate ditty; which done, he spake thus:--
_Shep._ Now, fairest, deign once to impart,
Did ever live so coy a lass
Who unto love was never moved?
_Nymph._ Yes, shepherd, she that hath the heart
And is resolved her life to pass
Neither to love or be beloved.
_Shep._ She senseless lives without affection.
_Nymph._ Yet happy lives without subjection.
_Shep._ To be pluck'd are roses blown,
To be mow'd are meadows grown [sown?],
Gems are made but to be shown,
And woman's best--
_Nymph._ To keep her own.
_Shep._ Well, shepherdess, still hate to love me;
No scorn from my fix'd vow shall move me.
When sheep to finest grass have loathing,
When courtiers shall disdain rich clothing,
When shepherds shun their mayday's sports,
Green sickness when 'tis rife in courts,--
O then, and not till then, I'll hate
Beliza, my sole love and fate.
_Nymph._ When love in daughters shall ascend
For simple Piety's sole end,
When any child her mother graces
With all she can, yet all defaces
In her fair thought the faith she oweth
(Though what she can she freely showeth);
Then, shepherd, mayst thou hope attend,
For then my hate shall have an end.
_Shep._ Thou'rt mine, Beliza; for behold
All the hopes thy wishes crave,
All the best the world can have,
Here these happy characters unfold;
Which who dares but once deny,
In the most just and fair defence
Of her love's highest excellence,
I of thousands am the weak'st will die:
From which, O deign to give this touch,
Who gives what he can get, gives much.
[_The_ Shepherd _presented a scarf_.
Farewell, farewell!
Joy, Love, Peace, Health in you long dwell,
With our farewell, farewell!
So the Countess passed on until she came through the little park,
where Niobe presented her with a cabinet and so departed.
[610] Dr. Grosart reads "Sott" (from MS.).
[611] Dr. Grosart reads (from the MS.) "You would aueer to
numbers: them who seekes."
[612] Dr. Grosart gives from the MS. "vnfolde."
[613] MS. "his."
[614] Moveable screen.
CITY PAGEANT.
CITY PAGEANT,[615]
ON THE OCCASION OF THE VISIT PAID BY THE KING
OF DENMARK TO JAMES I. IN 1606.
_The argument of the spectacle presented to the sacred Majesties of
Great Britain and Denmark as they passed through London._
After that the Recorder in the name of the City had saluted the
Majesties of Great Britain and Denmark with this short oration:--
"Serenissime, Augustissime Rex: quid enim Reges dicam, quos non tam
conjunctio sanguinis, quam communio pietatis unum fecit? Anni sunt
quinquaginta plus minus, a quo Regem vel unum aspeximus; nunc duos
simul contemplamur, admiramur: quapropter antiqua civitas London, nova
ista condecorata gloria, triumphat gaudio, salutat precibus,
Majestatis binam hanc majestatem.
"Sed quid offeremus? Corda non nostra, tua sunt, magne, maxime Jacobe:
et quia tua, Regi huic, potentissimo, fraternitatis vinculo majestati
vestræ conjunctissimo, amoris ergo hæcque [_sic_] munusculo dicantur."
The Scene or Pageant of Triumph presented itself in this figure. In
the midst of a vast sea, compassed with rocks, appeared the Island of
Great Britain, supported on the one side by Neptune, with the force of
Ships; on the other, Vulcan with the power of iron, and the
commodities of tin, lead, and other minerals. Over the island,
Concord, supported by Piety, and Policy, sat enthroned: the body of it
thus shaped, the life of it thus spake; whilst the Tritons in the sea
sounded loud music, the mermaids singing; then in a cloud Concord
descending, and landing on the crag of a rock, spake thus:--
CONCORDIA.
Gentes feroces inter, et crudæ necis
Animos capaces, quibus et ignavum est mori
Paulo coactis, queis et arma civica,
Bellaque leonum paria lacerabant agros,
Nunc pacis almæ mater, et cælo edita,
Et arcuato cælicæ pacis throno
Suffulta, stabilis hic sedeo Concordia.
Sic nempe amorum jubet et armorum Deus,
Presto ut Britannum principi illustri forem.
Religio dextram fulsit, et monet pie
Bonum supremum scire supremum est bonum;
Justitia lævam, voce sancta cognita,
"Servate jus, servate cælicam fidem."
Nunc itaque, reges, tuque, super omnes mihi
Dilecte, Brutii magne moderator soli,
Et tu, sacrato foedere et fratris pio
Nexu revinctus, vos in æternum jubet
Salvere missa cælitus Concordia.
Non has inique denuo hostilis furor
Gentes lacessat, neque leonum fortia
Ferro dolove corda pertentet malo.
Quoties in unum junctis [olim] viribus
Coiere Bruti[i], non potuit ulla rabies
Externa quatere, aut noxii vis consilii.
Romana cessit aquila, donec proditor,
Et scelere coepta civium distractio,
Animam addidisset hostibus, patriæ metum.
Nunc sceptra cum septena vi Normannicæ
Camberque cessit, arma deposuit diu
Indomita Ierne, et insulis centum potens
Magni Getheli accessit antiquum genus.
Fraternum amorem, jus sacrati foederis
Fideique sanctæ, vinculo astrinxit Jupiter;
Quæ vis lacesset? quod scelus quatiet? quibus
Armis dolisve insanus utetur furor?
En hic frequentes et celebres civium
Turmæ, hic juventæ dulce conspirans cohors,
Matres puellis, juvenibus[616] misti senes,
Vos intuentur: omnis ordo suspicit.
Hæ[617] gratiosa lumina, illi pectora
Generosa pariter et serena prædicant.
(_Adventu Regis, Insula Britanniæ sese aperit,
Londinumque prodit._)
Totius aperit Insula imperii fores,
Ultroque prodit cana mater urbium.
LONDINUM.
Sera quidem, at felix, O cælo addenda, sereno
Numina nata solo, illuxit præsentia vestra.
Ecce, domus omnes turgent, plenæque fenestræ
Expectantum oculos, et prospera cuncta precantum.
Invide, Brittannas complexe, Tridentifer,[618] oras,
Cur tam longa piæ mora gaudia distulit urbis?
NEPTUNUS.
Urbs cara nobis, cara supremo patri,
Non aliqua nos invidia, sed zelus tui,
Movit, citatque, ut cursui obstarem ratis.
Ego, cum viderem Principem tantum meo
Sedisse dorso, ac linteis plenis vehi,
Quidnam pararet veritus, et quo tenderet,
Remoras adhibui, fateor, ac per me obsteti,
Ne te moveret, ne tibi damnum daret;
Tibi ut faverem moris antiqui est mihi.
Sed, amore cuncta plena[619] fraterno videns,
Preces benignas ut perimpleret tuas,
Ventum ferentem et maria concessit Jupiter,
Dabuntque Neptunus, et Eolus, et Jupiter.[620]
LONDINUM.
Sic, O sic fiat! læto exultate triumpho,
Terra ferax, mare fluctisonum, resonabilis Echo:
Vivant, æternum vivant, pia numina, fratres!
Vivant, Vivant!
The [h]umblest servant
of your sacred Majesty,
_John Marston_.
[615] From Royal MSS. 18A xxxi. (British Museum).
[616] MS. "juvenibus_que_"--an unmetrical reading.
[617] MS. "Hi."
[618] MS. "Tridentifere."
[619] MS. "pleno fraterna."
[620] "In MS. legitur, Neptunus, Eolus, Jupiter; Monosyllaba hæc
duo interposita metrum ad iambicos Marstonianos (non Horatianos,
fatemur) restituunt."--_Halliwell._
VERSES BY MARSTON.
From Sir Robert Chester's _Love's Martyr_,[621] 1601.
_A Narration and Description of a most exact wondrous Creature,
arising out of the Phoenix and Turtle-Dove's ashes._
O, 'twas a moving Epicedium!
Can fire, can time, can blackest fate consume
So rare creation? No, 'tis thwart to sense;
Corruption quakes to touch such excellence;
Nature exclaims for justice, justice fate,--
Ought into nought can never remigrate.
Then look; for see what glorious issue, brighter
Than clearest fire, and beyond faith far whiter
Than Dian's tier, now springs from yonder flame!
Let me stand numb'd with wonder; never came 10
So strong amazement on astonish'd eye
As this, this measureless pure rarity.
Lo, now, th' extracture of Divinest essence,
The soul of Heaven's laboured quintessence,
(Pæans to Phoebus!) your dear lover's death
Takes sweet creation and all-blessing breath.
What strangeness is't, that from the Turtle's ashes
Assumes such form, whose splendour clearer flashes
Than mounted Delius? Tell me, genuine muse!
Now yield your aids, you spirits that infuse 20
A sacred rapture, light my weaker eye,
Raise my invention on swift fantasy;
That whilst of this same Metaphysical,
God, man, nor woman, but elix'd of all,
My labouring thoughts with strainèd ardour sing,
My muse may mount with an uncommon wing.
_The Description of this Perfection._
Dares then thy too audacious sense
Presume define that boundless _Ens_,
That amplest thought transcendeth?
O yet vouchsafe, my muse, to greet
That wondrous rareness, in whose sweet
All praise begins and endeth.
Divinest Beauty! that was slightest,
That adorn'd this wondrous Brightest,
Which had nought to be corrupted.
In this perfection had no mean; 10
To this earth's purest was unclean,
Which virtue even instructed.
By it all beings deck'd and stainèd,
Ideas that are idly feignèd
Only here subsist invested;
Dread not to give strain'd praise at all,
No speech is hyperbolical
To this Perfection blessèd.
Thus close my rhymes; this all that can be said,
This wonder never can be flatterèd. 20
_To Perfection.--A Sonnet._
Oft have I gazèd with astonish'd eye
At monstrous issues of ill-shapèd birth,
When I have seen the midwife to old Earth,
Nature, produce most strange deformity.
So have I marvell'd to observe of late
Hard-favour'd feminines so scant of fair,
That masks so choicely shelter'd of the air,
As if their beauties were not theirs by fate.
But who so weak of observation,
Hath not discern'd long since how virtues wanted, 10
How parsimoniously the Heavens have scanted
Our chiefest part of adoration?
But now I cease to wonder, now I find
The cause of all our monstrous penny-shows;
Now I conceit from whence wit's scarcety grows,
Hard favour'd features, and defects of mind.
Nature long time hath stor'd up virtue, fairness,
Shaping the rest as foils unto this Rareness.
_Perfectioni Hymnus._
What should I call this Creature,
Which now is grown unto maturity?
How should I blaze this feature
As firm and constant as eternity?
Call it perfection? Fie!
'Tis perfecter than brightest names can light it;
Call it Heaven's mirror? Ay,
Alas! best attributes can never right it.
Beauty's resistless thunder?
All nomination is too straight of sense. 10
Deep contemplation's wonder?
That appellation give this excellence.
Within all best confined,
(Now, feebler Genius, end thy slighter rhyming),
No suburbs,[622]--all is _mind_,--
As far from spot as possible defining.
JOHN MARSTON.
[621] The verses are from the appendix to _Love's Martyr_.
The appendix has a separate title--_Hereafter Follow Diverse
Poeticall Essaies on the former Subiect; viz.: the Turtle and
Phoenix. Done by the best and chiefest of our moderne writers,
with their names subscribed to their particular workes: neuer
before extant, &c._ Marston's verses follow Shakespeare's
_Phoenix and Turtle_.
[622] "Differentia Deorum et Hominum, apud Senecam; Sic habet
nostri melior pars animum, in illis nulla pars extra
animum."--Marginal note in old ed.
THE
MOUNTEBANK'S MASQUE.
_THE MOUNTEBANK'S MASK._
It is with some diffidence that I include this piece among Marston's
Works. Mr. J. P. Collier printed it in 1848 for the Shakespeare
Society from a MS. in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire; and he
stated that Marston's name is pencilled on the cover of the MS. in a
handwriting of the time. This MS. appears to have been mislaid, for I
can find no mention of it in the catalogue of His Grace's dramatic
collection.
Collier was not aware that Nichols had printed this Masque in the
third volume of his "Progress of Queen Elizabeth" from another MS.,
and that there is extant a third MS. copy in Add. MS. 5956 (Brit.
Museum).
I have contented myself with printing Collier's text without any
material alterations; but I have given in a footnote the graceful song
with which the Masque concludes in Nichols' transcript. The Masque was
performed at Court 16th February 1617-8 (See Nichols' _Progresses of
King James I._, iii. 466).
THE
MOUNTEBANK'S MASQUE.
THE FIRST ANTIMASQUE OF
MOUNTEBANKS.
MOUNTEBANK'S SPEECH.
The great Master of medicine, Æsculapius, preserve and prolong the
sanity of these Royal and Princely Spectators. And if any here present
happen to be valetudinary, the blessed finger of our grand Master
Paracelsus be at hand for their speedy reparation. I have heard of a
mad fellow that styles himself a merry Greek, and goes abroad by the
name of Paradox, who with frisking and dancing, and new broached
doctrine, hath stolen himself, this Festival time of Christmas, into
favour at the Court of Purple, and having there got some approbation
for his small performance, is grown so audacious as to intrude himself
into this honoured presence. To prevent whose further growing fame, I
have, with these my fellow Artists of several nations, all famous for
the bank, hither made repair, to present unto your view more
wholesome, more pleasing, and more novel delights, which, to avoid
prolixity, I distribute into these following commonplaces.
Names of Diseases cured by us,
Which being infinite, purposely we omit.
Musical Charms,
Familiar Receipts,
_Sing their Songs, viz._:
_Chorus._ What is't you lack, what would you buy?
What is it that you need?
Come to me, Gallants; taste and try:
Here's that will do the deed.
1 SONG.
1. Here's water to quench maiden fires;
Here's spirits for old occupiers;
Here's powder to preserve youth long,
Here's oil to make weak sinews strong.
What!
2. This powder doth preserve from fate;
This cures the Maleficiate:
Lost Maidenhead this doth restore,
And makes them Virgins as before.
What!
3. Here's cure for toothache, fever-lurdens,[623]
Unlawful and untimely burdens:
Diseases of all Sex and Ages
This Medicine cures, or else assuages.
What!
4. I have receipts to cure the gout,
To keep pox in, or thrust them out;
To cool hot bloods, cold bloods to warm,
Shall do you, if no good, no harm.
What!
2 SONG.
1. Is any deaf? Is any blind?
Is any bound, or loose behind?
Is any foul, that would be fair?
Would any Lady change her hair?
Does any dream? Does any walk,
Or in his sleep affrighted talk?
I come to cure what ere you feel,
Within, without, from head to heel.
2. Be drums or rattles in thy head;
Are not thy brains well tempered?
Does Eolus thy stomach gnaw,
Or breed there vermin in thy maw?
Dost thou desire, and cannot please,
Lo! here the best Cantharides.
I come.
3. Even all diseases that arise
From ill disposed crudities,
From too much study, too much pain,
From laziness, or from a strain,
From any humour doing harm,
Be 't dry or moist, or cold or warm.
I come.
4. Of lazy gout I cure the Rich;
I rid the Beggar of his itch;
I fleam avoid, both thick and thin:
I dislocated joints put in.
I can old Æson's youth restore,
And do a thousand wonders more.
Then come to me. What!
3 SONG.
1. Maids of the chamber or the kitchen,
If you be troubled with an itching,
Come give me but a kiss or two,
I'll give you that shall soon cure you.
Nor Galen nor Hippocrates
Did ever do such cures as these.
2. Crack'd maids, that cannot hold your water,
Or use to break wind in your laughter;
Or be you vex'd with kibes or corns,
I'll cure; or Cuckolds of their horns.
Nor Galen.
3. If lusty Doll, maid of the dairy,
Chance to be blue-nipp'd by the Fairy,
For making Butter with her tail,
I'll give her that did never fail.
Nor Galen.
4. Or if some worse mischance betide her,
Or that the nightmare over-ride her;
Or if she tell all in a dream,
I'll cure her for a mess of cream.
Nor Galen.
4 SONG.
1. Is any so spent, that his wife keeps Lent?
Does any waste in his marrow?
Is any a slug? Let him taste of my drug,
'Twill make him as quick as a sparrow.
My powder and oil, extracted with toil,
By rare sublime infusions,
Have proof they are good, by mine own dear blood,
In many strange conclusions.
2. Does any consume with the salt French rheum?
Doth the gout or palsy shake him:
Or hath he the stone, ere a month be gone,
As sound as a bell I'll make him.
My powder.
3. The griefs of the spleen, and maids that be green,
Or the heat in the Ladies' faces;
The gripes of the stitch, or the Scholar's itch,
In my cures deserve no places.
My powder.
The web or the pin,[624] or the morphew of skin,
Or the rising of the mother,
I can cure in a trice. Oh, then, be not nice,
Nor ought that grieves you smother.
My powder.
FAMILIAR RECEIPTS.
_An approved receipt against Melancholy feminine._
If any Lady be sick of the Sullens, she knows not where, let her take
a handful of simples, I know not what, and use them I know not how,
applying them to the part grieved, I know not which, and she shall be
well, I know not when.
_Against the Scurvy._
If any Scholar be troubled with an itch, or breaking out, which in
time may prove the Scurvy, let him first forbear clawing and fretting
meats, and then purge choler, but by no means upwards.
_For restoring Gentlemen Ushers' Legs._
If any Gentleman Usher hath the consumption in his legs, let him feed
lustily on veal two months in the spring time, and forbear all manner
of mutton, and he shall increase in calf.
_For the Tentigo._
If any be troubled with the Tentigo, let him travel to Japan, or,
because the forest of Turnbolia is of the same altitude, or elevation
of the Pole, and at hand, let him hunt there for his recreation, and
it shall be done in an instant.
_For the Angina._
If any Scholar labour of the Angina, a dangerous disease in the
throat, so that he cannot speak an hour together once in a quarter of
a year, let him forbear all violent exercises, as trotting to
Westminster Hall every term, and all hot liquors and vapours; let him
abstain from company, retiring himself warm clad in his study four
days in a week, _et fiet_.[625]
_For a Felon._
If any be troubled with a Felon on his finger, whereby he hath lost
the lawful use of his hand, let him but once use the exercise of
swinging, and stretch himself upon the sovereign tree of Tiburnia, and
it will presently kill the Fellon. _Probatum_.
_For a Tympany._
If any Virgin be so sick of Cupid that the disease is grown to a
Tympany, let her with all speed possible remove herself, changing air
for forty weeks at least, keeping a spare diet as she travels, always
after using lawful exercises, till she be married, and then she is
past danger.
_For Barrenness._
If any lady be long married, yet childless, let her first desire to be
a mother, and to her breakfast take a new-laid egg, in a spoonful of
goat's milk, with a scruple of Ambergris; and at supper feed on a hen
trodden but[626] by one cock. But above all things, let her avoid
hurrying in a Caroch, especially on the stones, and assuming a finer
mould than nature meant her, and no doubt she shall fructify.
_For the Falling Sickness._
If any woman be troubled with the falling sickness, let her not travel
Westward Ho, because she must avoid the Isle of Man; and for that it
is an evil Spirit only entered into her, let her for a Charm always
have her legs across when she is not walking, and this will help her.
_For a Rupture._
If any Tradesman be troubled with a Rupture in the bowels of his
estate, that he cannot go abroad, let him decoct Gold from a pound to
a noble, taking the broth thereof from six months to six months, and
he shall be as able a man as ever he was.
Now, Princely Spectators, to let you see that we are men qualified
from head to foot, we will show you a piece of our footmanship.
_Dance Antimasque._
[_Exeunt._
_Enter_ PARADOX.
Health and jouisance to this fair assembly. Now the thrice three
learned Sisters forsake me, if ever I beheld such beauties in Athens.
You ask, perhaps, who I am that thus conceitedly salute you? I am a
merry Greek, and a Sophister of Athens, who, by fame of certain novel
and rare presentments undertaken and promised by the gallant Spirits
of Graia drawn hither, have intruded myself, Sophiste like, in at the
back door, to be a Spectator, or rather a Censor, of their
undertakings. The Muses grant they may satisfy our expectations. Ah,
the shows and the songs, and the speeches, and the plays, and the
comedies, and the actings that I have seen at Athens! The universe
never saw the like. But let that pass. There was another end of my
coming, and that was to get some of these Beauties to be my disciples;
for I teach them rare doctrines, but delightful; and if you be true
Athenians (that is, true lovers of novelties, as I hope you all are)
you will give my hopes their looked-for expectation. Know, then, my
name is Paradox: a strange name, but proper to my descent, for I blush
not to tell you truth. I am a slip of darkness, my father a Jesuit,
and my mother an Anabaptist; and as my name is strange, so is my
profession, and the art which I teach, myself being the first that
reduced it to rules and method, bears my own name, Paradox. And I pray
you, what is a Paradox? It is a Quodlibet, or strain of wit and
invention screwed[627] above the vulgar conceit, to beget admiration.
And (because method is the mother of discipline) I divide my
Paradox[es] into these [three] heads--Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter;
and first of the first, for the Masculine is more worthy than the
Feminine, and the Feminine than the Neuter.
[_Draws his Book and reads._
_Masculine._[628]
1. He cannot be a Cuckold that wears a Gregorian, for a perriwig will
never fit such a head.
2. A Knight of the long robe is more honourable than a Knight made in
the field; for furs are dearer than spurs.
3. 'Tis better to be a coward than a Captain; for a goose lives longer
than a cock of the game.
4. A Cannibal is the lovingest man to his enemy; for willingly no man
eats that he loves not.
5. A Bachelor is but half a man, and being wed, he may prove more than
half a monster; for Aries and Taurus rule the head and shoulders, and
Capricorn reacheth as low as the knees.
6. A wittall cannot be a Cuckold: for a Cuckold is wronged by his
wife, which a wittall cannot be; for _volenti non fit injuria_.
7. A Shoemaker is the fittest man of the parish to make a Constable;
for he _virtuti officii_ put any man in the stocks, and enlarge him at
last.
8. A prisoner is the best fencer; for he ever lies at a close ward.
9. An elder Brother may be a wise man; for he hath wherewithal to
purchase experience, at any rate.
10. A Musician will never make a good Vintner; for he deals too much
with flats and sharps.
11. A Drunkard is a good philosopher; for he thinks aright that the
world goes round.
12. The Devil cannot take Tobacco through his nose; for St. Dunstan
hath seared that up with his tongs.
13. Prentices are the nimblest Scavengers; for they can cleanse the
City Stews in one day.
14. No native Physician can be excellent; for all excellent simples
are foreigners.
15. A Master of Fence is more honourable than a Master of Arts; for
good fighting was before good writing.
16. A Court fool must needs be learned; for he goes to school in the
Porter's Lodge.
17. Burgomasters ought not to wear their fur gowns at Midsummer; for
so they may bring in the sweating sickness again.
18. A Cutpurse is of the surest trade; for his work is no sooner done,
but he hath his money in his hand.
_Feminine._
1. 'Tis far better to marry a widow than a maid.--_Causa patet_.
2. Downright language is the best Rhetoric to win a woman; for plain
dealing is a jewel, and there is no lady but desires her lap full of
them.
3. Women are to be commended for loving Stage players; for they are
men of known action.
4. If a woman with child long to lie with another man, her husband
must consent; for if he will not, she will do it without him.
5. Rich widows were ordained for younger brothers; for they, being
born to no land, must plough in another man's soil.
6. A maid should marry before the years of discretion; for _Malitia
supplet et cætera_.
7. 'Tis dangerous to wed a widow; for she hath cast her rider.
8. An English virgin sings sweeter here than at Brussells; for a
voluntary is sweeter than a forc'd note.
9. A great Lady may with her honour wear her servant's picture; for a
shadow yet never made a Cuckold.
10. A painted Lady best fits a Captain; for so both may fight under
their colours.
11. It is good for a young popish wench to marry an old man; for so
she shall be sure to keep all fasting nights.
12. A dangerous secret is safely plac'd in a woman's bosom; for no
wise man would search for it there.
13. A woman of learning and tongues is an admirable creature; for a
starling that can speak is a present for an Emperor.
14. There were never so many chaste wives as in this age; for now 'tis
out of fashion to lie with their own husbands.
15. A great Lady should not wear her own hair; for that's as mean as a
coat of her own spinning.
16. A fair woman's neck should stand awry; for so she looks as if she
were looking for a kiss.
17. Women love fish better than flesh; for they will have Place,
whatever they pay for it.
_Neuter._[629]
1. Old things are the best things; for there is nothing new but
diseases.
2. The best bodies should wear the plainest habits; for painted
Clothes were made to hide bare walls.
3. Dissemblers may safely be trusted; for their meaning is ever
contrary to their words.
4. Musicians cannot be but healthful; for they live by good air.
5. An Usurer is the best Christian; for _Quantum nummorum in arca,
Tantum habet et fidei_.
6. None should have license to marry but rich folks; for _Vacuum_ is a
monster _in rerum natura_.
7. A hare is more subtle than a fox; for she makes more doubles than
old Reynard.
8. 'Tis better to be a beggar than a Merchant; for all the world lies
open to his traffic, and yet he pays no custom.
9. 'Tis more safe to be drunk with the hop than with the grape; for a
man should be more inward with his Countryman than with a stranger.
10. It is better to buy honour than to deserve it; for what is far
fetched and dear bought is good for Ladies.
11. A man deep in debt should be as deep in drink; for Bacchus cancels
all manner of obligations.
12. Playhouses are more necessary in a well governed Commonwealth than
public Schools; for men are better taught by example than precept.
13. It is better to feed on vulgar and gross meats, than on dainty and
high dishes; for they that eat only partridge or quail, hath no other
brood than woodcock or goose.
14. Taverns are more requisite in a City than Academies; for it is
better the multitude were loving than learned.
15. A Tobacco shop and a Bawdy house are coincident; for smoke is not
without fire.
16. An Almanack is a book more worthy to be studied than the history
of the world; for a man to know himself is the most worthy knowledge,
and there he hath twelve signs to know it by.
17. Wealth is better than wit; for few poets have had the fortune to
be chosen Aldermen.
18. Marriage frees a man from care; for then his wife takes all upon
her.
19. A Kennel of hounds is the best Consort;[630] for they need no
tuning from morning to night.
20. The Court makes better Scholars than the University: for where a
King vouchsafes to be a teacher, every man blushes to be a
non-proficient.
[_Music sounds._
_Enter Pages._
_Para._ But hark! Music: they are upon entrance. I must put up.
MAIN MASQUE.
_Enter Pages 4._
_Their Song, dialoguewise._
Where shall we find relief?
Is there no end of grief?
Is there no comfort left?
What cruel Charms bereft
The patrons of our youth?
We must now beg for ruth.
_Enter_ Kind pity is the most
_Obscurity._ Poor boys can hope for, when
Their joys are lost.
OBSCURITY.
Light, I salute thee; I, Obscurity,
The son of Darkness and forgetful Lethe;
I, that envy thy brightness, greet thee now,
Enforc'd by Fate. Fate makes the strongest bow.
The ever youthful Knights by spells enchain'd,
And long within my shady nooks restrain'd,
Must be enlarged, and I the Usher be
To their night glories; so the Fates agree.
Then, put on life, Obscurity, and prove
As light as light, for awe, if not for love.
Lo! hear their tender year'd, kind-hearted Squires,
Mourning their Master's loss; no new desires
Can train them from these walks, but here they wend
From shade to shade, and give their toils no end.
But now will I relieve their suffering care.
Hear me, fair Youths! since you so constant are
In faith to your lov'd Knights, go haste apace,
And with your bright lights guide them to this place;
For if you fall directly, that descent,
Their wished approach will farther search prevent.
Haste by the virtue of a charming song,
While I retrieve them, lest they lag too long.
THE CALL, OR SONG OF OBSCURITY.
Appear, Appear, you happy Knights!
Here are several sorts of Lights:
Fire and beauty shine together,
Your slow steps inviting hither.
Come away; and from your eyes
Th' old shades remove,
For now the Destinies
Release you at the suit of Love.
So, so: 'tis well marched, march apace;
Two by two fill up the place,
And then with voice and measure
Greet the King of Love and Pleasure.
Now, Music, change thy notes, and meet
Aptly with the Dancers' feet;
For 'tis the pleasure of Delight
That they shall triumph all this night.
THE SONG AND DANCE TOGETHER.
Frolic measures now become you,
Overlong obscured Knights:
What if Lethe did benumb you,
Love now wakes you to delights.
Love is like a golden flower,
Your comely youth adorning:
Pleasure is a gentle shower
Shed in some April morning.
Lightly rise, and lightly fall you
In the motion of your feet:
Move not till our notes do call you;
Music makes the action sweet.
Music breathing blows the fire
Which Cupids feeds with fuel,
Kindling honour and desire,
And taming hearts most cruel.
Quickly, quickly, mend your paces,
Nimbly changing measured graces:
Lively mounted high aspire,
For joy is only found in fire.
Music is the soul of measure,
Mixing both in equal grace;
Twins are they, begot of Pleasure,
When she wisely numbered space.
Nothing is more old or newer
Then number, all advancing;
And no number can be truer
Than music joined with dancing.
Every Knight elect a Beauty,
Such as may thy heart inflame:
Think that her bright eye doth view thee,
And to her thy action frame.
So shall none be faint or weary,
Though treading endless paces;
For they all are light and merry
Whose hopes are fed with graces.
Sprightly, sprightly, end your paces,
Nimbly changing measured graces:
Lively mounted high aspire,
For joy is only found in fire.
OBSCURITY.
Servants of Love, for so it fits you be,
Since he alone hath wrought your liberty,
His ceremonies now and courtly rites
Perform with care, and free resolved sprites.
To sullen darkness my dull steps reflect;
All covet that which Nature doth affect.
_The Second Measure; which danc'd,_
SONG TO TAKE OUT THE LADIES.
On, on, brave Knights, you have well showed
Each his due part in nimble dances:
These Beauties to whose hands are owed
Yours, wonder why
You spare to try.
Mark how inviting are their glances.
Such, such a charm, such faces, such a call,
Would make old Æson skip about the Hall.
See, see fair choice, a starry sphere
Might dim bright day: choose here at pleasure.
Please your own eye: approve you here,
Right gentle Knights:
To these soft wights
View, talk and touch, but all in measure.
Far far from hence be roughness, far a frown;
Your fair deportment this fair night shall crown.
_After they have danced with the Ladies, and set them in
their places, fall to their last Dance._
_Enter_ PARADOX, _and to him his Disciples_.
Silence, Lordings, Ladies, and fiddles! Let my tongue twang awhile. I
have seen what hath been showed; and now give me leave to show what
hath not been seen, for the honour of Athens. By virtue of this
musical Whistle I will summon my disciples. See obedience: here they
are all ready. Put forward, my paradoxical Pupils, methodically and
arithmetically, one by one.
1. Behold this principal Artist that swift encounters me, whose head
is honoured by his heels for dancing in a Chorus of a Tragedy
presented at Athens, where he produced such learned variety of
footing, and digested it so orderly and close to the ground, that he
was rewarded with this relic, the cothurne or buskin of Sophocles,
which for more eminence he wears on his head. The paradoxical virtue
thereof is, that being dipped into River or Spring, it alters the
nature of the liquor, and returneth full of wine of Chios, Palermo, or
Zante.
2. This second Master of the science of footmanship (for he never came
on horseback in his life) was famed at the Feast of Pallas, where in
dancing he came off with such lofty tricks, turns above ground,
capers, cross-capers, horse-capers, so high and so lofty performed,
that he for prize bore away the Helmet of Pallas. The paradoxical
virtue of the Cask is, that in our travels if we fall among enemies,
show but this, and they suddenly vanish all like fearful shadows.
3. Now, view this third piece of Excellence: this is he that put down
all the Bakers, at the feast of Ceres, and so danced there, as if he
had kneaded dough with his feet: wherewith the Goddess was so tickled,
that she in reward set this goodly loaf on his head, and endued it
with this paradoxical influence, that cut off it and eat as often as
you please, it straight fills up again, and is in the instant healed
of any wound our hunger can inflict on it.
4. Approach now thou that comest in the rear of my disciples, but
mayest march in the vanguard of thy validity; for at the celebration
of the feast of Venus Cytherea, this Amoroso did express such passion
with his eyes, such casts, such winks, such glances, and with his
whole body such delightful gestures, such cringes, such pretty wanton
mimics, that he won the applause of all; and, as it was necessary at
the Feast of that Goddess, he had then a most ample and inflaming
codpiece, which, with his other graces, purchased him this prize, the
Smock of Venus, wrapped turbanlike on his head, the same she had on
when she went to bed to Mars, and was taken napping by Vulcan. The
Paradox of it is, that if it be hanged on the top of our Maypole, it
draws to us all the young lads and lasses near adjoining, without
power to part till we strike sail ourselves. And now I have named our
Maypole, go bring it forth, though it be more cumbersome than the
Trojan horse: bring it by force of arms, and see you fix it fast in
the midst of this place, lest, when you encircle it with your
capricious dances, it falls from the foundation, lights upon some
lady's head, and cuffs off her perriwig. But now for the glory of
Athens!
_Music plays the Antimasque. The disciples dance one Strain._
We have give you a taste of the excellency of our Athenial Revels,
which I will now dignify with mine own person. Lie here, impediment,
whereof being freed, I will descend. O, you Authors of Greek wonders!
what ostent is this? What supernatural Paradox? a wooden Maypole find
the use of voluntary motion! Assuredly this tree was formerly the
habitation of some wood nymph, for the Dryads (as the Poets say) live
in trees; and perhaps, to honour my dancing, the nymph hath crept into
this tree again: so I apprehend it, and will entertain her courtesy.
PARADOX, _his Disciples, and the Maypole, all dance_.
Did ever eye see the like footing of a tree, or could any tree but an
Athenian tree do this? or could any nymph move it but an Athenian
nymph? Fair Nymph, though I cannot arrive at thy lips, yet will I kiss
the wooden mask that hides thy no doubt most amiable face.
PARADOX _offers to kiss and a Nymph's head meets him
out of the Maypole_.
Wonder of wonders! Sweet Nymph, forbear: my whole structure trembles:
mortality cannot stand the brightness of thy countenance. Pursue me
not, I beseech thee: put up thy face, for love's sake. Help, help!
Disciples, take away this dismal peal from me. Rescue me, with all
your violence.--So, the Devil is gone, and I will not stay long after.
Lordings and Ladies: if there be any here desirous to be instructed in
the mystery of Paradoxing, you shall have me at my lodging in the
black and white Court, at the sign of the Naked Boy. And so to you all
the best wishes of the night.
_Enter_ MOUNTEBANK, _like a Swiss_.
Stay, you presumptuous Paradox! I have viewed thy antics and thy
Puppet, which have kindled in me the fire of Emulation. Look; am I not
in habit as fantastic as thyself? Dost thou hope for grace with
Ladies, by thy novel doctrine? I am a man of art: witness this, my
Charming Rod, wherewith I work Miracles; and whereas thou like a
fabulous Greek, hast made monsters of thy Disciples, lo! I will oppose
squadron against squadron, and plain truth against painted fiction.
Now for [thy] moving Ale-sign: but for frighting the Devil out of it,
I could encounter thee with Tottenham High Cross, or Cheap Cross
(though it be new guilt), but I scorn odds, and therefore will I
affront thee pole to pole. Go, Disciples: usher in our lofty enchanted
motion; and, Paradox, now betake you to your tackling, for you deal
with men that have got air and fire in them.
PARADOX.
Assist me, thou active nymph, and you, my glorious associates.
Victory! Victory for Athens!
[_Dance._
MOUNTEBANK.
Accomplished Greek! now, as we are true Mountebanks, this was bravely
performed on both parts, and nothing now remains but to make these two
Maypoles better acquainted. But we must give place: the Knights appear.
OBSCURITY _Enter_.
Enough of these night-sports! part fairly, Knights,
And leave an edge on pleasure, lest these lights
I suddenly dim all; and pray, how then
Will these gay Ladies shift among you men,
In such confusion? Some their homes may miss:
Obscurity knows tricks as mad as this.
But make your parting innocent for me;
I will no author now of Error be.
Myself shall pass with you, a friend of light,
Giving to all this round a kind good night.
LAST SONG.[631]
We must away: yet our slack pace may show
'Tis by constraint we this fair Orb forego.
Our longer stay may forfeit what but now
Love hath obtained for us: to him we bow,
And to this gentler Power, who so contriv'd
That we from sullen shades are now depriv'd,
And hither brought, where Favour, Love, and Light,
So gloriously shine, they banish Night.
More would we say, but Fate forbids us more.--
Our Cue is out--Good night is gone before.[632]
[623] "Fever-lurdens"--a jocular term for slothfulness.
[624] "Pin and the web" was the name of a disorder of the eye.
[625] The words "_et fiet_" are omitted in Add. MS.--Nichols
gives "at first."--It may be remarked that Nichols' transcript is
made throughout in a slovenly manner.
[626] "But" is omitted by Collier, but found in Add. MS. and
Nichols.
[627] So Add. MS. and Nichols.--Collier gives "strued."
[628] In Add. MS. and Nichols are some additional "paradoxes."
[629] "Epicæne" in the MS. is struck out and "Newter" written as
a correction.
[630] Concert.
[631] In Nichols' _Progresses_ the Masque concludes with the
following song:--
"The hour of sweety night decays a-pace,
And now warm beds are better than this place.
All time is long that is unwillingly spent,
But hours are minutes when they yield content:
The gathered flowers we love that breathe sweet scent,
But loathe them, their sweet odours being spent.
It is a life is never ill
To lie and sleep in roses still.
The rarer pleasure is it is more sweet,
And friends are kindest when they seldom meet.
Who would not hear the nightingale still sing,
Or who grew ever weary of the spring?
The day must have her night, the spring her fall,
All is divided, none is lord of all:
It were a most delightful thing
To live in a perpetual spring."
In the third line we should doubtless read "unwilling" for
"unwillingly."
[632] In Add. MS. follow some "paradoxes" which "were read at
Gray's Inn but left out at Court to avoid tediousness." Most of
these are found in pp. 428-432. [Transcriber's Note: numbered
paragraphs under headers "Masculine," "Feminine," and "Neuter."]
Amicis,[633] amici nostri dignissimi dignissimis,
EPIGRAMMA
D.
JOHANNES MARSTONIUS.
Ye ready friends, spare your unneedful bays:
This work despairful Envy must even praise.
Phoebus hath voiced it loud through echoing skies:
"Sejanus' Fall shall force thy merit rise:"
For never English shall, or hath before
Spoke fuller graced. He could say much, not more.
[633] Prefixed to the 1605 4to. of Ben Jonson's _Sejanus_.
INDEX.
Abhominable, ii. 219
Accourt, i. 52
Accoustrements, iii. 261
Accustrements, i. 24
Achelous, ii. 144
Actors (two or more parts taken by one actor), i. 8
Adamant softened by goat's blood, iii. 151
Aderliver, ii. 18
Admiral, iii. 84
_Adore_ and _adorn_ (confusion between), iii. 362
Ægina, iii. 290
Affects (= affections), i. 119, 160
A-jax, ii. 368; iii. 377
Allay, ii. 73
All-canning, iii. 263, 335
Aloune (_Fr._ allons), ii. 355
Ambages, iii. 173
Anatomy, iii. 139, 236
Ancome, iii. 51
_And ever she cried Shoot home_, iii. 15
_Anechou e apechou_, ii. 176
An-end, iii. 164
Aphrodisiacs, i. 239
Apple-squire, ii. 383
Aporn, ii. 65
Apostata, iii. 220
Approvement, i. 189
Apricock, ii. 130
Aquinian, iii. 327
Aretine, _Puttana Errante_ falsely ascribed to, iii. 377;
Aretine's _Pictures_, iii. 275
Aristotle quoted, iii. 329;
_Aristotle's Problems_, i. 152
Armed Epilogue, i. 93
Assay ("give me assay"), i. 64
Assured, i. 109
At all, iii. 318
Aunt, ii. 14
Babies, iii. 362
Babion, iii. 364
Bable, i. 85, 158; ii. 69
Bacchis, iii. 356
Backside, iii. 101
Bacon, Friar, ii. 125
Badged coach, iii. 350
Baffle, ii. 401
Baldessar Castiglione, i. 222; iii. 264
Bale of dice, ii. 382
Balloon, iii. 17
Bankrout, i. 138
Banks, i. 21
Barbary sugar, ii. 360
Barksteed, William, iii. 243
Barmy froth, iii. 339
Barnes, Barnabe, iii. 358
Bases, iii. 153
Basilisco, ii. 348
Basilus manus, iii. 192
Basket (for collecting food for poor prisoners), iii. 111
Bastard, Thomas, quoted by Marston, _Addenda_, vol. i.
Battle fate, ii. 350
Bawbees, i. 204
Bayard ("bold as blind Bayard"), ii. 324
Beaking, i. 133
Bear a brain, ii. 60, 124
Bear no coals, i. 168
Beat, i. 146
Beaver, iii. 350
Becco, i. 214, 287
Beg for a fool, i. 233; ii. 347; iii. 217
Beggar-wench, jest about, iii. 302
Bel and the Dragon, ii. 131
Belly-cheer, iii. 366
Bescumber, iii. 363
Bessicler's armour, i. 30
_Bewray_ and _beray_, i. 114; ii. 359
Bezel, i. 240; iii. 275, 349
Black ox trod o' my foot, iii. 119
Blackfriars, feather-makers reside at, i. 202;
Blackfriars' Theatre, i. 199
Black-guard, ii. 182
Blacks, ii. 339
Blacksaunt, iii. 347
Blind Gew, i. 13
Blue coat, iii. 50, 301
Books called in, ii. 48
Boot-carouse, iii. 275
Borage in wine, iii. 394
Bottle-ale (term of reproach), iii. 339
Brack, i. 9, 140
Bragot, ii. 101
Braided, iii. 325, 337
Brakes, i. 320
Brasil, iii. 272
Brides serenaded on the morning after their wedding, ii. 389
Brill, iii. 348
Brittany, i. 26
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, ii. 197; iii. 151, 241
Budge, iii. 346, 368
Buffin, iii. 14
Bully, i. 79; ii. 353
Burbage, Richard, i. 201
Burbolt, ii. 323
Burgonian's ward, iii. 373
Buried treasure, iii. 219
Burn, iii. 241
Busk, i. 9
Busk-point, i. 274; iii. 255
Buss, ii. 90
_But a little higher_, &c., _Addenda_, vol. i.
Cable-hatband, i. 31
Cables (used as a protection from the fire of the enemy), i. 30
Camomile ("mount like camomile"), ii. 144
Campion, Thomas, _Addenda_, vol. i.
Cant, i. 132
Carpet-boy, i. 20
Carry coals, i. 288
Carver ("you're a cunning carver"), iii. 141
Case (kaze), ii. 11
Case (= covering), iii. 109
Case of rapiers, i. 30
Cast o' ladies, i. 238
Castilio, i. 222; iii. 264
Casting-bottle, i. 13
Catso, i. 216, 304, &c.
Censure, i. 202; ii. 255, 323
Chamlet, ii. 345
Chaun, i. 46
Cheat-bread, iii. 103
Cheator, ii. 406
Cherries at an angel a pound, iii. 15
Chittizen, iii. 19
Chopines, ii. 50
Christ-Church Parish, iii. 12
Chuck (term of endearment), iii. 104
Cinædian, iii. 310
Cinquepace, iii. 268
Cipres, i. 258
Cittern-heads, iii. 301
Claw, i. 105
Clerkenwell, ii. 16
Close fight, i. 24
Clove-stuck face, iii. 348
Clumsy, i. 99
Clutch, i. 144
Cluttered, i. 120; iii. 356
Coast, i. 312
Cockatrice, i. 301; ii. 18; iii. 224
Codpis, iii. 273
Cog a die, i. 48
Coistered, i. 293
Collogue, i. 302
Colour de roy, i. 111
Come aloft Jack-an-apes, i. 214
Come on five, iii. 318
Commodities ("take up commodities"), i. 305, &c.
Common-place book out of plays, iii. 372
Complements, i. 233
Consort, iii. 432
Convey, ii. 387
Copy, ii. 408
Coranto, i. 32
Corbed, i. 130
Cork shoe, i. 81
Cornish daws, iii. 332
Coronel, iii. 212
Corsive, iii. 151
Cote, i. 167
Crab's baked guts, i. 239; iii. 320
Crack (pert boy), ii. 383
Creak's noise, ii. 45
Cressit light, i. 41
Cross-bite, ii. 381, 387
Crowds, ii. 373
Crudled, i. 26
Cuckold's haven, iii. 68
Cuckquean, ii. 377
Cullion, i. 206; iii. 89
Cullisses, ii. 141
Culvering, iii. 365
Curson'd, i. 55
Curtain Theatre, _Romeo and Juliet_ performed at, iii. 373
Custard ("let custards quake"), iii. 312
Cut ("in the old cut"), i. 11
Cut and long tail, iii. 10
Cutter, ii. 401
Cutting, ii. 45
Cyllenian, iii. 274
Dametas, iii. 268
Daniel the Prophet, ii. 150; iii. 341
Daniel, Samuel, iii. 283
Day ("let him have day"), ii. 8
Day, John, his _Humour out of Breath_ dedicated to _Signior Nobody_,
i. 5;
quotation from his _Isle of Gulls_, i. 289
Death o' sense, ii. 158
Death's head on rings, ii. 16
Decimo sexto, i. 203
Defend ("God defend!"), i. 204
Demosthenes paid for his silence, ii. 152
Denier, iii. 315
Depaint, i. 90; iii. 271
Deprave, ii. 126
Diet, ii. 370;
diet-drink, ii. 15
Diety, ii. 24
Digby, Sir Everard, ii. 193
Dilling, ii. 344; iii. 10
Ding, i. 11, 166; iii. 282
Diogenes the Cynic, scandalous story about, iii. 319
Dipsas, i. 238
Discreet number, iii. 314
Disgest, i. 140, 146, 161; ii. 179
_Divines and dying men may talk of hell_, &c., iii. 225
Division, i. 48, 81
_Do me right and dub me knight_, i. 81
Donne's verses _On a Flea on his Mistress' Bosom_, iii. 359
Donzel del Phebo, i. 300
Dowland, John, his _First Book of Songs_ quoted, iii. 14, 55
Drake's ship at Deptford, iii. 59
Drayton, Michael, iii. 283, 363
Drink drunk, iii. 84
Dropsy-noul, iii. 340
Dun cow with a kettle on her head, i. 72
Durance, iii. 15
Dutch ancients, iii. 351
Eager, ii. 73
_Eastward Ho!_ iii. 5;
satirical reflections on the Scots, iii. 65
Ela ("I have strained a note above Ela"), i. 86
Enagonian, iii. 336
Enginer, iii. 97
Enhanceress, ii. 15
Epictetus, saying of, ii. 176
Erasmus, resemblance between a passage of his _Colloquies_ and
passage of _First Part of Antonio and Mellida_, i. 62
Ercole, Duke of Ferrara, ii. 117
Estro, ii. 156
Euphues, ii. 69
Fact, ii. 95; iii. 224
Fage, iii. 308
Fair, iii. 350
Falls, iii. 267
False lights, iii. 337
Family of Love, ii. 13
Far fet and dear bought is good for ladies, i. 306
Fart ("get a fart from a dead man"), iii. 90
Fawn, ii. 115
Feak, iii. 265
Fear (= frighten), ii. 158
Fear no colours, iii. 153
Featherbeds used in naval engagements as a protection against the
fire of the enemy, i. 30
Feature, iii. 251
_Feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis_, ii. 404
Fencing, terms in, iii. 373
Fere, iii. 225
Fetch, i. 127
Fever-lurdens, iii. 420
Fico, ii. 133; iii. 320
Figent, iii. 60
Fin ("the fin of his eyes"), i. 214
Fist, ii. 42, 73, 82; iii. 90
Flap-dragon, ii. 70
Flat-cap, ii. 32; iii. 11
Fleam, i. 230
Fleamy, i. 133
Flushing, i. 234
Flyboat, i. 87
Foisting-hound, iii. 41
Foot-cloth, i. 213; ii. 153
Foutra, ii. 32
Fowl (fool), i. 260
Frail commodities, iii. 40
French brawl, ii. 377
Froe, ii. 13
Froterer, ii. 384
Fumatho, ii. 184
Galleasse, i. 87, 162
Gallemawfrey, iii. 139
Gamashes, ii. 344
Garboil, iii. 356
Geason, ii. 331, 339
Gelded vicary, iii. 324, 337
_Gelid_ and _jellied_, ii. 291
Gern, i. 55, 111; ii. 203, 403
Get-penny, iii. 87
Gew, the actor, i. 13; _Addenda_, vol. i.
Ghosts of misers, iii. 219
Giants at the Lord Mayor's pageant, ii. 50
Gib-cat, ii. 203
Giglet, ii. 340, 400
Gilt, iii. 323
Give arms, iii. 11
Give further day, ii. 328
Glaired, iii. 277
Glassy Priapus, iii. 309
Glaver, iii. 263, 339
Glibbery, i. 22
Glory, ii. 225
Gnatho, iii. 291
Goat's blood, iii. 151
God you good even, iii. 5;
God ye good morrow, ii. 393
God's neaks, i. 54
Gold ends, iii. 28
Gold-end man, iii. 103
Goldsmiths' Row, i. 205
Good man (= wealthy man), ii. 57
Goose-turd-green, ii. 47
Gorget, ii. 260
Gormand, iii. 327
Granado netherstocks, iii. 301
Grand grincome, ii. 31
Great man's head, iii. 348
Gresco, iii. 93
Griffith, Margaret, i. 233
Griffon, i. 297
Grillus, iii. 281
Ground, i. 37; iii. 142
Guarded, i. 232; iii. 346
Guards, ii. 387; iii. 14
Guilpin, Edward, iii. 287, 367
Gundolet, i. 57
Gurnet's head, iii. 341
Guzzel dogs, iii. 308
Half-clam'd, i. 150
Half-crown ordinary, ii. 406
Hall, Joseph, iii. 281-6;
Marston's imitations of, iii. 310, 320, 323
Hall ("A hall! a hall!"), iii. 372
_Hamlet_, quoted in _The Malcontent_, i. 201, 264;
early popularity of, iii. 49, 52;
imitation of passages from, i. 224; iii. 133, 134, 137, 230
Hangers, i. 36; ii. 406
Harvey, John, i. 205
Hatch short sword, ii. 406
Hazard, iii. 100
Head-men, iii. 37
Healths in urine, ii. 70
Heathy, i. 15; _Addenda_, vol. i.
Hem, ii. 14
_Henry IV., Part I._, imitation of passage from, iii. 219
Herring-bones, iii. 344
Hey-pass re-pass, ii. 381
Heywood, Thomas, popularity of his _If you know not me you know
nobody_, iii. 87
High-lone, i. 172
High-noll'd, i. 165
Hipponax, iii. 359
Hiren ("Hast thou not Hiren here?"), iii. 26
Hogson, iii. 319
Hole (part of a prison), iii. 106
Honorificabilitudinitatibus, ii. 92
Horn-fair, iii. 72
Hout, i. 65
Huddle, i. 213
Hull, i. 87; ii. 250
Hyena, iii. 115;
confused by Marston with the panther, ii. 347
Hymen represented in a saffron robe, i. 261
_Imagines Deorum_, iii. 270
Imbraid, i. 117, 283
Incubus, i. 107, 172
Inductions to plays, i. 7
Ingenious, ii. 109, 397
Injury (verb), iii. 381
Instaur'd, ii. 333
Intellectual, iii. 372
Inward, i. 282
Io! i. 183
Irishmen, commendable bashfulness of, i. 265
Italy, vices brought to England from, iii. 275
Jakes of Lincoln's Inn, ii. 368
James I, his _Poetical Exercises_, iii. 281;
James' knights, sneer at, iii. 79
Jawn, i. 129
Jellied, i. 114, 126; ii. 291
Jingling spurs, i. 233
Jobbernole, iii. 301, 341
Jones, Robert, quotation from his _First Book of Songs and Airs_, ii. 33
Jonson, Ben, compliment to, i. 320;
allusion to a passage in his _Volpone_, ii. 190;
sneer at his _Sejanus_, ii. 235;
ridiculed, iii. 305
Jove (influence of the planet Jupiter), ii. 292
Judas' red beard, iii. 166
Julia (daughter of Augustus), witty saying of, ii. 12
_Julius Cæsar_, quoted, iii. 215
Juvenal imitated, iii. 308-9
Ka me, ka thee, iii. 30
Keel, i. 77; ii. 321
Kempe's Jig, iii. 372
King of flames, ii. 292
_King John_, quoted, ii. 354
Kinsing, iii. 369
Kinsayder, ii. 350
Knight's ward, iii. 106
Knighthood purchased from King James, iii. 79
Knights of the mew, ii. 322
Knock, i. 31
Knurly, i. 166
Lady-bird, iii. 104
Lælius Balbus, ii. 130
Lamb, Charles, his criticisms on Marston, i. 49, 100;
his remarks on the Decay of Symbols, ii. 338
Lanch (= lance), ii. 193
Lanthorn and candle-light, i. 35; iii. 202
Laver-lip, iii. 291
Lavolta, i. 183
Lay, iii. 88
Lay in lavender, iii. 100
Leese, iii. 346
Leg of a lark is better than the body of a kite, iii. 104
_Legend of Lies_, ii. 69
Legs (= bows), iii. 264
Lemon's juice, iii. 350
Lent, consumption of flesh forbidden during, iii. 203
Leopards, their fondness for wine, iii. 238
Lettuce, iii. 320
Lie, ii. 16
Lindabrides, ii. 55
Linstock, i. 30
Lion, curious belief concerning, iii. 237
London licket, iii. 14
Long stock, ii. 337
Loose ("at the loose"), ii. 387
Los guantes, i. 276
Lovery, iii. 337
_Lozenges of Sanctified Sincerity_, i. 255
Lugg'd boot, iii. 378
Lusk, iii. 335, 358
Luskish, iii. 324
Lusty Laurence, iii. 289
Luxuriousness, iii. 349
M. under your girdle, iii. 92
Mace, iii. 277
Main, ii. 406
Make ("What should we make here?"), iii. 131
Male lie, iii. 308
Malice (verb), ii. 40, 91, 109
Mandragora, iii. 114
Mandrake, iii. 219
Mannington, George, his woeful ballad, iii. 118
March-panes, ii. 373
Marry faugh, iii. 11
Marry muff, i. 169
Martial quoted, ii. 28, 110
Mary Ambree, i. 22
Mason's _Mulleasses_, allusion to passage of, iii. 31;
quoted, _Addenda_, vol. i.
Maypole (term of abuse), i. 23
Measure, i. 184, 276; ii. 43
Measuring, iii. 311
_Merchant of Venice_ quoted, iii. 34
Mere, merely, i. 236, 320; ii. 297
Methodist Musus, iii. 308
Metreza, i. 213
Mincing capreal, iii. 372
Minikin, i. 51, 80
Minikin-tickler, ii. 401
Minioning, i. 279
_Mirror of Knighthood_, i. 300; ii. 69
_Mirror for Magistrates_, iii. 283
Modern, i. 11; iii. 364
Monmouth caps, iii. 84
Month's mind, iii. 135
Moorfields (favourite spot for beggars), iii. 13
More hair than wit, iii. 199
Mortimer's numbers, iii. 363
Motion (= proposal), i. 159; ii. 51, 96; iii. 123
Motion (= puppet-show), ii. 51
Mott, iii. 332
Much (ironical), i. 243, 251, &c.
Muckender, ii. 359
Mumchance, ii. 382
Murr, i. 153; ii. 140
Muscovy glass, i. 234
Music-houses, i. 185
Mycerinus, iii. 243
Naples' canker, iii. 309;
Naples' pestilence, ii. 349
Nashe, Thomas, quoted, iii. 48, 225, 273
Natalis Comes, iii. 270
Neast (nest) of goblets, ii. 7
Nectar-skink, ii. 307
Ne'er-crazed, iii. 355
Nemis, iii. 289
Nile, dogs drinking on the bank of, ii. 281
Nitty, iii. 276, 370
No point, ii. 77
Noddy, iii. 189
Noise, ii. 43
Nuzzel, ii. 372
O God, i. 32
_O hone, hone_, iii. 98
O Lord, sir, ii. 30
Obligation, ii. 57
Occupant, iii. 300, 349
Occupation, ii. 219
O'er-peise, i. 310
Old cut (= old fashion), i. 11
One and thirty, iii. 329
Ophelia, iii. 52
Ophiogeni, iii. 310
Outrecuidance, iii. 95
Owe, ii. 259
Ox-pith, i. 239
Packstaff epithets, iii. 338;
packstaff rhymes, iii. 310
Pages, their fondness for dicing, ii. 382
Paize, i. 100, 121; ii. 327
Palæphatus, iii. 311
Pale, ii. 287
Palladium, ii. 252
Palmerin de Oliva, ii. 69
Pane, ii. 337; iii. 349
Pantable, pantofle, i. 29; ii. 382
Parcel-gilt, ii. 57
Parkets, ii. 141
Parmeno ("nothing _ad Parmenonis suem_"), i. 204
Parted, iii. 20
Parthenophil, iii. 358
Party per pale, ii. 345
Passion, i. 90
Pavin, iii. 340
Peat, ii. 339; iii. 100
Peele, Gronge, _Merry Jests_ of, i. 40
Peevish, iii. 254
_Peggy's complaint for the death of her Willy_, ii. 29
Pepper in the nose, ii. 321
Peregal, i. 55
Perfumed jerkin, i. 314
Perpetuana, ii. 343
Persius quoted, ii. 111
Peterman, iii. 38
Petronel, i. 19
_Physic against Fortune_, i. 255
Pickhatch, iii. 319, 376
Pill (= peel), i. 99
Pillowbear, iii. 253
Pin and the web, iii. 423
Pirates hanged at Wapping, iii. 91
Pistol, Ancient (scraps of his rant), iii. 11
Placket, ii. 383
Plastic, i. 234
Plat, i. 54
Play-bills stuck on posts, iii. 302
Plunge, i. 105
Plutarch quoted, ii. 152, 266
Pole-head, ii. 348
Pomander, i. 294
Pommado reversa, iii. 375
Pompey the huge, i. 214
Ponado, iii. 42
Poor John, i. 89
Popeling, iii. 262
Porcpisce, iii. 69
Port Esquiline, iii. 351, 361
Possessed persons able to speak in various tongues, i. 212
Poting-stick, i. 308
Prest, ii. 250; iii. 312
Priapus' gardens, iii. 302
Proface, iii. 303
Prostitution (= whore), ii. 13
Protest (use of the word considered affected), ii. 345
Pudding tobacco, ii. 344
Pug, i. 29, 152
Puisne, iii. 300
Purchase, i. 303; ii. 410
Purfled, i. 110
Puritan (cant term for a whore), ii. 383
Puritans' ruffs, i. 13
Put-pin, iii. 362
Putry, i. 150
Quelquechose, i. 216
Quiblin, iii. 60
Quote, ii. 364
Ramp, i. 99
Ramsey, Lady, iii. 87
Rariety, iii. 213
Rats of Nilus, iii. 342, 344
Real (= regal), i. 34
Reason (raisin), iii. 154
Rebato, i. 31; iii. 351
Red lattice, i. 86
Reez'd bacon, iii. 322
Remora, iii. 84
Remorse, i. 21, 90
Renowmed, ii. 165
Respective (= respectful), i. 152
Reverent (= reverend), ii. 292; iii. 29, &c.
Rhinoceros' horn, iii. 139
Ribanded ears, ii. 391; iii. 301
_Richard II._, quoted, i. 28;
imitation of passage from, iii. 146
_Richard III._, quoted, i. 47, 48; ii. 349; iii. 344
Ride at the ring, i. 214
Riding-wand, iii. 38
Rings with death's head, ii. 16
Ringo-root, iii. 348
Rivels (= wrinkles), i. 243;
rivell'd, i. 108; iii. 234
Rivo, ii. 349, 355
Roast beef (a "commodity"), iii. 40
Rochelle churchman, i. 252
Rodio, iii. 267
Room, i. 202, 206
_Romeo and Juliet_ performed at the Curtain Theatre, iii. 373;
early popularity of, iii. 140
Rope-maker's son, ii. 153
Rosa solis, ii. 45
Rosemary, iii. 53, 138
Rosicleer, i. 30, 300
Ruff, iii. 182
Ruffled boot, i. 83
Rug-gowns, ii. 395
Rutter, ii. 386
Sacramental wine poisoned, iii. 241
Sad, sadly, sadness, i. 71; iii. 258, 339
St. Agnes' Eve, iii. 141
Salaminian, iii. 261
Say ("take say"), ii. 11
Sconce, i. 236; iii. 84
Scotch barnacle, i. 256;
Scotch boot, i. 257;
Scotch farthingale, iii. 16
Scots, satirised in _Eastward Ho!_ iii. 64
Seneca quoted, i. 20, 49, 122, 127, 130, 133, 141, 144-5, 149, 174,
237, 265, 304; ii. 109
Servant (= suitor, lover), i. 33; ii. 388
Sest, ii. 374, 402
Sewer, ii. 135
Shakespeare, imitated, i. 28, 47, 48, 224; ii. 23, 143, 218; iii.
133, 134, 137, 146, 215, 219, 230;
burlesqued, i. 206; ii. 349; iii. 344
Shaking of the sheets, iii. 165
Shale, ii. 185
Ship of Fools, ii. 122
Shirley, James, iii. 344
Shot-clog, iii. 13
Si quis, ii. 304
_Sick Man's Salve_, iii. 107
Siddow, i. 162
Silver piss-pots, iii. 316
Sink a-pace (cinquepace), iii. 156
Sinking thought, i. 106
Sinklo, the actor, i. 200
Sip a kiss, i. 91
Slatted, i. 281
Sliftred, i. 27
Slip, i. 81, 111
Slop, i. 83
Sluice ("sluiced out his life-blood"), i. 189; iii. 224
Slur, iii. 371
Sly, William, i. 199
Small, ii. 361
Snaphance, iii. 269, 330
Snib, i. 264; ii. 353; iii. 379
Snout-fair, iii. 320
Snurling, i. 186
Soil ("take soil"), i. 254
Soldado, iii. 261, 357
Sometimes, iii. 282
Sophocles' _Antigone_ quoted, i. 128
Souse, i. 279
Southwell, Robert, iii. 281
Spanish blocks, iii. 301
Spanish leather, ii. 7
_Spanish Tragedy_, i. 121, 168; iii. 12, 26, 28
Speak pure fool, i. 85
Speeding-place, ii. 333
Spiders eaten by monkeys, i. 213
Spur-royals, i. 109
Spurs (jingling spurs affected by gallants), i. 233
Squibs running on lines, ii. 121
Stabb'd arms, ii. 70
Stage, custom of gallants to sit (and smoke) on the, i. 199, 200, 206
Stalking-horse, i. 283
Stammel, ii. 387; iii. 14
State (= throne), i. 36; ii. 215
States (= nobles), i. 109, 159, 162
Statist, ii. 262
Statute-staple, iii. 322
Stigmatic, iii. 359
Stock (= stoccata), i. 111, 239
Stockado, iii. 268
Stone-bows, ii. 8
Streak, iii. 323, 355
Stut, ii. 342
Suburbs (bawdy-houses in), i. 317
Suffenus, iii. 306
Surphule, i. 245; iii. 275, 310
Surquedry, i. 50, 147; iii. 267
Switzer, iii. 348
Swound, ii. 93
Sylvester, Joshua, iii. 281
Tacitus, his remarks on prohibited books, ii. 48
Take say, ii. 11
Take the whiff, ii. 353
Take up commodities, ii. 340; iii. 365
_Tamburlaine_, iii. 25
Tanakin, ii. 13
Taw, ii. 376
Tereus, iii. 266
Termagant, iii. 240
There goes but a pair of shears betwixt, i. 290
Thou'st (= thou must), i. 283
Thristing, ii. 413
Thunder, eels roused from the mud by, iii. 347
_Thus while she sleeps I sorrow for her sake_, iii. 14
Thwack a jerkin, ii. 405
Toderers, i. 210
Too too, ii. 328; iii. 313
Totter'd, ii. 373
Touch (= perception), i. 105
Toy to mock an ape withal, iii. 362
Tradesmen's wives used as lures to attract customers, ii. 60; iii.
266, 325
Tragoedia cothurnata, i. 140
Travellers, affected solemnity of, i. 12; iii. 274
Traverse, iii. 394
Trenchmore, iii. 272
Tretably, ii. 358
Trick of twenty, i. 276; ii. 54
Trot the ring, i. 111, 142; iii. 378
Trow (= think you?), iii. 74
Trunk, iii. 31
Trunk-sleeves, ii. 184
Truss my hose, i. 10
Tubrio, iii. 273
Tumbrel, iii. 262, 346
Turnmill Street, ii. 16
Turn-spit dog bound to his wheel, iii. 41
Tweer, i. 71
Twelve-penny room, i. 202
Twinest (= embraces), i. 117
Twopenny ward, iii. 106
Ulysses, his counterfeited madness, iii. 15
Unheal, i. 243
Unnookt simplicity, i. 163
Unpaiz'd, i. 144
Unperegall, ii. 85
Unshale, i. 215
Upbraid, iii. 379
Ure, iii. 312, 329
Vaunt-guard, iii. 261
Vaut, ii. 288
Velure, i. 79
Via, ii. 20, 43, 133
Vie, iii. 84
Vin de monte, ii. 140
Vincentio Saviolo, iii. 373
Violets, bridal-beds strewn with, ii. 373
Virgil imitated, i. 113
Virginia, early settlers in, iii. 63
Virgins, popularly supposed to have the right to save the lives of
criminals, iii. 190
Virtue, ii. 247
Vively, ii. 293
Voluntaries, iii. 261
Wall-eyed, iii. 133
Wandering whore, iii. 377
Wards, treatment of, iii. 314
Wedlock (= wife), ii. 143; iii. 47
Weeping Cross, iii. 85
Welshmen's pride in their gentility, i. 258
_Westward Ho!_ comedy of, iii. 5
Westward Ho! (_i.e._, to Tyburn), iii. 27
Wet finger ("with a wet finger"), ii. 189
What could I do withal? ii. 214
When (exclamation of impatience) i. 241; ii. 348, &c.
_When Arthur first in Court began_, i. 240
_When Sampson was a tall young man_, iii. 32
Whiblin, iii. 168
Whiff, take the, ii. 353
_Who calls Jeronimo?_ iii. 12
_Who cries out murther? Lady, was it you?_ iii. 26
Wighy, i. 56
Will (= command), i. 125, ii. 305
Willow garland, ii. 336
Wimble, i. 58
Wisards (wise men), i. 159; iii. 335
With a wanion, iii. 53
Witches turned into cats, ii. 203
Without a man (_i.e._, outside of man's sense), ii. 294
Wolt, i. 27
Wood, ii. 253
Woodstock's work, iii. 276
Woollen caps, ii. 60
Word (= motto), i. 77, 84; iii. 155
Wounds of a murdered man supposed to bleed in the presence of the
murderer, iii. 224
Wrapt up in the tail of his mother's smock, ii. 407
Wrinkles, vulgar belief concerning, iii. 135
Writhled, iii. 326
Wrought shirt, i. 79
Xylinum, iii. 288, 342
Yellow, iii. 123
You'st (= you must), i. 310
Zabarella, Giacomo, ii. 363
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Transcriber's Note:
Punctuation was standardized. Variations in spelling were retained,
e.g. shipwreck'd, shipwracked, shipwrecked, and Abigail, Abigall,
Abigal. Obsolete words, variant spellings, and dialect were not
changed. Words and phrases in Greek were transliterated. Prose
portions of plays were not wrapped so that line numbers would match
the original text.
Words in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. In
footnote 509 [)i] indicates a breve and [=i], a macron.
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and moved to follow the scene
or section in which the related anchor occurs. There are multiple
anchors for Footnotes 24, 193, 250, 260, 261, 292, and 297.
Changes:
Eastward Ho:
Footnote [25]: 'otes' to 'notes'
Act III, Scene II, stage direction after line 25, 'Enetr' to 'Enter'
Added anchor for Footnote [167], missing in the original.
Insatiate Countess:
Act II,Scene 1, added anchor for Footnote [214], missing in the original.
Act III, Scene 4, added missing word 'I' to the beginning of line 166.
Montebank's Masque:
2 Song, Stanza 3, line 6, 'Bee't' to 'Be 't'
Familiar Receipts - For Barrenness, 'mik' to 'milk'
Footnote [509], removed 'of' from 'Huc usque of Xylinum'
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