PAGE 9, line 28. _induments_] from _induo_, Latin, to put on; cover over.
The word, as a noun, does not occur in Todd’s Johnson nor in Nares.
“Diana’s shape and habit them _indued_.”—_Sandys’ Ovid_, b. ii.
“One first matter all
_Indu’d_ with various forms.”—_Milton, Par. Lost._
P. 11, l. 6. _unuenidall sinnes_] Unvenial? it seems used in
contradistinction to venial.
P. 11, l. 8. _despairing protestations_] This is an allusion to “The
Protestatyon of Martin Mar-Prelat, wherein notwithstanding the surprizing
of the printer, he maketh it known vnto the world that he feareth,
neither proud priest, Antichristian pope, tiranous prellate, nor godlesse
catercap.”
P. 12, l. 28. _burlibond_] Todd, in his edition of Johnson, has adduced
one illustration of the word _burly_, which approximates to the meaning
here, that of loud, boisterous; derived, as he supposes from _borlen_,
Teut., to make a noise. Though neither in Nares nor Todd, it will be
found in Nash’s Pierce Penniless [Reprint, Shaksp. Soc., p. 25]: “The
most grosse and senseless proud dolts are the Danes, who stand so much
vpon their vnweldie _burlibound_ souldiery, that they account of no man
that hath not a battle-axe at his girdle to hough dogs with, or weares
not a cock’s fether in a thrumb hat like a caualier: briefly, he is the
_best foole bragart_ under heaven.”
P. 13, l. 25. _hodie-peeles_] Nash, in his _Anatomie of Absurdities_,
uses the word _hoddy-peke_, there implying cuckold, which is the meaning
it bears in this place.
“Who under her husband’s that _hoddy-peke’s_ nose must have all the
distilling dew of his delicate rose.”
P. 14, l. 2. _true-pennie_] See the Notes to the Reprint of “Hay any
Worke for Cooper,” p. 79.
P. 14, l. 7. _Buls slicing._] Bull was the name of the common hangman; he
is quoted some two or three times in “Pap with a Hatchet,” and in many of
the Dramas of the time.
P. 15, l. 21. _Old Martin of England._] An allusion to the “Iust censure
and reproofe of Martin Iunior, by his reuerend and elder brother Martin
Senior.”
P. 16, l. 14. _dudgen distinction._] I am unable to explain this.
P. 16, last line. _bibble-babble._] Idle talk.
“Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heaven restore! endeavour thyself to
sleep, leave thy vain _bibble babble_.”—_Shakspeare, Twelfth Night._
P. 17, l. 1. _gibbrige_] Gibberish.
P. 17, l. 19. _Cli. the Cobler, &c._] Cliffe, Newman, Lawson.
P. 22, l. 25. _Will Tong._] I cannot give any account of this worthy,
unless Will. Kempe, who succeeded the celebrated Tarlton, is meant.
Elderton’s name is well known, his rimes and ballets are the subject
of frequent allusion in the dramas and pamphlets of the time. See “Pap
with a Hatchet,” [Reprint, p. 14]. Harvey’s “Pierce’s Supererogation.”
[Reprint, p. 181.]
P. 23, l. 25. _his Welchnes._] An allusion to Penry.
P. 24, l. 4. _Hodgkins, Tomlins and Sims._] Hodgkins, and his two men,
Tomlyn and Symms, who were employed to print the Mar-Prelate Tracts
after Waldegrave’s press had been broken up, were seized at Manchester
in printing “More work for the Cooper.” Their examination will be found
in Strype’s Annals, vii. 602-5.—See also much information in Sutcliffe’s
Answer to Job Throckmorton, p. 72, 4to, 1595.
P. 25, l. 8. _Bumfeging._] _i. e._ belabouring. The word does not occur
in Nares. In “Hay any Worke for Cooper,” Martin says, “For ise so bumfeg
the Cooper,” &c. [Reprint, p. 24.]
P. 26, l. 5. _the aged champion of Warwicke._] _i. e._ Thomas Cartwright.
P. 26, l. 8. _Phi. Stu._] Philip Stubbes, the brother-in-law of
Cartwright. His “Anatomy of Abuses,” was printed in 1589.
P. 31, l. 24. _ribrost._] To belabour, to beat soundly.
“I have been pinched in flesh, and well _ribroasted_ under my former
masters; but I’m in now for skin and all.”—_L’Estrange._
P. 35, l. 26. _anie more bones._] _i. e._ without scruple.
“Perjury will easily donne with him that hath made _no bones_ of
murther.”—_Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience._
P. 39, l. 6. _Pen. &c._] Nash is evidently mistaken in attributing all
the Mar-Prelate Tracts to him. The description which follows powerfully
reminds us of Nash’s characteristic portrait of Gabriel Harvey.
P. 44, l. 2. _Capcase._] A small travelling case, according to Nares, 72.
P. 50, l. 8. _sheepe byter._] A petty thief.
“There are political _sheepbiters_ as well as pastoral, betrayers of
publick trusts as of private.”—_L’Estrange._
“May it please Gentle Pierce in the divine fury of his ravished spirit,
to be graciously good unto his poor friends, who would be somewhat loth
to be silly sheep for the wolf, or other _sheepbiter_.”—_G. Harvey’s
Pierce’s Supererogation._
P. 51, l. 26. _patch._] _i. e._ a fool.
P. 51, l. 21. _Maw._] An old game at cards; the pun is not a bad one.
P. 52, l. 26. _Beware Anthony Munday._] A well known writer and
translator of various works. I have not met with the passage alluded to.