[1618] E., Act I. Sc. 1. No division into acts and scenes in Qtos.
[1619] Prospects, views. Dyce.
[1620] Q 1, _be_.
[1621] Absolute, perfect. Dyce.
[1622] Ay; so also in l. 23 _et passim_.
[1623] Dyce suggests for the metre, 'He will.' But more probably
'Heele' was a monosyllable, and 'bolde' (Q 1, 'bould') a dissyllable.
According to the editor of the _Oxford Glossary_ "bold" is so
pronounced at the present day.
[1624] Backgammon; cf. Shakesp. _L. L. L_. V., ii. 326.
[1625] The audience were to suppose that the stage now represented an
orchard; for be it remembered that there was no movable painted scenery
in the theatres at the time when this play was produced. Dyce.
[1626] Q 1, 'rubbers,' as frequently used.
[1627] Q 1, 'sneik up'--be hanged.
[1628] Q 1, 'women;' but Barnes is addressing his wife. Dy. refers to
l. 147; and to l. 177, where both Qtos. have 'woman.'
[1629] The angel-noble was a gold coin worth from a third to half a
sovereign; the royal or rose-noble, 10_s._
[1630] Q 1, 'women.'
[1631] Q 2, _far't_.
[1632] A term of the game.
[1633] So Dy. Qtos. _better_.
[1634] hit.
[1635] Dyce reads, 'it is'; but probably in prov. pron. 'know' was
then, as frequently now, a dissyllable.
[1636] Q 2, _Forsoorh_.
[1637] Q 2, 'for such a' appended to line 202.
[1638] Q 2, 'in this absurdnes' appended to line 217.
[1639] cannot help it withal.
[1640] Q 1, 'Affoorde.'
[1641] So Qtos. Dy. suggests '_do_ impart'; cf. next line.
[1642] Note the anapæstic swing.
[1643] Qtos. append l. 258 to l. 257.
[1644] Dyce cuts lines 1-6 into a kind of blank verse.
[1645] Qtos., ll. 33 and 34 as one.
[1646] Dy., qy. 'tacke'? But, of course, the boy uttered the 'tchick'
with which one urges a horse.
[1647] Taught her to _tread the ring_,--to perform various movements
in different directions within a ring marked out on a piece of ground.
Dyce.
[1648] champaign.
[1649] A tagged lace used to attach the hose or breeches to the
doublet. Dyce.
[1650] sole, or oblate surface.
[1651] Qtos., ll 110 and 111 as one.
[1652] Q 1, 'th'art.'
[1653] Dy., qy. 'Wher.'
[1654] Q 2, _phethe._
[1655] Q 1, 'in the.'
[1656] ll. 162-165, 167-171, 174-176, 181-184, printed as verse in the
originals.
[1657] Q 2, _Wirl._
[1658] Not in Q 1.
[1659] Names of taverns. Ellis.
[1660] H. and E., "yee lye--the Hornes," as if a tavern name. But
Qtos., as above,--"You are lying about the horns, I have none."
[1661] your sword.
[1662] So Dyce. Qtos., _me_,--_my_.
[1663] Dy. suggests 'He is'; but qy. 'Coo-ums'?
[1664] quality, humour.
[1665] Dy. suggests 'he will.'
[1666] crewel.
[1667] The originals run, "Bridelaces sir his hat, and all greene hat";
so Dyce. Ellis, silently, "Bridelaces, sir--and his hat all green."
It _may_ have been written, "Bridelaces, sir. His hat'--an all," etc.
Coomes parades his wedding trophies.
[1668] So Dy. from Q 1; but not in Q 2.
[1669] E., Act II. Sc. 1.
[1670] H. and E., 'indiscreet.'
[1671] So Dy.; Qtos., 'vassailes.'
[1672] ll. 31 and 32 as one in Qtos.
[1673] Q 2, _me_.
[1674] Q 2, _effect_.
[1675] Q 1, 'womens.'
[1676] Qy. 'for _an._' Dyce.
[1677] discipline.
[1678] Read, for the metre, 'She is.' Dyce.
[1679] God's.
[1680] Dy. suggests 'red'; H. and E. adopt.
[1681] Q 1, 'tother yeere.'
[1682] Q 2, _restained_.
[1683] Dy., H., E. 'have beene.'
[1684] See p. 464 _n_ (_F. B._, vii. 74).
[1685] Qtos., _apprehend_,--but certainly Mall had spoken with
sufficient plainness. Dyce.
[1686] nature.
[1687] The fate of old maids; cf. Shakesp. _T. of S._ II. 1.
[1688] Q 1, _nay_.
[1689] Little Milton is about eight miles northeast of Abingdon, across
the fields. Great Milton is about a mile farther north.
[1690] The common dress of a servingman. Dyce.
[1691] Qtos., 'you,'--which, perhaps, is the right reading, some word
having dropt out after it. Qy. thus;--
"_Mis. Bar._ Mistresse flurt, you _mean_,
Foule strumpet, light a loue, short heeles! Mistresse Goursey
Call her," etc. Dyce. H. and E., 'yea.'
[1692] Q 2, _more_.
[1693] Q 1, _tell_.
[1694] vile.
[1695] Qtos., _forlorne_.
[1696] Q 1, _the_.
[1697] Q 1, _Thaust._
[1698] Q 2, _no_.
[1699] Q 2 appends this to the preceding line.
[1700] Q 2, _father_.
[1701] Q 2, _repeats_.
[1702] Q 1, 'Gads.'
[1703] Qtos., _His_.
[1704] Qy., "Franke he is young"? compare the preceding line but one.
Dyce.
[1705] Qtos., no comma. Qy., 'rime-rotten.'
[1706] _sprüche_: rare.
[1707] By our lady.
[1708] miser.
[1709] Q 1, _ma_.
[1710] As who should say, "Your company is indifferent to me." So in
_Mother Bombie_, "Farewell frost, my fortune naught me cost," and Ray's
_Proverbs_: "F.f., Nothing got nor nothing lost."
[1711] Q 1, _faith in_.
[1712] Qtos., _some_.
[1713] Qtos., _treason_.
[1714] vomits.
[1715] A quantity of ten: one-twentieth of a last.
[1716] So Q 2. Dy., etc., 'knave.'
[1717] Qtos., _But_.
[1718] Struck by a tramp vessel?
[1719] Cf. _Haml._ I. ii., "A beast that wants discourse of reason,"
and III. i., "the mould of form."
[1720] Q 1, _cehape_.
[1721] Perhaps the word squints at two contemporary significations:
cart-horse: squeamish eater.
[1722] Not in Q 1.
[1723] Q 1, 'drinke.'
[1724] Q 1, _Nich._
[1725] Cf. Du., _vrolijk zijn_, 'to be jolly,' and Heywood and Brome,
_Lanc. Witches_, "what, all lustick, all froligozene." _New Eng. Dic._
Q 2 reads 'Nicke _Frolagozene_' _sc._ 'Nick _Jovial_.'
[1726] Omitted in Q 2.
[1727] until.--Ought not the passage to stand as follows?--
"no, I will not;
_Nor_ waite while one comes out to answere _me_," Dyce.
[1728] Q 2, _to_.
[1729] ll. 6-10, printed as prose, Q 2. So also ll. 17-22, save that
the initial letter of each line, except 22, is capitalized.
[1730] H. and E, gratuitously, 'shackles.'
[1731] Qtos., _seeme_.
[1732] excess; cf. Scotch 'scouth'; free swing.
[1733] Q 1, _fathers_.
[1734] Qtos., _to_.
[1735] Q 1, _than_.
[1736] Qtos., _Franke_.
[1737] be wi' ye.
[1738] Q 2, 'judged.'
[1739] Dy.; qy., 'unto.'
[1740] Q 1, _maister_.
[1741] Q 2, _baun_.
[1742] Q 2, _ye_.
[1743] Q 1, _craft_.
[1744] So Q 2; but Dy., H., E., transpose these lines.
[1745] broadsword.
[1746] H., 'garden-butt.'
[1747] the sharp point in the centre. Dyce.
[1748] Q 1, _and_.
[1749] Qtos., _out_.
[1750] brave.
[1751] Q 2, _Gourseys_.
[1752] manlike.
[1753] Cf. _M. of V._, II. ii., dialogue between Gobbo's conscience and
the fiend.
[1754] the parson.
[1755] E., Act III. Sc. 1.
[1756] A line missing, to rhyme with 'elfes.' Hazlitt.
[1757] forester.
[1758] A barrow; also a burrow when of rabbits, as in Sc. X, l. 9. Here
it is probably a misprint for bevvie = bevy. So E.
[1759] Q 1, _me._
[1760] Q 1, 'th.'
[1761] Qtos., _he_.
[1762] Q 2, 'doe.'
[1763] Q 1, _thee_.
[1764] Q 1, 'thorowly.'
[1765] Q 2, 'may.'
[1766] Q 2, _I_.
[1767] Q 2, _chanke_.
[1768] Q 1, sound, _i.e._ swoon.
[1769] bow down before intellects of small merit.
[1770] Qtos., _wone_.
[1771] An _I_ of the Christ-cross row or alphabet.
[1772] pigsney. Cent. Dict. But Dyce: a term of endearment, formed,
perhaps, from _pink_, to wink, to contract the eyelids.
[1773] Qtos., _sower_.
[1774] dear.
[1775] beat, urge.
[1776] Q 2, 'would have.'
[1777] Cf. _M.N.D._, I. i. 70-72; II. ii. 162-163
[1778] rowed.
[1779] Q 2 prints ll. 117-120 as prose, but with initial capitals.
[1780] Qtos. _patient_.
[1781] So H. and E.; but Qtos. 'thy.'
[1782] Q 1, _cheesse_.
[1783] Q 2, After previous line.
[1784] Q 1, _to_.
[1785] Some word, or words, have dropt out here. The lines ought to be
arranged thus:--
"God send ye both good speed!--
Gods Lord, my mother!--_Quickly_ stand aside,
And closely too, least that you be espied." Dyce.
The missing foot before 'stand' may indicate the dramatic pause for
surprise. See my _Appendix_ to _Greene_ (Metres).
[1786] Dy., H., E., 'forgot.'
[1787] Read, for the metre, "Shee is." Dyce.
[1788] Cf. _Romeo and Juliet_, Act III. v. 141.
[1789] Eds. 'Philip.'
[1790] Q 2, _Mather_.
[1791] Q 2, 'deny.'
[1792] Read, for the metre, "is it." Dyce.
[1793] Q 1, _mistrurst_.
[1794] Q. 2, _Mi Gou_.
[1795] So Qtos. Eds., 'confederate.' But the plural is idiomatic: as
'he has gone _partners_ with Philip.'
[1796] Occurs here in Qtos. (to warn the actors to be in readiness for
coming on the stage). Dyce.
[1797] Q 2, 'to.'
[1798] Carfax (_quadrifurcus_), the centre of Oxford, at the junction
of Cornmarket, St. Aldate's, Queen St., and the High.
[1799] Q 2, _Oppoint_.
[1800] fine.
[1801] Q 2, _offection_.
[1802] Q 2, _huge_.
[1803] _Sc._, self-willed.
[1804] A common proverbial expression: "_Beggars bush_," says Ray,
"being a tree notoriously known, on the left hand of the London road
from Huntington to Caxton." _Proverbs_, p. 244, ed. 1768. Dyce.
[1805] Q 2, _be dawbe._
[1806] refuse.
[1807] livery.
[1808] Common term for a small dagger, but, like 'bird-spit' in the
next speech of Coomes, here used in contempt. Dyce.
[1809] The origin of this corrupted oath is unknown; Dy., H., and E.
_N.E.D._ queries _dignesse_ = Goddes dignity. But the poet seems to
be thinking of 'dine' = 'dinner'; hence Lord's meal, Lord's Supper.
Cf. "God's board" for communion-table (Bk. Com. Prayer, 1549), and
"God's bread" for the wafer, _G.G.N._, p. 219. That Coomes adopts this
popular etymology is confirmed by the collocation of 'God's dines' with
'wafer-cake' (for the Eucharist) in Sc. xi. l. 206 of this play.
[1810] rabbit-warren.
[1811] horse.
[1812] 'an I.'
[1813] repent of his behaviour. Cf. Heywood, _If you know not_, etc.,
ed. 1874, I. 267 (Century). Dyce has "Nares (_Gloss_, in v.) mentions
three places which still retain the name,--one between Oxford and
Banbury, another close to Stafford, the third near Shrewsbury."
[1814] advice
[1815] So Q 2. Eds., 'an.'
[1816] Q 1, 'vpon.'
[1817] till.
[1818] E., Act IV. Sc. 1.
[1819] Q 2, _bother_.
[1820] A kind of net for catching rabbits,--usually stretched before
their holes. Dyce.
[1821] Q 1, 'do.'
[1822] a young rabbit.
[1823] Q 1, 'you'r.'
[1824] Q 1, omits 'not'; but Q 2 is right: "Even if you won't speak I
know you are lying in wait for me."
[1825] Qtos., _glimpes_.
[1826] exposed.
[1827] Q 1, _metamorphesie_. For the figure cf. _R. and J._, I. v.,
"Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear," etc.
[1828] Q 1, 'these.'
[1829] Q 1, _sbloud_.
[1830] nearer.
[1831] Not in Q 1.
[1832] The scene is therefore the grove where Sir Raph had engaged to
await Will's return, Sc. vii.; not the warren, as E. has it.
[1833] E. mistakenly makes this 'Act IV. Sc. ii., _Another Part of the
Warren_'; but Frank has run from the warren to the grove where Sir Raph
is waiting for his bow.
[1834] Q 2, _bound_.
[1835] Q 2, _wouldn_.
[1836] So Q 2. Line wanting in Q 1.
[1837] Q 2 omits this line.
[1838] This stage-direction occurs after l. 75 in Qtos.
[1839] Qtos., _Sblould_.
[1840] Q 2, _clade_.
[1841] Q 1, _whench_.
[1842] Q 1, _asks_; Q 2, _aske_.
[1843] Q 1 omits.
[1844] Eds. substitute 'question,' evidently without sufficient reason.
[1845] Q 2 omits.
[1846] E. makes no new scene; but see Sc. X. l. 30.
[1847] goose. Q 1, _asgoe_.
[1848] Q 2, _Had_.
[1849] be wi're.
[1850] E. makes this 'Act IV., Sc. iii., _The Open Fields_'; but the
present scene began with Philip's entry, forty-five lines earlier.
[1851] Of course 'mistress.'
[1852] Q 1, _clowdes_.
[1853] Not in Q 1.
[1854] Q 1, 'ho.'
[1855] Q 1, 'it.'
[1856] Q 1, _throwe_.
[1857] So Q 2. Eds. omit.
[1858] So Q 2. Q 1, 'for me.'
[1859] pent-house.
[1860] Q 1, _buze._
[1861] Q 1, 'stones.'
[1862] Q 1, 'should well.'
[1863] Q 1, "I haue had a Pumpe set vp, as good."
[1864] H. and E., 'lee-land.' But the context indicates 'lealand,' the
open fields.
[1865] Perhaps he swore by our Lady of Walsingham,--in Norfolk. Dyce.
[1866] Whip-her-jenny: a game of cards. H.
[1867] Q 1, 'tripe-cheeke.'
[1868] Q 1, 'is _the_ best.'
[1869] "If I had only known in time!" Cf. _Secunda Pastorum_
(Towneley), l. 93.
[1870] Cf. _Secunda Pastorum_, l. 318.
[1871] Q 1, _his_.
[1872] So Qtos. H. and E. read 'dines.'
[1873] Qy. a proverbial allusion to the famous Brazen-head? Dyce.
[1874] See note, Sc. viii. l. 354.
[1875] H., 'Vintry.'
[1876] Q 1, _breath_.
[1877] Q 1 omits.
[1878] The hero of the popular German jest-book (_Eulenspiegel_), which
was translated into English at a very early period; see Gifford's note
on Jonson's _Works_, IV. 60, and Nare's _Gloss_. in V. Dyce.
[1879] Q 1, 'last': and 'lase.'
[1880] Q 1, 'silly.'
[1881] Q 1, 'shew.'
[1882] Q 2, _couriers_.
[1883] Q 2, _bandg._
[1884] By idiom 'bauble'; by sense 'babble.'
[1885] Q 2, _yon_.
[1886] Q 2, _swoses_.
[1887] random.
[1888] From the 'cunny greene' (see Sc. viii., end) having lost
Nicholas and the torch _en route._ E. mistakenly includes this in the
previous scene.
[1889] Qtos, _hap._
[1890] Q 2, 'out.'
[1891] spite.
[1892] The sham quarrel of Sc. xiv. l. 115.
[1893] So Q 2. Q 1 'a.'
[1894] Eds., 'foundst.'
[1895] Eds. omit.
[1896] Q 1, _tell_.
[1897] Blind-man's-buff.
[1898] Q 2 prints l. 105 as of fourteen syllables ending with "Hob man
blind," and line 106 as of twelve syllables ending with "heere."
[1899] So Q 2. Q 1 omits.
[1900] E. makes this 'Act v., Sc. 1, _In the Fields_'; but Sir Raph
frequents the grove, and Mall takes it in her flight across the fields
from the cunny greene.
[1901] veil.
[1902] missed-way.
[1903] (I suppose) Buoys. Dyce.
[1904] So Qtos. Dy.: qy. 'fellow?' H. followed by E., "It is no envious
fellow, out of grudge."
[1905] So Qtos. = 'why.' H. and E. read 'whe'er,' unnecessarily.
[1906] a deer lean and out of season. Dyce.
[1907] It has not seemed necessary to indicate that ll. 64, 65, 66-68,
etc., constitute verses; so in nearly every scene.
[1908] Q 2, _oyure._
[1909] See note on _F. B._, i. 142.
[1910] Q 1, _wandring_.
[1911] So Dy. and other eds. Qtos., 'thy.'
[1912] E includes with preceding scene.
[1913] Dy., ''Tis.'
[1914] So Dy., etc., _i.e._ suffer. Qtos, _stole._
[1915] The order of ll. 20-21 is reversed in Q 2.
[1916] Q 1, _Being_.
[1917] Q 1, _enforc'st_.
[1918] Q 1, _same_.
[1919] spirit-dulling.
[1920] So Q 1. Q 2, _you_.
[1921] Q 1, _weere_.
[1922] Eds. divide line here.
[1923] So Q 2. Eds., 'women.'
[1924] Q 2, _it._
[1925] Qtos., _carerie_.
[1926] Q 1, 'shrowdly.'
[1927] So Dyce. Qtos. assign to Goursey. Perhaps Barnes lays his hand
on Goursey who shakes it off. A scuffle appears to ensue: cf. ll.
161-163.
[1928] So Q 2. But Q 1, 'him,' which Dy., etc., for no sufficient
reason prefer.
[1929] So Dy. Qtos., _be_.
[1930] Cf. _F.B._, viii. 75.
[1931] convince.
[1932] So Dy. Qtos., _mindes_.
[1933] So Q 1. Q 2 omits.
[1934] Qy., revoke. Cf. _F. B._, viii. 144, n.
[1935] Dyce thinks something has dropt out here.
[1936] Ought probably to be omitted. Dyce.
[1937] So Q 2; which is just as intelligible as the 'deliverie' of Q 1
and Eds.
[1938] the one.
[1939] H. and E. change, unnecessarily, to "yond help that both may
come together."
[1940] Qy., _stand_ still? Dyce.
[1941] Q 1, _fileds_.
[1942] Q 2, _fie_.
[1943] Q 1, 'brings.'
[1944] A line, which rhymed with this one, has dropt out. Dyce. But H.
begins a new line with 'Sings.'
[1945] Traitor or Felon. Dyce.
[1946] Swoon.
[1947] a cordial.
[1948] Q 2, 'favours.'
_William Shakespeare_