[2498] Boon companion.
[2499] Cheat.
[2500] Whoremonger.
[2501] Portcullis.
[2502] Before Candido’s shop.
[2503] An expression of impatience.
[2504] Be so imposed upon.
[2505] A fencing contest. Cf. p. 414, note 5.
[2506] Cudgels.
[2507] An apartment in Hippolito’s house.
[2508] Hound.
[2509] Secret.
[2510] Irish: _Slán leat_, fare thee well.
[2511] Irish: _As a márach frómhadh bodach bréan_—On the morrow of a
feast, a clown is a beast. (Rhys.)
[2512] At once.
[2513] An Irish foot-soldier: often used contemptuously.
[2514] Leprechaun, a pigmy sprite in Irish folk-lore.
[2515] Irish: _A maighisdir a grádh_, O master, O love.
[2516] Foolish.
[2517] A room in Matheo’s house.
[2518] _I. e._ dicing.
[2519] Draw out unwillingly.
[2520] _I. e._ with a staff.
[2521] Cost me.
[2522] On.
[2523] In preparation for.
[2524] An allusion to a well-known romance.
[2525] A cant term for money.
[2526] Band.
[2527] _I. e._ turn bawd.
[2528] _I. e._ My expectation was just.
[2529] Will be hanged.
[2530] Prostitutes.
[2531] Formerly used to both sexes.
[2532] Gardens with summer-houses were very common in the suburbs of
London at the time, and were often used as places of intrigue. (Dyce.)
[2533] Sift.
[2534] Pear-tree.
[2535] A room in Matheo’s house.
[2536] Finely attired.
[2537] In the fashion.
[2538] Delivery.
[2539] “It would take forty such knights to make a thief.” Cataia is
China; the Chinese were supposed to be great thieves.
[2540] Turn over, sell.
[2541] A kind of false dice.
[2542] Whoremonger.
[2543] The straps attached to the girdle, from which a dagger or sword
hung. They were often richly embroidered.
[2544] Herring’s head.
[2545] Horses with long housings.
[2546] An appetite with anger.
[2547] Stuffed out.
[2548] A dish carried by beggars, with a lid used to rattle to attract
notice.
[2549] Hospital.
[2550] Trick.
[2551] Cage.
[2552] Boasters.
[2553] Gallows-bird.
[2554] Booty.
[2555] His sword.
[2556] The mistress of the father of William the Conqueror.
[2557] Quality.
[2558] Then.
[2559] Only confusion.
[2560] Enticed.
[2561] Tempting.
[2562] Take off their hats.
[2563] An apartment in the Duke’s Palace.
[2564] A net, the mouth of which was drawn together with a string.
[2565] Aim.
[2566] A room in Matheo’s house.
[2567] A frame used for stretching cloth.
[2568] In any direction.
[2569] A state barge.
[2570] A common dish in the brothels of the time.
[2571] Two quarts.
[2572] A corruption of _Pedro Ximenes_; a sweet Spanish wine.
[2573] A Portuguese wine.
[2574] _I. e._ Aleatico, a red Italian muscatel wine.
[2575] Kinds of cannon.
[2576] An acid liquor made from green fruit.
[2577] A play upon “pop-guns.”
[2578] The price was here probably indicated by displaying the fingers.
(Rhys.)
[2579] On Shrove Tuesday the city authorities made a search for
brothel-keepers.
[2580] Thrown at random(?)
[2581] A street.
[2582] Strumpets had to do penance in a blue gown.
[2583] Crushing chalk was one of the occupations assigned to the
prisoners.
[2584] An allusion to the carting of prostitutes.
[2585] Former friends.
[2586] A room in Bridewell.
[2587] The allusions here really refer of course to the London
Bridewell. The cardinal, duke, and prince are Campeius, Henry VIII, and
Edward VI; and the other details are substantially historical.
[2588] Rascal.
[2589] By whipping.
[2590] Tavern loafers.
[2591] Subjects for dissection.
[2592] Atoms.
[2593] Obstruction.
[2594] The amount of the hangman’s fee.
[2595] Musical instruments hung in the barbers’ shops of the period.
[2596] Bout. A term in fencing.
[2597] A heavy mallet.
[2598] A pander.
[2599] Finely attired.
[2600] A term of contempt.
[2601] A play upon the word, which also signifies “trimmed.”
[2602] Prostitutes.
[2603] Chore, task work.
[2604] At the carting of bawds and prostitutes they were preceded by a
mob beating basins and performing other rough music. (Rhys)
[2605] Head-dress trimmed.
[2606] Ensign.
[2607] Branded.
[2608] Disdain.
[2609] Fools.
[2610] Some copies of Q₁ read _Me mea sequentur fata_.
[2611] The induction appears first in Q₂.
[2612] The Additions are enclosed in brackets throughout.
[2613] Corruption of (eye-)lid.
[2614] Note-book.
[2615] The meaning is that in _The Malcontent_ which had been
originally acted in Blackfriars Theatre, the practice of wearing
feathers had been so ridiculed that the feather-makers of Blackfriars
had suffered injury in their business. See V. iv. (Bullen.)
[2616] Application.
[2617] Judge.
[2618] Box.
[2619] Scabs.
[2620] _I. e._ Why should not the King’s company of grown up (folio)
actors play _The Malcontent_ (which was the property of the children’s
company playing at Blackfriars), since the children (16mo actors) have
appropriated _The Spanish Tragedy_, in which the King’s company had
rights?
[2621] “’Tis reported that Parmeno, being very famous for imitating
the grunting of a pig, some endeavoured to rival and outdo him. And
when the hearers, being prejudiced, cried out, ‘Very well, indeed, but
nothing comparable to Parmeno’s sow,’ one took a pig under his arm and
came upon the stage; and when, tho’ they heard the very pig, they still
continued, ‘This is nothing comparable to Parmeno’s sow,’ he threw the
pig among them to show that they judged according to opinion and not
truth.” (Plutarch’s _Symposium_, V. I., cited by “L. S.” and Bullen.)
[2622] Halfpennies.
[2623] Forbid.
[2624] Judge.
[2625] Petrarch’s 153rd Sonnet, trans. by John Harvey.
[2626] Rascal.
[2627] Salute.
[2628] In the margin of the Qq. here: _Vexat censura columbas_.
[2629] Palace of the Duke of Genoa.
[2630] The same.
[2631] Male prostitute.
[2632] Q₂ _ragged_.
[2633] Bespatter.
[2634] Nares suggests “dealers in wool or mutton,” _i. e._
mutton-mongers, lascivious fellows.
[2635] Bullen prints _Howls again_ as a stage direction.
[2636] Which they care most for.
[2637] Q₁ omits.
[2638] The same.
[2639] Q₁ omits.
[2640] Liked by.
[2641] Deceit.
[2642] Housings of his horse.
[2643] Ital., mistress.
[2644] The ape-leader’s call to his monkey.
[2645] A game played with a ball, a bat, and a wooden trap.
[2646] Lid.
[2647] Ital., cuckold.
[2648] A horned one.
[2649] Unshell.
[2650] Corroboration.
[2651] Outburst.
[2652] Secret harlot.
[2653] Exclamation of contempt.
[2654] Q₁ omits these forty-five lines.
[2655] Counts.
[2656] Under heaven(?) In spite of which a man can purchase salvation(?)
[2657] Q₁ reads _shue_, _should_.
[2658] Q₁ omits the rest of this scene.
[2659] Weigh seriously.
[2660] The same.
[2661] The goddess of plenty.
[2662] Having an appetite for.
[2663] Qq print the rest of this speech as prose, perhaps rightly.
[2664] Q₁ omits ll. 44-98.
[2665] An allusion to Castiglione, author of _The Courtier_.
[2666] The same.
[2667] Pay obsequious attention to.
[2668] Following.
[2669] Lampreys.
[2670] The same.
[2671] Q₂ _aske_.
[2672] The same.
[2673] Qq. _this_.
[2674] Qq. _the_.
[2675] Embraced.
[2676] The same. Q₁ omits this scene.
[2677] With facings on his coat, such as fools wore.
[2678] An extant pamphlet records this monstrosity.
[2679] Seek to be made guardians to idiots, in order to enjoy their
revenues.
[2680] Some copies read _something of his guilt: some advauncing his
high-colored_.
[2681] Accomplishments.
[2682] Flushing was in the hands of the English as security for a loan,
and presumably the garrison was unpopular with the townspeople.
[2683] Talc.
[2684] Chamber in the Duke’s Palace.
[2685] Lantern.
[2686] Absolutely.
[2687] “It is whence you fall, not whither, that matters.”
[2688] Chamber in the Duke’s Palace.
[2689] Pair.
[2690] Stuck, stoccado, a thrust.
[2691] Q₁ omits.
[2692] The same.
[2693] Drunken.
[2694] Q₁ omits ll. 27-47.
[2695] An eruption.
[2696] Bullen’s emend. Qq. read
_’T is requisite, the parts with piety
And soft respect forbears, be closely dogd._
For _soft_, other copies read _loft_, _lost_.
[2697] Wrinkles.
[2698] Uncover.
[2699] The same.
[2700] How does it become me?
[2701] Cleanseth.
[2702] Treating with cosmetics.
[2703] The same.
[2704] Dodsley’s emend. Q₁ _pent_;, Q₂ _spent_.
[2705] Thoroughly.
[2706] By.
[2707] _I. e._ a Huguenot.
[2708] Ovid. _Her. Epist._ i. 53, with _Troja_ for _Sion_.
[2709] Virgil, _Aeneid_, ii. 554.
[2710] Cheat.
[2711] A room in the Duke’s Palace.
[2712] Streams.
[2713] So Q₂, Q₁ _complaints_.
[2714] Q₁ omits ll. 36-176.
[2715] A kind of wild geese were supposed to grow from barnacles.
[2716] A form of torture.
[2717] Welshmen were notoriously proud of their pedigree.
[2718] Crape.
[2719] Qq. _fowl_. Perhaps a pun.
[2720] Pair of stays, bodice.
[2721] The same.
[2722] Shave; here, mow.
[2723] The usual costume of Hymen in masques.
[2724] So Bullen. Qq. _cloake_, _cloke_.
[2725] The same.
[2726] Whose force alone.
[2727] Seneca, _Epist._ xliv.
[2728] A forest near the sea.
[2729] Qq. _safely_.
[2730] Vanity, frivolity.
[2731] The same, continued.
[2732] Q₁ omits; Q₂ _you_.
[2733] Secretly.
[2734] Qq. _Cel._
[2735] Palace of the Duke.
[2736] The tags of the laces fastening the “busk,” the whale-bone in
the front of the stays.
[2737] Lover.
[2738] This speech should probably be given to Bianca.
[2739] The same, continued.
[2740] A slow dance.
[2741] Dyce cites _Les Guanto_ from Munday as the name of a courtly
dance.
[2742] The same, continued.
[2743] Prepare for.
[2744] Adapted from Seneca, _Phoen._ 632. “He seeks an uncertain
reward, but certain guilt.”
[2745] Intimate.
[2746] Qq. note on margin: _Shoots under his belly_.
[2747] Opponent.
[2748] Upbraids.
[2749] Court of the Palace.
[2750] The same.
[2751] Qq. _lov’d_.
[2752] Embrace.
[2753] Salt, licentious.
[2754] Qq. _bloud_.
[2755] Qq. _sinne in good_.
[2756] Cuckolds.
[2757] Probe.
[2758] “Carrying coals;” menial employment.
[2759] Deighton’s emend. Qq. _banishing_.
[2760] Are cut out of the same cloth.
[2761] A room in the Palace. Q₁ omits this scene.
[2762] Meaning uncertain. “Coiled up into a small compass,” Nares.
“Inconvenienced,” Halliwell. Deighton would read _hoistered_, “an Essex
word meaning ‘supported,’ ‘held up,’ an extension of ‘hoisted,’ as
‘hoisted’ is an extension of ‘hoised.’”
[2763] A perfume ball.
[2764] Stinking fellows: the mob.
[2765] Before the Citadel.
[2766] Q₁ omits ll. 11-43.
[2767] Crowded.
[2768] A hero in _Orlando Furioso_. (Reed.)
[2769] Bullen’s emend. Qq. _stream_.
[2770] The same.
[2771] Heroes in _The Mirrour of Knighthood_.
[2772] Q₂ _this_.
[2773] Cicero, _Ad Fam._ ix. 22. (Bullen.)
[2774] Q₁ omits ll. 1-37.
[2775] Cf. II. ii. 64.
[2776] Ovid, _Tristia_, ii. 33. (Bullen.)
[2777] Talk closely together, as if conspiring.
[2778] Seneca, _Agam._ 115. (Bullen.)
[2779] Q₂ inserts here:
Mend. _Hast been with Maria?_
Mal. _As your scrivener to your usurer, I have dealt about taking of
this commodity, but she’s cold-frosty._
These lines seem to have been meant to take the place of ll. 48-58,
which were left in by mistake. Q₁ omits ll. 59-72.
[2780] Qq. _Why_.
[2781] Niggardly.
[2782] Deighton suggests _feareth_.
[2783] The Presence-Chamber.
[2784] Head-dresses.
[2785] A part of dress, now usually called a vandyke: it fell flat upon
the dress from the neck, and succeeded the stiff ruffs. (Nares.)
[2786] Or poking-stick, for setting the plaits of ruffs.
[2787] So Q₂. Some copies of Q₁ _windle_. Bullen suggests _wimble_,
nimble.
[2788] Outweigh.
[2789] Some copies of Q₁ give this line to Maria.
[2790] From Thomas Bastard’s _Chrestoleros_, 1598. (Bullen.)
[2791] Qq. gives this line to Aurelia.
[2792] Regions.
[2793] Deceiving.
[2794] Qq. _as_.
[2795] Qq. Pietro.
[2796] Q₁ omits ll. 148-172.
[2797] Qq. _conceale_.
[2798] The disreputable district.
[2799] Wholly.
[2800] Flaws.
[2801] Ben Jonson’s.
[2802] Defeat.
[2803] Room in Frankford’s house.
[2804] Q₂ _Acton_.
[2805] _The Shaking of the Sheets_, or _The Dance of Death_, was a
well-known ballad and dance tune.
[2806] Gained the dignity.
[2807] In preparation for marrying.
[2808] Reduces her to submission.
[2809] The points where the strings of a musical instrument are stopped.
[2810] Streamers.
[2811] Boisterous.
[2812] Q¹ _But_.
[2813] Gold coins worth about $2.50.
[2814] Shake hands on it.
[2815] Yard of the same.
[2816] Frolic, bout.
[2817] The names of the dance-tunes here were all familiar.
[2818] Chevy Chase.
[2819] On the descent.
[2820] Pluck.
[2821] Call back.
[2822] Verity explains as “booty,” but apparently it is the same as
_jesses_.
[2823] Leg-straps.
[2824] Quarry: “the swoop upon the bird.” (N. E. D.)
[2825] Not satisfactorily explained.
[2826] Attacked afresh.
[2827] Toes.
[2828] Unexplained.
[2829] The rest of the speech seems to refer to Mountford’s hawk.
[2830] Bungler.
[2831] Curly-tailed.
[2832] Limit of liability.
[2833] Abundantly.
[2834] Arrest.
[2835] Overflows
[2836] Have made good progress.
[2837] Splashed.
[2838] Versed.
[2839] Forming factions.
[2840] Judged.
[2841] Resources.
[2842] Accomplishments.
[2843] Grieves.
[2844] Use.
[2845] The Gaol.
[2846] Changed.
[2847] To prevent failure.
[2848] Feeble.
[2849] Paid over.
[2850] Frankford’s house.
[2851] Conceive.
[2852] Foolish.
[2853] Relationship.
[2854] Opprobrious.
[2855] Acquire, add.
[2856] Secret proceedings.
[2857] Sneaking.
[2858] Sir Charles Mountford’s house.
[2859] Interest.
[2860] Extremely rigorously.
[2861] List. Properly a list of names to be prayed for.
[2862] Ed. conj. _tyrannous_.
[2863] Of the debtor’s prison.
[2864] Legal transactions.
[2865] Frankford’s house.
[2866] Tray for removing dishes.
[2867] Table-cover.
[2868] Small logs.
[2869] Await.
[2870] Economist.
[2871] Maker of quarrels.
[2872] Evidence.
[2873] Resentment.
[2874] Of noble origin.
[2875] Avoid.
[2876] Pack.
[2877] Well done.
[2878] Be my partner.
[2879] Be their opponents.
[2880] A game like cribbage.
[2881] An earlier kind of whist.
[2882] Be shut out.
[2883] Cut.
[2884] Pack.
[2885] This line should probably be given to Mrs. F. If not, Cranwell
exit here with Jenkin.
[2886] Old Mountford’s house.
[2887] Rioting.
[2888] York Castle.
[2889] Ceased.
[2890] Joyful.
[2891] Too base in their conduct. (Ward.)
[2892] Ed. conj. Qq. _in_.
[2893] Lose.
[2894] Weigh impartially.
[2895] Verity emends to _expectation_.
[2896] Frankford’s house.
[2897] Influence with.
[2898] Less severe.
[2899] Good fellow.
[2900] Armed.
[2901] Cause discomfort to.
[2902] Intimacy.
[2903] Another part of the house.
[2904] Outside the house.
[2905] Bow-shots.
[2906] The hall of the house. Note that in the Qq. these scenes are
continuous.
[2907] Delay.
[2908] Established his case. (Ward.)
[2909] Count backwards.
[2910] Dressing-gown.
[2911] Outcast.
[2912] Rank.
[2913] Nearby.
[2914] Permit.
[2915] Before Sir Francis Acton’s house.
[2916] Dressed.
[2917] A Celtic foot-soldier; often used in contempt.
[2918] A small coin.
[2919] Penny.
[2920] Tell.
[2921] Dressed finely.
[2922] Wonder.
[2923] Frankford’s house.
[2924] Wire used to support a ruff.
[2925] Variation.
[2926] Merry.
[2927] Road near Mistress Frankford’s manor.
[2928] Sworn.
[2929] Commands.
[2930] Food.
[2931] Enchanted, seduced.
[2932] Made this trouble.
[2933] Acquired these languages perfectly.
[2934] Before the Manor House.
[2935] Conducts.
[2936] Dutiful.
[2937] Dwells.
[2938] The Manor Home. The scene was really unchanged.
[2939] Condition.
[2940] Verity suggests, _Once more_ (_i. e._ Kiss me once more); _thy
wife dies, etc._
[2941] Cut and filled in with gold.
[2942] Pure.
[2943] Compare.
[2944] The Q spellings _Rafe_ and _Raph_ indicate the pronunciation.
[2945] From the Second Edition, 1635.
[2946] Fastidious.
[2947] _Idem._ “This Prologue is almost an exact Transcript of ‘The
Prologue at the Black fryers’ prefixed to Lyly’s _Sapho and Phaon_.”
(Murch.)
[2948] Marjoram.
[2949] Disapproval.
[2950] Q₂ _authors_.
[2951] Probably Whitefriars, a private theatre.
[2952] Jeers.
[2953] The placard announcing the name of the play.
[2954] _I. e._ a member of the Grocers’ Guild, one of the great livery
companies.
[2955] Behave trickily.
[2956] A lost play, author unknown.
[2957] Heywood’s _If you know not me, you know nobody_, pt. II.
[2958] Peele’s _Edward I_.
[2959] Wonderful.
[2960] Dear.
[2961] Was to have seen.
[2962] Perhaps _Edward IV_, ascribed to Heywood.
[2963] A lost play.
[2964] This play was first acted by the children of Her Majesty’s
Revels.
[2965] Apparel.
[2966] Disparage.
[2967] Swaggering.
[2968] With slight changes from _1 Henry IV_, I. iii. 201.
[2969] An early play of unknown authorship.
[2970] See _The Spanish Tragedy_, _ante_.
[2971] A pipe resembling a hautboy.
[2972] Attacks on individuals.
[2973] A room in the house of Venturewell.
[2974] Markets.
[2975] Indulged my passions.
[2976] Is her own confidant, and knows best.
[2977] So feeble a personality.
[2978] Against masterless men.
[2979] Another room in the same.
[2980] Hindrances.
[2981] Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of St. Paul’s School, 1596-1608.
He trained the pupils to act.
[2982] Restrain.
[2983] Rake.
[2984] Crossbow.
[2985] Inclination.
[2986] The “annual military muster of the citizens, embodying all the
companies, for the purpose of forming a regular guard for the city
during the ensuing year.” (Dyce.)
[2987] Embroidered.
[2988] Hear me out.
[2989] Qq. _men_.
[2990] Off.
[2991] The passage is condensed from _Palmerin d’Oliva_, the romance to
which _Palmerin of England_ is a sequel.
[2992] Giants.
[2993] _I. e._ a counter.
[2994] Specifics used against the plague.
[2995] _I. e._ visited by the plague.
[2996] Spurring.
[2997] Heraldic.
[2998] Honest.
[2999] A room in Merrythought’s house.
[3000] Squander.
[3001] Gallows-bird.
[3002] To be careful.
[3003] Certainly.
[3004] Dinner and supper hours.
[3005] Stick to your opinion.
[3006] Gallows-bird.
[3007] Ill luck to him.
[3008] Be frugal.
[3009] A kind of a violin.
[3010] The game of see-saw.
[3011] Ed. 1778, _God’s wounds_.
[3012] A room in the house of Venturewell.
[3013] Close.
[3014] A master of fencing.
[3015] Waltham forest.
[3016] This seems to be an allusion to a sham-battle at Mile-End, the
green at which was used as a training ground.
[3017] Spaniards.
[3018] Fowling-piece.
[3019] A term of endearment.
[3020] Go hang.
[3021] In abundance.
[3022] Breeches.
[3023] An infusion of knot-grass was supposed to retard growth.
[3024] The mistress of Ptolme, the friend of Palmerin.
[3025] With a vengeance.
[3026] Imperial, _i. e._ emperor.
[3027] Another part of the forest.
[3028] And also.
[3029] Ready.
[3030] Salute him as superior. (Moorman.)
[3031] _I. e._ Livery companies, guilds.
[3032] Man for man.
[3033] Another part of the forest.
[3034] Cf. _Changeling_, I. ii. 76 and note.
[3035] Befoul.
[3036] A healing herb.
[3037] John Dory, according to the legend, engaged with the King of
France to bring the crew of an English ship prisoners to Paris, but was
himself captured whilst making the attempt. The song and tune were for
a long time popular in England. (Strachey.)
[3038] Teach him.
[3039] Vagaries.
[3040] A lump.
[3041] Appease(?) (Moorman.) Perhaps, have him bound to keep the peace.
[3042] Mischievous.
[3043] Wager.
[3044] Silence!
[3045] The same.
[3046] Traveling, spurring along.
[3047] Youth.
[3048] Fiery dragon.
[3049] Before the Bell Inn, Waltham.
[3050] Severely.
[3051] Great dirty lout.
[3052] Consoling.
[3053] Running footmen had their legs greased to keep them supple.
[3054] A common trick of the ostlers of the time to prevent the horses
from eating the hay. (Weber.)
[3055] Blockhead.
[3056] A room in the house of Venturewell.
[3057] Something used to bind together the bushes composing a hedge.
(N. E. D.)
[3058] Thirteen miles beyond Waltham.
[3059] A room in Merrythought’s house.
[3060] Pass.
[3061] Where the heads of traitors and heretics were exposed.
[3062] Thief.
[3063] Waltham-forest.
[3064] Capable of endurance.
[3065] Foolish.
[3066] Give in.
[3067] Does.
[3068] Warrant for arrest.
[3069] A room in the Bell Inn, Waltham.
[3070] Arrest.
[3071] Go hang.
[3072] Serious.
[3073] Killed.
[3074] Dwell.
[3075] Elegant, courteous, noble.
[3076] Pointing upward. The reference is, of course, to the usual sign
of the barber-surgeon.
[3077] Circumference.
[3078] Balls of soap.
[3079] _I. e._ The puppet-show of Nineveh.
[3080] Jonah and the whale.
[3081] The street before Merrythought’s house.
[3082] At once.
[3083] Before a barber’s shop, Waltham.
[3084] Knock.
[3085] Foolish.
[3086] Pay for.
[3087] Feign.
[3088] Old form of _scotched_, cut.
[3089] Certificate of citizenship.
[3090] The pox or syphilis was also known as the French disease.
[3091] The resort of prostitutes.
[3092] A common method of treating syphilis.
[3093] The street before Merrythought’s house.
[3094] His old habits.
[3095] Military leader.
[3096] Ignorant(?) ingrate(?)
[3097] Qualities.
[3098] A lively dance.
[3099] Be lively.
[3100] After his own nature.
[3101] Qq. begin Act IV here.
[3102] Armour.
[3103] Tagged laces used to attach the hose or breeches to the doublet.
[3104] A street.
[3105] A loose woman.
[3106] Apparently a prison attached to the Court of Arches.
[3107] An allusion to an incident in a play called _The Travailes of
the Three English Brothers_, by Day, Rowley, and Wilkins.
[3108] Another theatre.
[3109] Tales.
[3110] By Heywood. But Dagonet is in Malory.
[3111] A Hall in the King of Moldavia’s Court.
[3112] Serious.
[3113] Indenture.
[3114] A mock learned form of nipitate, or strong ale.
[3115] Salted.
[3116] Used as ointment.
[3117] Stockings without feet, worn with boots.
[3118] Handsomer.
[3119] A room in the house of Venturewell.
[3120] Upstairs.
[3121] Pretty long.
[3122] In anticipation of.
[3123] Acquired.
[3124] Another room in the house of Venturewell.
[3125] So ed. 1750. Qq. _mourning_.
[3126] Test.
[3127] Fear not for me.
[3128] Hidden.
[3129] In Qq. this speech is in prose: probably correctly.
[3130] A street before Merrythought’s house.
[3131] Penny.
[3132] Portmanteau.
[3133] Have a say.
[3134] Cf. _Spanish Tragedy_, I. 1
[3135] Dyce emends to _stock_.
[3136] Neatly, expertly.
[3137] Blood-letting.
[3138] Spawn.
[3139] Shut up, confined. Sympson emend. Qq. _mute_.
[3140] A lean deer.
[3141] A buck in his second year.
[3142] Hoxton.
[3143] Setting thrums or tufts on a cap. (Murch.) Fingering. (Moorman.)
[3144] A room in the house of Venturewell.
[3145] Foolish.
[3146] Sorrow, melancholy.
[3147] Magnificent.
[3148] _I. e._ full membership in his Company.
[3149] Ramrod.
[3150] Guard (Moorman); regiment (Murch).
[3151] A street (and afterwards Mile-End).
[3152] Ensign (the flag or its bearer).
[3153] Musket.
[3154] Serious.
[3155] Flint.
[3156] Bloated.
[3157] Band.
[3158] Weapons.
[3159] The Lord Mayor’s barge.
[3160] A room in Merrythought’s house.
[3161] Tankard.
[3162] So printed in Qq.
[3163] Qq. omit. Added in Ed. of 1778.
[3164] Shoemaker’s thread.
[3165] Baton.
[3166] Befouled himself.
[3167] Ask the price of, bargain for.
[3168] As the London prentices did on Shrove Tuesday.
[3169] Cf. the speech of Andrea’s Ghost in _The Spanish Tragedy_, I.
i., many lines of which are here parodied.
[3170] Part.
[3171] Meanwhile.
[3172] This list is taken with slight changes from Q₃. Q₂ omits it.
[3173] The presence chamber in the palace.
[3174] Cheat.
[3175] Bow.
[3176] Lovers.
[3177] Q₂ and Q₃ insert _as I_.
[3178] Unbalanced in mind.
[3179] _I. e._ Alexander the Great.
[3180] Swollen. Q₁ and Q₂ _belied_.
[3181] Bugbears.
[3182] To succeeding kings.
[3183] A model prince.
[3184] The phrase, _a dog of wax_, is used elsewhere in a contemptuous
sense, but has not been explained.
[3185] Refer to.
[3186] Ostentation, swagger.
[3187] Probably corrupt. Q₁ _truant_. Mod. edd. conjecture _tyrant_;
_recreant_; _in a true tertian_.
[3188] Love.
[3189] Mason conj. Qq. F. _you_. If you could flatter me without
ruining your families by antagonizing the king.
[3190] Q₁. Other edd. _injuries_.
[3191] Mere.
[3192] Arethusa’s apartment in the palace.
[3193] A fabulous serpent that killed with a glance.
[3194] Suspicious.
[3195] Anticipate.
[3196] An apartment in the palace.
[3197] Construe, interpret.
[3198] Advance.
[3199] A gallery in the palace.
[3200] In charge of the maids of honor.
[3201] Chaste.
[3202] Note of indebtedness.
[3203] Only in Q₁.
[3204] A kind of thistle used as a medicine.
[3205] Cross-bow.
[3206] Blood letting.
[3207] Conger-eel.
[3208] _I. e._ cold.
[3209] Responsive.
[3210] Blank verses.
[3211] Stately dances.
[3212] Arethusa’s apartment in the palace.
[3213] Before Pharamond’s lodging in the court of the palace.
[3214] Finely dressed.
[3215] Closing the eyes.
[3216] Convinced.
[3217] Dressed.
[3218] Behavior.
[3219] Portentous, ominous.
[3220] The court of the palace.
[3221] Scrupulous.
[3222] Raise an armed force.
[3223] Deceived.
[3224] Arethusa’s apartment in the palace.
[3225] Plan.
[3226] Lover.
[3227] For fear of.
[3228] It was believed that scorpions, applied to the wound they made,
cured it.
[3229] Actaeon.
[3230] Before the palace.
[3231] A hunting dog. Lyme = leash.
[3232] An allusion to a religious work, Thomas Bacon’s _The Sicke Man’s
Salve_, 1561.
[3233] Acting as a doctor.
[3234] Almanacs gave the proper seasons for blood-letting.
[3235] Chaste.
[3236] Coat of arms. Mason explains that the reference is to the
introduction of stars into a coat of arms, denoting a younger branch.
[3237] Baggage.
[3238] Spanish fly, used as a provocative.
[3239] A forest.
[3240] With a cross-bow for shooting stones.
[3241] The assay or slitting of the deer, in order to test the quality
of the flesh, which involved a fee to the keeper.
[3242] The hart’s horns, which are covered with velvet pile when new.
[3243] Re-cover.
[3244] A lean doe.
[3245] Creeping stealthily.
[3246] A fast one.
[3247] Suitable.
[3248] Another part of the forest.
[3249] Formerly used to women as well as to men.
[3250] Bouts.
[3251] Cudgels.
[3252] God judge.
[3253] Broad sword.
[3254] Alive.
[3255] Another part of the forest.
[3256] Sleepiness.
[3257] Pursuers.
[3258] Pyramid.
[3259] Before the palace.
[3260] A prison.
[3261] Mason conj. Qq. F. _my ... yours_.
[3262] A state-room in the palace.
[3263] Q₁ Other edd. omit.
[3264] _I. e._ fearing for.
[3265] _I. e._ shopkeepers, who were in the habit of thus addressing
passers-by.
[3266] Trifle, whim.
[3267] Eat patterns on.
[3268] Creases.
[3269] Fatten.
[3270] Geese.
[3271] A street.
[3272] Darlings.
[3273] Apprentices, who were bound by indentures, and whose usual
weapons were clubs. Throughout these scenes, it is, of course, London
citizens who are in view.
[3274] A cloth, made of wool, sometimes mixed with silk, with a watered
surface.
[3275] Colored cloth interwoven with copper.
[3276] Embroidered cloth, originally of gold and silk.
[3277] Cringers(?) duck-hunters(?).
[3278] A pun on velour.
[3279] A pun on collars.
[3280] Another pun. Rose-nobles were gold coins.
[3281] A small vessel.
[3282] Float idly.
[3283] Be basely occupied.
[3284] Swaggering words.
[3285] A male sparrow-hawk, with a pun on the weapon.
[3286] Stewed.
[3287] Disembowel.
[3288] Instrument for cleaning a gun.
[3289] Fray out.
[3290] The caul about the hart’s paunch.
[3291] Ribbons, tape.
[3292] Have his eyelids sewed together like a hawk’s.
[3293] _I. e._ a bastard, one born after the convivialities of a church
feast.
[3294] Thin silk.
[3295] A sort of kite.
[3296] Diminutive of _dons_.
[3297] In allusion to Brazenose College, Oxford.
[3298] Cittern.
[3299] Hornless animal.
[3300] A hero in _The Mirrour of Knighthood_, a romance from the
Spanish. See _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_.
[3301] Roistering blades.
[3302] Steel caps.
[3303] Cask (Pharamond).
[3304] Courtiers clad in scarlet.
[3305] Perfumed hands.
[3306] Band.
[3307] Train.
[3308] An apartment in the palace.
[3309] Shall be sorry to be denied.
[3310] In some barbarous countries, it was believed that the murderer
inherited the form and qualities of his victim. (Mason.)
[3311] Quick to understand.
[3312] An apartment in the palace.
[3313] So Q₂. Q₁ _above_. The choice of reading depends on whether
_her_ refers to Aspatia or Evadne.
[3314] In turn.
[3315] Cf. V. iii. 42.
[3316] Under what circumstances.
[3317] Theo. emend. Qq. omit.
[3318] So Q₃. Q₁ and Q₂ _about_.
[3319] A hall in the palace, with a gallery full of spectators.
[3320] Done.
[3321] Moody.
[3322] A corruption of God’s (?)
[3323] Wenches.
[3324] Foolish.
[3325] Quarrel.
[3326] Flageolets.
[3327] Q₁ _quenching_.
[3328] _I. e._ of the court ladies.
[3329] Will.
[3330] Crushed(?) or beaten by the waves(?).
[3331] Q₁ adds here _if not her measure_, plausibly explained by Fleay
as a stage-direction, _Another measure_.
[3332] So Q₁. Q₂ _A thanks to every one, and_.
[3333] Setting, the West. Qq. _Sect_, emended by Seward.
[3334] The effulgence of the court. (Thorndike.)
[3335] Ante-room to Evadne’s bed-chamber.
[3336] _I. e._ the trick. (Thorndike.)
[3337] Cause the loss of the game.
[3338] Drive at a fast pace.
[3339] Untimely.
[3340] So Dyce. Q₁ _right_. Other Qq. and F _night_.
[3341] Artful.
[3342] By turns.
[3343] Pleases.
[3344] Only in Q₁.
[3345] In Q₃ only.
[3346] So Q₁. Q₂ _wisht_.
[3347] Bullen conjectures _hand_.
[3348] Despatch.
[3349] Proclaim.
[3350] So edd. 1778. Early Qq. and F _that_.
[3351] Q₁ _left_.
[3352] Am convinced.
[3353] Secretly.
[3354] Q₁ _longing_.
[3355] An apartment in the house of Calianax.
[3356] Addressed to Theseus.
[3357] Q₁ _bravely_.
[3358] Q₁ reads _Suppose I ... now_.
[3359] Living representation.
[3360] Laughing-stock.
[3361] Ante-room to Evadne’s bed-chamber.
[3362] No more dressed.
[3363] The Qq. have no point after _more_; F₂ has a comma.
[3364] In Qq. and F this sentence is given to Evadne, her name becoming
a speech-tag.
[3365] Ingenuous.
[3366] Tale-tellers.
[3367] So Sympson. Qq. and F _lives_.
[3368] Fortunate qualities.
[3369] Convinced.
[3370] A room in the palace.
[3371] Affects me deeply.
[3372] Irresistible.
[3373] Cajoled.
[3374] Cowardly.
[3375] Satisfy, make mild.
[3376] Alive.
[3377] Race, stock.
[3378] An apartment of Evadne.
[3379] Gloves manufactured at Milan.
[3380] Theobald read, _As though sh’ad_. Other edd. take _fill_ in
sense of “cover with writing;” Dyce as “inflame,” which is perhaps best.
[3381] The dog-star, Sirius.
[3382] Dog-rose: also used of the canker worm, a disease attacking
plants. Cf. V. i. 76.
[3383] Cowardly.
[3384] _Q very sorry._
[3385] Frighten.
[3386] A tame wolf.
[3387] Stake.
[3388] The marsh where the Hydra lived which Hercules slew.
[3389] Qq. and F _eyes_.
[3390] A hall in the palace.
[3391] Haply.
[3392] Shameless fellows. So Q₁. Q₂ ff. _Eaters_.
[3393] So Dyce. Old edd. _him_.
[3394] Family.
[3395] Astrologers.
[3396] Loyal.
[3397] Without self-control.
[3398] A room in the palace.
[3399] Most mod. edd. begin a new scene here.
[3400] Q₁ _virtue_.
[3401] A corroding disease. Cf. IV. i. 85, note.
[3402] Shooting stars.
[3403] Easily infected.
[3404] Finely dressed.
[3405] Before the Fort.
[3406] Anteroom to Amintor’s apartments.
[3407] Only in Q₁.
[3408] Untimely.
[3409] Surpass.
[3410] Wildness.
[3411] Qq. _sounds_.
[3412] Race.
[3413] _I. e._ the judgment which must be passed on them.
[3414] Called in question: endangered.
[3415] Q₃. Q₁ omits. Some copies of Q₃ read _merry_.
[3416] Garlands.
[3417] Leather (from _Cordova_ in Spain).
[3418] Entice.
[3419] Culture.
[3420] Passions.
[3421] In the neighbourhood of a village.
[3422] Veins.
[3423] Seat of the passions.
[3424] Embrace.
[3425] Weak.
[3426] More gracious.
[3427] Another part of the wood.
[3428] Beauty.
[3429] Q₁-Q₄ omit.
[3430] F₂ _pure_.
[3431] Worship.
[3432] Aim, purpose.
[3433] Cyparissus, metamorphosed into a cypress.
[3434] Sorrow.
[3435] Its.
[3436] Tithonus’. F₂ reads _Titans_.
[3437] A pasture.
[3438] Dyce emend. Qq 1-4 transpose _down_ and _loud_, F₂ _low falling
... down calling_.
[3439] Unwholesome.
[3440] The wood before Clorin’s bower.
[3441] Q₁ _high_.
[3442] Q₁ _lop_.
[3443] Water-lily.
[3444] Mad.
[3445] Buckthorn.
[3446] Septfoil.
[3447] Loosestrife.
[3448] _Orchis mascula._
[3449] Q₁ _forces_.
[3450] Amazement.
[3451] Q₁ _errant_.
[3452] Q₁-Q₃ omit.
[3453] View.
[3454] Another part of the wood.
[3455] Q₁-Q₄ _praise_.
[3456] Qq. F _he_.
[3457] Q₂ ff. _nimble_.
[3458] Another part of the wood.
[3459] High laced boots.
[3460] Part of the wood with the holy well.
[3461] Q₁ and Q₂ _reformed_.
[3462] Early edd. _Ex. Amaryllis, Perigot._
[3463] F₂ _I ’ll seek him out; and for thy Courtesie_.
[3464] Ed. conj. Early edd. _She would_.
[3465] The popular explanation of the foam secreted by the cicada.
[3466] Q₃ ff. F₂ _I loved_.
[3467] New-born.
[3468] Band.
[3469] Part of the wood.
[3470] Lose.
[3471] Lace bought at St. Audrey’s Fair at Ely.
[3472] The wood before Clorin’s bower.
[3473] Q₁-Q₄ _lower_.
[3474] F₂ _cut off_.
[3475] Abundance.
[3476] Potent.
[3477] Discomfort.
[3478] Part of the wood with the holy well.
[3479] A dale in the wood.
[3480] Dell.
[3481] Vile. F₁ _wild_.
[3482] Biscuits.
[3483] Mad.
[3484] The wood before Clorin’s bower.
[3485] A village.
[3486] The wood before Clorin’s bower.
[3487] Scent.
[3488] Withdraws.
[3489] A pasture.
[3490] Chaucer.
[3491] The wolf.
[3492] Betrothed.
[3493] Embrace.
[3494] Part of the wood.
[3495] Appearance.
[3496] The wood before Clorin’s bower.
[3497] Q₁-Q₄ _these_; F₂ _each_.
[3498] Moorman’s conj. for Qq. _cleanse thee_. F₂ reads, _This perhaps
will cleanse again_.
[3499] Bleedings.
[3500] Well-earned morsels. (Moorman.)
[3501] Cloud-drift.
[3502] Q₄ F₂ _thickets_.
[3503] Speed.
[3504] A hall in the house of La Castre.
[3505] At once.
[3506] Moulted.
[3507] Incited.
[3508] Deceived.
[3509] A street before the same house.
[3510] Feeble.
[3511] With narrow buttocks.
[3512] Barbary horses.
[3513] Puppets.
[3514] Tooth-picks.
[3515] Supposed to be a provocative.
[3516] Attempt it.
[3517] Old edd. _witty_.
[3518] Countenance.
[3519] A bar of iron with fetters attached.
[3520] Room in the house of La Castre.
[3521] Desire.
[3522] Cheat.
[3523] Surpass.
[3524] Haply.
[3525] Please.
[3526] God’s body!
[3527] Foolish.
[3528] Obsequious attention.
[3529] Seek.
[3530] _I.e._ with great precision.
[3531] A garden belonging to the house of La Castre.
[3532] Estate.
[3533] Courted.
[3534] Vain-glorious.
[3535] F₂ _would fain_.
[3536] Satirist.
[3537] Against all attacks.
[3538] Alive.
[3539] Fastidious.
[3540] Formerly used to women as well as to men.
[3541] Boastful.
[3542] The expectation formed of you.
[3543] Sympson suggests _above_.
[3544] Get rid of. F₂ _lose_.
[3545] A hall in the house of Nantolet.
[3546] Slipper.
[3547] A lively dance.
[3548] Moderation.
[3549] Admirers.
[3550] Contemptuously treated.
[3551] A garden belonging to the house of Nantolet, with a summer-house
in the back-ground.
[3552] Fastidious.
[3553] Reputation.
[3554] This S. D. is from Dyce.
[3555] Peeping.
[3556] Idly fingering.
[3557] Strong ale.
[3558] Partly a prayer-book.
[3559] Accuse, tax.
[3560] Where the houses of ill-repute were situated.
[3561] Dissolute fellows.
[3562] Flouted.
[3563] A public walk.
[3564] Grimaces.
[3565] Gestures, antics.
[3566] Instructions.
[3567] Private.
[3568] Secret inclination.
[3569] Entirely: a phrase from the game of hazard.
[3570] Arrogance.
[3571] Limits.
[3572] Perhaps lard, fatten.
[3573] Estates.
[3574] Ff. _conventions_.
[3575] Dogs kept chained on account of their fierceness.
[3576] Treated contemptuously.
[3577] Surpass.
[3578] Stalking-horse.
[3579] Bitter jests.
[3580] Fair one.
[3581] Old edd. _fight_.
[3582] Accomplishments.
[3583] Wanton wench.
[3584] Jovial.
[3585] Ital. “enough.”
[3586] Fool.
[3587] Swaggering lord.
[3588] Several editors read _choler_.
[3589] Browned.
[3590] Stupid dog.
[3591] Vile.
[3592] Apparently some extravagance of dress.
[3593] Ff. _they_.
[3594] Bairn.
[3595] A street before the lodging of Pinac.
[3596] Mock. So Sympson. Ff. _do_.
[3597] Scoff.
[3598] Reputation.
[3599] In term-time London was full of strangers from the country
(Dyce.)
[3600] A public walk.
[3601] Cajole.
[3602] Vile.
[3603] Arrogance.
[3604] Handsome.
[3605] Gulled.
[3606] Bile, the supposed cause of anger.
[3607] Thoroughly.
[3608] Bear-keeper.
[3609] Fool.
[3610] A hall in the house of La Castre.
[3611] Hinder. Ff. _set_.
[3612] Cobbler.
[3613] Cat-like behavior.
[3614] _I. e._ black-sanctus, a burlesque hymn accompanied by
discordant noises.
[3615] Cast a spell on me.
[3616] A street, before the house of La Castre.
[3617] Approves.
[3618] A public walk.
[3619] Morris-dances.
[3620] Lively dances.
[3621] Dastards.
[3622] Like the man-in-the-moon with his bundle of sticks.
[3623] Disgraced.
[3624] Slices.
[3625] Good breeding.
[3626] Bows.
[3627] Secret coat of mail.
[3628] Large fortune.
[3629] Shut.
[3630] Ready.
[3631] Lovers.
[3632] A room in the house of Nantolet.
[3633] A room in a neighboring house, with a gallery.
[3634] Glade. The space between the pinnacles is compared to the
opening in a wood, where nets were spread to snare woodcocks.
[3635] A large ship of burden.
[3636] The street, before the same house.
[3637] Sluts.
[3638] A room in the same house.
[3639] Estate.
[3640] Ff. _know._
[3641] Planned.
[3642] Amalfi. The presence-chamber in the palace of the Duchess.
[3643] Prevent.
[3644] The same.
[3645] The reference is to the knightly sport of riding at the ring.
[3646] At the expense of.
[3647] Rolls of lint used to dress wounds.
[3648] Surgeons.
[3649] A small horse.
[3650] Ballasted.
[3651] A lively dance.
[3652] Throws into the shade.
[3653] At the point of.
[3654] Coaches.
[3655] Spy.
[3656] Cheats.
[3657] Likes.
[3658] Spy.
[3659] Amalfi. Gallery in the Duchess’s palace.
[3660] Lustful.
[3661] _Genesis_ XXX. 31-42.
[3662] Impulse.
[3663] The net in which he caught Venus and Mars.
[3664] Housekeepers.
[3665] Produced.
[3666] Qq. read _strange_.
[3667] Guess.
[3668] The phrase used to indicate that accounts had been examined and
found correct.
[3669] Using words of present time: _i. e._ “I take,” not “I will take.”
[3670] Knot.
[3671] More firmly.
[3672] Of difficult disposition.
[3673] Amalfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.
[3674] Chief part.
[3675] Bullies (Hazlitt); lawyers (Vaughan).
[3676] Royal journey.
[3677] Turning a boat on its side for repairs.
[3678] Scabbed.
[3679] Empty.
[3680] Face-modelling. (Sampson.) “There ’s a plain statement of your
practices.”
[3681] Lupus.
[3682] A disease of swine.
[3683] Blue like those of a woman with child.
[3684] Scurf.
[3685] Person of highest influence.
[3686] Hysteria.
[3687] This year.
[3688] Clearly.
[3689] Youngster.
[3690] A hall in the same palace.
[3691] Crossness.
[3692] Always.
[3693] The meaner servants.
[3694] At once.
[3695] Cast his horoscope.
[3696] The court of the same palace.
[3697] Making an astrological calculation.
[3698] Going to the root of the matter.
[3699] Write.
[3700] _I. e._ on his handkerchief.
[3701] Addressing the lantern.
[3702] _The rest not considered._
[3703] A piece of news.
[3704] Cleverly contrived.
[3705] Rome. An apartment in the palace of the Cardinal.
[3706] Religious recluse.
[3707] Experienced.
[3708] Sick.
[3709] Medicinal.
[3710] Strong broth.
[3711] Another apartment in the same palace.
[3712] The mandrake was supposed to give forth shrieks when uprooted,
which drove the hearer mad.
[3713] Unchaste.
[3714] Supposed to be a sign of folly.
[3715] Throw the hammer.
[3716] Boil to shreds. (Dyce.) Qq. _to boil_.
[3717] Amalfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.
[3718] Wealth.
[3719] Lampoons.
[3720] Ploughshares.
[3721] Spying.
[3722] Deceptions.
[3723] Soothing.
[3724] The bed-chamber of the Duchess in the same.
[3725] Qq. read _slight_.
[3726] Powder of orris-root.
[3727] Wheels of craft.
[3728] Certificate that the books were found correct.
[3729] The badge of a steward.
[3730] Spies.
[3731] Lot.
[3732] For _Plutus_.
[3733] Quick steps.
[3734] Miss.
[3735] Remains.
[3736] Profession.
[3737] An apartment in the Cardinal’s palace at Rome.
[3738] A decorated horse-cloth, used only when the court is traveling.
[3739] The first quarto has in the margin: “The author disclaims this
ditty to be his.”
[3740] Near Loretto.
[3741] Small birds.
[3742] His vizard.
[3743] Amalfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.
[3744] Curtain.
[3745] The wife of Brutus, who died by swallowing fire.
[3746] By artificial means.
[3747] Profession.
[3748] Spying.
[3749] Another room in the lodging of the Duchess.
[3750] Band.
[3751] Bands.
[3752] Boil.
[3753] Punning on the two senses of “dye” and “corn”.
[3754] From exporting his grain.
[3755] Optical glass.
[3756] The Geneva Bible.
[3757] Petticoat.
[3758] Coach.
[3759] A warm drink containing milk, wine, etc.
[3760] Receptacle.
[3761] A drug supposed to ooze from embalmed bodies.
[3762] Curdled.
[3763] Printed as verse in Qq.
[3764] Trial.
[3765] An exclamation of impatience.
[3766] Milan. A public place.
[3767] In escheat; here, in fee.
[3768] Disbeliever.
[3769] Fraught.
[3770] A gallery in the residence of the Cardinal and Ferdinand.
[3771] A dog which worries sheep.
[3772] A fabulous serpent that killed by its glance.
[3773] Cut a caper.
[3774] Broth.
[3775] Skeletons.
[3776] So Dyce. Qq. _brought_.
[3777] Perfumed sweetmeats for the breath.
[3778] Smoke.
[3779] A fortification.
[3780] Milan. An apartment in the residence of the Cardinal and
Ferdinand.
[3781] Bandied.
[3782] Reality.
[3783] Mistake.
[3784] _I.e._ the dead body.
[3785] Another apartment in the same.
[3786] A street in a country town.
[3787] Used of any one’s estate.
[3788] Used vaguely of a legal scrape.
[3789] Excessively rented.
[3790] Chastity.
[3791] Planned.
[3792] Worth.
[3793] A disease caused by a parasite. Used as an execration.
[3794] A white wine warm and spiced.
[3795] Cheat.
[3796] Precisely the way of the world.
[3797] In the Qq. O. Hoard, Limber, and Kix appear in the speech tags
as 1, 2, and 3.
[3798] A pun on the two meanings, “concert” and “consort.”
[3799] Another street in the same town.
[3800] Searching.
[3801] “Contrary to your will and profession.”
[3802] Without escort.
[3803] A street in London.
[3804] Impartiality.
[3805] The booty.
[3806] Cheats him.
[3807] _Or any ... mad thee_, omitted in Q₂.
[3808] Asp.
[3809] Lively.
[3810] Another street.
[3811] A lawyer.
[3812] Mastiff.
[3813] A gold coin worth 6s. 8d.
[3814] Heavy built galleys.
[3815] Passenger sloops.
[3816] Puppet-shows.
[3817] One of Dampit’s self-explanatory coinages.
[3818] Apparently, rushed about. See Nares.
[3819] Bogies, bugbears.
[3820] A room in Lucre’s house.
[3821] “Good fellow” was then slang for a thief.
[3822] Q₂ _I have_.
[3823] A corruption of “Gods.”
[3824] Let me understand you.
[3825] To the country, with a pun.
[3826] A corruption of “pox.”
[3827] Couple of gold coins, each worth from 6s. 8d. to 10s.
[3828] Lodge.
[3829] Fellows, contemptuously.
[3830] The common livery of serving-men.
[3831] A corruption of “Cold Harbour,” where debtors and vagabonds
found sanctuary.
[3832] As my life.
[3833] Secret.
[3834] Membership in a livery company, one of the great trade guilds of
London.
[3835] A corrupt oath: God’s nigs.
[3836] Against, by the time that.
[3837] Scheme.
[3838] A proverb: I ’ll make the venture. A bolt was an arrow with a
round knob at its head; a shaft, sharp and barbed.
[3839] A street.
[3840] In love with some one else.
[3841] Witgood’s lodgings.
[3842] Betrothed.
[3843] Satisfied.
[3844] A sweet wine, taken with eggs as an aphrodisiac.
[3845] Playing on the two meanings of “suitors,” at law and for love.
[3846] Gold pieces 15s. in value.
[3847] The mark was worth 13s. 4d.
[3848] Lucre’s and Witgood’s.
[3849] Judgment.
[3850] Entice.
[3851] Gods me. Perhaps a corruption of “God save me!”
[3852] Postponements.
[3853] Anticipate.
[3854] A room in Hoard’s house.
[3855] Convinced.
[3856] A tavern.
[3857] Rooms in taverns had such individual names.
[3858] Matching.
[3859] A room in Dampit’s house.
[3860] Might.
[3861] Undress you.
[3862] Cheating.
[3863] Fears.
[3864] A term of endearment.
[3865] Qq. give this speech to Lucre.
[3866] A room in Lucre’s house.
[3867] “O man in desperation” is the name of an old tune mentioned by
Nashe and Peele.
[3868] Grief.
[3869] A street.
[3870] Rough-chinned. “Thrum” is the end of the warp in weaving.
[3871] A debtors’ prison.
[3872] Rubbing with perfume.
[3873] A room in Hoard’s house.
[3874] Light blue.
[3875] A hawking cry.
[3876] A hunting cry.
[3877] Champaign.
[3878] Marchioness.
[3879] A pre-contract of marriage could not be set aside without the
mutual consent of the parties. (Bullen.)
[3880] Trifling.
[3881] A proverbial phrase.
[3882] A return in tennis; a _tu quoque_.
[3883] Dampit’s bed-chamber.
[3884] Handkerchief.
[3885] As before, Dampit’s words must be interpreted by the context.
[3886] _I. e._ he is drunk.
[3887] Kiss.
[3888] Time to repay borrowed money.
[3889] Used designedly for “advice.”
[3890] Work well.
[3891] The didapper or dabchick, a small water-bird.
[3892] See III. iii. 17-19.
[3893] Virg. _Aen._ iii. 658.
[3894] So named, Nares conjectures, from the bird’s migrating from the
west.
[3895] _I. e._ Naked in bed.
[3896] A room in Lucre’s house.
[3897] A room in Hoard’s house.
[3898] Members of the Fishmongers’ Company.
[3899] Just on your wish.
[3900] A trick. Some mod. edd. emend to _punk_.
[3901] Renounce.
[3902] Love.
[3903] “According to the directions for bleeding in old almanacs, blood
was to be taken from particular parts under particular planets.” (Dyce.)
[3904] “To stab their arms with daggers, and drink off the blood mixed
with wine, to the health of their mistresses, was formerly a frequent
practice among gallants.” (Dyce.) Cf. _Lear_, II. i. 36.
[3905] “Dutchmen had the reputation of being very expert in swallowing
flapdragons.” (Bullen.)
[3906] A street.
[3907] Q. _blest_.
[3908] Cf. _Macbeth_, I. iii.
[3909] Forestall. Mod. edd. _stale_.
[3910] Q. _or_.
[3911] A fabulous animal said to kill with a glance.
[3912] Q. _And what_.
[3913] Promontories’.
[3914] A coinage from the Greek, meaning the first growth of the beard.
[3915] Trifling fancy.
[3916] Cannon.
[3917] Skin.
[3918] A room in the house of Alibius.
[3919] Idiots.
[3920] Guard (in fencing). (Dyce.)
[3921] “Pluck a rose” = _alvum exonerare_. (Bullen.)
[3922] Constable.
[3923] Answer for, warrant; or, make him able for.
[3924] Business.
[3925] Honest.
[3926] Two.
[3927] Neck.
[3928] Whip.
[3929] Parmesan cheese.
[3930] An apartment in the Castle.
[3931] Paris Garden, on the Bankside, where bull-baiting was carried on.
[3932] Dragged by the ear.
[3933] Q. _his_.
[3934] Title.
[3935] Judge.
[3936] After _him_, Q. inserts _in his passions_.
[3937] Another apartment in the Castle.
[3938] Understand.
[3939] Preen, set the feathers in order. Used of hawks.
[3940] Like an object of love.
[3941] Ambergris.
[3942] In anticipation of.
[3943] A narrow passage in the Castle.
[3944] _I. e._ Between the acts.
[3945] Fortification.
[3946] Q. Exeunt at one door and enter at the other.
[3947] A vault.
[3948] Prove it has been done.
[3949] An apartment in the house of Alibius.
[3950] Handsome.
[3951] Persons suffering from _lycanthropia_, or wolf-madness. Cf.
_Duchess of Malfi_, V. ii. 10.
[3952] Cant term for bawd.
[3953] Nidget, _i. e._ idiot.
[3954] Scrutinizing.
[3955] An allusion to the game of barley-break, the ground for which
was divided into three compartments, of which the middle one was termed
“hell.” (Ellis).
[3956] Out of keeping with.
[3957] “Is it necessary to notice that the name of this great scholar
is introduced merely for the sake of its first syllable?” (Dyce.)
[3958] To gain.
[3959] End.
[3960] An apartment in the Castle.
[3961] Q. omits.
[3962] Band-box.
[3963] Place.
[3964] Q. omits. Add. Ed. 1816.
[3965] Q. _betwixt_.
[3966] Q. _on ’t_, _I’me_.
[3967] By.
[3968] Q. omits.
[3969] Q. _lovers_. Dyce would omit, and read _love-shooting_ in next
line.
[3970] Stately ceremony.
[3971] Alsemero’s apartment in the Castle.
[3972] Q. _both_.
[3973] Is open to.
[3974] Trick.
[3975] Immediately
[3976] Gods.
[3977] Whim.
[3978] Chastity.
[3979] I suspect that there is an allusion here to the examination by
matrons of the notorious Countess of Essex. (Bullen.)
[3980] Property, symptom.
[3981] Another apartment in the Castle.
[3982] Q. _One_.
[3983] Q. _sins and vices_. The correction was suggested by Dyce.
[3984] Q. _I_.
[3985] Celebrate your wedding day.
[3986] Profess, offer.
[3987] Anticipate.
[3988] Tainted.
[3989] A room in the house of Alibius.
[3990] So Bullen. Q. _Waiting_.
[3991] Take the words in their modest sense.
[3992] Deceive.
[3993] Provided that.
[3994] Fastidious.
[3995] Beg pardon.
[3996] The usual jest on the cuckold’s horns.
[3997] Q. _she_.
[3998] Q. _streets_.
[3999] Honest.
[4000] Whose custody, with the revenues of his estate, might be begged
from the king.
[4001] A gallery in the Castle.
[4002] Q. _harsh_.
[4003] Q. _Bosphorus_.
[4004] Scheme.
[4005] Fire-arm.
[4006] Well done.
[4007] Another apartment in the Castle.
[4008] Q. omits.
[4009] Obtained.
[4010] Deceived.
[4011] Alsemero’s apartment in the Castle.
[4012] Answer.
[4013] Embrace.
[4014] See III. iii. 181, note.
[4015] Receive.
[4016] Idiocy.
[4017] Before Tapwell’s house.
[4018] Booze, drink.
[4019] Staled.
[4020] Hound.
[4021] Puritan.
[4022] Cudgel.
[4023] Matters.
[4024] A select number of the more learned justices, whose presence was
necessary to constitute the bench.
[4025] Keeper of the county records.
[4026] Acknowledgments of indebtedness.
[4027] Whining beggars.
[4028] _I. e._ his cudgel.
[4029] Freed.
[4030] Where servants used to be punished.
[4031] Slipper.
[4032] _I. e._ the sky.
[4033] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.
[4034] The siege of Breda by Spinola in 1624-25 was one of the great
events of the time.
[4035] Two bushels.
[4036] Bread soaked in hot water and milk.
[4037] Q. reads _Cooke_.
[4038] Q. _warn’d_.
[4039] A hall in the same.
[4040] Part of the back: ribs or sirloin.
[4041] The basket of broken meats given in alms.
[4042] Bow.
[4043] Leather beer cans.
[4044] Feed.
[4045] _Q. bung’d_.
[4046] A room in Overreach’s house.
[4047] Hollow-cheeked.
[4048] A writ issued for the offence of acknowledging foreign authority
within the realm, or some offence with the same penalties.
[4049] At once.
[4050] Footpads.
[4051] Beggars pretending lunacy.
[4052] Bound. The reference is to the game of tossing in a blanket.
[4053] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.
[4054] Wenches.
[4055] Marsh birds.
[4056] Marvellously.
[4057] Off Fleet Street, famous for its restaurants.
[4058] The country near Lady Allworth’s house.
[4059] Cheating.
[4060] Ambergris, a fashionable perfume.
[4061] Cultivate.
[4062] Cheated.
[4063] Fat and short winded.
[4064] The country near Overreach’s house.
[4065] Charged.
[4066] Rhythmical.
[4067] Reinforced. Q. _lin’d_.
[4068] A room in Overreach’s house.
[4069] Responsibility for providing.
[4070] A coarse cloth.
[4071] One of the London prisons.
[4072] Fit.
[4073] Neck of a boar.
[4074] Fool.
[4075] So Gifford. Q. _when he is_.
[4076] Silks matched with woolen.
[4077] Gulf: here, insatiable glutton.
[4078] A writ commanding the sheriff to take bail.
[4079] Fool.
[4080] Anticipate.
[4081] If it please.
[4082] Terrifying.
[4083] Another room in Overreach’s house.
[4084] Admit.
[4085] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.
[4086] Devices.
[4087] Stainlessness.
[4088] Nothing beyond.
[4089] Wonder at.
[4090] Apparently a slip for “Parnassus.”
[4091] Promote.
[4092] Gossip.
[4093] Before Tapwell’s house.
[4094] Secret.
[4095] For “Rogue.”
[4096] Appointment.
[4097] Q. gives s. d., _This interim. Tapwell and Froth flattering and
bribing Justice Greedy._
[4098] Wine from muscadel grapes.
[4099] Repairer.
[4100] Robbed.
[4101] A room in Overreach’s house.
[4102] Inserted by Dodsley.
[4103] Trifles.
[4104] Wait for.
[4105] Anticipate your objections.
[4106] Parrot.
[4107] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.
[4108] Fastidiously.
[4109] In Q. this entrance occurs after “took,” above.
[4110] Obvious.
[4111] Clothes in pawn were said to be “laid up in lavender.”
[4112] Seized.
[4113] The law against witchcraft.
[4114] Flay.
[4115] Wicker baskets filled with earth, used to protect soldiers when
digging trenches.
[4116] Revealed.
[4117] Capture.
[4118] Fierce watchdog.
[4119] Q. _will I_.
[4120] Solid.
[4121] Crafty.
[4122] Q. _unsheathed_.
[4123] A writ of committal.
[4124] Q. _Gransis_, throughout.
[4125] Q. _a fiction_.
[4126] A room in Crotolon’s house.
[4127] A member of the Areopagus, the highest judicial court in Athens.
[4128] Decide.
[4129] Agree.
[4130] A room in the palace.
[4131] The laurel wreath ... conferred on those who added a province to
the empire. (Gifford.)
[4132] Appropriately belittling terms.
[4133] Q. _are_.
[4134] Await.
[4135] Weave.
[4136] The gardens of the palace. A grove.
[4137] Certain.
[4138] With his arm round her waist. (Dyce.)
[4139] Coyness; over-particular scruples.
[4140] Hooks for stretching cloth; on the rack.
[4141] Rudiments.
[4142] Wait for.
[4143] Beyond what I could have planned.
[4144] A room in Bassanes’ house.
[4145] At once.
[4146] Agent.
[4147] Youth.
[4148] Embrace.
[4149] Cuckolded: the inevitable jest on the cuckold’s horns.
[4150] Direction.
[4151] Moulted.
[4152] Coaches.
[4153] Swelling.
[4154] Gifford emend, _saints_.
[4155] I did not see the point of.
[4156] The palace. Ithocles’ apartment.
[4157] Blinded by sewing up the eye-lids.
[4158] Gifford suggests _bait_.
[4159] Q. _extremities_.
[4160] Infer, understand.
[4161] Q. _Thy_.
[4162] The gardens of the palace. A grove.
[4163] Gifford’s emend. Q. reads
_as the incense smoking
The holiest altars, virgin tears (like
On Vesta’s odours) sprinkled dews to feed ’em,
And to increase._
[4164] Course.
[4165] Apparently corrupt.
[4166] The word was pronounced _aitches_.
[4167] Jaws.
[4168] Discipline.
[4169] The study of Tecnicus.
[4170] Suspicious.
[4171] Make me ever avail myself of thy precepts.
[4172] The palace. Ithocles’ apartment.
[4173] Q. _lover-blest_.
[4174] Streams.
[4175] Q. _Which_.
[4176] Q. omits.
[4177] _’Tis_, Dyce emend. Q. _as_.
[4178] _I. e._ You do not care for me as you say.
[4179] I will attempt to devise something.
[4180] Personal characteristics.
[4181] Attendant slave.
[4182] Wonderful.
[4183] Youthful.
[4184] Feeds; fattens, as one fattens swine.
[4185] Proclaim.
[4186] Freaks.
[4187] Q. _cry a Jealousie_.
[4188] A room in the palace.
[4189] Worship, courtship.
[4190] Acquired.
[4191] A room in the house of Crotolon.
[4192] Prosperity.
[4193] Disposition.
[4194] Calantha’s apartment in the palace.
[4195] So Q. Dyce suggests _enjoin_.
[4196] The palace. Ithocles’ apartment.
[4197] Sincere.
[4198] Badge of a retainer.
[4199] Q. omits.
[4200] Q. _supplying_.
[4201] Gifford suggests _not_.
[4202] A room in Bassanes’ house.
[4203] The _Honeycomb of Honesty_, like the _Garland of Goodwill_, was
probably one of the popular miscellanies of the day. (Gifford.) See
Additional Notes.
[4204] Mule.
[4205] Test me.
[4206] Sight.
[4207] Q. _appear’d, Impostors_.
[4208] Puppet.
[4209] Q. _baudy_.
[4210] Q._ Paine my_, and omits [_Pen._] in next line.
[4211] Tagged laces.
[4212] Excess.
[4213] Q. _augury_.
[4214] An apartment in the palace.
[4215] Q. _to_.
[4216] To the control of Ithocles.
[4217] Penthea’s apartment in the palace.
[4218] A piece of mechanism.
[4219] Probe.
[4220] A room in Bassanes’ house.
[4221] Q. _doublers_.
[4222] The index-hand.
[4223] Satisfied.
[4224] A state-room in the palace.
[4225] Capacity.
[4226] Confuted.
[4227] Q. _Org._
[4228] Dyce’s suggestion. Q. omits.
[4229] Skill.
[4230] A temple.
[4231] Q. _vow_.
[4232] Q. _not_.
[4233] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.
[4234] In the Q. Lady Bornwell is called _Aretina_ throughout in stage
directions and speech-tags.
[4235] A common country-dance tune. Cf. p. 487.
[4236] Characters in the morris-dance.
[4237] Expense.
[4238] Unjust.
[4239] Desire.
[4240] Headdresses.
[4241] Obstruct.
[4242] A religious sect often accused of licentiousness.
[4243] “The Ball,” a comedy by Shirley and Chapman, 1632.
[4244] Moderate.
[4245] Corset.
[4246] Candied orange-peel.
[4247] Indulged.
[4248] Appeal, demand(?).
[4249] What sort of.
[4250] Like.
[4251] Gutter.
[4252] A room in Celestina’s house.
[4253] Will it? Gifford reads _with ’t_.
[4254] Courtesans.
[4255] A suburban resort for cakes and cream.
[4256] Chair-men.
[4257] Splendor.
[4258] Lower.
[4259] Jocular.
[4260] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.
[4261] Title, ornament.
[4262] Vain-glorious.
[4263] _I. e._ Bad luck.
[4264] Hair.
[4265] Pleased.
[4266] Usually, a mould for shaping a hat; here, head.
[4267] A room in Celestina’s house.
[4268] Expensive.
[4269] Flemish.
[4270] Foolishly eager.
[4271] Devices, schemings.
[4272] Ordinary kiss of salutation.
[4273] Lover.
[4274] Lose the scent.
[4275] Cf. _1 Henry IV_, II. ii. 2, “I have hid Falstaff’s horse, and
he frets like gumm’d velvet.” (Gifford.)
[4276] Chastities.
[4277] Lord ——’s house.
[4278] Undressed.
[4279] Wait.
[4280] Obligation.
[4281] Accessible.
[4282] The punishment of bawds was to be whipt and carted.
[4283] Chaste.
[4284] Pay observance, worship.
[4285] Brought back.
[4286] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.
[4287] Absolute, unmixed.
[4288] Accuse.
[4289] Comforting.
[4290] Made of silk and gold thread.
[4291] Q. reads _least_.
[4292] A small vessel.
[4293] Cannon charged with grape-shot.
[4294] Q. continues _of the bears_ to Littleworth.
[4295] _I. e._ Were drunk.
[4296] A cheap substitute for tapestry.
[4297] A quick, lively dance.
[4298] Chaste.
[4299] Characterizing.
[4300] The place of execution.
[4301] A contemptuous term, sometimes associated with _pilchard_, a
small fish like a herring.
[4302] Devices.
[4303] Guilty consciousness.
[4304] A dance like a cotillion.
[4305] Jaundice(?)
[4306] Smoke.
[4307] A game at cards.
[4308] A room in Decoy’s house.
[4309] Wrinkled, shrivelled.
[4310] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.
[4311] Span. _Cuerpo_, stripped of the upper garment.
[4312] Lombard Street: pawn-shops were common in Long Lane.
[4313] Been on the look-out.
[4314] Go-between.
[4315] A kind of milk-pudding.
[4316] Make arrangements.
[4317] Q. reads _holds_.
[4318] Bravo.
[4319] Gay women, prostitutes.
[4320] Foresight.
[4321] All.
[4322] Precedence.
[4323] Resident.
[4324] Lecture.
[4325] Waiter.
[4326] Pour out.
[4327] City militia.
[4328] Brought in comparison.
[4329] Perhaps, _Oh_.
[4330] Q. reads _when_.
[4331] A room in Celestina’s house.
[4332] Q. _yeares_.
[4333] Q. _knowne_.
[4334] Q. _were_.
[4335] Charles I and Henrietta Maria.
[4336] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.
[4337] Thrower of the dice.
[4338] Gulls, simpletons.
[4339] Staked their coins(?).
[4340] Slippers.
[4341] Choice viands.
[4342] “Some unidentified kind of wine.” (N. E. D.)
[4343] Baccarach, a famous Rhine wine.
[4344] Hams.
[4345] Rouse.
[4346] One of a small order of military knights with pensions and
apartments in Windsor Castle.
[4347] Contrivances.
[4348] All four terms are euphemisms for courtesan.
[4349] A vague piece of contemporary slang, the meaning of which has
usually to be derived from the context.
[4350] Yields.
[4351] A small fish, like a herring.
[4352] Gifford conj. Q. _myself the very same_.
[4353] A punning allusion to Dowland’s _Lacrimae or Seven Tears_, etc.,
a popular musical work of the time for stringed instruments.
[4354] Daphne was transformed into a bay-tree.
[4355] Own.
[4356] An apartment in the palace.
[4357] In stage directions and speech-tags throughout, Antonio is
called _Secretary_.
[4358] Bridegroom, as often.
[4359] Agree.
[4360] Force, momentum.
[4361] Wait.
[4362] A room in the Duchess’s house.
[4363] Yielding.
[4364] Q. _Valeria_, but cf. vv. 45-57, above.
[4365] Q. _Val._
[4366] Foolishness.
[4367] Q. transposes _Cel._ and _Val._ throughout this conversation.
[4368] Await.
[4369] Before the walls of the frontier city.—Columbo’s tent.
[4370] Boastful.
[4371] Depreciate.
[4372] Learn to use their arms.
[4373] Young rabbits, youngsters.
[4374] A room in the Duchess’s house.
[4375] An apartment in the palace.
[4376] Q. _wounds_.
[4377] Important.
[4378] Here, a telescope.
[4379] Apparently, an allusion to the Puritans.
[4380] An apartment in the palace.
[4381] A room in the Duchess’s house.
[4382] _I. e._ For the mute who was to take the servant’s part, blue
being the general colour of a servant’s livery.
[4383] Flageolets.
[4384] Brought about.
[4385] Bought off, transferred.
[4386] Untimely.
[4387] Formal justice.
[4388] An apartment in the palace.
[4389] A room in the Duchess’s house.
[4390] Merry.
[4391] Deed.
[4392] Regards.
[4393] Whether you present.
[4394] Acquired.
[4395] Supposed.
[4396] A retired spot without the city.
[4397] A garden.
[4398] A room in the Duchess’s house.
[4399] Loyal (to the Duchess).
[4400] Referring, of course, to the color of the Cardinal’s robes.
[4401] Wait.
[4402] Another room in the same.
[4403] The Cardinal.
[4404] Replies.
[4405] Q. _pinc’d._
[4406] Disguise.
[4407] Telescopes; used also of other optical instruments.
[4408] Critical and biographical articles contained in the General
Works listed above, or in collected editions, or in editions of
separate plays, are not repeated in this paragraph.
Corrections
In the original, the texts in footnotes 395 and 396 were reversed. The
correct text has been applied.
p. 4
_Edi._ Nay, my master will match them.
_Epi._ Nay, my master will match them.
p. 269
“Marco” was changed to “Macro”.
p. 689
That thou, which stood’st like a hugh pyramid
That thou, which stood’st like a huge pyramid
p. 732
May made us more acquainted. This the business:
May make us more acquainted. This the business:
p. 788
To you colossic greatness
To your colossic greatness
p. 876
Hierononimo
Hieronimo
Katharine
Katherine
Lacy, Roland
Lacy, Rowland
p. 877
Passerello
Passarello
p. 879
Hark, how everything is still
Hark, now everything is still