You speak oracle, madam; and now suppose, sweet

lady, you see me set forth, like a poor scholar, to

the university, not on horseback, but in Hobson’s

waggon,[845] and all my pack contained in less than a

little hood-box, my books not above four in number, and

those four were very needful ones too, or else they had

never been bought; and yet I was the valiant captain of

a grammar-school before I went, endured the assault and

battery of many unclean lashes, and all the battles I

was in stood upon points[846] much, which, once let

down, the enemy the schoolmaster would come rearward,

and do such an exploit ’tis a shame to be talked of. By

this time, madam, imagine me slightly entertained to be

a poor scholar and servitor to some Londoner’s son, a

pure cockney, that must hear twice a-week from his

mother, or else he will be sick ere the Sunday of a

university-mulligrub. Such a one, I remember, was my

first puling master, by whose peevish service I crept

into an old battler’s[847] gown, and so began to be a

jolly fellow. There was the first point of wit I shewed

in learning to keep myself warm; to the confirming of

which, you shall never take your true philosophers

without two nightcaps at once and better, a gown of rug

with the like appurtenances; and who be your wise men, I

pray, but they? Now, as for study and books, I had the

use of my young master’s; for he was all day a courtier

in the tennis-court, tossing of balls instead of books,

and only holding disputation with the court-keeper how

many dozen he was in; and when any friend of his would

remember him to his book with this old moth-eaten

sentence, _nulla dies sine linea_, True, he would say, I

observe it well, for I am no day from the line of the

racket-court. Well, in the meantime, I kept his study

warm, and sucked the honey of wit from the flowers of

Aristotle—steeped my brain in the smart juice of logic,

that subtle virtue,—and yet, for all my weighty and

substantial arguments, being able indeed to prove any

thing by logic, I could prove myself never the richer,

make the best syllogism I could: no, although I daily

rose before the sun, talked and conversed with midnight,

killing many a poor farthing candle, that sometimes was

ungently put to death when it might have lived longer,

but most times living out the full course and hour, and

the snuff dying naturally in his bed. Nevertheless, I

had entered as yet but the suburbs of a scholar, and sat

but upon the skirts of learning: full often I have

sighed when others have snorted; and when baser trades

have securely rested in their linens, I have forced mine

eyes open, and even gagged them with capital letters,

stretching them upon the tenters of a broad text-line

when night and sleep have hung pound weights of lead

upon my eyelids.

How many such black and ghastly seasons have I passed

over, accompanied only with a demure watching-candle,

that blinked upon Aristotle’s works, and gave even

sufficient glimmering to read by, but none to spare!

Hitherto my hopes grew comfortable upon the spreading

branches of art and learning, rather promising future

advancement than empty days and penurious scarcity. But

shall I tell you, lady? O, here let me sigh out a full

point, and take my leave of all plenteous hours and

wealthy hopes! for in the spring of all my perfections,

in the very pride and glory of all my labours, I was

unfruitfully led to the lickerish study of poetry, that

sweet honey-poison, that swells a supple scholar with

unprofitable sweetness and delicious false conceits,

until he burst into extremities and become a poetical

almsman, or at the most, one of the Poor Knights of

Poetry, worse by odds than one of the Poor Knights of

Windsor. Marry, there was an age once, but, alas, long

since dead and rotten, whose dust lies now in lawyers’

sand-boxes! in those golden days, a virtuous writer

might have lived, maintained himself better upon poems

than many upon ploughs, and might have expended more by

the year by the revenue of his verse than any riotous

elder brother upon the wealthy quartridges of three

times three hundred acres, according to the excellent

report of these lines:

There was a golden age—who murder’d it?

How died that age, or what became of it?

Then poets, by divinest alchemy,

Did turn their ink to gold; kings in that time

Hung jewels at the ear of every rhyme.

But O, those days are wasted! and behold

The golden age that was is coin’d to gold:

And why Time now is call’d an iron man,

Or this an iron-age, ’tis thus exprest,—

The golden age lies in an iron chest:

Or,

Gold lies now as prisoner in an usurer’s great

iron-barred chest, where the prison-grates are the locks

and the key-holes, but so closely mewed, or rather

dammed up, that it never looks to walk abroad again,

unless there chance to come a speedy rot among usurers,—

for I fear me the piddling gout will never make them

away soon enough; for your rank money-masters live their

threescore and ten years as orderly as many honester

men: and it is great pity, lady Philomel, that the gout

should be such a long courtier in a usurer’s great toe,

revelling and domineering above thirty years together in

his rammish blood and his fusty flesh; and I wonder

much, madam, that gold, being the spirit of the Indies,

can couch so basely under wood and iron, two dull

slaves, and not muster up his legion of angels,[848]

burst through the wide bulk of a coffer, and so

march into bountiful and liberal bosoms, shake hands

with virtuous gentlemen, industrious spirits, and

true-deserving worthies, detesting the covetous clutches

and loathsome fangs of a goat-bearded usurer, a

sable-soul[ed] broker, and an infectious law-fogger.

O, but I chide in vain! for gold wants eyes,

And, like a whore, cares not with whom it lies.

Yet that which makes me most admire his baseness are

these verses following, wherein he proudly sets forth

his own glory, which he vaunts so much of, that I shame

to think any ignoble spirit or copper disposition should

fetter his smooth golden limbs in boisterous and sullen

iron, but rather be let free to every virtuous, and

therefore poor scholar (for poverty is niece to virtue);

so should each elegant poem be truly valued, and divine

Poesy sit crowned in gold, as she ought, where[849] now

she only sits with a paper on her head, as if she had

committed some notorious trespass, either for railing

against some brawling lawyer, or calling some justice of

peace a wise man; and how magnificently Gold sings of

his own fame and glory, these his own verses shall stand

for witnesses:—

Know, I am Gold,

The richest spirit that breathes in earth or hell,

The soul of kingdoms, and the stamp of souls;

Bright angels[850] wear my livery, sovereign kings

Christen their names in gold, and call themselves

Royal[851] and sovereign[852] after my gilt name;

All offices are mine and in my gift;

I have a hand in all; the statist’s veins

Flow in the blood of gold; the courtier bathes

His supple and lascivious limbs in oil

Which my brow sweats: what lady brightly spher’d

But takes delight to kiss a golden beard?

Those pleaders, forenoon players, act my parts

With liberal[853] tongues and desperate-fighting

spirits,

That wrestle with the arms of voice and air;

And lest they should be out, or faint, or cold,

Their innocent clients hist them on with gold:

What holy churchman’s not accounted even,

That prays three times to me ere once to heaven?

Then to let shine the radiance of my birth,

I am th’ enchantment both in hell and earth.

Here’s golden majesty enough, I trow! and, Gold, art

thou so powerful, so mighty, and yet snaffled with a

poor padlock? O base drudge, and too unworthy of such an

angel-like form! much like a fair sleek-faced courtier,

without either wit or virtue; thou that throwest the

earthen bowl of the world, with the bias the wrong way,

to peasantry, baseness, ingentility, and never givest

desert his due, or shakest thy yellow wings in a

scholar’s study! But why do I lose myself in seeking

thee, when thou art found of few but illiterate hinds,

rude boors, and hoary penny-fathers,[854] that keep thee

in perpetual durance, in vaults under false boards,

subtle-contrived walls, and in horrible dark dungeons

bury thee most unchristian-like, without amen, or the

least noise of a priest or clerk, and make thee rise

again at their pleasures many a thousand time before

doomsday; and yet will not all this move thee once to

forsake them, and keep company with a scholar that truly

knows how to use thee?

By this time I had framed an elaborate poetical

building—a neat, choice, and curious poem,—the

first-fruits of my musical-rhyming study, which was

dispersed into a quaint volume fairly bound up in

principal vellum, double-filleted with leaf-gold, strung

most gentlemanlike with carnation silk riband; which

book, industriously heaped with weighty conceits,

precious phrases, and wealthy numbers, I, Oliver

Hubburd, in the best fashion I might, presented to Sir

Christopher Clutchfist, whose bountiful virtue I blaze

in my first epistle.[855] The book he entertained but, I

think, for the cover’s sake, because it made such a

goodly show on the backside: and some two days after,

returning for my remuneration, I might espy—O lamentable

sight, madam!—my book dismembered very tragically; the

cover ript off, I know not for what purpose, and the

carnation silk strings pulled out and placed in his

Spanish-leather shoes; at which ruthful prospect I fell

down and sounded;[856] and when I came to myself again,

I was an ant, and so ever since I have kept me.

NIGHTINGALE.

There keep thee still;

Since all are ill,

Venture no more;

’Tis better be a little ant

Than a great man and live in want,

And still deplore:

So rest thee now

From sword, book, or plough.

By this the day began to spring,

And seize upon her watchful eyes,

When more tree-quiristers did sing,

And every bird did wake and rise:

Which was no sooner seen and heard,

But all their pretty chat was marr’d;

And then she said,

We are betray’d,

The day is up, and all the birds

And they abroad will blab our words.

With that she bade the ants farewell,

And all they likewise Philomel:

Away she flew,

Crying _Tereu_!

And all the industrious ants in throngs

Fell to their work and held their tongues.

APPENDIX.

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THE TRIUMPHS

OF

HONOUR AND INDUSTRY.

_The Tryumphs of Honor and Industry. A Solemnity

performed through the City, at Confirmation and

establishment of the Right Honorable, George Bowles, In

the Office of his Maiesties Lieuetenant, the Lord Mayor

of the famous Citty of London. Taking beginning at his

Lordships going, and proceeding after his Returne from

receiuing the Oath of Maioralty at Westminster, on the

morrow next after Simon and Judes day October 29. 1617.

London, Printed by Nicholas Okes._ 1617. 4to.

It was not until the earlier portion of the present

volume had been printed, that I was able to procure the

(unique) 4to of this pageant.

In the _Account of Middleton and his Works_, p. xxi., I

have given some extracts from the Grocers’ Company’s

accounts relating to this piece, in which mention is

made of “The Pageant of Nations, the Iland, the Indian

chariot, the Castle of Fame, _trymming the Shipp, with

all the several beastes which drew them_:” and I may now

add from the same document;

“Payde for 50 sugar loaves, 36 lb. of £. _s._ _d._

nutmeggs, 24 lb. of dates, and 114

lb. of ginger, which were throwen

about the streetes by those which

sate on the _griffyns and camells_ 5 7 8.”

Heath’s _Acc. of the Worship. Comp. of Grocers_, p.

33

but Middleton makes no mention either of the ship or the

animals.

_To the worthy deserver of all the costs and triumphs

which the noble Society of Grocers in bounteous

measure bestow on him, the Right Honourable_ GEORGE

BOWLES,[857] _Lord Mayor of the famous City of

London_.

RIGHT HONOURABLE,

Out of the slightest labours and employments

there may that virtue sometimes arise that may enlighten

the best part of man. Nor have these kind of triumphs

an idle relish, especially if they be artfully

accomplished: under such an esteemed slightness may

often lurk that fire that may shame the best perfection.

For instance, what greater means for the imitation of

virtue and nobleness can any where present itself with

more alacrity to the beholder, than the memorable fames

of those worthies in the Castle, manifested by their

escutcheons of arms, the only symbols of honour and

antiquity? The honourable seat that is reserved, all men

have hope that your justice and goodness will exactly

merit; to the honour of which I commend your lordship’s

virtues, remaining,

At your Honour’s service,

T. M.

THE TRIUMPHS

OF

HONOUR AND INDUSTRY.

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It hath been twice my fortune in short time to have

employment for this noble Society, where I have always

met with men of much understanding, and no less bounty;

to whom cost appears but as a shadow, so there be

fulness of content in the performance of the solemnity;

which that the world may judge of, for whose pleasure

and satisfaction custom hath yearly framed it, but

chiefly for the honour of the City, it begins to present

itself, not without form and order, which is required in

the meanest employment.

_The first invention._

A company of Indians, attired according to the true

nature of their country, seeming for the most part

naked, are set at work in an Island of growing spices;

some planting nutmeg-trees, some other spice-trees of

all kinds; some gathering the fruits, some making up

bags of pepper; every one severally employed. These

Indians are all active youths, who, ceasing in their

labours, dance about the trees, both to give content to

themselves and the spectators.

After this show of dancing Indians in the Island,

follows triumphantly a rich personage presenting India,

the seat of merchandise. This India sits on the top of

an illustrious chariot; on the one side of her sits

Traffic or Merchandise, on the other side Industry, both

fitted and adorned according to the property of their

natures; Industry holding a golden ball in her hand,

upon which stands a Cupid, signifying that industry gets

both wealth and love, and, with her associate Traffic or

Merchandise, who holds a globe in her hand, knits love

and peace amongst all nations: to the better expressing

of which, if you give attention to Industry that now

sets forward to speak, it will be yours more exactly.

_The speech of_ INDUSTRY _in the Chariot_.

I was jealous of the shadowing of my grace,

But that I know this is my time and place.

Where has not Industry a noble friend?

In this assembly even the best extend

Their grace and love to me, joy’d or amaz’d:

Who of true fame possess’d, but I have rais’d,

And after added honours to his days?

For Industry is the life-blood of praise:

To rise without me, is to steal to glory;

And who so abject to leave such a story?

It is as clear as light, as bright as truth,

Fame waits their age whom Industry their youth.

Behold this ball of gold, upon which stands

A golden Cupid, wrought with curious hands;

The mighty power of Industry it shews,

That gets both wealth and love, which overflows

With such a stream of amity and peace,

Not only to itself adding increase,

But several nations where commerce abounds

Taste the harmonious peace so sweetly sounds;

For instance, let your gracious eye be fix’d

Upon a joy true though so strangely mix’d.

And that you may take the better note of their

adornments,—India, whose seat is the most eminent, for

her expression holds in her hand a wedge of gold;

Traffic, her associate, a globe; Industry, a fair golden

ball in her hand, upon which stands a golden Cupid;

Fortune expressed with a silver wheel; Success holding a

painted ship in a haven; Wealth, a golden key where her

heart lies; Virtue bearing for her manifestation a

silver shield; Grace holding in her hand a book;

Perfection a crown of gold.

At which words, the Pageant of Several Nations, which is

purposely planted near the sound of the words, moves

with a kind of affectionate joy both at the honour of

the day’s triumph and the prosperity of Love, which by

the virtue of Traffic is likely ever to continue; and

for a good omen of the everlasting continuance of it, on

the top of this curious and triumphant pageant shoots up

a laurel-tree, the leaves spotted with gold, about which

sit six celestial figures, presenting Peace, Prosperity,

Love, Unity, Plenty, and Fidelity: Peace holding a

branch of palm; Prosperity, a laurel; Love, two joined

hands; Unity, two turtles; Plenty holding fruits;

Fidelity, a silver anchor. But before I entered so far,

I should have shewed you the zeal and love of the

Frenchman and Spaniard, which now I hope will not appear

unseasonably; who, not content with a silent joy, like

the rest of the nations, have a thirst to utter their

gladness, though understood of a small number; which is

this:

_The short speech delivered by the Frenchman in

French._

=La multitude m’ayant monté sur ce haut lieu pour

contempler le glorieux triomphe de cette journée, je

vois qu’en quelque sorte la noble dignité de la très

honorable Société des Grociers y est representée, dont

me jouissant par-dessous tous, je leur souhaite et à

Monseigneur le Maire le comble de toutes nobles et

heureuses fortunes.=

_The same in English._

It is my joy chiefly (and I stand for thousands), to see

the glory of this triumphant day, which in some measure

requites the noble worthiness of the honourable Society

of Grocers, to whom and to my Lord Mayor I wish all good

successes.

This Frenchman no sooner sets a period to his speech,

but the Spaniard, in zeal as virtuous as he, utters

himself to the purpose of these words:

_The Spaniard’s speech in Spanish._

=Ninguna de todas estas naciones concibe maior y

verdadera alegria en este triumfante y glorioso dia que

yo, no, ninguna de todas ellas, porque agora que me

parece, que son tan ricas, es senal que los de my nacion

en tratando con ellas receberan mayor provecho dellas,

al my senior Don Maior todas buenas y dichosas fortunas,

y a los de la honrada Compania de Especieros dichosos

desseos, y assi dios guarde a my senior Don Maior, y

rogo a dios que todo el anno siguiente, puede ser tan

dichoso como esta entrada suya, a la dignidad de su

senoria, guarde dios a su senoria.=

_The same in English._

None of all these nations conceive more true joy at this

triumphant day than myself: to my Lord Mayor all fair

and noble fortunes, and to the worthy Society of Grocers

all happy wishes; and I pray heaven that all the year

following may be as happy and successful as this first

entrance to your dignity.

This expression of their joy and love having spent

itself, I know you cannot part contented without their

several inscriptions: now the favour and help must be in

you to conceive our breadth and limits, and not to think

we can in these customary bounds comprehend all the

nations, but so many as shall serve to give content to

the understander; which thus produce themselves:

An Englishman.

A Frenchman.

An Irishman.

A Spaniard.

A Turk.

A Jew.

A Dane.

A Polander.

A Barbarian.

A Russian or Muscovian.

This fully expressed, I arrive now at that part of

triumph which my desire ever hastened to come to, this

Castle of Fame or Honour, which Industry brings her sons

unto in their reverend ages.

In the front of this Castle, Reward and Industry, decked

in bright robes, keep a seat between them for him to

whom the day’s honour is dedicated, shewing how many

worthy sons of the City and of the same Society have, by

their truth, desert, and industry, come to the like

honour before him; where on a sudden is shewn divers of

the same right worshipful Society of Grocers, manifested

both by their good government in their times, as also

by their escutcheons of arms, as an example and

encouragement to all virtuous and industrious deservers

in time to come. And in honour of antiquity is shewn

that ancient and memorable worthy of the Grocers’

Company, Andrew Bockrill, who was mayor of London the

sixteenth year of Henry the Third, 1231, and continued

so mayor seven years together: likewise, for the greater

honour of the Company, is also shewn in this Castle of

Fame the noble Allen de la Zouche, grocer, who was mayor

of London the two-and-fiftieth year of the same Henry

the Third, which Allen de la Zouche, for his good

government in the time of his mayoralty, was by the said

King Henry the Third made both a baron of this realm and

lord chief-justice of England: also that famous worthy,

sir Thomas Knolles, grocer, twice mayor of this

honourable city, which sir Thomas begun at his own

charge that famous building of Guildhall in London, and

other memorable works both in this city and in his own

Company; so much worthiness being the lustre of this

Castle, and ought indeed to be the imitation of the

beholder.

My lord no sooner approaches, but Reward, a partner with

Justice in keeping that seat of honour, as overjoyed at

the sight of him, appears too free and forward in the

resignation.

REWARD.

Welcome to Fame’s bright Castle! take thy place;

This seat’s reserv’d to do thy virtues grace.

JUSTICE.

True, but not yet to be possess’d. Hear me:

Justice must flow through him before that be;

Great works of grace must be requir’d and done

Before the honour of this seat be won.

A whole year’s reverend care in righting wrongs,

And guarding innocence from malicious tongues,

Must be employ’d in virtue’s sacred right

Before this place be fill’d: ’tis no mean fight

That wins this palm; truth, and a virtuous care

Of the oppressèd, those the loadstones are

That will ’gainst envy’s power draw him forth

To take this merit in this seat of worth,

Where all the memorable worthies shine

In works of brightness able to refine

All the beholders’ minds, and strike new fire,

To kindle an industrious desire

To imitate their actions and their fame,

Which to this Castle adds that glorious name.

Wherefore, Reward, free as the air or light,

There must be merit, or our work’s not right.

REWARD.

If there were any error, ’twas my love;

And if it be a fault to be too free,

Reward commits but once such heresy.

Howe’er, I know your worth will so extend,

Your fame will fill this seat at twelve months’ end.

About this Castle of Fame are placed many honourable

figures, as Truth, Antiquity, Harmony, Fame, Desert,

Good Works; on the top of the Castle, Honour, Religion,

Piety, Commiseration, the works of those whose memories

shine in this Castle.

If you look upon Truth first, you shall find her

properly expressed, holding in her right hand a sun, in

the other a fan of stars; Antiquity with a scroll in her

hand, as keeper of Honour’s records; Harmony holding a

golden lute, and Fame not without her silver trumpet;

for Desert, ’tis glorious through her own brightness,

but holds nothing; Good Works expressed with a college,

or hospital.

On the top of the Castle, Honour manifested by a fair

star in his hand; Religion with a temple on her head;

Piety with an altar; Commiseration with a melting or

burning heart.

And, not to have our speakers forgotten, Reward and

Justice, with whom we entered this part of Triumph,

Reward holding a wreath of gold ready for a deserver,

and Justice furnished with her sword and balance.

All this service is performed before the feast, some in

Paul’s Churchyard, some in Cheapside; at which place the

whole Triumph meets, both Castle and Island, that gave

delight upon the water. And now, as duty binds me, I

commend my lord and his right honourable guess[858] to

the solemn pleasure of the feast, from whence, I

presume, all epicurism is banished; for where Honour is

master of the feast, Moderation and Gravity are always

attendants.

The feast being ended at Guildhall, my lord, as yearly

custom invites him, goes, accompanied with the Triumph,

towards St. Paul’s, to perform the noble and reverend

ceremonies which divine antiquity virtuously ordained,

and is no less than faithfully observed, which is no

mean lustre to the City. Holy service and ceremonies

accomplished, he returns by torchlight to his own house,

the whole Triumph placed in comely order before him; and

at the entrance of his gate, Honour, a glorious person,

from the top of the Castle, gives life to these

following words:

_The speech of_ HONOUR _from the top of the Castle, at

the entrance of my Lord Mayor’s gate_.

HONOUR.

There is no human glory or renown,

But have their evening and their sure sun-setting;

Which shews that we should upward seek our crown,

And make but use of time for our hope’s bettering:

So, to be truly mindful of our own,

Is to perform all parts of good in one.

The close of this triumphant day is come,

And Honour stays to bid you welcome home:

All I desire for my grace and good

Is but to be remember’d in your blood,

With honour to accomplish the fair time

Which power hath put into your hands. A crime

As great as ever came into sin’s band

I do entitle a too-sparing hand:

Nothing deads honour more than to behold

Plenty coop’d up, and bounty faint and cold,

Which ought to be the free life of the year;

For bounty ’twas ordain’d to make that clear,

Which is the light of goodness and of fame,

And puts by honour from the cloud of shame.

Great cost and love hath nobly been bestow’d

Upon thy triumph, which this day hath shew’d;

Embrace ’em in thy heart, till times afford

Fuller expression. In one absolute word,

All the content that ever made man blest,

This Triumph done, make a triumphant breast!

No sooner the speech is ended but the Triumph is

dissolved, and not possible to scape the hands of the

defacer; things that, for their quaintness (I dare so

far commend them), have not been usually seen through

the City; the credit of which workmanship I must justly

lay upon the deserts of master Rowland Bucket, chief

master of the work; yet not forgetting the faithful care

and industry of my well-approved friend, master Henry

Wilde, and master Jacob Challoner,[859] partners in the

business.

The season cuts me off; and after this day’s trouble I

am as willing to take my rest.

INDEX TO THE NOTES.

INDEX TO THE NOTES.

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’a high lone, i. 262.

a-per-se, i. 277.

a thing done, iv. 87.

able, iv. 223.

Abra’m, goodman, iii. 32.

Abram-coloured, i. 259.

abrupt, ii. 151.

Achilles’ spear, iii. 498.

aches, i. 28, 45; ii. 417.

acopus, iii. 327.

acrostic, ii. 179.

adelantado, i. 241.

affected, v. 7.

affects, v. 144.

affront, ii. 14.

again, i. 331; ii. 33; v. 371.

agen, i. 416; ii. 68; iii. 88; v. 192.

alablaster, i. 281; iv. 108.

alchemy (or alcumy), iv. 122.

alamire, iii. 626.

Alastor, v. 432.

Aldegund, Abbess, iv. 310.

ale-conner, i. 174.

a’ life, i. 272; ii. 68; iii. 348; iv. 70.

Aligant, iii. 8; iv. 218.

aloof off, i. 427; ii. 525; iii. 40; v. 89.

All-holland-tide, ii. 283.

All-hollontide, v. 282.

alline, v. 394.

allowed, i. 7.

almond for parrot, iii. 112; iv. 122.

altitonant, v. 175.

a’m, i. 351.

amber, iv. 237.

amorously, iv. 236.

Amsterdam, toleration of sects there, i. 205; iii. 255;

iv. 45.

anatomies, iii. 225.

ancient, iii. 239.

angel, i. 250; ii. 25; iii. 38; iv. 616; v. 20.

angle, ii. 132; iv. 309.

angler, ii. 537.

Anno Domini, iii. 266.

anon, anon, iv. 177; v. 588.

Arlotta, iii. 201.

Arthur of Bradley, iii. 118.

Antlings, Saint, i. 503; ii. 464.

antimasque, iv. 627; v. 146.

apaid, i. 125.

apes’ breeches, iv. 425.

apparance, i. 361; ii. 119.

apperil, i. 427.

apple-squire, iii. 232.

appose, i. 304.

approve, iv. 243; v. 62; v. 315.

apron husbands, ii. 486.

aqua vitæ, i. 206; iii. 239; v. 82.

argo, i. 392.

Aristippus, ii. 422.

arrant, v. 5.

arson, v. 265.

Artillery Garden, iv. 424; v. 283.

aslopen, i. 257.

assumed formally, ii. 396.

assured, iv. 201.

atomies, iii. 226.

attone, ii. 194; iv. 509.

aunt, i. 444; iii. 16; iv. 247.

aventure, i. 283.

away with, iv. 474.

baffle, ii. 449.

baffling, iv. 44.

[baker’s ditch, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxv.]

Bales, Peter, v. 571.

ballat-places, v. 542.

balloon-ball, iv. 342.

ban, i. 284.

band, i. 245; ii. 439.

bandileer, v. 517.

bandora, ii. 319.

banes, i. 471; iv. 483; v. 129.

banquet, iii. 252; v. 42.

bankrout, ii. 453; iv. 56.

banquerout, iv. 506; v. 487.

Bankside, v. 574.

bard cater-tray, iii. 193.

barley-break, iii. 114; iv. 250.

barren, iv. 581.

bastard, ii. 347; iii. 45.

basilisk, iii. 214.

basins beaten when bawds, &c., were carted, iii. 238.

basket, the, v. 142.

battler, v. 544.

bauble, iv. 247.

bawds, rings worn by, i. 80.

Beauchamp, bold, ii. 411.

Bear, the, at the Bridge-foot, v. 122.

bear in hand, ii. 456; iii. 373.

bearing, ii. 529.

beaten, i. 491.

beats chalk, iii. 221.

be covered, iii. 268; v. 29.

bedfellow, i. 448.

beetle, iii. 231.

before me, iii. 459.

beforne, v. 483.

beg for a fool, iii. 16; iv. 134.

beholding, i. 441; ii. 30; iii. 286; iv. 40; v. 36.

bell used by beggars, ii. 169.

Bell, the, iv. 8.

Bell, Adam, ii. 446.

beray, i. 294; iii. 270.

Bermothes, iv. 500.

beset, i. 504.

beshrow, iii. 460.

besides, i. 235.

besonian, i. 240.

bevers, iv. 427; v. 141.

bewrays, i. 294; ii. 197.

bewrayed, v. 76.

bin, iii. 193; v. 421.

bill-men, iii. 217; v. 513.

bills, i. 423.

bitter, v. 289.

bizle, iii. 152.

black-guard, ii. 546.

Blackfriars, iv. 75; v. 574.

black patches, ii. 535.

blacks, ii. 353.

blanched harlot, ii. 380.

blank, iv. 119.

bleaking-house, v. 106.

blocks, iii. 107, 147.

blue gown worn by strumpets in penance, iii. 220.

blue worn by beadles, i. 485.

blue worn by servants, ii. 26; iii. 146; v. 109.

blurt, iii. 30.

board, iv. 5 [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxiii.]

boarded, v. 577.

boards, ii. 542.

Bocardo, ii. 120.

boiled, ii. 544.

bolsters, iv. 452.

bolt, iii. 189.

bombards, v. 145.

bombasted, iii. 198.

bonner, v. 378.

booked it, iii. 594.

books, in my, iii. 349.

booted, v. 566.

boot-halers, ii. 532.

borachio, iv. 103.

bost, v. 567.

boughts, iii. 281.

bousing ken, ii. 538.

[bow a little, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxx.]

bow-wide, a, i. 489.

brabbling matter, iii. 458.

bracks, iv. 6.

Brainford, i. 450; ii. 463; iv. 37; v. 159.

branched, v. 103.

Brandon, iii. 532.

brave, ii. 543; iii. 15; iv. 135; v. 25.

bravely, iv. 504.

braver, i. 430.

bravery, i. 28; iv. 167; v. 490.

Brazen Head, the, ii. 523.

bread and salt, taking, iii. 103.

breaking-up, v. 574.

breast, iv. 583.

breath, v. 431.

Bretnor, iii. 537; v. 149.

Bridewell, iii. 222.

brief, v. 23.

broker, i. 248.

broking, i. 248.

bronstrops, iii. 508.

brothel, ii. 5.

brown-bill, i. 237.

bruited, ii. 138.

bubbers, iv. 121.

Bucklersbury, iv. 48.

bucklers, ancient, iii. 147.

budgelling, v. 30.

bugle-browed, iv. 478.

bulchins, iii. 524.

bulk, iii. 177; v. 509.

bull-beggars, ii. 20.

Bumby, mother, iv. 124.

bums, i. 432; ii. 388.

bum-roll, iv. 551.

buona-roba, i. 258; ii. 460; iii. 132.

Burbage, v. 503.

burgonet, i. 231.

burgh, ii. 465.

Burse, the, ii. 510; v. 485.

burst, v. 412.

burying money, i. 81.

busk-points, v. 515.

Butler, Dr. W., i. 37.

byrlady, i. 135; ii. 66; iii. 9; iv. 530.

byrlakins, iv. 480.

byss, v. 558.

cabishes, v. 35.

cabrito, iv. 404.

callymoocher, i. 174.

caltrop, iv. 623.

camooch, i. 239.

canaries, the, iii. 39; iv. 174.

canions, iii. 573.

canker, iii. 501.

cannot tell, iii. 357.

cant, v. 208.

canter, iii. 612.

cantle, v. 209.

capachity, i. 277.

Capello, Bianca, iv. 516.

carkanet, ii. 300.

carnadine, iv. 440.

carnifexes, iii. 523.

carpet, i. 385; iii. 63.

carpet-knights, iii. 64.

case, iv. 177.

casible, iv. 322.

cast, i. 288; ii. 201.

cast, i. 158; ii. 201; iii. 296; iv. 92.

cast, i. 444; iv. 132.

casting-bottle, ii. 216; iv. 567.

cat, game of, iv. 527.

Cataian, iii. 191.

cater’s, iv. 595.

Cato, iv. 73.

catso, i. 296; iii. 152.

cautelous, ii. 144; iv. 334.

cavelled, ii. 510.

Cecily, St., iv. 310.

celsitude, ii. 172.

censure, i. 497; ii. 44; iii. 468; iv. 510; v. 546.

censured, ii. 227.

certes, iii. 499.

chain worn by stewards, ii. 347.

chaldrons, iii. 55.

Challoner, Jacob, v. 620.

chamberlin, iii. 383.

chambers, v. 190.

champers, ii. 352.

champion, ii. 73.

changeling, iv. 436.

chare, iii. 237; iv. 382.

charge, the constable’s, i. 238.

charm, iii. 543.

chates, v. 495.

Charnico, iii. 213; v. 540.

cheat, iii. 505.

cheators, ii. 546.

cheese-trenchers, posies on, i. 31; iii. 98.

chewits, iii. 273.

chick, i. 279.

chickness, i. 279.

chilis, iii. 514.

chinclout, ii. 381.

chittizens, i. 280.

chitty, i. 236.

Choosing King and Queen, v. 141.

Chreokopia, i. 7.

chrisom, ii. 276.

circular, iii. 478.

cittern in a barber’s shop, i. 174; iii. 229.

city-wedlock, v. 149; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxvi.]

civil, iv. 505.

civilly, v. 198.

clack-dish, or clap-dish, ii. 169; iii. 199; [and _Ad. &

Cor._ i. lxxi.]

clarissimo, iii. 11.

clergy, ii. 155.

clifts, v. 405.

clip, i. 352; ii. 234; iv. 296; v. 210.

clipped, iii. 286.

cloth, i. 445.

clubs, clubs, i. 467; iii. 88.

coats, i. 51.

coats, long, ii. 472.

cob, iii. 197; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxi.]

cockatrice, ii. 161; iii. 70; iv. 400; v. 577.

cock-shoot, iii. 382.

Cockpit, the, pulled down by the apprentices, v. 148.

Cocoquismo, iv. 118.

codpiece, pins stuck in, iii. 81.

cog, i. 245; ii. 517; iv. 67; v. 71, 579.

cognizance, v. 398.

cogs, iv. 123.

Cole, old, iii. 200; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxi.]

Cole-Harbour, ii. 58; iv. 451; v. 516.

coll, iii. 260.

collogue, v. 148.

collowest, ii. 152.

colon, iii. 602; iv. 33.

colour, ii. 184.

Combe Park, ii. 264; v. 539.

come cut and long tail, v. 45.

come aloft, Jack, iii. 112; iv. 123.

come off roundly, iii. 419.

commodity, ii. 361.

commodity, taking up a, i. 450.

common place, ii. 336; iv. 56.

companions, ii. 26; iii. 27.

complement, ii. 333; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxvii.]

con thanks, iv. 448.

conceit, i. 163.

conceit, i. 157; iii. 393; v. 42.

conceitedly, i. 179.

conclusions, iii. 255; iv. 122; v. 520.

condition, i. 34.

condition, i. 150; iii. 292; iv. 235; v. 14.

consort, i. 75; ii. 127; iii. 211.

conster, iii. 64; v. 587.

contain, i. 357; ii. 315.

conveyance, ii. 299; v. 517.

cony, iii. 39.

cony-catching, i. 290; ii. 57; iii. 16; iv. 134; v. 495.

cony-skins, ii. 123.

copy, iii. 401.

corago, ii. 533.

coranto-pace, iii. 627.

Cornelianum Dolium, attributed to Randolph, most

probably written by Brathwait, iv. 488.

Cornelius’ dry-fats, i. 236; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxii.]

Cornelius’ tub, ii. 160.

Cornish hug, iii. 480.

Cornish chough, iii. 481.

coronel, v. 277.

corps, iv. 32; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxiii]

costards, ii. 193.

costermongers, iii. 131.

cotations, ii. 196.

coted, ii. 342.

cotqueans, ii. 486.

cottens, ii. 150; v. 150.

cought, v. 458.

counter, v. 540.

Counter, the Poultry, i. 392.

Counter, the Wood-street, i. 392.

counterfeit, i. 257; v. 498.

court-cupboard, ii. 506; iii. 35.

cousin, i. 499; iii. 60; iv. 442.

cove, or cuffin, ii. 539.

covered, iii. 87.

covert-barn, i. 370; ii. 322; iii. 65.

cracked in the ring, ii. 253; iii. 55.

crackship, i. 249.

crag, iv. 226.

cramp ring, ii. 515.

crank, ii. 16.

cried, iv. 595.

Crismas, Garret, v. 290.

cross on coins, i. 246; ii. 122; iii. 613.

cross, creeping to the, ii. 114.

cross-biter, ii. 260.

cross-lays, v. 542.

crowd, i. 110.

cruel garters, v. 515.

cruzadoes, iii. 63.

cuck, ii. 558.

cucking-stool, ii. 185.

cue, v. 545.

cullion, v. 534.

cullis, ii. 151; iii. 271; iv. 338.

cummin-seeds, iv. 123.

Cunegund, empress, iv. 310.

cupboard of plate, ii. 91; v. 492.

curbers, ii. 546.

curious, i. 317; ii. 402.

Curtain, the, v. 586.

curtal, i. 237; iii. 38.

custard, a love-present, i. 444.

custode, iv. 311.

cut, i. 208.

cut ben whids, ii. 542.

cutted, i. 208; iv. 566.

cypress, v. 49.

dag, i. 249; ii. 352.

Dagger-pies, iv. 488.

daggered arms, iii. 53.

[dance in a net, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxx.]

dandyprat, i. 246; iii. 590.

dare larks, iii. 126.

daw, i. 307.

dead pays, iv. 434.

dear, i. 189.

dearer, iii. 307.

dearest, iv. 486.

decimo sexto, v. 562.

decreen, i. 192.

deduct, i. 48.

deft, iv. 579.

defy, i. 513; ii. 97; iii. 144; iv. 118.

dell, ii. 538; iii. 606.

Denmark-House, v. 166.

departed, v. 533.

Derrick’s necklaces, v. 515.

descried, v. 526.

devotion, v. 62.

Diego, don, i. 293.

Digby, sir Everard, allusion to his execution, i. 451.

dill, iv. 167.

diminiting, iii. 456.

diseased, i. 450; iii. 312.

disgest, ii. 259; iii. 454; iv. 200; v. 384.

disliked, iv. 570.

dislocate thy bladud, iii. 509.

ditch, ii. 315.

dive-dapper, ii. 87; iii. 590.

Divelin, iv. 500.

do withal, iv. 26.

Doddipoll, doctor, ii. 188.

Dogs, Isle of, ii. 535.

door-keeper, v. 525.

doubts, ii. 57.

Dowland’s Lacrymæ, v. 16.

dresser, cook knocking on, &c., i. 247.

drink tobacco, ii. 457; iii. 212.

drunk, iii. 162.

dry-fisted, iii. 39.

duke, v. 177.

dumb-show, iv. 261.

Dunces, iv. 52.

Dunkirks, iii. 132; v. 10.

Dutch slop, ii. 472.

Dutch widow, ii. 50.

earns, iii. 503.

eat snakes, iii. 140.

Ebusus, iv. 401.

egrimony, v. 196.

Egypt, child of, iii. 394.

eke, ii. 167.

ela, i. 278; iii. 624.

elephant and camels, the, iv. 136.

Elinor, queen, sinking at Charing-Cross and rising at

Queenhithe, iii. 255; iv. 497.

ell, iv. 441.

enginer, v. 248.

enginous, v. 316.

enter in, iii. 459.

entreat, v. 554.

epitaphs pinned on a coffin, iv. 93.

Eschip, v. 417.

estridge, v. 289.

Europa’s sea-form, ii. 178; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxvi.]

Euphuize, v. 560.

exercise, i. 211; ii. 153.

eyne, iv. 440.

fadom, ii. 387.

fadge, ii. 87.

fagary, ii. 526.

fair, v. 360.

fair-conditioned, v. 564.

falls, or falling bands, ii. 218, 438; iii. 37.

familiar, ii. 482; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxvi.]

Family of Love, account of, ii. 103, 156; iv. 437.

fancy, ii. 97; iv. 459.

far, iv. 402.

farcels, iv. 422.

farewell, and a thousand, ii. 86.

far-fet, v. 376.

fathom, i. 415; ii. 334.

fat-sagg chin, v. 514.

fault, i. 62.

Faustus, doctor, v. 515.

fear, ii. 401; iii. 467.

’fection, v. 97.

fegary, iv. 115.

felfare, iv. 429.

felt, iii. 67.

fig, the, iii. 421.

fig-frails, ii. 287.

figging-law, ii. 544.

figient, iv. 61.

filed, ii. 289.

find, i. 237.

fire-drakes, ii. 267.

first part of a successful play sometimes written after

the second part, iii. 408.

fist, iii. 71.

fitters, iv. 48.

flag on a theatre, ii. 332.

flap-dragon, i. 66; ii. 99; iii. 112.

flat-cap, iii. 58.

flight, iv. 349.

fline, ii. 515.

flitter-mouse, iii. 261.

float, iv. 113.

florens, iv. 256.

foists, ii. 546; iv. 118.

fond, i. 269; ii. 449; iii. 18; iv. 318; v. 343.

fondly, ii. 343.

fondness, iii. 591.

footcloths, i. 396; ii. 369; iii. 194; [and _Ad. & Cor._

i. lxviii.]

for, ii. 351.

for and, iii. 544.

forefinger, the, i. 325.

former, v. 520.

Fortune, the, ii. 435.

forward for a knave, iv. 448.

’found, iii. 119.

foutra, iv. 33.

foxed, i. 213; iv. 142.

frampole, v. 140.

franked, iv. 401.

fresh-woman, iv. 51.

frippery, ii. 222.

fro, iii. 495.

froating, ii. 69.

frokin, v. 181.

frumped, ii. 517.

fucus, iii. 508.

gaberdines, iv. 138.

gallant, ii. 543; iii. 193.

galleasses, ii. 19.

galley-foist, ii. 531; iii. 212.

galliard, i. 65; iii. 631.

gally-gascoyns, iii. 405.

gamashoes, v. 551.

gambols, v. 143.

gamester, iii. 274.

gander-mooners, iii. 528.

garden-house, i. 162; iii. 188; v. 586.

Garden-bull, iv. 230.

gascoyne-bride, ii. 549.

gascoynes, v. 567.

gastrolophe, iii. 547.

gaudy-days, v. 545.

gaudy-shops, iv. 16.

gear, i. 373; ii. 87; iv. 9; v. 150.

gelt feathers, ii. 527.

gentlemen sitting on the stage, ii. 412, 458.

george, iv. 499.

German clock, ii. 385.

German, the high, ii. 466; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxviii.]

Germania, iv. 118.

gib, ii. 518.

giglot, ii. 115.

gill, ii. 115; iv. 77; v. 148.

gilt, or gelt, ii. 197.

gin, i. 288.

ging, ii. 532; iv. 141.

gird, ii. 130.

girl worth gold, ii. 523.

given the bag, iv. 410.

gives aim, ii. 335; iii. 453; iv. 122.

glasiers, ii. 535.

gleek, v. 142.

glory-fat, v. 517.

god-den, iv. 19.

Godeva, iv. 490.

God’s a good man, ii. 475.

God’s my pittikins, iii. 37.

God’s-santy, iii. 114.

goldfinch, i. 283.

goldsmiths acting as bankers, ii. 297.

golls, i. 206; ii. 452; iii. 23; iv. 32; v. 532.

gom, iii. 359.

good, iii. 460.

good fellow, ii. 21; iii. 195; v. 532.

gossip, i. 480.

Gough, Alexander, iii. 341.

gown, a loose-bodied, i. 431; iii. 67; v. 525.

Grantham steeple, v. 523.

great, the, i. 492.

great-breeched, ii. 111.

greeces, v. 208.

Greeks, mad, iii. 96.

Greene, Robert, i. 290; v. 581.

Gresham’s Burse, iv. 16.

grincomes, ii. 121.

grinds in the mill, iii. 221.

growt, iv. 164.

grutched, iv. 473.

guarded, iii. 236.

guess, i. 326; ii. 93; v. 618.

Guiana, voyage to, iv. 426.

guitonens, iv. 324.

gules, iii. 61; iv. 158.

gulled, iv. 381.

gummed, iv. 443.

Guttide, ii. 165.

haberdines, iv. 64.

hair growing through the hood, iv. 483.

hair, against the, i. 163; iii. 377; v. 19.

half moons, ii. 382.

hangers, ii. 227; iii. 196; v. 567.

hartichalks, v. 35.

Harvey, Gabriel, Richard, and John, v. 561.

has, i. 72.

hast, v. 483.

hatcht, ii. 257.

haut, iv. 135.

have at your plum-tree, iii. 359; v. 42.

hay, iv. 587.

heal, iii. 278.

health-drinking, forms in, iii. 29.

healths in urine, ii. 99.

hearse, iv. 591.

hecatombaion, i. 50; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxi.]

hem, iii. 523.

hench-boy, ii. 459.

Hero and Leander, Marlowe’s, ii. 340.

hey-de-guize, iv. 163.

Higden, Raynulph, i. 125.

high-men, ii. 313.

hight, i. 192; v. 296.

hippocras, iii. 38.

Hiren, i. 76.

ho, i. 287.

ho, there’s no, iii. 106.

Hobson, iv. 7; v. 596.

hole, ii. 400.

Hole, the, i. 392; ii. 69; iii. 376; v. 101.

Hollantide, ii. 165.

honey-lingued, v. 177.

Horn, the, v. 574.

horns for the thumb, ii. 536.

horse and foot, i. 380.

horse, Banks’s, v. 533.

horse-trick, i. 63.

hose, i. 367; ii. 150; iii. 67; iv. 389; v. 128.

hose, in your t’other, iv. 145.

[hospital, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxii.]

hospital-boys, i. 497.

Huldrick, his Epistle to Nicholas, iv. 407; [and _Ad. &

Cor._ i. lxxiv.]

husband having the toothache while his wife is breeding,

iv. 599.

Ignatius Loyola, iv. 310.

[Ill May-day, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxvi.]

imposterous, i. 155.

improve, iv. 420; v. 561; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxii.]

in-and-in, v. 142.

incestancy, i. 268.

incolants, v. 448.

incontinently, i. 256; ii. 516; iv. 263.

incony, i. 252.

in dock, out nettle, iii. 611; v. 150.

ingeniously, ii. 438.

ingle, i. 252; ii. 517.

ingle, i. 301; ii. 498; iii. 15.

ingling, v. 497.

injury, ii. 266.

innocence, iv. 299.

innocent, iv. 451; v. 500.

inseparable knave, i. 324.

instance, ii. 119.

inward, i. 440; ii. 234.

Ireland, purged from venomous creatures by St. Patrick,

iii. 177; iv. 495.

Irish, ii. 528.

Irish footmen, iii. 131; v. 531.

————— darts carried by, iii. 530.

Ivel, iii. 539.

ivy-bush of a tavern, iv. 177.

i-wis, i. 451.

I wus, i. 327.

jack, i. 255.

jacks, iv. 527.

jacks, iii. 112; v. 593.

Jacks-in-boxes, iv. 164.

Janivere, iii. 94.

javel, iii. 157.

jealious, iv. 326.

jealous, ii. 216; v. 61.

Jeronimo, i. 285.

jesses, v. 369.

jets, iii. 147; iv. 167; v. 21.

jigs, v. 569.

jig-makers, iii. 10.

jobbering, ii. 534.

John of Paul’s Churchyard, v. 553.

Jonson, Ben, imitated, ii. 97, 98.

—— passage in his Bartholomew Fair explained, v. 516.

Judas with the red beard, iv. 47.

jugal, iii. 480.

Julian, iv. 402.

Julius Cæsar, motion of, v. 591.

junt, ii. 96.

ka me, ka thee, iii. 572.

keep a door, iii. 184.

keep cut with, iii. 572.

keeps, i. 402.

ken, ii. 129.

Kent or Kirsendom, in, i. 211.

kern, iii. 174.

[kerry merry buff, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxii.]

kersened, i. 429.

Kersmas, v. 139.

kersten, iv. 28.

ketlers, v. 543; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxvi.]

kiff nor kin, iv. 66.

kinchin mort, ii. 538.

kind, ii. 382; iv. 372.

Kirsendom, i. 200.

kix, ii. 4; iv. 4.

Knaves, orders of, ii. 174.

kneeling after the play, ii. 418; iv. 202.

kneeling in health-drinking, iii. 216.

knight of the post, i. 308; v. 512.

knight of Windsor, ii. 356.

Knight’s ward, i. 392; ii. 227; iv. 96.

knights created by King James, allusion to, ii. 333.

kursen, iv. 44.

kursning-day, iv. 38.

kyes, ii. 485.

laced mutton, i. 236.

lancepresadoes, iii. 532.

lannard, iv. 184.

lantern and candlelight, i. 283; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i.

lxii.]

lapwing, stratagem of, i. 88.

large, a, iii. 625.

laugh and lie down, i. 269.

lavender, in, ii. 150.

lavolta, i. 261; iii. 628.

lay, iii. 23.

laying, ii. 11; iv. 74.

Leatica, iii. 213.

leek, iii. 260.

leesing, i. 263; ii. 301; iii. 28.

lectuary, ii. 131.

legs, iii. 84; iv. 601; v. 573.

leiger, ii. 316; v. 524.

leman, iv. 162.

lerry, i. 281.

let, i. 159.

lets, ii. 415; iii. 377; v. 31.

lewd, i. 498.

liberal, ii. 190; v. 601.

lie, i. 306; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxiii.]

lib ken, ii. 539.

lifters, ii. 546.

like, i. 132; ii. 47; iii. 59; iv. 168; v. 64.

limb-lifter, ii. 206.

Limbo, v. 514.

lin, iii. 429; iv. 51; v. 523.

linstock, ii. 531.

Lipsius, iv. 250.

little-ease, ii. 145.

liver, ii. 133.

loath to depart, i. 80.

logs for Christmas, i. 457.

long, a, iii. 625.

Longacre, ii. 5; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxv.]

loose, ii. 147.

lopes, iv. 163.

Lopez, iv. 384.

loves, of all, iii. 22.

lubrican, iii. 175.

luxinium, iv. 451.

luxurious, iii. 52; v. 510.

luxurs, v. 530.

luxury, ii. 368; iv. 350; v. 508.

luzerns, v. 288.

lycanthrope, iv. 247.

mace, oil of, ii. 372.

macrio, iv. 497.

made, ii. 244.

made women, ii. 400.

made sure, ii. 489.

Madrill, iv. 104.

Magas, iv. 403.

magot-o’-pie, iii. 608.

Main, St., iv. 310.

make, i. 401.

make a bolt or a shaft on’t, ii. 34.

make buttons, iv. 181.

making, ii. 53.

making ready, i. 273; ii. 224; iii. 396.

make unready, ii. 57; iii. 478.

male varlet, iii. 77.

malicholly, iii. 55.

malled, iv. 166.

manable, ii. 179.

manchets, i. 444; iii. 38; iv. 405; v. 492.

mandillion, i. 292.

mandrake, iii. 13.

mantian, v. 497.

maple-faced, ii. 297.

maps, iv. 135.

Marcell, iv. 310.

marchpane, iii. 269; iv. 577.

marginal finger, iii. 9.

mark, ii. 79; iii. 198; iv. 10.

mar’l, iii. 390; iv. 48.

marmoset, i. 387; iii. 37; v. 564.

marquesse, ii. 74.

marry, muff, i. 258; iii. 36; v. 593.

marvedi, iv. 119.

Master’s side, i. 392; ii. 342.

mastery, iv. 311.

masty, ii. 17.

match, v. 494.

maunderer upon the pad, ii. 536.

maundering, ii. 542; iv. 125; v. 148.

maunding, v. 167.

mauz avez, iii. 540.

maw, five-finger at, ii. 197.

May-butter, v. 12.

Mayor’s bench at Oxford, v. 529.

mazer, iii. 83.

mazzard, iv. 366; v. 535.

meacock, iii. 32.

means, iv. 496.

measure, i. 233; iv. 587.

meet, iii. 262.

Meg of Westminster, ii. 530; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxix.]

Meg, Roaring, i. 263; iii. 485.

Mephostophilis, i. 249.

mere, iii. 426.

mere compact, v. 486.

merely, i. 469; iv. 373.

meritorious, v. 340.

mermaid, i. 78.

Mermaid, the, ii. 240; v. 574.

Merry Devil of Edmonton, correction of a passage in, v.

537.

Metereza, iii. 628.

mickle, ii. 246.

[Midsummer watch, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxvi.]

Milton, his imitation of Heywood, i. 350.

——— of Middleton, iv. 316.

minded, i. 179.

minikin, ii. 127.

Mirror of Knighthood, iii. 181.

Mirror of Magistrates, i. 238.

Misrule, Lord of, i. 305.

mistress, v. 66.

Mitre, the, ii. 240; v. 574.

Mizaldus, his Secrets in Nature, iv. 262.

money dropt into shoes by fairies, iii. 609.

monkey’s ordinary, iv. 369.

Monsieur, ii. 389; v. 519.

monthly, ii. 552.

most, i. 432.

mother, i. 186; iii. 41.

motion, i. 229; ii. 19; v. 591.

Motte, Monsieur, i. 260.

moul, v. 419.

Mount, the, iii. 482.

mought, i. 495; ii. 56; iii. 235.

mouse, ii. 137.

much, i. 257.

muchatoes, v. 516.

muckinder, ii. 83.

mull-sack, iv. 142.

mull wines, i. 391.

Muly Crag a whee, iv. 161.

mumming, ii. 519.

Munday, Anthony, v. 219.

murderers, iv. 218.

murdering-piece, iii. 466.

murrion, iii. 148.

music-room, iv. 93.

muss, ii. 379; iv. 122.

mutton, iii. 102; iv. 23.

mutton-monger, iii. 162.

My-lady’s-hole, v. 143.

My-sow-has-pigged, v. 143.

mysteries, ii, 507.

napery, iii. 56.

Nash, Thomas, his Pierce Pennilesse, v. 511, 512.

—— ——, date of his death, v. 527; [and _Acc. of

Middleton and his Works_, i. xviii.]

ne, i. 422.

neasts, i. 417.

neck-verse, v. 126.

needle, iv. 403.

needle-bearded, v. 198.

ne’er the near, v. 365.

nemp your sexes, i. 193.

Newgate, black dogs of, v. 541.

New-fangle, v. 564.

nice, i. 136.

nicely, v. 86.

niceness, i. 186; ii. 134; iii. 451; iv. 350.

nigget, iv. 247.

night-rails, i. 164.

nigrum, v. 411.

Nineveh, motion of, i. 229; iv. 166; v. 591.

ningles, ii. 498; iii. 60; iv. 178; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i.

lxix.]

nips, ii. 546.

nips of fairies, iii. 259.

nipping Christian, ii. 536.

no, i. 169; ii. 538; iii. 288; iv. 43; v. 119.

noble, ii. 17; iii. 271; v. 267.

nock, i. 282.

noddy, i. 273; v. 142.

noise of fiddlers, ii. 498; iii. 303; v. 529.

nonce, ii. 71; v. 592.

northern dozens, i. 372.

noul, iv. 142.

nunchions, v. 141.

nuncle, ii. 97; iv. 124.

O man in lamentation, ii. 64.

obtrect, iii. 508.

of, iii. 556; iv. 286; v. 594.

of cross, iii. 569.

oil of ben, iii. 366.

old, ii. 538; iv. 370.

Oliver, sweet, iii. 40.

opinion, ii. 337.

[orangado, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxx.]

Orata, Sergius, iv. 402.

ordinary, sixpenny, &c., i. 389; v. 72.

ordinary, gambling at, i. 434; iv. 427.

organs disliked by puritans, ii. 153; iv. 488.

Ostend, siege of, iii. 75.

othergates, i. 245.

O Toole, iii. 526.

ought, iv. 487; v. 28.

out-cry, iv. 58.

over I was, iii. 416.

over-brave, v. 167.

overflown, i. 390.

overture, ii. 112.

owes, i. 271; iv. 264; v. 28.

owl in an ivy-bush, to look like an, iv. 177.

pair of organs, ii. 346; iii. 147.

pair of virginals, iii. 211.

pack, ii. 447.

painted cloth, iii. 97; v. 208.

palliard, ii. 541.

panado, iii. 271.

paned hose, i. 28; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxi.]

Pancridge, iii. 546.

pantaloon, iv. 173.

pantaples, i. 286.

pantofles, iii. 111; iv. 483.

parbreaking, v. 73.

parcel-rascals, v. 150.

Paris-Garden, i. 407; v. 593.

paritor, ii. 170.

parle, iii. 456.

parle, iv. 503.

parlous, i. 286; iii. 170; iv. 225.

Parlous Pond, ii. 469.

parmasant, iv. 226.

passa-measures galliard, iii. 630.

passage, iv. 548; v. 579.

passion, i. 349; ii. 64; iii. 331; iv. 25; v. 5.

passions, i. 9; ii. 135.

passionate, v. 593.

passionately, i. 55.

Patrick, St., his Purgatory, iii. 131; iv. 475.

paty, v. 265.

Paul’s Saint, Middle Aisle of, i. 418; ii. 290; v. 494.

pavin, i. 287.

pax, ii. 24.

pear-coloured, iii. 109.

pearl in the eye, iv. 125.

pectoral, v. 265.

pedlar’s French, ii. 193, 539.

peevish, ii. 78; iii. 535; v. 68.

peeps, v. 581.

pegmes, v. 310; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxvi]

peize, ii. 142; iii. 62.

pelt, iv. 219.

pelican feeding its young with her blood, iii. 145.

penance, iv. 108.

penciled, v. 209.

penny-father, v. 530.

Pe’ryn, iii. 539.

perceiverance, iii. 388.

percullis, iii. 162.

performents, iv. 312.

periwigs worn by ladies, ii. 396.

perilous, i. 283.

Peter-sameene, iii. 213; iv. 142.

petronel, ii. 151.

Petronill, St., iv. 310; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxiii.]

Philip, a name for a sparrow, iii. 388.

Phitonessa, ii. 162.

phrampel, ii. 477.

pickadill, v. 171.

pickaroes, iv. 118.

pick, iv. 11.

pig-eater, ii. 59.

Pict-hatch, v. 512.

Pigeons, the Three, ii. 479.

pigsnie, ii. 468.

pillowbeers, iv. 615.

Pissing-conduit, iv. 53.

pist, ii. 460; iv. 282; v. 28.

pistols, or pistoles, iii. 82.

pistolet, iv. 126.

pitch and pay, i. 242.

placket, ii. 497; iii. 241; iv. 417.

plaguy summer, v. 518.

plaice, wry mouth like a, iii. 152.

play Ambidexter, ii. 194; [and _Ad. and Cor._ i. lxvi.]

play prize, iii. 86.

play at barriers, ii. 159.

[please you be here, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxix.]

plot, v. 352.

pluck a rose, iv. 222.

plunge, ii. 511; iii. 604.

Plymouth cloak, iii. 179.

pocas palabras, ii. 545.

points, i. 244; ii. 196; v. 531.

poker, iii. 35.

poking-sticks, i. 279.

polt foot, iii. 109; v. 534.

Polycarp, iv. 310.

Pond’s Almanac, v. 79.

poniarded, v. 198.

poor-John, i. 243.

populous, ii. 245.

porter, the long, v. 144.

possessed, i. 420; iv. 427.

possets eaten just before bedtime, iii. 314.

’postle-spoons, iv. 47.

posts at a sheriff’s door, iii. 58.

potato-pies, iii. 77.

poulter’s, iii. 46; iv. 72; v. 140.

Poultry, v. 551.

practice, i. 160.

pranking up, iv. 59.

preased, i. 129.

precept, i. 308.

pretend, iv. 270.

prevent, i. 16; ii. 49; iii. 103; iv. 96; v. 284.

prick, v. 165.

prick and praise, ii. 133; iv. 586.

prickle-singing, v. 584.

prick-song, iii. 626; iv. 583; v. 585.

prigging, ii. 52.

primavista, v. 142.

primero, ii. 221.

princocks, v. 494.

print, in, i. 278; iii. 13.

proceeded, iv. 68; v. 87.

prodigious, iii. 5.

progress, iv. 22.

promonts, iv. 216.

promoter, iii. 110; iv. 31.

proper, i. 330; iii. 47; iv. 244; v. 75.

property, iii. 640; v. 39.

properties, ii. 308; iv. 175; v. 208.

[prophet, the new, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxiv.]

Prospero, v. 565.

prostitutes supping with the players, ii. 412.

provant, iii. 528.

provant breeches, iv. 489.

pruned, iv. 236.

psalmograph, v. 177.

puck-foist, iii. 619.

pudding tobacco, ii. 392; iii. 512.

puggards, ii. 546.

pullen, ii. 242; iii. 606; iv. 118.

purchase, i. 319; ii. 231; iii. 199.

purls, v. 587.

pursenets, ii. 517; iii. 207.

push, i. 29; ii. 24; iv. 259; v. 45.

pusill, iv. 324.

put on, iv. 17.

put up, i. 299; iii. 363.

puttocks, ii. 500.

[quadrangular plumation, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxii.]

quail-pipe, iii. 144.

quail-pipe boot, i. 244.

quarrels, iii. 482.

quarter-jacks in Paul’s, v. 554.

queasy, i. 321; ii. 236.

Queenhive, iv. 37.

queer cuffin, ii. 539.

Quest-house, iv. 425.

questuary, ii. 188.

quit, iii. 402.

quit, iii. 495; v. 38.

quit, iv. 346; v. 94.

quo’, i. 454.

quotes, v. 493.

rail, v. 558.

ramp, ii. 496.

ram’s head, ii. 290; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxvii.]

rarely, i. 333.

raught, i. 188.

ready, iii. 35.

reals, iv. 170.

rear, iv. 381; v. 192.

reclaim, iv. 428.

recorders, iv. 93.

recullisance, i. 483.

reduce, iii. 494.

red lattice, v. 539.

red letter, ii. 155.

Red-shanks, iii. 481.

reeks, iii. 266.

refocillation, ii. 371.

refuse, v. 118.

remembered, be, ii. 526.

remora, iii. 464.

remorse, i. 131; v. 371.

remorseful, v. 582.

Resolution, the, ii. 340.

resolved, i. 215; ii. 23; iii. 101; iv. 71; v. 36.

respective, i. 425.

respectively, ii. 235; iii. 42.

rest, ii. 516.

rest, set up, iv. 428.

retargé, iv. 464.

Richards, Nathaniel, iv. 515.

Rider’s Dictionary, iv. 66; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i.

lxxiii.]

rife, v. 358.

rifling, iii. 82.

rine, ii. 152.

ring, iii. 170.

ring, running at the, i. 390; ii. 207; iii. 172; v. 262.

ring, tread the, i. 390.

rings, gilt, cozening with, iv. 165.

rise, v. 311.

risse, i. 465; ii. 360; v. 368.

riven dish, ii. 517.

rivo, i. 243.

roaring boys, ii. 427; iii. 485.

Roaring Girl, the, account of, ii. 427.

roba, i. 258.

roc, le, iv. 311.

Roch, St., iv. 310; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxiii]

Rochelle, iv. 120.

rogation, ii. 130.

roll, iii. 512.

Rome, go to, with a mortar, iv. 135.

rope for parrot, iii. 113.

rosemary, i. 231; iii. 151.

rose-noble, ii. 253.

roses on shoes, ii. 515.

round, the, ii. 190; iii. 258; iv. 587.

round with, ii. 341.

rounded, ii. 381; v. 530.

rouses, i. 391.

rout, ii. 200.

rove, iii. 454.

[row, the, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxiv.]

rowl, v. 462.

Rowley, William, iii. 446.

Rowse, old, v. 540.

royals, i. 345; ii. 43; v. 572.

rubs, v. 66.

ruffler, ii. 537.

rules, iv. 14.

Rumbold, St., iv. 389.

runts, iv. 66.

rushes, i. 134; iv. 54.

sackbuts, i. 177; iv. 120.

sad, i. 316.

sadness, ii. 492; iii. 430; iv. 601.

Saint Pulcher’s, v. 527.

saker, iii. 214.

sakers, iv. 122.

salomon, ii. 538.

salt, beneath the, iii. 40; iv. 405.

salts, v. 491.

Sampson, play of, ii. 124.

sancited, v. 465.

Sanctius, fat, iv. 403.

sanguine, i. 264.

sapa, iv. 402.

satire-days, v. 482.

saveguard, ii. 459; iii. 288.

savin-tree, iv. 321.

Savoy, the, ii. 233.

say, v. 263.

scald, iii. 15, 41.

scandala magnatum, i. 363.

Scirophorion, i. 50; and [_Ad. & Cor._ i. lxi.]

sconce, i. 283.

scopious, v. 501.

scorn the motion, i. 172; iii. 606.

scotomy, i. 68.

scourse, iii. 627.

scurvy murrey kersey, i. 428; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i.

lxiv.]

searchers, i. 491.

sect, ii. 134.

seek, to, i. 189; iii. 595.

seely, v. 392.

seisactheia, i. 7.

Sellenger’s round, v. 578.

set the hare’s head to the goose-giblet, ii. 78.

sewer, v. 260.

shackatory, iii. 171.

shag-haired, iii. 175.

Shakespeare imitated, i. 234, 270; ii. 203, 331, 365,

386; iii. 56, 79, 213; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxvi.,

lxix]

shapes, v. 209.

share, ii. 406.

shark-gull, v. 524.

shells, ii. 543; iii. 182.

shittle-cork, iv. 54.

shoe the mare, v. 143.

shops, open, iii. 54; iv. 440; v. 587.

shops, dark, i. 482; iv. 442.

shovel-board shilling, ii. 531.

showrly, iii. 636.

shrieve, ii. 318.

Shrove Tuesday, customs on, iii. 217; v. 147.

shrow, iii. 29.

sidemen, i. 362.

sign, blood-letting according to, ii. 98.

sinquapace, iii. 633; iv. 587.

sirrah, ii. 491; iii. 44.

sir-reverence, i. 171; ii. 175; iv. 65; v. 567.

[sister’s thread, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxx.]

sith, v. 341.

sithence, v. 208.

skeldering, ii. 535.

skill, iii. 121.

skills, i. 435.

slate, ii. 538.

slight, i. 441; ii. 47; iii. 103; iv. 263; v. 229.

slip, ii. 417; v. 83.

slop, i. 245; v. 29.

smazky, v. 482.

snaphance, iv. 23.

snibbed, ii. 257.

snobbing, ii. 377.

somner, ii. 29.

sops-in-wine, i. 278.

sort, iii. 153; v. 438.

swound, i. 206.

sounded, v. 602.

soused gurnet, iii. 44.

sovereign, i. 110; v. 600.

sow-gelder’s horn, v. 569.

Spanish needle, i. 244.

Spenser imitated, ii. 339.

spill’d, v. 437.

spiny, i. 174; ii. 369; iv. 45.

spittle, ii. 465; iii. 234.

split, all, ii. 518; iii. 181.

sprawling, iii. 618.

springal, i. 459; iii. 631.

squall, iii. 55; v. 575.

square, ii. 173.

squares, ii. 124.

squat, v. 36.

squelched, iv. 410.

squire, iii. 232.

squire of the body, iii. 231.

stabbing of arms, ii. 99.

stage, the upper, ii. 125; iii. 314; iv. 559; v. 114.

stale, iv. 213.

stale, ii. 521.

stalled to the rogue, ii. 541.

stalling ken, ii. 539.

stammel, v. 198.

stamp, iii. 368; iv. 623.

Standard, the, i. 438; iv. 421; v. 48.

stares, iv. 381.

startups, ii. 175.

state, v. 182.

states, iv. 306; v. 177.

statute-caps, ii. 192.

statutes staple, ii. 123.

steaks, i. 336; ii. 287.

steeple, iii. 149.

stern, i. 317.

steven, v. 371.

stewed prunes, iii. 212.

stock, i. 259.

stomachful, v. 141.

stool-ball, iv. 597.

strain, v. 20.

strangely, i. 346.

strangeness, iii. 295.

strike, ii. 543.

striker, ii. 454; iv. 170.

stript, iv. 447.

strossers, v. 40.

strouts, ii. 531.

subeth, iv. 453.

Succubæ, ii. 386.

suckets, i. 262; iii. 143; iv. 577.

sumner, ii. 525; iv. 429.

superstichious, v. 170.

suppositor, ii. 161.

surcease, ii. 163.

sure to, ii. 39.

sursurrara, i. 330.

swabbers, iii. 132.

swaddle, iii. 32.

swag, ii. 365.

Swan, the, ii. 545.

swans on the Thames, ii. 509.

swathy feastings, iii. 262.

sweet-breasted, iii. 529.

tabine, iv. 440.

table, i. 31.

table, iii. 116; iv. 438.

table-books, i. 275; iii. 133; v. 392.

tables, i. 301; ii. 206.

tables, iii. 507.

tailor, woman’s, i. 461.

take in snuff, i. 289.

take me with you, i. 451; ii. 22.

take on, i. 491.

[take out, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxv.]

take pepper in the nose, iv. 175.

take their ease i’ their inn, v. 195.

talenter, v. 165.

tall, iii. 83, 581.

Tamburlain, i. 229, v. 526.

Tartary, v. 524.

tavern-bitch has bit, &c., ii. 83.

tavern-token, iii. 22.

taw, i. 275.

tawny-coat, ii. 527.

temption, iv. 114.

teniente, iv. 118.

tents, iii. 585.

tenty-nine, iii. 537.

termers, ii. 42, 107, 433; iii. 254.

term-trotter, i. 330.

tester, ii. 477; iv. 8; v. 496.

teston, i. 258; iii. 38.

than, iii. 203.

thanks and a thousand, iv. 507.

third pile, to the, ii. 343.

Thong-Castle, i. 180.

threading-needles, iv. 141.

three-quarter-sharer, v. 562.

throwster, v. 170.

thrummed, i. 431.

thrum-chinned, ii. 68.

thumb-nail, doing right on, iii. 31.

ticed, ii. 386.

Tickle-me-quickly, v. 143.

tire-men, ii. 241.

tire-woman, i. 461.

tiring-house, iv. 139, v. 526.

Titus Andronicus, v. 590.

to, i. 204; iii. 589; iv. 533.

tobacco sold by apothecaries, ii. 453.

—— taken by gallants sitting on the stage, v. 544.

tons, iv. 404.

torch-bearers, i. 261.

[toss, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxi.]

tottered, v. 526.

touch, i. 344; iii. 201.

touched, iv. 271.

toward, i. 347; iv. 469.

towards, i. 171; ii. 177; iii. 214; iv. 50.

to-who, iii. 176.

Towne, an actor, iii. 105.

toy, i. 378; ii. 66; iii. 274; iv. 217.

tralucent, v. 316.

trampler, ii. 18, v. 196.

trashed, ii. 19.

traverses, i. 264.

treacher, iv. 380.

trencher, ii. 437.

trenchers, posies on, v. 40.

trillibubs, i. 65.

trine on the cheats, ii. 542.

triumphs, iv. 403.

trow, ii. 26; iv. 145, v. 29.

Troynovant, v. 489.

true, iv. 224.

true man, i. 158; iii. 11.

trug, ii. 222.

trunks, ii. 157.

trunks, v. 572.

truss, i. 367; ii. 280; iii. 589; iv. 38.

Tuck, friar, iii. 115.

Turk worth tenpence, iii. 489.

turn Turk, iii. 80; [and _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxx.]

Turnbull-street, iv. 34; v. 48.

tweaks, iii. 527.

tweering, v. 594.

tweezes, iv. 119.

twitter-lights, ii. 309; iii. 588.

twopenny room, ii. 412.

uberous, i. 151.

umbles, ii. 482.

uneven, ii. 145.

unkindly, v. 10.

unpleased, v. 592.

unreduct, ii. 146.

untrussing, ii. 135; iii. 319.

unvalued, ii. 314; iii. 549; iv. 585; v. 325.

unvaluedest, iv. 517.

upright man, ii. 536.

urchin, iii. 589.

Ursula, St., iv. 310.

vadeth, ii. 113.

vail, i. 248; v. 466.

valiant, ii. 8.

value, iv. 361.

valure, v. 169.

vaulting-house, v. 516.

venery, i. 369.

vennies, i. 66.

vent, iv. 442.

ventoy, i. 251.

Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s, ii. 340.

via, i. 245.

viage, ii. 482.

vierge, v. 258.

vild, i. 94; ii. 77; iii. 157; iv. 137; v. 139.

vildly, i. 356.

viol, ii. 11.

virginals, i. 278; iii. 112; iv. 5.

voider, iv. 405; v. 71.

waft, ii. 394.

wainscot-gown, iv. 473.

waistcoat, iii. 45.

wale, i. 452.

walk, i. 449.

wapper-eyed, v. 528.

ward, iv. 221.

warden-tree, iii. 189.

[warning-piece, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxiv.]

wassail-bowl, v. 143.

wasters, iii. 166.

watchet, ii. 72.

watermen, great number of, ii. 451.

wears a smock, i. 436.

wedlocks, ii. 481.

welkin, iii. 16.

Welsh ambassador, ii. 88, 316.

welted, iii. 87.

western pug, ii. 522.

westward ho, ii. 520.

wet finger, with a, iii. 10.

what are you for a coxcomb, iii. 376.

what is she for a fool, ii. 421.

what lack you, i. 447; ii. 453; iii. 24; iv. 9.

what should he be for a man, ii. 137.

when, i. 289; ii. 233; iii. 164; iv. 451.

where, v. 355.

where, i. 28; ii. 96; iii. 562; iv. 16; v. 243.

whereas, v. 576.

whiblins, iii. 13.

whiffler, iii. 511.

while, i. 18; iii. 534.

whilom, v. 79.

whip-jack, ii. 535.

Whirligig, The, i. 202.

whist, v. 497.

white, iv. 568.

White-Friars’ nunnery, v. 576.

whittles, iii. 390.

wide a’ the bow-hand, iii. 14.

[widow’s notch, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxv.]

Wigmore’s galliard, ii. 280.

wild dell, ii. 538.

[wild of Kent, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxiv.]

wild rogue, ii. 537.

will, i. 437.

Willow, willow, willow, i. 234.

[wind-mills, the six, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxii.]

wine and sugar, iii. 542.

wings, v. 524.

wipes his nose, ii. 14.

wire, iv. 226.

wish, iii. 31.

Wit, whither wilt thou, iii. 611.

witches selling winds, iv. 210.

with child, iii. 65.

wittol, i. 331; ii. 335; iv. 14.

wood, i. 28; v. 445.

woodcock, iii. 46; iv. 595.

woodcock of our side, i. 203, 290.

Wookey-Hole, iii. 539.

Woolner, v. 508.

wool-ward, v. 527.

word, ii. 190.

word, ii. 258; iii. 537; iv. 334; v. 299.

world, it is a, v. 429.

worm, v. 556.

wrack, i. 403.

wrench’d, v. 426.

y-cleped, ii. 410.

y-meditate, v. 175.

yellow, i. 300; iii. 134; v. 182.

yellow bands, iii. 422.

yon, ii. 263.

youths, the, ii. 124.

zanies, i. 261.

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Footnotes

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# 1:

_passion_] i. e. sorrow.

# 2:

_arrant_] The rhyme requiring the old spelling.

# 3:

_Before Sir Oliver Twilight’s house_] There is nothing

in this scene to assist us in determining where it

takes place. Perhaps I have not marked it rightly; but

the location now given to it seems, on the whole, to

be that which is least objectionable.

# 4:

_his affected mistress_] i.e. the mistress whom he

affects.

# 5:

_have_] Old ed. “hath.”

# 6:

_See where he comes_] I possess a copy of this play,

which seems to have been used by the prompter towards

the end of the 17th century, several passages being

altered, and many marked for omission. As a specimen

of the former, the present speech will suffice:

“See where he comes, _as melancholly and angry as a

looseing Bully of Marribone_.”

# 7:

_True_] Qy. “Tush”?

# 8:

_ne’er_] Old ed. “now.”

# 9:

_the Dunkirks_] See note, vol. iii. p. 132.

# 10:

_him_] i. e. Philip.

# 11:

_unkindly_] i. e. unnatural (not according to _kind_—

nature).

# 12:

_dower_] Old ed. “Down.”

# 13:

_covetous_] Old ed. “courteous.”

# 14:

_May-butter_] “If during the moneth of May before you

salt your butter you saue a lumpe thereof, and put it

into a vessell, and so set it into the Sun the

space of that moneth, you shall finde it exceeding

soueraigne and medicinable for wounds, straines,

aches, and such like grievances.” G. Markham’s

_English Housewife_, p. 199, ed. 1637.

# 15:

_condition_] i. e. disposition, nature.

# 16:

_Thanks, good_, &c.] Makes in old ed. a portion of

Jane’s speech.

# 17:

_Dowland’s Lacrymæ_] “_Lachrimæ_ or seaven Teares

figured in seaven passionate Pauans, with divers other

Pauans, Galiards, and Almands, set forth for the Lute,

Viols, or Violons, in five Parts,” was a very popular

musical work, composed by John Dowland, a celebrated

lutanist.

# 18:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 19:

_my almanac_] Compare vol. iii. p. 537, and note.

# 20:

_tenth_] Old ed. “eleventh.”

# 21:

_against the hair_] i. e. against the grain, contrary

to nature.

# 22:

_devil_] old ed. “Devils.”

# 23:

_angels_] A play on the word—gold coins worth about

ten shillings each.

# 24:

_runs there ... no comfortable strain_] Compare

Skelton’s _Magnyfycence_;

“The _streynes_ of her vaynes [veins] as asure Inde

blewe.”

Sig. E ii. n. d.

The verb is more common;

“Rills rising out of euery Banck,

In wilde Meanders strayne.”

Drayton’s _Muses Elizium_, p. 2, ed. 1630.

# 25:

_jets_] i. e. struts.

# 26:

_price_] Qy. “piece”?

# 27:

_an adversary_] Old ed. “a longer _adversary_.”

# 28:

_brief_] i. e. short writing.

# 29:

_lose_] Used here perhaps ironically: but qy.

“taste”?

# 30:

_suits_] Old ed. “Suiters.”

# 31:

_glass_] A friend suggests “gloss:” but in act ii.

sc. 1, Lady G. says of the letter in question, “here’s

a _glass_ will shew him,” &c.

# 32:

_brave_] i. e. fine.

# 33:

_Herein_] Qy. “Wherein”?

# 34:

_shut_] Old ed. “shuts.”

# 35:

_Philip_] After this word old ed. gives a

stage-direction “_Enter Philip_,” though it has

previously marked his entrance at the commencement of

the scene.

# 36:

_Pist_] i. e. Hist: compare vol. ii. p. 460.—Old ed.

“Pish.”

# 37:

_ye_] Old ed. “you”—but this line was meant to rhyme

with the next.

# 38:

_ought_] i. e. owed.

# 39:

_sh’ owes_] Old ed. “shows:”—_owes_, i. e. owns,

possesses.

# 40:

_trow_] i. e. think you.

# 41:

_great slops_] i. e. wide trousers.

# 42:

_be cover’d_] i. e. put on your hat.

# 43:

_passion_] i. e. sorrow.

# 44:

_budgelling_] Perhaps a form of _boggling_. A friend

suggests “budgetting.”

# 45:

_son_] Qy. “sum”? but perhaps “this” in the next line

means Savourwit.

# 46:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 47:

_lets_] i. e. hinders.

# 48:

_I’d_] Old ed. “I’ll.”

# 49:

_hartichalks and cabishes_] i. e. artichokes and

cabbages.

# 50:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 51:

_squat_] Jamieson (_Sup. to Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._)

gives “_Squat_, to strike with the open hand,

particularly on the breech,” in which sense the word

seems to be used above.

# 52:

_Beholding_] i. e. Beholden—a form of the word

frequent in old writers.

# 53:

_resolve_] i. e. satisfy, inform.

# 54:

_quit_] i. e. requite.

# 55:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 56:

_necessary property_] This expression occurs in vol.

iii. p. 598: see note, p. 640 of that vol., and note,

vol. ii. p. 308.

# 57:

_strossers_] Or _trossers_, _trusses_, &c.—i. e. tight

drawers: see Gifford’s note on Shirley’s _Works_, vol.

i. p. 19.

# 58:

_trenchers_, &c.] Compare vol. i. p. 31; vol. iii. p.

98.

# 59:

_Now, gallant_, &c.] Is read, in old ed., by lady

Goldenfleece.

# 60:

_conceit_] i. e. fanciful thought, ingenious device—

alluding to the Signs which are presently brought in.

# 61:

_have at_, &c.] Compare vol. iii. p. 359.

# 62:

_banquet_] Equivalent (as I have already observed, see

note, vol. iii. p. 252,) to what we now call a

dessert. G. Markham, in his _English Housewife_, has

the following passage. “I will now proceed to the

ordering or setting forth of a Banquet, wherein you

shall observe, that Marchpanes have the first place,

the middle place and last place; your preserved fruits

shall be dish’d up first, your pastes next, your wet

Suckets after them, then your dryed Suckets, then your

Marmalades, and Goodiniakes, then your Comfets of all

kindes; Next your Peares, Apples, Wardens back’d, raw

or rosted, and your Orenges and Lemons sliced; and

lastly, your Wafer-cakes. Thus you shall order them in

the closet: but when they goe to the Table, you shall

first send forth a dish made for shew only, as Beast,

Bird, Fish, Fowle, according to the invention: then

your Marchpane, then preserved fruite, then a Paste,

then a wet Sucket, then a dry Sucket, Marmalade,

Comfets, Apples, Peares, Wardens, Orenges and Lemons,

sliced; and then Wafers, and another dish of preserved

fruites, and so consequently all the rest before, no

two dishes of one kinde going or standing together,

and this will not onely appeare delicate to the eye,

but invite the appetite with the much variety

thereof.” P. 136, ed. 1637.

# 63:

_Take no care for me, widow_] I may just observe, that

this speech of Weatherwise, and his next speech but

one, “By the mass,” &c., seem to have been intended

for blank verse; and probably are somewhat corrupted.

# 64:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 65:

_Yes_] Qy. “Yet”?

# 66:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 67:

_Come cut and long tail_] i. e. come who will—dogs of

all sorts.

# 68:

_Townbull Street_] i. e. a jocular corruption, I

suppose, of Turnbull, or, properly, Turnmill Street:

see note, vol. iv. p. 34.

# 69:

_Standard_] See note, vol. i. p. 438.

# 70:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 71:

_cypress_] Written also _cyprus_, _cipres_—a stuff

something like (or, according to Nares, _Gloss._ in

v., the same as) crape.

# 72:

_yon_] Old ed. “you.”

# 73:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 74:

_these_] Old ed. “this.”

# 75:

_resolve_] i. e. satisfy, inform.

# 76:

_beholding_] See note, p. 36.

# 77:

_quit_] i. e. requite.

# 78:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 79:

_resolve_] See note, p. 52—“her kinswoman” in this

line means Jane.

# 80:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 81:

_Staying Lady Twilight_] Old ed. “_Shogs his Mother._”

# 82:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 83:

_to_] i. e. compared with.

# 84:

_play_] Old ed. “plays.”

# 85:

_ye_] Old ed. “you:” but a couplet was evidently

intended.

# 86:

_jealous_] i. e. suspicious.

# 87:

_devotion_] Compare the _Communion Service_, “shall

receive the alms for the poor, and other _devotions_

of the people, in a decent basin.”

# 88:

_Approve_] i. e. prove.

# 89:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 90:

_these_] Old ed. “those.”

# 91:

_like_] i. e. please.

# 92:

_rubs ... mistress_] A metaphor from the game of

bowls: the _mistress_ meant the small ball, now called

the jack, at which the players aim.

# 93:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 94:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 95:

_knew_] Old ed. “know.”

# 96:

_peevish_] i. e. foolish, weak, poor.

# 97:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 98:

_Throws_, &c.] Old ed. “_Throws somewhat at him_.”

# 99:

_lead_] Old ed. “leads.”

# 100:

_cogging_] i. e. lying, cheating. The particular

allusion I do not understand.

# 101:

_voider_] See note, vol. iv. p. 405.

# 102:

_ordinary_, &c.] See note, vol. i. p. 389.

# 103:

_parbreaking_] i. e. vomiting.—Old ed. “Barbreaking.”

# 104:

_feed_] A friend conjectures “fleet”—i. e. float; but

notwithstanding the confusion of metaphors, I believe

that the text is right.

# 105:

_affection_] Old ed. “affliction.”

# 106:

_suffice_] Old ed. “suffer.”

# 107:

_proper_] i. e. handsome.

# 108:

_Make clear the weather_] The words of mistress

Low-water to Beveril: see above.

# 109:

_Act III._] I am not responsible (as in some other of

Middleton’s dramas) for the division of this play into

acts; which I notice on account of the comparative

shortness of the present act.

# 110:

_bewrayed_] i. e. betrayed, discovered.

# 111:

_tail_] Old ed. “tails.”

# 112:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 113:

_slander_] Old ed. “slave.” The author, I apprehend,

would hardly have written “slaver” (in the sense of

slander.)

# 114:

_whilom_] i. e. once, formerly.

# 115:

_passion_] i. e. grief.

# 116:

_Pond’s Almanac_] The following is the title of the

earliest Pond’s _Almanac_ I have met with,—“_Ponde.

1607. A President for Prognosticators. A new Almanacke

for this present yeare of our Lord God M.DCVII. Being

the third after Leape yeare. Calculated for the

Latitude and Meridian of the Auncient shire towne of

Essex called Chelmesford: And generally for all great

Britaine, amplyfied with new additions, By Edward

Pond: practicioner in the Mathematickes & Phisick.

Imprinted at London for the Company of Stationers._”

# 117:

_Fifth day_, &c.] Compare vol. iii. p. 537, and p. 18

of this volume.

# 118:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 119:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 120:

_believ’d_] Old ed. “bely’d.”

# 121:

_candles_] Qy. “caudles”?

# 122:

_aqua vitæ_] See note, vol. iii. p. 239.

# 123:

_stand_] Old ed. “stands.”

# 124:

_parsons_] So old ed.: compare vol. iii. p. 77, and

note.

# 125:

_slip_] See note, vol. ii. p. 417.

# 126:

_resolve_] See note, p. 52.

# 127:

_Are_] Old ed. “Is.”

# 128:

_nicely_] i. e. scrupulously.

# 129:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 130:

_proceeded_] A university term: compare vol. iv. p.

68, and note.

# 131:

_Air_] Old ed. “fair.”

# 132:

_aloof off_] Compare vols. i. p. 427; iii. p. 40, and

notes.

# 133:

_joy_] Old ed. “joys.”

# 134:

_lets_] i. e. hinders.

# 135:

_quit_] i. e. acquitted.

# 136:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 137:

_proper_] i. e. handsome.

# 138:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 139:

_faith_] Old ed. “y’_faith_.”

# 140:

_set_] Old ed. “sets;” and in next line but one “Has.”

# 141:

_’fection_] So old ed.—a contraction of _affection_—i.

e. affectation.

# 142:

_old_] See note, vol. ii. p. 538.

# 143:

_to approv’d_] i. e. to have proved.

# 144:

_Hole_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.]

# 145:

_Sir O. Twi., &c._] Old ed. “_All. Sir Ol._”

# 146:

_knows_] Old ed. “that _knows_.”

# 147:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 148:

_branched_] Has been explained—embroidered, flowered

(see Todd’s Johnson’s _Dict._ and Cotgrave’s in v.);

but if Gifford be right (note on Ford’s _Works_, vol.

ii. p. 510), it means “with tufts, or tassels,

dependent from the shoulders.”

# 149:

_sweep_] Old ed. “sweeps.”

# 150:

_bleaking-house_] i. e. bleaching-house.

# 151:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 152:

_warring_] Old ed. “waiting.”

# 153:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 154:

_blue-coats_] i. e. servants—who usually wore blue.

# 155:

_Scene closes_] Old ed. has “_Manent Widow and

Mrs. Low-water_,” and after that stage-direction,

distinctly marks, “_Act 5. Scæn. 1._”

# 156:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 157:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 158:

_miss’d_] Old ed. “must.”

# 159:

_powers_] Qy. “pores”?

# 160:

_above_] i.e. on the upper stage—which was supposed to

represent a gallery on this occasion: see note, vol.

ii. p. 125.

# 161:

_best_—] So old ed. Qy. “best _bow_”—a couplet being

intended?

# 162:

_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied.

# 163:

_refuse_] i. e. renounce.

# 164:

_knew_] Old ed. “know.”

# 165:

_no_] See note, vol. i. p. 169.

# 166:

_knew_] Old ed. “know.”

# 167:

_rule_] Used, perhaps, as a dissyllable; but qy. “yet

_rule_”?

# 168:

_the Bear at the Bridge-foot in heaven_] If Steevens

had recollected this passage, he would not have

proposed to alter the following one in _The Puritan_

by reading “in _the even_” for “in heaven,”—“Ay, by

yon Bear at Bridge-foot _in heaven_, shalt thou.”

Malone’s _Supp. to Shakespeare_, vol. ii. p. 559.—The

Bear was a well-known tavern—according to Steevens

(ibid.), “at the foot of London bridge.” Gifford says,

in a note on Shirley’s _Lady of Pleasure_, where this

expression occurs (_Works_, vol. iv. p. 72), that “the

_bridge_ meant was in Shirley’s time called the

Strand-bridge.”

# 169:

_Hoyday! there’s ... revenge to thee_] Here, perhaps,

the text is corrupted, as the metre is faulty.

# 170:

_quit_] i. e. requite.

# 171:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 172:

_the act_, &c.] “An Acte to restrayne all persons from

Marriage untill theire former Wyves and former

Husbandes be deade.”

# 173:

_neck-verse_] i. e. the verse (generally the beginning

of the 51st Psalm, _Miserere mei_, &c.) read by a

criminal to entitle him to benefit of clergy.

# 174:

_exercis’d_] Old ed. “examin’d.”

# 175:

_hose_] i. e. breeches.

# 176:

_banes_] i. e. bans: see note, vol. i. p. 471.

# 177:

_weakness_] An evident misprint; but I know not what

word to substitute for it: qy. “wittiness”? see title

of the play.

# 178:

_lets_] i. e. hinders.

# 179:

_cog_] See note, p. 71.

# 180:

_answer_] Here a line (ending with the word “Cancer”)

has dropt out.

# 181:

_vild_] i. e. vile: a form common in our early

writers.

# 182:

_who’s this_] Old ed. “_who’s_ t’is.”

# 183:

_Kersmas_] A corruption of _Christmas_.

# 184:

_poulters’_] i. e. poulterers’.

# 185:

_frampole_] A word variously written: see note, vol.

ii, p. 477.

# 186:

_spiny_] i. e. thin, slender.

# 187:

_nunchions ... bever_] Refreshments taken between

meals; see Richardson’s _Dict._ in vv.: the latter

seems, properly, to mean a _whet_.

# 188:

_stomachful_] i. e. stubborn.

# 189:

_Choosing King and Queen_] See much concerning the

Choosing of King and Queen on Twelfth Day, in Brand’s

_Pop. Antiq._ vol. i. p. 19, ed. 1813.

# 190:

_In-and-in_] A game at dice,—“very much used in an

ordinary,” says Cotton: see _Compleat Gamester_, p.

164, ed. 1674.

# 191:

_the basket_] In which the broken meat and bread from

the sheriffs’ table was carried to the Counters, for

the use of the poorer prisoners.

# 192:

_Gleek and Primavista_] Games at cards: concerning the

former, see _The Compleat Gamester_, p. 90; and for an

account of the latter, which is the same as _Primero_,

vide Singer’s _Researches into Hist. of Playing

Cards_, p. 248, and Nares’s _Gloss._ in v.

# 193:

_Noddy_] A game at cards, which seems to have been

played in more ways than one: see Nares’s _Gloss._ in

v.

# 194:

_Tickle-me-quickly_ ... _My-lady’s-hole_ ...

_My-sow-has-pigged_] Games at cards.

# 195:

_my nephew Gambols_] In _The Masque of Christmas_,

1616, Ben Jonson introduces Christmas and his ten

children, among whom is “GAMBOL, _like a tumbler, with

a hoop and bells; his torch-bearer armed with a

colt-staff and a binding-cloth_.” Works (by Gifford),

vol. vii. p. 274.

# 196:

_shoe the mare_] A Christmas sport:

“Of Blind-man-buffe, and of the care

That young men have to _shooe the Mare_.”

Herrick’s _Hesperides_, &c. p. 146, ed. 1648.

# 197:

_Wassail-bowl_] Filled with spiced wine or ale, &c.,

and used on New-year’s eve, &c.: see Brand’s _Pop.

Antiq._ vol. i. p. 1, sqq. ed. 1813. In the Masque by

Jonson just mentioned, one of the children of

Christmas is “WASSEL, _like a neat sempster, and

songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with

ribands and rosemary, before her_.”

# 198:

_affects_] i. e. affections, feelings.

# 199:

_D. Al._] Old ed. “_Fast_.”

# 200:

_the long porter_] “Walter Parsons born in this County

was first Apprentice to a Smith, when he grew so tall

in stature, that a hole was made for him in the Ground

to stand therein up to the knees, so to make him

adequate with his Fellow-work-men. He afterwards was

Porter to King James; seeing as Gates generally are

higher than the rest of the Building, so it was

sightly that the Porter should be taller than other

Persons. He was proportionable in all parts, and had

strength equal to height, Valour to his strength,

Temper to his valour, so that he disdained to do an

injury to any single person. He would make nothing to

take two of the tallest Yeomen of the Guard (like the

Gizard and Liver) under his Arms at once, and order

them as he pleased. Yet were his Parents (for ought I

do understand to the contrary) but of an ordinary

stature.... This Parsons died Anno Dom. 162-.”

Fuller’s _Worthies_ (p. 48, _Stafford-shire_), ed.

1662.

# 201:

_The guard ... bombards_] i. e. large cans: compare

_The Martyred Souldier_, 1638, by H. Shirley;

“the black Jacks

Or _Bombards_ tost by _the King’s Guard_.” Sig. D 4.

# 202:

_that he was, sir_] Should, perhaps, be given to

Doctor Almanac.

# 203:

_ye_] Old ed. “you.”

# 204:

_Antimasque_] “An Antimasque, or, as Jonson elsewhere

calls it, ‘a foil, or false masque,’ is something

directly opposed to the principal masque. If this was

lofty and serious, that was light and ridiculous. It

admitted of the wildest extravagancies; and it is

_only by Jonson that attempts are sometimes made to

connect it, in any degree, with the main story_.”

Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. vii. p.

251. The praise which Gifford would confine to Jonson

may certainly be extended to Middleton.

# 205:

_in cone_] Qy. _incontinent_ (i. e. immediately)?—the

MS. having had, perhaps, “_incon._” A friend suggests

that there might have been some abbreviation of

_contra_, or _contraries_: see what follows; doctor

Almanac charges them to do the reverse of what they

ought to do, for “to bid ’em sin’s the way to make ’em

mend.”

# 206:

_pull down bawdy-houses_, &c. ... _ruin the Cockpit_]

The apprentices used (as already observed, note, vol.

iii. p. 217) to pull down brothels on Shrove-Tuesday:

concerning Turnbull Street, see note, vol. iv. p. 34.

The rest of the present passage, where there is a pun

on the word “leak,” is explained by the following

extract from Dekker’s _Owles Almanacke_, 1618:

“Shroue-tuesday falles on that day, on which the

prentices plucked downe the cocke-pit, and on which

they did alwayes vse to rifle Madame Leakes house at

the vpper end of Shorditch.” Sig. C.

# 207:

_warmest_] A friend wishes to read “warnest.”

# 208:

_maundering_] i. e. muttering, grumbling: (and in cant

language, begging.)

# 209:

_collogue_] “To Collogue. To wheedle or coax.” Grose’s

_Class. Dict. of Vul. Tongue_, in which sense it is

probably used here: it means also—to talk closely

with, to plot.

# 210:

_gill_] i. e. wench.

# 211:

_Enter, for the second Antimasque_, &c.] This

stage-direction (not in old ed.) is sufficient here,

as the persons who compose the second Antimasque are

minutely described in a subsequent stage-direction.

# 212:

_Bretnor ... word_] See notes, vol. iii. p. 537.

# 213:

_city-wedlock_] i. e. wife: see note, vol. ii. p. 481.

# 214:

_the gear cottens_] i. e. the matter goes on

prosperously: see note, vol. ii. p. 150.

# 215:

_In dock out nettle_] Compare vol. iii. p. 611,

and note. The expression occurs in J. Heywood’s

_Dialogue_, &c.;

“But wauering as the winde, _in docke, out nettle_.”

Sig. F 2, _Workes_, ed. 1598.

and in Taylor’s _Farewell to the Tower Bottles_, p.

125—_Workes_, ed. 1630.

# 216:

_parcel-rascals_] i. e. partly rascals.

# 217:

_Brainford_] A corruption of Brentford—used here with a quibble.

# 218:

_In larger grounds_, &c.] Old ed.

“In larger bounds, in Parke, sports, delights, and

grounds.” In altering this corrupted line I have

preferred retaining the word “grounds” rather than

“bounds,” because the latter presently occurs.

# 219:

_Yet a third season_] Old ed. “A third season yet.”

# 220:

_talenter_] i. e. hawk. Our early poets repeatedly use

_talent_ for _talon_:

“His _talents_ red with blood of murthered foules.”

Drayton’s _Owle_, 1604, sig. D 2.

See, too, the quibble in Shakespeare’s _Love’s

Labour’s Lost_, act iv. sc. 2. “If a _talent_ be a

claw,” &c.

# 221:

_prick_] i. e. the point or mark in the centre of the

butts.

# 222:

_royal’st guest_] May mean Queen Anne; but more

probably, I think, her brother, the king of Denmark,

who visited England twice, in 1606 and in 1614. “In

the reign of King James I. the house before us

[Somerset-house] became, _ipso facto_, a royal

residence on the part of the Queen, and even changed

its name; and it appears that her Majesty repaired it,

at her own charge, for the reception of her brother

Christian IV., king of Denmark, who visited England

A.D. 1606, from which time it is said that the Queen

affected to call it _Denmark-House_.” _Curialia_, _P.

IV._ p. 63, by Pegge; who, after more on this subject,

chooses to rely on the statement of the continuators

of Stow’s _Survey of London_—that on Shrove-Tuesday,

1616, Queen Anne having feasted King James at

Somerset-House, _he_ then changed its name, and

appointed it to be thenceforth called Denmark-House,

p. 65: see also Nichols’s _Prog. of K. James_, vol.

iii. p. 253.

When this Masque was originally produced as a royal

entertainment, I know not. The noble pair to whom it

is dedicated were not married till 1620: see Collins’s

_Peerage_ (by Brydges), vol. iv. p. 277. Towards the

end of it there is an evident allusion to the wars in

the Palatinate.

# 223:

_maunding_] i. e. begging: see note, vol. ii. p. 536.

# 224:

_over-brave_] i. e. over-finely dressed.

# 225:

_valure_] Or rather _velure_—i. e. velvet.

# 226:

_a throwster_] “One that throws, or winds, silk or

thread” (Kersey’s _Dict._), preparing the materials

for the weaver.

# 227:

_superstichious_] So old ed.—with a quibble.

# 228:

_periphrase_] Old ed. “Paraphrase.”

# 229:

_the other’s_] Old ed. “_the_ t’others.”

# 230:

_pickadill_] i. e. collar with stiffened plaits.

# 231:

_presence glorious_] Old ed. “glorious presence.”