_conscience knowing_] Old ed. “knowing conscience.”
# 233:
_Lady divine_] Old ed. “Diuine Lady.”
# 234:
_himself_] This word should, perhaps, be thrown out.
# 235:
_Altitonant_] i. e. thundering from on high.
# 236:
_Y-meditate_] The right reading, I presume: old ed. “I
meditate.”
# 237:
_upper-stage_] See note, vol. ii. p. 125.
# 238:
_states_] i. e. persons of dignity.
# 239:
_Honey-lingued_] i. e. Honey-tongued.
# 240:
_duke_] i. e. general, commander.
“And in lyke wyse _duke Josue_ the gente.”
Hawes’s _Pastime of Pleasure_, sig. C c ii. ed.
1555.
# 241:
_Mattathias’ son_] i. e. Judas Maccabæus.
# 242:
_psalmograph_] i. e. psalm-writer, viz. David.
# 243:
_a Macedonian born_] i. e. Alexander the Great.
# 244:
_Troy’s best soldier_] i. e. Hector.
# 245:
_Charles of France_] i. e. Charlemagne.
# 246:
_Bulloin duke_] i. e. Godfrey of Bouillon.
# 247:
_Britain’s glory_] i. e. Arthur.
# 248:
_The Nine Worthies dance_, &c.] Qy. did the authors
intend them to dance with the Muses? but in the
preceding stage-direction (which I have given as it
stands in old ed.) the entrance of the latter is not
marked.
# 249:
_affected colours_] i. e. the colours which they
affect: compare p. 7, and note.
# 250:
_jet_] i. e. strut.
# 251:
_frokin_] i. e. little fro (_frow_, Dutch for woman)—
little jade.
# 252:
_batter_] Used for the pancakes on that day.
# 253:
_yellow hose_] See note, vol. iii. p. 134.
# 254:
_state_] Gifford observes, that “the _state_ sometimes
means the raised platform and canopy under which the
ornamented chair was placed, and sometimes the chair
itself.” Note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 334.
Here, perhaps, it means the machine in which Jupiter
had descended: see p. 175.
# 255:
_cogging_] i. e. wheedling.
# 256:
_vild_] See note, p. 139.
# 257:
_Have_] Old ed. “Has.”
# 258:
_Chambers_] i. e. small pieces of ordnance.
# 259:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 260:
_rear_] i. e. raw.
# 261:
_agen_] The old spelling of _again_—required here for
the rhyme.
# 262:
_a_ ——] So old ed.
# 263:
_i’ their inn_] i. e. in their own house: concerning
this proverbial expression, see notes on Shakespeare’s
_Henry IV._ (_First Part_), act iii. sc. 3.
# 264:
_egrimony_] Used here with a quibble; an old form of
(the herb) _agrimony_, and also—sorrow. (Lat.
_ægrimonia_.)
# 265:
_trampler_] See note, vol. ii. p. 18.
# 266:
_civilly_] i.e. soberly, plainly drest: compare vol.
iv. p. 505, and note.
# 267:
_poniarded_] Poniards, or, as they were generally
called, knives, were formerly, says Gifford, “worn at
all times by every woman in England:” see note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, vol. V. p. 221.
# 268:
_needle-bearded gallants_] Taylor, the water-poet, in
a passage concerning the “strange and variable cut” of
beards, mentions “Some sharpe Steletto fashion, dagger
like.” _Superbiæ Flagellum_, p. 34—_Workes_, 1630.
# 269:
_stammel_] i.e. a kind of red, coarser and cheaper
than scarlet.
# 270:
_the prince_] i.e. Charles.
# 271:
_I’ll over yonder_, &c.] He means to the Palatinate:
great enthusiasm was felt in the cause of the
unfortunate Queen of Bohemia. Some passages, perhaps,
were inserted here subsequently to the original
production of the Masque: see note, p. 167.
# 272:
_deckt with laurel_] James was accustomed to receive
such incense.
“There he beholds a high and glorious Throne,
Where sits a King by Laurell Garlands knowne,
Like bright Apollo in the Muses quires.”
Sir J. Beaumont’s _Bosworth-field_, p. 5, ed. 1629.
See also B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. viii. p. 154, and
Gifford’s note.
# 273:
_properties_] i. e. ensigns proper to her character—a
theatrical term: see note, vol. ii. p. 308.
# 274:
_sithence_] i. e. since.
# 275:
_painted cloth_] See note, vol. iii. p. 97.
# 276:
_cant_] i. e. niche.
# 277:
_greeces_] i. e. steps.
# 278:
_penciled_] i. e. (not—having _pensils_, small flags,
but) painted; so in an earlier passage of this
pageant: “They helde in their handes _pensild_
Shieldes; vpon the first was drawne a Rose,” &c.
# 279:
_shapes_] i. e. dresses—a theatrical use of the word.
# 280:
_cantle_] i. e. part.
# 281:
_eronie_] Qy. “ourany”?
# 282:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 283:
_clipt_] i. e. embraced—cherished.
# 284:
_Black Monday_] “Middleton here alludes to Anthony
Munday, his rival City Poet, who had composed the
Pageants of 1605 and 1611, and perhaps others of
which no copies are known to exist. Though he this
year (and the last, when Dekker was employed) lost
the office of author, he did not lose that of
supplying the apparell, &c., which was his business
as a draper, and to which office only Middleton
seems to have considered him competent [see p. 245].
This virulent attack, however, appears to have
experienced no greater attention than such violence
deserved, since Munday was employed in the three
following years.” NICHOLS.—The inscription on
Anthony’s tomb declares that he was a “citizen and
_draper_:” but I am not sure that he furnished “the
apparell and porters” for _The Triumphs of Truth_ in
the latter capacity; rather, perhaps, in consequence
of being keeper of the _properties_ of the pageants.
In the remarks prefixed to Munday’s _Downfall of the
Earl of Huntington_ (Suppl. vol. to Dodsley’s _Old
Plays_), I am surprised to find Mr. Collier doubting
if Middleton alludes to him here; and I can only
suppose that when Mr. C. wrote those remarks, his
recollection of the present passage was somewhat
imperfect.
The play just mentioned is evidence that Munday’s
powers were far from contemptible. The ill will which
the dramatists appear to have borne towards him was,
perhaps, called forth by the extravagant encomium of
Meres, who, in the _Palladis Tamia_, 1598, had chosen
to term him “our best plotter,” fol. 283. With respect
to the comedy called _The Case is altered_, in which
he is ridiculed under the name of Antonio Balladino,
there has been a question among critics, whether it is
the work of Ben Jonson. Gifford pronounced it to be an
early production of that poet; and he, I am confident,
would not have changed his opinion even if he had
lived to see the copy, without any author’s name on
the title-page, which some years ago was added to the
collection of the Duke of Devonshire.
# 285:
_Attend_] Old eds. “Attends.”
# 286:
_What greater_, &c.
... _his honour’s confirmation_] This second stanza
is not reprinted by Nichols. The old ed. omits it in
this place, but gives it afterwards with the musical
notes of the song.
# 287:
_burn_] Old eds. “burnes.”
# 288:
_are_] Old eds. “is.”
# 289:
_Spots_, &c.] We have had this couplet before, p. 199.
# 290:
_the river_, &c.] “Sir Thomas Middleton, grocer, and
mayor in 1613,” says Herbert, in his _History of the
Twelve Great Livery Companies of London_, “was nearly
the first who attempted an emblematical and scenic
representation of his company, in a water spectacle,
consisting (in imitation of the pageant mentioned to
have been exhibited by Sir John Wells to Henry
VI.[290A]) of ‘five islands, artfully garnished with
all manner of Indian fruit trees, drugges, spiceries,
and the like; the middle island having a faire castle
especially beautified:’ the latter probably allusive
to the newly-established East India Company’s forts,
and whose adventures had contributed so much to
enlarge the sphere of the grocers’ trade.” vol. i. p.
200.
# 290A:
See Herbert’s work, vol. i. pp. 93, 4.
# 291:
_stand_] Old eds. “stands.”
# 292:
_attend_] Old eds. “attends.”
# 293:
_cleave_] Old eds. “cleaues.”
# 294:
_slights_] i. e. artifices.
# 295:
_most_] Old eds. “must.”
# 296:
_the Five Senses_] “The Senses were personated at the
King’s Entry into London in 1603, and are represented
in the engraving of the Arch erected at Soper-Lane
end, in Harrison’s Arches. Jordan introduced them
again in the Lord Mayor’s Pageant of 1681 (see _Gent.
Mag._ vol. xcv. i. 131), at the same time assuring the
Grocers’ Company in his prefatory address, ’that in
these Triumphs there is nothing designed, written,
said, or sung, that ever was presented in any show
till this present day!’” NICHOLS.
# 297:
_appear_] Old eds. “appeares.”
# 298:
_yon place_] “Saint Paul’s Cross.” _Marg. Note._
# 299:
[_mists_] This and the other words in brackets were
supplied by Nichols.
# 300:
_the Standard_] See note, vol. i. p. 438.
# 301:
_where_] i. e. whereas.
# 302:
_Have_] Old eds. “Hath.”
# 303:
_apparel and porters_, &c.] See note, p. 220.
# 304:
_The Speech_] “Anthony Munday, who in his edition of
Stow’s Survey, published in 1618, has given another
version of the present story, and printed ‘the Speech
according as it was delivered to mee,’ says it was
spoken by ‘one man in behalf of all the rest;’ who, of
course, was either some hired actor, or, very
probably, [?] Thomas Middleton himself.” NICHOLS.
# 305:
_where_] i. e. whereas.
# 306:
_have_] Old ed. “hath.”
# 307:
_enginer_] An old and common form of—engineer.
# 308:
_chambers_] See note, p. 190.
# 309:
[_The City’s_, &c.] What I have here placed between
brackets is superfluous: Nichols omits it.
# 310:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 311:
_Tho. Middleton_] The occurrence of this signature
here seems to indicate that the following portion of
the tract was not the composition of Middleton.
# 312:
_The Prince_, &c.] “Camden’s MS. volume, in Harl. MSS.
5176, whence other extracts are given between
crotchets in the following pages.” NICHOLS.
# 313:
_vierge_] i. e. rod.
# 314:
_sewer_] Whose office was to set on and remove
the dishes, taste them, &c.: see Steevens’s note
on Shakespeare’s _Macbeth_, act i. sc. 7, and
Richardson’s _Dict._ in v.
# 315:
_Inns of Court_] “At the Middle Temple the charges
incurred on this occasion were defrayed by a
contribution of thirty shillings from each Bencher;
every Student of seven years’ standing fifteen
shillings; and all other Gentlemen in Commons ten
shillings apiece. Dugdale’s _Origines Juridiciales_,
p. 150.” NICHOLS.
# 316:
_Brocke_] Properly _Brooke_, according to Nichols.
# 317:
_Peere_] Properly _Beare_, according to Nichols.
# 318:
_Master Littleton_] “The great Sir Edward Littleton.”
NICHOLS.
# 319:
_on Psalm_, &c.] “The Discourse is in the Bishop’s
‘xcvi. Sermons,’ the eighth on the occasion.”
NICHOLS,—who inserted the above bracketed passage.
# 320:
_running at the ring_] See note, vol. i. p. 390.
# 321:
_say_] Is commonly explained—“a thin sort of silk,”—“a
species of silk, or rather satin.”—Malone (note on
Shakespeare’s _Henry Sixth, Part Second_, act iv. sc.
7,) remarks, “it appears from Minsheu’s _Dict._, 1617,
that _say_ was a kind of serge.” Cotgrave has
“_Seyette_, serge, or sey.”
# 322:
_their oath_] “Of ‘this ancient exhortation or
well-wishing, which,’ says Camden, ‘is commonly
called, but improperly, an oathe,’ see some curious
particulars in vol. ii. p. 337 [of _Prog. of King
James_]. It was read, continues Camden, first to the
Lord Maltravers, by the Earl of Arundel his father, in
the character of Earl Marshal, and then to the other
Knights either by the Earl or by the Lord Chamberlain,
who then went with the Dean to read the same to the
Lord Percy, who had been forced to withdraw himself
from indisposition.” NICHOLS.
# 323:
_arson_] i. e. saddle-bow.
# 324:
_pectoral_] i. e. breast-piece.
# 325:
_paty_] Properly, patée.
# 326:
_angel_] See note, p. 20.
# 327:
_noble_] A gold coin worth 6_s._ 8_d._
# 328:
_Bertie_] Old ed. “Bartue.”
# 329:
_these being created_, &c.] This concluding sentence
is omitted by Nichols, who, instead of it, gives the
following from Camden’s MS. volume in Harl. MSS. 5176:
“On the 7th of November about five of the clock in the
afternoon, they mett in the Counsell-chamber, where
they and the Lords appoynted to carry their ornaments
and the assistants putt on their roabes, the Earles
and Viscounts their surcotes of crimson velvett with
close sleeves, having short flappes hanging upon their
shoulders, then their hoods and afterward their
mantles and roabes, fastned upon the shoulder and
pucking out the capuchio to hang over behinde, with
their cappes of estate and coronetts, or rather
circuletts for the Viscounts. They passed from thence
over the Tarras [Terrace] into the Privie Gallery, the
Heralds, Kings of Armes, Garter carying the Patent,
the Lord Compton in his Parliament roabes, carying the
Mantle, the Lord Wentworth the Capp of estate and
Circulet, the Lord Chancellour Lord Ellesmere in his
surcote and hood with his sword by his syde in a
usuall hatt, assisted by the Earle of Montgomery and
Viscount Villers, with their cappes of estat on. At
the Gallory-dore, the Lord Chamberlaine mett them, and
placing himself after the Kings of Armes, presented
them to the King, who satt there with the Queen and
the Prince. Garter presented the Patent to the Lord
Chamberlaine, he to the King; the King delivered the
same to Sir Ralph Winwood the Secretary, who [read the
same]; at the words _fecimus et creavimus_ the Roabes
were delivered to the King, who delivered the same to
the Assistants, who invested him therwith, and the
like with the Capp of estate and the Circulett
theruppon, and then the Earles Assistants putt on
their cappes of estate. When the Patent was fully
read, and he thus created Viscount Brackley, the
trumpetts and drummes standing without sounded.
“Then was brought in the Lord Knolles, the Lord Carew
carying the Mantle, the Lord Davers the Capp of
Estate, assisted by the Earle of Suffolk Lord
Treasurer and Viscount Lisle, and in like manner
created Viscount Wallingford.
“Afterward Sir Philipp Stanhop was brought in his
surcote of scarlett, the Lord Denny carying his Roabe,
the Lord Compton and the Lord Norris assisting him,
and was created Lord Stanhop of Shelford. Then they
retourned that way they came to the Counsell-chamber,
first, Viscount Brackley, then Viscount Wallingford
and the Lord Stanhop, in such order as they went, the
trumpetts and drummes sounding.”
# 330:
_wherein Art_, &c.] Alluding to the pageants of
Munday: see note, p. 219.
# 331:
_beholding_] See note, p. 36.
# 332:
_coronel_] Frequently used for (and the Spanish of)
colonel.
# 333:
_appear_] Old ed. “appeares.”
# 334:
_Allhollontide_] A corruption of All-hallows-tide.
# 335:
_states_] See note, p. 177.
# 336:
_Artillery-garden_] See note, vol. iv. p. 424.
# 337:
_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.
# 338:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 339:
_luzerns_] Generally said to be Russian animals valued
for their fur; but, I apprehend, Middleton used the
word in the sense of lynxes. “A Luzarne. _Loup
cervier_,” says Cotgrave, who explains the French
term, “a kind of white Wolfe,” or “the spotted Linx,
or Ounce, or a kind therof.” See, too, Minsheu in vv.
_Luzarne_ and _Furre_.
# 340:
_bitter_, _estridge_] i. e. bittern, ostrich.
# 341:
_Crismas_] Or _Christmas_.—“At the end of this
[pageant,—Heywood’s _Londini Artium et Scientiarum
Scaturigo_, &c. 1632] is a panegyric on Maister Gerard
Christmas, for bringing the pageants and figures to
such great perfection both in symmetry and substance,
being before but unshapen monsters, made only of
slight wicker and paper. This man designed Aldersgate,
and carved the equestrian statue of James I. there,
and the old piece of Northumberland house.” _Biog.
Dram._, vol. iii. p. 118.
# 342:
_Hight_] i. e. called.
# 343:
_feel_] Old ed. “feels.”
# 344:
_word_] i. e. motto.
# 345:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 346:
_To raise_, &c.] “The rhymster[!] here seems to allude
to a repair the New Standard had undergone, and
perhaps also to the repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral.”
NICHOLS. Compare vol. iv. p. 421.
# 347:
_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.
# 348:
_property_] i.e. article for the pageant—a theatrical
term: see note, vol. ii. p. 308.
# 349:
_pegmes_] i. e. machines, erections: see Facciolati,
Lex. in v. _pegma_.
# 350:
_rise_] i. e. rose.
# 351:
_prince of prophets_] “David.” Marg. note in old ed.
# 352:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 353:
_approves_] i. e. proves.
# 354:
_state_] See note, p. 182.
# 355:
_tralucent_] i. e. translucent.
# 356:
_enginous_] i. e. inventive: see Gifford’s note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 281.
# 357:
_which_] Old ed. “with.”
# 358:
_afford_] Old ed. “affords.”
# 359:
_strike_] Old ed. “strikes.”
# 360:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.—An allusion to the return of
Charles from Spain.
# 361:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 362:
_bring_] Old ed. “brings.”
# 363:
_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.
# 364:
_showers_] Old ed. “flowers.”
# 365:
_unvalued_] i. e. invaluable. Old ed. “vnvaleed.”
# 366:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 367:
_Death’s pageants_, &c.] King James having died in
1625.
# 368:
_agen_] See note p. 192.
# 369:
_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.
# 370:
_sit_] Old ed. “sits.”
# 371:
_meritorious_] i. e. merited.
# 372:
_murmuring_] Old ed. “murmurings.”
# 373:
_sith_] i.e. since.
# 374:
_need_] Old ed. “needs.”
# 375:
_grow_] Old ed. “growes.”
# 376:
_fond_] i. e. silly, idle.
# 377:
_Vild_] See note, p. 139.
# 378:
_An_] Old ed. “And.”
# 379:
_Give_] Old ed. “Giues.”
# 380:
_gain_] Old ed. “gaines.”
# 381:
_live_] Old ed. “liues.”
# 382:
_do_] Old ed. “doth.”
# 383:
_sith_] i. e. since.
# 384:
_see ... hear_] Old ed. “sees ... heares.”
# 385:
_differ_] Old ed. “differeth.”
# 386:
_core_] Old ed. “crue.”
# 387:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 388:
_Begin_] Old ed. “Begins.”
# 389:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 390:
_sith_] i. e. since.
# 391:
_do_] Old ed. “doth.”
# 392:
_tune_] Old ed. “tunes.”
# 393:
_plot_] i. e. scheme, form,—pattern.
# 394:
_Sith_] i. e. Since.
# 395:
_Where_] i. e. Whether.
# 396:
_covet_] Old ed. “covets.”
# 397:
_flow_] Old ed. “flowes.”
# 398:
_Three_] Old ed. “Their.”
# 399:
_corrupt_] Old ed. “corrupts.”
# 400:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 401:
_spring_] Old ed. “springs.”
# 402:
_live_] Old ed. “liues.”
# 403:
_rife_] i. e. common, prevalent.
# 404:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 405:
_fair_] i. e. fairness, beauty. The word was formerly
in common use as a substantive.
# 406:
_think_] Old ed. “thinkes.”
# 407:
_have_] Old ed. “hath.”
# 408:
_bring_] Old ed. “brings.”
# 409:
_say_] Old ed. “sayes.”
# 410:
_die_] Old ed. “dies.”
# 411:
_see_] Old ed. “sees.”
# 412:
_ne’er the near_] i. e. never the nearer.
# 413:
_stand_] Old ed. “stands.”
# 414:
_come_] Old ed. “comes.”
# 415:
_risse_] i. e. risen.
# 416:
_Plough_] Old ed. “Plowes.”
# 417:
_jesses_] i. e. the short leather straps round the
hawk’s legs, having little rings to which the
falconer’s leash was fastened.
# 418:
_shew_] Old ed. “shewes.”
# 419:
_bound_] Old ed. “bounds.”
# 420:
_wave_] Old ed. “waves.”
# 421:
_again_] i. e. against.
# 422:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 423:
_steven_] i. e. voice, sound.
# 424:
_chambers_] i. e. ordnance: compare p. 190.
# 425:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 426:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 427:
_scorn_] Old ed. “skorns.”
# 428:
_flow ... ebb_] Old ed. “flowes” ... “ebbes.”
# 429:
_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetch’d.
# 430:
_bonner_] So written for the rhyme.
# 431:
_shadow_] Old ed. “shadowes.”
# 432:
_soul_] Old ed. “soules.”
# 433:
_swaddled_] To be pronounced as a trisyllable.
# 434:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 435:
_Are_] Old ed. “Is.”
# 436:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 437:
_Disgesting_] i. e. Digesting—a form common in our old
writers.
# 438:
_sith_] i. e. since.
# 439:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 440:
_steven_] See note, p. 371.
# 441:
_table-book_] i. e. memorandum-book.
# 442:
_seely_] i. e. silly, simple—harmless.
# 443:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 444:
_alline_] i. e. ally.
# 445:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 446:
_cognizance_] i. e. badge.
# 447:
_hope_] Old ed. “hopes.”
# 448:
_clifts_] i. e. cliffs.
# 449:
_prompt_] Old ed. “prompts.”
# 450:
_wrath-_] Old ed. “wraths-.”
# 451:
_nigrum_] This word, the meaning of which is obvious,
occurs in the “Defiance to Envy” prefixed to the next
poem in this vol.;
“My _nigrum_ true-born ink,” &c.
# 452:
_burst_] i. e. broken.
# 453:
_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetched.
# 454:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 455:
_think_] Old ed. “thinkes.”
# 456:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 457:
_rife_] See note, p. 358: but in what sense it is used
here, I cannot pretend to determine.
# 458:
_Eschip_] A familiar corruption of _East-cheap_,
where, as Stow says, was a “flesh-market of butchers.”
# 459:
_seely_] See note, p. 392.
# 460:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 461:
_moul_] i. e. mould.
# 462:
_fire-durst_] Qy. “fire-dust”?
# 463:
_bin_] i. e. been.
# 464:
_team_] Old ed. “teene”—a word of common occurrence in
our earliest poetry, but doubtless a misprint here:
compare p. 369, l. 4, and p. 430, l. 19; and be it
observed, that in the passage last referred to the old
ed. has “teeme.”
# 465:
_rife_] See note, p. 358.
# 466:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 467:
_plough_] Old ed. “plows.”
# 468:
_wrench’d_] i. e. perhaps, rinsed.
# 469:
_seely_] See note, p. 392.
# 470:
_It is a world to see_] Equivalent to—It is a wonder
to see.
# 471:
_fond_] See note, p. 343.
# 472:
_vild_] See note, p. 139.
# 473:
_breath_] i. e. breadth—for the rhyme.
# 474:
_world, hope_] Qy. “world’s hope”?
# 475:
_Cut ... vail_] Old ed. “Cuts ... vails:” (_vail_, i.
e. lower, make to fall.)
# 476:
_fair_] See note, p. 360.
# 477:
_Alastor’s_] In chapter xvii. of this interminable
poem, we find
“Troubled with visions from _Alastor’s_ park;”
and
“A night more ugly than _Alastor’s_ pack,
Mounting all nights upon his night-made back.” P. 457.
_Alastor_ meant frequently an evil genius, an avenging
fury; it is also the name of one of Pluto’s horses
(see Claudian, _De Rap. Pros._ i. 284): our author
seems to have confounded these two significations.
# 478:
_alline_] i. e. ally.
# 479:
_spill’d_] i. e. destroyed.
# 480:
_sort_] i. e. set, band.
# 481:
_spill’d_] i. e. destroyed.
# 482:
_Make_] Old ed. “Makes.”
# 483:
_hear ... read_] Old ed. “heares ... reades:” and in
the next line but one, “speeds.”
# 484:
_take_] Old ed. “takes.”
# 485:
_wood_] A wretched play on words—furious, mad.
# 486:
_bud_] Old ed. “buds.”
# 487:
_incolants_] i. e. inhabitants.
# 488:
_want_] Old ed. “wants.”
# 489:
_know_] Old ed. “knowes.”
# 490:
_rife_] See note, p. 358.
# 491:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 492:
_fair_] See note, p. 360.
# 493:
_allines_] i. e. allies.
# 494:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 495:
_Alastor’s_] See note, p. 432.
# 496:
_risse_] i. e. risen.
# 497:
_cought_] So written for the rhyme.
# 498:
_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.
# 499:
_connizance_] Or _cognizance_, i. e. badge.
# 500:
_bind_] Old ed. “binds.”
# 501:
_rowl_] i. e. roll.
# 502:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 503:
_sancited_] i. e. ordained, ratified.
# 504:
_Vail’d_] i. e. lowered.
# 505:
_steven_] See note, p. 371.
# 506:
_Have_] Old ed. “Hath.”
# 507:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 508:
_know_] Old ed. “knowes.”
# 509:
_do_] Old ed. “doth.”
# 510:
_spill_] i. e. destroy.
# 511:
_thaw_] Old ed. “thaws.”
# 512:
_seely_] See note, p. 392.
# 513:
_her_] Is frequently used for _their_ by our early
writers; but most probably in the present passage the
author changed the number through carelessness.
# 514:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 515:
_melt_] Old ed. “melts.”
# 516:
_His defiance_, &c.] In imitation of Hall, who had
ushered in his Satires with _A Defiance to Envy_.
# 517:
_smazky_] i. e., perhaps, smitchy or smeechy (reechy,
black.)
# 518:
_satire-days_] “Does he intend to pun upon the last
day of the week—_Saturday_? It may be a misprint for
_Satyr-dogs_, in allusion to his title, ‘Sixe
_Snarling_ Satyres.’” Collier’s _Poet. Decam._ vol. i.
p. 286.
# 519:
_nigrum_] Old ed. “Negrum:” compare p. 411.
# 520:
_hast_] Frequently thus written for the sake of the
rhyme—even long after the date of the present poem (as
by Butler in _Hudibras_, &c.).
# 521:
_beforne_] i. e. before.
# 522:
_Cur eget_, &c.] Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 103.
# 523:
_push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.
# 524:
_Burse_] i. e. the Royal Exchange,—for the New
Exchange in the Strand (which our early writers
generally mean when they mention “_the Burse_”) was
not yet built.
# 525:
_mere compact_] i. e. wholly composed.
# 526:
_I, mortal_] Qy. “immortal”?
# 527:
_compt_] Qy. “complaint”?
# 528:
_bankerouts_] i. e. bankrupts.
# 529:
_Burse_] See note, p. 485.
# 530:
_goodly_] Qy. “godly”?
# 531:
_he_] Old ed. “ye.”
# 532:
_he_] Old ed. “she.”
# 533:
_Vail_] i. e. lower.
# 534:
_Troynovant_] i. e. London (founded, according to the
fabulous account, by the Trojan Brutus).
# 535:
_bravery_] i. e. finery of apparel, &c.
# 536:
_salts_] i. e. salt-cellars.
# 537:
_manchets_] i. e. small loaves or rolls of fine white
bread.
# 538:
_cupboard_] See note, vol. ii. p. 91.
# 539:
_fair_] See note, p. 360.
# 540:
_quotes_] i. e. notes.
# 541:
_Burse-gate_] See note, p. 485.
# 542:
_match_] i. e. pattern.
# 543:
_princocks_] Or _princox_,—i. e. pert, conceited
person: but perhaps the author uses the word here as
the plural of _princock_.
# 544:
_jets_] i. e. struts.
# 545:
_Paul’s_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.
# 546:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 547:
_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetched.
# 548:
_cony_] i. e. dupe: see note, vol. i. p. 290.
# 549:
_chates_] i. e. chats, talks.
# 550:
_brave_] i. e. fine, smart.
# 551:
_tester_] i. e. sixpence: see note, vol. i. p. 258.
# 552:
_And_] i. e. if.
# 553:
_the other_] Old ed. “_the_ tother.”
# 554:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 555:
_whist_] i. e. still.
# 556:
_Ingling_] See note, vol. i. p. 301.
# 557:
_mantian_] So written for the rhyme.
# 558:
_jets_] i. e. struts.
# 559:
_Troynovant_] See note, p. 489.
# 560:
_counterfeits_] i. e. portraits, likenesses.
# 561:
_juggling_] Qy. “ingling”? (Old ed. “jugling.”)
# 562:
_counterfeits_] See note, p. 498.
# 563:
_Innocent_] i. e. fool, idiot.
# 564:
_Way_] To this word (which is doubtless the right
reading), the “Why” of old ed. has been altered with a
pen in the Bodleian copy.
# 565:
_fond_] See note, p. 343.
# 566:
_scopious_] i. e. spacious, ample.
# 567:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 568:
_the first book_] No second Book is known to have
appeared.
# 569:
_must have_] The first word is deleted, and the second
altered with a pen to “had,” in the Bodleian copy of
this poem,—a probable correction.
# 570:
_Qui color_, &c.] Ovid, _Metam._ ii. 541.
# 571:
_On the death_, &c.] These lines (the meaning of
which is sufficiently obscure) were first printed
in Collier’s _New Facts regarding the Life of
Shakespeare_, p. 26, from a MS. miscellany of poetry
belonging to the late Mr. Heber. The celebrated actor,
Burbage (who also handled the pencil, and is supposed
to have painted the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare),
died in March 1618-19.
# 572:
_In the just worth_, &c.] Prefixed to Webster’s
_Duchess of Malfi_, 1623.
# 573:
_luxury_] i. e. lust, lewdness.
# 574:
_Woolners_] Our old writers occasionally mention a
person named Woolner, or Wolner, as a notorious
gormandiser: Dekker calls him “that cannon of
gluttony,” _The Owles Almanacke_, 1618, p. 53; and in
_The Life of Long Meg of Westminster_, 1635, the
seventh chapter relates “how she used Woolner the
singing man of Windsor, that was the great eater, and
how she made him pay for his breakefast.”
# 575:
_bulks_] i. e. bodies.
# 576:
_luxurious_] i.e. lustful.
# 577:
_throw_] Old ed. “sowe.”
# 578:
_the Hole_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.
# 579:
_the Mid-walk_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.
# 580:
_the Supplication_, &c.] i. e. _Pierce Pennilesse
his Supplication to the Diuell_, one of the most
celebrated and popular productions of that
admirable prose-satirist, Thomas Nash. It first
appeared in 1592, during which year (see Collier’s
_Bridgewater-House Catalogue_, p. 209) it reached
a third edition.
# 581:
_Gave me my titles freely_] “To the high and mightie
Prince of darknesse, Donsell dell Lucifer, King of
Acheron, Stix and Phlegeton, Duke of Tartary,
Marquesse of Cocytus, and Lord high Regent of Lymbo,”
&c. _Pierce Pennilesse_, &c., sig. B 2. ed. 1595.
# 582:
_Knight of the Post_]—Or, as the term is afterwards
varied in the present piece, “Knight of Perjury”—means
a hireling evidence, &c.: see note, vol. i. p. 308.
Nash makes Pierce commit his Supplication to the care
of a knight of the post, who describes himself to be
“a fellow that wil sweare you any thing for twelue
pence, but indeed I am a spirit in nature and essence,
that take vpon me this humane shape, onely to set men
together by the eares, and send soules by millions to
hell.” _Pierce Pennilesse_, &c., sig. B. ed. 1595.
In “A priuate Epistle to the Printer,” originally
prefixed to the second ed. of the tract just quoted,
the author tells him that “if my leysure were such as
I could wish, I might haps (halfe a yeare hence) write
the returne of the Knight of the Post from hell, with
the Diuels answere to the Supplication.” Sig. A 2. ed.
1595. What Nash wanted time or inclination to do, was
attempted by others after his decease: a writer, who
professes to have been his “intimate and near
companion,” put forth _The Returne of the Knight of
the Post from Hell_, 1606; and Dekker published a
pamphlet, of the same date, called _Newes from Hell,
Brought by the Diuells Carrier_, the running title of
which is _The Diuels Answere to Pierce Pennylesse_.
# 583:
_Pict-hatch_] Was a notorious haunt of prostitutes and
the worst characters of both sexes,—“the very skirts
of all brothel-houses,” as it is presently termed by
our author. It is said to have been in Turnmill,
commonly called Turnbull, Street, near Clerkenwell.
# 584:
_bill-men_] i. e. watchmen,—who carried _bills_ (a
kind of pikes with hooked points), which in more
ancient times were the weapons of the English
foot-soldiers.
# 585:
_risse_] i. e. rose.
# 586:
_fat-sagg chin_] i. e. chin that sagged (hung down)
with fat. Compare our author’s _Chaste Maid in
Cheapside_;
“The bawds will be so fat with what they earn,
Their chins will hang like udders by Easter-eve.”
Vol. iv. p. 32.
When it is recollected that _The Black Book_ and
_Father Hubburd’s Tales_ were published without the
writer’s name, having merely the initials T. M.
subscribed to a prefatory address, my object in citing
parallel passages from Middleton’s dramas will be
sufficiently apparent.
# 587:
_Limbo_] i. e. hell,—properly, the borders of hell.
Compare quotation from Nash, note, p. 512.
# 588:
_busk-points_] i. e. the tagged laces by which the
busks (pieces of wood or whalebone worn down the front
of the stays) were fastened.
# 589:
_cruel garters_] We have the same pun in Shakespeare’s
_King Lear_, act ii. sc. 4, in Ben Jonson’s
_Alchemist_, act i. sc. 1, and elsewhere. _Crewel_
means a finer kind of yarn.
# 590:
_Derrick’s necklaces_] i. e. the hangman’s ropes:
Derrick, who is often mentioned by our old writers,
was the common hangman.
# 591:
_Doctor Faustus_] The well-known drama by Marlowe.
# 592:
_muchatoes_] i. e. mustachios. So S. Rowley;
“Had my Barbour
Perfum’d my louzy thatch here, and poak’d out
My Tuskes more stiffe than are a Cats _muschatoes_,
These pide-wing’d Butterflyes had knowne me then.”
_The Noble Spanish Soldier_, 1634, sig. C.
The lines just quoted seem to shew, that, when Ursula
says to Knockem, “never tusk nor twirl your _dibble_”
(B. Jonson’s _Bartholomew Fair_—_Works_, vol. iv. p.
414), she means _mustachio_, and not (as Gifford
conjectured) _beard_. Mustachios, by being starched or
gummed, were made to project from the corners of the
mouth.
# 593:
_vaulting-house_] i. e. brothel.
# 594:
_Cole-harbour_] i. e. sanctuary: see note, vol. ii. p.
58.
# 595:
_glory-fat Audrey_] “Heres fine Backon Sister its
_glore Fat_.” _Yorkshire Dialogue_, p. 44 (appended to
_The Praise of Yorkshire Ale_, 1697), the _Clavis_ to
which has “_Glore fat_ is very fat.”—The compiler of
the Fourth Part of _Bibliotheca Heberiana_, in some
remarks on _The Black Book_, says (p. 181), with
reference to the present passage, that “nobody has
noticed the allusion to Shakespeare’s _As you like
it_, and the marriage of Touchstone and Audrey”!!!
# 596:
_bill-men_] See note, p. 513.
# 597:
_house_] Qy. “hose”?
# 598:
_take our ease in our inn_] See note, p. 195.
# 599:
_Naud_] A contraction of Audrey.
# 600:
_conveyances_] i. e. dishonest tricks, juggling
artifices.
# 601:
_bandileer_] i. e. broad leathern belt, worn by a
musqueteer over the left shoulder, to which were
appended small powder-boxes, &c.
# 602:
_Pict-hatch_] See note, p. 512.
# 603:
_Limbo_] See note, p. 514.
# 604:
_plaguy summer_] i. e. summer during which the plague
prevailed.
# 605:
_days of Monsieur_] See note, vol. ii. p. 389.
# 606:
_conceit_] See note, p. 42.
# 607:
_former_] “But force against force, skill against
skill, so enterchangeably encountered, that it was not
easy to determine, whether enterprising or preventing
came _former_.” Sir P. Sidney’s _Arcadia_, lib. iii.
p. 292. ed. 1633.
# 608:
_conclusions_] i. e. experiments.
# 609:
_suckets of luxury_] i. e. sweetmeats of lust.
# 610:
_the merciless antimony of the Common Law_] So (see
note, p. 514), in our author’s _World tost at Tennis_,
the Lawyer says of his pills,
“I grant there’s bitter egrimony in ’em
And antimony.”
P. 196 of this vol.
# 611:
_Grantham steeple_] “A little fall will make a salt
[salt-cellar] looke like Grantham Steeple with his cap
to the Ale-house.” Dekker’s _Owles Almanacke_, 1618,
p. 39.
# 612:
_ingle_] See note, vol. i. p. 301.
# 613:
_lin_] i. e. cease.
# 614:
_hose_] i. e. pair of breeches.
# 615:
_infer_] i. e. bring in.
# 616:
_Tartary_] i. e. Tartarus, hell. Compare quotation
from Nash, note, p. 512.
# 617:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 618:
_wings_] “Lateral prominencies extending from each
shoulder.” Whalley’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol.
ii. p. 103, ed. Giff.
# 619:
_shark-gull_] i. e. one who preys on simpletons.
# 620:
_leiger_] i. e. resident: see note, vol. ii. p. 316.
# 621:
_door-keeper_] i. e. bawd.
# 622:
_aqua-vitæ_] See note, vol. iii. p. 239.
# 623:
_slops_] i. e. breeches.]
# 624:
_loose-bodied_] See note, vol. i. p. 431.
# 625:
_bill-men_] See note, p. 513.
# 626:
_risse_] i. e. rose.
# 627:
_tiring-house_] i. e. dressing-room,—in theatrical
language.
# 628:
_descried_] i. e. discovered.
# 629:
_painted cloth_] See note, vol. iii. p. 97.
# 630:
_tottered_] i. e. tattered.
# 631:
_as if they had been conning of Tamburlaine_] From
this passage Malone conjectured that the play
of Tamburlaine, generally ascribed to Marlowe,
was written either wholly or in part by Nash,—
_Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), vol. iii. p. 357: but Mr.
J. P. Collier has most satisfactorily shewn that it
was the work of the former; see _Hist. of Engl. Dram.
Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 113, sqq.—The present tract, and
the one which follows it (_Father Hubburd’s Tales_),
both published in 1604, prove that Nash died during
that year: he is here described (I fear too truly) as
living in a state of squalid poverty; in the next
piece he is spoken of as deceased.
# 632:
_hose_] i. e. breeches.
# 633:
_Saint Pulcher’s_] A corruption of _Saint
Sepulchre’s_.
# 634:
_wool-ward_] i. e. in wool,—without linen (a word
generally applied to persons who went so clothed for
penance or humiliation: see notes of the commentators
on Shakespeare’s _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, act. v. sc.
2, and Nares’s _Gloss_, in v.)
# 635:
_Pict-hatch_] See note, p. 512.
# 636:
_the walk in Paul’s_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.
# 637:
_Tartary_] See note, p. 524.
# 638:
_particular_] Old ed. “particulars.”
# 639:
_wapper-eyed_] “Wapper-eyed, sore-eyed.” Grose’s
_Class. Dict. of Vulg. Tongue_.—“_Wapper-eyed_,
goggle-eyed, having full rolling eyes; or looking like
one scared; or squinting like a person overtaken with
liquor.” Vocab. to _An Exmoor Scolding_, ed. 1839.
# 640:
_the Mayor’s bench at Oxford_] There was a public seat
at Oxford “adjoining to the east end of Carfax Church”
(Warton’s _Companion to the Guide_, p. 15, sec. ed.),
which bore the name of Pennyless-Bench.
# 641:
_noise_] i. e. band, company—properly, of musicians:
see note, vol. ii. p. 498.
# 642:
_hose_] i. e. breeches.
# 643:
_bill-men_] See note, p. 513.
# 644:
_the Burse_] Means here the Royal Exchange: see note,
p. 485.
# 645:
_villains_] Old ed. “Villainies.”
# 646:
_luxurs_] i. e. lechers.
# 647:
_banqrout_] i. e. bankrupt.
# 648:
_penny-father_] “_A pennie-father_, Vn homme riche et
chiche.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._
“Ranck _peny-fathers_ scud (with their halfe hammes
Shadowing their calues) to saue their siluer dammes,
At euery gun they start, tilt from the ground,
One drum can make a thousand _Vsurers_ sownd [_i.e._
swoon].”
Dekker’s _Wonderfull Yeare_, 1603, sig. B 3.
# 649:
_rounded_] i. e. whispered.
# 650:
_points_] i. e. tagged laces.
# 651:
_slops_] i. e. breeches.
# 652:
_Irish lacqueys_] See note, vol. iii. p. 131.
# 653:
_eighteenpence ordinaries_] See note, vol. i. p. 389.
# 654:
_good-fellows_] A cant term for thieves.
# 655:
_golls_] A cant term for hands,—fists, paws.
# 656:
_she that was called in_] See note on the address “To
the Reader” prefixed to the following piece.
# 657:
_risse_] i. e. rose.
# 658:
_departed_] i. e. parted.
# 659:
_walked in Paul’s_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.
# 660:
_the horse_, &c.] To the wonderful horse, called
Morocco, are many allusions in our old writers; nor is
this the only mention of his having gone up to the top
of St. Paul’s church,—a feat which, according to
Dekker, took place in 1600: “Since the dancing horse
stood on the top of Powles, whilst a number of Asses
stood braying below,—17 [years].” _A memorial &c.
untill this yeare, 1617_—_The Owles Almanacke_, 1618,
p. 7.—Both the horse and his master, whose name was
Banks, are said to have been burned at Rome as
magicians. See more on this subject in the notes of
the commentators on Shakespeare’s _Love’s Labour’s
Lost_, act i. sc. 2, and in Douce’s _Illust. of
Shakespeare_, vol. i. p. 212.
# 661:
_proper_] i. e. handsome.
# 662:
_polt-foot_] i. e. club-foot.
# 663:
_tiring-house_] See note, p. 526.
# 664:
_Tartary_] See note, p. 524.
# 665:
_cullion_] i. e. scoundrel, abject wretch.
# 666:
_Limbo_] See note, p. 514.
# 667:
_Tunbold-street_] Or _Turnbull-street_: see note, p.
512.
# 668:
_mazzard_] i. e. head.
# 669:
_Pict-hatch_] See note, p. 512.
# 670:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 671:
_or that she goes to a woman’s labour_] Compare (see
note, p. 514) our author’s _Trick to catch the Old
One_;
“Feigning excuse to woman’s labours,
When we are sent for to th’ next neighbour’s.”
Vol. ii. p. 97.
# 672:
_The Merry Devil of Edmonton_] This comedy, which was,
and deserved to be, extremely popular, may be found in
Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, vol. v. last ed. Mr. J. P.
Collier (_Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet._) ascribes it
unhesitatingly to Drayton, probably on some authority
(besides that of Oldys) which I do not recollect.
The following passage of _The Merry Devil of Edmonton_
has puzzled the editors (who, by the by, choose to
print it as verse): “How now, my old _Jenerts bank, my
horse_, my castle; lie in Waltham all night, and not
under the canopy of your host Blague’s house?”
Steevens (Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, vol. v. p. 267,
last ed.) says, “I once suspected this passage of
corruption, but have found reason to change my
opinion. The merry Host seems willing to assemble
ideas expressive of _trust_ and _confidence_. The old
quartos begin the word _jenert_ with a capital letter;
and, therefore, we may suppose ‘_Jenert’s bank_’ to
have been the shop of some banker, in whose possession
money could be deposited with security. The Irish
still say—as sure as _Burton’s Bank_; and our
countrymen—as safe as the _Bank of England_. We might
read ‘my _house_’ instead of ‘my _horse_,’ as the
former agrees better with ‘castle.’ The services of a
_horse_ are of all things the most uncertain.” Nares
(_Gloss._ in v. _Jenert’s Bank_) observes, “It has
been conjectured that there was a bank called
_Jenert’s_, so famous as to be proverbial for
security; but it remains to be shewn that any
country-bank existed in the seventeenth century, much
more that they were so common as for one to be famous
above the rest.... Can it be a misprint for ‘_Ermen’s_
bank,’ or the old Roman road passing through Edmonton,
which might have been written ‘Irmint’s?’”—I believe
we ought to read; “How now, my old _jennets_ [i. e.
cavaliers, for so the word is sometimes used], _bauk_
[i. e. balk] my _house_, my castle! lie in Waltham,”
&c.
# 673:
_A Woman killed with Kindness_] The masterpiece of
Heywood; reprinted in Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, vol. vii.
last ed.
# 674:
_luxurious_] i. e. lustful.
# 675:
_Combe Park_] See note, vol. ii. p. 264.
# 676:
_Derrick_] See note, p. 515.
# 677:
_red lattice_] i. e. lattice painted red; the usual
distinction of an ale-house: (it was sometimes of
other colours).
# 678:
_Charnico_] See note, vol. iii. p. 213.
# 679:
_Peter Bail_] In using the name “Peter” the author
seems to have attempted a sort of jest, perhaps
alluding to the celebrated penman, Peter Bales, who is
mentioned in the next piece.
# 680:
_counter_] A play on the meanings of the word,—a false
piece of money used for reckoning, and a prison.
# 681:
_noble_] See note, p. 267.
# 682:
_likes_] i. e. pleases.
# 683:
_old Rowse_] Perhaps some Cornish wrestler.
# 684:
_conveyance_] See note, p. 517.
# 685:
_black dogs of Newgate_] A tract, partly verse and
partly prose, called _The Blacke Dogge of Newgate:
both pithie and profitable for all Readers. London._
4to. n. d. (reprinted with some additions and
alterations in 1638), was written, or at least
professes to be written, by Luke Hutton, who, for
robberies and trespasses, was hanged at York in 1598.
Under the title of _The Black Dog of Newgate_, it was
the author’s design to “shadow the knauerie, villanie,
robberie, and Cunnicatching, committed daily by
diuers, who in the name of seruice and office, were as
it were, attendants at Newgate.” Sig. D 2. “They will
vndertake if a man be robd by the way, they will helpe
the party offended to his money againe, or to the
theeues at the least. Likewise, if a Purse be cut, a
House broken, a peece of Plate stole, they will
promise the like: mary, to further this good peece of
seruice, they must haue a Warrant procured from some
Justice at the least, that by the sayd general
Warrant, they may take vp all suspected persons: which
being obteined, then marke how notably therewith
they play the knaues, how shamefully they abuse
the Justices who graunted the Warrant, and how
notoriouslie they abuse a great sort of poore men, who
neither the Warrant mentioneth, nor the partye
agreeued in any wise thought to molest or trouble.”
Sig. D 3. He then proceeds to give several instances
of their various knaveries.
# 686:
_ballat-places_] i. e., I suppose, places where
ballads are sung.
# 687:
_cross-lays_] i. e. cheating wagers.
# 688:
_mistress_] Compare p. 66, and note.
# 689:
_ketlers_] Compare _Father Hubburd’s Tales_, which
follows the present tract; “like an old cunning bowler
to fetch in a young _ketling_ gamester:” but I do not
understand this cant term, nor the words “couch” and
“couches” which presently occur above.
# 690:
_upon stages_] Tobacco was often taken by the gallants
who (as already mentioned, note, vol. ii. p. 412) used
to sit on hired stools upon the stage, during the
performance.
# 691:
_counterblasts_] An allusion to the celebrated work of
King James, _A Counterblast to Tobacco_.
# 692:
_tobacco-Nashes_] See p. 561, line 5.
# 693:
_his_] Qy. “thy”?—A friend suggests that “his own” may
be a reverential mode of expressing “God’s.”
# 694:
_thee_] Old ed. “thy.”
# 695:
_a pitiful battler_] “Though in the meanest condition
of those that were wholly maintained [in the
University of Oxford] by their parents, a _battler_ or
semi-commoner,” &c. _Life of Bp. Kennett_, p. 4—cited
by Todd (Johnson’s _Dict._) in v.
# 696:
_cue_] i. e. small portion. “Cue, halfe a farthing, so
called because they set down in the Battling or
Butterie Books in Oxford and Cambridge the letter q.
for halfe a farthing,” &c.: see Minsheu’s _Guide into
Tongues_, in v.
# 697:
_gaudy-days_] i. e. festivals.
# 698:
_vaulting-houses_] i. e. brothels.
# 699:
_Mihell_] Qy. “Michael”?
# 700:
_risse_] i. e. rose.
# 701:
_censure_] i. e. judgment, opinion.
# 702:
_gamashoes_] Are variously explained—short
spatterdashes, and coarse cloth stockings that button
over other stockings.
# 703:
_have_] Eds. “hath.”
# 704:
_Poultry_] i. e. the Counter prison in the Poultry.
# 705:
_John of Paul’s Churchyard_] Was, it appears from this
passage, a haberdasher: he is again mentioned in the
present tract. That he sold hats, we are informed by
more than one old writer: so Dekker; “John in Paul’s
churchyard shall fit his head for an excellent block
[_i. e._ hat].” _The Gull’s Hornbook_, 1609, p. 94,
reprint.
# 706:
_honest-minded_] First ed. “_honest_-stitching,”—
perhaps the better reading.
# 707:
_Bushel_] An allusion to Thomas Bushell, for whom the
first ed. of this tract was printed, see p. 549, and
title-page of _Micro-cynicon_, p. 481.
# 708:
_Tale of Mother Hubburd_, &c.] In the
_Bridgewater-House Catalogue_ this passage is quoted
by Mr. J. P. Collier, who observes, “If it do not shew
that Spenser’s ‘Mother Hubberd’s Tale’ was ‘called in
again,’ it proves that obstruction was offered by
public authorities to some subsequent production under
the same name,” p. 200.—Assuredly the allusion is not
to Spenser’s poem: in it the “ape” indeed figures
conspicuously, but there is no mention of “rugged
bears,” or “the lamentable downfal of the old wife’s
platters.”
# 709:
_entreat_] i. e. treat.
# 710:
_rugged_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “Ragged.”
# 711:
_the quarter-jacks in Paul’s, that are up with their
elbows_] Compare Dekker’s _Gull’s Hornbook_, 1609, “If
Paul’s jacks be once up with their elbows, and
quarrelling to strike eleven,” p. 96, reprint. The
figures which in old public clocks struck the bell on
the outside were called _Jacks of the clock_ or
_clockhouse_: many readers will recollect those which
a few years ago were to be seen at St. Dunstan’s
Church, Fleet-street.
# 712:
_Kit_] A friend queries if there be not here an
allusion to Kit Marlowe?
# 713:
_Sat sapienti; and I hope_, &c.] So our author (see
note, p. 514) in the Induction to _Michaelmas Term_;
“_Sat sapienti_: I hope there’s no fools i’ th’
house,” vol. i. p. 418.
# 714:
_Companies_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “Companie.”
# 715:
_hallow’d_] Eds. “hollowed.”
# 716:
_worm_] Equivalent to—wretch, poor creature.
# 717:
_judgment’s seat_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “Judgement
_seate_.”
# 718:
_I am_, &c.] Eds. “Trust me: _I am_,” &c.
# 719:
_rail_] Seems to mean here—some sort of ruff
# 720:
_byss_] i. e. fine linen.
# 721:
_They that forget a queen soothe with a king_] By “a
queen” is meant, I presume, Elizabeth; by “a king,”
James, who had recently ascended the throne: and see
the fourth stanza after this.
# 722:
_morning’s_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “morning.”
# 723:
_Sith_] i. e. Since.
# 724:
_sad_] i. e. grave, sober.
# 725:
_Euphuize, which once was rare_] i. e. use the
unnatural affected style, which was once accounted
excellent. It was rendered fashionable by the two
famous productions of Lyly, _Euphues, the Anatomy of
Wit_, and _Euphues and his England_.
# 726:
_Trigemini_] i. e. Gabriel Harvey and his two less
distinguished brothers, Richard and John. For various
particulars concerning this memorable “strife” (which
was terminated in 1599 by an order of the Archbishop
of Canterbury), see my Memoir of R. Greene, prefixed
to his _Dramatic Works_, D’Israeli’s _Calamities of
Authors_, vol. ii., Sir E. Brydges’s _Archaica_, vol.
ii., and Collier’s _Bridgewater-House Catalogue_.
# 727:
_improve_] i. e. prove.
# 728:
_humorous theft_] At p. 317 of a copy of Ritson’s
_Bibliographia Poetica_, Malone has appended the
following MS. note to the title of Samuel Rowlands’s
_Letting of humours blood in the head-vaine, &c._;
“Stolen from Nash’s papers after his death in 1600. So
says T. Middleton.”—What the “_humorous theft_” was, I
know not; but the expression certainly has not the
meaning which Malone chose to make it bear: Nash did
not die till 1604 (see note, p. 527), and _The Letting
of humours blood in the head-vaine, &c._ was first
printed in 1600.
# 729:
_three-quarter sharer_] See note, vol. ii. p. 406.
# 730:
_decimo sexto_] An expression frequently applied by
our old writers to diminutive personages: see
Massinger’s _Works_, vol. i. p. 176, ed. 1813, and B.
Jonson’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 232 (by Gifford).
# 731:
_were_] Eds. “was.”
# 732:
_fair-conditioned_] i. e. of good disposition.
# 733:
_marmoset_] i. e. ape.
# 734:
_New-fangle_] This word is printed in both eds. with a
capital letter: there seems to be some allusion, which
I am unable to explain.
# 735:
_beholding_] See note, p. 36.
# 736:
_approve_] i. e. prove.
# 737:
_the great rider of horse_] “But if like a restie Jade
thou wilt take the bitt in thy mouth, and then runne
over hedge and ditch, thou shalt be broken as Prosper
broke his horses, with a muzzoule,” &c. Lyly’s _Pappe
with an hatchet_, n. d. sig. D 4.
# 738:
_booted_] In allusion to the dress of the various
persons who rode up to London on law-business during
that term.
# 739:
_the_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 740:
_wings_] See note, p. 524.
# 741:
_were_] Eds. “was.”
# 742:
_hose_] i. e. breeches.
# 743:
_gascoynes_] i. e. galligaskins.
# 744:
_sir-reverence_] See note, vol. ii. p. 175.
# 745:
_hangers_] See note, vol. ii. p. 227.
# 746:
_bost_] i. e. embossed.
# 747:
_Derrick_] See note, p. 515.
# 748:
_king Philip’s_] i. e. Spanish.
# 749:
_gingle_] Caused by the large loose rowels, which are
presently mentioned: they were commonly of silver.
# 750:
_shape_] i. e. dress.
# 751:
_approached_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “approach.”
# 752:
_put to_] Eds. “_to put_.”
# 753:
_neck-verse_] See note, p. 126.
# 754:
_jigs_] i. e. ballads.
# 755:
_like a sow-gelder_] “Hark, how my merry horn doth
blow,” is part of Higgen’s song, when he enters “like
a sow-gelder:” see Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Beggars’
Bush_, act iii. sc. 1.
# 756:
_marmoset_] See note, p. 564.
# 757:
_gear_] i. e. matter, business.
# 758:
_Peter Bales_] A particular account of this person may
be found in Wood’s _Athenæ Oxon._ vol. i. p. 655, ed.
Bliss, and in Chalmers’s _Biog. Dict._ I need only
state that he was unrivalled, during his day, in
the various branches of the art of penmanship,
(occasionally producing specimens of extraordinary
minuteness); that in 1590, when he published his
_Writing Scholmaster_, he kept a school situated at
the upper end of the Old Bailey; and that he is
supposed to have died about 1610.
# 759:
_trunks_] i. e., I suppose, trunk-hose,—round swelling
breeches.
# 760:
_royal_] A gold piece current for fifteen shillings.
# 761:
_for_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 762:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 763:
_legs_] i. e. bows.
# 764:
_the Horn, the Mitre, or the Mermaid_] The first of
these has been already mentioned in this tract, see p.
565; the Mitre was in Bread-street, Cheapside; the
Mermaid in Cornhill: see notes, vol. ii. p. 240.
# 765:
_the Bankside_] In Southwark, where the Globe and
other theatres were situated.
# 766:
_breaking-up_] i. e. carving.
# 767:
_the Blackfriars_] The theatre so named, which stood
near the present Apothecaries’ Hall, and which was
occasionally occupied by the Children of the Revels
(_a nest of boys_): see Collier’s _Hist. of Engl.
Dram. Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 275.
# 768:
_hangers_] See note, vol. ii. p. 227.
# 769:
_they_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “the.”
# 770:
_squalls_] Equivalent here, it would seem, to—wenches:
vide note, vol. iii. p. 55. Taylor, the water-poet,
uses the word as a term of endearment;
“The rich Gull Gallant calls her Deare and Loue,
Ducke, Lambe, _Squall_, Sweet-heart, Cony, and his
Doue.”
_A Whore_, p. 112—_Workes_, 1630.
and Kempe as a term of reproach; “Swearing it did him
good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de
hoy, a chicken, a squib, a _squall_.” _Humble
Request_, &c., appended to his _Nine daies Wonder_,
1600.
# 771:
_still_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 772:
_luxurious_] i. e. lustful.
# 773:
_vaulting-houses_] i. e. brothels.
# 774:
_White-Friars’ nunnery_] Compare (see note, p. 514)
our author’s _Game at Chess_;
“Here’s from his daughter Blanch and daughter Bridget,
From their safe sanctuary in the White-Friars;
* * * * * * * *
These from the nunnery in Drury Lane.”
Vol. iv. p. 335.
# 775:
_whereas_] i. e. where.
# 776:
_noise_] See note, p. 529.
# 777:
_blue coats_] See note, p. 109.
# 778:
_cockatrice_] A cant term for a harlot.
# 779:
_three halfpenny ordinary_] See note, vol. i. p. 389.
# 780:
_boarded_] A play on words—accosted.
# 781:
_wassail-bowls ... shoeing the mare_] Compare _The
Inner Temple Masque_, p. 143 of this vol.
# 782:
_Sellenger’s round_] “i. e. St. Leger’s round ... was
an old country-dance, and was not quite out of
knowledge at the beginning of the present century,
there being persons now living who remember it.” Sir
J. Hawkins’s _Hist. of Music_, vol. iii. p. 288, where
the notes of it are given from a collection of
country-dances published by Playford in 1679.
# 783:
_like Thomas Nash_, &c.] See note, p. 561.
# 784:
_John of Paul’s_] See note, p. 553.
# 785:
_cogged_] The same pun occurs in Shakespeare’s _Love’s
Labour’s lost_, “Since you can cog, I’ll play no more
with you,” act v. sc. 2; where Johnson remarks, “To
_cog_ signifies to _falsify the dice_, and to _falsify
a narrative_ or _to lie_ [or _to cheat_].”
# 786:
_passage_] See note, vol. iv. p. 548.
# 787:
_hangers_] See note, vol. ii. p. 227.
# 788:
_down came fencing_] Qy. “_down came_ the host
_fencing_”? see what precedes and follows.
# 789:
_not_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 790:
_conies_] i. e. rabbits—dupes: see note, vol. i. p.
290.
# 791:
_i’faith_] First ed. “than _yfaith_.”
# 792:
_peeps_] i. e. eyes (spots): compare p. 531, l. 18-20.
# 793:
_grown as_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 794:
_Greene’s books_, &c.] See note, vol. i. p. 290.
# 795:
_where_] i. e. whereas.
# 796:
_vaulting-houses_] i. e. brothels.
# 797:
_Pict-hatch, and Turnboll-street_] See note, p. 512.
# 798:
_angels_] See note, p. 20. There seems to be an
allusion to fireworks running on lines: see vol. ii.
p. 531.
# 799:
_remorseful_] i. e. compassionate.
# 800:
_peeps_] See note, p. 581.
# 801:
_luxur_] i. e. lecher.
# 802:
_worms_] See note, p. 556.
# 803:
_All_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “And _all_.”
# 804:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 805:
_prickle-singing_] Compare p. 556, line 4.
# 806:
_prick-song_] See note, vol. iii. p. 626.
# 807:
_mazzard_] i. e. head.
# 808:
_other_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 809:
_the Curtain_] i. e. the theatre so called, in
Shoreditch.
# 810:
_garden tenements_] See note, vol. i. p. 162.
# 811:
_a_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 812:
_stall_] Shops being at that time open: see note, vol.
iii. p. 54.
# 813:
_purls_] i. e. borders, fringes.
# 814:
_gear_] i. e. stuff.
# 815:
_conster_] i. e. construe.
# 816:
_like_] i. e. please.
# 817:
_conveyances_] See note, p. 517.
# 818:
_Tamburlaines_] See note, p. 526.
# 819:
_Anon, anon, sir_] See note, vol. iv. p. 177.
# 820:
_ketling_] See note, p. 543.
# 821:
_action of one arm, like old Titus Andronicus_] See
the tragedy so called, which, though now printed among
the works of Shakespeare, was assuredly written by
some other dramatist,—probably, by Marlowe. In act
iii. sc. 1, Aaron cuts off the hand of Titus; and in
act v. sc. 2, the latter says,
“How can I grace my talk,
_Wanting a hand to give it action_?”
# 822:
_it_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 823:
_Pierce_] See note, p. 511.
# 824:
_the motion_, &c.] i. e. the puppet-show: that of
Nineveh, which was very celebrated, has been mentioned
before, vol. i. p. 229, and vol. iv. p. 166. In
_Euerie Woman in her Humour_, 1609, Getica observes,
that she had seen “the Cittie of new Niniuie and
Iulius Cæsar acted by the Mammets, [_i. e._ puppets],”
sig. H.; and Dekker somewhere calls the latter
exhibition a villanous motion.
# 825:
_entreated_] i. e. treated.
# 826:
_my_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 827:
_Cole-harbour_] See note, vol. ii. p. 58.
# 828:
_nonce_] i. e. occasion.
# 829:
_have_] Eds. “hath.”
# 830:
_unpleased_] i. e. unpaid.
# 831:
_marry-muff_] See notes, vol. i. p. 258, vol. iii. p.
36.
# 832:
_warm_] So first ed. Not in sec. ed.
# 833:
_virginal-jacks_] See note, vol. iii. p. 112.
# 834:
_the bear-baiting_] At Paris Garden, in Southwark.
# 835:
_passionate_] i. e. pathetic, sorrowful.
# 836:
_are_] Eds. “is.”
# 837:
_turns_] First ed. “fortunes.”
# 838:
_tweering_] Or _twiring_—equivalent here, it seems,
to—prying, peeping: on the word _twire_, see Gifford’s
note, B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. vi. p. 280, and
Richardson’s _Dict._ in v.
# 839:
_brown-bill-men_] See note, p. 513.
# 840:
_of_] Equivalent to _on_: see note, vol. iii. p. 556.
# 841:
_slipt_] So first ed. Sec. ed. seems to have “slint.”
# 842:
_the_] So first ed. Sec. ed. “thy.”
# 843:
_worms_] See note, p. 556.
# 844:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 845:
_Hobson’s waggon_] See note, vol. iv. p. 7. I ought to
have said there, that Milton composed _two_ copies of
verses on Hobson; and I may add here, that they are
printed (one of them very imperfectly) in _Wit
Restored_ (p. 185, ed. 1817), where they are preceded
by an enlarged copy of what forms the third epitaph on
Hobson in _Wit’s Recreations_.
# 846:
_points_] i. e. tagged laces by which the breeches
were attached to the doublet.
# 847:
_battler’s_] See note, p. 544.
# 848:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 849:
_where_] i. e. whereas.
# 850:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 851:
_royal_] See note, p. 572.
# 852:
_sovereign_] See note, vol. i. p. 110.
# 853:
_liberal_] i. e. free to excess, licentious.
# 854:
_penny-fathers_] See note, p. 530.
# 855:
_first epistle_] See p. 551.
# 856:
_sounded_] i. e. swooned.
# 857:
_Bowles_] Written “Bolles” by Stow and others.
# 858:
_guess_] i. e. guests: see note, vol. i. p. 326.
# 859:
_Jacob Challoner_] In the document before cited are
various payments “to Jacob Challoner, painter,” for
ornamenting banners, &c. Heath, &c., p. 333.
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Transcriber’s Note
The author shifted between prose speech and blank verse,
sometimes in mid-speech. In this rendering, verse
sections are given without blank lines between speeches,
with an indentation for each speech.
Stage directions, except for entrances, can be:
in-line
in the middle of a line and delimited with ‘[
]’,
end of line
right-justified on the same line (where there
is room), with only the leading ‘[’,
next line
right-justified on the following line, where
there is insufficent room, with a hanging
indent, if necessary.
The same convention is followed here. Since this version
is wider than the original, most directions are on the
same line as the speech.
Entrances were centered and separated slightly from
lines above and below. This is rendered here as a full
blank line.
The footnote scheme used lettered references, repeating
a-z. On numerous of occasions, letters were repeated,
and sometimes skipped. The numeric resequencing of notes
here resolves those lapses. Footnotes are sometimes
referred to directly in a footnote by its letter
designation. The few direct references to a lettered
note use the new numeric value.
The volume ends with an Index of Notes which directs the
reader to all five volumes. The following anomolies have
been detected:
The entry for the ‘game of cat’ in the Index to the
Notes incorrectly references a note on p. 427. The note
occurs on p. 527.
The entry for ‘ken’ refers to p. 129 of volumn 2. While
the word is used there, there is no note provided. The
intent may have been meant to refer to note 1167 on p.
549 of that volume.
The entry for ‘Peter-sameen’ refers to p. 214. The note
appears on p. 142, and the reference has been corrected.
The entry for ‘skeldering’ refers to p. 535 of volume 3.
The note appears on that page in volume 2. The entry has
been corrected.
The entry for ‘sound’, referring to p. 206 of volume
1, is almost certainly in error. A note on that page
glosses the word ‘swound’ (swoon). A note in the
current volume for ‘sounded’ also defines the entry as
‘swooned’, which perhaps caused the confusion. The
entry has been corrected. However, this should move
that entry alphabetically, but it remains in place and
is noted below.
Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have
been corrected, and are noted here. The references are
to the page and line in the original.
15.24 I’m right glad on’t[.] Added.
207.26 no stuff fit for their mouths[,/.] Replaced.
624.25 bi[r/z]le Replaced.
639.32 _s[w]ound_ Inserted.
NO WIT, NO HELP LIKE A WOMAN’S.
Vol. v. p. 23, l. 30.
_the widow’s notch shall lie open to you_] This passage
is, I think, explained by the following line in our
author’s _Triumphs of Truth_;
“The very _nooks_ where beldams hide their gold.”
p. 229 of the same
vol.
Vol. v. p. 77, last line.
“To bid a _slander_ welcome than a truth.”
I did quite right in substituting “_slander_” for
“slave.” These words were frequently confounded by the
old printers.
“Revenge and Death
Like _slander_ [read _slaves_] attend the sword of
Calymath.”
_The Travailes of The Three English Brothers_ (by
Day,
W. Rowley, and Wilkins), 1607, sig. C 4.
Vol. v. p. 131, l. 3.
_I from the baker’s ditch_] So in Brome’s _Sparagus
Garden_, 1640, “Sheart, Coulter, we be vallen into _the
Bakers ditch_.” Sig. K 3. The ancient way of punishing
bakers, who did not give full weight, was by the
cucking-stool (see Grey’s note on _Hudibras_, P. iii. C.
iii. v. 609); qy. is that punishment alluded to in the
above passages?
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THE INNER-TEMPLE MASQUE.
Vol. v. p. 148, l. 5.
_Ill May-Day_] i. e. Evil May-day—so called from the
rising of the London apprentices against the foreigners,
on the first of May, 1517: see _The Story of Ill
May-Day, &c._, and the editor’s illustrations, in
Evans’s _Old Ballads_, vol. iii. p. 76, ed. 1810.
Vol. v. p. 148, l. 9.
_Midsummer-Eve, that watches warmest_] Perhaps this is
an allusion to the setting out of the Midsummer watch:
see Herbert’s _Hist. of the Twelve Great Livery
Companies of London_, vol. i. p. 196, sqq.
Vol. v. p. 149, note 213.
“i. e. wife.”
Read
“i. e. city-wife.”
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THE TRIUMPHS OF INTEGRITY.
Vol. v. p. 310, l. 1.
“pegmes.”
Read
“pegms.”
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THE BLACK BOOK.
Vol. v. p. 543, l. 15.
_ketlers_] This word occurs in Kemp’s _Nine daies
wonder_, 1600; “Those that haue shewne themselues honest
men, I wil set before them this Caracter, H. for
honesty; before the other Bench-whistlers shal stand K.
for _ketlers_ and keistrels, that wil driue a good
companion without need in them to contend for his owne.”