INDEX.

Academic playwrights Accomodate Addition Adorning Adson's new ayres Agamemnon in the play Agrippina Alablaster ( = alabaster) Alchemist, allusion to the play of the A life ( = as my life) Almarado (?) Ambergreece Andirons ("The andirons were the ornamental irons on each side of the hearth in old houses, which were accompanied with small rests for the ends of the logs."—Halliwell.) Anotomye (For the spelling compare Dekker's Satiromastix— "because Mine enemies with sharpe and searching eyes Looke through and through me, carving my poore labours Like an Anatomy."—Dramatic Works, ed. Pearson, i. 197.) Anything for a quiett lyfe Aphorisme Aporn Apple-squier Arch-pillers Argentum potabile Artillery Garden Artire Ascapart Assoyle

Bables Babyes Back side Bacon, Roger Baffeld ( = treated ignominiously) Bainardes Castle Bale of dice Bandogs Banks' horse Bantam Barleybreak Basolas manos Basses Bastard Bavyn Bayting Beare a braine Beetle Bermudas Berwick, pacification of Besognio Best hand, buy at the Bezoar Bilbo mettle Biron, Maréchal de Bisseling Blacke and blewe Blacke gard Black Jacks Bob'd Bombards Bonos nocthus Booke ("Williams craves his booke") Borachos Bossed Bottom, Brass, coinage of Braule Braunched Braves Bree Broad cloth, exportation of Brond Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted Browne-bastard Build a sconce.—See Sconce Bull (the executioner) Bullets wrapt in fire Bullyes Bumbarrels Bu'oy Burnt Buskes Busse, the (Hertogenbosch taken in 1629, after a memorable siege, by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange)

Cage (prison) Cales Calisto, MS. play composed of scenes from Heywood's Golden Age and Silver Age Canaries Cap-case Carack Carbonado Cardeq Cardicue Caroach Carrackes Carry coals Case Cast-of Merlins Castrell Catamountaine Cater-trey Caull Cautelous Censure Champion Chapman, George Choake-peare Chrisome Cinque pace Citie of new Ninivie Clapdish Closse contryvances Coate Cockerell Coll Comparisons are odorous Consort Convertite Cooling carde Coranta Cornutus Covent Crak't Crase Cricket Cupboard of plate ( = movable side-board) Cut-beaten-sattyn (Cf. Marlowe's Faustus—"beaten silk.") Cutt-boy

Daborne, Robert Dametas Day, John Dead paies Debosht ( = debauched) Deneere Depart Detest Devide Dewse ace Diamonds softened by goat's blood Dicker Diet-bread Diety (For the spelling cf. Rowley's All's Lost by Lust, 1633, sig. C. 4: "Can lust be cal'd love? then let man seeke hell, For there that fiery diety doth dwell." Again in the same play, sig. D. 2, we have— "Descend thy spheare, thou burning Diety." John Stephens in his Character of a Page [Essayes and Characters, 1615] speaks of "Cupid's diety.") Dion Cassius, quoted Diophoratick Disgestion Disguest Division Doggshead Door ("Keep the door" = act as a pander) Doorkeeper Dorsers Dowland, John Draw drie foote Ducke Duns the mouse Dydoppers (dabchicks)

Eare picker ( = barber) Edmond Ironside, MS. chronicle-play Empresas Eringoes Estridge Exclaimes

Family of Love Fang Fatal Maryage, MS. play Father-in-law Feare no colours Feeres Felt locks Feltham's Resolves Fend ( = make shift with) Fins (a very doubtful correction for sins) Fisguigge Flat cap Flea ( = flay) Fletcher, John, MS. copy of his Elder Brother; his share in the authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt Flewd Fly boat (see Addenda to vol. i.) Fool (play on the words fool and fowl) Fooles paradysse For I did but kisse her (See Appendix) Fortune my foe Fox Foxd Free Fry(?) Futra

Galleyfoist German fencer Getes Ghosts crying Vindicta Gibb ("A male-cat, now generally applied to one that has been castrated."—Halliwell.) Giglot Ginges Glapthorne, quoted; the play of The Lady Mother identical with Glapthorne's Noble Trial Glass, patent for making Gleeke Gods dynes Goll Gondarino Gossips Grandoes Groaning cake Guarded ( = trimmed) Gumd taffety that will not fret (See Nares' Glossary, s., gumm'd velvet.) Gundelet Gyges

Haberdine Hadiwist Hanging Tune Hatto, Bishop Head ("how fell ye out all a head?") Hell Hell, another couple in Hemming Hesperides ( = the garden of the Hesperides) Heywood, Thomas, his play of The Captives; lines at the end of his Royal King and Loyal Subject identical with the Address To the Reader at the end of H. Shirley's Martyd Souldier; the play of Dick of Devonshire tentatively assigned to him; the MS. play Calisto composed of scenes from his Golden Age and Silver Age Hocas pocas Holland's Leaguer Horace, quoted (In the lines "Now die your pleasures, and the dayes you pray Your rimes and loves and jests will take away" are imitated from Horace's Ars Poetica, ll. 55-6,— "Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes; Eripuere jocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum.") Hott shotts Hounslow Heath, Sword-blade manufactory at Huckle bone Huffing Hunts up Hypostacies

Imbrocados (thrusts over the arm in fencing) Incontinent Iron mills It ( = its)

Jacke Jiggs Julius Caesar (puppet-show of) Juvenal quoted

Keepe Knight a the post Knowes me no more then the begger knowes his dish know him as well as the begger, &c. Kramis time

Lacrymae Ladies Downfall Lady Mother, comedy by Glapthorne (identical with The Noble Trial, entered in Stationers' Registers in 1660) Lanch (unnecessarily altered to lance in the text) Lancheinge of the May, MS. play by W.M. Gent. Lapwing Larroones Lather ( = ladder) (In Women beware Women Middleton plays on the word:— "Fab. When she was invited to an early wedding, She'd dress her head o'ernight, sponge up herself, And give her neck three lathers. Gaar. Ne'er a halter.") Laugh and lye downe Launcepresado Law, the spider's cobweb Legerity Letters of mart Leveret Limbo Line of life Linstock Long haire, treatise against (An allusion to William Prynne's tract The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes.) Loves Changelings Changed, MS. play founded on Sidney's Arcadia Low Country Leaguer Lustique

Machlaean Macrios Magical weed Makarell Make ready March beere Marlins Marlowe's Hero and Leander quoted Marriage, restrained by law at certain seasons Martial quoted Mary muffe Masque (MS.) containing a long passage that is found in Chapman's Byron's Tragedie Massinger, his share in the authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt Mawmets ( = puppets) Mawmett ( = Mahomet) Meath (A curious corruption of Mentz. Old printers distorted foreign names in an extraordinary manner.) Mechall Mention ( = dimension) Mew Middleton, quotation from his Family of Love Minikin ( = fiddle) Mistris Moe Monthes mind Mooncalf More hayre than wit Morglay Mosch Mother Motion ( = suggestion, proposal) Mouse Much (ironical) Mumchance Muscadine Muschatoes ( = moustaches) Mushrumps ( = mushrooms) Music played between the acts Muskadine with an egg My Love can sing no other song (See Appendix) Mynsatives

Nephewes Nero, his poems Newmarket Nifle Night rail Ninivie, motion of Noddy

Old Orphant Outcryes Outface with a card of ten Overseene Owe

Pantables ( = slippers) Paris Garden ditch Pavine Pedlars' French Peele's Hunting of Cupid Peeterman Persius quoted Pharo, by the life of (This oath occurs in first edition, 1601, of Every Man in his Humour: in the revised edition it was altered to "by the foot of Pharaoh.") Picardo Pick-hatch Pilchers Pimblico Pinks Pioner Plancher Planet ("Some Planet striketh him") Plashd Platform Plautus' Rudens, plot of Heywood's play The Captives drawn from: quotations from Pomander Poore Jhon Poore Man's Comfort (play by Robert Daborne), MS. copy of Portage (Undoubtedly we should read partage.) Pot-gun Pricke-song Prick and prayse ( = praise of excellence) Princkocke Proclamation that the gentry should reside at their mansions in the country Proculus Prologue spoken by a woman Protest, affected use of the word (See Dyce's Shakespeare Glossary.) Puckfist Puerelis Puisne Puisnes of the Inne Pumpion Pun[to] reversos ( = back-handed strokes in fencing) Push Putt a girdle round about the world Puttock

Quale

Rabbit-suckers Rabby Roses (The reference is, probably, to the Arabian physician Rhazes.) Racke Rape, punishment for Rascal Rats rhymed to death Refuse me Regalias Rest ("our rest we set") Rest for every slave to pull at Reverent ( = reverend) Richard II., MS. play Ride the wild mare (a rustic sport) Rincht ( = rinsed) Road Roaring boys ( = roisterers) Rochet Rope-ripes Rosemary Rotten hares Rudelesse vaile Russeting

Sackerson (In the footnote read H_u_nkes for H_a_nkes.) Salt, sit beneath the Sarreverence Scandalum magnatum Sconce, build a (I supposed that the expression meant "fix a candle in a candlestick," but I am indebted to Mr. George L. Apperson for the true explanation. He writes:—"In Dyche's Dictionary (I quote from ed. 1748) is the verb sconce, one of the definitions being—'a cant term for running up a score at an alehouse or tavern'—with which cf. Goldsmith's Essays (1765), viii, 'He ran into debt with everybody that would trust him, and none could build a sconce better than he.' This explanation seems to me to make Thomas's remark a very characteristic one." See Grose's Classical Dictionary of the vulgar tongue.) Scottish witch Scythians Sentronell ( = centinel) Seven deadly sinnes, pageant of Shakespeare imitated; his use of the word road ("This Doll Tearsheet should be some road") illustrated; mentioned in Captain Underwit Sharpe, play at. (Cf. Swetnam the Woman Hater, 1620, sig. G. 3:— "But cunning Cupid forecast me to recoile: For when he plaid at sharpe I had the foyle.") Shellain Sherryes Ship, the great Shipwreck by land Shirley, James, author of Captain Underwit; quoted Shoulder pack't Shrovetide, hens thrashed at Shrove Tuesday, riotous conduct of apprentices on Sib Signeor No Sister awake! close not your eyes! Sister's thread Sleep, wayward thoughts (See Appendix) Slug Smell-feast Snaphance Sowse Spanish fig Sparabiles Spend Spenser, imitated Spurne-point Stafford's lawe Stand on poynts Standage Stavesucre ( = staves-acre) Steccadoes ( = stoccadoes, thrusts in fencing) Stewd prunes Stigmaticke Stoope Striker Strive curtesies ( = stand upon ceremony) Suds, in the Suetonius, quoted Sure Surreverence

Tacitus, quoted Take me with you Take in Tarleton Tarriers Tell Tale, the, (MS. play) Tent Termagant The Fryer was in the—(See Appendix) Three Cranes Thumb, to bite the Ticktacks Tickle minikin ( = play on the fiddle) Timeless ( = untimely) Tobacco (price of) Toot Totter Totter'd Traind band Transportation of ordnance Trevants. (Trevant is a corruption of Germ. Traban = guard.) Trewe ( = honest) Tripennies Trondling Trouses True man Trundle bed Trunk-hose Tub-hunter ( = parasite) Turnops Two Noble Ladyes. (The plot is partly founded on Calderon's Magico Prodigioso.)

Uncouth Unicorn's horn Unreadie Upper stage Ure

Varlet Vaunt-currying Venetian Verjuice made by stamping crab-apples Vie Vild Virgil, quoted Virginal Virginall Jacks

Warning-peece Wax, limbes mad[e] out of Webster's White Devil, allusion to Welshmen proud of their gentility Wet finger What make you here? What thing is Love? Whifflers Whisht White sonne Whytinge mopp Widgeing Wildfowl ("Cut up wildfowl"—a slang expression) Wilding Windmills at Finsbury (See Stow's Survey, b. iii, p. 70, ed. 1720.) Wit without money Woad, patents for planting of ("Woad is an herbe brought from the parts of Tolouse in France, and from Spaine, much used and very necessary in the dying of wollen cloath."—Cowell's Interpreter.) Woman Hater, the Wonning Woodcock ( = simpleton)

Zygne ("Untill the zygne be gone below the hart")