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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05

Note 70 — ACT I.

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i.e., Threw him on the ground with force, as in the "Second Part of Antonio and Mellida," iv. 3—

"Distraught and raving, from a turret's top, He threw his body in the swolne sea, And as he headlong topsie-turvie ding'd downe, He still cry'd Mellida."

Again, in Nash's "Lenten Stuffe," 1599: "For besides the loud bellowing ... which hath dung me in a manner down," &c. And in Marston's "Satires"—

"Is ding'd to hell, and vulture eats his heart."

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