Note 279 — THE PROLOGUE.

i.e., Go, proceed, succeed. The word is used in Nash's "Lenten Stuff," 1599: "It would not fadge, for then the market was raised to three hundred."

Again, in "The Old Law," by Massiuger, &c., act iv. sc. 4—

"Now it begins to fadge."

And in the following quotation from Haughton's "Englishmen for my Money," 1616, sig. B—

"But, sirra Ned. what sayes Mathea to thee Wilt fadge? wilt fadge? what, will it be a match?"—Collier.