A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11

Act 5 — EPILOGUE

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A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS (11 of 15).EDITION.[MR COLLIER'S PREFACE.]TO ANY WOMAN THAT HATH BEEN NO WEATHERCOCK.TO THE READER.TO HIS LOVED SON,[9] NAT. FIELD, AND HIS WEATHERCOCK WOMAN.DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

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EDITIONS.INTRODUCTION.DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.[71]

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GREEN'S TU QUOQUE;EDITIONS.INTRODUCTION.TO THE READER UPON THE DEATH OF THOMAS GREEN.DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.THE CITY GALLANT.THE CITY GALLANT. (continued 2)EDITIONS.[REEDS PREFACE.]DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.THE PROLOGUE.ALBUMAZAR.[227]

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EPILOGUE EDITION.INTRODUCTION.THE ACTORS' NAMES.PROLOGUE THE HOG HATH LOST HIS PEARL. ACTUS PRIMI, SCENA PRIMA.ACTUS SECUNDUS.ACTUS TERTIUS.ACTUS QUARTUS.ACTUS QUINTUS.EPILOGUE EDITION.INTRODUCTION TO THE FORMER EDITION.THE NAMES OF THE ACTORS.TO MY HONOURED FRIEND MASTER THOMAS MAY,PROLOGUS.

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THE EPILOGUE.

[Spoken by Trincalo].

Two hundred crowns? and twenty pound a year For three good lives? Cargo[358] hai, Trincalo! My wife's extremely busy, dressing the supper For these great marriages, and I not idle, So that I cannot entertain you here, As I would elsewhere. But if you come to Totnam Some four days hence, and ask for Trincalo, At th' sign o' th' Hogshead, I'll mortgage all my lives To bid you welcome. You that love Trincalo, And mean to meet, clap hands, and make 't a bargain.[359]

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Note 1 · A corruption of corragio! Ital. courage! a hortatory exclamation.—Steevens. A cant word, meaning a good round sum of money. "Canting Diction Note 2 · Thus in "A Woman Kill'd with Kindness," 1607, the first scene we have, on a wager being laid— "What, clap ye hands, Or is't no bargain?" —Co