Note 213 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)

2 Angry Women, sc. x. 2250, ‘A plague on this poast, I would the Carpenter had bin hangd that set it vp for me. Where are yee now?’; Englishmen for my Money, scc. vii-ix (continuous scene), 1406, ‘Take heede, sir! hers a post’ ... (1654) ‘Watt be dis Post?... This Post; why tis the May-pole on Iuie-bridge going to Westminster.... Soft, heere’s an other: Oh now I know in deede where I am; wee are now at the fardest end of Shoredich, for this is the May-pole’.... (1701) ‘Ic weit neit waer dat ic be, ic goe and hit my nose op dit post, and ic goe and hit my nose op danden post’.