Act 5 — ACT V. (continued 3)

FAMILIAR RECEIPTS.

An approved receipt against Melancholy feminine.

If any Lady be sick of the Sullens, she knows not where, let her take a handful of simples, I know not what, and use them I know not how, applying them to the part grieved, I know not which, and she shall be well, I know not when.

Against the Scurvy.

If any Scholar be troubled with an itch, or breaking out, which in time may prove the Scurvy, let him first forbear clawing and fretting meats, and then purge choler, but by no means upwards.

For restoring Gentlemen Ushers’ Legs.

If any Gentleman Usher hath the consumption in his legs, let him feed lustily on veal two months in the spring time, and forbear all manner of mutton, and he shall increase in calf.

For the Tentigo.

If any be troubled with the Tentigo, let him travel to Japan, or, because the forest of Turnbolia is of the same altitude, or elevation of the Pole, and at hand, let him hunt there for his recreation, and it shall be done in an instant.

For the Angina.

If any Scholar labour of the Angina, a dangerous disease in the throat, so that he cannot speak an hour together once in a quarter of a year, let him forbear all violent exercises, as trotting to Westminster Hall every term, and all hot liquors and vapours; let him abstain from company, retiring himself warm clad in his study four days in a week, et fiet.[625]

For a Felon.

If any be troubled with a Felon on his finger, whereby he hath lost the lawful use of his hand, let him but once use the exercise of swinging, and stretch himself upon the sovereign tree of Tiburnia, and it will presently kill the Fellon. Probatum.

For a Tympany.

If any Virgin be so sick of Cupid that the disease is grown to a Tympany, let her with all speed possible remove herself, changing air for forty weeks at least, keeping a spare diet as she travels, always after using lawful exercises, till she be married, and then she is past danger.

For Barrenness.

If any lady be long married, yet childless, let her first desire to be a mother, and to her breakfast take a new-laid egg, in a spoonful of goat’s milk, with a scruple of Ambergris; and at supper feed on a hen trodden but[626] by one cock. But above all things, let her avoid hurrying in a Caroch, especially on the stones, and assuming a finer mould than nature meant her, and no doubt she shall fructify.

For the Falling Sickness.

If any woman be troubled with the falling sickness, let her not travel Westward Ho, because she must avoid the Isle of Man; and for that it is an evil Spirit only entered into her, let her for a Charm always have her legs across when she is not walking, and this will help her.

For a Rupture.

If any Tradesman be troubled with a Rupture in the bowels of his estate, that he cannot go abroad, let him decoct Gold from a pound to a noble, taking the broth thereof from six months to six months, and he shall be as able a man as ever he was.

Now, Princely Spectators, to let you see that we are men qualified from head to foot, we will show you a piece of our footmanship.

Dance Antimasque.

[Exeunt.

Enter Paradox.

Health and jouisance to this fair assembly. Now the thrice three learned Sisters forsake me, if ever I beheld such beauties in Athens. You ask, perhaps, who I am that thus conceitedly salute you? I am a merry Greek, and a Sophister of Athens, who, by fame of certain novel and rare presentments undertaken and promised by the gallant Spirits of Graia drawn hither, have intruded myself, Sophiste like, in at the back door, to be a Spectator, or rather a Censor, of their undertakings. The Muses grant they may satisfy our expectations. Ah, the shows and the songs, and the speeches, and the plays, and the comedies, and the actings that I have seen at Athens! The universe never saw the like. But let that pass. There was another end of my coming, and that was to get some of these Beauties to be my disciples; for I teach them rare doctrines, but delightful; and if you be true Athenians (that is, true lovers of novelties, as I hope you all are) you will give my hopes their looked-for expectation. Know, then, my name is Paradox: a strange name, but proper to my descent, for I blush not to tell you truth. I am a slip of darkness, my father a Jesuit, and my mother an Anabaptist; and as my name is strange, so is my profession, and the art which I teach, myself being the first that reduced it to rules and method, bears my own name, Paradox. And I pray you, what is a Paradox? It is a Quodlibet, or strain of wit and invention screwed[627] above the vulgar conceit, to beget admiration. And (because method is the mother of discipline) I divide my Paradox[es] into these [three] heads—Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter; and first of the first, for the Masculine is more worthy than the Feminine, and the Feminine than the Neuter.

[Draws his Book and reads.

Masculine.[628]

1. He cannot be a Cuckold that wears a Gregorian, for a perriwig will never fit such a head.

2. A Knight of the long robe is more honourable than a Knight made in the field; for furs are dearer than spurs.

3. ’Tis better to be a coward than a Captain; for a goose lives longer than a cock of the game.

4. A Cannibal is the lovingest man to his enemy; for willingly no man eats that he loves not.

5. A Bachelor is but half a man, and being wed, he may prove more than half a monster; for Aries and Taurus rule the head and shoulders, and Capricorn reacheth as low as the knees.

6. A wittall cannot be a Cuckold: for a Cuckold is wronged by his wife, which a wittall cannot be; for volenti non fit injuria.

7. A Shoemaker is the fittest man of the parish to make a Constable; for he virtuti officii put any man in the stocks, and enlarge him at last.

8. A prisoner is the best fencer; for he ever lies at a close ward.

9. An elder Brother may be a wise man; for he hath wherewithal to purchase experience, at any rate.

10. A Musician will never make a good Vintner; for he deals too much with flats and sharps.

11. A Drunkard is a good philosopher; for he thinks aright that the world goes round.

12. The Devil cannot take Tobacco through his nose; for St. Dunstan hath seared that up with his tongs.

13. Prentices are the nimblest Scavengers; for they can cleanse the City Stews in one day.

14. No native Physician can be excellent; for all excellent simples are foreigners.

15. A Master of Fence is more honourable than a Master of Arts; for good fighting was before good writing.

16. A Court fool must needs be learned; for he goes to school in the Porter’s Lodge.

17. Burgomasters ought not to wear their fur gowns at Midsummer; for so they may bring in the sweating sickness again.

18. A Cutpurse is of the surest trade; for his work is no sooner done, but he hath his money in his hand.

Feminine.

1. ’Tis far better to marry a widow than a maid.—Causa patet.

2. Downright language is the best Rhetoric to win a woman; for plain dealing is a jewel, and there is no lady but desires her lap full of them.

3. Women are to be commended for loving Stage players; for they are men of known action.

4. If a woman with child long to lie with another man, her husband must consent; for if he will not, she will do it without him.

5. Rich widows were ordained for younger brothers; for they, being born to no land, must plough in another man’s soil.

6. A maid should marry before the years of discretion; for Malitia supplet et cætera.

7. ’Tis dangerous to wed a widow; for she hath cast her rider.

8. An English virgin sings sweeter here than at Brussells; for a voluntary is sweeter than a forc’d note.

9. A great Lady may with her honour wear her servant’s picture; for a shadow yet never made a Cuckold.

10. A painted Lady best fits a Captain; for so both may fight under their colours.

11. It is good for a young popish wench to marry an old man; for so she shall be sure to keep all fasting nights.

12. A dangerous secret is safely plac’d in a woman’s bosom; for no wise man would search for it there.

13. A woman of learning and tongues is an admirable creature; for a starling that can speak is a present for an Emperor.

14. There were never so many chaste wives as in this age; for now ’tis out of fashion to lie with their own husbands.

15. A great Lady should not wear her own hair; for that’s as mean as a coat of her own spinning.

16. A fair woman’s neck should stand awry; for so she looks as if she were looking for a kiss.

17. Women love fish better than flesh; for they will have Place, whatever they pay for it.

Neuter.[629]

1. Old things are the best things; for there is nothing new but diseases.

2. The best bodies should wear the plainest habits; for painted Clothes were made to hide bare walls.

3. Dissemblers may safely be trusted; for their meaning is ever contrary to their words.

4. Musicians cannot be but healthful; for they live by good air.

5. An Usurer is the best Christian; for Quantum nummorum in arca, Tantum habet et fidei.

6. None should have license to marry but rich folks; for Vacuum is a monster in rerum natura.

7. A hare is more subtle than a fox; for she makes more doubles than old Reynard.

8. ’Tis better to be a beggar than a Merchant; for all the world lies open to his traffic, and yet he pays no custom.

9. ’Tis more safe to be drunk with the hop than with the grape; for a man should be more inward with his Countryman than with a stranger.

10. It is better to buy honour than to deserve it; for what is far fetched and dear bought is good for Ladies.

11. A man deep in debt should be as deep in drink; for Bacchus cancels all manner of obligations.

12. Playhouses are more necessary in a well governed Commonwealth than public Schools; for men are better taught by example than precept.

13. It is better to feed on vulgar and gross meats, than on dainty and high dishes; for they that eat only partridge or quail, hath no other brood than woodcock or goose.

14. Taverns are more requisite in a City than Academies; for it is better the multitude were loving than learned.

15. A Tobacco shop and a Bawdy house are coincident; for smoke is not without fire.

16. An Almanack is a book more worthy to be studied than the history of the world; for a man to know himself is the most worthy knowledge, and there he hath twelve signs to know it by.

17. Wealth is better than wit; for few poets have had the fortune to be chosen Aldermen.

18. Marriage frees a man from care; for then his wife takes all upon her.

19. A Kennel of hounds is the best Consort;[630] for they need no tuning from morning to night.

20. The Court makes better Scholars than the University: for where a King vouchsafes to be a teacher, every man blushes to be a non-proficient.

[Music sounds.

Enter Pages.

Para. But hark! Music: they are upon entrance. I must put up.

Main Masque.

Enter Pages 4.

Their Song, dialoguewise.

Where shall we find relief? Is there no end of grief? Is there no comfort left? What cruel Charms bereft The patrons of our youth? We must now beg for ruth. Enter Obscurity. Kind pity is the most Poor boys can hope for, when Their joys are lost.

Obscurity.

Light, I salute thee; I, Obscurity, The son of Darkness and forgetful Lethe; I, that envy thy brightness, greet thee now, Enforc’d by Fate. Fate makes the strongest bow. The ever youthful Knights by spells enchain’d, And long within my shady nooks restrain’d, Must be enlarged, and I the Usher be To their night glories; so the Fates agree. Then, put on life, Obscurity, and prove As light as light, for awe, if not for love. Lo! hear their tender year’d, kind-hearted Squires, Mourning their Master’s loss; no new desires Can train them from these walks, but here they wend From shade to shade, and give their toils no end. But now will I relieve their suffering care. Hear me, fair Youths! since you so constant are In faith to your lov’d Knights, go haste apace, And with your bright lights guide them to this place; For if you fall directly, that descent, Their wished approach will farther search prevent. Haste by the virtue of a charming song, While I retrieve them, lest they lag too long.

THE CALL, OR SONG OF OBSCURITY.

Appear, Appear, you happy Knights! Here are several sorts of Lights: Fire and beauty shine together, Your slow steps inviting hither. Come away; and from your eyes Th’ old shades remove, For now the Destinies Release you at the suit of Love. So, so: ’tis well marched, march apace; Two by two fill up the place, And then with voice and measure Greet the King of Love and Pleasure. Now, Music, change thy notes, and meet Aptly with the Dancers’ feet; For ’tis the pleasure of Delight That they shall triumph all this night.

THE SONG AND DANCE TOGETHER.

Frolic measures now become you, Overlong obscured Knights: What if Lethe did benumb you, Love now wakes you to delights. Love is like a golden flower, Your comely youth adorning: Pleasure is a gentle shower Shed in some April morning. Lightly rise, and lightly fall you In the motion of your feet: Move not till our notes do call you; Music makes the action sweet. Music breathing blows the fire Which Cupids feeds with fuel, Kindling honour and desire, And taming hearts most cruel. Quickly, quickly, mend your paces, Nimbly changing measured graces: Lively mounted high aspire, For joy is only found in fire. Music is the soul of measure, Mixing both in equal grace; Twins are they, begot of Pleasure, When she wisely numbered space. Nothing is more old or newer Then number, all advancing; And no number can be truer Than music joined with dancing. Every Knight elect a Beauty, Such as may thy heart inflame: Think that her bright eye doth view thee, And to her thy action frame. So shall none be faint or weary, Though treading endless paces; For they all are light and merry Whose hopes are fed with graces. Sprightly, sprightly, end your paces, Nimbly changing measured graces: Lively mounted high aspire, For joy is only found in fire.

Obscurity.

Servants of Love, for so it fits you be, Since he alone hath wrought your liberty, His ceremonies now and courtly rites Perform with care, and free resolved sprites. To sullen darkness my dull steps reflect; All covet that which Nature doth affect.

The Second Measure; which danc’d,

SONG TO TAKE OUT THE LADIES.

On, on, brave Knights, you have well showed Each his due part in nimble dances: These Beauties to whose hands are owed Yours, wonder why You spare to try. Mark how inviting are their glances. Such, such a charm, such faces, such a call, Would make old Æson skip about the Hall. See, see fair choice, a starry sphere Might dim bright day: choose here at pleasure. Please your own eye: approve you here, Right gentle Knights: To these soft wights View, talk and touch, but all in measure. Far far from hence be roughness, far a frown; Your fair deportment this fair night shall crown.

After they have danced with the Ladies, and set them in their places, fall to their last Dance.

Enter Paradox, and to him his Disciples.

Silence, Lordings, Ladies, and fiddles! Let my tongue twang awhile. I have seen what hath been showed; and now give me leave to show what hath not been seen, for the honour of Athens. By virtue of this musical Whistle I will summon my disciples. See obedience: here they are all ready. Put forward, my paradoxical Pupils, methodically and arithmetically, one by one.

1. Behold this principal Artist that swift encounters me, whose head is honoured by his heels for dancing in a Chorus of a Tragedy presented at Athens, where he produced such learned variety of footing, and digested it so orderly and close to the ground, that he was rewarded with this relic, the cothurne or buskin of Sophocles, which for more eminence he wears on his head. The paradoxical virtue thereof is, that being dipped into River or Spring, it alters the nature of the liquor, and returneth full of wine of Chios, Palermo, or Zante.

2. This second Master of the science of footmanship (for he never came on horseback in his life) was famed at the Feast of Pallas, where in dancing he came off with such lofty tricks, turns above ground, capers, cross-capers, horse-capers, so high and so lofty performed, that he for prize bore away the Helmet of Pallas. The paradoxical virtue of the Cask is, that in our travels if we fall among enemies, show but this, and they suddenly vanish all like fearful shadows.

3. Now, view this third piece of Excellence: this is he that put down all the Bakers, at the feast of Ceres, and so danced there, as if he had kneaded dough with his feet: wherewith the Goddess was so tickled, that she in reward set this goodly loaf on his head, and endued it with this paradoxical influence, that cut off it and eat as often as you please, it straight fills up again, and is in the instant healed of any wound our hunger can inflict on it.

4. Approach now thou that comest in the rear of my disciples, but mayest march in the vanguard of thy validity; for at the celebration of the feast of Venus Cytherea, this Amoroso did express such passion with his eyes, such casts, such winks, such glances, and with his whole body such delightful gestures, such cringes, such pretty wanton mimics, that he won the applause of all; and, as it was necessary at the Feast of that Goddess, he had then a most ample and inflaming codpiece, which, with his other graces, purchased him this prize, the Smock of Venus, wrapped turbanlike on his head, the same she had on when she went to bed to Mars, and was taken napping by Vulcan. The Paradox of it is, that if it be hanged on the top of our Maypole, it draws to us all the young lads and lasses near adjoining, without power to part till we strike sail ourselves. And now I have named our Maypole, go bring it forth, though it be more cumbersome than the Trojan horse: bring it by force of arms, and see you fix it fast in the midst of this place, lest, when you encircle it with your capricious dances, it falls from the foundation, lights upon some lady’s head, and cuffs off her perriwig. But now for the glory of Athens!

Music plays the Antimasque. The disciples dance one Strain.

We have give you a taste of the excellency of our Athenial Revels, which I will now dignify with mine own person. Lie here, impediment, whereof being freed, I will descend. O, you Authors of Greek wonders! what ostent is this? What supernatural Paradox? a wooden Maypole find the use of voluntary motion! Assuredly this tree was formerly the habitation of some wood nymph, for the Dryads (as the Poets say) live in trees; and perhaps, to honour my dancing, the nymph hath crept into this tree again: so I apprehend it, and will entertain her courtesy.

Paradox, his Disciples, and the Maypole, all dance.

Did ever eye see the like footing of a tree, or could any tree but an Athenian tree do this? or could any nymph move it but an Athenian nymph? Fair Nymph, though I cannot arrive at thy lips, yet will I kiss the wooden mask that hides thy no doubt most amiable face.

Paradox offers to kiss and a Nymph’s head meets him out of the Maypole.

Wonder of wonders! Sweet Nymph, forbear: my whole structure trembles: mortality cannot stand the brightness of thy countenance. Pursue me not, I beseech thee: put up thy face, for love’s sake. Help, help! Disciples, take away this dismal peal from me. Rescue me, with all your violence.—So, the Devil is gone, and I will not stay long after. Lordings and Ladies: if there be any here desirous to be instructed in the mystery of Paradoxing, you shall have me at my lodging in the black and white Court, at the sign of the Naked Boy. And so to you all the best wishes of the night.

Enter Mountebank, like a Swiss.

Stay, you presumptuous Paradox! I have viewed thy antics and thy Puppet, which have kindled in me the fire of Emulation. Look; am I not in habit as fantastic as thyself? Dost thou hope for grace with Ladies, by thy novel doctrine? I am a man of art: witness this, my Charming Rod, wherewith I work Miracles; and whereas thou like a fabulous Greek, hast made monsters of thy Disciples, lo! I will oppose squadron against squadron, and plain truth against painted fiction. Now for [thy] moving Ale-sign: but for frighting the Devil out of it, I could encounter thee with Tottenham High Cross, or Cheap Cross (though it be new guilt), but I scorn odds, and therefore will I affront thee pole to pole. Go, Disciples: usher in our lofty enchanted motion; and, Paradox, now betake you to your tackling, for you deal with men that have got air and fire in them.

Paradox.

Assist me, thou active nymph, and you, my glorious associates. Victory! Victory for Athens!

[Dance.

Mountebank.

Accomplished Greek! now, as we are true Mountebanks, this was bravely performed on both parts, and nothing now remains but to make these two Maypoles better acquainted. But we must give place: the Knights appear.

Obscurity Enter.

Enough of these night-sports! part fairly, Knights, And leave an edge on pleasure, lest these lights I suddenly dim all; and pray, how then Will these gay Ladies shift among you men, In such confusion? Some their homes may miss: Obscurity knows tricks as mad as this. But make your parting innocent for me; I will no author now of Error be. Myself shall pass with you, a friend of light, Giving to all this round a kind good night.

LAST SONG.[631]

We must away: yet our slack pace may show ’Tis by constraint we this fair Orb forego. Our longer stay may forfeit what but now Love hath obtained for us: to him we bow, And to this gentler Power, who so contriv’d That we from sullen shades are now depriv’d, And hither brought, where Favour, Love, and Light, So gloriously shine, they banish Night. More would we say, but Fate forbids us more.— Our Cue is out—Good night is gone before.[632]

Amicis,[633] amici nostri dignissimi dignissimis,

EPIGRAMMA

D.

Johannes Marstonius.

Ye ready friends, spare your unneedful bays: This work despairful Envy must even praise. Phœbus hath voiced it loud through echoing skies: “Sejanus’ Fall shall force thy merit rise:” For never English shall, or hath before Spoke fuller graced. He could say much, not more.

INDEX.

Abhominable, ii. 219

Accourt, i. 52

Accoustrements, iii. 261

Accustrements, i. 24

Achelous, ii. 144

Actors (two or more parts taken by one actor), i. 8

Adamant softened by goat’s blood, iii. 151

Aderliver, ii. 18

Admiral, iii. 84

Adore and adorn (confusion between), iii. 362

Ægina, iii. 290

Affects (= affections), i. 119, 160

A-jax, ii. 368; iii. 377

Allay, ii. 73

All-canning, iii. 263, 335

Aloune (Fr. allons), ii. 355

Ambages, iii. 173

Anatomy, iii. 139, 236

Ancome, iii. 51

And ever she cried Shoot home, iii. 15

Anechou e apechou, ii. 176

An-end, iii. 164

Aphrodisiacs, i. 239

Apple-squire, ii. 383

Aporn, ii. 65

Apostata, iii. 220

Approvement, i. 189

Apricock, ii. 130

Aquinian, iii. 327

Aretine, Puttana Errante falsely ascribed to, iii. 377; Aretine’s Pictures, iii. 275

Aristotle quoted, iii. 329; Aristotle’s Problems, i. 152

Armed Epilogue, i. 93

Assay (“give me assay”), i. 64

Assured, i. 109

At all, iii. 318

Aunt, ii. 14

Babies, iii. 362

Babion, iii. 364

Bable, i. 85, 158; ii. 69

Bacchis, iii. 356

Backside, iii. 101

Bacon, Friar, ii. 125

Badged coach, iii. 350

Baffle, ii. 401

Baldessar Castiglione, i. 222; iii. 264

Bale of dice, ii. 382

Balloon, iii. 17

Bankrout, i. 138

Banks, i. 21

Barbary sugar, ii. 360

Barksteed, William, iii. 243

Barmy froth, iii. 339

Barnes, Barnabe, iii. 358

Bases, iii. 153

Basilisco, ii. 348

Basilus manus, iii. 192

Basket (for collecting food for poor prisoners), iii. 111

Bastard, Thomas, quoted by Marston, Addenda, vol. i.

Battle fate, ii. 350

Bawbees, i. 204

Bayard (“bold as blind Bayard”), ii. 324

Beaking, i. 133

Bear a brain, ii. 60, 124

Bear no coals, i. 168

Beat, i. 146

Beaver, iii. 350

Becco, i. 214, 287

Beg for a fool, i. 233; ii. 347; iii. 217

Beggar-wench, jest about, iii. 302

Bel and the Dragon, ii. 131

Belly-cheer, iii. 366

Bescumber, iii. 363

Bessicler’s armour, i. 30

Bewray and beray, i. 114; ii. 359

Bezel, i. 240; iii. 275, 349

Black ox trod o’ my foot, iii. 119

Blackfriars, feather-makers reside at, i. 202; Blackfriars’ Theatre, i. 199

Black-guard, ii. 182

Blacks, ii. 339

Blacksaunt, iii. 347

Blind Gew, i. 13

Blue coat, iii. 50, 301

Books called in, ii. 48

Boot-carouse, iii. 275

Borage in wine, iii. 394

Bottle-ale (term of reproach), iii. 339

Brack, i. 9, 140

Bragot, ii. 101

Braided, iii. 325, 337

Brakes, i. 320

Brasil, iii. 272

Brides serenaded on the morning after their wedding, ii. 389

Brill, iii. 348

Brittany, i. 26

Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, ii. 197; iii. 151, 241

Budge, iii. 346, 368

Buffin, iii. 14

Bully, i. 79; ii. 353

Burbage, Richard, i. 201

Burbolt, ii. 323

Burgonian’s ward, iii. 373

Buried treasure, iii. 219

Burn, iii. 241

Busk, i. 9

Busk-point, i. 274; iii. 255

Buss, ii. 90

But a little higher, &c., Addenda, vol. i.

Cable-hatband, i. 31

Cables (used as a protection from the fire of the enemy), i. 30

Camomile (“mount like camomile”), ii. 144

Campion, Thomas, Addenda, vol. i.

Cant, i. 132

Carpet-boy, i. 20

Carry coals, i. 288

Carver (“you’re a cunning carver”), iii. 141

Case (kaze), ii. 11

Case (= covering), iii. 109

Case of rapiers, i. 30

Cast o’ ladies, i. 238

Castilio, i. 222; iii. 264

Casting-bottle, i. 13

Catso, i. 216, 304, &c.

Censure, i. 202; ii. 255, 323

Chamlet, ii. 345

Chaun, i. 46

Cheat-bread, iii. 103

Cheator, ii. 406

Cherries at an angel a pound, iii. 15

Chittizen, iii. 19

Chopines, ii. 50

Christ-Church Parish, iii. 12

Chuck (term of endearment), iii. 104

Cinædian, iii. 310

Cinquepace, iii. 268

Cipres, i. 258

Cittern-heads, iii. 301

Claw, i. 105

Clerkenwell, ii. 16

Close fight, i. 24

Clove-stuck face, iii. 348

Clumsy, i. 99

Clutch, i. 144

Cluttered, i. 120; iii. 356

Coast, i. 312

Cockatrice, i. 301; ii. 18; iii. 224

Codpis, iii. 273

Cog a die, i. 48

Coistered, i. 293

Collogue, i. 302

Colour de roy, i. 111

Come aloft Jack-an-apes, i. 214

Come on five, iii. 318

Commodities (“take up commodities”), i. 305, &c.

Common-place book out of plays, iii. 372

Complements, i. 233

Consort, iii. 432

Convey, ii. 387

Copy, ii. 408

Coranto, i. 32

Corbed, i. 130

Cork shoe, i. 81

Cornish daws, iii. 332

Coronel, iii. 212

Corsive, iii. 151

Cote, i. 167

Crab’s baked guts, i. 239; iii. 320

Crack (pert boy), ii. 383

Creak’s noise, ii. 45

Cressit light, i. 41

Cross-bite, ii. 381, 387

Crowds, ii. 373

Crudled, i. 26

Cuckold’s haven, iii. 68

Cuckquean, ii. 377

Cullion, i. 206; iii. 89

Cullisses, ii. 141

Culvering, iii. 365

Curson’d, i. 55

Curtain Theatre, Romeo and Juliet performed at, iii. 373

Custard (“let custards quake”), iii. 312

Cut (“in the old cut”), i. 11

Cut and long tail, iii. 10

Cutter, ii. 401

Cutting, ii. 45

Cyllenian, iii. 274

Dametas, iii. 268

Daniel the Prophet, ii. 150; iii. 341

Daniel, Samuel, iii. 283

Day (“let him have day”), ii. 8

Day, John, his Humour out of Breath dedicated to Signior Nobody, i. 5; quotation from his Isle of Gulls, i. 289

Death o’ sense, ii. 158

Death’s head on rings, ii. 16

Decimo sexto, i. 203

Defend (“God defend!”), i. 204

Demosthenes paid for his silence, ii. 152

Denier, iii. 315

Depaint, i. 90; iii. 271

Deprave, ii. 126

Diet, ii. 370; diet-drink, ii. 15

Diety, ii. 24

Digby, Sir Everard, ii. 193

Dilling, ii. 344; iii. 10

Ding, i. 11, 166; iii. 282

Diogenes the Cynic, scandalous story about, iii. 319

Dipsas, i. 238

Discreet number, iii. 314

Disgest, i. 140, 146, 161; ii. 179

Divines and dying men may talk of hell, &c., iii. 225

Division, i. 48, 81

Do me right and dub me knight, i. 81

Donne’s verses On a Flea on his Mistress’ Bosom, iii. 359

Donzel del Phebo, i. 300

Dowland, John, his First Book of Songs quoted, iii. 14, 55

Drake’s ship at Deptford, iii. 59

Drayton, Michael, iii. 283, 363

Drink drunk, iii. 84

Dropsy-noul, iii. 340

Dun cow with a kettle on her head, i. 72

Durance, iii. 15

Dutch ancients, iii. 351

Eager, ii. 73

Eastward Ho! iii. 5; satirical reflections on the Scots, iii. 65

Ela (“I have strained a note above Ela”), i. 86

Enagonian, iii. 336

Enginer, iii. 97

Enhanceress, ii. 15

Epictetus, saying of, ii. 176

Erasmus, resemblance between a passage of his Colloquies and passage of First Part of Antonio and Mellida, i. 62

Ercole, Duke of Ferrara, ii. 117

Estro, ii. 156

Euphues, ii. 69

Fact, ii. 95; iii. 224

Fage, iii. 308

Fair, iii. 350

Falls, iii. 267

False lights, iii. 337

Family of Love, ii. 13

Far fet and dear bought is good for ladies, i. 306

Fart (“get a fart from a dead man”), iii. 90

Fawn, ii. 115

Feak, iii. 265

Fear (= frighten), ii. 158

Fear no colours, iii. 153

Featherbeds used in naval engagements as a protection against the fire of the enemy, i. 30

Feature, iii. 251

Feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis, ii. 404

Fencing, terms in, iii. 373

Fere, iii. 225

Fetch, i. 127

Fever-lurdens, iii. 420

Fico, ii. 133; iii. 320

Figent, iii. 60

Fin (“the fin of his eyes”), i. 214

Fist, ii. 42, 73, 82; iii. 90

Flap-dragon, ii. 70

Flat-cap, ii. 32; iii. 11

Fleam, i. 230

Fleamy, i. 133

Flushing, i. 234

Flyboat, i. 87

Foisting-hound, iii. 41

Foot-cloth, i. 213; ii. 153

Foutra, ii. 32

Fowl (fool), i. 260

Frail commodities, iii. 40

French brawl, ii. 377

Froe, ii. 13

Froterer, ii. 384

Fumatho, ii. 184

Galleasse, i. 87, 162

Gallemawfrey, iii. 139

Gamashes, ii. 344

Garboil, iii. 356

Geason, ii. 331, 339

Gelded vicary, iii. 324, 337

Gelid and jellied, ii. 291

Gern, i. 55, 111; ii. 203, 403

Get-penny, iii. 87

Gew, the actor, i. 13; Addenda, vol. i.

Ghosts of misers, iii. 219

Giants at the Lord Mayor’s pageant, ii. 50

Gib-cat, ii. 203

Giglet, ii. 340, 400

Gilt, iii. 323

Give arms, iii. 11

Give further day, ii. 328

Glaired, iii. 277

Glassy Priapus, iii. 309

Glaver, iii. 263, 339

Glibbery, i. 22

Glory, ii. 225

Gnatho, iii. 291

Goat’s blood, iii. 151

God you good even, iii. 5; God ye good morrow, ii. 393

God’s neaks, i. 54

Gold ends, iii. 28

Gold-end man, iii. 103

Goldsmiths’ Row, i. 205

Good man (= wealthy man), ii. 57

Goose-turd-green, ii. 47

Gorget, ii. 260

Gormand, iii. 327

Granado netherstocks, iii. 301

Grand grincome, ii. 31

Great man’s head, iii. 348

Gresco, iii. 93

Griffith, Margaret, i. 233

Griffon, i. 297

Grillus, iii. 281

Ground, i. 37; iii. 142

Guarded, i. 232; iii. 346

Guards, ii. 387; iii. 14

Guilpin, Edward, iii. 287, 367

Gundolet, i. 57

Gurnet’s head, iii. 341

Guzzel dogs, iii. 308

Half-clam’d, i. 150

Half-crown ordinary, ii. 406

Hall, Joseph, iii. 281-6; Marston’s imitations of, iii. 310, 320, 323

Hall (“A hall! a hall!”), iii. 372

Hamlet, quoted in The Malcontent, i. 201, 264; early popularity of, iii. 49, 52; imitation of passages from, i. 224; iii. 133, 134, 137, 230

Hangers, i. 36; ii. 406

Harvey, John, i. 205

Hatch short sword, ii. 406

Hazard, iii. 100

Head-men, iii. 37

Healths in urine, ii. 70

Heathy, i. 15; Addenda, vol. i.

Hem, ii. 14

Henry IV., Part I., imitation of passage from, iii. 219

Herring-bones, iii. 344

Hey-pass re-pass, ii. 381

Heywood, Thomas, popularity of his If you know not me you know nobody, iii. 87

High-lone, i. 172

High-noll’d, i. 165

Hipponax, iii. 359

Hiren (“Hast thou not Hiren here?”), iii. 26

Hogson, iii. 319

Hole (part of a prison), iii. 106

Honorificabilitudinitatibus, ii. 92

Horn-fair, iii. 72

Hout, i. 65

Huddle, i. 213

Hull, i. 87; ii. 250

Hyena, iii. 115; confused by Marston with the panther, ii. 347

Hymen represented in a saffron robe, i. 261

Imagines Deorum, iii. 270

Imbraid, i. 117, 283

Incubus, i. 107, 172

Inductions to plays, i. 7

Ingenious, ii. 109, 397

Injury (verb), iii. 381

Instaur’d, ii. 333

Intellectual, iii. 372

Inward, i. 282

Io! i. 183

Irishmen, commendable bashfulness of, i. 265

Italy, vices brought to England from, iii. 275

Jakes of Lincoln’s Inn, ii. 368

James I, his Poetical Exercises, iii. 281; James’ knights, sneer at, iii. 79

Jawn, i. 129

Jellied, i. 114, 126; ii. 291

Jingling spurs, i. 233

Jobbernole, iii. 301, 341

Jones, Robert, quotation from his First Book of Songs and Airs, ii. 33

Jonson, Ben, compliment to, i. 320; allusion to a passage in his Volpone, ii. 190; sneer at his Sejanus, ii. 235; ridiculed, iii. 305

Jove (influence of the planet Jupiter), ii. 292

Judas’ red beard, iii. 166

Julia (daughter of Augustus), witty saying of, ii. 12

Julius Cæsar, quoted, iii. 215

Juvenal imitated, iii. 308-9

Ka me, ka thee, iii. 30

Keel, i. 77; ii. 321

Kempe’s Jig, iii. 372

King of flames, ii. 292

King John, quoted, ii. 354

Kinsing, iii. 369

Kinsayder, ii. 350

Knight’s ward, iii. 106

Knighthood purchased from King James, iii. 79

Knights of the mew, ii. 322

Knock, i. 31

Knurly, i. 166

Lady-bird, iii. 104

Lælius Balbus, ii. 130

Lamb, Charles, his criticisms on Marston, i. 49, 100; his remarks on the Decay of Symbols, ii. 338

Lanch (= lance), ii. 193

Lanthorn and candle-light, i. 35; iii. 202

Laver-lip, iii. 291

Lavolta, i. 183

Lay, iii. 88

Lay in lavender, iii. 100

Leese, iii. 346

Leg of a lark is better than the body of a kite, iii. 104

Legend of Lies, ii. 69

Legs (= bows), iii. 264

Lemon’s juice, iii. 350

Lent, consumption of flesh forbidden during, iii. 203

Leopards, their fondness for wine, iii. 238

Lettuce, iii. 320

Lie, ii. 16

Lindabrides, ii. 55

Linstock, i. 30

Lion, curious belief concerning, iii. 237

London licket, iii. 14

Long stock, ii. 337

Loose (“at the loose”), ii. 387

Los guantes, i. 276

Lovery, iii. 337

Lozenges of Sanctified Sincerity, i. 255

Lugg’d boot, iii. 378

Lusk, iii. 335, 358

Luskish, iii. 324

Lusty Laurence, iii. 289

Luxuriousness, iii. 349

M. under your girdle, iii. 92

Mace, iii. 277

Main, ii. 406

Make (“What should we make here?”), iii. 131

Male lie, iii. 308

Malice (verb), ii. 40, 91, 109

Mandragora, iii. 114

Mandrake, iii. 219

Mannington, George, his woeful ballad, iii. 118

March-panes, ii. 373

Marry faugh, iii. 11

Marry muff, i. 169

Martial quoted, ii. 28, 110

Mary Ambree, i. 22

Mason’s Mulleasses, allusion to passage of, iii. 31; quoted, Addenda, vol. i.

Maypole (term of abuse), i. 23

Measure, i. 184, 276; ii. 43

Measuring, iii. 311

Merchant of Venice quoted, iii. 34

Mere, merely, i. 236, 320; ii. 297

Methodist Musus, iii. 308

Metreza, i. 213

Mincing capreal, iii. 372

Minikin, i. 51, 80

Minikin-tickler, ii. 401

Minioning, i. 279

Mirror of Knighthood, i. 300; ii. 69

Mirror for Magistrates, iii. 283

Modern, i. 11; iii. 364

Monmouth caps, iii. 84

Month’s mind, iii. 135

Moorfields (favourite spot for beggars), iii. 13

More hair than wit, iii. 199

Mortimer’s numbers, iii. 363

Motion (= proposal), i. 159; ii. 51, 96; iii. 123

Motion (= puppet-show), ii. 51

Mott, iii. 332

Much (ironical), i. 243, 251, &c.

Muckender, ii. 359

Mumchance, ii. 382

Murr, i. 153; ii. 140

Muscovy glass, i. 234

Music-houses, i. 185

Mycerinus, iii. 243

Naples’ canker, iii. 309; Naples’ pestilence, ii. 349

Nashe, Thomas, quoted, iii. 48, 225, 273

Natalis Comes, iii. 270

Neast (nest) of goblets, ii. 7

Nectar-skink, ii. 307

Ne’er-crazed, iii. 355

Nemis, iii. 289

Nile, dogs drinking on the bank of, ii. 281

Nitty, iii. 276, 370

No point, ii. 77

Noddy, iii. 189

Noise, ii. 43

Nuzzel, ii. 372

O God, i. 32

O hone, hone, iii. 98

O Lord, sir, ii. 30

Obligation, ii. 57

Occupant, iii. 300, 349

Occupation, ii. 219

O’er-peise, i. 310

Old cut (= old fashion), i. 11

One and thirty, iii. 329

Ophelia, iii. 52

Ophiogeni, iii. 310

Outrecuidance, iii. 95

Owe, ii. 259

Ox-pith, i. 239

Packstaff epithets, iii. 338; packstaff rhymes, iii. 310

Pages, their fondness for dicing, ii. 382

Paize, i. 100, 121; ii. 327

Palæphatus, iii. 311

Pale, ii. 287

Palladium, ii. 252

Palmerin de Oliva, ii. 69

Pane, ii. 337; iii. 349

Pantable, pantofle, i. 29; ii. 382

Parcel-gilt, ii. 57

Parkets, ii. 141

Parmeno (“nothing ad Parmenonis suem”), i. 204

Parted, iii. 20

Parthenophil, iii. 358

Party per pale, ii. 345

Passion, i. 90

Pavin, iii. 340

Peat, ii. 339; iii. 100

Peele, Gronge, Merry Jests of, i. 40

Peevish, iii. 254

Peggy’s complaint for the death of her Willy, ii. 29

Pepper in the nose, ii. 321

Peregal, i. 55

Perfumed jerkin, i. 314

Perpetuana, ii. 343

Persius quoted, ii. 111

Peterman, iii. 38

Petronel, i. 19

Physic against Fortune, i. 255

Pickhatch, iii. 319, 376

Pill (= peel), i. 99

Pillowbear, iii. 253

Pin and the web, iii. 423

Pirates hanged at Wapping, iii. 91

Pistol, Ancient (scraps of his rant), iii. 11

Placket, ii. 383

Plastic, i. 234

Plat, i. 54

Play-bills stuck on posts, iii. 302

Plunge, i. 105

Plutarch quoted, ii. 152, 266

Pole-head, ii. 348

Pomander, i. 294

Pommado reversa, iii. 375

Pompey the huge, i. 214

Ponado, iii. 42

Poor John, i. 89

Popeling, iii. 262

Porcpisce, iii. 69

Port Esquiline, iii. 351, 361

Possessed persons able to speak in various tongues, i. 212

Poting-stick, i. 308

Prest, ii. 250; iii. 312

Priapus’ gardens, iii. 302

Proface, iii. 303

Prostitution (= whore), ii. 13

Protest (use of the word considered affected), ii. 345

Pudding tobacco, ii. 344

Pug, i. 29, 152

Puisne, iii. 300

Purchase, i. 303; ii. 410

Purfled, i. 110

Puritan (cant term for a whore), ii. 383

Puritans’ ruffs, i. 13

Put-pin, iii. 362

Putry, i. 150

Quelquechose, i. 216

Quiblin, iii. 60

Quote, ii. 364

Ramp, i. 99

Ramsey, Lady, iii. 87

Rariety, iii. 213

Rats of Nilus, iii. 342, 344

Real (= regal), i. 34

Reason (raisin), iii. 154

Rebato, i. 31; iii. 351

Red lattice, i. 86

Reez’d bacon, iii. 322

Remora, iii. 84

Remorse, i. 21, 90

Renowmed, ii. 165

Respective (= respectful), i. 152

Reverent (= reverend), ii. 292; iii. 29, &c.

Rhinoceros’ horn, iii. 139

Ribanded ears, ii. 391; iii. 301

Richard II., quoted, i. 28; imitation of passage from, iii. 146

Richard III., quoted, i. 47, 48; ii. 349; iii. 344

Ride at the ring, i. 214

Riding-wand, iii. 38

Rings with death’s head, ii. 16

Ringo-root, iii. 348

Rivels (= wrinkles), i. 243; rivell’d, i. 108; iii. 234

Rivo, ii. 349, 355

Roast beef (a “commodity”), iii. 40

Rochelle churchman, i. 252

Rodio, iii. 267

Room, i. 202, 206

Romeo and Juliet performed at the Curtain Theatre, iii. 373; early popularity of, iii. 140

Rope-maker’s son, ii. 153

Rosa solis, ii. 45

Rosemary, iii. 53, 138

Rosicleer, i. 30, 300

Ruff, iii. 182

Ruffled boot, i. 83

Rug-gowns, ii. 395

Rutter, ii. 386

Sacramental wine poisoned, iii. 241

Sad, sadly, sadness, i. 71; iii. 258, 339

St. Agnes’ Eve, iii. 141

Salaminian, iii. 261

Say (“take say”), ii. 11

Sconce, i. 236; iii. 84

Scotch barnacle, i. 256; Scotch boot, i. 257; Scotch farthingale, iii. 16

Scots, satirised in Eastward Ho! iii. 64

Seneca quoted, i. 20, 49, 122, 127, 130, 133, 141, 144-5, 149, 174, 237, 265, 304; ii. 109

Servant (= suitor, lover), i. 33; ii. 388

Sest, ii. 374, 402

Sewer, ii. 135

Shakespeare, imitated, i. 28, 47, 48, 224; ii. 23, 143, 218; iii. 133, 134, 137, 146, 215, 219, 230; burlesqued, i. 206; ii. 349; iii. 344

Shaking of the sheets, iii. 165

Shale, ii. 185

Ship of Fools, ii. 122

Shirley, James, iii. 344

Shot-clog, iii. 13

Si quis, ii. 304

Sick Man’s Salve, iii. 107

Siddow, i. 162

Silver piss-pots, iii. 316

Sink a-pace (cinquepace), iii. 156

Sinking thought, i. 106

Sinklo, the actor, i. 200

Sip a kiss, i. 91

Slatted, i. 281

Sliftred, i. 27

Slip, i. 81, 111

Slop, i. 83

Sluice (“sluiced out his life-blood”), i. 189; iii. 224

Slur, iii. 371

Sly, William, i. 199

Small, ii. 361

Snaphance, iii. 269, 330

Snib, i. 264; ii. 353; iii. 379

Snout-fair, iii. 320

Snurling, i. 186

Soil (“take soil”), i. 254

Soldado, iii. 261, 357

Sometimes, iii. 282

Sophocles’ Antigone quoted, i. 128

Souse, i. 279

Southwell, Robert, iii. 281

Spanish blocks, iii. 301

Spanish leather, ii. 7

Spanish Tragedy, i. 121, 168; iii. 12, 26, 28

Speak pure fool, i. 85

Speeding-place, ii. 333

Spiders eaten by monkeys, i. 213

Spur-royals, i. 109

Spurs (jingling spurs affected by gallants), i. 233

Squibs running on lines, ii. 121

Stabb’d arms, ii. 70

Stage, custom of gallants to sit (and smoke) on the, i. 199, 200, 206

Stalking-horse, i. 283

Stammel, ii. 387; iii. 14

State (= throne), i. 36; ii. 215

States (= nobles), i. 109, 159, 162

Statist, ii. 262

Statute-staple, iii. 322

Stigmatic, iii. 359

Stock (= stoccata), i. 111, 239

Stockado, iii. 268

Stone-bows, ii. 8

Streak, iii. 323, 355

Stut, ii. 342

Suburbs (bawdy-houses in), i. 317

Suffenus, iii. 306

Surphule, i. 245; iii. 275, 310

Surquedry, i. 50, 147; iii. 267

Switzer, iii. 348

Swound, ii. 93

Sylvester, Joshua, iii. 281

Tacitus, his remarks on prohibited books, ii. 48

Take say, ii. 11

Take the whiff, ii. 353

Take up commodities, ii. 340; iii. 365

Tamburlaine, iii. 25

Tanakin, ii. 13

Taw, ii. 376

Tereus, iii. 266

Termagant, iii. 240

There goes but a pair of shears betwixt, i. 290

Thou’st (= thou must), i. 283

Thristing, ii. 413

Thunder, eels roused from the mud by, iii. 347

Thus while she sleeps I sorrow for her sake, iii. 14

Thwack a jerkin, ii. 405

Toderers, i. 210

Too too, ii. 328; iii. 313

Totter’d, ii. 373

Touch (= perception), i. 105

Toy to mock an ape withal, iii. 362

Tradesmen’s wives used as lures to attract customers, ii. 60; iii. 266, 325

Tragœdia cothurnata, i. 140

Travellers, affected solemnity of, i. 12; iii. 274

Traverse, iii. 394

Trenchmore, iii. 272

Tretably, ii. 358

Trick of twenty, i. 276; ii. 54

Trot the ring, i. 111, 142; iii. 378

Trow (= think you?), iii. 74

Trunk, iii. 31

Trunk-sleeves, ii. 184

Truss my hose, i. 10

Tubrio, iii. 273

Tumbrel, iii. 262, 346

Turnmill Street, ii. 16

Turn-spit dog bound to his wheel, iii. 41

Tweer, i. 71

Twelve-penny room, i. 202

Twinest (= embraces), i. 117

Twopenny ward, iii. 106

Ulysses, his counterfeited madness, iii. 15

Unheal, i. 243

Unnookt simplicity, i. 163

Unpaiz’d, i. 144

Unperegall, ii. 85

Unshale, i. 215

Upbraid, iii. 379

Ure, iii. 312, 329

Vaunt-guard, iii. 261

Vaut, ii. 288

Velure, i. 79

Via, ii. 20, 43, 133

Vie, iii. 84

Vin de monte, ii. 140

Vincentio Saviolo, iii. 373

Violets, bridal-beds strewn with, ii. 373

Virgil imitated, i. 113

Virginia, early settlers in, iii. 63

Virgins, popularly supposed to have the right to save the lives of criminals, iii. 190

Virtue, ii. 247

Vively, ii. 293

Voluntaries, iii. 261

Wall-eyed, iii. 133

Wandering whore, iii. 377

Wards, treatment of, iii. 314

Wedlock (= wife), ii. 143; iii. 47

Weeping Cross, iii. 85

Welshmen’s pride in their gentility, i. 258

Westward Ho! comedy of, iii. 5

Westward Ho! (i.e., to Tyburn), iii. 27

Wet finger (“with a wet finger”), ii. 189

What could I do withal? ii. 214

When (exclamation of impatience) i. 241; ii. 348, &c.

When Arthur first in Court began, i. 240

When Sampson was a tall young man, iii. 32

Whiblin, iii. 168

Whiff, take the, ii. 353

Who calls Jeronimo? iii. 12

Who cries out murther? Lady, was it you? iii. 26

Wighy, i. 56

Will (= command), i. 125, ii. 305

Willow garland, ii. 336

Wimble, i. 58

Wisards (wise men), i. 159; iii. 335

With a wanion, iii. 53

Witches turned into cats, ii. 203

Without a man (i.e., outside of man’s sense), ii. 294

Wolt, i. 27

Wood, ii. 253

Woodstock’s work, iii. 276

Woollen caps, ii. 60

Word (= motto), i. 77, 84; iii. 155

Wounds of a murdered man supposed to bleed in the presence of the murderer, iii. 224

Wrapt up in the tail of his mother’s smock, ii. 407

Wrinkles, vulgar belief concerning, iii. 135

Writhled, iii. 326

Wrought shirt, i. 79

Xylinum, iii. 288, 342

Yellow, iii. 123

You’st (= you must), i. 310

Zabarella, Giacomo, ii. 363

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