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The works of Thomas Middleton, Volume 5 (of 5)

Act 5 — INDEX TO THE NOTES.

Reading edition

623INDEX TO THE NOTES.

’a high lone, i. 262.

a-per-se, i. 277.

a thing done, iv. 87.

able, iv. 223.

Abra’m, goodman, iii. 32.

Abram-coloured, i. 259.

abrupt, ii. 151.

Achilles’ spear, iii. 498.

aches, i. 28, 45; ii. 417.

acopus, iii. 327.

acrostic, ii. 179.

adelantado, i. 241.

affected, v. 7.

affects, v. 144.

affront, ii. 14.

again, i. 331; ii. 33; v. 371.

agen, i. 416; ii. 68; iii. 88; v. 192.

alablaster, i. 281; iv. 108.

alchemy (or alcumy), iv. 122.

alamire, iii. 626.

Alastor, v. 432.

Aldegund, Abbess, iv. 310.

ale-conner, i. 174.

a’ life, i. 272; ii. 68; iii. 348; iv. 70.

Aligant, iii. 8; iv. 218.

aloof off, i. 427; ii. 525; iii. 40; v. 89.

All-holland-tide, ii. 283.

All-hollontide, v. 282.

alline, v. 394.

allowed, i. 7.

almond for parrot, iii. 112; iv. 122.

altitonant, v. 175.

a’m, i. 351.

amber, iv. 237.

amorously, iv. 236.

Amsterdam, toleration of sects there, i. 205; iii. 255; iv. 45.

anatomies, iii. 225.

ancient, iii. 239.

angel, i. 250; ii. 25; iii. 38; iv. 616; v. 20.

angle, ii. 132; iv. 309.

angler, ii. 537.

Anno Domini, iii. 266.

anon, anon, iv. 177; v. 588.

Arlotta, iii. 201.

Arthur of Bradley, iii. 118.

Antlings, Saint, i. 503; ii. 464.

antimasque, iv. 627; v. 146.

apaid, i. 125.

apes’ breeches, iv. 425.

apparance, i. 361; ii. 119.

apperil, i. 427.

apple-squire, iii. 232.

appose, i. 304.

approve, iv. 243; v. 62; v. 315.

apron husbands, ii. 486.

aqua vitæ, i. 206; iii. 239; v. 82.

argo, i. 392.

Aristippus, ii. 422.

arrant, v. 5.

arson, v. 265.

624Artillery Garden, iv. 424; v. 283.

aslopen, i. 257.

assumed formally, ii. 396.

assured, iv. 201.

atomies, iii. 226.

attone, ii. 194; iv. 509.

aunt, i. 444; iii. 16; iv. 247.

aventure, i. 283.

away with, iv. 474.

baffle, ii. 449.

baffling, iv. 44.

[baker’s ditch, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxv.]

Bales, Peter, v. 571.

ballat-places, v. 542.

balloon-ball, iv. 342.

ban, i. 284.

band, i. 245; ii. 439.

bandileer, v. 517.

bandora, ii. 319.

banes, i. 471; iv. 483; v. 129.

banquet, iii. 252; v. 42.

bankrout, ii. 453; iv. 56.

banquerout, iv. 506; v. 487.

Bankside, v. 574.

bard cater-tray, iii. 193.

barley-break, iii. 114; iv. 250.

barren, iv. 581.

bastard, ii. 347; iii. 45.

basilisk, iii. 214.

basins beaten when bawds, &c., were carted, iii. 238.

basket, the, v. 142.

battler, v. 544.

bauble, iv. 247.

bawds, rings worn by, i. 80.

Beauchamp, bold, ii. 411.

Bear, the, at the Bridge-foot, v. 122.

bear in hand, ii. 456; iii. 373.

bearing, ii. 529.

beaten, i. 491.

beats chalk, iii. 221.

be covered, iii. 268; v. 29.

bedfellow, i. 448.

beetle, iii. 231.

before me, iii. 459.

beforne, v. 483.

beg for a fool, iii. 16; iv. 134.

beholding, i. 441; ii. 30; iii. 286; iv. 40; v. 36.

bell used by beggars, ii. 169.

Bell, the, iv. 8.

Bell, Adam, ii. 446.

beray, i. 294; iii. 270.

Bermothes, iv. 500.

beset, i. 504.

beshrow, iii. 460.

besides, i. 235.

besonian, i. 240.

bevers, iv. 427; v. 141.

bewrays, i. 294; ii. 197.

bewrayed, v. 76.

bin, iii. 193; v. 421.

bill-men, iii. 217; v. 513.

bills, i. 423.

bitter, v. 289.

bizlebizle, iii. 152.

black-guard, ii. 546.

Blackfriars, iv. 75; v. 574.

black patches, ii. 535.

blacks, ii. 353.

blanched harlot, ii. 380.

blank, iv. 119.

bleaking-house, v. 106.

blocks, iii. 107, 147.

blue gown worn by strumpets in penance, iii. 220.

blue worn by beadles, i. 485.

blue worn by servants, ii. 26; iii. 146; v. 109.

blurt, iii. 30.

board, iv. 5 [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxiii.]

boarded, v. 577.

boards, ii. 542.

Bocardo, ii. 120.

boiled, ii. 544.

625bolsters, iv. 452.

bolt, iii. 189.

bombards, v. 145.

bombasted, iii. 198.

bonner, v. 378.

booked it, iii. 594.

books, in my, iii. 349.

booted, v. 566.

boot-halers, ii. 532.

borachio, iv. 103.

bost, v. 567.

boughts, iii. 281.

bousing ken, ii. 538.

[bow a little, Ad. & Cor. i. lxx.]

bow-wide, a, i. 489.

brabbling matter, iii. 458.

bracks, iv. 6.

Brainford, i. 450; ii. 463; iv. 37; v. 159.

branched, v. 103.

Brandon, iii. 532.

brave, ii. 543; iii. 15; iv. 135; v. 25.

bravely, iv. 504.

braver, i. 430.

bravery, i. 28; iv. 167; v. 490.

Brazen Head, the, ii. 523.

bread and salt, taking, iii. 103.

breaking-up, v. 574.

breast, iv. 583.

breath, v. 431.

Bretnor, iii. 537; v. 149.

Bridewell, iii. 222.

brief, v. 23.

broker, i. 248.

broking, i. 248.

bronstrops, iii. 508.

brothel, ii. 5.

brown-bill, i. 237.

bruited, ii. 138.

bubbers, iv. 121.

Bucklersbury, iv. 48.

bucklers, ancient, iii. 147.

budgelling, v. 30.

bugle-browed, iv. 478.

bulchins, iii. 524.

bulk, iii. 177; v. 509.

bull-beggars, ii. 20.

Bumby, mother, iv. 124.

bums, i. 432; ii. 388.

bum-roll, iv. 551.

buona-roba, i. 258; ii. 460; iii. 132.

Burbage, v. 503.

burgonet, i. 231.

burgh, ii. 465.

Burse, the, ii. 510; v. 485.

burst, v. 412.

burying money, i. 81.

busk-points, v. 515.

Butler, Dr. W., i. 37.

byrlady, i. 135; ii. 66; iii. 9; iv. 530.

byrlakins, iv. 480.

byss, v. 558.

cabishes, v. 35.

cabrito, iv. 404.

callymoocher, i. 174.

caltrop, iv. 623.

camooch, i. 239.

canaries, the, iii. 39; iv. 174.

canions, iii. 573.

canker, iii. 501.

cannot tell, iii. 357.

cant, v. 208.

canter, iii. 612.

cantle, v. 209.

capachity, i. 277.

Capello, Bianca, iv. 516.

carkanet, ii. 300.

carnadine, iv. 440.

carnifexes, iii. 523.

carpet, i. 385; iii. 63.

carpet-knights, iii. 64.

case, iv. 177.

casible, iv. 322.

cast, i. 288; ii. 201.

cast, i. 158; ii. 201; iii. 296; iv. 92.

cast, i. 444; iv. 132.

casting-bottle, ii. 216; iv. 567.

cat, game of, iv. 527.

Cataian, iii. 191.

cater’s, iv. 595.

Cato, iv. 73.

catso, i. 296; iii. 152.

cautelous, ii. 144; iv. 334.

cavelled, ii. 510.

Cecily, St., iv. 310.

celsitude, ii. 172.

censure, i. 497; ii. 44; iii. 468; iv. 510; v. 546.

censured, ii. 227.

certes, iii. 499.

chain worn by stewards, ii. 347.

chaldrons, iii. 55.

Challoner, Jacob, v. 620.

chamberlin, iii. 383.

chambers, v. 190.

champers, ii. 352.

champion, ii. 73.

changeling, iv. 436.

chare, iii. 237; iv. 382.

charge, the constable’s, i. 238.

charm, iii. 543.

chates, v. 495.

Charnico, iii. 213; v. 540.

cheat, iii. 505.

cheators, ii. 546.

cheese-trenchers, posies on, i. 31; iii. 98.

chewits, iii. 273.

chick, i. 279.

chickness, i. 279.

chilis, iii. 514.

chinclout, ii. 381.

chittizens, i. 280.

chitty, i. 236.

Choosing King and Queen, v. 141.

Chreokopia, i. 7.

chrisom, ii. 276.

circular, iii. 478.

cittern in a barber’s shop, i. 174; iii. 229.

city-wedlock, v. 149; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxvi.]

civil, iv. 505.

civilly, v. 198.

clack-dish, or clap-dish, ii. 169; iii. 199; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxi.]

clarissimo, iii. 11.

clergy, ii. 155.

clifts, v. 405.

clip, i. 352; ii. 234; iv. 296; v. 210.

clipped, iii. 286.

cloth, i. 445.

clubs, clubs, i. 467; iii. 88.

coats, i. 51.

coats, long, ii. 472.

cob, iii. 197; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxi.]

cockatrice, ii. 161; iii. 70; iv. 400; v. 577.

cock-shoot, iii. 382.

Cockpit, the, pulled down by the apprentices, v. 148.

Cocoquismo, iv. 118.

codpiece, pins stuck in, iii. 81.

cog, i. 245; ii. 517; iv. 67; v. 71, 579.

cognizance, v. 398.

cogs, iv. 123.

Cole, old, iii. 200; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxi.]

Cole-Harbour, ii. 58; iv. 451; v. 516.

coll, iii. 260.

collogue, v. 148.

collowest, ii. 152.

colon, iii. 602; iv. 33.

colour, ii. 184.

Combe Park, ii. 264; v. 539.

come cut and long tail, v. 45.

626come aloft, Jack, iii. 112; iv. 123.

come off roundly, iii. 419.

commodity, ii. 361.

commodity, taking up a, i. 450.

common place, ii. 336; iv. 56.

companions, ii. 26; iii. 27.

complement, ii. 333; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxvii.]

con thanks, iv. 448.

conceit, i. 163.

conceit, i. 157; iii. 393; v. 42.

conceitedly, i. 179.

conclusions, iii. 255; iv. 122; v. 520.

condition, i. 34.

condition, i. 150; iii. 292; iv. 235; v. 14.

consort, i. 75; ii. 127; iii. 211.

conster, iii. 64; v. 587.

contain, i. 357; ii. 315.

conveyance, ii. 299; v. 517.

cony, iii. 39.

cony-catching, i. 290; ii. 57; iii. 16; iv. 134; v. 495.

cony-skins, ii. 123.

copy, iii. 401.

corago, ii. 533.

coranto-pace, iii. 627.

Cornelianum Dolium, attributed to Randolph, most probably written by Brathwait, iv. 488.

Cornelius’ dry-fats, i. 236; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxii.]

Cornelius’ tub, ii. 160.

Cornish hug, iii. 480.

Cornish chough, iii. 481.

coronel, v. 277.

corps, iv. 32; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxiii]

costards, ii. 193.

costermongers, iii. 131.

cotations, ii. 196.

coted, ii. 342.

cotqueans, ii. 486.

cottens, ii. 150; v. 150.

cought, v. 458.

counter, v. 540.

Counter, the Poultry, i. 392.

Counter, the Wood-street, i. 392.

counterfeit, i. 257; v. 498.

court-cupboard, ii. 506; iii. 35.

cousin, i. 499; iii. 60; iv. 442.

cove, or cuffin, ii. 539.

covered, iii. 87.

covert-barn, i. 370; ii. 322; iii. 65.

cracked in the ring, ii. 253; iii. 55.

crackship, i. 249.

crag, iv. 226.

cramp ring, ii. 515.

crank, ii. 16.

cried, iv. 595.

Crismas, Garret, v. 290.

cross on coins, i. 246; ii. 122; iii. 613.

cross, creeping to the, ii. 114.

cross-biter, ii. 260.

cross-lays, v. 542.

crowd, i. 110.

cruel garters, v. 515.

cruzadoes, iii. 63.

cuck, ii. 558.

cucking-stool, ii. 185.

cue, v. 545.

cullion, v. 534.

cullis, ii. 151; iii. 271; iv. 338.

cummin-seeds, iv. 123.

Cunegund, empress, iv. 310.

cupboard of plate, ii. 91; v. 492.

627curbers, ii. 546.

curious, i. 317; ii. 402.

Curtain, the, v. 586.

curtal, i. 237; iii. 38.

custard, a love-present, i. 444.

custode, iv. 311.

cut, i. 208.

cut ben whids, ii. 542.

cutted, i. 208; iv. 566.

cypress, v. 49.

dag, i. 249; ii. 352.

Dagger-pies, iv. 488.

daggered arms, iii. 53.

[dance in a net, Ad. & Cor. i. lxx.]

dandyprat, i. 246; iii. 590.

dare larks, iii. 126.

daw, i. 307.

dead pays, iv. 434.

dear, i. 189.

dearer, iii. 307.

dearest, iv. 486.

decimo sexto, v. 562.

decreen, i. 192.

deduct, i. 48.

deft, iv. 579.

defy, i. 513; ii. 97; iii. 144; iv. 118.

dell, ii. 538; iii. 606.

Denmark-House, v. 166.

departed, v. 533.

Derrick’s necklaces, v. 515.

descried, v. 526.

devotion, v. 62.

Diego, don, i. 293.

Digby, sir Everard, allusion to his execution, i. 451.

dill, iv. 167.

diminiting, iii. 456.

diseased, i. 450; iii. 312.

disgest, ii. 259; iii. 454; iv. 200; v. 384.

disliked, iv. 570.

dislocate thy bladud, iii. 509.

ditch, ii. 315.

dive-dapper, ii. 87; iii. 590.

Divelin, iv. 500.

do withal, iv. 26.

Doddipoll, doctor, ii. 188.

Dogs, Isle of, ii. 535.

door-keeper, v. 525.

doubts, ii. 57.

Dowland’s Lacrymæ, v. 16.

dresser, cook knocking on, &c., i. 247.

drink tobacco, ii. 457; iii. 212.

drunk, iii. 162.

dry-fisted, iii. 39.

duke, v. 177.

dumb-show, iv. 261.

Dunces, iv. 52.

Dunkirks, iii. 132; v. 10.

Dutch slop, ii. 472.

Dutch widow, ii. 50.

earns, iii. 503.

eat snakes, iii. 140.

Ebusus, iv. 401.

egrimony, v. 196.

Egypt, child of, iii. 394.

eke, ii. 167.

ela, i. 278; iii. 624.

elephant and camels, the, iv. 136.

Elinor, queen, sinking at Charing-Cross and rising at Queenhithe, iii. 255; iv. 497.

ell, iv. 441.

enginer, v. 248.

enginous, v. 316.

enter in, iii. 459.

entreat, v. 554.

epitaphs pinned on a coffin, iv. 93.

Eschip, v. 417.

estridge, v. 289.

Europa’s sea-form, ii. 178; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxvi.]

628Euphuize, v. 560.

exercise, i. 211; ii. 153.

eyne, iv. 440.

fadom, ii. 387.

fadge, ii. 87.

fagary, ii. 526.

fair, v. 360.

fair-conditioned, v. 564.

falls, or falling bands, ii. 218, 438; iii. 37.

familiar, ii. 482; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxvi.]

Family of Love, account of, ii. 103, 156; iv. 437.

fancy, ii. 97; iv. 459.

far, iv. 402.

farcels, iv. 422.

farewell, and a thousand, ii. 86.

far-fet, v. 376.

fathom, i. 415; ii. 334.

fat-sagg chin, v. 514.

fault, i. 62.

Faustus, doctor, v. 515.

fear, ii. 401; iii. 467.

’fection, v. 97.

fegary, iv. 115.

felfare, iv. 429.

felt, iii. 67.

fig, the, iii. 421.

fig-frails, ii. 287.

figging-law, ii. 544.

figient, iv. 61.

filed, ii. 289.

find, i. 237.

fire-drakes, ii. 267.

first part of a successful play sometimes written after the second part, iii. 408.

fist, iii. 71.

fitters, iv. 48.

flag on a theatre, ii. 332.

flap-dragon, i. 66; ii. 99; iii. 112.

flat-cap, iii. 58.

flight, iv. 349.

fline, ii. 515.

flitter-mouse, iii. 261.

float, iv. 113.

florens, iv. 256.

foists, ii. 546; iv. 118.

fond, i. 269; ii. 449; iii. 18; iv. 318; v. 343.

fondly, ii. 343.

fondness, iii. 591.

footcloths, i. 396; ii. 369; iii. 194; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxviii.]

for, ii. 351.

for and, iii. 544.

forefinger, the, i. 325.

former, v. 520.

Fortune, the, ii. 435.

forward for a knave, iv. 448.

’found, iii. 119.

foutra, iv. 33.

foxed, i. 213; iv. 142.

frampole, v. 140.

franked, iv. 401.

fresh-woman, iv. 51.

frippery, ii. 222.

fro, iii. 495.

froating, ii. 69.

frokin, v. 181.

frumped, ii. 517.

fucus, iii. 508.

gaberdines, iv. 138.

gallant, ii. 543; iii. 193.

galleasses, ii. 19.

galley-foist, ii. 531; iii. 212.

galliard, i. 65; iii. 631.

gally-gascoyns, iii. 405.

gamashoes, v. 551.

gambols, v. 143.

gamester, iii. 274.

gander-mooners, iii. 528.

garden-house, i. 162; iii. 188; v. 586.

629Garden-bull, iv. 230.

gascoyne-bride, ii. 549.

gascoynes, v. 567.

gastrolophe, iii. 547.

gaudy-days, v. 545.

gaudy-shops, iv. 16.

gear, i. 373; ii. 87; iv. 9; v. 150.

gelt feathers, ii. 527.

gentlemen sitting on the stage, ii. 412, 458.

george, iv. 499.

German clock, ii. 385.

German, the high, ii. 466; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxviii.]

Germania, iv. 118.

gib, ii. 518.

giglot, ii. 115.

gill, ii. 115; iv. 77; v. 148.

gilt, or gelt, ii. 197.

gin, i. 288.

ging, ii. 532; iv. 141.

gird, ii. 130.

girl worth gold, ii. 523.

given the bag, iv. 410.

gives aim, ii. 335; iii. 453; iv. 122.

glasiers, ii. 535.

gleek, v. 142.

glory-fat, v. 517.

god-den, iv. 19.

Godeva, iv. 490.

God’s a good man, ii. 475.

God’s my pittikins, iii. 37.

God’s-santy, iii. 114.

goldfinch, i. 283.

goldsmiths acting as bankers, ii. 297.

golls, i. 206; ii. 452; iii. 23; iv. 32; v. 532.

gom, iii. 359.

good, iii. 460.

good fellow, ii. 21; iii. 195; v. 532.

gossip, i. 480.

Gough, Alexander, iii. 341.

gown, a loose-bodied, i. 431; iii. 67; v. 525.

Grantham steeple, v. 523.

great, the, i. 492.

great-breeched, ii. 111.

greeces, v. 208.

Greeks, mad, iii. 96.

Greene, Robert, i. 290; v. 581.

Gresham’s Burse, iv. 16.

grincomes, ii. 121.

grinds in the mill, iii. 221.

growt, iv. 164.

grutched, iv. 473.

guarded, iii. 236.

guess, i. 326; ii. 93; v. 618.

Guiana, voyage to, iv. 426.

guitonens, iv. 324.

gules, iii. 61; iv. 158.

gulled, iv. 381.

gummed, iv. 443.

Guttide, ii. 165.

haberdines, iv. 64.

hair growing through the hood, iv. 483.

hair, against the, i. 163; iii. 377; v. 19.

half moons, ii. 382.

hangers, ii. 227; iii. 196; v. 567.

hartichalks, v. 35.

Harvey, Gabriel, Richard, and John, v. 561.

has, i. 72.

hast, v. 483.

hatcht, ii. 257.

haut, iv. 135.

have at your plum-tree, iii. 359; v. 42.

hay, iv. 587.

heal, iii. 278.

health-drinking, forms in, iii. 29.

healths in urine, ii. 99.

630hearse, iv. 591.

hecatombaion, i. 50; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxi.]

hem, iii. 523.

hench-boy, ii. 459.

Hero and Leander, Marlowe’s, ii. 340.

hey-de-guize, iv. 163.

Higden, Raynulph, i. 125.

high-men, ii. 313.

hight, i. 192; v. 296.

hippocras, iii. 38.

Hiren, i. 76.

ho, i. 287.

ho, there’s no, iii. 106.

Hobson, iv. 7; v. 596.

hole, ii. 400.

Hole, the, i. 392; ii. 69; iii. 376; v. 101.

Hollantide, ii. 165.

honey-lingued, v. 177.

Horn, the, v. 574.

horns for the thumb, ii. 536.

horse and foot, i. 380.

horse, Banks’s, v. 533.

horse-trick, i. 63.

hose, i. 367; ii. 150; iii. 67; iv. 389; v. 128.

hose, in your t’other, iv. 145.

[hospital, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxii.]

hospital-boys, i. 497.

Huldrick, his Epistle to Nicholas, iv. 407; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxiv.]

husband having the toothache while his wife is breeding, iv. 599.

Ignatius Loyola, iv. 310.

[Ill May-day, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxvi.]

imposterous, i. 155.

improve, iv. 420; v. 561; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxii.]

in-and-in, v. 142.

incestancy, i. 268.

incolants, v. 448.

incontinently, i. 256; ii. 516; iv. 263.

incony, i. 252.

in dock, out nettle, iii. 611; v. 150.

ingeniously, ii. 438.

ingle, i. 252; ii. 517.

ingle, i. 301; ii. 498; iii. 15.

ingling, v. 497.

injury, ii. 266.

innocence, iv. 299.

innocent, iv. 451; v. 500.

inseparable knave, i. 324.

instance, ii. 119.

inward, i. 440; ii. 234.

Ireland, purged from venomous creatures by St. Patrick, iii. 177; iv. 495.

Irish, ii. 528.

Irish footmen, iii. 131; v. 531.

————— darts carried by, iii. 530.

Ivel, iii. 539.

ivy-bush of a tavern, iv. 177.

i-wis, i. 451.

I wus, i. 327.

jack, i. 255.

jacks, iv. 527.

jacks, iii. 112; v. 593.

Jacks-in-boxes, iv. 164.

Janivere, iii. 94.

javel, iii. 157.

jealious, iv. 326.

jealous, ii. 216; v. 61.

Jeronimo, i. 285.

jesses, v. 369.

jets, iii. 147; iv. 167; v. 21.

jigs, v. 569.

jig-makers, iii. 10.

jobbering, ii. 534.

John of Paul’s Churchyard, v. 553.

631Jonson, Ben, imitated, ii. 97, 98.

—— passage in his Bartholomew Fair explained, v. 516.

Judas with the red beard, iv. 47.

jugal, iii. 480.

Julian, iv. 402.

Julius Cæsar, motion of, v. 591.

junt, ii. 96.

ka me, ka thee, iii. 572.

keep a door, iii. 184.

keep cut with, iii. 572.

keeps, i. 402.

ken, ii. 129.

Kent or Kirsendom, in, i. 211.

kern, iii. 174.

[kerry merry buff, Ad. & Cor. i. lxii.]

kersened, i. 429.

Kersmas, v. 139.

kersten, iv. 28.

ketlers, v. 543; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxvi.]

kiff nor kin, iv. 66.

kinchin mort, ii. 538.

kind, ii. 382; iv. 372.

Kirsendom, i. 200.

kix, ii. 4; iv. 4.

Knaves, orders of, ii. 174.

kneeling after the play, ii. 418; iv. 202.

kneeling in health-drinking, iii. 216.

knight of the post, i. 308; v. 512.

knight of Windsor, ii. 356.

Knight’s ward, i. 392; ii. 227; iv. 96.

knights created by King James, allusion to, ii. 333.

kursen, iv. 44.

kursning-day, iv. 38.

kyes, ii. 485.

laced mutton, i. 236.

lancepresadoes, iii. 532.

lannard, iv. 184.

lantern and candlelight, i. 283; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxii.]

lapwing, stratagem of, i. 88.

large, a, iii. 625.

laugh and lie down, i. 269.

lavender, in, ii. 150.

lavolta, i. 261; iii. 628.

lay, iii. 23.

laying, ii. 11; iv. 74.

Leatica, iii. 213.

leek, iii. 260.

leesing, i. 263; ii. 301; iii. 28.

lectuary, ii. 131.

legs, iii. 84; iv. 601; v. 573.

leiger, ii. 316; v. 524.

leman, iv. 162.

lerry, i. 281.

let, i. 159.

lets, ii. 415; iii. 377; v. 31.

lewd, i. 498.

liberal, ii. 190; v. 601.

lie, i. 306; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxiii.]

lib ken, ii. 539.

lifters, ii. 546.

like, i. 132; ii. 47; iii. 59; iv. 168; v. 64.

limb-lifter, ii. 206.

Limbo, v. 514.

lin, iii. 429; iv. 51; v. 523.

linstock, ii. 531.

Lipsius, iv. 250.

little-ease, ii. 145.

liver, ii. 133.

loath to depart, i. 80.

logs for Christmas, i. 457.

long, a, iii. 625.

632Longacre, ii. 5; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxv.]

loose, ii. 147.

lopes, iv. 163.

Lopez, iv. 384.

loves, of all, iii. 22.

lubrican, iii. 175.

luxinium, iv. 451.

luxurious, iii. 52; v. 510.

luxurs, v. 530.

luxury, ii. 368; iv. 350; v. 508.

luzerns, v. 288.

lycanthrope, iv. 247.

mace, oil of, ii. 372.

macrio, iv. 497.

made, ii. 244.

made women, ii. 400.

made sure, ii. 489.

Madrill, iv. 104.

Magas, iv. 403.

magot-o’-pie, iii. 608.

Main, St., iv. 310.

make, i. 401.

make a bolt or a shaft on’t, ii. 34.

make buttons, iv. 181.

making, ii. 53.

making ready, i. 273; ii. 224; iii. 396.

make unready, ii. 57; iii. 478.

male varlet, iii. 77.

malicholly, iii. 55.

malled, iv. 166.

manable, ii. 179.

manchets, i. 444; iii. 38; iv. 405; v. 492.

mandillion, i. 292.

mandrake, iii. 13.

mantian, v. 497.

maple-faced, ii. 297.

maps, iv. 135.

Marcell, iv. 310.

marchpane, iii. 269; iv. 577.

marginal finger, iii. 9.

mark, ii. 79; iii. 198; iv. 10.

mar’l, iii. 390; iv. 48.

marmoset, i. 387; iii. 37; v. 564.

marquesse, ii. 74.

marry, muff, i. 258; iii. 36; v. 593.

marvedi, iv. 119.

Master’s side, i. 392; ii. 342.

mastery, iv. 311.

masty, ii. 17.

match, v. 494.

maunderer upon the pad, ii. 536.

maundering, ii. 542; iv. 125; v. 148.

maunding, v. 167.

mauz avez, iii. 540.

maw, five-finger at, ii. 197.

May-butter, v. 12.

Mayor’s bench at Oxford, v. 529.

mazer, iii. 83.

mazzard, iv. 366; v. 535.

meacock, iii. 32.

means, iv. 496.

measure, i. 233; iv. 587.

meet, iii. 262.

Meg of Westminster, ii. 530; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxix.]

Meg, Roaring, i. 263; iii. 485.

Mephostophilis, i. 249.

mere, iii. 426.

mere compact, v. 486.

merely, i. 469; iv. 373.

meritorious, v. 340.

mermaid, i. 78.

Mermaid, the, ii. 240; v. 574.

Merry Devil of Edmonton, correction of a passage in, v. 537.

Metereza, iii. 628.

mickle, ii. 246.

633[Midsummer watch, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxvi.]

Milton, his imitation of Heywood, i. 350.

——— of Middleton, iv. 316.

minded, i. 179.

minikin, ii. 127.

Mirror of Knighthood, iii. 181.

Mirror of Magistrates, i. 238.

Misrule, Lord of, i. 305.

mistress, v. 66.

Mitre, the, ii. 240; v. 574.

Mizaldus, his Secrets in Nature, iv. 262.

money dropt into shoes by fairies, iii. 609.

monkey’s ordinary, iv. 369.

Monsieur, ii. 389; v. 519.

monthly, ii. 552.

most, i. 432.

mother, i. 186; iii. 41.

motion, i. 229; ii. 19; v. 591.

Motte, Monsieur, i. 260.

moul, v. 419.

Mount, the, iii. 482.

mought, i. 495; ii. 56; iii. 235.

mouse, ii. 137.

much, i. 257.

muchatoes, v. 516.

muckinder, ii. 83.

mull-sack, iv. 142.

mull wines, i. 391.

Muly Crag a whee, iv. 161.

mumming, ii. 519.

Munday, Anthony, v. 219.

murderers, iv. 218.

murdering-piece, iii. 466.

murrion, iii. 148.

music-room, iv. 93.

muss, ii. 379; iv. 122.

mutton, iii. 102; iv. 23.

mutton-monger, iii. 162.

My-lady’s-hole, v. 143.

My-sow-has-pigged, v. 143.

mysteries, ii, 507.

napery, iii. 56.

Nash, Thomas, his Pierce Pennilesse, v. 511, 512.

—— ——, date of his death, v. 527; [and Acc. of Middleton and his Works, i. xviii.]

ne, i. 422.

neasts, i. 417.

neck-verse, v. 126.

needle, iv. 403.

needle-bearded, v. 198.

ne’er the near, v. 365.

nemp your sexes, i. 193.

Newgate, black dogs of, v. 541.

New-fangle, v. 564.

nice, i. 136.

nicely, v. 86.

niceness, i. 186; ii. 134; iii. 451; iv. 350.

nigget, iv. 247.

night-rails, i. 164.

nigrum, v. 411.

Nineveh, motion of, i. 229; iv. 166; v. 591.

ningles, ii. 498; iii. 60; iv. 178; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxix.]

nips, ii. 546.

nips of fairies, iii. 259.

nipping Christian, ii. 536.

no, i. 169; ii. 538; iii. 288; iv. 43; v. 119.

noble, ii. 17; iii. 271; v. 267.

nock, i. 282.

noddy, i. 273; v. 142.

noise of fiddlers, ii. 498; iii. 303; v. 529.

nonce, ii. 71; v. 592.

northern dozens, i. 372.

noul, iv. 142.

nunchions, v. 141.

634nuncle, ii. 97; iv. 124.

O man in lamentation, ii. 64.

obtrect, iii. 508.

of, iii. 556; iv. 286; v. 594.

of cross, iii. 569.

oil of ben, iii. 366.

old, ii. 538; iv. 370.

Oliver, sweet, iii. 40.

opinion, ii. 337.

[orangado, Ad. & Cor. i. lxx.]

Orata, Sergius, iv. 402.

ordinary, sixpenny, &c., i. 389; v. 72.

ordinary, gambling at, i. 434; iv. 427.

organs disliked by puritans, ii. 153; iv. 488.

Ostend, siege of, iii. 75.

othergates, i. 245.

O Toole, iii. 526.

ought, iv. 487; v. 28.

out-cry, iv. 58.

over I was, iii. 416.

over-brave, v. 167.

overflown, i. 390.

overture, ii. 112.

owes, i. 271; iv. 264; v. 28.

owl in an ivy-bush, to look like an, iv. 177.

pair of organs, ii. 346; iii. 147.

pair of virginals, iii. 211.

pack, ii. 447.

painted cloth, iii. 97; v. 208.

palliard, ii. 541.

panado, iii. 271.

paned hose, i. 28; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxi.]

Pancridge, iii. 546.

pantaloon, iv. 173.

pantaples, i. 286.

pantofles, iii. 111; iv. 483.

parbreaking, v. 73.

parcel-rascals, v. 150.

Paris-Garden, i. 407; v. 593.

paritor, ii. 170.

parle, iii. 456.

parle, iv. 503.

parlous, i. 286; iii. 170; iv. 225.

Parlous Pond, ii. 469.

parmasant, iv. 226.

passa-measures galliard, iii. 630.

passage, iv. 548; v. 579.

passion, i. 349; ii. 64; iii. 331; iv. 25; v. 5.

passions, i. 9; ii. 135.

passionate, v. 593.

passionately, i. 55.

Patrick, St., his Purgatory, iii. 131; iv. 475.

paty, v. 265.

Paul’s Saint, Middle Aisle of, i. 418; ii. 290; v. 494.

pavin, i. 287.

pax, ii. 24.

pear-coloured, iii. 109.

pearl in the eye, iv. 125.

pectoral, v. 265.

pedlar’s French, ii. 193, 539.

peevish, ii. 78; iii. 535; v. 68.

peeps, v. 581.

pegmes, v. 310; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxvi]

peize, ii. 142; iii. 62.

pelt, iv. 219.

pelican feeding its young with her blood, iii. 145.

penance, iv. 108.

penciled, v. 209.

penny-father, v. 530.

Pe’ryn, iii. 539.

perceiverance, iii. 388.

percullis, iii. 162.

performents, iv. 312.

periwigs worn by ladies, ii. 396.

635perilous, i. 283.

Peter-sameene, iii. 213; iv. 142.

petronel, ii. 151.

Petronill, St., iv. 310; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxiii.]

Philip, a name for a sparrow, iii. 388.

Phitonessa, ii. 162.

phrampel, ii. 477.

pickadill, v. 171.

pickaroes, iv. 118.

pick, iv. 11.

pig-eater, ii. 59.

Pict-hatch, v. 512.

Pigeons, the Three, ii. 479.

pigsnie, ii. 468.

pillowbeers, iv. 615.

Pissing-conduit, iv. 53.

pist, ii. 460; iv. 282; v. 28.

pistols, or pistoles, iii. 82.

pistolet, iv. 126.

pitch and pay, i. 242.

placket, ii. 497; iii. 241; iv. 417.

plaguy summer, v. 518.

plaice, wry mouth like a, iii. 152.

play Ambidexter, ii. 194; [and Ad. and Cor. i. lxvi.]

play prize, iii. 86.

play at barriers, ii. 159.

[please you be here, Ad. & Cor. i. lxix.]

plot, v. 352.

pluck a rose, iv. 222.

plunge, ii. 511; iii. 604.

Plymouth cloak, iii. 179.

pocas palabras, ii. 545.

points, i. 244; ii. 196; v. 531.

poker, iii. 35.

poking-sticks, i. 279.

polt foot, iii. 109; v. 534.

Polycarp, iv. 310.

Pond’s Almanac, v. 79.

poniarded, v. 198.

poor-John, i. 243.

populous, ii. 245.

porter, the long, v. 144.

possessed, i. 420; iv. 427.

possets eaten just before bedtime, iii. 314.

’postle-spoons, iv. 47.

posts at a sheriff’s door, iii. 58.

potato-pies, iii. 77.

poulter’s, iii. 46; iv. 72; v. 140.

Poultry, v. 551.

practice, i. 160.

pranking up, iv. 59.

preased, i. 129.

precept, i. 308.

pretend, iv. 270.

prevent, i. 16; ii. 49; iii. 103; iv. 96; v. 284.

prick, v. 165.

prick and praise, ii. 133; iv. 586.

prickle-singing, v. 584.

prick-song, iii. 626; iv. 583; v. 585.

prigging, ii. 52.

primavista, v. 142.

primero, ii. 221.

princocks, v. 494.

print, in, i. 278; iii. 13.

proceeded, iv. 68; v. 87.

prodigious, iii. 5.

progress, iv. 22.

promonts, iv. 216.

promoter, iii. 110; iv. 31.

proper, i. 330; iii. 47; iv. 244; v. 75.

property, iii. 640; v. 39.

properties, ii. 308; iv. 175; v. 208.

[prophet, the new, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxiv.]

636Prospero, v. 565.

prostitutes supping with the players, ii. 412.

provant, iii. 528.

provant breeches, iv. 489.

pruned, iv. 236.

psalmograph, v. 177.

puck-foist, iii. 619.

pudding tobacco, ii. 392; iii. 512.

puggards, ii. 546.

pullen, ii. 242; iii. 606; iv. 118.

purchase, i. 319; ii. 231; iii. 199.

purls, v. 587.

pursenets, ii. 517; iii. 207.

push, i. 29; ii. 24; iv. 259; v. 45.

pusill, iv. 324.

put on, iv. 17.

put up, i. 299; iii. 363.

puttocks, ii. 500.

[quadrangular plumation, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxii.]

quail-pipe, iii. 144.

quail-pipe boot, i. 244.

quarrels, iii. 482.

quarter-jacks in Paul’s, v. 554.

queasy, i. 321; ii. 236.

Queenhive, iv. 37.

queer cuffin, ii. 539.

Quest-house, iv. 425.

questuary, ii. 188.

quit, iii. 402.

quit, iii. 495; v. 38.

quit, iv. 346; v. 94.

quo’, i. 454.

quotes, v. 493.

rail, v. 558.

ramp, ii. 496.

ram’s head, ii. 290; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxvii.]

rarely, i. 333.

raught, i. 188.

ready, iii. 35.

reals, iv. 170.

rear, iv. 381; v. 192.

reclaim, iv. 428.

recorders, iv. 93.

recullisance, i. 483.

reduce, iii. 494.

red lattice, v. 539.

red letter, ii. 155.

Red-shanks, iii. 481.

reeks, iii. 266.

refocillation, ii. 371.

refuse, v. 118.

remembered, be, ii. 526.

remora, iii. 464.

remorse, i. 131; v. 371.

remorseful, v. 582.

Resolution, the, ii. 340.

resolved, i. 215; ii. 23; iii. 101; iv. 71; v. 36.

respective, i. 425.

respectively, ii. 235; iii. 42.

rest, ii. 516.

rest, set up, iv. 428.

retargé, iv. 464.

Richards, Nathaniel, iv. 515.

Rider’s Dictionary, iv. 66; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxiii.]

rife, v. 358.

rifling, iii. 82.

rine, ii. 152.

ring, iii. 170.

ring, running at the, i. 390; ii. 207; iii. 172; v. 262.

ring, tread the, i. 390.

rings, gilt, cozening with, iv. 165.

rise, v. 311.

risse, i. 465; ii. 360; v. 368.

riven dish, ii. 517.

rivo, i. 243.

roaring boys, ii. 427; iii. 485.

Roaring Girl, the, account of, ii. 427.

637roba, i. 258.

roc, le, iv. 311.

Roch, St., iv. 310; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxxiii]

Rochelle, iv. 120.

rogation, ii. 130.

roll, iii. 512.

Rome, go to, with a mortar, iv. 135.

rope for parrot, iii. 113.

rosemary, i. 231; iii. 151.

rose-noble, ii. 253.

roses on shoes, ii. 515.

round, the, ii. 190; iii. 258; iv. 587.

round with, ii. 341.

rounded, ii. 381; v. 530.

rouses, i. 391.

rout, ii. 200.

rove, iii. 454.

[row, the, Ad. & Cor. i. lxiv.]

rowl, v. 462.

Rowley, William, iii. 446.

Rowse, old, v. 540.

royals, i. 345; ii. 43; v. 572.

rubs, v. 66.

ruffler, ii. 537.

rules, iv. 14.

Rumbold, St., iv. 389.

runts, iv. 66.

rushes, i. 134; iv. 54.

sackbuts, i. 177; iv. 120.

sad, i. 316.

sadness, ii. 492; iii. 430; iv. 601.

Saint Pulcher’s, v. 527.

saker, iii. 214.

sakers, iv. 122.

salomon, ii. 538.

salt, beneath the, iii. 40; iv. 405.

salts, v. 491.

Sampson, play of, ii. 124.

sancited, v. 465.

Sanctius, fat, iv. 403.

sanguine, i. 264.

sapa, iv. 402.

satire-days, v. 482.

saveguard, ii. 459; iii. 288.

savin-tree, iv. 321.

Savoy, the, ii. 233.

say, v. 263.

scald, iii. 15, 41.

scandala magnatum, i. 363.

Scirophorion, i. 50; and [Ad. & Cor. i. lxi.]

sconce, i. 283.

scopious, v. 501.

scorn the motion, i. 172; iii. 606.

scotomy, i. 68.

scourse, iii. 627.

scurvy murrey kersey, i. 428; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxiv.]

searchers, i. 491.

sect, ii. 134.

seek, to, i. 189; iii. 595.

seely, v. 392.

seisactheia, i. 7.

Sellenger’s round, v. 578.

set the hare’s head to the goose-giblet, ii. 78.

sewer, v. 260.

shackatory, iii. 171.

shag-haired, iii. 175.

Shakespeare imitated, i. 234, 270; ii. 203, 331, 365, 386; iii. 56, 79, 213; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxvi., lxix]

shapes, v. 209.

share, ii. 406.

shark-gull, v. 524.

shells, ii. 543; iii. 182.

shittle-cork, iv. 54.

shoe the mare, v. 143.

shops, open, iii. 54; iv. 440; v. 587.

shops, dark, i. 482; iv. 442.

shovel-board shilling, ii. 531.

638showrly, iii. 636.

shrieve, ii. 318.

Shrove Tuesday, customs on, iii. 217; v. 147.

shrow, iii. 29.

sidemen, i. 362.

sign, blood-letting according to, ii. 98.

sinquapace, iii. 633; iv. 587.

sirrah, ii. 491; iii. 44.

sir-reverence, i. 171; ii. 175; iv. 65; v. 567.

[sister’s thread, Ad. & Cor. i. lxx.]

sith, v. 341.

sithence, v. 208.

skeldering, ii. 535.

skill, iii. 121.

skills, i. 435.

slate, ii. 538.

slight, i. 441; ii. 47; iii. 103; iv. 263; v. 229.

slip, ii. 417; v. 83.

slop, i. 245; v. 29.

smazky, v. 482.

snaphance, iv. 23.

snibbed, ii. 257.

snobbing, ii. 377.

somner, ii. 29.

sops-in-wine, i. 278.

sort, iii. 153; v. 438.

swoundswound, i. 206.

sounded, v. 602.

soused gurnet, iii. 44.

sovereign, i. 110; v. 600.

sow-gelder’s horn, v. 569.

Spanish needle, i. 244.

Spenser imitated, ii. 339.

spill’d, v. 437.

spiny, i. 174; ii. 369; iv. 45.

spittle, ii. 465; iii. 234.

split, all, ii. 518; iii. 181.

sprawling, iii. 618.

springal, i. 459; iii. 631.

squall, iii. 55; v. 575.

square, ii. 173.

squares, ii. 124.

squat, v. 36.

squelched, iv. 410.

squire, iii. 232.

squire of the body, iii. 231.

stabbing of arms, ii. 99.

stage, the upper, ii. 125; iii. 314; iv. 559; v. 114.

stale, iv. 213.

stale, ii. 521.

stalled to the rogue, ii. 541.

stalling ken, ii. 539.

stammel, v. 198.

stamp, iii. 368; iv. 623.

Standard, the, i. 438; iv. 421; v. 48.

stares, iv. 381.

startups, ii. 175.

state, v. 182.

states, iv. 306; v. 177.

statute-caps, ii. 192.

statutes staple, ii. 123.

steaks, i. 336; ii. 287.

steeple, iii. 149.

stern, i. 317.

steven, v. 371.

stewed prunes, iii. 212.

stock, i. 259.

stomachful, v. 141.

stool-ball, iv. 597.

strain, v. 20.

strangely, i. 346.

strangeness, iii. 295.

strike, ii. 543.

striker, ii. 454; iv. 170.

stript, iv. 447.

strossers, v. 40.

strouts, ii. 531.

subeth, iv. 453.

Succubæ, ii. 386.

suckets, i. 262; iii. 143; iv. 577.

sumner, ii. 525; iv. 429.

639superstichious, v. 170.

suppositor, ii. 161.

surcease, ii. 163.

sure to, ii. 39.

sursurrara, i. 330.

swabbers, iii. 132.

swaddle, iii. 32.

swag, ii. 365.

Swan, the, ii. 545.

swans on the Thames, ii. 509.

swathy feastings, iii. 262.

sweet-breasted, iii. 529.

tabine, iv. 440.

table, i. 31.

table, iii. 116; iv. 438.

table-books, i. 275; iii. 133; v. 392.

tables, i. 301; ii. 206.

tables, iii. 507.

tailor, woman’s, i. 461.

take in snuff, i. 289.

take me with you, i. 451; ii. 22.

take on, i. 491.

[take out, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxv.]

take pepper in the nose, iv. 175.

take their ease i’ their inn, v. 195.

talenter, v. 165.

tall, iii. 83, 581.

Tamburlain, i. 229, v. 526.

Tartary, v. 524.

tavern-bitch has bit, &c., ii. 83.

tavern-token, iii. 22.

taw, i. 275.

tawny-coat, ii. 527.

temption, iv. 114.

teniente, iv. 118.

tents, iii. 585.

tenty-nine, iii. 537.

termers, ii. 42, 107, 433; iii. 254.

term-trotter, i. 330.

tester, ii. 477; iv. 8; v. 496.

teston, i. 258; iii. 38.

than, iii. 203.

thanks and a thousand, iv. 507.

third pile, to the, ii. 343.

Thong-Castle, i. 180.

threading-needles, iv. 141.

three-quarter-sharer, v. 562.

throwster, v. 170.

thrummed, i. 431.

thrum-chinned, ii. 68.

thumb-nail, doing right on, iii. 31.

ticed, ii. 386.

Tickle-me-quickly, v. 143.

tire-men, ii. 241.

tire-woman, i. 461.

tiring-house, iv. 139, v. 526.

Titus Andronicus, v. 590.

to, i. 204; iii. 589; iv. 533.

tobacco sold by apothecaries, ii. 453.

—— taken by gallants sitting on the stage, v. 544.

tons, iv. 404.

torch-bearers, i. 261.

[toss, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxi.]

tottered, v. 526.

touch, i. 344; iii. 201.

touched, iv. 271.

toward, i. 347; iv. 469.

towards, i. 171; ii. 177; iii. 214; iv. 50.

to-who, iii. 176.

Towne, an actor, iii. 105.

toy, i. 378; ii. 66; iii. 274; iv. 217.

tralucent, v. 316.

trampler, ii. 18, v. 196.

trashed, ii. 19.

traverses, i. 264.

treacher, iv. 380.

trencher, ii. 437.

640trenchers, posies on, v. 40.

trillibubs, i. 65.

trine on the cheats, ii. 542.

triumphs, iv. 403.

trow, ii. 26; iv. 145, v. 29.

Troynovant, v. 489.

true, iv. 224.

true man, i. 158; iii. 11.

trug, ii. 222.

trunks, ii. 157.

trunks, v. 572.

truss, i. 367; ii. 280; iii. 589; iv. 38.

Tuck, friar, iii. 115.

Turk worth tenpence, iii. 489.

turn Turk, iii. 80; [and Ad. & Cor. i. lxx.]

Turnbull-street, iv. 34; v. 48.

tweaks, iii. 527.

tweering, v. 594.

tweezes, iv. 119.

twitter-lights, ii. 309; iii. 588.

twopenny room, ii. 412.

uberous, i. 151.

umbles, ii. 482.

uneven, ii. 145.

unkindly, v. 10.

unpleased, v. 592.

unreduct, ii. 146.

untrussing, ii. 135; iii. 319.

unvalued, ii. 314; iii. 549; iv. 585; v. 325.

unvaluedest, iv. 517.

upright man, ii. 536.

urchin, iii. 589.

Ursula, St., iv. 310.

vadeth, ii. 113.

vail, i. 248; v. 466.

valiant, ii. 8.

value, iv. 361.

valure, v. 169.

vaulting-house, v. 516.

venery, i. 369.

vennies, i. 66.

vent, iv. 442.

ventoy, i. 251.

Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s, ii. 340.

via, i. 245.

viage, ii. 482.

vierge, v. 258.

vild, i. 94; ii. 77; iii. 157; iv. 137; v. 139.

vildly, i. 356.

viol, ii. 11.

virginals, i. 278; iii. 112; iv. 5.

voider, iv. 405; v. 71.

waft, ii. 394.

wainscot-gown, iv. 473.

waistcoat, iii. 45.

wale, i. 452.

walk, i. 449.

wapper-eyed, v. 528.

ward, iv. 221.

warden-tree, iii. 189.

[warning-piece, Ad. & Cor. i. lxiv.]

wassail-bowl, v. 143.

wasters, iii. 166.

watchet, ii. 72.

watermen, great number of, ii. 451.

wears a smock, i. 436.

wedlocks, ii. 481.

welkin, iii. 16.

Welsh ambassador, ii. 88, 316.

welted, iii. 87.

western pug, ii. 522.

westward ho, ii. 520.

wet finger, with a, iii. 10.

what are you for a coxcomb, iii. 376.

what is she for a fool, ii. 421.

641what lack you, i. 447; ii. 453; iii. 24; iv. 9.

what should he be for a man, ii. 137.

when, i. 289; ii. 233; iii. 164; iv. 451.

where, v. 355.

where, i. 28; ii. 96; iii. 562; iv. 16; v. 243.

whereas, v. 576.

whiblins, iii. 13.

whiffler, iii. 511.

while, i. 18; iii. 534.

whilom, v. 79.

whip-jack, ii. 535.

Whirligig, The, i. 202.

whist, v. 497.

white, iv. 568.

White-Friars’ nunnery, v. 576.

whittles, iii. 390.

wide a’ the bow-hand, iii. 14.

[widow’s notch, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxv.]

Wigmore’s galliard, ii. 280.

wild dell, ii. 538.

[wild of Kent, Ad. & Cor. i. lxiv.]

wild rogue, ii. 537.

will, i. 437.

Willow, willow, willow, i. 234.

[wind-mills, the six, Ad. & Cor. i. lxxii.]

wine and sugar, iii. 542.

wings, v. 524.

wipes his nose, ii. 14.

wire, iv. 226.

wish, iii. 31.

Wit, whither wilt thou, iii. 611.

witches selling winds, iv. 210.

with child, iii. 65.

wittol, i. 331; ii. 335; iv. 14.

wood, i. 28; v. 445.

woodcock, iii. 46; iv. 595.

woodcock of our side, i. 203, 290.

Wookey-Hole, iii. 539.

Woolner, v. 508.

wool-ward, v. 527.

word, ii. 190.

word, ii. 258; iii. 537; iv. 334; v. 299.

world, it is a, v. 429.

worm, v. 556.

wrack, i. 403.

wrench’d, v. 426.

y-cleped, ii. 410.

y-meditate, v. 175.

yellow, i. 300; iii. 134; v. 182.

yellow bands, iii. 422.

yon, ii. 263.

youths, the, ii. 124.

zanies, i. 261.

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The entry for the ‘game of cat’ in the Index to the Notes incorrectly references a note on p. 427. The note occurs on p. 527.

The entry for ‘ken’ refers to p. 129 of volumn 2. While the word is used there, there is no note provided. The intent may have been meant to refer to note 1167 on p. 549 of that volume.

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The entry for ‘skeldering’ refers to p. 535 of volume 3. The note appears on that page in volume 2. The entry has been corrected.

The entry for ‘sound’, referring to p. 206 of volume 1, is almost certainly in error. A note on that page glosses the word ‘swound’ (swoon). A note in the current volume for ‘sounded’ also defines the entry as ‘swooned’, which perhaps caused the confusion. The entry has been corrected. However, this should move that entry alphabetically, but it remains in place and is noted below.

Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

15.24 I’m right glad on’t[.] Added.

207.26 no stuff fit for their mouths[,/.] Replaced.

624.25 bi[r/z]le Replaced.

639.32 s[w]ound Inserted.

NO WIT, NO HELP LIKE A WOMAN’S.

Vol. v. p. 23, l. 30.

the widow’s notch shall lie open to you] This passage is, I think, explained by the following line in our author’s Triumphs of Truth;

“The very nooks where beldams hide their gold.”

p. 229 of the same vol.

Vol. v. p. 77, last line.

“To bid a slander welcome than a truth.”

I did quite right in substituting “slander” for “slave.” These words were frequently confounded by the old printers.

“Revenge and Death

Like slander [read slaves] attend the sword of Calymath.”

The Travailes of The Three English Brothers (by Day,

W. Rowley, and Wilkins), 1607, sig. C 4.

Vol. v. p. 131, l. 3.

I from the baker’s ditch] So in Brome’s Sparagus Garden, 1640, “Sheart, Coulter, we be vallen into the Bakers ditch.” Sig. K 3. The ancient way of punishing bakers, who did not give full weight, was by the cucking-stool (see Grey’s note on Hudibras, P. iii. C. iii. v. 609); qy. is that punishment alluded to in the above passages?

THE INNER-TEMPLE MASQUE.

Vol. v. p. 148, l. 5.

Ill May-Day] i. e. Evil May-day—so called from the rising of the London apprentices against the foreigners, on the first of May, 1517: see The Story of Ill May-Day, &c., and the editor’s illustrations, in Evans’s Old Ballads, vol. iii. p. 76, ed. 1810.

Vol. v. p. 148, l. 9.

Midsummer-Eve, that watches warmest] Perhaps this is an allusion to the setting out of the Midsummer watch: see Herbert’s Hist. of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London, vol. i. p. 196, sqq.

Vol. v. p. 149, note 213.

“i. e. wife.”

Read

“i. e. city-wife.”

THE TRIUMPHS OF INTEGRITY.

Vol. v. p. 310, l. 1.

“pegmes.”

Read

“pegms.”

THE BLACK BOOK.

Vol. v. p. 543, l. 15.

ketlers] This word occurs in Kemp’s Nine daies wonder, 1600; “Those that haue shewne themselues honest men, I wil set before them this Caracter, H. for honesty; before the other Bench-whistlers shal stand K. for ketlers and keistrels, that wil driue a good companion without need in them to contend for his owne.”

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · passion] i. e. sorrow.Note 2 · arrant] The rhyme requiring the old spelling.Note 2 · his affected mistress] i.e. the mistress whom he affects.Note 7 · the Dunkirks] See note, vol. iii. p. 132.Note 9 · unkindly] i. e. unnatural (not according to kind—nature).Note 12 · May-butter] “If during the moneth of May before you salt your butter you saue a lumpe thereof, and put it into a vessell, and so set it intoNote 13 · condition] i. e. disposition, nature.Note 15 · Dowland’s Lacrymæ] “Lachrimæ or seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate Pauans, with divers other Pauans, Galiards, and Almands, set fortNote 19 · against the hair] i. e. against the grain, contrary to nature.Note 2 · angels] A play on the word—gold coins worth about ten shillings each.Note 3 · runs there ... no comfortable strain] Compare Skelton’s Magnyfycence; “The streynes of her vaynes [veins] as asure Inde blewe.” Sig. E ii. nNote 4 · jets] i. e. struts.Note 7 · brief] i. e. short writing.Note 11 · brave] i. e. fine.Note 2 · Pist] i. e. Hist: compare vol. ii. p. 460.—Old ed. “Pish.”Note 4 · ought] i. e. owed.Note 5 · sh’ owes] Old ed. “shows:”—owes, i. e. owns, possesses.Note 6 · trow] i. e. think you.Note 7 · great slops] i. e. wide trousers.Note 8 · be cover’d] i. e. put on your hat.Note 10 · budgelling] Perhaps a form of boggling. A friend suggests “budgetting.”Note 13 · lets] i. e. hinders.Note 15 · hartichalks and cabishes] i. e. artichokes and cabbages.Note 17 · squat] Jamieson (Sup. to Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang.) gives “Squat, to strike with the open hand, particularly on the breech,” in which sense tNote 18 · Beholding] i. e. Beholden—a form of the word frequent in old writers.Note 19 · resolve] i. e. satisfy, inform.Note 20 · quit] i. e. requite.Note 2 · necessary property] This expression occurs in vol. iii. p. 598: see note, p. 640 of that vol., and note, vol. ii. p. 308.Note 3 · strossers] Or trossers, trusses, &c.—i. e. tight drawers: see Gifford’s note on Shirley’s Works, vol. i. p. 19.Note 4 · trenchers, &c.] Compare vol. i. p. 31; vol. iii. p. 98.Note 6 · conceit] i. e. fanciful thought, ingenious device—alluding to the Signs which are presently brought in.Note 7 · have at, &c.] Compare vol. iii. p. 359.Note 8 · banquet] Equivalent (as I have already observed, see note, vol. iii. p. 252,) to what we now call a dessert. G. Markham, in his English HousNote 10 · Push] See note, vol. i. p. 29.Note 13 · Come cut and long tail] i. e. come who will—dogs of all sorts.Note 14 · Townbull Street] i. e. a jocular corruption, I suppose, of Turnbull, or, properly, Turnmill Street: see note, vol. iv. p. 34.Note 15 · Standard] See note, vol. i. p. 438.Note 17 · cypress] Written also cyprus, cipres—a stuff something like (or, according to Nares, Gloss. in v., the same as) crape.Note 11 · jealous] i. e. suspicious.Note 12 · devotion] Compare the Communion Service, “shall receive the alms for the poor, and other devotions of the people, in a decent basin.”Note 13 · Approve] i. e. prove.Note 2 · like] i. e. please.Note 3 · rubs ... mistress] A metaphor from the game of bowls: the mistress meant the small ball, now called the jack, at which the players aim.Note 7 · peevish] i. e. foolish, weak, poor.Note 11 · cogging] i. e. lying, cheating. The particular allusion I do not understand.Note 12 · voider] See note, vol. iv. p. 405.Note 13 · ordinary, &c.] See note, vol. i. p. 389.Note 14 · parbreaking] i. e. vomiting.—Old ed. “Barbreaking.”Note 18 · proper] i. e. handsome.Note 2 · bewrayed] i. e. betrayed, discovered.Note 6 · whilom] i. e. once, formerly.Note 8 · Pond’s Almanac] The following is the title of the earliest Pond’s Almanac I have met with,—“Ponde. 1607. A President for Prognosticators. A Note 14 · aqua vitæ] See note, vol. iii. p. 239.Note 17 · slip] See note, vol. ii. p. 417.Note 20 · nicely] i. e. scrupulously.Note 22 · proceeded] A university term: compare vol. iv. p. 68, and note.Note 1 · aloof off] Compare vols. i. p. 427; iii. p. 40, and notes.Note 4 · quit] i. e. acquitted.Note 10 · ’fection] So old ed.—a contraction of affection—i. e. affectation.Note 1 · Hole] See note, vol. i. p. 392.]Note 5 · branched] Has been explained—embroidered, flowered (see Todd’s Johnson’s Dict. and Cotgrave’s in v.); but if Gifford be right (note on Ford’Note 7 · bleaking-house] i. e. bleaching-house.Note 11 · blue-coats] i. e. servants—who usually wore blue.Note 5 · above] i.e. on the upper stage—which was supposed to represent a gallery on this occasion: see note, vol. ii. p. 125.Note 8 · refuse] i. e. renounce.Note 10 · no] See note, vol. i. p. 169.Note 13 · the Bear at the Bridge-foot in heaven] If Steevens had recollected this passage, he would not have proposed to alter the following one in ThNote 18 · neck-verse] i. e. the verse (generally the beginning of the 51st Psalm, Miserere mei, &c.) read by a criminal to entitle him to benefit of cNote 20 · hose] i. e. breeches.Note 21 · banes] i. e. bans: see note, vol. i. p. 471.Note 1 · vild] i. e. vile: a form common in our early writers.Note 3 · Kersmas] A corruption of Christmas.Note 4 · poulters’] i. e. poulterers’.Note 5 · frampole] A word variously written: see note, vol. ii, p. 477.Note 7 · nunchions ... bever] Refreshments taken between meals; see Richardson’s Dict. in vv.: the latter seems, properly, to mean a whet.Note 8 · stomachful] i. e. stubborn.Note 9 · Choosing King and Queen] See much concerning the Choosing of King and Queen on Twelfth Day, in Brand’s Pop. Antiq. vol. i. p. 19, ed. 1813.Note 10 · In-and-in] A game at dice,—“very much used in an ordinary,” says Cotton: see Compleat Gamester, p. 164, ed. 1674.Note 11 · the basket] In which the broken meat and bread from the sheriffs’ table was carried to the Counters, for the use of the poorer prisoners.Note 12 · Gleek and Primavista] Games at cards: concerning the former, see The Compleat Gamester, p. 90; and for an account of the latter, which is thNote 13 · Noddy] A game at cards, which seems to have been played in more ways than one: see Nares’s Gloss. in v.Note 14 · Tickle-me-quickly ... My-lady’s-hole ... My-sow-has-pigged] Games at cards.Note 15 · my nephew Gambols] In The Masque of Christmas, 1616, Ben Jonson introduces Christmas and his ten children, among whom is “Gambol, like a tumNote 16 · shoe the mare] A Christmas sport: “Of Blind-man-buffe, and of the care That young men have to shooe the Mare.” Herrick’s Hesperides, &c. p. Note 18 · affects] i. e. affections, feelings.Note 20 · the long porter] “Walter Parsons born in this County was first Apprentice to a Smith, when he grew so tall in stature, that a hole was made Note 21 · The guard ... bombards] i. e. large cans: compare The Martyred Souldier, 1638, by H. Shirley; “the black Jacks Or Bombards tost by the King’Note 24 · Antimasque] “An Antimasque, or, as Jonson elsewhere calls it, ‘a foil, or false masque,’ is something directly opposed to the principal masqNote 26 · pull down bawdy-houses, &c. ... ruin the Cockpit] The apprentices used (as already observed, note, vol. iii. p. 217) to pull down brothels oNote 28 · maundering] i. e. muttering, grumbling: (and in cant language, begging.)Note 29 · collogue] “To Collogue. To wheedle or coax.” Grose’s Class. Dict. of Vul. Tongue, in which sense it is probably used here: it means also—to Note 30 · gill] i. e. wench.Note 32 · Bretnor ... word] See notes, vol. iii. p. 537.Note 33 · city-wedlock] i. e. wife: see note, vol. ii. p. 481.Note 34 · the gear cottens] i. e. the matter goes on prosperously: see note, vol. ii. p. 150.Note 35 · In dock out nettle] Compare vol. iii. p. 611, and note. The expression occurs in J. Heywood’s Dialogue, &c.; “But wauering as the winde, in Note 36 · parcel-rascals] i. e. partly rascals.Note 1 · Brainford] A corruption of Brentford—used here with a quibble.Note 4 · talenter] i. e. hawk. Our early poets repeatedly use talent for talon: “His talents red with blood of murthered foules.” Drayton’s Owle, 160Note 5 · prick] i. e. the point or mark in the centre of the butts.Note 6 · royal’st guest] May mean Queen Anne; but more probably, I think, her brother, the king of Denmark, who visited England twice, in 1606 and inNote 7 · maunding] i. e. begging: see note, vol. ii. p. 536.Note 8 · over-brave] i. e. over-finely dressed.Note 9 · valure] Or rather velure—i. e. velvet.Note 10 · a throwster] “One that throws, or winds, silk or thread” (Kersey’s Dict.), preparing the materials for the weaver.Note 11 · superstichious] So old ed.—with a quibble.Note 14 · pickadill] i. e. collar with stiffened plaits.Note 19 · Altitonant] i. e. thundering from on high.Note 20 · Y-meditate] The right reading, I presume: old ed. “I meditate.”Note 22 · states] i. e. persons of dignity.Note 23 · Honey-lingued] i. e. Honey-tongued.Note 24 · duke] i. e. general, commander. “And in lyke wyse duke Josue the gente.” Hawes’s Pastime of Pleasure, sig. C c ii. ed. 1555.Note 26 · psalmograph] i. e. psalm-writer, viz. David.Note 35 · frokin] i. e. little fro (frow, Dutch for woman)—little jade.Note 37 · yellow hose] See note, vol. iii. p. 134.Note 38 · state] Gifford observes, that “the state sometimes means the raised platform and canopy under which the ornamented chair was placed, and somNote 42 · Chambers] i. e. small pieces of ordnance.Note 44 · rear] i. e. raw.Note 45 · agen] The old spelling of again—required here for the rhyme.Note 47 · i’ their inn] i. e. in their own house: concerning this proverbial expression, see notes on Shakespeare’s Henry IV. (First Part), act iii. sNote 48 · egrimony] Used here with a quibble; an old form of (the herb) agrimony, and also—sorrow. (Lat. ægrimonia.)Note 49 · trampler] See note, vol. ii. p. 18.Note 50 · civilly] i.e. soberly, plainly drest: compare vol. iv. p. 505, and note.Note 51 · poniarded] Poniards, or, as they were generally called, knives, were formerly, says Gifford, “worn at all times by every woman in England:” Note 52 · needle-bearded gallants] Taylor, the water-poet, in a passage concerning the “strange and variable cut” of beards, mentions “Some sharpe SteNote 53 · stammel] i.e. a kind of red, coarser and cheaper than scarlet.Note 1 · properties] i. e. ensigns proper to her character—a theatrical term: see note, vol. ii. p. 308.Note 2 · sithence] i. e. since.Note 3 · painted cloth] See note, vol. iii. p. 97.Note 4 · cant] i. e. niche.Note 5 · greeces] i. e. steps.Note 6 · penciled] i. e. (not—having pensils, small flags, but) painted; so in an earlier passage of this pageant: “They helde in their handes pensilNote 7 · shapes] i. e. dresses—a theatrical use of the word.Note 8 · cantle] i. e. part.Note 11 · clipt] i. e. embraced—cherished.Note 1 · A. See Herbert’s work, vol. i. pp. 93, 4.Note 3 · slights] i. e. artifices.Note 10 · where] i. e. whereas.Note 13 · The Speech] “Anthony Munday, who in his edition of Stow’s Survey, published in 1618, has given another version of the present story, and priNote 16 · enginer] An old and common form of—engineer.Note 5 · vierge] i. e. rod.Note 6 · sewer] Whose office was to set on and remove the dishes, taste them, &c.: see Steevens’s note on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, act i. sc. 7, and RiNote 12 · running at the ring] See note, vol. i. p. 390.Note 13 · say] Is commonly explained—“a thin sort of silk,”—“a species of silk, or rather satin.”—Malone (note on Shakespeare’s Henry Sixth, Part SecoNote 15 · arson] i. e. saddle-bow.Note 16 · pectoral] i. e. breast-piece.Note 17 · paty] Properly, patée.Note 19 · noble] A gold coin worth 6s. 8d.Note 3 · coronel] Frequently used for (and the Spanish of) colonel.Note 5 · Allhollontide] A corruption of All-hallows-tide.Note 7 · Artillery-garden] See note, vol. iv. p. 424.Note 8 · prevent] i. e. anticipate.Note 10 · luzerns] Generally said to be Russian animals valued for their fur; but, I apprehend, Middleton used the word in the sense of lynxes. “A LuzNote 11 · bitter, estridge] i. e. bittern, ostrich.Note 12 · Crismas] Or Christmas.—“At the end of this [pageant,—Heywood’s Londini Artium et Scientiarum Scaturigo, &c. 1632] is a panegyric on Maister Note 1 · Hight] i. e. called.Note 3 · word] i. e. motto.Note 2 · pegmes] i. e. machines, erections: see Facciolati, Lex. in v. pegma.Note 3 · rise] i. e. rose.Note 6 · approves] i. e. proves.Note 8 · tralucent] i. e. translucent.Note 9 · enginous] i. e. inventive: see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s Works, vol. ii. p. 281.Note 2 · unvalued] i. e. invaluable. Old ed. “vnvaleed.”Note 2 · meritorious] i. e. merited.Note 4 · sith] i.e. since.Note 7 · fond] i. e. silly, idle.Note 24 · plot] i. e. scheme, form,—pattern.Note 26 · Where] i. e. Whether.Note 34 · rife] i. e. common, prevalent.Note 36 · fair] i. e. fairness, beauty. The word was formerly in common use as a substantive.Note 43 · ne’er the near] i. e. never the nearer.Note 46 · risse] i. e. risen.Note 48 · jesses] i. e. the short leather straps round the hawk’s legs, having little rings to which the falconer’s leash was fastened.Note 52 · again] i. e. against.Note 54 · steven] i. e. voice, sound.Note 56 · remorse] i. e. pity.Note 60 · far-fet] i. e. far-fetch’d.Note 61 · bonner] So written for the rhyme.Note 68 · Disgesting] i. e. Digesting—a form common in our old writers.Note 72 · table-book] i. e. memorandum-book.Note 73 · seely] i. e. silly, simple—harmless.Note 75 · alline] i. e. ally.Note 77 · cognizance] i. e. badge.Note 1 · clifts] i. e. cliffs.Note 4 · nigrum] This word, the meaning of which is obvious, occurs in the “Defiance to Envy” prefixed to the next poem in this vol.; “My nigrum trueNote 5 · burst] i. e. broken.Note 11 · Eschip] A familiar corruption of East-cheap, where, as Stow says, was a “flesh-market of butchers.”Note 14 · moul] i. e. mould.Note 16 · bin] i. e. been.Note 21 · wrench’d] i. e. perhaps, rinsed.Note 26 · breath] i. e. breadth—for the rhyme.Note 27 · world, hope] Qy. “world’s hope”?Note 30 · Alastor’s] In chapter xvii. of this interminable poem, we find “Troubled with visions from Alastor’s park;” and “A night more ugly than AlasNote 32 · spill’d] i. e. destroyed.Note 33 · sort] i. e. set, band.Note 38 · wood] A wretched play on words—furious, mad.Note 40 · incolants] i. e. inhabitants.Note 50 · cought] So written for the rhyme.Note 54 · rowl] i. e. roll.Note 56 · sancited] i. e. ordained, ratified.Note 57 · Vail’d] i. e. lowered.Note 2 · smazky] i. e., perhaps, smitchy or smeechy (reechy, black.)Note 3 · satire-days] “Does he intend to pun upon the last day of the week—Saturday? It may be a misprint for Satyr-dogs, in allusion to his title, ‘Note 5 · hast] Frequently thus written for the sake of the rhyme—even long after the date of the present poem (as by Butler in Hudibras, &c.).Note 6 · beforne] i. e. before.Note 10 · mere compact] i. e. wholly composed.Note 13 · bankerouts] i. e. bankrupts.Note 19 · Troynovant] i. e. London (founded, according to the fabulous account, by the Trojan Brutus).Note 20 · bravery] i. e. finery of apparel, &c.Note 21 · salts] i. e. salt-cellars.Note 22 · manchets] i. e. small loaves or rolls of fine white bread.Note 23 · cupboard] See note, vol. ii. p. 91.Note 25 · quotes] i. e. notes.Note 27 · match] i. e. pattern.Note 28 · princocks] Or princox,—i. e. pert, conceited person: but perhaps the author uses the word here as the plural of princock.Note 30 · Paul’s] See note, vol. i. p. 418.Note 33 · cony] i. e. dupe: see note, vol. i. p. 290.Note 34 · chates] i. e. chats, talks.Note 36 · tester] i. e. sixpence: see note, vol. i. p. 258.Note 40 · whist] i. e. still.Note 42 · mantian] So written for the rhyme.Note 45 · counterfeits] i. e. portraits, likenesses.Note 46 · juggling] Qy. “ingling”? (Old ed. “jugling.”)Note 48 · Innocent] i. e. fool, idiot.Note 51 · scopious] i. e. spacious, ample.Note 56 · On the death, &c.] These lines (the meaning of which is sufficiently obscure) were first printed in Collier’s New Facts regarding the Life oNote 1 · luxury] i. e. lust, lewdness.Note 2 · Woolners] Our old writers occasionally mention a person named Woolner, or Wolner, as a notorious gormandiser: Dekker calls him “that cannon Note 3 · bulks] i. e. bodies.Note 4 · luxurious] i.e. lustful.Note 8 · the Supplication, &c.] i. e. Pierce Pennilesse his Supplication to the Diuell, one of the most celebrated and popular productions of that adNote 9 · Gave me my titles freely] “To the high and mightie Prince of darknesse, Donsell dell Lucifer, King of Acheron, Stix and Phlegeton, Duke of TNote 10 · Knight of the Post]—Or, as the term is afterwards varied in the present piece, “Knight of Perjury”—means a hireling evidence, &c.: see note,Note 11 · Pict-hatch] Was a notorious haunt of prostitutes and the worst characters of both sexes,—“the very skirts of all brothel-houses,” as it is pNote 12 · bill-men] i. e. watchmen,—who carried bills (a kind of pikes with hooked points), which in more ancient times were the weapons of the EnglisNote 14 · fat-sagg chin] i. e. chin that sagged (hung down) with fat. Compare our author’s Chaste Maid in Cheapside; “The bawds will be so fat with whNote 15 · Limbo] i. e. hell,—properly, the borders of hell. Compare quotation from Nash, note, p. 512.Note 16 · busk-points] i. e. the tagged laces by which the busks (pieces of wood or whalebone worn down the front of the stays) were fastened.Note 17 · cruel garters] We have the same pun in Shakespeare’s King Lear, act ii. sc. 4, in Ben Jonson’s Alchemist, act i. sc. 1, and elsewhere. CreweNote 18 · Derrick’s necklaces] i. e. the hangman’s ropes: Derrick, who is often mentioned by our old writers, was the common hangman.Note 19 · Doctor Faustus] The well-known drama by Marlowe.Note 20 · muchatoes] i. e. mustachios. So S. Rowley; “Had my Barbour Perfum’d my louzy thatch here, and poak’d out My Tuskes more stiffe than are a CaNote 21 · vaulting-house] i. e. brothel.Note 22 · Cole-harbour] i. e. sanctuary: see note, vol. ii. p. 58.Note 23 · glory-fat Audrey] “Heres fine Backon Sister its glore Fat.” Yorkshire Dialogue, p. 44 (appended to The Praise of Yorkshire Ale, 1697), the CNote 28 · conveyances] i. e. dishonest tricks, juggling artifices.Note 29 · bandileer] i. e. broad leathern belt, worn by a musqueteer over the left shoulder, to which were appended small powder-boxes, &c.Note 32 · plaguy summer] i. e. summer during which the plague prevailed.Note 33 · days of Monsieur] See note, vol. ii. p. 389.Note 35 · former] “But force against force, skill against skill, so enterchangeably encountered, that it was not easy to determine, whether enterprisiNote 36 · conclusions] i. e. experiments.Note 39 · Grantham steeple] “A little fall will make a salt [salt-cellar] looke like Grantham Steeple with his cap to the Ale-house.” Dekker’s Owles ANote 41 · lin] i. e. cease.Note 44 · Tartary] i. e. Tartarus, hell. Compare quotation from Nash, note, p. 512.Note 46 · wings] “Lateral prominencies extending from each shoulder.” Whalley’s note on B. Jonson’s Works, vol. ii. p. 103, ed. Giff.Note 47 · shark-gull] i. e. one who preys on simpletons.Note 48 · leiger] i. e. resident: see note, vol. ii. p. 316.Note 49 · door-keeper] i. e. bawd.Note 52 · loose-bodied] See note, vol. i. p. 431.Note 55 · tiring-house] i. e. dressing-room,—in theatrical language.Note 56 · descried] i. e. discovered.Note 58 · tottered] i. e. tattered.Note 59 · as if they had been conning of Tamburlaine] From this passage Malone conjectured that the play of Tamburlaine, generally ascribed to MarloweNote 61 · Saint Pulcher’s] A corruption of Saint Sepulchre’s.Note 62 · wool-ward] i. e. in wool,—without linen (a word generally applied to persons who went so clothed for penance or humiliation: see notes of thNote 67 · wapper-eyed] “Wapper-eyed, sore-eyed.” Grose’s Class. Dict. of Vulg. Tongue.—“Wapper-eyed, goggle-eyed, having full rolling eyes; or lookingNote 68 · the Mayor’s bench at Oxford] There was a public seat at Oxford “adjoining to the east end of Carfax Church” (Warton’s Companion to the GuideNote 69 · noise] i. e. band, company—properly, of musicians: see note, vol. ii. p. 498.Note 72 · the Burse] Means here the Royal Exchange: see note, p. 485.Note 74 · luxurs] i. e. lechers.Note 77 · rounded] i. e. whispered.Note 78 · points] i. e. tagged laces.Note 80 · Irish lacqueys] See note, vol. iii. p. 131.Note 82 · good-fellows] A cant term for thieves.Note 83 · golls] A cant term for hands,—fists, paws.Note 86 · departed] i. e. parted.Note 88 · the horse, &c.] To the wonderful horse, called Morocco, are many allusions in our old writers; nor is this the only mention of his having goNote 90 · polt-foot] i. e. club-foot.Note 93 · cullion] i. e. scoundrel, abject wretch.Note 96 · mazzard] i. e. head.Note 100 · The Merry Devil of Edmonton] This comedy, which was, and deserved to be, extremely popular, may be found in Dodsley’s Old Plays, vol. v. lasNote 103 · Combe Park] See note, vol. ii. p. 264.Note 105 · red lattice] i. e. lattice painted red; the usual distinction of an ale-house: (it was sometimes of other colours).Note 106 · Charnico] See note, vol. iii. p. 213.Note 108 · counter] A play on the meanings of the word,—a false piece of money used for reckoning, and a prison.Note 111 · old Rowse] Perhaps some Cornish wrestler.Note 113 · black dogs of Newgate] A tract, partly verse and partly prose, called The Blacke Dogge of Newgate: both pithie and profitable for all ReaderNote 114 · ballat-places] i. e., I suppose, places where ballads are sung.Note 115 · cross-lays] i. e. cheating wagers.Note 117 · ketlers] Compare Father Hubburd’s Tales, which follows the present tract; “like an old cunning bowler to fetch in a young ketling gamester:”Note 118 · upon stages] Tobacco was often taken by the gallants who (as already mentioned, note, vol. ii. p. 412) used to sit on hired stools upon the Note 123 · a pitiful battler] “Though in the meanest condition of those that were wholly maintained [in the University of Oxford] by their parents, a bNote 124 · cue] i. e. small portion. “Cue, halfe a farthing, so called because they set down in the Battling or Butterie Books in Oxford and Cambridge Note 125 · gaudy-days] i. e. festivals.Note 129 · censure] i. e. judgment, opinion.Note 1 · gamashoes] Are variously explained—short spatterdashes, and coarse cloth stockings that button over other stockings.Note 3 · Poultry] i. e. the Counter prison in the Poultry.Note 4 · John of Paul’s Churchyard] Was, it appears from this passage, a haberdasher: he is again mentioned in the present tract. That he sold hats, Note 8 · entreat] i. e. treat.Note 10 · the quarter-jacks in Paul’s, that are up with their elbows] Compare Dekker’s Gull’s Hornbook, 1609, “If Paul’s jacks be once up with their eNote 15 · worm] Equivalent to—wretch, poor creature.Note 18 · rail] Seems to mean here—some sort of ruffNote 19 · byss] i. e. fine linen.Note 24 · Euphuize, which once was rare] i. e. use the unnatural affected style, which was once accounted excellent. It was rendered fashionable by thNote 25 · Trigemini] i. e. Gabriel Harvey and his two less distinguished brothers, Richard and John. For various particulars concerning this memorableNote 26 · improve] i. e. prove.Note 28 · three-quarter sharer] See note, vol. ii. p. 406.Note 29 · decimo sexto] An expression frequently applied by our old writers to diminutive personages: see Massinger’s Works, vol. i. p. 176, ed. 1813,Note 31 · fair-conditioned] i. e. of good disposition.Note 32 · marmoset] i. e. ape.Note 33 · New-fangle] This word is printed in both eds. with a capital letter: there seems to be some allusion, which I am unable to explain.Note 36 · the great rider of horse] “But if like a restie Jade thou wilt take the bitt in thy mouth, and then runne over hedge and ditch, thou shalt bNote 37 · booted] In allusion to the dress of the various persons who rode up to London on law-business during that term.Note 42 · gascoynes] i. e. galligaskins.Note 43 · sir-reverence] See note, vol. ii. p. 175.Note 44 · hangers] See note, vol. ii. p. 227.Note 45 · bost] i. e. embossed.Note 53 · jigs] i. e. ballads.Note 54 · like a sow-gelder] “Hark, how my merry horn doth blow,” is part of Higgen’s song, when he enters “like a sow-gelder:” see Beaumont and FletcNote 57 · Peter Bales] A particular account of this person may be found in Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. vol. i. p. 655, ed. Bliss, and in Chalmers’s Biog. DictNote 58 · trunks] i. e., I suppose, trunk-hose,—round swelling breeches.Note 59 · royal] A gold piece current for fifteen shillings.Note 62 · legs] i. e. bows.Note 63 · the Horn, the Mitre, or the Mermaid] The first of these has been already mentioned in this tract, see p. 565; the Mitre was in Bread-street,Note 64 · the Bankside] In Southwark, where the Globe and other theatres were situated.Note 65 · breaking-up] i. e. carving.Note 66 · the Blackfriars] The theatre so named, which stood near the present Apothecaries’ Hall, and which was occasionally occupied by the Children Note 69 · squalls] Equivalent here, it would seem, to—wenches: vide note, vol. iii. p. 55. Taylor, the water-poet, uses the word as a term of endearmeNote 73 · White-Friars’ nunnery] Compare (see note, p. 514) our author’s Game at Chess; “Here’s from his daughter Blanch and daughter Bridget, From thNote 74 · whereas] i. e. where.Note 77 · cockatrice] A cant term for a harlot.Note 80 · wassail-bowls ... shoeing the mare] Compare The Inner Temple Masque, p. 143 of this vol.Note 81 · Sellenger’s round] “i. e. St. Leger’s round ... was an old country-dance, and was not quite out of knowledge at the beginning of the presentNote 84 · cogged] The same pun occurs in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s lost, “Since you can cog, I’ll play no more with you,” act v. sc. 2; where JohnNote 85 · passage] See note, vol. iv. p. 548.Note 98 · remorseful] i. e. compassionate.Note 99 · peeps] See note, p. 581.Note 104 · prickle-singing] Compare p. 556, line 4.Note 105 · prick-song] See note, vol. iii. p. 626.Note 108 · the Curtain] i. e. the theatre so called, in Shoreditch.Note 109 · garden tenements] See note, vol. i. p. 162.Note 111 · stall] Shops being at that time open: see note, vol. iii. p. 54.Note 112 · purls] i. e. borders, fringes.Note 114 · conster] i. e. construe.Note 118 · Anon, anon, sir] See note, vol. iv. p. 177.Note 120 · action of one arm, like old Titus Andronicus] See the tragedy so called, which, though now printed among the works of Shakespeare, was assurNote 123 · the motion, &c.] i. e. the puppet-show: that of Nineveh, which was very celebrated, has been mentioned before, vol. i. p. 229, and vol. iv. Note 127 · nonce] i. e. occasion.Note 129 · unpleased] i. e. unpaid.Note 130 · marry-muff] See notes, vol. i. p. 258, vol. iii. p. 36.Note 132 · virginal-jacks] See note, vol. iii. p. 112.Note 133 · the bear-baiting] At Paris Garden, in Southwark.Note 134 · passionate] i. e. pathetic, sorrowful.Note 137 · tweering] Or twiring—equivalent here, it seems, to—prying, peeping: on the word twire, see Gifford’s note, B. Jonson’s Works, vol. vi. p. 28Note 139 · of] Equivalent to on: see note, vol. iii. p. 556.Note 144 · Hobson’s waggon] See note, vol. iv. p. 7. I ought to have said there, that Milton composed two copies of verses on Hobson; and I may add herNote 151 · sovereign] See note, vol. i. p. 110.Note 152 · liberal] i. e. free to excess, licentious.Note 153 · penny-fathers] See note, p. 530.Note 155 · sounded] i. e. swooned.Note 2 · guess] i. e. guests: see note, vol. i. p. 326.Note 3 · Jacob Challoner] In the document before cited are various payments “to Jacob Challoner, painter,” for ornamenting banners, &c. Heath, &c., p
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