Chapter XXIII: Act V (2)

+True.+ How long before the Conquest, I know not, but that it
was used in London not long after, appears by Fitz-Stephen, an
author who wrote in the reign of King Henry the Second.[85]
His words are, _Londonia pro spectaculis theatralibus, pro
ludis scenicis, ludos habet sanctiores, representationes
miraculorum, quæ sancti confessores operati sunt, seu
repræsentationes passionum quibus claruit constantia martyrum._
Of this the manuscript which I lately mentioned, in the
Cottonian library, is a notable instance. Sir William Dugdale
cites this manuscript by the title of _Ludus Coventriæ_;
but in the printed Catalogue of that library, p. 113, it is
named thus, A Collection of Plays in Old English Metre; h.
e. _Dramata sacra, in quibus exhibentur historiæ Veteris et
N. Testamenti, introductis quasi in scenam personis illic
memoratis, quas secum invicem colloquentes pro ingenio fingit
poeta. Videntur olim coram populo, sive ad instruendum, sive
ad placendum, a fratribus mendicantibus repræsentata_. It
appears by the latter end of the prologue, that these plays or
interludes were not only played at Coventry, but in the other
towns and places upon occasion. And possibly this may be the
same play which Stow tells us was played in the reign of King
Henry IV., which lasted for eight days. The book seems by the
character and language to be at least 300 years old. It begins
with a general prologue, giving the arguments of 40 pageants or
gesticulations (which were as so many several acts or scenes)
representing all the histories of both testaments, from the
creation to the choosing of St _Matthias_ to be an apostle. The
stories of the New Testament are more largely expressed, viz.,
the Annunciation, Nativity, Visitation; but more especially
all matters relating to the Passion, very particularly, the
Resurrection, Ascension, the Choice of St _Matthias_. After
which is also represented the Assumption, and Last Judgment.
All these things were treated of in a very homely style, as we
now think, infinitely below the dignity of the subject; but
it seems the _goût_ of that age was not so nice and delicate
in these matters; the plain and incurious judgment of our
ancestors being prepared with favour, and taking everything
by the right and easiest handle. For example, in the scene
relating to the Visitation:

Maria.[86] _But, husband, of oo thyng I pray you most mekely,
I have knowing that our cosyn Elizabeth with childe is,
That it please yow to go to her hastyly,
If ought we myth comfort her, it were to me blys._

Joseph. _A Gods sake, is she with child, sche?
Than will her husband Zachary be mery.
In Montana they dwelle, fer hence, so mot y[87] the,
In the city of Juda, I know it verily;
It is hence, I trowe, myles two a fifty,
We ar like to be wery, or we come at that same,
I wole with a good will, blessyd wyff Mary;
Now go we forth then in Goddys name_, &c.

A little before the Resurrection:--_Nunc dormient milites, et
veniet anima Christi de inferno, cum_ Adam _et_ Eva, Abraham,
John Baptist, _et aliis._

Anima Christi. _Come forth, Adam, and Eve with the,
And all my fryndes that herein be,
In paradys come forth with me
In blysse for to dwelle.
The fende of hell that is your foo
He shall be wrappyd and woundyn in woo:
Fro wo to welth now shall ye go,
With myrth evyrmore to melle._
Adam. _I thank the, Lord, of thy grete grace
That now is forgiven my gret trespace,
Now shall we dwellyn in blyssful place, &c._

The last scene or pageant, which represents the day of
judgment, begins thus:[88]

_Michael._ Surgite, _All men aryse_,
Venite ad judicium,
_For now is set the High Justice,
And hath assignyd the day of dome:
Rape you redyly to this grett assyse.
Both gret and small, all and sum,
And of yowr answer you now avise,
What you shall say, when that yow com, &c._

These and such like were the plays, which in former ages were
presented publicly. Whether they had any settled and constant
houses for that purpose, does not appear; I suppose not. But
it is notorious that in former times there was hardly ever any
solemn reception of princes or noble persons, but pageants,
that is, stages erected in the open street, were part of the
entertainment: on which there were speeches by one or more
persons, in the nature of scenes; and be sure one of the
speakers must be some saint of the same name with the party to
whom the honour is intended. For instance, there is an ancient
manuscript at Coventry, called the "Old Leet Book," wherein is
set down in a very particular manner, p. 168, the reception of
Queen Margaret, wife of Henry VI. who came to Coventry; and, I
think, with her young son, Prince Edward, on the Feast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 35 Hen. VI. 1456. Many pageants
and speeches were made for her welcome; out of all which I
shall observe but two or three in the old English, as it is
recorded:--

St. Edward. _Moder of mekenes, dame Margarete, princes most excellent,
I king Edward wellcome you with affection cordial,
Testefying to your highnes mekely myn entent.
For the wele of the king and you hertily pray I shall,
And for prince Edward my gostly chylde, who I love principal,
Praying the, John Evangelist, my help therein to be,
On that condition right humbly I give this ring to the._

John Evangelist. _Holy Edward, crowned king, brother in verginity,
My power plainly I will prefer thy will to amplefy.
Most excellent princes of wymen mortal, your bedeman will I be.
I know your life so vertuous that God is pleased thereby.
The birth of you unto this reme shall cause great melody:
The vertuous voice of prince Edward shall dayly well encrease,
St Edward his Godfader, and I shall prey therefore doubtlese._

St. Margaret. _Most notabul princes of wymen earthle,
Dame Margarete, the chefe myrth of this empyre,
Ye be hertely welcome to this cyte.
To the plesure of your highnesse I will set my desyre;
Both nature and gentlenesse doth me require,
Seth we be both of one name, to shew you kindnesse;
Wherefore by my power ye shall have no distresse._

_I shall pray to the prince that is endlese
To socour you with solas of his high grace_;
_He will here my petition, this is doubtlesse,
For I wrought all my life that his will wace.
Therefore, lady, when you be in any dredfull case,
Call on me boldly, therof I pray you,
And trust in me feythfully, I will do that may pay you._

In the next reign, as appears in the same book, fol. 221,
another Prince Edward, son of King Edward IV., came to Coventry
on the 28th of April, 14 Edward IV. 1474, and was entertained
with many pageants and speeches, among which I shall observe
only two; one was of St Edward again, who was then made to
speak thus:--

_Noble Prince Edward, my cousin and my knight,
And very prince of our line com yn dissent,
I St Edward have pursued for your faders imperial right,
Whereof he was excluded by full furious intent.
Unto this your chamber, as prince full excellent,
Ye be right welcome. Thanked be Crist of his sonde,
For that that was ours is now in your faders honde._

The other speech was from St George, and thus saith the book:--

"---- _Also upon the condite in the Croscheping was St George
armed, and a king's daughter kneling afore him with a lamb, and
the fader and the moder being in a towre aboven beholding St
George saving their daughter from the dragon, and the condite
renning wine in four places, and minstralcy of organ playing,
and St George having this speech underwritten_"--

_O mighty God, our all succour celestiall,
Which this royme hast given in dower
To thi moder, and to me George protection perpetuall_:
_It to defend from enimys fer and nere,
And as this mayden defended was here
By that grace from this dragons devour,
So, Lord, preserve this noble prince and ever be his socour._

+Love.+ I perceive these holy matters consisted very much of
praying; but I pity poor St Edward the Confessor who, in the
compass of a few years, was made to promise his favour and
assistance to two young princes, of the same name indeed, but
of as different and opposite interests as the two poles. I know
not how he could perform to both.

+True.+ Alas! they were both unhappy, notwithstanding these
fine shows and seeming caresses of fortune; being both
murdered, one by the hand, the other by the procurement, of
Richard, Duke of Gloucester. I will produce but one example
more of this sort of action or representations; and that is of
later time, and an instance of much higher nature than any yet
mentioned; it was at the marriage of Prince Arthur, eldest son
of King Henry VII., to the Princess Catherine of Spain, ann.
1501. Her passage through London was very magnificent, as I
have read it described in old MS. chronicle of that time.[89]
The pageants and speeches were many; the persons represented,
St Catherine, St Ursula, a senator, noblesse, virtue, an
angel, King Alphonse, Job, Boetius, &c. Among others, one is
thus described:--_"When this spech was ended, she held on
her way tyll she came unto the standard in Chepe, where was
ordeyned the fifth paygend made like an hevyn, theryn syttyng
a personage representing the fader of hevyn, beyng all formyd
of gold, and brennyng beffor his trone vii candyilis of wax
standyng in vii candylstykis of gold, the said personage beyng
environed with sundry hyrarchies off angelis, and sytting in
a cope of most rich cloth of tyssu, garnishyd wyth stoon and
perle in most sumptuous wyse. Foragain which said pagend upon
the sowth syde of the strete stood at that tyme, in a hows
wheryn that tyme dwellyd William Geffrey habyrdasher, the king,
the queene, my lady the kingys moder, my lord of Oxynfford,
wyth many other lordys and ladys, and perys of this realm, wyth
also certayn ambassadors of France lately sent from the French
king: and so passyng the said estatys, eyther guyving to other
due and convenyent saluts and countenancs, so sone as hyr grace
was approachid unto the sayd pagend, the fadyr began his spech
as folowyth"_

Hunc veneram locum, septeno lumine septum.
Dignumque Arthuri totidem astra micant.

_I am begynyng and ende, that made ech creature.
My sylfe, and for my sylfe, but man especially
Both male and female, made aftyr myne aun fygure,
Whom I joyned togydyr in matrimony,
And that in paradyse, declaring opynly
That men shall weddying in my chyrch solempnize,
Fygurid and signifyed by the erthly paradyze._

_In thys my chyrch I am allway recydent
As my chyeff tabernacle, and most chosyn place,
Among these goldyn condylstikkis, which represent
My catholyk chyrch shynyng affor my face,
With lyght of feyth, wisdom, doctryne, and grace,
And mervelously eke enflamyd toward me
Wyth the [un]extyngwible fyre of charyte._

_Wherefore, my welbelovid dowthyr Katharyn,
Syth I have made yow to myne awn semblance
In my chyrch to be maried, and your noble childryn
To regn in this land as in their enherytance,
Se that ye have me in speciall remembrance:
Love me and my chyrch yowr spiritual modyr.
For ye, dispysing that oon, dyspyse that othyr._

_Look that ye walk in my precepts, and obey them well:
And here I give you the same blyssyng, that I
Gave my well beloved chylder of Israell;
Blyssyd be the fruyt of your bely;
Yower substance and frutys I shall encrease and multyply;
Yower rebellious enimyes I shall put in yowr hand,
Encreasing in honour both yow and your land._

+Love.+ This would be censured now-a-days as profane to the
highest degree.

+True.+ No doubt on't: yet you see there was a time, when
people were not so nicely censorious in these matters, but were
willing to take things in the best sense; and then this was
thought a noble entertainment for the greatest king in Europe
(such I esteem king Henry VII. at that time) and proper for
that day of mighty joy and triumph. And I must farther observe
out of Lord Bacon's "History of Henry VII." that the chief man
who had the care of that day's proceedings was Bishop Fox, a
grave counsellor for war or peace, and also a good surveyor
of works, and a good master of ceremonies; and it seems he
approv'd it. The said Lord Bacon tells us farther that,
whosoever had those toys in compiling, they were not altogether
pedantical.

+Love.+ These things, however, are far from that which we
understand by the name of a play.

+True.+ It may be so; but these were the plays of those times.
Afterwards, in the reign of King Henry VIII., both the subject
and form of these plays began to alter, and have since varied
more and more. I have by me a thing called "A Merry Play
between the Pardoner and the Friar, the Curate and Neighbour
Pratt." Printed the 5th of April 1533, which was 24 Henry VIII.
(a few years before the dissolution of monasteries.) The design
of this play was to ridicule Friars and Pardoners. Of which
I'll give you a taste. To begin it, the Friar enters with these
words:[90]

Deus hic; _the holy trynyte
Preserve all that now here be._

_Dere bretherne, yf ye will consyder
The cause why I am com hyder,
Ye wolde be glad to knowe my entent:
For I com not hyther for mony nor for rent,
I com not hyther for meat nor for meale,
But I com hyther for your soules heale_, &c.

After a long preamble he addresses himself to preach, when the
Pardoner enters with these words:

_God and St Leonarde send ye all his grace,
As many as ben assembled in this place_, &c.

and makes a long speech, showing his bulls and his reliques, in
order to sell his pardons, for the raising some money towards
the rebuilding

_Of the holy chappell of sweet saynt Leonarde,
Which late by fyre was destroyed and marde._

Both these speaking together with continual interruption, at
last they fall together by the ears. Here the curate enters
(for you must know the scene lies in the church):

_Hold your hands; a vengeance on ye both two,
That ever ye came hyther to make this ado,
To polute my chyrche_, &c.

Friar. _Mayster Parson, I marvayll ye will give lycence
To this false knave in this audience
To publish his ragman rolles with lyes.
I desyred hym ywys more than ones or twyse
To hold his peas tyll that I had done,
But he would here no more than the man in the mone._

Pard. _Why sholde I suffre the, more than thou me?
Mayster Parson gave me lycence before the.
And I wolde thou knowest it I have relykes here,
Other maner stuffe than thou dost bere:
I wyll edefy more with the syght of it,
Than with all thy pratynge of holy wryt;
For that except that the precher himselfe lyve well,
His predycacyon wyll helpe never a dell_, &c.

Par. _No more of this wranglyng in my chyrch:
I shrewe yowr hertys bothe for this lurche.
Is there any blood shed here between these knaves?
Thanked be God they had no stavys,
Nor egotoles, for then it had ben wronge,
Well, ye shall synge another songe._

Here he calls his neighbour Prat, the constable, with design
to apprehend 'em, and set 'em in the stocks. But the Friar
and Pardoner prove sturdy, and will not be stocked, but fall
upon the poor Parson and Constable, and bang them both so
well-favouredly, that at last they are glad to let 'em go at
liberty: and so the farce ends with a drawn battle. Such as
this were the plays of that age, acted in gentlemen's halls at
Christmas or such like festival times by the servants of the
family or strollers who went about, and made it a trade. It is
not unlikely that the[91] lords in those days and persons of
eminent quality had their several gangs of players, as some
have now of fiddlers, to whom they give cloaks and badges.
The first comedy that I have seen, that looks like regular,
is "Gammer Gurton's Needle," writ,[92] I think, in the reign
of King Edward VI. This is composed of five acts, the scenes
unbroken, and the unities of time and place duly observed. It
was acted at Christ's College in Cambridge, there not being as
yet any settled and public theatres.

+Love.+ I observe, Trueman, from what you have said, that plays
in England had a beginning much like those of Greece; the
Monologues and Pageants, drawn from place to place on wheels,
answer exactly to the cart of Thespis, and the improvements
have been by such little steps and degrees as among the
ancients, till at last, to use the words of Sir George Buck
(in his "Third University of England"), "Dramatic poesy is so
lively express'd and represented upon the public stages and
theatres of this city, as Rome in the auge (the highest pitch)
of her pomp and glory, never saw it better performed, I mean
(says he) in respect of the action and art, and not of the
cost and sumptuousness." This he writ about the year 1631. But
can you inform me, Trueman, when the public theatres were first
erected for this purpose in London?

+True.+ Not certainly; but I presume about the beginning of
Queen Elizabeth's reign. For Stow, in his "Survey of London"
(which book was first printed in the year 1598), says--"Of
late years, in place of these stage-plays (_i.e._, those
of religious matters) have been used comedies, tragedies,
interludes, and histories, both true and feigned: for the
acting whereof certain public places, as the Theatre, the
Curtine, &c., have been erected." And the continuator of
"Stow's Annals," p. 1004, says that in sixty years before the
publication of that book (which was Ann. Dom. 1529), no less
than seventeen public stages, or common playhouses, had been
built in and about London. In which number he reckons five
inns or common hostelries to have been in his time turned into
playhouses--one Cockpit, Saint Paul's Singing-school, one in
the Blackfriars, one in the Whitefriars, and one in former
time at Newington Butts. And adds: Before the space of sixty
years past, I never knew, heard, or read of any such theatres,
stages, or playhouses, as have been purposely built within
man's memory.

+Love.+ After all, I have been told that stage-plays are
inconsistent with the laws of this kingdom, and players made
rogues by statute.

+True.+ He that told you so strained a point of truth. I
never met with any law wholly to suppress them: sometimes,
indeed, they have been prohibited for a season; as in times of
Lent, general mourning, or public calamities, or upon other
occasions, when the government saw fit. Thus, by proclamation
7th of April, in the first year of Queen Elizabeth, plays and
interludes were forbid until All-hallow-tide next following.
Hollinshed, p. 1184.[93] Some statutes have been made for
their regulation or information, not general suppression.
By the stat. 39 Eliz. cap. 4[94] (which was made for the
suppression of rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars) it is
enacted "_That all persons that be, or utter themselves to be,
proctors, procurers, patent gatherers, or collectors for goals,
prisons, or hospitals, or fencers, bearwards, common players of
interludes and minstrels, wandering abroad (other than players
of interludes belonging to any baron of this realm, or any
other honourable personage of greater degree, to be authoris'd
to play under the hand and seal of arms of such baron or
personage) all juglers, tinkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen,
wand'ring abroad, all wand'ring persons, &c., able in body,
using loytering, and refusing to work for such reasonable wages
as is commonly given, &c. These shall be adjudged and deemed
rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars, and punished as such_."

+Love.+ But this privilege of authorising or licensing is taken
away by the stat. Jac. I., ch. 7, s. 1., and therefore all of
them, as Mr Collier says, p. 242, are expressly brought under
the aforesaid penalty without distinction.

+True.+ If he means all players, without distinction, 'tis a
great mistake. For the force of the queen's statute extends
only to wandering players, and not to such as are the king or
queen's servants, and established in settled houses by royal
authority. On such the ill character of vagrant players (or,
as they are now called, strollers) can cast no more aspersion,
than the wandering proctors, in the same statute mentioned,
on those of Doctors'-Commons. By a stat. made 3 Jac. I.[95]
ch. 21, it was enacted, "_That if any person shall, in any
stage-play, interlude, shew, may-game or pageant, jestingly or
prophanely speak or use the holy name of God, Christ Jesus,
or of the Trinity, he shall forfeit for every such offence_
10_l._" The stat. 1 Charles I. ch. 1,[96] enacts, "_That no
meetings, assemblies, or concourse of people shall be out
of their own parishes, on the Lord's day, for any sports
or pastime whatsoever, nor any bear-baiting, bull-baiting,
interludes, common-plays, or other unlawful exercises and
pastimes used by any person or persons within their own,
parishes_." These are all the statutes that I can think of,
relating to the stage and players; but nothing to suppress
them totally, till the two ordinances of the Long Parliament,
one of the 22d of October 1647, the other of the 11th [9th]
of Feb. 1647;[97] by which all stage-plays and interludes are
absolutely forbid; the stages, seats, galleries, &c., to be
pulled down; all players, tho' calling themselves the king or
queen's servants, if convicted of acting within two months
before such conviction, to be punished as rogues according
to law; the money received by them to go to the poor of the
parish; and every spectator to pay five shillings to the use of
the poor. Also cock-fighting was prohibited by one of Oliver's
Acts of 31st March 1654. But I suppose nobody pretends these
things to be laws. I could say more on this subject, but I must
break off here and leave you, Lovewit; my occasions require it.

+Love.+ Farewell, old Cavalier.

+True.+ 'Tis properly said; we are almost all of us now gone
and forgotten.

FOOTNOTES:

[80] This is afterwards said to be a large round brick building. Mr Steevens supposes, from the extent of it, that all the actors resided within its precincts. It was pulled down about the time of the Restoration, soon after the appearance of the following advertisement in the _Mercurius Politicus_, Tuesday, Feb. 14, to Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1661. "The Fortune Playhouse, situate between Whitecross Street and Golding Square, in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, with the ground thereunto belonging, is to be let to be built upon; where twenty-three tenements may be erected, with gardens; and a street may be cut through for the better accommodation of the buildings." (See edition of Shakespeare, 1778, i. 267.) From the following passage of "The English Traveller," by Heywood, 1633, sig. I 3, we find there was a picture or statue of Fortune before the building.

"I'le rather stand here
Like a statue in the forefront of your house
For ever; like the picture of Dame Fortune
Before the Fortune Play-house."

[81] The Letters Patent under the Great Seal bear date the 21st June 1619.

[82] This is confirmed by Kirkman who, in his preface to "The Wits; or, Sport upon Sport," 1672, says, The small compositions of which his work was made up, being scenes and parts of plays, were at this period "liked and approved by all, and they were the fittest for the actors to represent, there being little cost in cloaths, which often were in great danger to be seized by the then soldiers; who, as the poet sayes, _Enter the red coat, exit hat and cloak_, was very true, not only in the audience but the actors too, who were commonly not only stripp'd, but many times imprisoned, till they paid such ransom as the souldiers would impose upon them: so that it was hazardous to act any thing that required any good cloaths: instead of which painted cloath many times served the turn to represent rich habits."

[83] "When the publique Theatres were shut up, and the actors forbidden to present us with any of their tragedies, because we had enough of that in earnest: and comedies, because the vices of the age were too lively and smartly represented; then all that we could divert ourselves with, were these humours and pieces of plays which, passing under the name of a merry conceited fellow, called "Bottom the Weaver," "Simpleton the Smith," "John Swabber," or some such title, were only allowed us, and that but by stealth too, and under pretence of rope-dancing or the like; and these being all that was permitted us, great was the confluence of the auditors; and these small things were as profitable and as great get-pennies to the actors as any of our late famed plays. I have seen _the Red Bull Playhouse_, which was a large one, so full, that as many went back for want of room as had entered; and as meanly as you may now think of these drols, they were then acted by the best comedians then and now in being; and I may say by some that then exceeded all now living, by name, the incomparable Robert Cox, who was not only the principal actor, but also the contriver and author of most of these farces."--Kirkman's Preface to "The Wits, or Sport upon Sport," 1672.

[84] [Concerning Field the actor and dramatist, see introduction to his "Woman is a Weathercock," &c., xi. 3-6, 89-91, and Collier's "Memoirs of Actors," p. 206, _et seq._]

Nathaniel Field, on the authority of Roberts the player (see his answer to Mr Pope's preface to Shakespeare), has been considered as the author of two plays: "A Woman is a Weathercocke," 1612, and "Amends for Ladies," 1618. He is also supposed to be the same person who assisted Massinger in "The Fatal Dowry." I suspect that Roberts was mistaken in these assertions, as I do not find any contemporary writer speak of Field as an author; nor is it mentioned by Langbaine, who would have noticed it, had he known the fact. It seems more probable that the writer of these plays was Nathaniel Field, M.A., Fellow of New College, Oxford, who wrote some Latin verses, printed in "Oxoniensis Academiæ Parentalia, 1625," and who, being of the same university with Massinger, might join with him, while there, in the composition of the play ascribed to them. Nathaniel Field above mentioned was celebrated in the part of "Bussy D'Ambois," first printed in 1607. On the republication of that play in 1641, he is thus spoken of in the Prologue:--

"_Field_ is gone,
Whose action first did give it name, and one,
Who came the neerest to him, is denide
By his gray beard to shew the height and pride
Of D'Ambois youth and braverie; yet to hold
Our title still a foot, and not grow cold
By giving it o're, a third man with his best
Of care and paines defends our interest;
As Richard he was lik'd, nor doe wee feare,
In personating Dambois, hee'le appeare
To faint, or goe lesse, so your free consent
As heretofore give him encouragement."

[85] P. 73, 4º. Edit. 1772.

[86] [This and the other quotations were not correctly printed. See Halliwell's "Ludus Coventriæ," 1841, p. 121.]

[87] [_Ibid._, p. 343.]

[88] [See Halliwell's "Ludus Coventriæ," 1841, p. 401.]

[89] [See a description of the espousals in Stow's "Chronicle," ed. 1615, fol. 483-4.]

[90] [Compare vol. i. pp. 199, 201, &c.]

[91] Till the twenty-fifth year of Queen Elizabeth, the queen had not any players; but in that year twelve of the best of all those who belonged to several lords were chosen, and sworn her servants.--_Stow's Annals_, p. 698.

[92] [An error. This play, which has been long known not to be the first regular comedy, was probably performed about 1566.]

[93] [See "English Drama and Stage," edit. Hazlitt, p. 19.]

[94] [_Ibid._, p. 37.]

[95] ["English Dramas and Stage," p. 42.]

[96] [_Ibid._, pp. 59, 60.]

[97] [But see _Ibid._, pp. 63-70.]

ERRATA

VOL. I. Page 62, for _goodness_ read _goddess_.

VOL. II. ... 135, ... _knotted_ ... _notted_.[98]

... ... 216, ... _noboby_ ... _nobody_.

VOL. III. ... 58,[99] ... _oppose_ ... _appose_.

... ... 59, ... _maketh_ ... _keepeth_.

... ... 71, ... _fault_ ... _faults_.

... ... 82, ... _so sore_ ... _to fore_.

... ... _ib._ ... _be fed_ ... _to be fed_.

... ... 83, l. 17. The correspondent thinks this
line belongs to _Omnes Famulæ_.

... ... 88, for _had chid_ read _chid_.

... ... 95, ... _I ever_ ... _ever I_.

... ... 97, ... _wage-pasty_ ... _way-pasty_.[100]

... ... 99, ... _he_ ... _ye_.

... ... _ib._ ... _ield_ ... _yelde_.

... ... 105, ... _to please_ ... _it please_.

... ... 108, ... _a master_ ... _an M_.

... ... 117, ... _as much_ ... _so much_.

... ... 118, ... _make a_ ... _make me a_.

... ... 121, ... _another ... _another but_.
than_

... ... _ib._ ... _readiness_ ... _a readiness_.

... ... 122, ... _other's_ ... _others'_.

... ... _ib._ ... _point ... _point
whereof_ wherefore_.

... ... 125, ... _draw ye_ ... _draw we_.

... ... 128, ... _thou goose_ ... _you goose_.

... ... 139, ... _Not if all ... _Nor if all the_.
the_

... ... 140, ... _where or ... _where nor how_.
how_

... ... 158, ... _all men_ ... _of all men_.

... ... 178, ... _halse-aker_ ... _half-acre_.[101]

VOL. V. ... 115, ... _Alvearic_ ... _Alvearie_.

... ... 285, ... _Got_ ... _Get_.

VoL. IX. ... 98, ... _collection_ ... _collation_.

... ... _ib._} ... _moldash_ ... _molash_.

... ... 332,} ... _moldash_ ... _molash_.

... ... 205, ... _Amoretta_ ... _Amoretto_.

VOL. X. ... 274, ... _Foresaw_ ... _Foreseen_.

VOL. XI. ... 436, ... _Sir Thomas_ ... _St. Thomas_.

FOOTNOTES:

[98] See Nares. ed. 1859, _v._ Nott. We still have the vulgarism _nut_ for the head; but it more properly means a head with the hair cut close.

[99] These errors in "Ralph Roister Doister" have been pointed out by a correspondent, who states that he has detected them on a personal collation of the original copy at Eton College. But many of the variations noticed by this gentleman have been intentional corrections of the old copy.

[100] Yet in "Jack Juggler" (ii. 141), _wage-pasty_ occurs.

[101] So in "Appius and Virginia" (iv. 136)--

"Hard by Hodge's half-acre, at Gaffer Miller's stile."

INDEX TO NOTES.

INDEX TO THE NOTES.

Abhominable, ii. 69

Abraham-men, iii. 171

Absolutions, tariff for, xi. 465

Accointenance, i. 79

Accombred, i. 299

Accomplished Woman, 1656, xiv. 483

Acquaince, i. 105

Actors' Remonstrance, x. 348

Addison, Joseph, ix. 490

Address, xiv. 326

Adonai, i. 109

Adultery, punishment for, xiv. 475-6

Adventures of Five Hours, a play, xv. 185-320

Adventures or insurances, xi. 137

A friend in court is worth a penny in purse, prov. i. 178

After kissing comes greater kindness, prov. xiii. 114

Agnes' Eve, St, xii. 21

Aim, to cry, v. 225

Ajax Oïleus, x. 132

Albricias, xv. 292

Albumazar, a play, xi. 294-421

Alcazar, battle of, xi. 213

Alder speed, i. 135

Alimony, Lady, a play, xiv. 273-367

Ale, i. 161, 185
-- Derby, xi. 234

Ales, church and other, xiii. 503

Alestake, i. 191

Alexander and Lodwick, a play, xi. 239

Algates, i. 237

Almond for a parrot, an, x. 534

Alva, Duke of, xv. 231

Amadis of Gaul, xv. 91

Amain, xiv. 182

Ambergris, xiii. 490

Ambree, Mary, xi. 111

Amends for Ladies, a play, xi. 88-172

America, viii. 406;
xii. 135

Amias [Emaas], i. 333

Amphitruo of Plautus, xi. 314

Anagrams, xiv. 483

Ancients, xiii. 291

Andromana, a play, xiv. 194-271

Angoulême, Earl of, viii. 251

Antiquary, the, a play, xiii. 411-523

Apollo Shroving, a play, xi. 196

Apollonius of Tyana, xi. 310

Appaireth, i. 101

Appius and Virginia, a play, 1575, iv. 100-55

Apple-squires, xiii. 125

Appoline, St, vi. 74

Apricocks, xiv. 344

Arcadia, Sydney's, xiii. 468

Aretine's pictures, xiii. 309

Argiers, xiv. 327

Argosies, xii. 100

Aristippus, iv. 15 _et seq._, v. 286

Aristophanes, ix. 376

Armada, the Spanish, vi. 447

Arrayed (or rayed), i. 78, 178

Arride, xiii. 445

Artemisia (or southernwood), xii. 144

Arthur, King, iv. 255 _et seq._

Arundel, xi. 70

As brisk as a body-louse, prov. iii. 209

Asinigo, xiii. 519

Assoil, vii. 169;
xv. 253

As soon goeth to market the lamb's fell as the sheep's, prov. i. 78

Astræa, D'Urfe's, xiii. 468

Astrology, xi. 301-2 _et seq._

As true as the skin between thy brows, prov., iii. 244

Athelwold, vi. 27

At nale, i. 166

Audience, direct allusions to, from the stage, vi. 288, 327;
viii. 456

Aums ace, ii. 35;
xii. 243

Aunt, xiii. 70, 160;
xiv. 448

Autolycus, xiii. 486

Automatons, xiii. 230

Avoutry, i. 175;
iii. 151, &c.

Away the mare, i. 57

A young man's darling, an old man's warling, prov., x. 303

Babylon, i. 162

Backare, quod Mortimer to his sow, iii. 65

Backrag (or Baccarach), xiii. 216

Bacon, Francis, iv. 251;
xiii. 462

Bacon, Friar, vii. 357;
xi. 84, 252

Baker, Henry, an actor, viii. 78

Bale, John, i. 278 _et seq._

Bale or pair of dice, xi. 221

Bales, Peter, viii. 41

Ball, John, xiv. 488

Balloon, a game, vii. 50

Banbury, xii. 248

Bandello, M., x. 115

Bands, starched, xi. 328-9

Bankes's horse, xiv. 508-9

Barbary, xi. 213, 215

Barclay, Alexander, viii. 47

Barkley (or Barclay), Sir R., xii. 538
---- Sir W., xii. 538-627

Barrey, Lodowick, x. 266-380

Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton, prov., iv. 77

Batteries, xiii. 218

Bayard, xiii. 94

Bay-window, xiv. 403

Bear and Ragged Staff, viii. 174

Bear in hand, to, x. 303

Beau Disconu, Le, a romance, i. 401

Beaumont and Fletcher, xii. 19;
xiv. 194

Bedlams, iii. 170-1

Beer, broken, xii. 228
---- four and six shilling, xiii. 12, 43

Beggars, frauds of, xii. 108

Beggars'-bush, vii. 335

Behight, i. 248

Behu, Mrs, ix. 469;
xiii. 178

Bell, book, and candle, x. 309

Bells, to ring the, backwards, xiii. 230

Belsavage, the, a sign, viii. 116

Belvidere, or the Garden of the Muses, 1600, ix. 111

Benchers, xiii. 290-1

Benefit of clergy, viii. 244

Benlowes, E., xiv. 11

Berew, i. 246

Bergen-op-Zoom, ix. 293

Bermondsey, i. 335

Bermudas, the, xi. 137;
xiv. 333

Bestial, i. 12, 13

Betso, xiii. 460

Betterton, Tho., xv. 196

Bevis of Hampton, xi. 70

Beyond Lawrence of Lancashire, prov., xi. 85

Bias, xiv. 454

Biggon, xiii. 288

Bilboa blades, x. 218

Bill of the plague, xiv. 449

Bills, x. 342;
xi. 469

Birdbolt, xi. 200

Black, note on the word, xii. 245

Blackfriars, xi. 111

Black's her eye, prov., ix. 78

Blank, the, ii. 35

Ble, i. 251

Blind eats many a fly, the, prov., x. 503

Blind [men] can judge no colour, prov., v. 293

Blowpoint, xiii. 435

Blue coats or badges, x. 349

Boccaccio, Gio. xiii. 105

Bodenham, John, ix. 112

Booker, John, xiv. 396-7

Book-holder, viii. 17, 87

Boot, the Scotch, xi. 66

Bold, v., i. 182

Bonduca, a play, xii. 19

Bonerly, i. 243

Bongrace, Master, ii. 113

Bonner, Bp. iv. 244

Borachio, xv. 215

Bordella's blouses, xiv. 344

Boston, our Lady of, i. 337

Bothwell, Lord, xi. 224

Botolph, St, i. 334

Boulogne, our Lady of, iii. 199-200

Bourbonne-les-Bains, xiv. 52

Bowyer, Mich., xiii. 102

Brach, i. 185

Brai, the story of the physician of, vi. 207

Brandt, Sebastian, viii. 47

Brathwaite, R., xii. 23

Brennus, xii. 449 _et seq._

Brewen (or Bruin), Alderman, xii. 91, _et seq._

Brigand harness, i. 251

Bright, Dr Timothy, viii. 41

Brimstone, quick, i. 179

Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, xv. 1-107, 187

Britain, ancient divisions of, xii. 516

Brome, Richard, xiv. 480

Bromfield, Mr, xiii. 209

Broom, i. 65
----, "A new broom sweeps clean," prov., iv. 21

Brothers of the blade, xiv. 330

Browne, Robert, xiii. 227

Buck, Paul, vi. 13

Buckets, fire, names inscribed on, xiii. 230

Buckingham, Duke of, v. 15, 37

Burbage, R., xi. 5

Burport--"taw halts of Burport," i. 158

Butcher (or Boucher), Richard, xiii. 413

Butler, S., xiii. 329

Butler's box, the, ix. 103;
x. 299

Buxton, i. 334

Buzzardism, xiv. 357

Bye and main, xiv. 427

By the lock, a phrase, xiii. 168

Cacus, xii. 516

Calderon, Pedro, xv. 187, 193-4

Calisto and Meliboea, i. 52 _et seq._

Calvary, Mount, i. 332

Calvinists, exiled, xiii. 295

Camoëns, Lois de, x. 468

Camomile, xiii. 138

Candles, holy, iii. 188

Cannon Street, x. 547

Cape, i. 162

Caperhay, vii. 421

Cap of maintenance, xii. 109

Caracts, xiv. 325

Carew, Thomas, xi. 510;
xiv. 372

Carfax, vii. 333

Carouches, x. 336; xi. 202

Carpet-knight, viii. 173

Carry-coals, a phrase, viii. 417

_Carta blanca_, xv. 72

Cartwright, W., xii. 204-318;
xiii. 203

Cary, Henry, Viscount Falkland, xv. 111

Case, Thomas, xiv. 516

Cassandra, x. 132

Castara [Lady Lucia Herbert], xiii. 324

Casti, Luigi, xiv. 480

Cat in pan, to turn, a phrase, iv. 41

Cats, gibbed or gib, xiii. 31

Catwade, i. 341

Cauls, xv. 90-1

Caveare, xii. 236

Cervantes, xiii. 105

Chadders, xiii. 231

Chains of gold worn by persons of quality, xi. 324-5

Chalk, to sin in, xiii. 287;
xiv. 331

Challenges, etiquette of, xi. 224, 389

Chamberlain, Robert, xiv. 3, 9

Chanticleers, the London, a play, xii. 320-60

Charles I., xii. 206
---- II., xv. 194

Charmers, xii. 505

Chase, the, vii. 41

Chaucer, Geffrey, xii. 240-2, 286

Chelsea College, xii. 277-8

Cherry-pit, i. 246

Chess, game of, ix. 387

Cheston [Cheshunt] nunnery, x. 215

Chettle, Henry, viii. 95-6, 200-327

Chopines, x. 367

Christ-cross, ix. 42

Christmas, xiii. 20-1

Chrysome, xiii. 280

Churchyard, T., ix. 118

Cicero's treatise, "De Republica," xiii. 476

Citizenship, xii. 136

City Match, a play, xiii. 200-320

City Nightcap, the, a play, xiii. 99-197

Clerkenwell Green, xi. 98

Cloak for every rain, to have a, prov., xiii. 56

Clocks, German, xii. 231

Cloth, flinching of, xii. 259

Cloth-dealers in Watling Street, iv. 243

Clouds, the, by Aristophanes, ix. 376

Clown, the, in plays, iv. 160

Coaches, x. 336-7

Cob's pound, xv. 32

Cockatrice, xiii. 499-500

Cock-sure, vi. 67

Cole, old, vii. 476

Coll my dog, iii. 8, 9

Cologne, three kings of, iii. 200

Combat, laws of, x. 129

Complaisant Companion, the, a jest-book, x. 115

Comptes du Monde aventureux, xiv. 480

Conduits, speeches delivered from, xiii. 243

Constable, Henry, ix. 113-14

Content--"To go look content," a phrase, xiii. 141

Contention between Liberality and Prodigality, a play, viii. 330-83

Convey, i. 159

Cooke, John, xi. 174-289

Cooke, Joshua, ix. 2

Cool his heels, to, a phrase, xiii. 52

Cooling card, xiii. 505

Coomb House, xiii. 14, 16

Cooper's "_Thesaurus_" referred to, x. 218

Copernicus, i. 38

Copesmate, xiii. 30

Copland, Robert, viii. 19

Corbet, Bp., xii. 248

Cornelia, a play, v. 176-252

Cornelys, St, i. 336; vi. 74

Corner-cap, iii. 11

Corney, Bolton, ix. 100;
xiii. 203

Coryat, Thomas, iii. 200;
xi. 313; xii. 227

Costermongers, xiii. 125

Cotswold or Cotsol, iii. 137

Cotterel, Sir Clement, i. xv.

Counters, the London, x. 344;
xiii. 41

Coventry Mysteries, the, i. 374

Cow-cross, xi. 98

Cowley, Abr., xv. 199

Coxcomb Park, xiii. 14

Crabbed age and youth, &c., a song, quoted, xiii. 89

Cramp-rings, xii. 255-6

Crane, Sir Francis, xiii. 233

Cranes in the Vintry, the three, iv. 87;
vii. 357

Creature, i. 123

Creeping to the cross, x. 236;
xii. 255-6

Cries of London, xi. 436

Crofts, Cecilia, xiv. 372

Crome, i. 341

Cromwell, Oliver, ix. 334, 348;
xii. 316;
xiv. 475-6

Cross, red, houses marked with a, xiv. 405

Crotchets, xiii. 15

Crowned cups, xii. 39

Croydon sanguine, iv. 80

Crystals, pair of [the eyes], xiii. 55

Cucking-stool, xii. 127

Cue, xi. 225

Cuerpo, xiii. 278

Cupboard-beds, xv. 216

Cupid's arrows, fable of, xii. 31

Cupid's Revenge, a play, xiv. 194

Curfew-bell, the, x. 251

Curtains at theatres, xiv. 97

Curtal, iii. 211

Cushion, beside the, x. 237

Custom, xiv. 74

Cut, xiii. 85

Cut and long tail, xiii. 84-5

Cutpurse, Moll, xi. 90

Cutter, xiii. 16, 17

Dagenham, i. 336

Daisy, to leap at a, iii. 251

Danes, red-haired, v. 121

Daniel, S., ix. 114;
xi. 449;
xiii. 438

Danter, John, ix. 120

Darby's bands, ii. 362

Darius' doleful strain, King, iv. 159

Daubing--"There is craft in daubing," prov., i. 159

Davenant, Sir W., xi. 504;
xv. 199

Davenport, Robert, xiii. 99-197;
xiv. 7

David's, St, i. 339

Davies, Sir John, ix. 115

Daw, a fool, i. 8

Day, John, ix. 100

Daylight, to burn, prov., v. 115

Day's-man, iii. 14

Death, to die the, i. 291-2

Deboshed, xiii. 195

Dedekindus, viii. 73

Deep Ditch, xii. 127

Dejanira, ix. 169

Delayed, i. 81;
xiii. 114

Demains, xiv. 346

Denham, Sir John, xiv. 245

Denis, St, i. 339

Derby ale, xi. 234

Deuce-ace, ii. 35

Devil, the, as a character in plays, ii. 307;
iii. 205
----, "The devil is in the horologe," prov., iii. 101
----, "Who dips with the devil hath need of a long spoon," prov.,
iv. 118
----, a tavern so called, xiii. 22;
xiv. 454
----, "The devil is dead," prov., xiii. 141

Dewes, Sir Simonds, xiii. 21

Dice, bale or pair of, xi. 221

Digby, Sir Kenelm, xii. 245, 362;
xv. 4
---- George, Earl of Bristol, xv. 1-107, 187
---- Lady Venetia, xii. 362

Dionysius of Syracuse, iv. 29

Dismissed, xiv. 350

Divining-rod, the, v. 402

Doccy, i. 188

Dod, John xii. 299

Dod's blessing, xii. 299

Dodsley, R., i., xv., _et alibi_;
xi. 360-1

Dodsley's Plays, note on the edit. of 1825-8, vi. 4

Dogberry, Shakespeare's, xiv. 333.

Dole, xi. 208-9

Dolent, i. 82

Dormer, Sir Clement, i., xv.

Dottrel, the, iv. 68

Dovercourt in Essex, viii. 399

Downton, Thomas, viii. 19

Drake, Sir F., xiii. 256

Drawers at taverns, xiii. 19

Dreaming of husbands on St Agnes' Eve, xii. 21

Drolleries and interludes, xv. 410

Drought, great, of 1592, viii. 37

Drunkenness, statute against, x. 335, 354
----, excess of, xi. 251, 345

Dryden, John, vii. 7-8, 78

Ducarel, Dr, xiii. 419

Ducie family, xiv. 4

Ducking, xii. 127

Duels in England, xi. 390

Dulwich College, xv. 408

Dumb Knight, the, a play, x. 108-200

Duns Scotus, x. 57

Dunstan, St, viii. 391 _et seq._

Duppa, Brian, xiii. 201

Duretta, xiii. 222

D'Urfé, Honoré, xiii. 468

Dutch, the, iii. 325

Dyer, Sir Edward, viii. 73;
ix. 455

Eagles, young, v. 319

Earle's Microcosmography, xiii. 475

Early up, and never the near, prov., xi. 146

Echineis, the, xiii. 525

Echo poetry, vii. 148; xi. 477

Ecstasy, xiii. 511

Edmondsbury, St, i. 337

Edmund Ironside, xii. 287

Edward I., xii. 309

Edward VI., i. 431

Edwards, Richard (the elder), iv. 3-104;
viii. 387

Eggs for money, xiii. 92

Elements, Interlude of the Four, i. 4-50

Elfrid, vi. 27

Elfrida, vi. 27

Elinor, Queen, xii. 309

Elizabeth, Q., viii. 22; ix. 161;
x. 487;
xv. 427-30

Elms, the, in Smithfield, iii. 324

Eltham, Sir John, viii. 105

Elvira, a play, xv. 1-107

Embalming, i. 60

England--"If England to itself," &c., xii. 468

Englishmen for my Money, a play, x. 470-564

Ennewed, i. 62

Erastus and Perseda, v. 255

Erragon, i. 162

Eschewed, i. 77

Essex man, an, xiv. 467

Eterne, i. 11

Eudoxus of Cnidus, xiii. 452

Eulenspiegel, vii. 358

Euphorbium, i. 178

Euripides, the "Hecuba" of, iv. 263

_Euripus Euboicus_, vii. 37

Evans, Dr, xii. 20

Evelyn, John, xi. 251;
xv. 199

Everichone, i. 138

Every Man, the Summoning of, an interlude, i. 94-142

Exchange, the Royal, x. 487

Eyes, kissing the, xi. 396
----, eloquence of the, xiii. 438

Fabell, Peter, x. 207

Faces about, xiv. 380

Fagaries, xiv. 289

Fair Quarrel, A, a play, xi. 139

Fair words maketh fools fain, prov., i. 117

Falantado (or Falanta), viii. 22

Falkland, Henry, Viscount, xv. 111-184

Fall, _v._, i. 285
Falstaff originally called _Oldcastle_, xi. 152

Farewell, fortypence, prov., x. 526

Far fetched and dear bought is good for ladies, prov., iii. 223

Fast and loose, xiii. 174

Faustulus, xii. 490

Favell, i. 164

Fere, i. 188

Fescennine poetry, xii. 312

Field, Nathaniel, xi. 2-172;
xv. 416

Fifteens, x. 299-300

Firedrakes, ix. 572

Fisher, Jasper, xii. 446-536

Fishes, strange, xiii. 248, 259, 267

Fit, i. 246;
ii. 48

Fitz-geoffrey, Charles, x. 110

Flageolet, the, viii. 31

Flemings, iii. 325

Fletchers' Company, iv. 19;
xiii. 40

Fliegen, Eve, story of, xiii. 236-7

Floods, notices of, viii. 38

Floralia, xiii. 435

Flout, xiv. 190

Flower, Francis, iv. 251

Flowers, language of, xii. 144

Flute, the, viii. 31

Fodes, i. 243, 247

Foist, xiv. 385

Fool, i. 71

Fools--Begging for a fool, xiii. 246
---- bauble, xi. 57
---- coat, xiii. 30

Fools have fortune, xiv. 474

Fordoth, i. 68

Fortune theatre, xi. 136, 434;
xv. 406

Foster, Sir Stephen, xii. 90, _et seq._

Found, i. 244

Fountain, the, a tavern, xiii. 14

Fox, a sword, xiv. 387

Fox, intoxicate, xiii. 28

Free jug or bottle, the, xii. 336

French, broken, &c., put into the mouths of speakers (often
improperly), vi. 200;
vii. 139, 162
---- pedlars, vi. 202;
viii. 169

Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford, a play, viii. 19

Friars-Limiters, i. 216

Fuimus Troes: the True Trojans, a play, xii. 446-536

Fulbeck, W. iv. 251

Fullam, xii. 124

Fulwell, Ulpian, iii. 304-59;
ix. 367

Funeral customs, xiii. 81-2

Funeral of Richard Cordelion, a play, viii. 206

Galaor, Sir, xv. 91

Gale, Samuel, xiii. 419

Galileo, xi. 317

Gallant, treatise of a, i. 174

Gallo-belgicus, xi. 513

Games, statute against unlawful, iii. 9
---- noticed, ix. 387-8;
xii. 120-1;
xiii. 238-9

Gaming at Christmas, xiii. 20-1

Gammer Gurton's Needle, a comedy, iii. 164-256;
x. 427

Garden-houses, xii. 119

Garlands, xiii. 37

Garlic, supposed to be a play or ballad, xi. 434

Gamier, Robert, v. 178 _et seq._

Gazet, xiii. 477

George, the, at Waltham, xiv. 405

George-a-Green, viii. 151

Gerbier, Charles, xiv. 7

Gillivors, xii. 144

Girdle--"May my girdle break," a phrase, xiii. 10

Give a thing, and take a thing, xiv. 463

Glass House, the, xiv. 449

Glaucus and Seilla, x. 507

Gleek, a game, xiv. 396

Goad, Dr John, xv. 400

God, i. 100
---- is a good man, ii. 73
---- refuse me, xiii. 5

God's sonties, an oath, xiv. 145

Godfrey of Boulogne, xii. 137

Golding Square, xv. 406

Gold used in medicine, xii. 116

Gomersall, Robert, xiv. 488

Good, i. 152

Goodman, Nicholas, xiii. 414

Goshawk, haggard, xiii. 161

Got--"be got," i. 107

Gough, John, x. 384;
xiv. 10
----, Robert, x. 384

Grandmother, to see one's, xiii. 33

Grange, Laird of, xi. 224

Gredaline petticoat, xiv. 418

Green gowns, to give, a phrase, viii. 25-6

Greene, Robert, viii. 5, 8, 10-11;
xi. 519; xiii. 105
----, Thomas, actor, xi. 176 _et seq._

"Green's Tu Quoque," a play, xi. 174-289

Gresham, Sir T., x. 487
---- family, xi. 503

Grim the Collier of Croydon, a play, viii. 386-470

Groom, i. 252;
iv. 283

Groom-porter or box-keeper, xii. 121

Grotius, Hugo, xiii. 254

Guardon, i. 206

Guilpin, Edward, vi. 15

Gwendoline, xii. 521

Gypsies, xiii. 174

Habington, Thomas, xiii. 323
----, W., xiii. 321-409

Hair, combing the, on the stage, xiv. 394

Haled, xiv. 479

Hales, blood of, i. 338

Half-moon, xiv. 456

Hall, Old, viii. 24

Hampden, John, xii. 316

Handsel, vi. 403

Happily, xiii. 362

Happy man, happy dole, prov., iv. 21

Harbinger, xi. 307

Harlot, i. 253

Harlotry, viii. 351

Haro, clameur de, xii. 253

Harold Harefoot, viii. 233

Harpocrates, xii. 469

Harry groats, xiii. 232, 256

Harvey, Gabriel, viii. 3, 4 _et seq._ 10, 11

Haslewood, Joseph, i. 391-3

Hats worn by women, x. 16

Hatton, Sir Chr., vii. 75

Haught, xiv. 442

Haughton, W., x. 470-564

Hawkins, Sir Richard, xiii. 256
----, W., xi. 196

Haxter, xiv. 282, 322

Hay, the, a dance, xii. 341

Haydigee, xii. 507

Hazard, a game, ii. 34

Hazlitt, W., x. 205

Heal, i. 212

Health-drinking, practices at, xiii. 441

Hearne, Thomas, xv. 400

Heart of grace, xii. 212

Hector, xi. 447

Heildom, xiii. 43

Heir, the, a play, xi. 502-84

Heirlooms, xi. 354

Hele, i. 129

Helmets plumed with ostrich feathers, xiv. 45

Hend, i. 250

Hengistus, xii. 287

Henslowe, P., xi. 4, 55

Herbs and flowers strewed at weddings, x. 366

Hercules and Lychas, xiii. 515

Hercules, x. 169; xii. 516

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon, prov., viii. 460-1

Heywood, John, i. 196-238, 325 _et seq._
----, Thomas, i. 329;
iv. 348;
xi. 177, 179;
xii. 95

Hickscorner, an interlude, i. 143-95

Hieronimo, part of, iv. 361
----. See _Jeronymo_

Highgate, viii. 380

High men and low men, xii. 244

Hight (or hyght), i. 129

Highwayman, xiv. 382

Hill, Aaron, vi. 27

Historia Histrionica, xv. 400-31

Histriomastix, Prynne's, xiii. 226

Hobby-horse, viii. 24; xi. 267
----, "The hobby-horse is forgot," xi. 267

Hofman, Goody, xiii. 228

Hogsnorton, ii. 31

Holland's Leaguer, xiii. 414

Holt, i. 148

Homer, xi. 303

Hoodman-blind, x. 221

Horse-stealing, viii. 27

Hot-cockles, ix. 102;
xv. 381

How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, a play, ix. 2-96

Howard, Mr Henry, xv. 189-90

How can that be? xiv. 458

Howleglass, Tyl, vii. 358

Hudson, Thomas, ix. 116

Huggermugger, x. 90

Hughes, Thomas, iv. 251

Humorous, xiv. 296

Humphrey, to dine with Duke, vi. 553;
xiii. 31, 264

Hundred Merry Tales, A, a story-book, i. 25

Hungarians, x. 227, 244

Huntley, Dick, viii. 17

Hussey, xiv. 331

Hymen's Triumph, a masque, xi. 449

I am sorry for thee, but I cannot weep, prov., vi. 319

Iceland (or Isling) dogs, x. 321

If you know not me, you know nobody, prov., vii. 213

Image of Idleness, viii. 72

In danger, iii. 62

Indies, West, xi. 213

In dock, out nettle, prov. iii. 90

Ingelend, Thomas, ii. 266-320

Ingenious and ingenuous, xiii. 53;
xiv. 281

Inkhorn phrases, viii. 70

Ink in the pen, ii. 92

Ink-pot terms, viii. 70

Inns of Court, Christmas at the, xiii. 20-1

Intellection, i. 124

Intreat, i. 237

Ireland, xi. 187

Irish, ii. 34

Irish earth, properties of, xii. 486

Irish footmen, xi. 121

Irus, xi. 548

Isle of Dogs, a play, viii. 6-8

Italian poets, study of the, viii. 5, 29, 72

Jack, the, at bowls, xii. 165

Jack Drum's Entertainment, prov., vi. 324

Jack Juggler, an interlude, ii. 104-57

Jack o' Lent, xi. 262

Jack Straw, a play, vi. 376-414

Jack will be a gentleman, prov., xii. 156

Jacob and Esau, an interlude, ii. 186-264

Jacques, Holy, xiv. 65

James I., ix. 114;
xi. 328-9

James in Gales, St, i. 336

Janty, xiv. 401

Jehosaphat, i. 332

Jeronimo, a play in two parts, iv. 346-96;
v. 3-173;
xiv. 82
----, go by, go by, v. 109

Jet, i. 69

Jews furnished with large noses on the stage, x. 481

Jis (for Jesus), iii. 225

John, King, Shakespeare's play of, xiv. 136

John, Sir, ii. 25;
x. 224-5

Jonson, Ben. iv. 361;
v. 3, 4, 56, 70, 103, 147;
viii. 97;
ix. 393;
xi. 504

Jordan, Thomas, xiv. 9

Judas colour, v. 121

Julian (or Jyl) of Brentford, viii. 19

Jumped, xiv. 248

Jump out, to, xiii. 62-3

_Ka kob_, jackdaw's, ii. 215

Kempe, W., viii. 4, 7;
ix. 194

Kest, i. 179

Killigrew, Anne, xiv. 375
----, Henry, xiv. 375
----, Sir Robert, xiv. 371
----, Thomas, xiv. 370-535
----, Sir Will., xiv. 375

Kind-heart, a dentist, xii. 139

Kind will creep, &c., prov. i. 113

King and queen chosen on Twelfth Day, xii. 132

King's-evil, xii. 256

Kirkman, Francis, xv. 410-11

Kirksley, Prioress of, viii. 248

Knack, a, to Know a Knave, a play, vi. 504-91

Knight, J., xiv. 13

Knight of the Bath, creation of a, iv. 349
---- Post, vi. 533
---- Sun, x. 322;
xii. 12;
xiii. 42;
xiv. 478

Knights, King James I.'s, x. 272;
xi. 59

Knowles, Sir Robert, xii. 193

Knox, John, xii. 300;
xiii. 228

Kyd, Thomas, iv. 346-96;
v. 3 _et seq._;
xiv. 82

Ladies' garden, xiv. 343

Lamb, Charles, x. 87

Lame, to do, i. 252

Lamphire, John, xiii. 203

Lance-prisado, xiv. 328

Lapis lasuli, viii. 239

Latten, i. 183;
ix. 393

Lattice, the red, viii. 241;
ix. 510

Laud, i. 131

Laundress, x. 275, 317;
xiii. 231

Lawrence of Lancashire, xi. 85

Lay the country, to, xiii. 253

Lead apes in hell, to, prov. x. 518

Leather, to cut thongs out of other people's, xiv. 315

Le Brun, Hugh, Earl of March, viii. 251

Legs, to make, viii. 81;
xiv. 443

Leicester, Earl of, viii. 174

Leman, xiii. 499

Leme, i. 64

Lesing, i. 159, 246

Lest, i. 80, 247

Let the cat wink, prov. i. 265

Levite's Revenge, the, xiv. 488

Lewt, i. 255

Libbards, xiii. 282;
xiv. 325

Lieger, xiii. 271

Lightening before death, the, viii. 266

Like lettuce, like lips, prov., iii. 23

Lincolnshire bagpipes, vi. 393

Lind, i. 255

Lindabrides, xiv. 478

Lingua, a play, ix. 332-463

Liripup, iii. 322

Litchfield, Rich, _pseud._ viii. 67

Lithgow, W., xii. 226

Little John, viii. 106, _et seq._

Loave-ears, xiv. 321

Lob's pound, xv. 32

Locrine, a play, xii. 484

Lodge, Thomas, vii. 98, _et seq._;
ix. 114

Lok (or Lock), Henry, ix. 116

Lombards, i. 266