Chapter CXLVII: Epilogue (3)

[414] Dyce points out that these are the first words of W. Lily’s “_Ad discipulos carmen de moribus_.”

[415] A kind of larkspur, used for destroying lice.

[416] A mean street in London.

[417] Short wide breeches.

[418] For _diametrically_.

[419] “As if to tread in my tracks.”

[420] Emden, near the mouth of the river Ems, was an important commercial town in Elizabethan times.

[421] “Misery loves company.”

[422] “It is finished.”

[423] “Man, fly!”

[424] Foolish.

[425] The Queen of Sheba.

[426] Repeating.

[427] The same.

[428] “In direction and in time?”

[429] “On account of their unequal motion in relation to the whole.”

[430] Pair.

[431] Refreshments between meals.

[432] Martlemas or Martinmas was “the customary time for hanging up provisions to dry which had been salted for the winter.” (Nares.)

[433] Later edd. give this speech to Chorus.

[434] The Pope’s Privy-chamber.

[435] Treves.

[436] Virgil, who was reputed a magician in the Middle Ages, was buried at Naples.

[437] Engaged.

[438] “A particular set of notes on the trumpet or cornet, different from a flourish.” (Nares.)

[439] If.

[440] “May the Lord curse him.”

[441] “And all the saints.”

[442] An Inn-yard.

[443] Wine mixed with sugar and spices.

[444] An Inn.

[445] Gain.

[446] The abuse was left to the actor’s inventiveness.

[447] “In the name of the Lord.”

[448] “Sin of sins.”

[449] “Mercy on us.”

[450] The Court of the Emperor.

[451] Proportionate.

[452] Its.

[453] Mention.

[454] A Green; afterwards, the house of Faustus.

[455] Dr. Lopez, physician to Queen Elizabeth, hanged in 1594 on the charge of conspiring to poison the Queen.

[456] A juggler’s term, like “presto, fly!” Hence applied to the juggler himself. (Bullen.)

[457] Inn.

[458] The Court of the Duke of Vanholt.

[459] A room in the house of Faustus.

[460] Old Man.

[461] Unsurpassed in height.

[462] Qq₁₋₃ read _suckes_.

[463] The same.

[464] “Run softly, softly, horses of the night.”—Ovid’s _Amores_, i. 13.

[465] Without ceasing.

[466] The Duc de Guise, who had organised the Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572, was assassinated in 1588.

[467] Q. _Empire_.

[468] Q. _Samintes_. Recent edd. _Sabans_.

[469] Count.

[470] Seldom seen.

[471] A stuffed halcyon, or kingfisher, was used as a weather vane.

[472] Enter them at the custom-house.

[473] Q. _servants_

[474] Scrambled.

[475] Expenses.

[476] Some edd. suppose the scene to be shifted here to a street.

[477] Foolish

[478] Against.

[479] Misquoted from Terence’s _Andria_, iv. 1. 12. The words should be “Proximus sum egomet mihi.” (Ellis.)

[480] Inside the council-house.

[481] Bashaws or Pashas.

[482] Haply.

[483] Await.

[484] Reckoned.

[485] Refuses.

[486] Convert.

[487] Foolish.

[488] For I have toiled only to inherit the months, etc., which have been, etc.

[489] Violent emotion.

[490] Plan.

[491] The scene seems to change here from the Council-house to the neighbourhood of Scene I.

[492] Redress.

[493] Foolish.

[494] Portuguese gold coins.

[495] Sex.

[496] Secretive.

[497] So Q. “cloisters,” “gardens,” and “quarters,” have been conjectured as emendations.

[498] The scene is before Barabas’s house, now a nunnery.

[499] Bullen emends to _youth_.

[500] Dyce emends to _wake_.

[501] Span. “My herd was not good for all”; _i. e._, different people judged me differently.

[502] Span. “Beautiful pleasure of money.”

[503] The Council-house.

[504] Freight.

[505] Lowered our flags.

[506] Q. Spanish.

[507] So Dyce. Q. _left and tooke_.

[508] Established.

[509] The market-place.

[510] Gold or silver leaf placed under a gem to increase its brilliance.

[511] Defiled, punning on _foil_.

[512] Make insinuations.

[513] Pieces of silver coin.

[514] Break off our conversation.

[515] Barabas was represented on the stage with a large false nose. In Rowley’s _Search for Money_ (1609) allusion is made to the “artificiall Jewe of Maltaes nose.” (Ellis.)

[516] Practice.

[517] In good earnest.

[518] Affianced.

[519] Q. _unsoyl’d_. But cf. II. iii. 58.

[520] A piece of money with a cross marked on it.

[521] Satisfied.

[522] Betrothed thee.

[523] Outside of Bellamira’s house.

[524] A street.

[525] Q. places _reading_ after _Enter Lodowick_.

[526] Brave.

[527] A room in Barabas’s house.

[528] Object.

[529] Q. _sinne_.

[530] Q. _Pryor. Sire_, Tucker Brooke.

[531] Q. _Sonne_.

[532] Reveal.

[533] The same.

[534] Unnatural.

[535] Meaneth.

[536] Q. _life_.

[537] Q. _least_.

[538] Feed.

[539] In abundance.

[540] In short.

[541] A poison not certainly identified

[542] The council-house.

[543] Cannon.

[544] The interior of a convent.

[545] Hated.

[546] Plot.

[547] Secret.

[548] A street.

[549] Equal to.

[550] A petty oath. (Italian).

[551] Dyce emend. Q. omits.

[552] Lofts.

[553] So Tucker Brooke. Q. _goe_.

[554] Ithamore.

[555] Convent.

[556] A room in the house of Barabas.

[557] Q. _save_.

[558] It would appear from the following scene that the body was stood up outside of the house.

[559] Outside Barabas’s house.

[560] Succeed.

[561] Delayed.

[562] A verandah of Bellamira’s house.

[563] Brave.

[564] At.

[565] Service.

[566] Mustachios.

[567] Hasty.

[568] The early form of _realm_ had no “l.”

[569] A musical term.

[570] The street.

[571] Tattered.

[572] Knavery.

[573] Playing sham husband to a courtesan.

[574] Sum, number.

[575] A verandah of Bellamira’s house.

[576] A familar Bacchanalian exclamation.

[577] Probably corrupt. “Snickle” is a noose.

[578] Dainty, sweet.

[579] Referring to the tradition that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on an elder-tree.

[580] Q. masty.

[581] The council-house.

[582] Q. _Mater_.

[583] Outside the city walls.

[584] Conj. Collier. Q. _truce_.

[585] At once.

[586] An open place in the city.

[587] Lower.

[588] Q. _kept_.

[589] The scene is here supposed to shift to the governor’s residence inside the citadel.

[590] _’T is_, Cunningham emend. Q. _within_.

[591] Outside the city walls.

[592] Cannons’.

[593] A street in Malta.

[594] A hall in the citadel, with a gallery at the end.

[595] Concealed.

[596] Dyce, _ascend_.

[597] Cunningham emend. Q. _fate_.

[598] Intended.

[599] Q _meditate_.

[600] A street in London.

[601] Dyce emends to _lie_. _Die_ may be used in the sense of “swoon.”

[602] “So much for them.”

[603] A rural dance.

[604] Mowbray, but the Q. spelling indicates the pronunciation.

[605] This line and the next are ironical.

[606] Flattering.

[607] Contend.

[608] Rule.

[609] Fear’st for.

[610] Gutter.

[611] I. e., You have used the true word “Convey” (= steal).

[612] Westminster.

[613] Untimely.

[614] Removing it as a mark of respect.

[615] Feel resentment at.

[616] Shows.

[617] A street in London.

[618] The New Temple.

[619] “How ill they agree!”

[620] Float.

[621] Fellow.

[622] Altered to _love_ in Dodsley, &c.

[623] Care.

[624] Qy. for _true_ read _good_(?)

[625] Consideration.

[626] Lower.

[627] Pretext.

[628] Affianced him.

[629] Qq. _Hector_.

[630] Struts.

[631] Scoundrels.

[632] Gloucester’s house.

[633] Advanced me to the king’s service.

[634] Bows.

[635] Lat. “because.”

[636] Lat. “since.”

[637] Turn.

[638] Before Tynemouth Castle.

[639] Sorrowful.

[640] Canker-worm.

[641] Lat. “Justly at length.”

[642] Lat. “On all sides is death.”

[643] The straps round a hawk’s legs, to which the falconer’s leash was fastened.

[644] Qq. 1594-1612, _sure_.

[645] Anticipateth.

[646] Pay for.

[647] Qq. _Poasi_.

[648] An army.

[649] So Dodsley. Qq. _hath_.

[650] Foot soldiers.

[651] Band.

[652] Jeering.

[653] Lovers.

[654] Bannockburn was not yet fought. The rhyme is taken from the Chronicles.

[655] Young Mortimer’s estate.

[656] Feel resentment at.

[657] Near Tynemouth Castle.

[658] Suspect.

[659] Tattered.

[660] Near Tynemouth Castle.

[661] Delay.

[662] A small vessel.

[663] The open country.

[664] Uncaptured.

[665] Ital. “in spite of.”

[666] Helen of Troy.

[667] Drew.

[668] Extremities.

[669] Cunningham’s emendation for Q _zease_.

[670] “Had I known—the exclamation of those who repent of what they have rashly done.” (Dyce.)

[671] The open country.

[672] Ghost.

[673] Near Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire.

[674] Checked by.

[675] Use our steel.

[676] High-spirited.

[677] Negotiating.

[678] Qq. _Lord Matre[vis]_, throughout the scene. Corrected by Dyce.

[679] Battle-field at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire.

[680] Plots. T. Brooke emend. Qq. _Th’ad ... thee_.

[681] The same.

[682] Lowered.

[683] Raise.

[684] Rule.

[685] Near the Tower of London.

[686] Paris.

[687] T. Brooke emend. Qq. _shake off_.

[688] If.

[689] Equipped.

[690] Earned.

[691] Challenge. A reference to the game of prisoner’s base.

[692] The Royal Palace, London.

[693] Bristol.

[694] Near Harwich.

[695] Near Bristol.

[696] Lest you are suspected.

[697] The abbey of Neath.

[698] “Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.” Seneca, _Thyestes_, 613.

[699] Yearns, grieves.

[700] Kenilworth.

[701] A room in Kenilworth Castle.

[702] Rule.

[703] Foolishly.

[704] Care.

[705] Qq. omit. Added by Dodsley.

[706] Old edd. _Bartley_, showing pronunciation.

[707] The Royal Palace, London.

[708] Crown.

[709] Plots.

[710] Kenilworth Castle.

[711] Aim.

[712] Gutter.

[713] The Royal Palace, London.

[714] Planned.

[715] A piece of fine linen.

[716] Lat. “a very heavy burden.”

[717] Lat. “I have undertaken that office.”

[718] Lat. “I am too great for fortune to injure.” Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, vi. 195.

[719] Berkeley Castle.

[720] Purposely.

[721] Lat. “Let this man die.”

[722] Perhaps for “lock.”

[723] Business.

[724] Worn out with waking.

[725] The Royal Palace, London.

[726] Whispered.

[727] See _Aeneid_, vi. 893.

[728] The Court of Spain.

[729] Adapted from Claudian’s _De Tertio Consulatu Honorii_, 96-98.

[730] Troop of cavalry.

[731] A combination of phrases from Statius, Virgil, and Curtius.

[732] Moving.

[733] Flourish of trumpets.

[734] Curbed.

[735] Corrosive.

[736] The Court of Portugal.

[737] The source of this passage has not been found.

[738] So Manly. Qq. _treasure_.

[739] Reveal.

[740] What became of.

[741] An island in the Azores.

[742] Add. Manly.

[743] The Court of Spain.

[744] Ne will, will not.

[745] Stab in the belly, disembowel.

[746] Knocked.

[747] Vexation.

[748] Carrying.

[749] Circumlocutions.

[750] Formal phrases.

[751] So 1599. Allde, 1594, _devise_.

[752] Capricious, whimsical.

[753] The same.

[754] Stately.

[755] Palace of Don Cyprian.

[756] Lines 3-6, 9-10 are taken almost literally from Watson’s _Hecatompathia, Sonnet 47_. Watson copied Serafino.

[757] Wayward.

[758] Secret behavior.

[759] In case.

[760] Sword-hilt.

[761] The same.

[762] _Travailers_ and _travellers_ were not distinguished in Elizabethan spelling.

[763] Kittredge suggests _mix’d with jealious_. (Manly.)

[764] The Court of Spain.

[765] Pretend to be shy.

[766] Refuse.

[767] Hieronimo’s garden.

[768] Checks.

[769] Sing.

[770] Vile.

[771] Lose.

[772] First passage of additions begins here.

[773] Infectious.

[774] A cento of passages from Virgil, Tibullus, and others.

[775] The Court of Portugal.

[776] Guile.

[777] Accompanied.

[778] Moves round.

[779] An exclamation of impatience.

[780] Slandered.

[781] Requital.

[782] Nature.

[783] So Hazlitt. Qq. _Or wherein_.

[784] Moderate.

[785] The Court of Spain.

[786] Indirect means.

[787] Second passage of additions begins here, replacing Hieronimo’s speech in ll. 65-66.

[788] Unintelligible. Probably a corruption of a call to the Page.

[789] Fellows.

[790] Saint Luigi’s Park.

[791] Pistol.

[792] Murder him (be present at his death).

[793] Palace of Don Cyprian.

[794] Deed.

[795] Resist with difficulty.

[796] Snared.

[797] Helped.

[798] Deep-reaching device. Qq. have dialect form _fatch_.

[799] Secretly.

[800] Hanged.

[801] Cleverly.

[802] Intention.

[803] A street.

[804] A Court of Justice.

[805] Business.

[806] Proved.

[807] The hangman got the clothes of the criminals he executed.

[808] Advantage.

[809] Hinder it from.

[810] Hieronimo’s house.

[811] So Schick. Qq. _imperial_.

[812] Doubly fenced.

[813] Manly emends to _writ_.

[814] The same.

[815] Outcry.

[816] 1623. Earlier edd. _talkes_.

[817] Palace of Don Cyprian.

[818] 1623. Earlier edd. _bends_.

[819] Adapt myself.

[820] The same.

[821] Back.

[822] Haggle, hold out.

[823] Companion.

[824] So Hazlitt. Qq. _Est_.

[825] So Schick. Qq. _Et_.

[826] A street.

[827] Third passage of additions begins here.

[828] Ballast.

[829] Unpolished.

[830] Qq. _us to_.

[831] The Court of Spain.

[832] Seldom seen.

[833] Give thee a lesson.

[834] This phrase usually means, “There the matter ends.” Perhaps here it might mean, “There begins the chase.”

[835] _I. e._ inextricable, which some modern edd. read. Allde, _inexecrable_.

[836] So Collier. Qq. _exempt_.

[837] Hieronimo’s garden.

[838] Fourth passage of additions.

[839] Waste.

[840] Metal ornaments, orig. points of laces.

[841] Illusions.

[842] Q. 1602, _A teare_.

[843] Dulled, unburnished.

[844] Ticking.

[845] So 1602. Later Qq. _thy_.

[846] Hieronimo’s house.

[847] Not with open but with inevitable injuries.

[848] Kindness.

[849] From Seneca’s _Oedipus_, 515.

[850] Turmoil.

[851] Group, band.

[852] Advocate. Properly, magistrate.

[853] “A universal remedy given for all personal wrongs ... so called because the plaintiff’s whole case ... is set forth at length in the original writ.” (Blackstone.)

[854] A writ to eject a tenant.

[855] Qq. _strives_.

[856] So Kittredge in Manly. Qq. _when as_.

[857] So Hawkins. Early Qq. _ore turnest_. Later Qq. _ore-turned_.

[858] Hast skill in.

[859] So Dodsley. Qq. _Father_.

[860] The Court of Spain.

[861] Consent.

[862] Extreme show of feeling.

[863] Think you.

[864] Span. “few words.”

[865] Qq. read _in hell_ at end of l. 3. The passage is clearly corrupt.

[866] Early Qq. read _see_.

[867] Rely upon what they have dreamed.

[868] Palace of Don Cyprian.

[869] Qq. insert after l. 8, _With what dishonour and the hate of men_.

[870] Supports our intention.

[871] Because.

[872] Pleasing.

[873] Usual Elizabethan form of _pacha_.

[874] Supplied by Kittredge (Manly).

[875] Boas gives _intention_ as Qq. reading.

[876] Hieronimo’s garden.

[877] Usually conspiracy; here, accomplice (to accommodate the pun).

[878] Untilled.

[879] Make excuses for.

[880] Palace of Don Cyprian.

[881] The same.

[882] Added by Manly.

[883] Chosen.

[884] Pierced, from _gird_, to smite.

[885] Fifth passage of additions, replacing ll. 171-194.

[886] Some Qq. read _slaine_.

[887] Assured.

[888] Schick emend. Early Qq. _mors caede_ or _mers cadae_.

[889] Select, group.

[890] Carried on.

[891] Terrors, bugbears.

[892] The company of actors—the “King’s men.”

[893] A rival company which had given the play.

[894] Nathaniel Field, b. 1587; one of the “King’s men.”

[895] Not identified.

[896] Supposed to be Ilyard Swanston.

[897] Perhaps Ricardo, in Massinger’s _Picture_. (Phelps).

[898] If.

[899] A glade, near the Court.

[900] Discharge a signal shot.

[901] Punning on (1) the series of numbers; (2) a populous kingdom. (Boas.)

[902] Deeds.

[903] Delicacies.

[904] A frame for holding an object fixed.

[905] Equivocation, trickery.

[906] Whimsical.

[907] Clothes with rich surface.

[908] Abilities.

[909] Fine coverings.

[910] Changing parks into plow-land.

[911] Its passage.

[912] Beg pardon!

[913] Badges of a steward’s office.

[914] The weapon of the Fool, as of the Vice in The Moralities.

[915] A room in the Court. From a misplaced stage-direction in Sc. I (Q. 1641), it appears that Henry and Guise are playing chess here.

[916] A boisterous country dance.

[917] Desire.

[918] “Travel” and “travail” were not distinguished in Elizabethan spelling.

[919] Strut.

[920] From Qq. of 1607, 8.

[921] Introduce.

[922] Music written with points.

[923] Lover.

[924] Officials of the English court who furnished cards, dice, etc. and decided gaming disputes.

[925] Fellow.

[926] The point is obscure. Perhaps, gizzard = throat.

[927] A Roman augur who cut a whetstone before Tarquin.

[928] Checkmate, overcome.

[929] Recent creation. An allusion to the lavish practice of James I.

[930] A part of the “Counter” prison.

[931] Checkmate.

[932] Cast off.

[933] Skin.

[934] To toss him.

[935] Come off superior.

[936] Sneers.

[937] Suspicion.

[938] _Descant_ and _ground_ are used with a play on the ordinary meanings and the musical ones of accompaniment, variation.

[939] A room in the Court.

[940] Finery.

[941] Cautious.

[942] Explained the source.

[943] D’Ambois.

[944] Barrisor.

[945] Risking himself a second time.

[946] Overwhelmed.

[947] The horn.

[948] Bare-headed.

[949] Species, kind.

[950] In a way not recognized by law.

[951] _I. e._ positive law.

[952] Substitutes.

[953] Deed.

[954] Done in the name of justice.

[955] Piece out.

[956] A second time kneeling.

[957] Rivalry.

[958] A room in Montsurry’s house.

[959] Conception.

[960] Forward.

[961] Satisfying my passion.

[962] Excessively fond of their husbands.

[963] Way.

[964] Importunities.

[965] That thou comest off victorious.

[966] Hinder.

[967] Comforting.

[968] Emend. Dilke. Qq. _wave_.

[969] Centre of the earth.

[970] Undress.

[971] Supply _watching here_.

[972] _Primum mobile_, the prime moving sphere of the Ptolemaic system.

[973] If she has no chance to dissemble.

[974] Fastidiously guarded.

[975] Assure.

[976] _Service_ was the conventional term for courtly love.

[977] A room in Montsurry’s house.

[978] Scrupulous.

[979] Lover.

[980] Taken by storm.

[981] If his valor he truly estimated.

[982] Remains inviolable.

[983] As the stone is made to accord with the line, and not vice versa, so nature brings our powers into accord with her will.

[984] Dressed.

[985] Approve.

[986] High favor.

[987] A room in the Court.

[988] Seize.

[989] Pursue.

[990] Fisherman.

[991] Bound.

[992] A traitor: Judas’s hair was represented as red in old paintings, tapestries, etc.

[993] Hunting dogs.

[994] Start them.

[995] Stuffs out.

[996] Dish carried by beggars, who clapped the lid to attract notice.

[997] _I. e._ by the sufferance or indulgence of his king. Qq. 1607, 8 read _than_.

[998] _I. e._ backwards. Reversing the proper use of his income.

[999] Boastful.

[1000] Qq. _noble_.

[1001] In the beginning.

[1002] The fabled Golden Age.

[1003] Qq. 1607, 8 read _ingenuous_.

[1004] The caduceus which was wreathed with two serpents that clung to it when separated by Hermes.

[1005] Slander.

[1006] Plan.

[1007] Escapades.

[1008] To give advantage to their enemies.

[1009] Be accomplices.

[1010] Waiting-women.

[1011] Escapades.

[1012] Gun.

[1013] Grass.

[1014] Make trial.

[1015] Reveal.

[1016] Wonder.

[1017] Bewilders.

[1018] Thought.

[1019] These two speeches are omitted in Q 1641.

[1020] Secretly.

[1021] Q. 1641 omits.

[1022] A sign of chastity.

[1023] Medlars.

[1024] Boas emend. Qq. _in._

[1025] In place of the following fifteen lines, Qq. 1607, 8 read,

_I will conceal all yet, and give more time
To D’Ambois’ trial, now upon my hook.
He awes my throat, else, like Sybilla’s care,
It should breathe oracles. I fear him strangely,
And may resemble his advanced valour
Unto a spirit rais’d without a circle,
Endangering him that ignorantly raised him,
And for whose fury he hath learn’d no limit._

[1026] Clever, sensible.

[1027] Desire.

[1028] Professional gallant.

[1029] Idiots.

[1030] Stiletto.

[1031] Spies.

[1032] At the distance of.

[1033] “The distaff from whence she draws the breath of life.” (Dilke.)

[1034] The Banqueting Hall in the Court.

[1035] Duchess of Guise.

[1036] D’Ambois, who still keeps up the pretence of being the Duchess’s courtly lover.

[1037] Titles.

[1038] _I. e._ in disgrace.

[1039] Supposed seat of passion.

[1040] Over-fastidious.

[1041] Signs of the sycophant.

[1042] Manifestations.

[1043] Monsieur here makes the gesture of the cuckold.

[1044] Absolute.

[1045] Pledge.

[1046] Wondered.

[1047] Making horns.

[1048] Hippolytus.

[1049] Art feared even by those thou fearest.

[1050] Informed.

[1051] A room in Montsurry’s house.

[1052] Certainty.

[1053] Q. 1641 omits. But we must suppose that D’Ambois and the Friar have withdrawn during Pero’s presence.

[1054] Information.

[1055] Monsieur, Guise, and Montsurry presumably appear at the back of the stage.

[1056] _I. e._ a written document.

[1057] Indescribable.

[1058] Find out.

[1059] Hidden.

[1060] Qq. _his_.

[1061] Call back.

[1062] Outflanked.

[1063] Earth.

[1064] A room in Montsurry’s house.

[1065] Case for pen and ink.

[1066] Thunderbolt.

[1067] Qq. omit. Boas emend.

[1068] Final. (Boas.)

[1069] Anticipating.

[1070] The dead.

[1071] Judge.

[1072] Escapades.

[1073] Hid.

[1074] In spite of.

[1075] Revenge.

[1076] Tamyra is now put on the rack.

[1077] _Her_, referring to world, would be expected. _His_ seems to refer to _man_, in next line.

[1078] A room in Montsurry’s house.

[1079] In place of _Not ... say_, Qq. 1607, 8 read,

_In whose hot zeal a man would think they knew
What they ran so away with, and were sure
To have rewards proportion’d to their labours;
Yet may implore their own confusions
For anything they know, which often times
It falls out they incur._

[1080] Bring.

[1081] Loads.

[1082] Boas amends to _methinks_.

[1083] To their enemies. (Boas.)

[1084] Store of virtues.

[1085] Coats of mail.

[1086] A room in Bussy’s house.

[1087] Remembrance.

[1088] Prevents.

[1089] Agreeing.

[1090] _O lying ... calls him._ For these lines, Qq. 1607, 8, read:

Buss. _O lying Spirit! Welcome, loved father,
How fares my dearest mistress?_

Mont. _Well as ever,
Being well as ever thought on by her lord;
Whereof she sends this witness in her hand,
And prays, for urgent cause, your speediest presence._

[1091] Of the zodiac.

[1092] A room in Montsurry’e house.

[1093] In place of the first six lines, Qq. 1607, 8 read:

_Revive those stupid thoughts, and sit not thus
Gathering the horrors of your servant’s slaughter
(So urg’d by your hand, and so imminent)
Into an idle fancy; but devise_

[1094] Give the signal for.

[1095] Terrifying thing.

[1096] An expression of contempt.

[1097] Successful trick.

[1098] Vengeance.

[1099] Then these teachers of divinity deal with figments, not realities. (Boas.)

[1100] Patron.

[1101] Boas emend. Qq. _stuck_.

[1102] Q. 1641 omits these lines.

[1103] Gratify.

[1104] Inhumanly.

[1105] Omitted in Q 1641.

[1106] Perish.

[1107] A frequenter of the aisle of St. Paul’s Cathedral.

[1108] Dressing-room.

[1109] A street in London.

[1110] Foolish.

[1111] I wis, certainly.

[1112] By God’s eyelid—one of the frequent oaths by parts of Christ’s body.

[1113] Scabs, scurvy fellows.

[1114] Hoxton.

[1115] Must.

[1116] Waste your means on showy clothes.

[1117] Desire.

[1118] The same. The scene-divisions are Jonson’s.

[1119] At once.

[1120] Fool.

[1121] Swagger.

[1122] Put on your hat. Cf. _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, V. i. 103.

[1123] Old clothes shop.

[1124] Stewing.

[1125] Travelling expenses.

[1126] A tavern.

[1127] Places of ill-fame.

[1128] Count.

[1129] Well-bred.

[1130] A room in Knowell’s house.

[1131] The Albanian patriot, Castriot, whose life was translated from the French in 1596; known also as Iskander (Alexander) Bey, whence _Scanderbeg_ or _Scanderbag_.

[1132] Tie the laces which took the place of buttons. It was also slang for beat.

[1133] Against, in preparation for.

[1134] Seriously.

[1135] A printer.

[1136] Faith, a minced oath.

[1137] Rank.

[1138] Water-carriers (tankard-bearers) were paid at so much a “turn” or journey from the conduit.

[1139] In preparation for a festivity.

[1140] Crape.

[1141] _The Golden Hind._

[1142] Lane before Cob’s house.

[1143] Herald’s.

[1144] Usually, the head of a herring. In this play, a herring.

[1145] Pun on _cast_, to throw dice, and to vomit.

[1146] A cant term for getting drunk. (Reed.)

[1147] Stopper.

[1148] See Greene’s _Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_.

[1149] More.

[1150] Nostrils.

[1151] Room in Cob’s house.

[1152] Company.

[1153] I am sure of it.

[1154] See _The Spanish Tragedy_, from Act. III of which Mathew reads the lines below.

[1155] A strap by which a weapon was hung from the girdle.

[1156] A mere intensive, common in Elizabethan fashionable slang.

[1157] Variegated.

[1158] Fool, humbug.

[1159] Domineer.

[1160] Challenge.

[1161] Ground for a duel.

[1162] Author of the _Philosophy of Arms_, 1569.

[1163] Thrust.

[1164] Bout.

[1165] Exercise.

[1166] Rustic.

[1167] The Old Jewry. A hall in Kitely’s home.

[1168] Coins worth eight reals, or a little more than two dollars.

[1169] Cloth partly made of silk.

[1170] Christ’s Hospital, then a school for foundlings.

[1171] Indirect approach to the matter.

[1172] Fol. _but_.

[1173] Make cheap.

[1174] An oath of obscure meaning, sometimes explained as _Disdain_. Query, _God’s veins_?

[1175] ’Fore.

[1176] Like a beggar with dish and clapper.

[1177] Resentment.

[1178] Temper.

[1179] Narrative.

[1180] Marks of the citizen.

[1181] Advertise.

[1182] The same.

[1183] Endure it.

[1184] Large puffed breeches.

[1185] Gang.

[1186] The same.

[1187] Gather their forces: a military phrase.

[1188] The opportunity had suited their desires.

[1189] Mouse.

[1190] Coins worth about $2.50.

[1191] The fever of which Prince Henry died.

[1192] Has got the scent of my suspicions.

[1193] Suspicion.

[1194] Moorfields.

[1195] Lot.

[1196] To give the lie to a soldier is as fatal a thing as to make the gesture of insult called the fig (thrusting out the thumb between two fingers).

[1197] Explained both as meaning to track by scent of the foot, and by foot-marks without scent.

[1198] Servants, who then wore blue livery.

[1199] The fool.

[1200] Another part of Moorfields.

[1201] Wonder at.

[1202] Probably, to agree to the sale of family estates.

[1203] Dirt-heaps.

[1204] Probably this means that ultimately it will turn out to have been a loan.

[1205] Gained.

[1206] Test.

[1207] Deceive.

[1208] A soldier’s loose overcoat.

[1209] A pun. _Slip_ also meant counterfeit money.

[1210] The Old Jewry. A room in the Windmill Tavern.

[1211] A military term: face the opposite direction.

[1212] The Muses.

[1213] Marvel.

[1214] Open to general acquaintance.

[1215] Grau, in Hungary, retaken from the Turks in 1597.

[1216] Capture.

[1217] He called it _Tortosa_ in the Quarto.

[1218] Genoese.

[1219] A kind of cannon.

[1220] Charge.

[1221] Stick to hold the lint for firing a cannon.

[1222] Carbine.

[1223] The swords of Bevis, Arthur, and Orlando, in the romances.

[1224] Such as was regularly supplied to the common soldier.

[1225] Swindling.

[1226] Punning on _stomach_ in the sense of courage.

[1227] The same.

[1228] Witty.

[1229] An allusion to the tricky servant in _Jack Drum’s Entertainment_.

[1230] Impressed.

[1231] Kitely’s warehouse.

[1232] Carat, value, quality.

[1233] Velvet of the best quality.

[1234] Note the execrable pun on _acorns_ and _horns ache_.

[1235] Ten o’clock, according to the Q.

[1236] Compared to.

[1237] Secret.

[1238] Puritan.

[1239] Games of chance, somewhat like back-gammon.

[1240] Convinced.

[1241] Before a magistrate.

[1242] The same.

[1243] _Humour_ had displaced _rheum_ as the fashionable word for whim, mood.

[1244] Mass.

[1245] Resent.

[1246] Stomach, appetite.

[1247] Cannibal.

[1248] Sell.

[1249] The same.

[1250] By a patent.

[1251] Twisted.

[1252] Under-officers who went the rounds, inspecting sentries, etc.

[1253] A smooth shilling used for playing shovel-board.

[1254] Disbanded soldiers.

[1255] Major, at that time.

[1256] Marvel.

[1257] Punning on the meanings of _shifts_: devices, and changes of clothes.

[1258] Tobacco from Trinidad was much prized.

[1259] Herb.

[1260] Tobacco named from M. Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal in 1559. It is usually a generic name, and the specific use here may be an intentional mistake.

[1261] Common poisons.

[1262] Smoked.

[1263] A room in Justice Clement’s house in Coleman St.

[1264] _To kiss the post_ was a phrase meaning to be shut out.

[1265] Business to attend to.

[1266] The same.

[1267] A tavern.

[1268] Rates and taxes.

[1269] The legal limit of time in defining murder.

[1270] Strike.

[1271] Pewter.

[1272] Frighten.

[1273] Wonder.

[1274] A room in Kitely’s house.

[1275] The same.

[1276] Lover.

[1277] Aside.

[1278] To gull a fool with. Proverbial.

[1279] It is sweet to begin.

[1280] Variously explained as ale-house loafers, and justices.

[1281] Thieving.

[1282] _To vie_ and _revie_ meant to stake a sum and cover it with a higher.

[1283] Are offended.

[1284] This is a reference to the unauthorized holding of sequestered lands, such as those which had belonged to the monasteries. Elizabeth had appointed commissions to search such holdings or “concealments,” which her courtiers often “begged.”

[1285] Sixpence.

[1286] I-wis, assuredly.

[1287] Topers.

[1288] Loose breeches: Bobadill.

[1289] Lackey.

[1290] The same.

[1291] Band.

[1292] The lane before Cob’s house.

[1293] Cheat.

[1294] Bully.

[1295] Usually, found out; but here, apparently, frightened.

[1296] A room in the Windmill Tavern.

[1297] Informed.

[1298] The Old Jewry.

[1299] Skeleton.

[1300] Ball.

[1301] Simpleton.

[1302] Where the city bands trained.

[1303] Slang for liquor: the product of the Windmill.

[1304] Moorfields.

[1305] Moment.

[1306] All low districts.

[1307] Ant.

[1308] Individual.

[1309] Italian terms of fencing.

[1310] “Bobadill is too much of a borrower to be an accurate reckoner.” (Gifford.)

[1311] Bold.

[1312] Cheat.

[1313] Beat down.

[1314] A room in Kitely’s house.

[1315] Addition.

[1316] Used as a general antidote.

[1317] Fancies.

[1318] “As the Tower was extra-parochial, it probably afforded some facility to private marriages.” (Gifford.)

[1319] White lead, used as a cosmetic.

[1320] Used in the sense of pander.

[1321] Fools.

[1322] A street.

[1323] The only preferment he gives me.

[1324] Penny.

[1325] Forthwith.

[1326] Bailiff.

[1327] The lane before Cob’s house.

[1328] Companion.

[1329] Secret.

[1330] Found.

[1331] Boiled.

[1332] Traitor.

[1333] F₁ has in margin _By Thomas_, _i. e._ referring to Cash.

[1334] Apparently a poor pun on _bad_ and _bawd_.

[1335] Dupe.

[1336] Hemp is prepared by beating.

[1337] A street.

[1338] Prepare.

[1339] Coleman St. A hall in Justice Clement’s house.

[1340] Armor for the throat.

[1341] The same.

[1342] In F, at end of Sc. 1.

[1343] Mere picture of a soldier.

[1344] The same.

[1345] A freshwater soldier was one who had never crossed the sea, _i. e._ had seen no service.

[1346] In F, at end of Sc. 2.

[1347] Melancholy emotion.

[1348] Wit.

[1349] The same.

[1350] In F, at end of Sc. 3.

[1351] Waiters.

[1352] In F, at end of Sc. 4.

[1353] One of the horses of the Sun’s chariot.

[1354] Punning on _ream_.

[1355] Parodied from Daniel, _Sonnet to Delia_.

[1356] The following passage occurs in Q₁ at this point:

_Giu._ Call you this poetry?

_Lo. ju._ Poetry! Nay, then call blasphemy religion,
Call devils angels, and sin piety;
Let all things be preposterously transchanged.

_Lo. se._ Why, how now, son? What, are you startled now?
Hath the prize[1359] prickt you, ha? Go to! You see
How abjectly your poetry is rankt
In general opinion.

_Lo. ju._ Opinion! O God, let gross opinion
Sink and be damn’d as deep as Barathrum!
If it may stand with your most wisht content,
I can refell[1360] opinion and approve
The state of poesy, such as it is,
Blessed, eternal, and most true divine.
Indeed, if you will look on poesy
As she appears in many, poor and lame,
Patch’d up in remnants and old worn-out rags,
Half starv’d for want of her peculiar food,
Sacred invention,—then I must confirm
Both your conceit and censure of her merit:
But view her in her glorious ornaments,
Attired in the majesty of art,
Set high in spirit with the precious taste
Of sweet philosophy, and, which is most,
Crown’d with the rich traditions of a soul
That hates to have her dignity profan’d
With any relish of an earthly thought,
Oh, then how proud a presence doth she bear!
Then is she like herself, fit to be seen
Of none but grave and consecrated eyes.
Nor is it any blemish to her fame
That such keen, ignorant, and blasted wits,
Such brainless gulls, should utter their stolen wares
With such applauses in our vulgar ears;
Or that their slubber’d lines have current pass
From the fat judgments of the multitude;
But that this barren and infected age
Should set no difference ’twixt these empty spirits
And a true poet; than which reverend names
Nothing can more adorn humanity.

[1357] Formal, in his armor.

[1358] F, _fame_.

[1359] Gad-fly.

[1360] Refute.

[1361] _I. e._ with a different merit.

[1362] Only in Q.

[1363] Commendatory verses.

[1364] Lost in the burning of his study.

[1365] Tacitus, translated by Grenaway.

[1366] Not identified. Shakespeare and Fletcher have been suggested.

[1367] Hindrances.

[1368] Ingenuity.

[1369] Beguiles.

[1370] Only in Q, in apparent allusion to King James and the Gunpowder Plot.

[1371] A state room in the Palace.

[1372] _De Caio Silio, vid. Tacit._ Lips. edit. quarto. _Ann._ Lib. i. pag. ii. Lib. II. p. 28 _et_ 33. All such notes giving authorities are Jonson’s own, and are retained through one scene for their characteristic value.

[1373] _De Titio Sabino, vid. Tacit._ Lib. iv. p. 79.

[1374] Intriguers.

[1375] _Tac. Ann._ I. 2.

[1376] _Juv. Sat._ I. v. 75.

[1377] _Ibid._ III. v. 49, _etc._

[1378] _De Latiari, cons. Tacit. Ann._ iv. 94, _et Dion_, Step. edit. fol. lviii. 711.

[1379] _De Satrio Secundo et_

[1380] _Pinnario Natta, leg. Tacit. Ann._ iv. 83. _Et de Satrio cons. Senec. Consol. ad Marciam._

[1381] Secret.

[1382] Empty, useless.

[1383] _Vid. Sen. de Benef._ iii. 26.

[1384] The pocket-watch, in Jonson’s days, was constantly regulated by the motion of the clock, at that time the more accurate machine of the two. (Gifford.)

[1385] This belief in the sympathetic nature of the turquoise is often alluded to.

[1386] _Juv. Sat._ iii. 105, _etc._

[1387] Compared.

[1388] _Vid. Tacit. Ann._ i. 3.

[1389] _Ibid._ iii. 69.

[1390] _Pedarii._ (Senators not yet on the censor’s roll, who had no vote of their own, but could merely assent to that of another.)

[1391] _Tacit. Ann._ iii. 69.

[1392] _Lege Tacit. Ann._ I. 24, _de Romano, Hispano, etc. ibid._ et iii. 61, 62. _Juv. Sat._ X. v. 87. _Suet. Tib._ cap. 61.

[1393] _Vid. Tacit. Ann._ i. 4. _et_ iii. 62. _Suet. Tib._ cap. 61. _Senec. de Benef._ iii. 26.

[1394] _De Crem. Cordo. vid. Tacit. Ann._ iv. 83, 84. _Senec. Cons. ad Marciam. Dio._ lvii. 710. _Suet. Aug._ c. 35. _Tib._ c. 61. _Cal._ c. 16.

[1395] _Suet. Aug._ c. 35.

[1396] _Vid. de faction. Tacit. Ann._ ii. 39 _et_ iv. 79.

[1397] Ticklish.

[1398] _De Lu. Arrun. isto vid. Tacit. Ann._ i. 6 _et_ iii. 60, _et_ _Dion. Rom. Hist._ Lib. 58.

[1399] Unnaturally.

[1400] _Lege de Druso Tacit. Ann._ i. 9. _Suet. Tib._ c. 52. _Dio. Rom. Hist._ lvii. 699.

[1401] _Tacit. Ann._ iii. 62.

[1402] _Vid. Tacit. Ann._ iv. 74.

[1403] _Ibid._ iv. 75, 76.

[1404] _Nero, Drusus, Caius qui in castris genitus, et Caligula nominatus. Ibid._ i.

[1405] _De Germanico cons. ibid._ i. 14, _et Dion. Rom. Hist._ lvii. 694.

[1406] _Tacit. Ann._ iv. 79.

[1407] _Ibid._ ii. 47, _et Dion. Rom. Hist._ lvii. 705.

[1408] _Vid. apud Vell. Paterc._ Lips. 4to. pp. 35-47, _istorum hominum characteres_.

[1409] _Vid. Tacit. Ann._ ii. 28, 34. _Dio. Rom. Hist._ lvii, 705.

[1410] _Con Tacit. Ann._ ii. 39, _de occultis mandatis Pisoni, et postea_, pp. 42, 43, 48. _Orat. D. Celeris. Est Tibi Augustae conscientia est Caesaris favor, sed in occulto, etc. Leg. Suet. Tib._ c. 52. _Dio._ p. 706.

[1411] _Vid. Tacit. Ann._ ii. 46, 47. Lib. iii. 54, _et Suet. Cal._ c. 1 _et_ 2.

[1412] _De Sejano vid. Tacit. Ann._ i. 9. Lib. iv. _princip. et per tot. Suet. Tib. Dio._ lvii. lviii. _et Plin. et Senec._

[1413] _De Eudemo isto vid. Tacit. Ann._ iv. 74.

[1414] _Monetae nostrae 375 lib. vid. Budaeum de asse_, ii. 64.

[1415] _De ingenio, moribus, et potentia Sejani, leg. Tacit. Ann._ iv. 74. _Dio. Rom. Hist._ lvii. 708.

[1416] _Caius divi Augusti nepos. Cons. Tacit. Ann._ iv. 74 _et Dio._ lvii. 706.

[1417] A male prostitute.

[1418] _Juv. Sat._ X. v. 63, _etc. Tacit. Ibid. Dion. ibid, et sic passim._

[1419] Nature.

[1420] _Nero, Drusus, et Caligula._—_Tacit. ibid._

[1421] The same. The scene divisions are Gifford’s. Jonson did not sub-divide the Acts in this play.

[1422] Need fear nothing.

[1423] Jocular.

[1424] Reserved.

[1425] Suspicious.

[1426] Perhaps.

[1427] Decoctions.

[1428] Sovereign.

[1429] Think of.

[1430] Cause of death, esp. poison.

[1431] Extended.

[1432] Anticipate.

[1433] Manner of address and observance.

[1434] _Fortuna equestris._ (Jonson.)

[1435] Raise.

[1436] Attempting.

[1437] Achieve.

[1438] Raise.

[1439] Treasonous plot.

[1440] The garden of Eudemus.

[1441] Cosmetic.

[1442] White lead, used as a cosmetic.

[1443] Counterbalanced.

[1444] Beyond the powers of.

[1445] Reciprocate.

[1446] Prepared for our purposes.

[1447] Skin

[1448] An apartment in the Palace.

[1449] Secret.

[1450] Reasons of state.

[1451] Foolishly fastidious.

[1452] Suspicious.

[1453] Rather than fail of proof would accept their own thought as such.

[1454] Over-confident.

[1455] Partners.

[1456] Lessen.

[1457] Supporters.

[1458] Blinded by ambition.

[1459] Contrivance.

[1460] Middle course.

[1461] Moderate measures are foolish.

[1462] Accuse.

[1463] Passes judgment on.

[1464] “When I am dead, let the earth be mingled with fire.”

[1465] Subject.

[1466] Confident, unsuspicious.

[1467] Blameless.

[1468] Obstacles. F₁ _betts_.

[1469] A room in Agrippina’s house.

[1470] Another apartment in the same.

[1471] Caution.

[1472] Plot.

[1473] Share.

[1474] These speeches marked (_Aside_) are placed in parentheses in the Folio.

[1475] The supposed seat of mirth and other emotions.

[1476] A wreath of laurel. (Jonson.)

[1477] Plundered by extortion.

[1478] Name.

[1479] Judged.

[1480] Forestalled.

[1481] Judgments.

[1482] Out of.

[1483] Innocent.

[1484] A room in the Palace.

[1485] Suspicion of conspiracy.

[1486] Test, attempt.

[1487] Another room in the same.

[1488] Heated.

[1489] Level.

[1490] Effect.

[1491] Aim.

[1492] Shoot.

[1493] Entrap mine heir.

[1494] Unknown.

[1495] An apartment in Agrippina’s house.

[1496] Pretext, with a pun.

[1497] Like the offences we are charged with.

[1498] Anticipating.

[1499] Mere existence.

[1500] Tossing.

[1501] The street.

[1502] Follows it up to the utmost.

[1503] An upper room of Agrippina’s house.

[1504] One who pays respectful attentions.

[1505] _reft_, F₁. Qy. _left_?

[1506] The street before Agrippina’s house.

[1507] Plans, purposes.

[1508] Another part of the street.

[1509] After _impious times_ in F.

[1510] Steps on the Aventine Hill, down which the bodies of executed criminals were thrown into the Tiber.

[1511] Awaited with uncertainty.

[1512] Hinder.

[1513] Unnatural.

[1514] Male prostitutes.

[1515] Lewd persons.

[1516] Raised.

[1517] F₁ omits.

[1518] An apartment in Sejanus’s house.

[1519] Turning out of the way.

[1520] A street.

[1521] A room in Regulus’s house.

[1522] Sign.

[1523] Precise.

[1524] A chapel in Sejanus’s house.

[1525] Trumpeters.

[1526] Flute-players.

[1527] Verbena, “herb of grace.”

[1528] Remove.

[1529] Cheating.

[1530] Absurdly scrupulous.

[1531] Wench.

[1532] Permit.

[1533] A room in the same.

[1534] Tell.

[1535] Element of trickery.

[1536] Another room in the same.

[1537] Amazed.

[1538] His troublesome forwardness.

[1539] Another room in the same.

[1540] A space before the Temple of Apollo.

[1541] Essay, try.

[1542] Bands of trumpeters.

[1543] Another part of the same.

[1544] The Temple of Apollo.

[1545] Trust.

[1546] Obstacles.

[1547] Referring to augury.

[1548] Judge.

[1549] Performed your office.

[1550] Firm judgment.

[1551] Raised.

[1552] Divorced.

[1553] Steps.

[1554] Dash, bruise.

[1555] Bedlam; the madhouse.

[1556] Green vitriol, used in making ink.

[1557] A room in Volpone’s house.

[1558] Centre of the earth.

[1559] Gifford and others have noted that in this splendid speech Jonson is indebted to Pindar, Euripides, and Horace.

[1560] Pay obsequious attention to.

[1561] Deceiving by false hopes.

[1562] The same. The scene divisions are Jonson’s.

[1563] In Androgyno.

[1564] Badger.

[1565] This interlude is based on Lucian’s dialogue between a cobbler and a cock.

[1566] Quatre, the four in dice.

[1567] A triangular lyre.

[1568] Puritanical.

[1569] Christmas-pie.

[1570] With impunity.

[1571] Carrion crow.

[1572] With a reference to the etymological sense of “moving round.”

[1573] The same.

[1574] At one of the goldsmith’s shops beside St. Mark’s.

[1575] Gifford emends to _re-turn_; _could_.

[1576] The same.

[1577] Imperfect sight, with giddiness.

[1578] Ital. _zecchino_, a sequin; a coin worth about two dollars.

[1579] Pretence.

[1580] May you be rooked, or cheated.

[1581] The same.

[1582] Used for “brilliant” as well as “oriental.”

[1583] To Corvino, to join in the abuse.

[1584] Take from Volpone’s hand, which had closed on it.

[1585] Booty.

[1586] Messenger, go-between.

[1587] St. Mark’s Place; a retired corner before Corvino’s house.

[1588] To make note of.

[1589] Stays.

[1590] A lion is recorded by Stow to have been born in the Tower of London, Aug. 5, 1604, the first born in captivity in England.

[1591] Information.

[1592] Obligation.

[1593] Ignorant.

[1594] The name of an Italian juggler who was in England about this time. (Gifford.)

[1595] Misrepresented.

[1596] Ital. “With hard labor.”

[1597] Petty charlatans, impostors.

[1598] A French charlatan of the early seventeenth century, whose jests were published.

[1599] Folds of paper.

[1600] Obstructions.

[1601] Rabble.

[1602] Continental possessions of Venice. (Gifford.)

[1603] Boiled.

[1604] Ointment.

[1605] An oil to be rubbed in.

[1606] Giddiness.

[1607] Epilepsy.

[1608] Colic.

[1609] Gripes.

[1610] An eccentric theologian of the time. See _The Alchemist_.

[1611] The well-known alchemist of the fourteenth century.

[1612] Unknown.

[1613] In the hilt of which he carried his familiar.

[1614] In smoke.

[1615] Ball; dancing.

[1616] Lit. god-parent; usually, familiar friend.

[1617] A small Venetian coin, worth about three farthings. The name was transferred to the news-sheets bought for it.

[1618] Pron. _aitches_.

[1619] For the purpose.

[1620] A coin used in Venice, worth about ninepence.

[1621] An Italian coin worth about one third of a farthing.

[1622] A Spanish coin.

[1623] Anticipated.

[1624] Small pieces of wood to which were attached the quills which struck the strings of the virginal.

[1625] The same.

[1626] Ital. “Fool of the Beggars.”

[1627] A room in Volpone’s house.

[1628] _I. e._ the beating from Corvino.

[1629] A room in Corvino’s house.

[1630] Grimaces.

[1631] Hysteria.

[1632] Expect.

[1633] The same.

[1634] The inn.

[1635] Boiled.

[1636] Poultice.

[1637] Accuse.

[1638] Prepared.

[1639] Coming into my trap.

[1640] Proposed.

[1641] Reckon on it.

[1642] Outdone them all.

[1643] The same.

[1644] A street.

[1645] Profession.

[1646] Bows.

[1647] The same.

[1648] Fellow.

[1649] Unfair.

[1650] A room in Volpone’s house.

[1651] Neatly made.

[1652] The same.

[1653] Head-dress.

[1654] Short-sighted(?)

[1655] Paint for the face.

[1656] Horse-heal, a medicinal herb.

[1657] An astringent kind of plum.

[1658] “The faster you hold them by the wings, the louder they scream.”

[1659] Harmony.

[1660] Of the same age.

[1661] The same.

[1662] Hazard.

[1663] Terms in primero. Volpone is lying in the alcove at the back of the stage, and at the end of the scene the curtains close on him.

[1664] The same.

[1665] The same.

[1666] At this point. Mosca goes back and opens the curtains, discovering Volpone on his couch.

[1667] “A _rochet_ or _rouget_, so named from its _red colour_, is a fish of the gurnet kind, but not so large.” (Whalley.)

[1668] Corrosives.

[1669] Chapman, merchant.

[1670] “Acheloüs, of whose ‘contention’ there is a pretty story in Ovid.” (Gifford.)

[1671] Imitated, in part, from Catullus.

[1672] Mildew.

[1673] Brilliant.

[1674] The same.

[1675] _I. e._ by suicide.

[1676] Bailiff’s attendants.

[1677] The same.

[1678] Deceits.

[1679] Senate House.

[1680] A street.

[1681] A famous French lawyer.

[1682] Gasp. Contarini, author of a work on Venice.

[1683] Reckoned.

[1684] A small passenger sloop.

[1685] Cut off, reduce.

[1686] Syria.

[1687] Politics.

[1688] About ninepence.

[1689] Bargained for.

[1690] Note.

[1691] The same.

[1692] Both “fast and loose,” the name of a game.

[1693] Understand.

[1694] Whitefriars was at this time a privileged spot, in which fraudulent debtors, gamblers, prostitutes, and other outcasts of society usually resided. (Gifford.)

[1695] Prostitute.

[1696] Disciple, discipline.

[1697] The queen-apple is red within.

[1698] The same.

[1699] The Scrutineo, or Senate House.

[1700] Arranged.

[1701] Corbaccio’s.

[1702] A medicine, supposed to be made of the oozing from mummies.

[1703] Horned animal—the usual joke on cuckolds.

[1704] The same.

[1705] Stalking horse, mask to his false plot.

[1706] A _sol_ = about a franc.

[1707] Disown.

[1708] Prepared you to do.

[1709] Playing upon the _horns_ of the cuckold and the _horn-book_.

[1710] Well-contriv’d.

[1711] The same.

[1712] Boldness.

[1713] A room in Volpone’s house.

[1714] The same.

[1715] Seriously.

[1716] Cestus. (Jonson.)

[1717] The father of Danaë.

[1718] The same.

[1719] Fellow: formerly used of both sexes.

[1720] Marvel.

[1721] Law-suits.

[1722] To make him sleep.

[1723] A hall in Sir Politic’s house.

[1724] Rush-basket.

[1725] Contrivance.

[1726] Show.

[1727] The theme of the newspapers.

[1728] A room in Volpone’s house.

[1729] Disguise.

[1730] A street.

[1731] The same.

[1732] Out of repair.

[1733] Well-frequented.

[1734] The Scrutineo, or Senate House.

[1735] Dressed like a clarissimo, or gentleman.

[1736] Swindle.

[1737] The same.

[1738] Barrister’s cap.

[1739] The same.

[1740] Moderation.

[1741] Compare.

[1742] A street.

[1743] The Scrutineo, or Senate House.

[1744] Conspiracy.

[1745] Deceived.

[1746] Under-bailiff.

[1747] Pillory.

[1748] Deed.

[1749] Printed in Q. only.

[1750] Hoe’s copy of the Q. reads _Daunces, and Antikes_ for _jigs and dances_.

[1751] Natural gifts.

[1752] Hoe’s Q. _Many_.

[1753] Surpassing defect.

[1754] Defeat.

[1755] _Copia_, copiousness.

[1756] Publish.

[1757] The plague raging.

[1758] Mistress.

[1759] Swindlers.

[1760] Deceive.

[1761] Calculating the future.

[1762] Familiar spirits.

[1763] Philosophers’ stone.

[1764] Smoke.

[1765] A room in Lovewit’s house.

[1766] Rabelais, Bk. IV. ch. 45.

[1767] Drop your tricks.

[1768] Poorly paid servant.

[1769] The precinct of Blackfriars.

[1770] _I. e._ sallow.

[1771] Grains of powder.

[1772] Chilblains.

[1773] A hat of coarse material.

[1774] Swindling.

[1775] Don’t pretend to forget.

[1776] Sell the beer intended for the poor to liquor-dealers.

[1777] Tips.

[1778] A game of cards.

[1779] _I. e._, to the card-players.

[1780] Technical jargon of alchemy.

[1781] Accomplishment.

[1782] At the moment when success is near.

[1783] Astrological tricks.

[1784] A notorious highwayman.

[1785] Eating more than his share of rations.

[1786] Bitch.

[1787] 33 Henry VIII, the first act against witchcraft in England.

[1788] “Sweating” and clipping the coinage.

[1789] Halter.

[1790] A liquid which dissolves solids.

[1791] A contemptible fellow.

[1792] Transmute metals.

[1793] Alchemical terms.

[1794] Quarreling.

[1795] Group.

[1796] Seven years before.

[1797] In the pillory.

[1798] Have your ears cut off.

[1799] Familiar puns.

[1800] The heroine of the “Mirror of Knighthood.”

[1801] Green apple, a youth.

[1802] The same. The scene-divisions are Jonson’s.

[1803] Watch.

[1804] Opened the matter.

[1805] Has such scruples.

[1806] A magician recently convicted.

[1807] Reveal.

[1808] A Turkish interpreter, like the one who had recently cheated some merchants.

[1809] Familiar spirits.

[1810] An outlaw hero.

[1811] Probably a hero of romance. The name occurs in Spenser.

[1812] Five-and-fifty was the highest number to stand on at the old game of Primero. If a flush accompanied this, the hand swept the table. (Gifford.)

[1813] The Q. reads _Testament_.

[1814] Niggard.

[1815] That he has undertaken the affair.

[1816] Stake against.

[1817] To be used in raffles.

[1818] Table d’hôte restaurant.

[1819] The gamblers (who frequented ordinaries) will be so impoverished through his winnings that they will have to eat on credit.

[1820] Supposed to refer to two alchemists, but the dates do not agree.

[1821] Strip to the cloak.

[1822] Faith.

[1823] The same.

[1824] _I. e._ a member of the Grocers’ Company.

[1825] Plan.

[1826] Recommended.

[1827] On which tobacco was shredded.

[1828] The coals of which were used to light pipes.

[1829] Usurer.

[1830] Wear the livery.

[1831] Be sheriff.

[1832] Amazed.

[1833] A branch of physiognomy.

[1834] Be seen.

[1835] Paint for the face.

[1836] Tartar deposited by wine.

[1837] Cinnabar, mercuric sulphid.

[1838] Assay.

[1839] A gold coin worth about three pounds, twelve shillings.

[1840] Unlucky days.

[1841] Corrosive.

[1842] Crucible.

[1843] Glass retort, shaped like a gourd.

[1844] The same.

[1845] A ball of perfume carried against infection.

[1846] An outer room in Lovewit’s house.

[1847] The New World.

[1848] Most gazed at.

[1849] Female accomplice in swindling heirs out of property.

[1850] Lining.

[1851] Dragon.

[1852] Stir, rouse.

[1853] Believing.

[1854] Turn mercury, copper, or silver into gold.

[1855] A disreputable locality.

[1856] The theatres were closed when the plague was prevalent.

[1857] Fooled.

[1858] Quicksilver.

[1859] According to Boccaccio, the ancestor of all the gods.

[1860] The same.

[1861] A kind of flask.

[1862] Transmute.

[1863] Congregation.

[1864] Mistresses.

[1865] Salmon elaborately prepared.

[1866] Robin-snipes.

[1867] A fish.

[1868] Soft silk.

[1869] A virtuous man.

[1870] The same.

[1871] Exact.

[1872] Anticipate.

[1873] The hero of a well-known German jest-book.

[1874] A pear-shaped vessel, open at both ends.

[1875] An egg-shaped vessel. _Gripe_ is griffin.

[1876] Seal with clay.

[1877] A dish of warm water.

[1878] Rogues’ slang.

[1879] An alchemical furnace.

[1880] Absorption.

[1881] A net for catching rabbits.

[1882] Dissolving fluids.

[1883] In order that.

[1884] A learned eccentric of the time.

[1885] Games at cards.

[1886] A collar, or a veil.

[1887] A head-dress.

[1888] The same.

[1889] Runs mad.

[1890] Red cheeks.

[1891] Easy dupes.

[1892] A man who buys broken remnants of gold.

[1893] Puritan form of church government.

[1894] The same.

[1895] A Puritan. Subtle wilfully misunderstands.

[1896] A follower of Raymond Lully (1235-1315) or George Ripley (d. _cir._ 1490), well-known alchemical writers.

[1897] An Anabaptist leader.

[1898] The same.

[1899] Blind horses.

[1900] Due to the virtue or power of the device.

[1901] A reference to Dr. Dee, the famous magician and astrologer, who died in 1608.

[1902] Of coarse frieze.

[1903] Bows.

[1904] Handsome wench.

[1905] Peaked(?) or straight on the top of her head, instead of tilted(?).

[1906] Paint for her face.

[1907] The lane before Lovewit’s house.

[1908] Non-conformist ministers not allowed to preach.

[1909] A room in Lovewit’s house.

[1910] Rubbing.

[1911] Partly.

[1912] Oppose.

[1913] Near possession of.

[1914] Set expression of face.

[1915] The dry bones of discussion on such scruples.

[1916] Have your ears cut off in the pillory.

[1917] Assembly.

[1918] Tailor. But the term was used generally of Puritans.

[1919] Become the color of citron—a stage in the process of producing the stone.

[1920] Full accomplishment.

[1921] Fiery heat.

[1922] Heat from horse-dung, warm bath, ashes.

[1923] Milder.

[1924] The same.

[1925] Partner.

[1926] Large breeches.

[1927] Passenger sloops.

[1928] Trunk hose.

[1929] A Spanish gold coin worth about 16s. 8d.

[1930] A coin worth about 4s. 6d.

[1931] Pretext.

[1932] Puritans, from the name of the Anabaptist leader.

[1933] _I. e. douce et belle_; sweetheart.

[1934] Referring to the literal meaning of _Dorothea_.

[1935] A Spanish governor.

[1936] Familiars.

[1937] Verdugo is a Spanish name, but the precise allusion is uncertain.

[1938] The same.

[1939] Folio adds (_he says_).

[1940] _I. e._ he is £1500 a year richer than any other of the Kastrils.

[1941] Roysterers, young bloods.

[1942] The lie circumstantial.

[1943] The lie direct.

[1944] An officer of the royal household, having charge of the cards, dice, etc. He had the privilege of keeping open table at Christmas.

[1945] Of the law-courts.

[1946] A magic glass.

[1947] The reference is to the “commodity” fraud, in which a borrower was obliged to take part of a loan in merchandise, which the lender frequently bought back by agents for much less than it represented in the loan.

[1948] A plant used for a dye.

[1949] A herb.

[1950] Assessed, taxed.

[1951] A noble was worth 6s. 8d.

[1952] The same.

[1953] Uprightly.

[1954] A gold coin worth 15s.

[1955] A sort of sea-bird; used contemptuously of a puffed-up person.

[1956] Turn aside from his purpose.

[1957] A room in Lovewit’s house.

[1958] Politics.

[1959] Up-to-date appropriateness.

[1960] The partner of Dee, the astrologer. He and Dee visited the emperor, Rodolph II, at Prague in 1584.

[1961] The art of transmutation.

[1962] The same.

[1963] “Put your nose out of joint.”

[1964] Swaggering.

[1965] A kind of dried plum, esteemed as a sweetmeat.

[1966] Frontal vein.

[1967] These are the cant phrases of palmistry.

[1968] In preparation for seeing.

[1969] The same.

[1970] Recompense.

[1971] Spanish. “Gentlemen, I kiss your hands.”

[1972] Neck of a boar, or boar’s flesh rolled.

[1973] Ear.

[1974] The deep plaits of his _ruff_.

[1975] “Gad, sirs, a very pretty house.”

[1976] Spaniard. Strictly, Spanish for _James_.

[1977] Diminutive of _Don_.

[1978] “I understand.”

[1979] Spanish gold coin, worth about 16s. 8d.

[1980] “If you please, may I see the lady?”

[1981] Quick about it.

[1982] “I understand that the lady is so handsome that I am as eager to see her as the good fortune of my life.”

[1983] Involved.

[1984] Agreement.

[1985] “Sirs, why so long delay?”

[1986] “Can it be to make sport of my love?”

[1987] “By this honored beard——”

[1988] “I fear, sirs, that you are playing me some trick.”

[1989] Cheated.

[1990] Cracked.

[1991] Soaked, like a hide being tanned.

[1992] Another room in the same.

[1993] Folio gives this line also to Kastril.

[1994] Bodily carriage.

[1995] Horoscope.

[1996] _I. e._, since 1588. the year of the “Invincible Armada.”

[1997] Sell on the street.

[1998] There were shops in the Royal Exchange.

[1999] The madhouse was often visited for entertainment.

[2000] Shops with merchandise from China.

[2001] Head-dresses.

[2002] In greenish-yellow liveries.

[2003] “Why does n’t she come, sirs? This delay is killing me.”

[2004] “By all the gods, the most perfect beauty I have seen in my life.”

[2005] “The sun has lost his light with the splendor this lady brings, so help me God.”

[2006] “Why don’t you draw near?”

[2007] “For the love of God, why this delay?”

[2008] “Madam, my person is unworthy to approach such beauty.”

[2009] “Madam, at your service, let us go in.”

[2010] By her horoscope, with a pun on her bearing.

[2011] Another room in the same.

[2012] Doll’s ravings are taken almost at random from the headings of columns, preface, etc., of the _Concent of Scripture_, by Hugh Broughton.

[2013] In the early editions this speech is printed in parallel columns with the dialogue immediately following, to indicate simultaneous utterance.

[2014] Secret.

[2015] Chaste.

[2016] Into smoke.

[2017] An alembic of a particular shape.

[2018] A globular flask.

[2019] The lunatic asylum.

[2020] His costume as Lungs.

[2021] Capacity.

[2022] Another room in the same.

[2023] Diminutive of Don.

[2024] As if you had been drinking heavy Dutch beer.

[2025] Referring to the punishment inflicted on bawds.

[2026] Part.

[2027] Horoscopes.

[2028] Astrological almanacs.

[2029] The same.

[2030] Cheated.

[2031] Rascal.

[2032] Girl.

[2033] A lotion.

[2034] Dandy.

[2035] Kastril’s terms of abuse are not meant to be appropriate.

[2036] The allusion here has not been explained.

[2037] In Kyd’s _Spanish Tragedy_.

[2038] Expected.

[2039] Quibbles.

[2040] The district outside the walls subject to the city authorities.

[2041] Stolen goods, booty.

[2042] Before Lovewit’s door.

[2043] A summer resort, where the citizens had cakes and ale.

[2044] Like a Puritan preacher.

[2045] Gang.

[2046] Puppet show.

[2047] The same.

[2048] Lit., two dozen sheaves; droves.

[2049] A suburban tavern, eclipsed as a resort by Pimlico.

[2050] With drinking.

[2051] The same.

[2052] Perfect harlot.

[2053] Optical illusion.

[2054] A room in the same.

[2055] Shrank with fear.

[2056] Names of taverns.

[2057] Wheat boiled in milk.

[2058] Games of chance.

[2059] Bat.

[2060] An inn at Brentford.

[2061] Small change.

[2062] A famous pirate.

[2063] Ends.