Chapter CXLVIII: Epilogue (4)

[2064] An outer room in the same.

[2065] For fear of failing.

[2066] Break.

[2067] Stealing.

[2068] Probably a fragment of a song.

[2069] Musketeer.

[2070] Crow.

[2071] Wenches.

[2072] That are sealed as God’s people.

[2073] The founder of the fanatical sect called “The Family of Love.”

[2074] Knight.

[2075] Puppet.

[2076] Must.

[2077] Beat.

[2078] A term of falconry: lined in punning allusion to the name of Kastril, which means hawk.

[2079] Jovial.

[2080] Fair reputation.

[2081] Dramatic propriety.

[2082] Jury.

[2083] A street in London.

[2084] In love with.

[2085] Fear.

[2086] Wasted.

[2087] Cousin; used of any relative not of one’s immediate family.

[2088] At once.

[2089] Advance-pay.

[2090] Equipment.

[2091] Inclination.

[2092] A gold coin, worth about three pounds twelve shillings.

[2093] Qq. _become_. Malone emend.

[2094] Piece of leather.

[2095] Twiddle-twaddle.

[2096] If.

[2097] Frisky, tricky.

[2098] Used as a term of contempt.

[2099] Quibbling on _colonel_.

[2100] Impressed into service.

[2101] Solemn declarations.

[2102] Damp.

[2103] An imaginary Saracen god.

[2104] Brave.

[2105] Fool.

[2106] Tales told to curry favor.

[2107] Healed.

[2108] Four-penny piece.

[2109] Yellow spots on the body denoting the infection of the plague.

[2110] Grant.

[2111] Breeches (-pockets).

[2112] Perforated.

[2113] A garden at Old Ford.

[2114] In preparation.

[2115] With a vengeance.

[2116] Capricious.

[2117] Crushed crab-apples.

[2118] Juice of green fruits.

[2119] Wide trousers.

[2120] Stockings. The meaning seems to be that though we may be acquainted, we are not intimate friends.

[2121] A phrase from Kyd’s _Spanish Tragedy_.

[2122] Handsome.

[2123] Go and be hanged!

[2124] A street in London.

[2125] Before Eyre’s house.

[2126] Dressing himself.

[2127] Beef broth.

[2128] Salted beef.

[2129] Gutters.

[2130] Watch dog.

[2131] Madman.

[2132] A woman who washed and pickled pigs’ faces.

[2133] Coming.

[2134] Bawling.

[2135] The language is, of course, meant for Dutch.

_There was a boor from Gelderland,
Jolly they be;
He was so drunk he could not stand,
Drunken(?) they be:
Clink then the cannikin,
Drink, pretty mannikin!_

[2136] The bones of St. Hugh were supposed to have been made into shoemaker’s tools.

[2137] Dutchman.

[2138] A dish of different hashed meats. The word is sometimes used contemptuously of a versatile person, but is applied to Margery without much appropriateness.

[2139] _Good-day, master, and your wife too._

[2140] An oath.

[2141] _Yes, yes, I am a shoemaker._

[2142] _Yes, yes; be not afraid. I have everything to make boots big and little._

[2143] _Trade._

[2144] _I don’t know what you say; I don’t understand you._

[2145] _Yes, yes; I can do that well._

[2146] Slatterns.

[2147] _O, I understand you; I must pay for half-a-dozen cans; here, boy, take this shilling, tap once freely._

[2148] Slang for beggar.

[2149] Conger-eel.

[2150] A field near Old Ford.

[2151] Cover.

[2152] Exhausted.

[2153] The garden at Old Ford.

[2154] Stupid.

[2155] An oath.

[2156] By God’s pity.

[2157] A room in Eyre’s house.

[2158] _I ’ll tell you what, Hans; this ship that is come from Candia, is quite full, by God’s sacrament, of sugar, civet, almonds, cambric, and all things; a thousand, thousand things. Take it, Hans, take it for your master. There are the bills of lading. Your master, Simon Eyre, shall have a good bargain. What say you, Hans?_

[2159] _My dear brother Firk, bring Master Eyre to the sign of the Swan; there shall you find the skipper and me. What say you, brother Firk. Do it, Hodge._

[2160] Set.

[2161] Finsbury was a famous practising ground for archery.

[2162] Well done.

[2163] Prepare.

[2164] Beside the point.

[2165] German: Schelm, a scoundrel. Skanderbag, or Scander Beg (_i. e._ Lord Alexander), a Turkish name for John Kastriota, the Albanian hero, who freed his country from the yoke of the Turks (1443-1467). (Warnke and Proescholdt.)

[2166] A robe ornamented with guards or facings.

[2167] Stamped.

[2168] Ruffling.

[2169] Yield precedence.

[2170] Address you as.

[2171] _Good day, master. This it the skipper that has the ship of merchandise; the commodity is good: take it, master, take it._

[2172] _The ship lies in the river; there are sugar, civet, almonds, cambric, and a thousand thousand things. By God’s sacrament, take it, master; you shall have a good bargain._

[2173] _Yes, yes, I have drunk well._

[2174] Fr. _Par Dieu_.

[2175] London: a room in Lincoln’s house.

[2176] Certainly informed.

[2177] London: a room in the Lord Mayor’s house.

[2178] Quarrel.

[2179] Found, set; a pun upon fond.

[2180] Puppet, doll.

[2181] Pleases.

[2182] Coins worth about 10s. each.

[2183] Wait for.

[2184] London: a room in Eyre’s house.

[2185] Ale-kegs made of wood.

[2186] _I thank you, mistress!_

[2187] Faithless friend.

[2188] _Yes, I shall, mistress!_

[2189] _I am merry; let ’s see you so!_

[2190] Smoke.

[2191] Brave.

[2192] Scratch me, and I’ll scratch thee.

[2193] Yes, I shall, dame.

[2194] Fine.

[2195] Brighten up.

[2196] Sheriff.

[2197] “The three-farthing silver pieces of Queen Elizabeth had the profile of the sovereign with a rose at the back of her head.” (Dyce.)

[2198] _See, my dear brothers, here comes my master._

[2199] The flap of a hood trimmed with fur or sheep’s wool. (Rhys.)

[2200] _I.e._ for the twenty Portuguese previously lent.

[2201] A room at Old Ford.

[2202] A catch for three voices. It is by no means certain at what point in the play the songs were introduced.

[2203] _I thank you, good maid!_

[2204] A street in London.

[2205] Fastidious.

[2206] London: a street before Hodge’s shop.

[2207] _Forward, Firk, thou art a jolly youngster. Hark, ay, master, I pray you cut me a pair of vamps for Master Jeffrey’s boots._ Vamps are the upper leathers of a shoe.

[2208] _Counterfeits_ sometimes means vamps.

[2209] _What do you want, what would you, girl?_

[2210] _Where is your noble lady, where is your mistress?_

[2211] _Yes, yes, I shall go with you._

[2212] The same.

[2213] A corruption of “God’s nails.”

[2214] London: a room in the Lord Mayor’s house.

[2215] _Indeed, mistress, ’t is a good shoe, it shall fit well, or you shall not pay._

[2216] _Yes, yes, I know that well: indeed, ’t is a good shoe, ’t is made of neat’s leather; see here, good sir!_

[2217] At once.

[2218] Another room in the same house.

[2219] Simpleton(?).

[2220] Fool.

[2221] _I. e._ diggers for information.

[2222] Seriously.

[2223] Stretchers of the truth, lies.

[2224] A stone which marked the centre from which the old Roman roads radiated.

[2225] A small conduit near the Royal Exchange.

[2226] Mother Bunch was a well-known ale-wife.

[2227] A pretty sight.

[2228] Conjuring terms.

[2229] Curse.

[2230] Cheat.

[2231] A room in Eyre’s house.

[2232] A sweetmeat made of sugar and almonds.

[2233] A street near St. Faith’s Church.

[2234] Fitted.

[2235] “Clubs” was the rallying cry of the London apprentices.

[2236] A lace with a tag, which fastened the busk, or piece of wood or whalebone used to keep the stays in position.

[2237] A slang term for a woman.

[2238] Whipped.

[2239] A bell rung on the morning of Shrove Tuesday.

[2240] Leadenhall.

[2241] Beef broth.

[2242] Barrels.

[2243] Hods.

[2244] A street in London.

[2245] In suspense.

[2246] Swaggerer.

[2247] A great hall.

[2248] Pass.

[2249] “A dish, made of milk, eggs, and sugar, baked in a pot.” (Webster.)

[2250] A steak cut crossways.

[2251] Ruffs for the neck.

[2252] Flaps; as resembling the hanging chaps of a hound.

[2253] Obstruction, a term in bowling.

[2254] An open yard before the hall.

[2255] Magpie.

[2256] “A. D. 1419. This year Sir Symon Eyre built Leadenhall, at his proper expense, as it now appears, and gave the same to the City to be employed as a public granary for laying up corn against a time of scarcity.”—Maitland’s _History and Survey of London_, II. 187. According to Stow, Eyre was a draper, became Mayor in 1445, and died in 1459.

[2257] Merry-making.

[2258] As an apprentice.

[2259] Chaste.

[2260] A street in Milan.

[2261] Portentous.

[2262] Dyce conj. _torrent._

[2263] Because.

[2264] Gutter.

[2265] A red Spanish wine made at Alicant.

[2266] Turmoil.

[2267] By our lady.

[2268] Q. _for._

[2269] Private.

[2270] Chastity.

[2271] Song-makers.

[2272] Another street.

[2273] Readily.

[2274] Grandee.

[2275] Save.

[2276] Honest.

[2277] Glance.

[2278] Churl.

[2279] The allusion is to the fancied resemblance of the roots of the mandrake to the human figure.

[2280] “Query Whimlings—idiots.” (Rhys.)

[2281] A perfect man.

[2282] A common pun on _fret_, the ridge on which the strings of a musical instrument are stopped.

[2283] Wide of the mark.

[2284] Stark mad.

[2285] Scurfy.

[2286] Handsomely dressed.

[2287] Soldiers who had never left England.

[2288] Bosom friend.

[2289] Escort.

[2290] “Aunt” was a cant term both for a prostitute and a bawd. (Dyce.)

[2291] Cheat.

[2292] Ask the king to have the wardship of me as an idiot.

[2293] A chamber in the Duke’s Palace.

[2294] Dyce conj. Qq. _meere_, which may be right, meaning “entirely.”

[2295] Q₂ _Sweet_.

[2296] Dyce suggest _crust_.

[2297] Foolish.

[2298] Q₂ _deadst_.

[2299] Q₂ _God knows_.

[2300] Q₂ _haunts_.

[2301] Deed.

[2302] A street.

[2303] A piece of brass or copper money, coined by tavern-keepers and other tradesmen for small change.

[2304] For love’s sake.

[2305] Cheated.

[2306] Bet.

[2307] Hands.

[2308] Candido’s shop.

[2309] Qq. give first three speeches to _All Three_.

[2310] The shopkeeper’s common cry at this period.

[2311] Engaged.

[2312] Pray, invoke.

[2313] At once.

[2314] Dupe.

[2315] Plague.

[2316] Fellows.

[2317] Lose.

[2318] I am not accustomed to drink whole beakers full.

[2319] An exclamation of contempt, equivalent to “a fig for.” (Dyce.)

[2320] Emptied the cup so completely that the remaining drop will stand on the thumb-nail.

[2321] Simpleton.

[2322] Stallion.

[2323] Milksop.

[2324] Beat.

[2325] In order that.

[2326] A beggar who pretended madness was called an Abraham man.

[2327] A room in Bellafront’s house.

[2328] Dressed.

[2329] Frizzling iron.

[2330] A stick used for plaiting ruffs.

[2331] Sideboard.

[2332] An expression of contempt.

[2333] A kind of collar, falling flat round the neck.

[2334] A corruption of “God ’s my pity.”

[2335] A gold coin worth about ten shillings.

[2336] A docked horse.

[2337] Spiced and sweetened wine.

[2338] Sixpence.

[2339] Half a gallon.

[2340] A roll of fine bread.

[2341] Q₂ _Herculian_.

[2342] A sprightly dance.

[2343] Prostitutes.

[2344] Rabbit-skin.

[2345] “Mutton” was slang for a light woman.

[2346] Retires to the background.

[2347] Dyce suggests _tilt_.

[2348] Cheat.

[2349] Hysterics.

[2350] A small red plum.

[2351] Paltry.

[2352] Respectfully.

[2353] For sale.

[2354] The term sirrah was applied often to women as well as to men.

[2355] Prostitute.

[2356] Pickled.

[2357] Kiss.

[2358] _I. e._ without your upper dress.

[2359] Harlot.

[2360] A sweet Spanish wine.

[2361] Simpletons.

[2362] Towels.

[2363] Fine-looking.

[2364] Lascivious.

[2365] Why.

[2366] Measure.

[2367] Wench.

[2368] Calves’ fry.

[2369] Tripe.

[2370] _I. e._ false, like an uncurrent coin.

[2371] A corruption of the word “melancholy.”

[2372] Collars lying flat on the neck.

[2373] Retract.

[2374] Misunderstand.

[2375] In allusion to the painting of a citizen’s gateposts on his promotion to be sheriff, so as to display official notices the better. (Rhys.)

[2376] Citizen.

[2377] Beat.

[2378] Pleases.

[2379] Turmoil.

[2380] Mine ingle, _i. e._ my intimate.

[2381] The heraldic term for red.

[2382] Desire.

[2383] Weigh.

[2384] Perquisites.

[2385] Table covers.

[2386] Quietest.

[2387] Portuguese coins, worth about 2s. 10d. each, but varying in value.

[2388] Construe.

[2389] _I. e._ I long.

[2390] When he may rob under protection. _Barn_ is a corruption of _baron_, and in law a wife is said to be under covert baron, being sheltered by marriage under her husband. (Dyce.)

[2391] An outer apartment in Bellafront’s house.

[2392] Hat.

[2393] Handsomest.

[2394] Go up, get out.

[2395] Perquisites.

[2396] Assignation(?) Customer(?) Pair(?)

[2397] A chamber in Bellafront’s house.

[2398] Understand.

[2399] Simpletons.

[2400] Cheating.

[2401] Stink.

[2402] Readily.

[2403] A chamber in Hippolito’s house.

[2404] Certificate of membership in the craft.

[2405] Ostend held out for three years and ten weeks, and was eventually captured by the Marquis of Spinola on Sept. 8, 1604.

[2406] Foolish.

[2407] Q 1635, _brought_.

[2408] Used as provocatives.

[2409] Seneca, _Oedipus_, 882.

[2410] Have nothing to say.

[2411] Ital. _Good courage._

[2412] A street.

[2413] A game with dice.

[2414] Mazzard, the head.

[2415] Candied orange-peel.

[2416] Bows.

[2417] A quibble. There were three degrees in fencing, the master’s, the provost’s, and the scholar’s, for each of which a “prize was played.”

[2418] With ornamental border.

[2419] Decided.

[2420] Grounds near the Duke’s Palace.

[2421] Device.

[2422] Construe.

[2423] A hall in the Duke’s Palace.

[2424] High-feeding prompted.

[2425] A cheap substitute for tapestry, frequently adorned with mottoes and verses.

[2426] Readily.

[2427] Cheese-trenchers used to be inscribed with proverbial phrases.

[2428] An apartment in Bethlem Monastery.

[2429] Consent.

[2430] _I. e._ to steal a wench.

[2431] Suspicious.

[2432] Artifices.

[2433] Anticipate.

[2434] Qq. _Enter Towne like a Sweeper._

[2435] Citizenship.

[2436] Check.

[2437] Moulds for hats, or hats.

[2438] Simpletons.

[2439] Dupes.

[2440] Club foot.

[2441] Sour, crabbed.

[2442] Informer.

[2443] The Qq. read _2 Mad._ for _3 Mad._ and _3 Mad._ for _2 Mad._

[2444] Slippers.

[2445] Pieces of wood fixed to the key-levers of virginals, spinets, and harpsichords, which rose when the keys were pressed down.

[2446] Wrote in musical notes.

[2447] A raisin floating on burning brandy.

[2448] A proverbial phrase.

[2449] A corruption of God’s sanctity or God’s saints. (Steevens.)

[2450] In the game of barley-break the ground was divided into three compartments, the middle one of which was called “hell.”

[2451] _I. e._ Infelice.

[2452] A quibble. “Table” also meant the palm of the hand. (Dyce.)

[2453] The name of a well-known tale.

[2454] A prostitute.

[2455] An allusion to a ballad of that name.

[2456] Confound.

[2457] Hands.

[2458] Reason.

[2459] A hall in Hippolito’s house.

[2460] Darling.

[2461] Christ save.

[2462] Unlike.

[2463] Promenade, as on the Exchange.

[2464] Dunkirk pirates.

[2465] Courtesans.

[2466] Mop for cleaning decks, etc.

[2467] Yellow was typical of jealousy.

[2468] An apartment in the Duke’s Palace.

[2469] A supposed recipe for restoring youth. (Dyce.)

[2470] Merriment.

[2471] Tempting.

[2472] Confection.

[2473] Renounce.

[2474] Used by fowlers to allure quails.

[2475] The color of servants’ livery.

[2476] A room in Candido’s house.

[2477] Citizens.

[2478] Spikes in the centre of bucklers.

[2479] A pipe organ.

[2480] The model for the hat.

[2481] Struts.

[2482] Head-piece.

[2483] Head-dresses.

[2484] The steeple-like hat worn by 1 Guest.

[2485] Hysteria.

[2486] A room in Matheo’s house.

[2487] Rosemary was an emblem of remembrance.

[2488] Ital. A term of abuse or contempt.

[2489] A vague exclamation. Hang it all!(?)

[2490] Roystering gallants.

[2491] Drink deep.

[2492] Dicing.

[2493] Band.

[2494] Notorious churl.

[2495] Vile.

[2496] Foolish.

[2497] Lower, take off.

[2498] Boon companion.

[2499] Cheat.

[2500] Whoremonger.

[2501] Portcullis.

[2502] Before Candido’s shop.

[2503] An expression of impatience.

[2504] Be so imposed upon.

[2505] A fencing contest. Cf. p. 414, note 5.

[2506] Cudgels.

[2507] An apartment in Hippolito’s house.

[2508] Hound.

[2509] Secret.

[2510] Irish: _Slán leat_, fare thee well.

[2511] Irish: _As a márach frómhadh bodach bréan_—On the morrow of a feast, a clown is a beast. (Rhys.)

[2512] At once.

[2513] An Irish foot-soldier: often used contemptuously.

[2514] Leprechaun, a pigmy sprite in Irish folk-lore.

[2515] Irish: _A maighisdir a grádh_, O master, O love.

[2516] Foolish.

[2517] A room in Matheo’s house.

[2518] _I. e._ dicing.

[2519] Draw out unwillingly.

[2520] _I. e._ with a staff.

[2521] Cost me.

[2522] On.

[2523] In preparation for.

[2524] An allusion to a well-known romance.

[2525] A cant term for money.

[2526] Band.

[2527] _I. e._ turn bawd.

[2528] _I. e._ My expectation was just.

[2529] Will be hanged.

[2530] Prostitutes.

[2531] Formerly used to both sexes.

[2532] Gardens with summer-houses were very common in the suburbs of London at the time, and were often used as places of intrigue. (Dyce.)

[2533] Sift.

[2534] Pear-tree.

[2535] A room in Matheo’s house.

[2536] Finely attired.

[2537] In the fashion.

[2538] Delivery.

[2539] “It would take forty such knights to make a thief.” Cataia is China; the Chinese were supposed to be great thieves.

[2540] Turn over, sell.

[2541] A kind of false dice.

[2542] Whoremonger.

[2543] The straps attached to the girdle, from which a dagger or sword hung. They were often richly embroidered.

[2544] Herring’s head.

[2545] Horses with long housings.

[2546] An appetite with anger.

[2547] Stuffed out.

[2548] A dish carried by beggars, with a lid used to rattle to attract notice.

[2549] Hospital.

[2550] Trick.

[2551] Cage.

[2552] Boasters.

[2553] Gallows-bird.

[2554] Booty.

[2555] His sword.

[2556] The mistress of the father of William the Conqueror.

[2557] Quality.

[2558] Then.

[2559] Only confusion.

[2560] Enticed.

[2561] Tempting.

[2562] Take off their hats.

[2563] An apartment in the Duke’s Palace.

[2564] A net, the mouth of which was drawn together with a string.

[2565] Aim.

[2566] A room in Matheo’s house.

[2567] A frame used for stretching cloth.

[2568] In any direction.

[2569] A state barge.

[2570] A common dish in the brothels of the time.

[2571] Two quarts.

[2572] A corruption of _Pedro Ximenes_; a sweet Spanish wine.

[2573] A Portuguese wine.

[2574] _I. e._ Aleatico, a red Italian muscatel wine.

[2575] Kinds of cannon.

[2576] An acid liquor made from green fruit.

[2577] A play upon “pop-guns.”

[2578] The price was here probably indicated by displaying the fingers. (Rhys.)

[2579] On Shrove Tuesday the city authorities made a search for brothel-keepers.

[2580] Thrown at random(?)

[2581] A street.

[2582] Strumpets had to do penance in a blue gown.

[2583] Crushing chalk was one of the occupations assigned to the prisoners.

[2584] An allusion to the carting of prostitutes.

[2585] Former friends.

[2586] A room in Bridewell.

[2587] The allusions here really refer of course to the London Bridewell. The cardinal, duke, and prince are Campeius, Henry VIII, and Edward VI; and the other details are substantially historical.

[2588] Rascal.

[2589] By whipping.

[2590] Tavern loafers.

[2591] Subjects for dissection.

[2592] Atoms.

[2593] Obstruction.

[2594] The amount of the hangman’s fee.

[2595] Musical instruments hung in the barbers’ shops of the period.

[2596] Bout. A term in fencing.

[2597] A heavy mallet.

[2598] A pander.

[2599] Finely attired.

[2600] A term of contempt.

[2601] A play upon the word, which also signifies “trimmed.”

[2602] Prostitutes.

[2603] Chore, task work.

[2604] At the carting of bawds and prostitutes they were preceded by a mob beating basins and performing other rough music. (Rhys)

[2605] Head-dress trimmed.

[2606] Ensign.

[2607] Branded.

[2608] Disdain.

[2609] Fools.

[2610] Some copies of Q₁ read _Me mea sequentur fata_.

[2611] The induction appears first in Q₂.

[2612] The Additions are enclosed in brackets throughout.

[2613] Corruption of (eye-)lid.

[2614] Note-book.

[2615] The meaning is that in _The Malcontent_ which had been originally acted in Blackfriars Theatre, the practice of wearing feathers had been so ridiculed that the feather-makers of Blackfriars had suffered injury in their business. See V. iv. (Bullen.)

[2616] Application.

[2617] Judge.

[2618] Box.

[2619] Scabs.

[2620] _I. e._ Why should not the King’s company of grown up (folio) actors play _The Malcontent_ (which was the property of the children’s company playing at Blackfriars), since the children (16mo actors) have appropriated _The Spanish Tragedy_, in which the King’s company had rights?

[2621] “’Tis reported that Parmeno, being very famous for imitating the grunting of a pig, some endeavoured to rival and outdo him. And when the hearers, being prejudiced, cried out, ‘Very well, indeed, but nothing comparable to Parmeno’s sow,’ one took a pig under his arm and came upon the stage; and when, tho’ they heard the very pig, they still continued, ‘This is nothing comparable to Parmeno’s sow,’ he threw the pig among them to show that they judged according to opinion and not truth.” (Plutarch’s _Symposium_, V. I., cited by “L. S.” and Bullen.)

[2622] Halfpennies.

[2623] Forbid.

[2624] Judge.

[2625] Petrarch’s 153rd Sonnet, trans. by John Harvey.

[2626] Rascal.

[2627] Salute.

[2628] In the margin of the Qq. here: _Vexat censura columbas_.

[2629] Palace of the Duke of Genoa.

[2630] The same.

[2631] Male prostitute.

[2632] Q₂ _ragged_.

[2633] Bespatter.

[2634] Nares suggests “dealers in wool or mutton,” _i. e._ mutton-mongers, lascivious fellows.

[2635] Bullen prints _Howls again_ as a stage direction.

[2636] Which they care most for.

[2637] Q₁ omits.

[2638] The same.

[2639] Q₁ omits.

[2640] Liked by.

[2641] Deceit.

[2642] Housings of his horse.

[2643] Ital., mistress.

[2644] The ape-leader’s call to his monkey.

[2645] A game played with a ball, a bat, and a wooden trap.

[2646] Lid.

[2647] Ital., cuckold.

[2648] A horned one.

[2649] Unshell.

[2650] Corroboration.

[2651] Outburst.

[2652] Secret harlot.

[2653] Exclamation of contempt.

[2654] Q₁ omits these forty-five lines.

[2655] Counts.

[2656] Under heaven(?) In spite of which a man can purchase salvation(?)

[2657] Q₁ reads _shue_, _should_.

[2658] Q₁ omits the rest of this scene.

[2659] Weigh seriously.

[2660] The same.

[2661] The goddess of plenty.

[2662] Having an appetite for.

[2663] Qq print the rest of this speech as prose, perhaps rightly.

[2664] Q₁ omits ll. 44-98.

[2665] An allusion to Castiglione, author of _The Courtier_.

[2666] The same.

[2667] Pay obsequious attention to.

[2668] Following.

[2669] Lampreys.

[2670] The same.

[2671] Q₂ _aske_.

[2672] The same.

[2673] Qq. _this_.

[2674] Qq. _the_.

[2675] Embraced.

[2676] The same. Q₁ omits this scene.

[2677] With facings on his coat, such as fools wore.

[2678] An extant pamphlet records this monstrosity.

[2679] Seek to be made guardians to idiots, in order to enjoy their revenues.

[2680] Some copies read _something of his guilt: some advauncing his high-colored_.

[2681] Accomplishments.

[2682] Flushing was in the hands of the English as security for a loan, and presumably the garrison was unpopular with the townspeople.

[2683] Talc.

[2684] Chamber in the Duke’s Palace.

[2685] Lantern.

[2686] Absolutely.

[2687] “It is whence you fall, not whither, that matters.”

[2688] Chamber in the Duke’s Palace.

[2689] Pair.

[2690] Stuck, stoccado, a thrust.

[2691] Q₁ omits.

[2692] The same.

[2693] Drunken.

[2694] Q₁ omits ll. 27-47.

[2695] An eruption.

[2696] Bullen’s emend. Qq. read

_’T is requisite, the parts with piety
And soft respect forbears, be closely dogd._

For _soft_, other copies read _loft_, _lost_.

[2697] Wrinkles.

[2698] Uncover.

[2699] The same.

[2700] How does it become me?

[2701] Cleanseth.

[2702] Treating with cosmetics.

[2703] The same.

[2704] Dodsley’s emend. Q₁ _pent_;, Q₂ _spent_.

[2705] Thoroughly.

[2706] By.

[2707] _I. e._ a Huguenot.

[2708] Ovid. _Her. Epist._ i. 53, with _Troja_ for _Sion_.

[2709] Virgil, _Aeneid_, ii. 554.

[2710] Cheat.

[2711] A room in the Duke’s Palace.

[2712] Streams.

[2713] So Q₂, Q₁ _complaints_.

[2714] Q₁ omits ll. 36-176.

[2715] A kind of wild geese were supposed to grow from barnacles.

[2716] A form of torture.

[2717] Welshmen were notoriously proud of their pedigree.

[2718] Crape.

[2719] Qq. _fowl_. Perhaps a pun.

[2720] Pair of stays, bodice.

[2721] The same.

[2722] Shave; here, mow.

[2723] The usual costume of Hymen in masques.

[2724] So Bullen. Qq. _cloake_, _cloke_.

[2725] The same.

[2726] Whose force alone.

[2727] Seneca, _Epist._ xliv.

[2728] A forest near the sea.

[2729] Qq. _safely_.

[2730] Vanity, frivolity.

[2731] The same, continued.

[2732] Q₁ omits; Q₂ _you_.

[2733] Secretly.

[2734] Qq. _Cel._

[2735] Palace of the Duke.

[2736] The tags of the laces fastening the “busk,” the whale-bone in the front of the stays.

[2737] Lover.

[2738] This speech should probably be given to Bianca.

[2739] The same, continued.

[2740] A slow dance.

[2741] Dyce cites _Les Guanto_ from Munday as the name of a courtly dance.

[2742] The same, continued.

[2743] Prepare for.

[2744] Adapted from Seneca, _Phoen._ 632. “He seeks an uncertain reward, but certain guilt.”

[2745] Intimate.

[2746] Qq. note on margin: _Shoots under his belly_.

[2747] Opponent.

[2748] Upbraids.

[2749] Court of the Palace.

[2750] The same.

[2751] Qq. _lov’d_.

[2752] Embrace.

[2753] Salt, licentious.

[2754] Qq. _bloud_.

[2755] Qq. _sinne in good_.

[2756] Cuckolds.

[2757] Probe.

[2758] “Carrying coals;” menial employment.

[2759] Deighton’s emend. Qq. _banishing_.

[2760] Are cut out of the same cloth.

[2761] A room in the Palace. Q₁ omits this scene.

[2762] Meaning uncertain. “Coiled up into a small compass,” Nares. “Inconvenienced,” Halliwell. Deighton would read _hoistered_, “an Essex word meaning ‘supported,’ ‘held up,’ an extension of ‘hoisted,’ as ‘hoisted’ is an extension of ‘hoised.’”

[2763] A perfume ball.

[2764] Stinking fellows: the mob.

[2765] Before the Citadel.

[2766] Q₁ omits ll. 11-43.

[2767] Crowded.

[2768] A hero in _Orlando Furioso_. (Reed.)

[2769] Bullen’s emend. Qq. _stream_.

[2770] The same.

[2771] Heroes in _The Mirrour of Knighthood_.

[2772] Q₂ _this_.

[2773] Cicero, _Ad Fam._ ix. 22. (Bullen.)

[2774] Q₁ omits ll. 1-37.

[2775] Cf. II. ii. 64.

[2776] Ovid, _Tristia_, ii. 33. (Bullen.)

[2777] Talk closely together, as if conspiring.

[2778] Seneca, _Agam._ 115. (Bullen.)

[2779] Q₂ inserts here:

Mend. _Hast been with Maria?_

Mal. _As your scrivener to your usurer, I have dealt about taking of this commodity, but she’s cold-frosty._

These lines seem to have been meant to take the place of ll. 48-58, which were left in by mistake. Q₁ omits ll. 59-72.

[2780] Qq. _Why_.

[2781] Niggardly.

[2782] Deighton suggests _feareth_.

[2783] The Presence-Chamber.

[2784] Head-dresses.

[2785] A part of dress, now usually called a vandyke: it fell flat upon the dress from the neck, and succeeded the stiff ruffs. (Nares.)

[2786] Or poking-stick, for setting the plaits of ruffs.

[2787] So Q₂. Some copies of Q₁ _windle_. Bullen suggests _wimble_, nimble.

[2788] Outweigh.

[2789] Some copies of Q₁ give this line to Maria.

[2790] From Thomas Bastard’s _Chrestoleros_, 1598. (Bullen.)

[2791] Qq. gives this line to Aurelia.

[2792] Regions.

[2793] Deceiving.

[2794] Qq. _as_.

[2795] Qq. Pietro.

[2796] Q₁ omits ll. 148-172.

[2797] Qq. _conceale_.

[2798] The disreputable district.

[2799] Wholly.

[2800] Flaws.

[2801] Ben Jonson’s.

[2802] Defeat.

[2803] Room in Frankford’s house.

[2804] Q₂ _Acton_.

[2805] _The Shaking of the Sheets_, or _The Dance of Death_, was a well-known ballad and dance tune.

[2806] Gained the dignity.

[2807] In preparation for marrying.

[2808] Reduces her to submission.

[2809] The points where the strings of a musical instrument are stopped.

[2810] Streamers.

[2811] Boisterous.

[2812] Q¹ _But_.

[2813] Gold coins worth about $2.50.

[2814] Shake hands on it.

[2815] Yard of the same.

[2816] Frolic, bout.

[2817] The names of the dance-tunes here were all familiar.

[2818] Chevy Chase.

[2819] On the descent.

[2820] Pluck.

[2821] Call back.

[2822] Verity explains as “booty,” but apparently it is the same as _jesses_.

[2823] Leg-straps.

[2824] Quarry: “the swoop upon the bird.” (N. E. D.)

[2825] Not satisfactorily explained.

[2826] Attacked afresh.

[2827] Toes.

[2828] Unexplained.

[2829] The rest of the speech seems to refer to Mountford’s hawk.

[2830] Bungler.

[2831] Curly-tailed.

[2832] Limit of liability.

[2833] Abundantly.

[2834] Arrest.

[2835] Overflows

[2836] Have made good progress.

[2837] Splashed.

[2838] Versed.

[2839] Forming factions.

[2840] Judged.

[2841] Resources.

[2842] Accomplishments.

[2843] Grieves.

[2844] Use.

[2845] The Gaol.

[2846] Changed.

[2847] To prevent failure.

[2848] Feeble.

[2849] Paid over.

[2850] Frankford’s house.

[2851] Conceive.

[2852] Foolish.

[2853] Relationship.

[2854] Opprobrious.

[2855] Acquire, add.

[2856] Secret proceedings.

[2857] Sneaking.

[2858] Sir Charles Mountford’s house.

[2859] Interest.

[2860] Extremely rigorously.

[2861] List. Properly a list of names to be prayed for.

[2862] Ed. conj. _tyrannous_.

[2863] Of the debtor’s prison.

[2864] Legal transactions.

[2865] Frankford’s house.

[2866] Tray for removing dishes.

[2867] Table-cover.

[2868] Small logs.

[2869] Await.

[2870] Economist.

[2871] Maker of quarrels.

[2872] Evidence.

[2873] Resentment.

[2874] Of noble origin.

[2875] Avoid.

[2876] Pack.

[2877] Well done.

[2878] Be my partner.

[2879] Be their opponents.

[2880] A game like cribbage.

[2881] An earlier kind of whist.

[2882] Be shut out.

[2883] Cut.

[2884] Pack.

[2885] This line should probably be given to Mrs. F. If not, Cranwell exit here with Jenkin.

[2886] Old Mountford’s house.

[2887] Rioting.

[2888] York Castle.

[2889] Ceased.

[2890] Joyful.

[2891] Too base in their conduct. (Ward.)

[2892] Ed. conj. Qq. _in_.

[2893] Lose.

[2894] Weigh impartially.

[2895] Verity emends to _expectation_.

[2896] Frankford’s house.

[2897] Influence with.

[2898] Less severe.

[2899] Good fellow.

[2900] Armed.

[2901] Cause discomfort to.

[2902] Intimacy.

[2903] Another part of the house.

[2904] Outside the house.

[2905] Bow-shots.

[2906] The hall of the house. Note that in the Qq. these scenes are continuous.

[2907] Delay.

[2908] Established his case. (Ward.)

[2909] Count backwards.

[2910] Dressing-gown.

[2911] Outcast.

[2912] Rank.

[2913] Nearby.

[2914] Permit.

[2915] Before Sir Francis Acton’s house.

[2916] Dressed.

[2917] A Celtic foot-soldier; often used in contempt.

[2918] A small coin.

[2919] Penny.

[2920] Tell.

[2921] Dressed finely.

[2922] Wonder.

[2923] Frankford’s house.

[2924] Wire used to support a ruff.

[2925] Variation.

[2926] Merry.

[2927] Road near Mistress Frankford’s manor.

[2928] Sworn.

[2929] Commands.

[2930] Food.

[2931] Enchanted, seduced.

[2932] Made this trouble.

[2933] Acquired these languages perfectly.

[2934] Before the Manor House.

[2935] Conducts.

[2936] Dutiful.

[2937] Dwells.

[2938] The Manor Home. The scene was really unchanged.

[2939] Condition.

[2940] Verity suggests, _Once more_ (_i. e._ Kiss me once more); _thy wife dies, etc._

[2941] Cut and filled in with gold.

[2942] Pure.

[2943] Compare.

[2944] The Q spellings _Rafe_ and _Raph_ indicate the pronunciation.

[2945] From the Second Edition, 1635.

[2946] Fastidious.

[2947] _Idem._ “This Prologue is almost an exact Transcript of ‘The Prologue at the Black fryers’ prefixed to Lyly’s _Sapho and Phaon_.” (Murch.)

[2948] Marjoram.

[2949] Disapproval.

[2950] Q₂ _authors_.

[2951] Probably Whitefriars, a private theatre.

[2952] Jeers.

[2953] The placard announcing the name of the play.

[2954] _I. e._ a member of the Grocers’ Guild, one of the great livery companies.

[2955] Behave trickily.

[2956] A lost play, author unknown.

[2957] Heywood’s _If you know not me, you know nobody_, pt. II.

[2958] Peele’s _Edward I_.

[2959] Wonderful.

[2960] Dear.

[2961] Was to have seen.

[2962] Perhaps _Edward IV_, ascribed to Heywood.

[2963] A lost play.

[2964] This play was first acted by the children of Her Majesty’s Revels.

[2965] Apparel.

[2966] Disparage.

[2967] Swaggering.

[2968] With slight changes from _1 Henry IV_, I. iii. 201.

[2969] An early play of unknown authorship.

[2970] See _The Spanish Tragedy_, _ante_.

[2971] A pipe resembling a hautboy.

[2972] Attacks on individuals.

[2973] A room in the house of Venturewell.

[2974] Markets.

[2975] Indulged my passions.

[2976] Is her own confidant, and knows best.

[2977] So feeble a personality.

[2978] Against masterless men.

[2979] Another room in the same.

[2980] Hindrances.

[2981] Richard Mulcaster, headmaster of St. Paul’s School, 1596-1608. He trained the pupils to act.

[2982] Restrain.

[2983] Rake.

[2984] Crossbow.

[2985] Inclination.

[2986] The “annual military muster of the citizens, embodying all the companies, for the purpose of forming a regular guard for the city during the ensuing year.” (Dyce.)

[2987] Embroidered.

[2988] Hear me out.

[2989] Qq. _men_.

[2990] Off.

[2991] The passage is condensed from _Palmerin d’Oliva_, the romance to which _Palmerin of England_ is a sequel.

[2992] Giants.

[2993] _I. e._ a counter.

[2994] Specifics used against the plague.

[2995] _I. e._ visited by the plague.

[2996] Spurring.

[2997] Heraldic.

[2998] Honest.

[2999] A room in Merrythought’s house.

[3000] Squander.

[3001] Gallows-bird.

[3002] To be careful.

[3003] Certainly.

[3004] Dinner and supper hours.

[3005] Stick to your opinion.

[3006] Gallows-bird.

[3007] Ill luck to him.

[3008] Be frugal.

[3009] A kind of a violin.

[3010] The game of see-saw.

[3011] Ed. 1778, _God’s wounds_.

[3012] A room in the house of Venturewell.

[3013] Close.

[3014] A master of fencing.

[3015] Waltham forest.

[3016] This seems to be an allusion to a sham-battle at Mile-End, the green at which was used as a training ground.

[3017] Spaniards.

[3018] Fowling-piece.

[3019] A term of endearment.

[3020] Go hang.

[3021] In abundance.

[3022] Breeches.

[3023] An infusion of knot-grass was supposed to retard growth.

[3024] The mistress of Ptolme, the friend of Palmerin.

[3025] With a vengeance.

[3026] Imperial, _i. e._ emperor.

[3027] Another part of the forest.

[3028] And also.

[3029] Ready.

[3030] Salute him as superior. (Moorman.)

[3031] _I. e._ Livery companies, guilds.

[3032] Man for man.

[3033] Another part of the forest.

[3034] Cf. _Changeling_, I. ii. 76 and note.

[3035] Befoul.

[3036] A healing herb.

[3037] John Dory, according to the legend, engaged with the King of France to bring the crew of an English ship prisoners to Paris, but was himself captured whilst making the attempt. The song and tune were for a long time popular in England. (Strachey.)

[3038] Teach him.

[3039] Vagaries.

[3040] A lump.

[3041] Appease(?) (Moorman.) Perhaps, have him bound to keep the peace.

[3042] Mischievous.

[3043] Wager.

[3044] Silence!

[3045] The same.

[3046] Traveling, spurring along.

[3047] Youth.

[3048] Fiery dragon.

[3049] Before the Bell Inn, Waltham.

[3050] Severely.

[3051] Great dirty lout.

[3052] Consoling.

[3053] Running footmen had their legs greased to keep them supple.

[3054] A common trick of the ostlers of the time to prevent the horses from eating the hay. (Weber.)

[3055] Blockhead.

[3056] A room in the house of Venturewell.

[3057] Something used to bind together the bushes composing a hedge. (N. E. D.)

[3058] Thirteen miles beyond Waltham.

[3059] A room in Merrythought’s house.

[3060] Pass.

[3061] Where the heads of traitors and heretics were exposed.

[3062] Thief.

[3063] Waltham-forest.

[3064] Capable of endurance.

[3065] Foolish.

[3066] Give in.

[3067] Does.

[3068] Warrant for arrest.

[3069] A room in the Bell Inn, Waltham.

[3070] Arrest.

[3071] Go hang.

[3072] Serious.

[3073] Killed.

[3074] Dwell.

[3075] Elegant, courteous, noble.

[3076] Pointing upward. The reference is, of course, to the usual sign of the barber-surgeon.

[3077] Circumference.

[3078] Balls of soap.

[3079] _I. e._ The puppet-show of Nineveh.

[3080] Jonah and the whale.

[3081] The street before Merrythought’s house.

[3082] At once.

[3083] Before a barber’s shop, Waltham.

[3084] Knock.

[3085] Foolish.

[3086] Pay for.

[3087] Feign.

[3088] Old form of _scotched_, cut.

[3089] Certificate of citizenship.

[3090] The pox or syphilis was also known as the French disease.

[3091] The resort of prostitutes.

[3092] A common method of treating syphilis.

[3093] The street before Merrythought’s house.

[3094] His old habits.

[3095] Military leader.

[3096] Ignorant(?) ingrate(?)

[3097] Qualities.

[3098] A lively dance.

[3099] Be lively.

[3100] After his own nature.

[3101] Qq. begin Act IV here.

[3102] Armour.

[3103] Tagged laces used to attach the hose or breeches to the doublet.

[3104] A street.

[3105] A loose woman.

[3106] Apparently a prison attached to the Court of Arches.

[3107] An allusion to an incident in a play called _The Travailes of the Three English Brothers_, by Day, Rowley, and Wilkins.

[3108] Another theatre.

[3109] Tales.

[3110] By Heywood. But Dagonet is in Malory.

[3111] A Hall in the King of Moldavia’s Court.

[3112] Serious.

[3113] Indenture.

[3114] A mock learned form of nipitate, or strong ale.

[3115] Salted.

[3116] Used as ointment.

[3117] Stockings without feet, worn with boots.

[3118] Handsomer.

[3119] A room in the house of Venturewell.

[3120] Upstairs.

[3121] Pretty long.

[3122] In anticipation of.

[3123] Acquired.

[3124] Another room in the house of Venturewell.

[3125] So ed. 1750. Qq. _mourning_.

[3126] Test.

[3127] Fear not for me.

[3128] Hidden.

[3129] In Qq. this speech is in prose: probably correctly.

[3130] A street before Merrythought’s house.

[3131] Penny.

[3132] Portmanteau.

[3133] Have a say.

[3134] Cf. _Spanish Tragedy_, I. 1

[3135] Dyce emends to _stock_.

[3136] Neatly, expertly.

[3137] Blood-letting.

[3138] Spawn.

[3139] Shut up, confined. Sympson emend. Qq. _mute_.

[3140] A lean deer.

[3141] A buck in his second year.

[3142] Hoxton.

[3143] Setting thrums or tufts on a cap. (Murch.) Fingering. (Moorman.)

[3144] A room in the house of Venturewell.

[3145] Foolish.

[3146] Sorrow, melancholy.

[3147] Magnificent.

[3148] _I. e._ full membership in his Company.

[3149] Ramrod.

[3150] Guard (Moorman); regiment (Murch).

[3151] A street (and afterwards Mile-End).

[3152] Ensign (the flag or its bearer).

[3153] Musket.

[3154] Serious.

[3155] Flint.

[3156] Bloated.

[3157] Band.

[3158] Weapons.

[3159] The Lord Mayor’s barge.

[3160] A room in Merrythought’s house.

[3161] Tankard.

[3162] So printed in Qq.

[3163] Qq. omit. Added in Ed. of 1778.

[3164] Shoemaker’s thread.

[3165] Baton.

[3166] Befouled himself.

[3167] Ask the price of, bargain for.

[3168] As the London prentices did on Shrove Tuesday.

[3169] Cf. the speech of Andrea’s Ghost in _The Spanish Tragedy_, I. i., many lines of which are here parodied.

[3170] Part.

[3171] Meanwhile.

[3172] This list is taken with slight changes from Q₃. Q₂ omits it.

[3173] The presence chamber in the palace.

[3174] Cheat.

[3175] Bow.

[3176] Lovers.

[3177] Q₂ and Q₃ insert _as I_.

[3178] Unbalanced in mind.

[3179] _I. e._ Alexander the Great.

[3180] Swollen. Q₁ and Q₂ _belied_.

[3181] Bugbears.

[3182] To succeeding kings.

[3183] A model prince.

[3184] The phrase, _a dog of wax_, is used elsewhere in a contemptuous sense, but has not been explained.

[3185] Refer to.

[3186] Ostentation, swagger.

[3187] Probably corrupt. Q₁ _truant_. Mod. edd. conjecture _tyrant_; _recreant_; _in a true tertian_.

[3188] Love.

[3189] Mason conj. Qq. F. _you_. If you could flatter me without ruining your families by antagonizing the king.

[3190] Q₁. Other edd. _injuries_.

[3191] Mere.

[3192] Arethusa’s apartment in the palace.

[3193] A fabulous serpent that killed with a glance.

[3194] Suspicious.

[3195] Anticipate.

[3196] An apartment in the palace.

[3197] Construe, interpret.

[3198] Advance.

[3199] A gallery in the palace.

[3200] In charge of the maids of honor.

[3201] Chaste.

[3202] Note of indebtedness.

[3203] Only in Q₁.

[3204] A kind of thistle used as a medicine.

[3205] Cross-bow.

[3206] Blood letting.

[3207] Conger-eel.

[3208] _I. e._ cold.

[3209] Responsive.

[3210] Blank verses.

[3211] Stately dances.

[3212] Arethusa’s apartment in the palace.

[3213] Before Pharamond’s lodging in the court of the palace.

[3214] Finely dressed.

[3215] Closing the eyes.

[3216] Convinced.

[3217] Dressed.

[3218] Behavior.

[3219] Portentous, ominous.

[3220] The court of the palace.

[3221] Scrupulous.

[3222] Raise an armed force.

[3223] Deceived.

[3224] Arethusa’s apartment in the palace.

[3225] Plan.

[3226] Lover.

[3227] For fear of.

[3228] It was believed that scorpions, applied to the wound they made, cured it.

[3229] Actaeon.

[3230] Before the palace.

[3231] A hunting dog. Lyme = leash.

[3232] An allusion to a religious work, Thomas Bacon’s _The Sicke Man’s Salve_, 1561.

[3233] Acting as a doctor.

[3234] Almanacs gave the proper seasons for blood-letting.

[3235] Chaste.

[3236] Coat of arms. Mason explains that the reference is to the introduction of stars into a coat of arms, denoting a younger branch.

[3237] Baggage.

[3238] Spanish fly, used as a provocative.

[3239] A forest.

[3240] With a cross-bow for shooting stones.

[3241] The assay or slitting of the deer, in order to test the quality of the flesh, which involved a fee to the keeper.

[3242] The hart’s horns, which are covered with velvet pile when new.

[3243] Re-cover.

[3244] A lean doe.

[3245] Creeping stealthily.

[3246] A fast one.

[3247] Suitable.

[3248] Another part of the forest.

[3249] Formerly used to women as well as to men.

[3250] Bouts.

[3251] Cudgels.

[3252] God judge.

[3253] Broad sword.

[3254] Alive.

[3255] Another part of the forest.

[3256] Sleepiness.

[3257] Pursuers.

[3258] Pyramid.

[3259] Before the palace.

[3260] A prison.

[3261] Mason conj. Qq. F. _my ... yours_.

[3262] A state-room in the palace.

[3263] Q₁ Other edd. omit.

[3264] _I. e._ fearing for.

[3265] _I. e._ shopkeepers, who were in the habit of thus addressing passers-by.

[3266] Trifle, whim.

[3267] Eat patterns on.

[3268] Creases.

[3269] Fatten.

[3270] Geese.

[3271] A street.

[3272] Darlings.

[3273] Apprentices, who were bound by indentures, and whose usual weapons were clubs. Throughout these scenes, it is, of course, London citizens who are in view.

[3274] A cloth, made of wool, sometimes mixed with silk, with a watered surface.

[3275] Colored cloth interwoven with copper.

[3276] Embroidered cloth, originally of gold and silk.

[3277] Cringers(?) duck-hunters(?).

[3278] A pun on velour.

[3279] A pun on collars.

[3280] Another pun. Rose-nobles were gold coins.

[3281] A small vessel.

[3282] Float idly.

[3283] Be basely occupied.

[3284] Swaggering words.

[3285] A male sparrow-hawk, with a pun on the weapon.

[3286] Stewed.

[3287] Disembowel.

[3288] Instrument for cleaning a gun.

[3289] Fray out.

[3290] The caul about the hart’s paunch.

[3291] Ribbons, tape.

[3292] Have his eyelids sewed together like a hawk’s.

[3293] _I. e._ a bastard, one born after the convivialities of a church feast.

[3294] Thin silk.

[3295] A sort of kite.

[3296] Diminutive of _dons_.

[3297] In allusion to Brazenose College, Oxford.

[3298] Cittern.

[3299] Hornless animal.

[3300] A hero in _The Mirrour of Knighthood_, a romance from the Spanish. See _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_.

[3301] Roistering blades.

[3302] Steel caps.

[3303] Cask (Pharamond).

[3304] Courtiers clad in scarlet.

[3305] Perfumed hands.

[3306] Band.

[3307] Train.

[3308] An apartment in the palace.

[3309] Shall be sorry to be denied.

[3310] In some barbarous countries, it was believed that the murderer inherited the form and qualities of his victim. (Mason.)

[3311] Quick to understand.

[3312] An apartment in the palace.

[3313] So Q₂. Q₁ _above_. The choice of reading depends on whether _her_ refers to Aspatia or Evadne.

[3314] In turn.

[3315] Cf. V. iii. 42.

[3316] Under what circumstances.

[3317] Theo. emend. Qq. omit.

[3318] So Q₃. Q₁ and Q₂ _about_.

[3319] A hall in the palace, with a gallery full of spectators.

[3320] Done.

[3321] Moody.

[3322] A corruption of God’s (?)

[3323] Wenches.

[3324] Foolish.

[3325] Quarrel.

[3326] Flageolets.

[3327] Q₁ _quenching_.

[3328] _I. e._ of the court ladies.

[3329] Will.

[3330] Crushed(?) or beaten by the waves(?).

[3331] Q₁ adds here _if not her measure_, plausibly explained by Fleay as a stage-direction, _Another measure_.

[3332] So Q₁. Q₂ _A thanks to every one, and_.

[3333] Setting, the West. Qq. _Sect_, emended by Seward.

[3334] The effulgence of the court. (Thorndike.)

[3335] Ante-room to Evadne’s bed-chamber.

[3336] _I. e._ the trick. (Thorndike.)

[3337] Cause the loss of the game.

[3338] Drive at a fast pace.

[3339] Untimely.

[3340] So Dyce. Q₁ _right_. Other Qq. and F _night_.

[3341] Artful.

[3342] By turns.

[3343] Pleases.

[3344] Only in Q₁.

[3345] In Q₃ only.

[3346] So Q₁. Q₂ _wisht_.

[3347] Bullen conjectures _hand_.

[3348] Despatch.

[3349] Proclaim.

[3350] So edd. 1778. Early Qq. and F _that_.

[3351] Q₁ _left_.

[3352] Am convinced.

[3353] Secretly.

[3354] Q₁ _longing_.

[3355] An apartment in the house of Calianax.

[3356] Addressed to Theseus.

[3357] Q₁ _bravely_.

[3358] Q₁ reads _Suppose I ... now_.

[3359] Living representation.

[3360] Laughing-stock.

[3361] Ante-room to Evadne’s bed-chamber.

[3362] No more dressed.

[3363] The Qq. have no point after _more_; F₂ has a comma.

[3364] In Qq. and F this sentence is given to Evadne, her name becoming a speech-tag.

[3365] Ingenuous.

[3366] Tale-tellers.

[3367] So Sympson. Qq. and F _lives_.

[3368] Fortunate qualities.

[3369] Convinced.

[3370] A room in the palace.

[3371] Affects me deeply.

[3372] Irresistible.

[3373] Cajoled.

[3374] Cowardly.

[3375] Satisfy, make mild.

[3376] Alive.

[3377] Race, stock.

[3378] An apartment of Evadne.

[3379] Gloves manufactured at Milan.

[3380] Theobald read, _As though sh’ad_. Other edd. take _fill_ in sense of “cover with writing;” Dyce as “inflame,” which is perhaps best.

[3381] The dog-star, Sirius.

[3382] Dog-rose: also used of the canker worm, a disease attacking plants. Cf. V. i. 76.

[3383] Cowardly.

[3384] _Q very sorry._

[3385] Frighten.

[3386] A tame wolf.

[3387] Stake.

[3388] The marsh where the Hydra lived which Hercules slew.

[3389] Qq. and F _eyes_.

[3390] A hall in the palace.

[3391] Haply.

[3392] Shameless fellows. So Q₁. Q₂ ff. _Eaters_.

[3393] So Dyce. Old edd. _him_.

[3394] Family.

[3395] Astrologers.

[3396] Loyal.

[3397] Without self-control.

[3398] A room in the palace.

[3399] Most mod. edd. begin a new scene here.

[3400] Q₁ _virtue_.

[3401] A corroding disease. Cf. IV. i. 85, note.

[3402] Shooting stars.

[3403] Easily infected.

[3404] Finely dressed.

[3405] Before the Fort.

[3406] Anteroom to Amintor’s apartments.

[3407] Only in Q₁.

[3408] Untimely.

[3409] Surpass.

[3410] Wildness.

[3411] Qq. _sounds_.

[3412] Race.

[3413] _I. e._ the judgment which must be passed on them.

[3414] Called in question: endangered.

[3415] Q₃. Q₁ omits. Some copies of Q₃ read _merry_.

[3416] Garlands.

[3417] Leather (from _Cordova_ in Spain).

[3418] Entice.

[3419] Culture.

[3420] Passions.

[3421] In the neighbourhood of a village.

[3422] Veins.

[3423] Seat of the passions.

[3424] Embrace.

[3425] Weak.

[3426] More gracious.

[3427] Another part of the wood.

[3428] Beauty.

[3429] Q₁-Q₄ omit.

[3430] F₂ _pure_.

[3431] Worship.

[3432] Aim, purpose.

[3433] Cyparissus, metamorphosed into a cypress.

[3434] Sorrow.

[3435] Its.

[3436] Tithonus’. F₂ reads _Titans_.

[3437] A pasture.

[3438] Dyce emend. Qq 1-4 transpose _down_ and _loud_, F₂ _low falling ... down calling_.

[3439] Unwholesome.

[3440] The wood before Clorin’s bower.

[3441] Q₁ _high_.

[3442] Q₁ _lop_.

[3443] Water-lily.

[3444] Mad.

[3445] Buckthorn.

[3446] Septfoil.

[3447] Loosestrife.

[3448] _Orchis mascula._

[3449] Q₁ _forces_.

[3450] Amazement.

[3451] Q₁ _errant_.

[3452] Q₁-Q₃ omit.

[3453] View.

[3454] Another part of the wood.

[3455] Q₁-Q₄ _praise_.

[3456] Qq. F _he_.

[3457] Q₂ ff. _nimble_.

[3458] Another part of the wood.

[3459] High laced boots.

[3460] Part of the wood with the holy well.

[3461] Q₁ and Q₂ _reformed_.

[3462] Early edd. _Ex. Amaryllis, Perigot._

[3463] F₂ _I ’ll seek him out; and for thy Courtesie_.

[3464] Ed. conj. Early edd. _She would_.

[3465] The popular explanation of the foam secreted by the cicada.

[3466] Q₃ ff. F₂ _I loved_.

[3467] New-born.

[3468] Band.

[3469] Part of the wood.

[3470] Lose.

[3471] Lace bought at St. Audrey’s Fair at Ely.

[3472] The wood before Clorin’s bower.

[3473] Q₁-Q₄ _lower_.

[3474] F₂ _cut off_.

[3475] Abundance.

[3476] Potent.

[3477] Discomfort.

[3478] Part of the wood with the holy well.

[3479] A dale in the wood.

[3480] Dell.

[3481] Vile. F₁ _wild_.

[3482] Biscuits.

[3483] Mad.

[3484] The wood before Clorin’s bower.

[3485] A village.

[3486] The wood before Clorin’s bower.

[3487] Scent.

[3488] Withdraws.

[3489] A pasture.

[3490] Chaucer.

[3491] The wolf.

[3492] Betrothed.

[3493] Embrace.

[3494] Part of the wood.

[3495] Appearance.

[3496] The wood before Clorin’s bower.

[3497] Q₁-Q₄ _these_; F₂ _each_.

[3498] Moorman’s conj. for Qq. _cleanse thee_. F₂ reads, _This perhaps will cleanse again_.

[3499] Bleedings.

[3500] Well-earned morsels. (Moorman.)

[3501] Cloud-drift.

[3502] Q₄ F₂ _thickets_.

[3503] Speed.

[3504] A hall in the house of La Castre.

[3505] At once.

[3506] Moulted.

[3507] Incited.

[3508] Deceived.

[3509] A street before the same house.

[3510] Feeble.

[3511] With narrow buttocks.

[3512] Barbary horses.

[3513] Puppets.

[3514] Tooth-picks.

[3515] Supposed to be a provocative.

[3516] Attempt it.

[3517] Old edd. _witty_.

[3518] Countenance.

[3519] A bar of iron with fetters attached.

[3520] Room in the house of La Castre.

[3521] Desire.

[3522] Cheat.

[3523] Surpass.

[3524] Haply.

[3525] Please.

[3526] God’s body!

[3527] Foolish.

[3528] Obsequious attention.

[3529] Seek.

[3530] _I.e._ with great precision.

[3531] A garden belonging to the house of La Castre.

[3532] Estate.

[3533] Courted.

[3534] Vain-glorious.

[3535] F₂ _would fain_.

[3536] Satirist.

[3537] Against all attacks.

[3538] Alive.

[3539] Fastidious.

[3540] Formerly used to women as well as to men.

[3541] Boastful.

[3542] The expectation formed of you.

[3543] Sympson suggests _above_.

[3544] Get rid of. F₂ _lose_.

[3545] A hall in the house of Nantolet.

[3546] Slipper.

[3547] A lively dance.

[3548] Moderation.

[3549] Admirers.

[3550] Contemptuously treated.

[3551] A garden belonging to the house of Nantolet, with a summer-house in the back-ground.

[3552] Fastidious.

[3553] Reputation.

[3554] This S. D. is from Dyce.

[3555] Peeping.

[3556] Idly fingering.

[3557] Strong ale.

[3558] Partly a prayer-book.

[3559] Accuse, tax.

[3560] Where the houses of ill-repute were situated.

[3561] Dissolute fellows.

[3562] Flouted.

[3563] A public walk.

[3564] Grimaces.

[3565] Gestures, antics.

[3566] Instructions.

[3567] Private.

[3568] Secret inclination.

[3569] Entirely: a phrase from the game of hazard.

[3570] Arrogance.

[3571] Limits.

[3572] Perhaps lard, fatten.

[3573] Estates.

[3574] Ff. _conventions_.

[3575] Dogs kept chained on account of their fierceness.

[3576] Treated contemptuously.

[3577] Surpass.

[3578] Stalking-horse.

[3579] Bitter jests.

[3580] Fair one.

[3581] Old edd. _fight_.

[3582] Accomplishments.

[3583] Wanton wench.

[3584] Jovial.

[3585] Ital. “enough.”

[3586] Fool.

[3587] Swaggering lord.

[3588] Several editors read _choler_.

[3589] Browned.

[3590] Stupid dog.

[3591] Vile.

[3592] Apparently some extravagance of dress.

[3593] Ff. _they_.

[3594] Bairn.

[3595] A street before the lodging of Pinac.

[3596] Mock. So Sympson. Ff. _do_.

[3597] Scoff.

[3598] Reputation.

[3599] In term-time London was full of strangers from the country (Dyce.)

[3600] A public walk.

[3601] Cajole.

[3602] Vile.

[3603] Arrogance.

[3604] Handsome.

[3605] Gulled.

[3606] Bile, the supposed cause of anger.

[3607] Thoroughly.

[3608] Bear-keeper.

[3609] Fool.

[3610] A hall in the house of La Castre.

[3611] Hinder. Ff. _set_.

[3612] Cobbler.

[3613] Cat-like behavior.

[3614] _I. e._ black-sanctus, a burlesque hymn accompanied by discordant noises.

[3615] Cast a spell on me.

[3616] A street, before the house of La Castre.

[3617] Approves.

[3618] A public walk.

[3619] Morris-dances.

[3620] Lively dances.

[3621] Dastards.

[3622] Like the man-in-the-moon with his bundle of sticks.

[3623] Disgraced.

[3624] Slices.

[3625] Good breeding.

[3626] Bows.

[3627] Secret coat of mail.

[3628] Large fortune.

[3629] Shut.

[3630] Ready.

[3631] Lovers.

[3632] A room in the house of Nantolet.

[3633] A room in a neighboring house, with a gallery.

[3634] Glade. The space between the pinnacles is compared to the opening in a wood, where nets were spread to snare woodcocks.

[3635] A large ship of burden.

[3636] The street, before the same house.

[3637] Sluts.

[3638] A room in the same house.

[3639] Estate.

[3640] Ff. _know._

[3641] Planned.

[3642] Amalfi. The presence-chamber in the palace of the Duchess.

[3643] Prevent.

[3644] The same.

[3645] The reference is to the knightly sport of riding at the ring.

[3646] At the expense of.

[3647] Rolls of lint used to dress wounds.

[3648] Surgeons.

[3649] A small horse.

[3650] Ballasted.

[3651] A lively dance.

[3652] Throws into the shade.

[3653] At the point of.

[3654] Coaches.

[3655] Spy.

[3656] Cheats.

[3657] Likes.

[3658] Spy.

[3659] Amalfi. Gallery in the Duchess’s palace.

[3660] Lustful.

[3661] _Genesis_ XXX. 31-42.

[3662] Impulse.

[3663] The net in which he caught Venus and Mars.

[3664] Housekeepers.

[3665] Produced.

[3666] Qq. read _strange_.

[3667] Guess.

[3668] The phrase used to indicate that accounts had been examined and found correct.

[3669] Using words of present time: _i. e._ “I take,” not “I will take.”

[3670] Knot.

[3671] More firmly.

[3672] Of difficult disposition.

[3673] Amalfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.

[3674] Chief part.

[3675] Bullies (Hazlitt); lawyers (Vaughan).

[3676] Royal journey.

[3677] Turning a boat on its side for repairs.

[3678] Scabbed.

[3679] Empty.

[3680] Face-modelling. (Sampson.) “There ’s a plain statement of your practices.”

[3681] Lupus.

[3682] A disease of swine.

[3683] Blue like those of a woman with child.

[3684] Scurf.

[3685] Person of highest influence.

[3686] Hysteria.

[3687] This year.

[3688] Clearly.

[3689] Youngster.

[3690] A hall in the same palace.

[3691] Crossness.

[3692] Always.

[3693] The meaner servants.

[3694] At once.

[3695] Cast his horoscope.

[3696] The court of the same palace.

[3697] Making an astrological calculation.

[3698] Going to the root of the matter.

[3699] Write.

[3700] _I. e._ on his handkerchief.

[3701] Addressing the lantern.

[3702] _The rest not considered._

[3703] A piece of news.

[3704] Cleverly contrived.

[3705] Rome. An apartment in the palace of the Cardinal.

[3706] Religious recluse.

[3707] Experienced.

[3708] Sick.

[3709] Medicinal.

[3710] Strong broth.

[3711] Another apartment in the same palace.

[3712] The mandrake was supposed to give forth shrieks when uprooted, which drove the hearer mad.

[3713] Unchaste.

[3714] Supposed to be a sign of folly.

[3715] Throw the hammer.

[3716] Boil to shreds. (Dyce.) Qq. _to boil_.

[3717] Amalfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.

[3718] Wealth.

[3719] Lampoons.

[3720] Ploughshares.

[3721] Spying.

[3722] Deceptions.

[3723] Soothing.

[3724] The bed-chamber of the Duchess in the same.

[3725] Qq. read _slight_.

[3726] Powder of orris-root.

[3727] Wheels of craft.

[3728] Certificate that the books were found correct.

[3729] The badge of a steward.

[3730] Spies.

[3731] Lot.

[3732] For _Plutus_.

[3733] Quick steps.

[3734] Miss.

[3735] Remains.

[3736] Profession.

[3737] An apartment in the Cardinal’s palace at Rome.

[3738] A decorated horse-cloth, used only when the court is traveling.

[3739] The first quarto has in the margin: “The author disclaims this ditty to be his.”

[3740] Near Loretto.

[3741] Small birds.

[3742] His vizard.

[3743] Amalfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.

[3744] Curtain.

[3745] The wife of Brutus, who died by swallowing fire.

[3746] By artificial means.

[3747] Profession.

[3748] Spying.

[3749] Another room in the lodging of the Duchess.

[3750] Band.

[3751] Bands.

[3752] Boil.

[3753] Punning on the two senses of “dye” and “corn”.

[3754] From exporting his grain.

[3755] Optical glass.

[3756] The Geneva Bible.

[3757] Petticoat.

[3758] Coach.

[3759] A warm drink containing milk, wine, etc.

[3760] Receptacle.

[3761] A drug supposed to ooze from embalmed bodies.

[3762] Curdled.

[3763] Printed as verse in Qq.

[3764] Trial.

[3765] An exclamation of impatience.

[3766] Milan. A public place.

[3767] In escheat; here, in fee.

[3768] Disbeliever.

[3769] Fraught.

[3770] A gallery in the residence of the Cardinal and Ferdinand.

[3771] A dog which worries sheep.

[3772] A fabulous serpent that killed by its glance.

[3773] Cut a caper.

[3774] Broth.

[3775] Skeletons.

[3776] So Dyce. Qq. _brought_.

[3777] Perfumed sweetmeats for the breath.

[3778] Smoke.

[3779] A fortification.

[3780] Milan. An apartment in the residence of the Cardinal and Ferdinand.

[3781] Bandied.

[3782] Reality.

[3783] Mistake.

[3784] _I.e._ the dead body.

[3785] Another apartment in the same.

[3786] A street in a country town.

[3787] Used of any one’s estate.

[3788] Used vaguely of a legal scrape.

[3789] Excessively rented.

[3790] Chastity.

[3791] Planned.

[3792] Worth.

[3793] A disease caused by a parasite. Used as an execration.

[3794] A white wine warm and spiced.

[3795] Cheat.

[3796] Precisely the way of the world.