English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Cage (prison)
Cales
_Calisto_, MS. play composed of scenes from Heywood's _Golden Age and
Silver Age_
Canaries
Cap-case
Carack
Carbonado
Cardeq
Cardicue
Caroach
Carrackes
Carry coals
Case
Cast-of Merlins
Castrell
Catamountaine
Cater-trey
Caull
Cautelous
Censure
Champion
Chapman, George
Choake-peare
Chrisome
Cinque pace
Citie of new Ninivie
Clapdish
Closse contryvances
Coate
Cockerell
Coll
Comparisons are odorous
Consort
Convertite
Cooling carde
Coranta
Cornutus
Covent
Crak't
Crase
Cricket
Cupboard of plate ( = movable side-board)
Cut-beaten-sattyn (Cf. Marlowe's _Faustus_--"_beaten_ silk.")
Cutt-boy
Daborne, Robert
Dametas
Day, John
Dead paies
Debosht ( = debauched)
Deneere
Depart
Detest
Devide
Dewse ace
Diamonds softened by goat's blood
Dicker
Diet-bread
Diety (For the spelling cf. Rowley's _All's Lost by Lust_, 1633,
sig. C. 4:
"Can lust be cal'd love? then let man seeke hell,
For there that fiery _diety_ doth dwell."
Again in the same play, sig. D. 2, we have--
"Descend thy spheare, thou burning _Diety_."
John Stephens in his _Character of a Page_ [_Essayes and Characters_,
1615] speaks of "Cupid's _diety_.")
Dion Cassius, quoted
Diophoratick
Disgestion
Disguest
Division
Doggshead
Door ("Keep the door" = act as a pander)
Doorkeeper
Dorsers
Dowland, John
Draw drie foote
Ducke
Duns the mouse
Dydoppers (dabchicks)
Eare picker ( = barber)
_Edmond Ironside_, MS. chronicle-play
Empresas
Eringoes
Estridge
Exclaimes
Family of Love
Fang
_Fatal Maryage_, MS. play
Father-in-law
Feare no colours
Feeres
Felt locks
Feltham's _Resolves_
Fend ( = make shift with)
Fins (a very doubtful correction for _sins_)
Fisguigge
Flat cap
Flea ( = flay)
Fletcher, John, MS. copy of his _Elder Brother_; his share in the
authorship of _Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt_
Flewd
Fly boat (see _Addenda_ to vol. i.)
Fool (play on the words _fool_ and _fowl_)
Fooles paradysse
_For I did but kisse her_ (See _Appendix_)
_Fortune my foe_
Fox
Foxd
Free
Fry(?)
Futra
Galleyfoist
German fencer
Getes
Ghosts crying _Vindicta_
Gibb ("A male-cat, now generally applied to one that has been
castrated."--_Halliwell_.)
Giglot
Ginges
Glapthorne, quoted; the play of _The Lady Mother_ identical with
Glapthorne's _Noble Trial_
Glass, patent for making
Gleeke
Gods dynes
Goll
Gondarino
Gossips
Grandoes
Groaning cake
Guarded ( = trimmed)
Gumd taffety that will not fret (See Nares' _Glossary, s_.,
gumm'd velvet.)
Gundelet
Gyges
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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