English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Haberdine
Hadiwist
Hanging Tune
Hatto, Bishop
Head ("how fell ye out all a head?")
Hell
Hell, another couple in
Hemming
Hesperides ( = the garden of the Hesperides)
Heywood, Thomas, his play of _The Captives_; lines at the end of his
_Royal King and Loyal Subject_ identical with the Address _To the
Reader_ at the end of H. Shirley's _Martyd Souldier_; the play of
_Dick of Devonshire_ tentatively assigned to him; the MS. play
_Calisto_ composed of scenes from his _Golden Age and Silver Age_
Hocas pocas
Holland's Leaguer
Horace, quoted (In the lines
"Now die your pleasures, and the dayes you pray
Your rimes and loves and jests will take away"
are imitated from Horace's _Ars Poetica_, ll. 55-6,--
"Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
Eripuere jocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum.")
Hott shotts
Hounslow Heath, Sword-blade manufactory at
Huckle bone
Huffing
Hunts up
Hypostacies
Imbrocados (thrusts over the arm in fencing)
Incontinent
Iron mills
It ( = its)
Jacke
Jiggs
Julius Caesar (puppet-show of)
Juvenal quoted
Keepe
Knight a the post
Knowes me no more then the begger knowes his dish know him as well as
the begger, &c.
Kramis time
Lacrymae
Ladies Downfall
_Lady Mother_, comedy by Glapthorne (identical with _The Noble Trial_,
entered in Stationers' Registers in 1660)
Lanch (unnecessarily altered to _lance_ in the text)
_Lancheinge of the May_, MS. play by W.M. Gent.
Lapwing
Larroones
Lather ( = ladder) (In _Women beware Women_ Middleton plays on the word:--
"_Fab_. When she was invited to an early wedding,
She'd dress her head o'ernight, sponge up herself,
And give her neck three _lathers_.
_Gaar_. Ne'er a halter.")
Laugh and lye downe
Launcepresado
Law, the spider's cobweb
Legerity
Letters of mart
Leveret
Limbo
Line of life
Linstock
Long haire, treatise against (An allusion to William Prynne's tract
_The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes_.)
_Loves Changelings Changed_, MS. play founded on Sidney's Arcadia
Low Country Leaguer
Lustique
Machlaean
Macrios
Magical weed
Makarell
Make ready
March beere
Marlins
Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_ quoted
Marriage, restrained by law at certain seasons
Martial quoted
Mary muffe
Masque (MS.) containing a long passage that is found in Chapman's
_Byron's Tragedie_
Massinger, his share in the authorship of _Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt_
Mawmets ( = puppets)
Mawmett ( = Mahomet)
Meath (A curious corruption of _Mentz_. Old printers distorted foreign
names in an extraordinary manner.)
Mechall
Mention ( = dimension)
Mew
Middleton, quotation from his _Family of Love_
Minikin ( = fiddle)
Mistris
Moe
Monthes mind
Mooncalf
More hayre than wit
Morglay
Mosch
Mother
Motion ( = suggestion, proposal)
Mouse
Much (ironical)
Mumchance
Muscadine
Muschatoes ( = moustaches)
Mushrumps ( = mushrooms)
Music played between the acts
Muskadine with an egg
_My Love can sing no other song_ (See _Appendix_)
Mynsatives
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