English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Nephewes
Nero, his poems
Newmarket
Nifle
Night rail
Ninivie, motion of
Noddy
Old
Orphant
Outcryes
Outface with a card of ten
Overseene
Owe
Pantables ( = slippers)
Paris Garden ditch
Pavine
Pedlars' French
Peele's _Hunting of Cupid_
Peeterman
Persius quoted
Pharo, by the life of (This oath occurs in _first_ edition, 1601, of
_Every Man in his Humour_: in the revised edition it was altered to
"by the _foot_ of Pharaoh.")
Picardo
Pick-hatch
Pilchers
Pimblico
Pinks
Pioner
Plancher
Planet ("Some Planet striketh him")
Plashd
Platform
Plautus' _Rudens_, plot of Heywood's play _The Captives_ drawn from:
quotations from
Pomander
Poore Jhon
_Poore Man's Comfort_ (play by Robert Daborne), MS. copy of
Portage (Undoubtedly we should read _partage_.)
Pot-gun
Pricke-song
Prick and prayse ( = praise of excellence)
Princkocke
Proclamation that the gentry should reside at their mansions in the
country
Proculus
Prologue spoken by a woman
Protest, affected use of the word (See Dyce's _Shakespeare Glossary_.)
Puckfist
Puerelis
Puisne
Puisnes of the Inne
Pumpion
Pun[to] reversos ( = back-handed strokes in fencing)
Push
Putt a girdle round about the world
Puttock
Quale
Rabbit-suckers
Rabby Roses (The reference is, probably, to the Arabian physician
Rhazes.)
Racke
Rape, punishment for
Rascal
Rats rhymed to death
Refuse me
Regalias
Rest ("our rest we set")
Rest for every slave to pull at
Reverent ( = reverend)
_Richard II_., MS. play
Ride the wild mare (a rustic sport)
Rincht ( = rinsed)
Road
Roaring boys ( = roisterers)
Rochet
Rope-ripes
Rosemary
Rotten hares
Rudelesse vaile
Russeting
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