Warning-peece Wax, limbes mad[e] out of Webster's _White Devil_, allusion to Welshmen proud of their gentility Wet finger What make you here? _What thing is Love?_ Whifflers Whisht White sonne Whytinge mopp Widgeing Wildfowl ("Cut up wildfowl"--a slang expression) Wilding Windmills at Finsbury (See Stow's _Survey_, b. iii, p. 70, ed. 1720.) Wit without money Woad, patents for planting of ("_Woad_ is an herbe brought from the parts of Tolouse in France, and from Spaine, much used and very necessary in the dying of wollen cloath."--Cowell's _Interpreter_.) _Woman Hater, the_ Wonning Woodcock ( = simpleton) Zygne ("Untill the zygne be gone below the hart") FOOTNOTES: [1] "The tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt. Herdrukt naar de Vitgrave van A.H. Bullen, met een Inleidung van R. Fruin. 'sGravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1884," 8vo., pp. xxxiii. 95. [2] I fondly hoped that vol. iii. was immaculate; but on p. 21, last line, I find that _spring_ has been misprinted _soring_. On p. 290, l. 3, _sewe_ is a misprint for _serve_. [3] It is curious that the next entry refers to a piece by Chettle called "The Orphanes Tragedy," a title which at once reminds us of the second plot of Yarington's play. [4] The actor who took the part of _Truth_ is to be in readiness to enter: he comes forward presently. In plays printed from play-house copies, stage-directions are frequently given in advance. [5] _Timeless_ in the sense of _untimely_ occurs in Marlowe, &c. [6] Old ed. "attended." [7] The old form of _guests_. [8] The word _fairing_ (i.e. a present brought home from a fair) is explained by the fact that Beech was murdered on Bartholomew eve ("Tis Friday night besides and Bartholomew eve"). Bartholomew Fair was held the next day. [9] A famous tavern in Thames Street. [10] Proposal. [11] Nares supposed that the expression _fear no colours_ was "probably at first a military expression, to fear no enemy. So Shakespeare derives it [_Twelfth Night_, i. 5], and, though the passage is comic, it is likely to be right." [12] "Here on" = hear one. [13] i.e. what are you doing here so late? [14] Old ed. "gentleman." [15] Old ed. "ends." [16] Mr. Rendle in his interesting account of the _Bankside and the Globe Playhouse_ (appended to Pt. II. of Mr. Furnivall's edition of Harrison's _England_) says:--"As to the features of the locality we may note that it was intersected in all directions with streams, not shown in the map of the manor, except _Utburne_, the _Outbourne_ possibly; and that bridges abounded." [17] Use. [18] The music between the acts. [19] Pert youth. [20] i.e. thread of life. (An expression borrowed from palmistry: _line of life_ was the name for one of the lines in the hand.) [21] Rashers. [22] See note [105] in Vol. III. [23] Old ed. "safely." [24] Bushes. In I _Henry IV_., 5, i., we have the adjective _busky_. Spenser uses the subst. _busket_ (Fr. _bosquet_).