A Select Collection of Old English Plays: Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays: Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744
English drama
[166] [Old copy, _Exit_, but all three leave the stage.]
[167] [The ordinary proverb runs, “Who _sups_,” &c.]
[168] [A sleepy-head or a stupid.]
[169] [For the future.]
[170] This allusion to the _sweat_, a word anciently
used as synonymous with the _plague_, seems to fix the
date, when “Appius and Virginia” was written, in 1563:
according to Camden’s Annals, there was then “a raging
plague in London.”
[171] [Old copy, _Bayberry_.]
[172] [Strown.]
[173] [Knowledge, perception.]
[174] [If the case be that.]
[175] [Old copy, _coy strange_.]
[176] [Old copy, _he_.]
[177] [Old copy, _wages_.]
[178] [_i.e._, Commune.]
[179] No matter.
[180] [Old copy, _of_.]
[181] [Old copy, _gwerdon_.]
[182] [It at first appeared as if _gransier_, the
reading of the old copy, was an error or corruption for
_gain, sir_, but possibly the word is used in the sense
of _great_.]
[183] [The nearer.]
[184] [Old copy, _as if to her it were to me_.]
[185] [To be pronounced as a trisyllable here.]
[186] [Old copy, _Graunted ... With dewes and
bewteous_. It is conceivable that _beauteous_ may be
misprinted for _beauty’s use_, and the meaning of the
passage may then be, that Virginia had forgotten him
(Appius), or, in the words of the writer, “That drowsy
Morpheus has granted his slumb’ry kingdom _to beauty’s
use_?”]
[187] [Old copy, _imbace_.]
[188] Mansipulus, Mansipula, and Subservus enter, but
their names are omitted.
[189] [Old copy, _venterous_.]
[190] [Old copy, _maude_.]
[191] [Serious.]
[192] [Stutterer.]
[193] [Query, _guide_, _carter_.]
[194] [_Scarce_.]
[195] [Old copy, _things_.]
[196] [Old copy, _wights_.]
[197] [See Halliwell in _v. Hale._]
[198] [The dangers of Charybdis.]
[199] [Old copy, _was_.]
[200] [Old copy, _Adrice_.]
[201] [Old copy, _Laceface_.]
[202] [Old copy, _that_.]
[203] [Old copy, _leach_.]
[204] [Thus.]
[205] [Old copy, _faul ... rate_.]
[206] [Old copy, _did_.]
[207] [Old copy, _lay_.]
[208] [Intriguing, insinuating.]
[209] [Vexed or troubled hairs. Old copy, _the graued yeares_.]
[210] [Boon.]
[211] Opposing, preventing.
[212] [Old copy, _giltes_.]
[213] [Old copy, _thou joy, My meanes_.]
[214] [Old copy, _or_.]
[215] [Old copy, _end_.]
[216] [Old copy, _consent_. _Concent_ here must be
understood to signify _following_ or _adherents_.]
[217] [Old copy, _In end_.]
[218] [Old copy, _lym_.]
[219] [Old copy, _flasky_. Perhaps even _flashy_ may
not be the true word. See Nares, 1859, in _v._ Could
the author have written _dusky_?]
[220] [Old copy, _shal slaughter_.]
[221] [_Seville_. So for the sake of the _jeu de mot_.]
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