A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

English drama

The words "Enprynted" and "Signe," have been partly torn away, with the
corner of the leaf. See the poem printed from a MS. in Hazlitt's "Popular
Poetry," i. 68-78, and compare "Towneley Mysteries," p. 311.

This interlude has now been again collated with the Dublin copy, and
a certain number of inaccuracies removed.

Bonerly or bonairely, i.q., _debonaire_.

See Halliwell's Dictionary, in v. This word is very common, yet its
precise meaning rather obscure. It is used where its import is equivalent
to _folks_.

_Storlde_ in old copy.

See Halliwell in v.

Distribute.

Seat, throne.

Move.

Kept, supported.

Divide in two.

Vague, loose.

Young.

By an error of the press this word is printed "wyghtly" in the
original.

In a row.

Make mouths.

Tell a falsehood.

See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 305.

Air or bar.

List.

To take hire.

Hence it is evident that the audience was to suppose seven years to
elapse during the speaking of this soliloquy. The progress of time is
elsewhere sufficiently marked.

Fellow; here, of course, a mate or mistress.

Promised, pret. of _Behete_.

Mightily.

Hold thee ready; be forward.

Watch.

Wait on.

Where.

Placed.

Done.

Time, occasion.

i.e., St. Thomas a. Becket, at Canterbury.

Original reads _right of_.

_Hende_, Sax.: civil, courteous.

_Do_ in the original.

Original has _ladies brightest_.

Countenance, more literally, colour, complexion; the more correct
orthography seems to _blea_--yellow. Some have _rudde_ in the same
sense.

Samoa.

Original has _Ynde the loys_.

_Tene_, Sax,: grieve.

See Nares, edit. 1859, p. 111.

Man.

Mated, matched.

Made lame.

Dream or muse under the branch of a tree.

For _necessary_.

This term used to be applied indifferently to both sexes.

Taken.

Belongeth.

i.e., _Lout_, or bow.

See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," i. 264, et seq.

Straw.

Lend, lean.

_King_ seems a misprint here; perhaps _kind_ or _mind_ ought to be
substituted.

Less.

If.

Fear.

Friar.

i.e., _Thrive_.

_Fonge_, Sax, take. It is here used in the sense of _depart_.

Promise.

Orig. reads _all_.

Certainly, _securely_.

Market.

i.e., _Out_ or _off_.

_Blessed_, in a bad sense.

Thrift.

Or _meinie_, alluding to the audience.

Plead.

Ministereth.

A proverbial expression of contempt.

Same.

i.e., Covenant or agreement.

Probably the earliest mention of this proverb.

Generally bankers, but perhaps here merely city-men.

A game at dice.

_Infere_, i.e., in company.

List, like.

Seek.

Original has _creature_.

i.e., Together.

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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

English drama

The words "Enprynted" and "Signe," have been partly torn away, with the
corner of the leaf. See the poem printed from a MS. in Hazlitt's "Popular
Poetry," i. 68-78, and compare "Towneley Mysteries," p. 311.

This interlude has now been again collated with the Dublin copy, and
a certain number of inaccuracies removed.

Bonerly or bonairely, i.q., _debonaire_.

See Halliwell's Dictionary, in v. This word is very common, yet its
precise meaning rather obscure. It is used where its import is equivalent
to _folks_.

_Storlde_ in old copy.

See Halliwell in v.

Distribute.

Seat, throne.

Move.

Kept, supported.

Divide in two.

Vague, loose.

Young.

By an error of the press this word is printed "wyghtly" in the
original.

In a row.

Make mouths.

Tell a falsehood.

See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 305.

Air or bar.

List.

To take hire.

Hence it is evident that the audience was to suppose seven years to
elapse during the speaking of this soliloquy. The progress of time is
elsewhere sufficiently marked.

Fellow; here, of course, a mate or mistress.

Promised, pret. of _Behete_.

Mightily.

Hold thee ready; be forward.

Watch.

Wait on.

Where.

Placed.

Done.

Time, occasion.

i.e., St. Thomas a. Becket, at Canterbury.

Original reads _right of_.

_Hende_, Sax.: civil, courteous.

_Do_ in the original.

Original has _ladies brightest_.

Countenance, more literally, colour, complexion; the more correct
orthography seems to _blea_--yellow. Some have _rudde_ in the same
sense.

Samoa.

Original has _Ynde the loys_.

_Tene_, Sax,: grieve.

See Nares, edit. 1859, p. 111.

Man.

Mated, matched.

Made lame.

Dream or muse under the branch of a tree.

For _necessary_.

This term used to be applied indifferently to both sexes.

Taken.

Belongeth.

i.e., _Lout_, or bow.

See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," i. 264, et seq.

Straw.

Lend, lean.

_King_ seems a misprint here; perhaps _kind_ or _mind_ ought to be
substituted.

Less.

If.

Fear.

Friar.

i.e., _Thrive_.

_Fonge_, Sax, take. It is here used in the sense of _depart_.

Promise.

Orig. reads _all_.

Certainly, _securely_.

Market.

i.e., _Out_ or _off_.

_Blessed_, in a bad sense.

Thrift.

Or _meinie_, alluding to the audience.

Plead.

Ministereth.

A proverbial expression of contempt.

Same.

i.e., Covenant or agreement.

Probably the earliest mention of this proverb.

Generally bankers, but perhaps here merely city-men.

A game at dice.

_Infere_, i.e., in company.

List, like.

Seek.

Original has _creature_.

i.e., Together.

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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

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