A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01
English drama
363. _Pardoner_. "Pardoners were certaine fellowes that caried about the
Pope's Indulgences, and sold them to such as would buy them; against whom
Luther, by Sleydans report, incensed the people of Germany in his time,
exhorting them _ne merces tam viles tanti emerent_" (Cowell's
"Interpreter," 1607, Sign. A A A 2).
364. _You_, edit. 1569.
365. _Yet welcome_, 1st edit.
366. _For_, 1st edit.
367. _Paynes_, 2d edit.
368. _Ere_, edit. 1569.
369. _My_, edit. 1569.
370. _You_, edit. 1569.
371. _Nother_, 1st edit.
372 _Running_, 1st edit.--_Dodsley_. This is a mistake, the first edition
reading _ronnying_, which is the old spelling of _running_. Another error
was committed in printing it hitherto "running to Rome," the correct
reading being "ronnying at Rome."--_Collier_.
373. _Scofte_, 1st. edit.
374. _Kepe_, 1st edit.
375. _This_, edit 1569.
376. _You come late_, 1st edit.
377. _Sonyng_, 1st edit.
378. _Ye_, 1st edit.
379. _Ye_, 1st edit.
380. _Ye_, 1st edit.
381. _Hath_, 1st edit.
382. _Ye_, 1st edit.
383. _Be_, 1st edit.
384. _Cheap_, as Dr Johnson observes, is _market, and good cheap_
therefore is _bon marchè_. The expression is very frequent in ancient
writers, as in Churchyard's "Worthiness of Wales," Evans's edition, 1776,
p. 3--
"Victuals _good cheap_ in most part of Wales."
Lyly's "Euphues," 1579, p. 8, "Seeing thou wilt not buy counsel at the
first hande _good cheape_, thou shalt buye repentaunce at second-hande at
such an vnreasonable rate that thou wilt cursse thy hard penyworth, and
ban thy harde heart." Decker's "Lanthorne and Candlelight," H 4, "He
buyes other men's cunning _good cheap_ in London, and sels it deare in
the countrey." See other instances in Mr Steevens's note on "First Part
of King Henry IV.," A. 3, S. 3.
385. _Leste_, 1st edit.; _least_, edit. 1569. And as _least_ is probably
the reading the author intended, and is supported by both the old copies,
it is restored; the Pardoner means in the _smallest_ quarter of the
Palmer's voyage.--_Collier_.
386. _As, 1st edit.
387. _Bryngeth_, 1st edit.
388. _Dyd_, 1st edit.
389. _We will_, edit. 1569.
390. _Or_, 1st edit.
391. Hinderance.
392. _They rob_, edit. 1569.
393. _Hostely_, 1st edit.
394. Master, achieve.
395. _To be woe_ is often used by old writers to signify _to be sorry_.
So Shakspeare's "Tempest," A. 5, S. 1--
"_I am woe for't, Sir."
Chaucer's "Court of Love"--
"_I wolde be wo_,
That I presume to her is writin so."
See Mr Steevens's note on Shakspeare, vol. 1, p. 106.
396. _That_, edit. 1569.
397 _From state of grace_, 1st edit.
398. _Then_. Mr Dodsley read _and_.
399. _You_, edit. 1569.
400. _Every tryfull_, 1st edit.
401. _Chefe_, 1st edit.
402. _Thinks_, edit. 1569.
403. _There_, edit. 1569.
404. _Where_, 1st edit.
405. _Unknotted_, edit. 1569.
406. _Lace_, 1st edit. Lasses = _leshes_, or _laces_.
407. _Needles, thread, thimbles, and such other knacks_, edit. 1569.
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