A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

English drama

Two Interludes: Jack Juggler and Thersites. Edited by Joseph
Haslewood, 4to, 1820.

At Lee Priory, the seat of Sir Egerton Brydges. Sir Egerton Brydges
subsequently decided on selling the entire collection, though entailed,
and it was disposed of by Mr. Sotheby, April 12, 1826. In the auction
catalogue it is described as "a small but high interesting collection of
the Rarest Old Plays in the English Drama." There were, in fact, only 142
lots, of which Jack Juggler and Thersites were 141 and 142, and "The
Taming of a Shrew," 1594, No. 109. Mr. Inglis seems to have been the
purchaser of all three.

"Four Old Plays," 1848, xv.

Shoulder.

Dastards.

Run.

_Ilva_ in orig.

A sort of helmet.

Original has _bere_, _i.e_., bear.

See Way's edit, of the "Promptorium" _v_. Crykke.

Sheep.

A corrupt form of the name of an old romance, printed by Ritson, and
in the original French by Hippeau.

Hedges.

Short.

A curious phrase, not met with elsewhere.

_i.e., Apart_ or separate.

Readiness.

Thirteen.

This appears to be an allusion to a song beginning with these words.

Sung.

Spend. For the mere sake of the rhyme.

Rend.

The error or transposition is perhaps intentional.

An error, perhaps equally designed. It was Diomedes, to whom the
mythology ascribed this practice.

Original has _thus_.

Boast.

This incident was improved upon in the modern nursery-rhyme of the
four-and-twenty tailors and the snail.

Original has _the_, perhaps we should read _thou_.

Have been lost.

Hindereth, troubleth.

Fair, impartial

Meaning.

See "Promptorium," edit. Way, v. Gromaly, and Halliwell's "Dict." v.
Gromyl.

This and some of the other names appear to be fanciful. _Forsan_,
however, Compton.

For _these_, and so a few lines below.

Jawbone.

Bittern.

Baker.

Shovel. See Halliwell's "Dict." v. Peel, No. 6.

Ham.

Ahasuerus.

Thropton.

Dimsdale, which name is borne by two places, one in
Durham, the other in Yorkshire.

Original has hartelye.

Knees.

Jane Seymour and Prince Edward, afterwards Edward VI. This fixes the
date of the play, though not necessarily of its publication, at least
approximately.

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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

English drama

Two Interludes: Jack Juggler and Thersites. Edited by Joseph
Haslewood, 4to, 1820.

At Lee Priory, the seat of Sir Egerton Brydges. Sir Egerton Brydges
subsequently decided on selling the entire collection, though entailed,
and it was disposed of by Mr. Sotheby, April 12, 1826. In the auction
catalogue it is described as "a small but high interesting collection of
the Rarest Old Plays in the English Drama." There were, in fact, only 142
lots, of which Jack Juggler and Thersites were 141 and 142, and "The
Taming of a Shrew," 1594, No. 109. Mr. Inglis seems to have been the
purchaser of all three.

"Four Old Plays," 1848, xv.

Shoulder.

Dastards.

Run.

_Ilva_ in orig.

A sort of helmet.

Original has _bere_, _i.e_., bear.

See Way's edit, of the "Promptorium" _v_. Crykke.

Sheep.

A corrupt form of the name of an old romance, printed by Ritson, and
in the original French by Hippeau.

Hedges.

Short.

A curious phrase, not met with elsewhere.

_i.e., Apart_ or separate.

Readiness.

Thirteen.

This appears to be an allusion to a song beginning with these words.

Sung.

Spend. For the mere sake of the rhyme.

Rend.

The error or transposition is perhaps intentional.

An error, perhaps equally designed. It was Diomedes, to whom the
mythology ascribed this practice.

Original has _thus_.

Boast.

This incident was improved upon in the modern nursery-rhyme of the
four-and-twenty tailors and the snail.

Original has _the_, perhaps we should read _thou_.

Have been lost.

Hindereth, troubleth.

Fair, impartial

Meaning.

See "Promptorium," edit. Way, v. Gromaly, and Halliwell's "Dict." v.
Gromyl.

This and some of the other names appear to be fanciful. _Forsan_,
however, Compton.

For _these_, and so a few lines below.

Jawbone.

Bittern.

Baker.

Shovel. See Halliwell's "Dict." v. Peel, No. 6.

Ham.

Ahasuerus.

Thropton.

Dimsdale, which name is borne by two places, one in
Durham, the other in Yorkshire.

Original has hartelye.

Knees.

Jane Seymour and Prince Edward, afterwards Edward VI. This fixes the
date of the play, though not necessarily of its publication, at least
approximately.

END OF VOL. I.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 01

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