A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
English drama
[173] [The colophon of Vele's edition is: "Finis, quod R. Wever.
Imprinted at London in Paules churche yeard, by Abraham Vele, at the
sygne of the Lambe." Of Copland's edition, besides the Garrick copy,
there is a second, formerly Heber's, in the Devonshire collection.]
[174] "Four Old Plays," 1848, 9-12.
[175] [Mr Child printed _moull_.]
[176] A fanciful name. See Halliwell's _Dict., v. Bonegrace_.
[177] Old copy, _bysye_.
[178] Disconcerted, put out in my plans. See Halliwell, _v. aray_.
[179] Original reads _that_.
[180] Original has _swet lookes_. Compare the "Pardoner and the Friar"
(i. 281)--
"Or by Jis I'sh lug thee _by the sweet ears_,"
and a passage in the present piece--
"I have forgotten _with tousing by the hair_."
[181] Original reads _yet_.
[182] Original has _boons_. The sense appears to be that "Jack Juggler"
will, by killing Careaway, leave him to the mercy of the Virgin.
[183] i.e., Nearer.
[184] Finger-bones.
[185] i.e., On.
[186] Blow.
[187] Should do better.
[188] i.e., Noddy.
[189] Original reads, _vpo=n cai_.
[190] Original reads, _I thou hast_.
[191] Original reads, _pilorye peepours_.
[192] [A common abbreviation, leaving its substantive to be supplied at
pleasure.]
[193] [Perhaps in our modern sense of _to walk into_.]
[194] Prove.
[195] [Orig. _kyrie_.]
[196] Nearer.
[197] Original reads, _beat me_.
[198] [A term of contempt, perhaps of no very definite or clear
signification; but it does not seem to be glossed.]
[199] Original has _haue_.
[200] Thus.
[201] i.e., JACK JUGGLER.
[202] Move.
[203] [A line seems to have dropped out here.]
[204] [Original reads _have by therefore_.]
[205] [Beat his head against a post.]
[206] Verily.
[207] Spring.
[208] Calicow or Calicut, i.e., Calcutta.
[209] Shut.
[210] Original has _I_.
[211] [The colophon is: Imprinted at London in Lothbury by me Wyllyam
Copland. The only copy known, formerly Inglis's and Heber's, is now in
the Devonshire collection.
The piece is undated, but it was licensed for the press in 1562-3.]
[212] Nursled.
[213] [Pets. See Halliwell's "Dictionary," _v. Tiddle_.]
[214] [I do not find this word in any other glossaries; but it occurs
again below.]
[215] Old copy, _Kynge_.
[216] Trudging.
[217] Thirst.
[218] So in old copy, which is perhaps right. _To-to_, as an
intensitive, is a common form.
[219] Are jealous of them.
[220] Barnabas.
[221] Old copy, _Gupliade_.
[222] This word, as a verb, has occurred above. It is evidently used in
a bad sense, to signify an idle, _loafing_ person.
[223] Mistress.
[224] Old copy, _an_.
[225] Old copy, _a leaven_.
[226] Altogether.
[227] i.e., Do ye nick a cast! See Halliwell, _v. Nick_, No. 6.
[228] i.e., By God's wounds, a common phrase.
[229] Care.
[230] A term of contempt. A skinflint, a curmudgeon.
[231] Pet, spoil.
[232] Old copy, _no_.
[233] Old copy, _your_.
[234] Old copy, _you_.
[235] Old copy, _siker_, i.e., certainly, securely.
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