A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
English drama
[319] "Smell of calumny" (Measure for Measure, ii. 4).--_Halliwell_.
[320] Often used formerly for county.--_Halliwell_.
[321] Voice.
[322] In the daytime.--_Halliwell_. [Simply _o' days_, as printed
here.]
[323] The simpleton. See 1, "Henry VI."--_Halliwell_.
[324] A common phrase, equivalent to, it were a good thing. See "Much
Ado about Nothing," ii. 3.--_Halliwell_. [Not a good thing, but _a
charity_.]
[325] "What, sweeting, all amort" (_Taming of the Shrew_).--_Halliwell_.
[326] Altogether, entirely.
[327] Rabbit. A term of endearment.
[328] My lady so fair in countenance. The expression is common in our
early romances.--_Halliwell_.
[329] If.
[330] "Twelve years since" (_Tempest_).--_Halliwell_.
[331] A provincialism.--_Halliwell_. [Rather, perhaps, a Cockneyism.]
[332] A term of contempt for a fool. See "Much Ado about Nothing,"
iii. 3.--_Halliwell_.
[333] "At a pin's fee" (_Hamlet_).--_Halliwell_.
[334] Anger. "And that which spites me more than all these wants"
(_Taming of the Shrew_).--_Halliwell_.
[335] To look sad. This term is often incorrectly explained. "Fye, how
impatience lowreth in your face" (_Com. Err_.), i.e., makes your face
look sad, opposed to the "merry look."--_Halliwell_. [_Lour_ is simply
a contracted form of _lower_.]
[336] Care.
[337] Compare "Merchant of Venice," iii. 4.--_Halliwell_.
[338] Not a term of reproach.--Compare "1 Henry VI."--_Halliwell_.
[339] Compare "Taming of the Shrew," ii. 1.--_Halliwell_.
[340] _Never_ in the original copy.--Halliwell.
[341] Compare "The Merchant of Venice," i. 3.--_Halliwell_.
[342] Drunkards.
[343] "Upstart unthrifts" (_Richard II_.)--_Halliwell_.
[344] Compare "Taming of the Shrew," i. 2: "O this woodcock, what an
ass it is!"--_Halliwell_.
[345] [Rather, perhaps, _dulsum_, i.e., sweet.]
[346] This confirms in some measure a reading in the "Taming of the
Shrew"--"Or so devote to Aristotle's Ethics."--_Halliwell_. [See Dyce's
2d edit. iii. 114, and the note.]
[347] "Begnaw with the bots" (_Taming of the Shrew_).--_Halliwell_.
[348] Owing to whom.
[349] Caraway comfits. See "2 Henry IV." and the blunders of the
commentators corrected in my "Dictionary of Archaisms," p. 231.--
_Halliwell_.
[350] Compare "Troilus and Cressida," ii. 2.--_Halliwell_.
[351] "Good wits will be jangling" (_Love's Labour's Lost_).--
_Halliwell_.
[352] A dagger. See "Hamlet," iii. 1.--_Halliwell_.
[353] Cared.
[354] [A rather common phrase. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 205.]
[355] Care.
[356] [Nearer.]
[357] Necessary, fit.
[358] Business.
[359] _Fool. "Folte, _stolidus_" (_Vocab. MS_.)--_Halliwell_.
[360] Foolish--"Our peevish opposition" (_Hamlet_).--_Halliwell_.
[361] Compare "Taming of the Shrew," iv. 2.--_Halliwell_.
[362] [A-going, bound.]
[363] A common phrase. See "Two Gentlemen of Verona," ii. 3.--
_Halliwell_.
[364] Compare the song in "Hamlet," iv. 5.--_Halliwell_.
[365] [Orig. has _flying and fiend_.]
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