A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
English drama
[366] Bad. "This is a noughty night" (_Lear_).--_Halliwell_.
[367] The devil was generally attended by the Vice, but he is here
introduced by himself, and the exact meaning of his part in this plot
is somewhat a mystery.--_Halliwell_.
[368] Tricks. See "King Lear."--_Halliwell_.
[369] Company.
[370] Haste. _Lat_.
[371] Every one.
[372] Grief. "My endless dolou" (_Two Gentlemen of Verona_).--
_Halliwell_.
[373] Compare "Taming of the Shrew," i. 2.--_Halliwell_.
[374] [Catch me gone from home.]
[375] Fool.--See "Comedy of Errors, iii. 1."--_Halliwell_.
[376] The person who spoke the Epilogue (Lat).
[377] Indulgence.
[378] Clever.--See "Taming of the Shrew."--_Halliwell_.
[379] With care or sorrow.
[380] Levity.--Cf. "Taming of Shrew," iv. 2--_Halliwell_.
[381] Scarce.
[382] Worldly.
[383] Old copy, _when_.
[384] Old copy, _gain_.
[385] Old copy, _clitter_ (for _clatter_), which the compositor's eye
most have caught from the next line. _So_ is agreeable to the metre and
the sense.
[386] Old copy, _at that_.
[387] Old copy, _in laps_.
[388] Old copy, _doth_.
[389] Old copy, _kind_.
[390] Old copy, _sendeth_.
[391] Old copy, _force_.
[392] Peeping.
[393] Rival.
[394] Old copy, _wit's_.
[395] Old copy, _our_.
[396] Old copy, _Reason_.
[397] i.e., Take away from me.
[398] Old copy, _It_.
[399] Old copy, _this_.
[400] Old copy, _Amity_.
[401] Old copy, _grief_.
[402] Prize.
[403] Pretend.
[404] Old copy, _heare_.
[405] Old copy, _trade_.
[406] Bonds.
[407] A proverbial expression not found in the collections. It may
signify the hangman's cord.
[408] Old copy, _desire_.
[409] Old copy, _breeds_.
[410] Old copy, _and return_.
[411] Old copy, _by_.
[412] Old copy, _Will_.
[413] Old copy, _In_.
[414] Old copy, _This gentle news of good Will are_. The gentlewomen
referred to are _Recreation_ and _Idleness_.
[415] A line seems to have dropped out here.
[416] i.e., That business is despatched. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs,"
1869, p. 352.
[417] Old copy, _fitly_.
[418] By my faith.
[419] i.e., "It would rejoice my heart to change coats with him."
[420] Old copy, _thy--thy_; but Ignorance is to change clothes with Wit,
while the latter sleeps in the lap of Idleness.
[421] Old copy, _is my tryer_. He has indistinct misgivings that his
clothes are not all right.
[422] Old copy, _scot_.
[423] Old copy, fish-hosts.
[424] A colloquialism, of which the exact import must be matter of
guess. Old copy, _Hope haliday_. Perhaps a corruption of _upon my
haliday_.
[425] Old copy, _It is_.
[426] Old copy, _These marks_.
[427] Old copy, _will_.
[428] Old copy, _troble_.
[429] Old copy, _die_. The same appears to be, "That are not driven to
behold those wretched cares, which I _am driven_, &c."
[430] Old copy, _your_.
[431] Fellow. The word is frequently used, as we now use the word
_chap_, which is in fact the same, being an abbreviation of _chapman_.
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