A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05
English drama
[51] Called King of Portugal or Portingal in the "First Part of
Jeronimo." The scene here changes to Portugal.--_Collier._
[52] _This_, 1618, '23, '33.
[53] _It_, 1618.
[54] _Adjudged_, 1618, '23, '33.
[55] _I am_, 1633.
[56] _Nihil_, 1633.
[57] _These_, 1623, '33.
[58] _Put his_, ditto.
[59] _But where?_ 1618, '23, '33.
[60] _Will fly_, 1618, '23, '33.
[61] _The_, 1618, '23, '33.
[62] _Hast_, 1623, '33.
[63] _Thoughts_, 1618, '28, '33.
[64] _Now Ile_, ditto.
[65] _Deare_, ditto.
[66] _Chiefest_, 1623, '33.
[67] _Ile not refuse this doleful heavy_, 1618, '23, '33.
[68] _To_, ditto.
[69] _A_ omitted, 1618, '23.
[70] _i.e._, Threw him on the ground with force, as in the "Second Part
of Antonio and Mellida," iv. 3--
"Distraught and raving, from a turret's top,
He threw his body in the swolne sea,
And as he headlong topsie-turvie _ding'd_ downe,
He still cry'd Mellida."
Again, in Nash's "Lenten Stuffe," 1599: "For besides the loud
bellowing ... which hath _dung me in a manner down_," &c. And in
Marston's "Satires"--
"Is ding'd to hell, and vulture eats his heart."
[71] _So_, omitted, 1618, '23, '33.
[72] Carrying or bearing. So in Churchyard's "Challenge," 1593, p. 116--
"What cunning heads and hands can catch in hold,
That covetous mindes doth seek to weld alone."
[73] _Sorrowes_, 1618, '23, '33.
[74] _This scarf pluckt off from_, ditto.
[75] _Thou_, omitted, 1618, '23, '33.
[76] _Of_, 1618, '23, 33.
[77] _At_, ditto.
[78] [_Live_, Allde's edition.]
[79] So in "Wily Beguil'd," 1606--
"By Jesus, I cannot play the dissembler,
And wooe my love with courtly _ambages_."
[80] _Devis'd_,1618, '23, '33.
[81] That is, act from caprice. So in Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of
his Humour," induction: "When you come to plays, _be humorous_, look
with a good starch'd face, and ruffle your brow like a new boot; laugh
at nothing but your own jests, or else as the noblemen laugh." Again,
in Decker's "Satiromastix," 1602--
"All our understanding faculties
Sit there in their high court of parliament,
Enacting laws to sway this _humorous_ world,
This little isle of man."
And in the "Second Part of King Henry IV.," iv. 4, we have--
"Being incens'd, he's flint,
As _humorous_ as winter" ----
See also Mr Steevens's note on the last passage.
[82] _Delightsome_, 1618, '12, '33.
[83] _Revellinge_, ditto.
[84] _Lord_, ditto.
[85] To _jest_ is to play a part in a masque. See Dr Farmer's note on
"King Richard II.," i. 3--
"As gentle and as jocund as to jest
Go I to fight."
[86] _Five and_, omitted, 1623, '33.
[87] _We_, 1618, '23, '33.
ACT II.
_Enter_ LORENZO _and_ BALTHAZAR.
LORENZO.
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