A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
English drama
"Dost thou already single me? I thought
_Gyves_ and the mill had tam'd thee."
See Dr Newton's note on the last passage; and Mr Steevens's note on
"First Part of Henry IV.," act iv. sc. 3.
[78] _Amate_ is to daunt or confound. Skinner, in his "Etymologicon,"
explains it thus: "Perterrefacere, Attonitum reddere, Obstupefacere,
mente consternare, Consilii inopem reddere." So in "Thule or Vertue's
Historic," by Francis Rous, 1598, sig. B--
"At last with violence and open force.
They brake the posternes of the Castle gate,
And entred spoyling all without remorce,
Nor could old Sobrin now resist his fate,
But stiffe with feare ev'n like a senceles corse
Whom grisly terror doth so much _amate_,
He lyes supine upon his fatall bed.
Expecting ev'ry minute to be dead."
Again, Ibid., sig. D--
"He would forsake his choyse, and change his fate,
And leave her quite, and so procure her woe,
Faines that a sudden grief doth her _amate_,
Wounded with piercing sicknes' Ebon bow."
[79] Astonished. So in "Euphues and his England," p. 102--"Philautus,
_astonied_ at this speech," &c. And again, in the "Fable of Jeronimi,"
by G. Gascoigne, p. 209: "When Ferdinando (somewhat _astonied_ with hir
strange speech) thus answered." And in "Thieves Falling Out," &c., 1615,
by Rob. Greene: "The gentleman, _astonied_ at this strange metamorphosis
of his mistress."
[80] _Sprent_ is sprinkled. So in Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar,"
December--
"My head _besprent_ with hoary frost I find."
And Fairfax's "Tasso," cant. xii. st. 101--
"His silver locks with dust he foul _besprent_."
Again in Milton's "Comus," l. 542--
"Of knot grass dew _besprent_."
[81] Harbour.
[82] Old copy, _hasteth_.
[83] Habiliments, _S.P_.
[84] Unrevenged. [The more correct form would be _unwroken_.] So in Ben
Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour," act ii. sc. 4--
"Would to heaven,
In _wreak_ of my misfortunes, I were turn'd
To some fair water nymph."
In "Sejanus his Fall," act iv.--
"Made to speak
What they will have to fit their tyrannous _wreak_."
In Massinger's "Fatal Dowry," act iv. sc. 4--
"But there's a heaven above, from whose just _wreak_
No mists of policy can hide offenders."
In his "Very Woman," act i.
"And our just _wreak_, by force or cunning practice
With scorn prevented."
See also Mr Steevens's note on "Coriolanus," act iv. sc. 5. "Moriamur
_in ultae_?"--Virgil's "Aeneid," lib. iv.--_Steevens_.
[85] Sorrow. Again, act v. sc. 3--
"His death, her woe, and her avenging _teen_."
And in Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis"--
"More I could tell, but more I dare not say,
The text is old, the orator too green.
Therefore in sadness now I will away,
My face is full of shame, my heart of _teen_."
[86] Old copy, _but hell_.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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