A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
English drama
[380] It would seem that something is wanting after this speech, unless
we are to suppose that here the Boy lies down and falls asleep, and that
he wakens on the second entrance of Hodge,--where, however, the edits.
distinctly mark "Enter Hodge _and Boy_"; see later: _Enter [severally]_
HODGE _and_ BOY.
[381] i.e., Excels.
[382] So second edit. First edit. _clowdes_.
[383] So second edit. Not in first edit.
[384] Second edit. _ye_.
[385] Qy. Is this a stage direction crept into the text?
[386] Second edit. _grope_.
[387] Second edit. _so_.
[388] [Old copies, _paint_.]
[389] So second edit. First edit. _buze_.
[390] Second edit. _lips_.
[391] So second edit. First edit. _I have had a Pumpe set up, as good_.
[392] i.e., (Perhaps) swore by our Lady of Walsingham, in Norfolk.
[393] [The name of a game, though here used as a bye-word. See "Popular
Antiquities of Gr. Britain," ii. 341.]
[394] So second edit. First edit., _Tripe-cheeke_.
[395] i.e., Had I known the consequences; a common proverbial expression
of repentance.
[396] See note [16].
[397] So second edit. First edit., _his_.
[398] [Edits., _me_.]
[399] Qy. a proverbial allusion to the famous Brazen-head?
[400] So second edit. First edit., _breath_.
[401] So second edit. Not in first edit.
[402] The hero of a popular German jest-book ("Eulenspiegel,") which was
translated into English at a very early period: see Gifford's note on
Jonson's "Works," iv. 60, and Nares' Gloss. in v.
[403] [First 4º, _silly_.]
[404] So second edit. First edit., _shew_.
[405] i.e., Bauble.
[406] Random.
[407] [i.e., Coomes and Nicholas both retire to the back of the stage.]
[408] Edits., _hap_.
[409] i.e., Ill-will.
[410] Second edit., _he a_; but _a_ is a common contraction for _he_.
[411] So second edit. First edit., _tell_,
[412] i.e., Blind-man's-buff.
[413] So second edit. Not in first edit.
[414] [Old copy, _thief_.]
[415] i.e., (I suppose) Buoys.
[416] [Old copy, _not envies fellon, not_.]
[417] [Old copies, _what_.]
[418] i.e., A dear lean and out of season.
[419] i.e., The alphabet.
[420] So second edit. First edit. _wandring_.
[421] i.e., suffer, endure. Edits. _stole_.
[422] So second edit. First edit. _Being_.
[423] Read, for the metre, _it is_.
[424] So second edit. First edit. _enforc'st_.
[425] Read, for the metre, _wife is_.
[426] So second edit. First edit. _same_.
[427] Second edit. _you_.
[428] So second edit. First edit. _weere_.
[429] [Old edits., _carerie_.]
[430] So second edit. First edit., _shrowdly_.
[431] Second edit., _me_--wrongly, as appears from what follows.
[432] Edits., _be_.
[433] i.e., Ill-will.
[434] i.e., Satisfy, convince.
[435] Edits., _mindes_.
[436] Qy., _you, mother_?
[437] Read, for the metre, _she is_.
[438] Something has dropt out here.
[439] [Edits., _A little_.]
[440] i.e., Vile.
[441] i.e., The one.
[442] [Old copies, _yond may help that come both together_.]
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