A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09
English drama
"Stars fall to fetch fresh light from her rich eyes,
Her bright brow drives the sun to clouds beneath,
Her hairs' reflex with red streaks paint the skies,
Sweet morn and evening dew falls from her breath."
[58] Ital. _stocco_, or long rapier.
[59] A tusk.
[60] [Some copies read _turne_.]
[61] [John Danter, the printer. Nash, it will be remembered, was called
by Harvey _Danter's man_, because some of his books came from that
press. See the next scene.]
[62] [A few corrections have been ventured upon in the French and Latin
scraps, as the speaker does not appear to have been intended to blunder.]
[63] [Old copies, _procures_.]
[64] [Old copies, _thanked_.]
[65] [Old copies, _Fly--revengings_.]
[66] [Old copy, _gale_.]
[67] [Old copy, _gracis_.]
[68] [Old copy, _filthy_.]
[69] [Old copies, _seat_.]
[70] [In the old copy the dialogue is as usual given so as to make utter
nonsense, which was apparently not intended.]
[71] [Furor Poeticus apostrophises Apollo, the Muses, &c., who are not
present.]
[72] [Old copy, _Den_.]
[73] [Alluding to the blindness of puppies.]
[74] [Man.]
[75] [Old copy, _skibbered_.]
[76] [i.e., my very mate.]
[77] [In old copy this line is given to Phantasma.]
[78] [i.e., _face_. Old copy, _race_.]
[79] [Rent or distracted. A play is intended on the double meaning of
the word.]
[80] [So in the old copy, being an abbreviation, _rhythmi causâ_, of
Philomusus.]
[81] [Old copy, _Mossy_; but in the margin is printed _Most like_, as if
it was an afterthought, and the correction had been stamped in.]
[82] [Old copy, _playing_.]
[83] _No_ omitted.
[84] [This is the old mythological tradition inverted.]
[85] The bishop's examining chaplain, so called from apposer. In a will
of James I.'s reign, the curate of a parish is to appose the children of
a charity-school. The term _poser_ is still retained in the schools at
[St Paul's,] Winchester and Eton. Two Fellows are annually deputed by
the Society of New College in Oxford and King's College in Cambridge to
appose or try the abilities of the boys who are to be sped to the
fellowships that shall become vacant in the ensuing year.
[86] [The old copy gives this to the next act and scene; but Amoretto
seems to offer the remark in immediate allusion to what has just passed.
After all, the alteration is not very vital, as, although a new act and
scene are marked, Academico and Amoretto probably remain on the stage.]
[87] Good.
[88] [Old copy, _caches_. A _rache_ is a dog that hunts by scent wild
beasts, birds, and even fishes; the female is called a _brache_.]
[89] [See Halliwell's "Dictionary," i. 115.]
[90] [He refers to Amoretto himself.]
[91] [Halliwell, in his "Dictionary," _v. rheum (s.)_, defines it to
mean _spleen, caprice_. He does not cite it as a verb. I suppose the
sense here to be _ruminating_.]
[92] Old copy, _ravished_.
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