A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09
English drama
Two hundred crowns? and twenty pound a year
For three good lives? _cargo_! hai, Trincalo!"
--_Steevens_.
[404] A Fr. G. _Cigue_, utr. a Lat. Cucuta.--_Skinner_.
_Cigue_ f. Hemlocke, Homlocke, hearbe Bennet, Kex.--_Cotgrave_.
[405] _Dry-meat_ is inserted from the copy of 1611.--_Collier_.
[406] _Heir_ and _heiress_ were formerly confounded in the same way as
_prince_ was applied to both male and female. So in Cyril Tourneur's
"Atheist's Tragedy," 1612, we have--
This Castabella is a wealthy _heire_."
--_Collier_.
[407] We must here suppose that butler whispers to Ilford the place
where the lady _lies_ or _lodges_.--_Collier_.
[408] The following extracts from Stubbes's "Anatomie of Abuses," 4to,
1595, p. 57, will show the manners of the English in some particulars
which are alluded to in the course of these volumes: "Other some
(i.e., of the women of England) spend the greatest part of the day _in
sitting at the dore_, to show their braveries, and to make knowne their
beauties, to beholde the passengers by, to view the coast, to see
fashions, and to acquaint themselves with the bravest fellows; for if
not for these causes, I see no other causes why they _should sit at
their dores_, from morning till noon (as many do), from noon to night,
thus vainly spending their golden dayes in filthy idleness and sin.
Againe, other some being weary of that exercise, take occasion (about
urgent affaires you must suppose) to walke into the towne, and least
anything might be gathered, but that they goe about serious matters
indeed, they take their baskets in their hands, or under their arms,
under which pretence pretie conceits are practized, and yet may no man
say black is their eye.
"In the field's and suburbes of the cities they have gardens either
paled or walled round about very high, with their harbers and bowers fit
for the purpose. And least they might be espied in these open places,
they have their banquetting-houses with galleries, turrets, and what
not, therein sumptuously erected: wherein they may (and doubtless do)
many of them play the filthy persons. And for that their gardens are
locked, some of them have three or four keys a piece, whereof one they
keep for themselves, the other their paramours have to goe in before
them, least happily they might be perceived, for then were all the sport
dasht. Then to these gardens they repair, when they list, with a basket
and a boy, where they meeting their sweet harts, receive their wished
desires."
[409] See note to "The Parson's Wedding," iii. 3.
[410] [A woman of loose character. Such was its ordinary acceptation,
yet not its invariable one. See Lovelace's Poems, by Hazlitt, 1864, pp.
xl., xli., and 133, notes.] See note to "King Henry IV., Part II.,"
edit. 1778, v. 522.--_Steevens_.
[411] [Edits., _throw_.]
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