A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10
English drama
[511] The copies of 1626 and 1631 read this line--_for you I tired
them, for you I brought them up;_ but the pronoun _I_ is redundant both
for sense and measure.
[512] [Old copies, _God-ye_.]
[513] [Inventions.]
[514] [Old copies, _Fraunce_.]
[515] All the copies read _sell_ for _feel_; but it was an easy
misprint.
[516] To be even with them.
[517] The old copies read, _Whom should I meet but my master and M.
Pisaro_.
[518] She addresses herself to her absent outlandish love, who is to
pretend to be English.
[519] This proverb occurs twice in Shakespeare, in "Much Ado about
Nothing," and in "The Taming of the Shrew," and Malone and Steevens
laboured in vain to discover its applicability. It is also to be met
with in H. Chettle's "Patient Grissel," 1603, where Farnese observes
to Julia, "Then I perceive you mean to _lead apes in hell_," and she
replies, "That spiteful proverb was proclaimed against them that
are married upon earth, for to be married is to live in a kind of
hell.... Your wife is your ape, and that heavy burden wedlock, your
jack-an-ape's clog: therefore I'll not be tied to't." This does not
throw any new light upon the matter, nor explain why old maids are
destined in the infernal regions to this duty. If old bachelors
were supposed to be transformed there into apes, it would be very
intelligible.
[520] The stage direction in the old copy is only _Exeunt_; but Anthony
remains.
[521] The re-entrance of the Sisters is not marked in the oldest
edition.
[522] [Old copies, _not_.]
ACT IV., SCENE I.
_Enter_ VANDAL _and_ FRISCO.
VAN. Where be you, Master Frisco.
FRIS. Here, sir, here, sir. Now if I could cozen him. [_Aside._
Take heed, sir, here's a post.
VAN. Ic be so groterly hot, dat ic swet. O, when sal we come
dere.
FRIS. Be you so hot, sir? let me carry your cloak; I assure you
it will ease you much.
VAN. Dere, here, dere, 'tis so dark I can neit see.
FRIS. Ay, so, so. Now you may travel in your hose and doublet.
Now look I as like the Dutchman as if I were spit out of his
mouth.[523] I'll straight home, and speak groot and brood, and
toot and gibberish; and in the dark I'll have a fling at the
wenches. Well, I say no more. Farewell, Master Mendal, I must
go seek my fortune. [_Exit_ FRISCO.
VAN. Mester Frisco, Mester Frisco! what sal you no speak I make
you de fool? Why, Mester Frisco! O de skellum, he be ga met de
cloak! me sal seg his mester. Ha! Mester Frisco, waer seed-e
Mester Frisco? [_Exit_ VANDAL.
_Enter_ HARVEY, HEIGHAM, _and_ WALGRAVE.
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