A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11
English drama
CRI. I mean your plate
And treasure. Pray you, sir, is't not great happiness
To reobtain three thousand pounds in value,
Desperately lost? and you still doat and dream
Of Flavia who, by your own consent
And oath, is promised to your son Eugenio.
PAN. Forward.
CRI. Within this chest Antonio found your plate,
Gold jewels, cloth of silver, nothing perish'd,
But all safe lock'd, till you acknowledge it.
And since Albumazar of his own accord
Freely confess'd, and safe restor'd your treasure;
Since 'tis a day of jubilee and marriage,
Antonio would entreat you to release
And pardon the astrologer: thanking your fortune,
That hath restor'd you to your wealth and self.
Both which were lost i' th' foolish love of Flavia.
PAN. Reason hath clear'd my sight, and drawn the veil,
Of dotage, that so dark'd my understanding.
I clearly see the slavery of affections;
And how unsuitable my declining years
Are for the dawning youth of Flavia.
Let the best joys of Hymen compass her
And her young husband (my Eugenio),
With full content. And since Albumazar
By accident caus'd all this happiness,
I freely pardon him and his companions;
And haste to assist the marriages and feasts.
CRI. Why, now you show yourself a worthy gentleman.
[_Exit_ PANDOLFO.
SCENE XI.
TRINCALO, CRICCA.
TRI. Cricca, I overheard your news: all parts are pleas'd
Except myself. Is there no news for Trincalo?
CRI. Know'st it not? in and see: Antonio
Hath given thee Armellina with a portion--
Two hundred crowns; and old Pandolfo bound
By oath t' assure thee twenty pounds a year
For three lives.
TRIN. Ha!
CRI. Come in.
TRIN. I'll follow.
FOOTNOTES:
[346] The salt-cellar which used to be set on tables was generally
large. Sometimes, however, a smaller sort would be used, and then
several were employed, which were set nearer the trenchers, and
therefore called _trencher-salts_, as here.--_Pegge._
[347] [Compare p. 302.]
[348] A term of falconry. Latham says, "It is taken for the fowle
which is flowne at and slaine at any time."
[349] This is a term of the chase. Gascoigne, in his book of hunting,
1575, p. 242, enumerates it among "other generall termes of the hart
and his properties. When he (the hart) is foamy at the mouth, we saye
that _he is embost_." So in "The Shoemakers' Holiday; or, The Gentle
Craft," 1610, sig. C 3--
"Besides, the miller's boy told me even now,
He saw him take soile, and he hallowed him,
Affirming him so _embost_,
That long he could not hold."
See also Mr Steevens's note to "All's Well that Ends Well," act iii.
sc. 6.
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