instead, of _discontentment_. [357] Old copy, _must_. EPILOGUE [_Spoken by Trincalo_]. Two hundred crowns? and twenty pound a year For three good lives? Cargo[358] hai, Trincalo! My wife's extremely busy, dressing the supper For these great marriages, and I not idle, So that I cannot entertain you here, As I would elsewhere. But if you come to Totnam Some four days hence, and ask for Trincalo, At th' sign o' th' Hogshead, I'll mortgage all my lives To bid you welcome. You that love Trincalo, And mean to meet, clap hands, and make 't a bargain.[359] [358] A corruption of _corragio!_ Ital. courage! a hortatory exclamation.--_Steevens._ A cant word, meaning a good round sum of money. "Canting Dictionary," _in voce_.--_Pegge._ [359] Thus in "A Woman Kill'd with Kindness," 1607, the first scene we have, on a wager being laid-- "What, _clap ye hands_, Or is't no bargain?" --_Collier._ THE HOG HATH LOST HIS PEARL. _EDITION._ _The Hogge hath lost his Pearle. A Comedy. Divers times Publicely acted, by certaine London Prentices. By Robert Tailor. London, Printed for Richard Redmer, and are to be solde at the West-dore of Paules at the of the Starre._ 1614. 4º. INTRODUCTION. Robert Tailor, the author of this play, is entirely unknown[360]. The title-page of it says it was divers times publicly acted by certain London Prentices; and Sir Henry Wotton[361], in a letter to Sir Edmund Bacon, dated 1612-13, gives the following account of its first performance: "On Sunday last at night, and no longer, some sixteen Apprentices (of what sort you shall guess by the rest of the Story), having secretly learnt a new play without book, intituled, _The Hog hath lost His Pearl;_ took up the _White Fryers_ for their Theater: and having invited thither (as it should seem) rather their Mistresses than their Masters, who were all to enter _per buletini_ for a note of distinction from ordinary Comedians. Towards the end of the Play, the sheriffs (who by chance had heard of it) came in (as they say) and carried some six or seven of them to perform the last Act at _Bridewel;_ the rest are fled. Now it is strange to hear how sharp-witted the City is, for they will needs have Sir _John Swinerton_, the Lord Major, be meant by the _Hog_, and the late Lord Treasurer by the _Pearl_." [362] FOOTNOTES: [360] In addition to this play, Robert Tailor was author of "Sacred Hymns," 4º, 1615.--_Gilchrist._ [No. This was a different person. But the author of the present play has some complimentary lines before Taylor the Water-poet's "Whipping and Snipping of Abuses," 1614.] [361] "Reliquiæ Wottonianæ," fourth edit., 1685, p. 402. [362] [A story perhaps originating in Swinnerton's name.