A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14
English drama
[97] [_i.e._, No skill in physiognomy.]
[98] [Edits., _so much_.]
[99] [Edits., _fright_.]
[100] [Edits., _I must confess, had I_.]
[101] [Edits., _Friends here, been_.]
[102] [Edits., _I wish that he might live, my lords_.]
[103] [Edits., _the_.]
[104] [Edits., _upon_.]
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FOOTNOTES: LADY ALIMONY
[105] [The author of a curious satire on the female sex, printed
in 1616. See Hazlitt, in _v._]
[106] [Ingenuously.]
[107] [Notwithstanding the explanation found in Nares and
Halliwell, it appears to me that this term is here, at least,
intended in the sense of _bully_ or _ruffian_, especially when we
compare the next speech of the Messenger.]
[108] [Literally, an inferior kind of hawk, but here used to
signify a coward, a poor creature.]
[109] [This term, borrowed from the old romance so called, is
frequently employed in the sense of an adventurer or
knight-errant.]
[110] [This word seems here to signify an infinitessimal
quantity, a cypher, a nonentity, in which sense it is apparently
unglossed.]
[111] [Figgaries.]
[112] [Query, a page who walks behind a lady in the street.
Compare Halliwell in _v._]
[113] [Sheldrake, or shieldrake.]
[114] [A play on the similarity of sound between _meddler_ and
_medlar_.]
[115] [Tobacco. Old copy, _mundungo's_.]
[116] [Old copy, _her_.]
[117] [Old copy, _him_.]
[118] [Old copy, _Ciens_.]
[119] [Old copy, _with_.]
[120] [Old copy, _century_.]
[121] [An equivoque may be intended.]
[122] [Old copy, _Apozems_. Perhaps the boy means _pozzets_.]
[123] [Old copy, _masquerellas_.]
[124] [Capricious, fanciful.]
[125] [Old copy, _breath'd_.]
[126] [Old copy, _not my sad fate t' observe_.]
[127] [Old copy, _Gothsemay_.]
[128] [Moustachoes.]
[129] [Loose, scattered.]
[130] [Sporter, if indeed it is not to be taken in an obscene
sense, as suggested by one of the interpretations in Nares.]
[131] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 301.]
[132] [Trifling.]
[133] [Of course a play on the similarity between _folio_ and
_foolio_.]
[134] [Old copy, _small to_.]
[135] [Old copy, _all that was all_.]
[136] [See Nares, arts, _lave-eared_, and _loave-ears_.]
[137] [Old copy, _hair_. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," p. 392.]
[138] [Literally, to lie on the ground, like game; but it is here
used in the sense _to lie_.]
[139] [This passage seems to corroborate the explanation already
given of this word.]
[140] [Old copy, _Nor_.]
[141] [Old copy, _that endeared_.]
[142] [Leopard.]
[143] [More usually spelt _carricks_.]
[144] [Successful.]
[145] [The two Citizens appear to retire only, while the events
occupying the two next scenes take place, after which they come
forward again.]
[146] [Attempt, enterprise.]
[147] [A not unusual form of Algiers.]
[148] [_i.e._, Is that thy cue.]
[149] [Old copy, _land prisado_. See Dyce's Middleton, iii. 532.]
[150] [Old copy, _Elose_.]
[151] [Old copy, _out a_.]
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