A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14
English drama
[191] An account of Sir W. Killigrew will be found in Restituta,
ii. 130. The three first of his plays here mentioned were
published together in 8^o in 1664 or 1665, for the title-pages
bear both these dates. Pandora was "not approved upon the stage
as a tragedy," and therefore the author turned it into a comedy,
and Waller wrote some lines upon the change.--_Collier._
[192] A play called The Imperial Tragedy has also been assigned
to him upon no adequate authority.--_Collier._
[193] This play was originally represented wholly by women. See
Wright's "Historia Histrionica," 1690, _post_, and Grainger's
"Hist. Engl." iv. On this occasion a Prologue and Epilogue were
spoken by Mrs Marshall (of whom see "Memoires de Grammont," p.
202, edit. 4^o. Strawberry Hill), which are printed in "Covent
Garden Drollery," 1672, p. 3.--_Gilchrist._
[194] _i.e._, The game. _Quarry_ is a term both of hunting and
falconry. The allusion here is to the former. _Quarrie_ (as
referring to the latter), according to Latham's explanation, "is
taken for the fowle which is flowne at, and slaine at any time,
especially when young hawks are flowne thereunto."
[195] So in "Every Man in his Humour," act iii. sc. 1--
"Good captain _faces about_."
And in Fletcher's "Scornful Lady," act v.--
"Cutting Morecraft _faces about_."
And again, in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," Ralph,
exercising his men, says--
"Double your files: as you were; _faces about_."
[196] The exclamation of a highwayman on stopping a passenger, as
many examples would prove. It is only noticed now for the sake of
mentioning an ingenious turn given to it in Middleton's
"Phoenix," 1607, where one of the characters justifies robbery
by observing, "As long as drunkenness is a vice, _stand_ is a
virtue."--_Collier._
[197] [The folio reads _Paxat_.]
[198] [? By the side of.]
[199] [The Parson is describing the Captain as a recruiting
officer.]
[200] A _galley foist_ was the name of a pleasure-boat, or one
used on particular days for pomp and state. The Lord Mayor's and
Companies' barges were sometimes formerly called "The City Galley
Foists." See Wood's "South-East View of the City and part of
Southwark, as it appeared about the year 1599."
[201] [Common. See Nares, edit. 1859, in _v._] This epithet of
contempt is of frequent occurrence: _provand_, as all the
commentators on "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 1, agree, means
_provision_. In Massinger's "Maid of Honour," act i. sc. 1, we
meet with it applied to a sword, and Mr. Gifford explains it to
mean there _plain, unornamented_, such a sword as the troops were
provided with....--_Collier._
[202] A _fox_ was formerly a cant word for a sword. So in Ben
Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair," act ii. sc. 6: "What would you have,
sister, of a fellow that knows nothing but a basket-hilt and an
_old fox_ in't?" Again, in "Philaster," by Beaumont and Fletcher,
act iv.--
"I made my father's _old fox_ fly about his ears."
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