_The scheme of reference from Note-Book to text assumes_ _the division, in the mind's eye, of each page into_ _four horizontal sections; which, beginning at the top,_ _are indicated in the Note-Book by the letters a, b, c, d_ _following the page figure. In practice this will be found_ _easy, and an enormous help to the eye over the usual_ _reference to page alone in "fixing" the "catchword."_ _Thus 126a = the first quarter of page 126; 40c = the third_ _quarter of page 40; and so forth._ _Abbreviations._ _M._ _Mankind._ _N._ _Nature._ _WS._ _Wit and Science._ _R._ _Respublica._ _WH._ _Wealth and Health._ _IP._ _Impatient Poverty._ _JE._ _John the Evangelist._ [Illustration] NOTE-BOOK AND WORD-LIST TO RECENTLY RECOVERED "LOST" TUDOR PLAYS WITH SOME OTHERS, VIZ.: _Mankind--Nature--Wit and Science--Respublica--Wealth_ _and Health--Impatient Poverty--John_ _the Evangelist_ A, (_a_) (_passim_), of varying usages: _e.g._ (1) I: "to God _a_ vow"; (2) "_a_ be" (R213,_d_)--"He tumbleth whom _a_ lust" (R212,_c_) = he; (3) = one; (4) "a potful _a_ worts" (M13,_c_) = of; (5) = on; (6) = have; (7) sometimes used to lengthen a line, to accent a syllable, or to make a rhyme-ending: also merely pleonastic. For examples see other volumes of this series. (_b_) "azee" (R257,_b_)--"A, zee!" (R267,_a_), look! see! ABAND, "if thou _aband_ thee" (N48,_c_), forsake, abandon. "And Vortiger enforst the Kingdome to _aband_."--Spenser, _Fairy Queen_ (1590), ii. v. 63. ABLE, "zo chwas _able_" (R229,_b_), fit, proper, "fettled": in original _hable_--cf. _habile_. "Noye, to me thou arte full _able_, And to my sacrifice acceptable."--_Chester_ _Plays_ (c. 1400), i. 55. ABRY, see Jack Noble. ABUSION, "hidden their _abusion_" (R180,_a_), abuse, malpractice. "The vtter extirpation of false doctrine, the roote and chief cause of all _abusions_."--Udall, _Pref. to St. Mark_. "To print such _abusion_."--_Albion Knight_, Anon. Pl. 2 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 131,_d_. ADJUTORY, "God will be you[r] _adjutory_" (M12,_a_), properly an adjective = helpful; the exigencies of the rhyme has, however, apparently led to its use substantively: the original manuscript, as indicated, has "be yow _adiutory_." ADVENTURE, see Joint. AFFEED, "_affeed_ with them" (N70,_a_), hired, engaged with for profit: cf. _fee_ (A.S.) = property, money, annual salary, reward. "There is not a thane of them but in his house I have a servant _feed_."--Shakespeare, _Macbeth_ (1606), iii. 4. AFFERE, "With his company myself _affere_" (N63,_d_), belong, be identified with, "of a kidney with." "He was then buryed at Winchester in royall wise, As to suche a prince of reason should _affere_."--Hardyng, _Chronicle_ (_d._ 1465), f. 106.