Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
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Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Interludes, English; Moralities, English
ANGELOT (R216,_d_). Mr. Magnus in his note (E.E.T.S. ed., p. 67,
line 768) seems to identify this coin with the angel. He may be
right; but on the other hand, it is not out of place to point
out that in numismatics an angelot is generally regarded as an
ancient French coin first struck at Paris when that capital was
in English occupation (1420). It bore on it the figure of an
angel supporting the escutcheon of England and France. The angel
of Edward VI. was a gold coin, named from the fact that on one
side of it was a representation of the Archangel Michael in
conflict with the Dragon (Rev. xii. 7). The reverse had a ship
with a large cross for the mast, the letter E on the right side
and a rose on the left; whilst against the ship was a shield
with the usual arms. Angels were first struck in France in 1340,
and were introduced into England by Edward IV. in 1465. Between
his reign and that of Charles I. it varied in value from 6s.8d.
to 10s. The last struck in England were in the reign of Charles
I.--H. Noel Humphreys, _Coins of England_, 5th ed., 1848; and
other authorities. _Angelots_ (_i.e._ half the value of an
angel), were also struck by Edward VI. in 1550: see Edwards.
ANNEXION, "the soul hath his _annexion_" (M38,_c_), conjunction:
Shakespeare in _The Lover's Complaint_ employs it in the sense of
_addition_.
ANOINTED, "two knaves _anointed_" (N113,_d_), thorough-paced,
"out-and-out"; a double pun is intended the references being to
_anointed_ = beaten, with an eye on _anointed_ = consecrated by
the pouring on of oil. "Then thay put hym hout, the kyng away
fly, Which so well was _anoynted_ indede, That no sleue ne pane
had he hoe of brede."--_The Romans of Partenay_ (ed. Skeat),
5652-4.
APAID, "very well _apaid_" (WH280,_c_), glad, satisfied, pleased,
paid. "They buy thy help: but sin ne'er gives a fee, He gratis
comes; and thou art well _appay'd_, As well to hear as grant what
he hath said."--Shakespeare, _Rape of Lucrece_ (1594), l. 913.
APPAIR, "I say his wealth doth mend, he saith it doth _appair_"
(R226,_b_), becomes worse, degenerates. "All that liveth
_appaireth_ fast."--_Everyman_, Anon. Pl. 1 S. (E.E.D.S.), 94,_d_.
APPLE (19,_d_), in original _a nappyl_.
APPLIED, "to Him should be _applied_" (M3,_b_), given, rendered,
one's heart or mind fixed upon: the only sense of _apply_ in the
English Bible.
APPLY, see Aged.
APPREHENSIBLE, "was not _apprehensible_" (M33,_a_), competent.
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