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
SAINT HUGH (IP341,_a_). There are no less than _four_ St. Hughs
who were bishops, viz.:--Hugh, 9th Bishop of Geneva, early in
7th century; Hugh, 13th Bishop of Alby, said to have been in
possession of the See when the Saracens took the city in 722;
Hugh, 37th Bishop of Paris, died in 730; Hugh, 18th Bishop of
Séez, in latter half of 8th century. There is also a legendary
St. Hugh, patron of the Abbey of Tewkesbury, who is said to have
buried Brihtric, King of Mercia, in the chapel of St. Faith
at Tewkesbury, and to have been buried there himself in 812.
According to _Dictionary of Christian_ _Biography_, the story is
an impudent fabrication.
SAINT QUINTIN (M13,_b_) came into Gaul with St. Lucian of Beavais,
and was martyred by the Romans under Rectiovarus.
SAINT TRUNNION, see Heywood, _Works_ (E.E.D.S.), I., 272,_d_.
SALLET, "for lack of a _sallet_" (R229,_b_), a light helmet,
chiefly used by foot-soldiers in the fifteenth century: see God's
Good. "Many a time, but for a _sallet_, my brain-pan had been
cleft with a brown-bill."--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI._, ix. 10.
SANCTO, "_Cum sancto ... perverteris_" (M15,_c_), see _Psalm_ xvii.
27.
SCAMBLE, SCAMBLING, "I doubt not to _scamble_ and rake"
(R187,_c_)--"fall thus to _scambling_" (R194,_d_)--"as quick
_scambling_ as ever I saw" (R221,_c_), _i.e._ pilfer and plunder
when and how possible; see "Catch that catch may" (R187,_b_), and
cf. Cotgrave, "_Scamblingly_, catch that catch may."--"Much more
being _scambled_ up after this manner."--Holinshed, _Chronicle_
(Epis. Dedic.).
SCAPE, "the _scape_ of extreats" (R183,_d_), trick, cheat: see
Respublica. "They readily pardon all faults and _scapes_
committed by negligence."--North, _Plutarch_, p. 206.
SCOTTLING, "a pretty _scottling_" (M6,_d_), scuttling.
SCOURED, "_scoured_ a pair of fetters" (M28,_d_), a very common
piece of Old Cant = to go, or lie, in, or wear fetters: usually,
"to _scour_ the cramp-rings or derbies." "Then to the quier-ken
to _scoure_ the cramp-ring."--Dekker, _Beggar's Curse_ (1608).
"And 'cause we are poor made to _scour_ the cramp-ring."--Dekker,
_Lanthorne and Candlelight_. The original is _scoryde_.
SECTOURSHIP, see Respublica.
SECULE, "_secule_ thyself" (IP342,_d_),? a misprint for _secure_.
SEREFUL, "a _sereful_ man" (N81,_c_), I suspect from the context
that this is a misprint for fearful = full of fear, timid. Or
it may be akin to the use of _sere_ by Ascham, characterised by
Nares as "peculiar" to that writer = individual, particular,
single: whence _sereful_ would mean "peculiar," "full of
idiosyncracies," "difficult."
SHAKED, "They _shaked_ me up" (R255,_d_), shook.
SHALCH, "what _shalch_ zai to om" (R.,_passim_), shall I--shal[l
i]ch.
SHALES, "served but with _shales_" (R214,_d_), shells.
SHARINGS (R183,_c_), shearings.
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