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
WOLPIT, OUR LADY OF (IP315,_d_). _Woolpit_ is about eight miles
east of Bury-St.-Edmunds. Taylor in his _Index Monasticus_ (p.
117) includes it in a list of shrines, images, etc., in Suffolk
to which pilgrimages were made. The manor was given to the monks
of Bury-St.-Edmunds prior to the Conquest. They were possessed of
it in the time of Edward I., and probably continued in possession
till the dissolution of the monasteries.
WONNING (JE363,_d_), dwelling.
WORNE, "the wild worm is come into his head" (N98,_d_); cf. "maggot
in brain."
WOTE, "half a _wote_" (N67,_c_), _i.e._ "half I wot."
WRIT OF PRIVILEGE (IP316,_d_), a writ to deliver a privileged
person from custody when arrested in a civil suit.
YEAR-DAY, "my father's _year-day_" (M32,_b_), either birthday or
the anniversary of death.
ZEE, see A ZEE.
ZEMBITY (R230,_a_), semblity; Magnus suggests "dissemble."
ZORYLESS (R212,_d_), sorryless (for sorriness).
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Transcriber's Notes:
Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were corrected.
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Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.
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missing. Removed right bracket from a few right aligned stage
directions due to uncommon usage in original.
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