Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
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Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare
English drama (Comedy)
[345] Of course 'kinges' if written before July 7, 1553; probably
changed to 'Queen' (= Elizabeth) by the printer. (Fleay conjectures,
_Hist. Stage_, p. 59, that _R. D._ was revived March 8, 1561; the play
having been rewritten from an Edward VI. interlude. _Gen. Ed._)
[346] The 'n' transferred from 'myne' (my nowne). Cf. _nuncle_, etc.
[347] Cf. _Like will to Like_,329; Leland calls Udall _niveum ...
sodalem_; Cooper's ed. XXVII.
[348] Heywood's _Prov._; _Lear_, V. iii, 15.
[349] _R. R. D._ addresses _M._ with 'thou' 'thee,' whereas _M._
uses--on the whole--'you, ye' (to _R. R. D._); cf. Skeat's _William of
Palerne_, XLI. note; Zupitza's _Guy_, v. 356, note.
[350] Cf. _Miles_, v. 1063.
[351] The first half line is not assigned to _R. R. D._ in E. and A.;
but it should be. _Gen. Ed._
[352] certainly; cf. 'hardily,' Chauc. _C. T. Prol._ v. 156.
[353] E. has the comma after 'offende.'
[354] E. misprints _he_ for 'ye'; corrected by C. and H.
[355] An oath = by God's armes; cf. V. vi, 22.
[356] Cf. _Thersytes_, Dodsley, 1, 403.
[357] Cf. _Phil Soc. Dict._ s.v. A _prep._ § 11; C. and H. drop the 'a.'
[358] The quotation marks are the editor's.
[359] E., 'Whom.'
[360] never; C., 'ne're'; H., 'ne'er.'
[361] Middle Engl. comparative; cf. _near_, _ner_, etc.
[362] Cf. Plautus, _Miles_, 965.
[363] 'an.'
[364] Cf. Heywood's _Proverbs_, I. ch. 11 (72); 300 _Epigrams_, 158.
[365] _mastership_; see l. 116, etc.; cf. 'ientman,' III. v, 8;
'gemman,' etc.
[366] Cf. Plaut. _Miles_, 1061.
[367] Cf. _ib._: _Neu ecastor nimis uilist tandem._
[368] Cf. _ib._ 68, _et passim_; and Terent. _Eunuch._ V. viii, 62.
[369] Cf. Plaut. _Miles_, 1264, and the whole of the first scene.
[370] Cf. 'Ko I,' 'Ko she,' III. iii, 21, 35; 'Ko you,' III. iv, 131;
_Pericles_, II. i. 82; "Die Ke-tha?" 'company quotha?' _Four Elements_
[Dodsley, 1, 23].
[371] Cf. _Thersites_, [Dodsley, 1, 399, 400].
[372] E., 'Cuy.'
[373] _diabolicae staturae_; see _Guy of Warwick_, v. 9945, etc.
[374] _Brutus_, of the British, Welsh or Arthurian story, hence
generally a hero [Murray].
[375] 'Alie' = Hali, Haly, Holy? _or_ Alye = _affinis_ = of the
neighbouring country?
[376] Cf. Plaut. _Miles_, 777; Achilles, _ib._ 1054.
[377] _Tertius e caelo cecidit Cato_, Juven. _Sat._ 2, 40.
[378] Cf. Plaut. _Miles_, 65.
[379] Cf. "a prince of highe parage," _Chester Plays_, 1, 157.
[380] Cf. Caxton's "faytes of armes" (_Prol. Eneydos_), the _M. L._
"facta guerrae, armorum."
[381] E., 'They' (not 'That,' as A. reads).
[382] love; cf. III. iv, 99. Baby-talk? or the language of the Dutch
'minions'? Hazlitt says: a colloquialism still in use. But the
dictionaries are silent.
[383] R. uses 'you'; cf. I. ii, 8.
[384] Cf. Palsgrave, 477, "Je revolve."
[385] Cf. I. iv, iii, etc., C. & H. 'To.'
[386] Not in E.; added by C. In E., the comma is after 'while.'
[387] Cf. I. ii, 44; IV. vi, 7.
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