The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His DildoNash, Thomas
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The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo
Nash, Thomas
Bawdy poetry
2 _yong_, younge; _their iollie roguerie_, their brauery; _iollie_,
Fr. _joli_, pretty, fine. _Bravery_, finery; _Cf_. Holinshed's _Chron.
of Eng., 55_--The ancient Britons painted their bodies "which they
esteemed a great braverie."
3 _Rose earelie in the morne fore_, Rose in the morning before;
_daie_, daye.
4 _soe trimme and gaie_, soe fresh and gaye.
5 _summer sheene_, somers shene.
6 _haidegaies on_, high degree in.
7 _alas at Easter, or_, allso at Ester and.
8 _Perambulate_, preambulate.
9 _to som_, into some; _abbordring_, bordering.
10 _taste the creame and cakes_, tast the cakes and creame.
11 _Or_, To.
12 _by Bachelrie of Maningtree_, by the bachelours of magnanimity.
"Manningtree, in Essex, formerly enjoyed the privilege of fairs, by
the tenure of exhibiting a certain number of stage plays yearly. It
appears also, from other intimations, that there were great
festivities there, and much good eating, at Whitsun ales, and other
times."--_Nares._
13 _Where to, the contrie franklins_, Whether our Country Franklins.
14 _Jhon and Jone com_, John and Joane come.
15 _Euen_, Even; _hallowes_, Hallowes; _Saint_, Sainct.
16 _doeth_, doth; _louers_, lovers; _those_, omitted in Rawlinson.
17 _ladies_, Ladyes.
18 _she_, shee; _valentine_, valentyne.
19 _woe, alass_, out, alas.
20 _an upper_, another.
21 _-haft and crab-tree face_, with his crabbed face.
22 _scar'd hir_, scard her; _the_, that.
23 _And now she was compel'd for Sanctuarie_, And she, poore wench,
compeld for Sanctuary.
24 _unto_, into; _venery_, Venery.
25 _bouldlie,_, bouldly; _enquire_, inquire.
26 _hackneis_, hackneyes. Hackney, a person or thing let out for
promiscuous use, _e.g._, a horse, a whore, a literary drudge. _Cf_.
"The hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love perhaps a
hackney."--_Love's Labour Lost_, iii., 1.
27 _crau'd_, craud.
29 _Therwith out stept_, With that, stept forth; _three chinnd_,
three-chinde. Foggie = fat, bloated, having hanging flesh. _Cf_. "Some
three chind foggie dame."--Dolarney, _Primrose_.
30 _us'd_, vsd; _yong_, younge.
31 _ask't_, askt; _I ment as I profest_, soothe were my request.
32 _onelie ask't_, onely moud.
33 _it_, yt.
34 _com_, come; _give_, giue; _Jill_, Gill.
35 _"Why, Sir." quoth shee, "if that be your demande,"_ "If that yt
be," quoth she, "that you demaunde."
36 _Com laye me a God's-pennie_, then giue me first a godes peny.
"God's-pennie, an earnest-pennie."--Florio, p. 36.
37 _oratorie siccarlie_, oratory, siccarly. "Oratory," properly a
private chapel or closet for prayer; here a canting term for brothel:
cf. abbess = bawd; nun = whore, and so forth. "Siccarly," certainly,
surely "Thou art here, sykerlye, Thys churche to robb with felonye,"
MS. Cantab Ff. ii., 38, f. 240.
38 _heere_, in; _nicarie_, deuory. "Nick," female _pudendum_: hence
nickery, copulation. Deuory may either be Fr. _devoir_, duty; or
devoure, to ravish, to deflower.
39 _offertorie_, affidavit.
40 _wee'le_, Ile.
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