_seene_, experienced, versed. III, i, 268. _seruant_, a professed lover; one who is devoted to the service of a lady. II, ii, 40; etc. _seruice_, the devotion of a lover. III, i, 81; IV, iv, 107. _set forth_, adorned. IV, iv, 106. _skills_, signifies, matters. I, ii, 286. _snort_, snore. _Court. Song._ l. 12. _soft_, tender-hearted, pitiful. II, i, 23. _sooth’d_, assented to; humoured by agreement or concession. V, i, 55. _Spittle_, hospital. III, i, 210. Cf. Shakespeare, _Henry V_, II, i, 78; V, i, 86. _spleene_, caprice. I, i, 49. _state_, estate. II, ii, 294; III, i, 24; IV, iv, 178; V, iii, 119. _submisse_, submissive. I, i, 179. _take_, charm, captivate. I, ii, 206. _taske_, take to task; censure, reprove, chide, reprehend = _tax_. I, ii, 64. _temper_, temperateness, calmness of mind, self-restraint. V, iii, 40. _theorique_, theory; theoretical knowledge, as opposed to practice. II, i, 2. _Thrift_, here used in the old sense of _prosperity_ or _success_. I, i, 170. _toyes_, whims, caprices, trifles. III, i, 442. _vncivil_, unrefined, ill-bred, not polished. III, i, 490. _vailes_, perquisites. V, i, 83. _Visitation_, visit. II, ii, 310. _wagtaile_, a term of familiarity and contempt; a wanton. II, ii, 7. _where_, whereas. I, i, 71. _wittoll_, a man who knows of his wife’s infidelity and submits to it; a submissive cuckold. V, iii, 99. _wreake_, vengeance, revenge. IV, iv, 183; V, ii, 43. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The Quarto, and the various modern editions and translations of _The Fatal Dowry_ have already been recorded in the opening pages of the INTRODUCTION. In the editions there noted of the collected works of Massinger will be found all the plays which bear his name. (_Believe As You List_ appears only in Cunningham’s edition of Gifford and in the Mermaid Series’ _Massinger_.) Field’s two independent plays, _Woman is a Weathercock_ (Q. 1612) and _Amends for Ladies_ (Q’s. 1618, 1639), were reprinted by J. P. Collier, London, 1829. They are included in Thomas White’s _Old English Dramas_, London, 1830; in W. C. Hazlitt’s edition of Dodsley’s _Old English Plays_, London, Reeves and Turner, 1875; and in the Mermaid Series volume, _Nero and Other Plays_, with an Introduction by A. W. Verity, London and New York, 1888. All other extant dramas in which either Massinger or Field had a share may be found in any edition of the collected works of Beaumont & Fletcher, with the exception of _Sir John van Olden Barnavelt_, which appears in vol. II of Bullen’s _Old Plays_, London, Weyman and Sons, 1883.