p. 57 _disguis’d._ A common phrase for drunk.
Act IV: Scene ii
p. 75 _cogging._ To cog = to trick, wheedle or cajole.
Act V: Scene i
p. 99 _Tramontana._ Foreign; Italian and Spanish _tramontano_ = from
beyond the mountains.
p. 101 _upse._ Op zijn = in the fashion or manner of. _Upse Gipsy_ =
like a gipsy, cf. _The Alchemist_, iv, vi:
I do not like the dulness of your eye:
It hath a heavy cast, ’tis upsee Dutch.
p. 101 _Incle._ Linen thread or yarn which was woven into a tape once
very much in use.
Epilogue
p. 106 _Nokes, or Tony Lee._ James Nokes and Antony Leigh, the two
famous actors, were the leading low comedians of the day.
p. 107 _Play of the Novella._ _Novella_ is a good, though intricate,
comedy by Brome. 8vo, 1653, but acted 1632.
p. 107 _The famous Virgil._ There is a tale, reported by Donatus, that
Vergil once anonymously wrote up on the palace gates a distich in
praise of Augustus, which, when nobody was found to own it, was claimed
by a certain versifier Bathyllus, whom Cæsar duly rewarded, A few days
later, however, Virgil again set in the same place a quatrain each line
of which commenced ‘sic vos non vobis...’ but was unfinished, and
preceeded these by the one hexameter
Hos ego versiculos feci; tulit alter honores.
All were unable to complete the lines satisfactorily save the great
poet himself, and by this means the true author of the eulogy was
revealed.
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THE ROVER; OR,
THE BANISH’D CAVALIERS.
PART II.
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Scenes described in (parentheses) are unnumbered.
Argument.
Source.
Theatrical History.
Dedication
Prologue
Dramatis Personæ.
Act I.
Scene I. _A Street._
(_A Church._)
Act II.
Scene I. _The Street._
Scene II. _A fine Chamber._
Act III.
Scene I. _A House._
Act IV.
Scene I. _The Street, or Backside of the Piazza._
(_A Garden._)
(_La Nuche’s House._)
(_Fetherfool’s Chamber._)
(_The Street._)
Act V.
Scene I. _A Chamber._
Scene II. _The Street._
Scene III. _Willmore’s Lodging._
(_A Chamber._)
Epilogue.
Notes to _The Rover, Part II_
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ARGUMENT.
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