English drama -- 17th century; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
[59] The herb of remembrance, used at weddings and funerals.
[60] "With a wanion,"--with a plague!
[61] A misquotation from a song in John Dowland's _First Book
of Songs or Airs_ (1597):--
"Now, O now, I needs must part,
Parting though I absent mourn," &c.
[62] Sir Francis Drake's ship, in which he sailed round the
world. By order of Queen Elizabeth it was laid up at Deptford,
whither it attracted many sightseers. See Nares' _Glossary_.
[63] "Both the quartos [there is only one] have it 'With
_eyes_ stern usurous jealousy,' which may be right, though
the sense is rather forced."--_Collier._ The copy that lies
before me gives, "With his sterne vsurous Ielosie."
[64] Device, trick.--In _The Insatiate Countess_, ii. 3, we
have the word "whiblin" used in the same sense.
[65] Fidgetty, volatile.
SCENE III.
_The Blue Anchor, Billingsgate._
_Enter_ SEAGULL, SPENDALL, _and_ SCAPETHRIFT, _in the Tavern, with a
Drawer_.
_Sea._ Come, drawer, pierce your neatest hogsheads,
and let's have cheer--not fit for your Billingsgate
tavern, but for our Virginian colonel; he will be here
instantly.
_Dr._ You shall have all things fit, sir; please you
have any more wine?
_Sp._ More wine, slave! whether we drink it or no,
spill it, and draw more.
_Sea._ Fill all the pots in your house with all sorts of
liquor, and let 'hem wait on us here like soldiers in their
pewter coats; and though we do not employ them now,
yet we will maintain 'hem till we do. 12
_Dr._ Said like an honourable captain; you shall have
all you can command, sir.
[_Exit_ Drawer.
_Sea._ Come, boys, Virginia longs till we share the rest
of her maidenhead.
_Sp._ Why, is she inhabited already with any English?
_Sea._ A whole country of English is there, man, bred
of those that were left there in '79;[66] they have married
with the Indians, and make 'hem bring forth as beautiful
faces as any we have in England; and therefore the
Indians are so in love with 'hem, that all the treasure
they have they lay at their feet. 23
_Sca._ But is there such treasure there, captain, as I
have heard?
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