Chapter CXLIX: Epilogue (5)

[3797] In the Qq. O. Hoard, Limber, and Kix appear in the speech tags as 1, 2, and 3.

[3798] A pun on the two meanings, “concert” and “consort.”

[3799] Another street in the same town.

[3800] Searching.

[3801] “Contrary to your will and profession.”

[3802] Without escort.

[3803] A street in London.

[3804] Impartiality.

[3805] The booty.

[3806] Cheats him.

[3807] _Or any ... mad thee_, omitted in Q₂.

[3808] Asp.

[3809] Lively.

[3810] Another street.

[3811] A lawyer.

[3812] Mastiff.

[3813] A gold coin worth 6s. 8d.

[3814] Heavy built galleys.

[3815] Passenger sloops.

[3816] Puppet-shows.

[3817] One of Dampit’s self-explanatory coinages.

[3818] Apparently, rushed about. See Nares.

[3819] Bogies, bugbears.

[3820] A room in Lucre’s house.

[3821] “Good fellow” was then slang for a thief.

[3822] Q₂ _I have_.

[3823] A corruption of “Gods.”

[3824] Let me understand you.

[3825] To the country, with a pun.

[3826] A corruption of “pox.”

[3827] Couple of gold coins, each worth from 6s. 8d. to 10s.

[3828] Lodge.

[3829] Fellows, contemptuously.

[3830] The common livery of serving-men.

[3831] A corruption of “Cold Harbour,” where debtors and vagabonds found sanctuary.

[3832] As my life.

[3833] Secret.

[3834] Membership in a livery company, one of the great trade guilds of London.

[3835] A corrupt oath: God’s nigs.

[3836] Against, by the time that.

[3837] Scheme.

[3838] A proverb: I ’ll make the venture. A bolt was an arrow with a round knob at its head; a shaft, sharp and barbed.

[3839] A street.

[3840] In love with some one else.

[3841] Witgood’s lodgings.

[3842] Betrothed.

[3843] Satisfied.

[3844] A sweet wine, taken with eggs as an aphrodisiac.

[3845] Playing on the two meanings of “suitors,” at law and for love.

[3846] Gold pieces 15s. in value.

[3847] The mark was worth 13s. 4d.

[3848] Lucre’s and Witgood’s.

[3849] Judgment.

[3850] Entice.

[3851] Gods me. Perhaps a corruption of “God save me!”

[3852] Postponements.

[3853] Anticipate.

[3854] A room in Hoard’s house.

[3855] Convinced.

[3856] A tavern.

[3857] Rooms in taverns had such individual names.

[3858] Matching.

[3859] A room in Dampit’s house.

[3860] Might.

[3861] Undress you.

[3862] Cheating.

[3863] Fears.

[3864] A term of endearment.

[3865] Qq. give this speech to Lucre.

[3866] A room in Lucre’s house.

[3867] “O man in desperation” is the name of an old tune mentioned by Nashe and Peele.

[3868] Grief.

[3869] A street.

[3870] Rough-chinned. “Thrum” is the end of the warp in weaving.

[3871] A debtors’ prison.

[3872] Rubbing with perfume.

[3873] A room in Hoard’s house.

[3874] Light blue.

[3875] A hawking cry.

[3876] A hunting cry.

[3877] Champaign.

[3878] Marchioness.

[3879] A pre-contract of marriage could not be set aside without the mutual consent of the parties. (Bullen.)

[3880] Trifling.

[3881] A proverbial phrase.

[3882] A return in tennis; a _tu quoque_.

[3883] Dampit’s bed-chamber.

[3884] Handkerchief.

[3885] As before, Dampit’s words must be interpreted by the context.

[3886] _I. e._ he is drunk.

[3887] Kiss.

[3888] Time to repay borrowed money.

[3889] Used designedly for “advice.”

[3890] Work well.

[3891] The didapper or dabchick, a small water-bird.

[3892] See III. iii. 17-19.

[3893] Virg. _Aen._ iii. 658.

[3894] So named, Nares conjectures, from the bird’s migrating from the west.

[3895] _I. e._ Naked in bed.

[3896] A room in Lucre’s house.

[3897] A room in Hoard’s house.

[3898] Members of the Fishmongers’ Company.

[3899] Just on your wish.

[3900] A trick. Some mod. edd. emend to _punk_.

[3901] Renounce.

[3902] Love.

[3903] “According to the directions for bleeding in old almanacs, blood was to be taken from particular parts under particular planets.” (Dyce.)

[3904] “To stab their arms with daggers, and drink off the blood mixed with wine, to the health of their mistresses, was formerly a frequent practice among gallants.” (Dyce.) Cf. _Lear_, II. i. 36.

[3905] “Dutchmen had the reputation of being very expert in swallowing flapdragons.” (Bullen.)

[3906] A street.

[3907] Q. _blest_.

[3908] Cf. _Macbeth_, I. iii.

[3909] Forestall. Mod. edd. _stale_.

[3910] Q. _or_.

[3911] A fabulous animal said to kill with a glance.

[3912] Q. _And what_.

[3913] Promontories’.

[3914] A coinage from the Greek, meaning the first growth of the beard.

[3915] Trifling fancy.

[3916] Cannon.

[3917] Skin.

[3918] A room in the house of Alibius.

[3919] Idiots.

[3920] Guard (in fencing). (Dyce.)

[3921] “Pluck a rose” = _alvum exonerare_. (Bullen.)

[3922] Constable.

[3923] Answer for, warrant; or, make him able for.

[3924] Business.

[3925] Honest.

[3926] Two.

[3927] Neck.

[3928] Whip.

[3929] Parmesan cheese.

[3930] An apartment in the Castle.

[3931] Paris Garden, on the Bankside, where bull-baiting was carried on.

[3932] Dragged by the ear.

[3933] Q. _his_.

[3934] Title.

[3935] Judge.

[3936] After _him_, Q. inserts _in his passions_.

[3937] Another apartment in the Castle.

[3938] Understand.

[3939] Preen, set the feathers in order. Used of hawks.

[3940] Like an object of love.

[3941] Ambergris.

[3942] In anticipation of.

[3943] A narrow passage in the Castle.

[3944] _I. e._ Between the acts.

[3945] Fortification.

[3946] Q. Exeunt at one door and enter at the other.

[3947] A vault.

[3948] Prove it has been done.

[3949] An apartment in the house of Alibius.

[3950] Handsome.

[3951] Persons suffering from _lycanthropia_, or wolf-madness. Cf. _Duchess of Malfi_, V. ii. 10.

[3952] Cant term for bawd.

[3953] Nidget, _i. e._ idiot.

[3954] Scrutinizing.

[3955] An allusion to the game of barley-break, the ground for which was divided into three compartments, of which the middle one was termed “hell.” (Ellis).

[3956] Out of keeping with.

[3957] “Is it necessary to notice that the name of this great scholar is introduced merely for the sake of its first syllable?” (Dyce.)

[3958] To gain.

[3959] End.

[3960] An apartment in the Castle.

[3961] Q. omits.

[3962] Band-box.

[3963] Place.

[3964] Q. omits. Add. Ed. 1816.

[3965] Q. _betwixt_.

[3966] Q. _on ’t_, _I’me_.

[3967] By.

[3968] Q. omits.

[3969] Q. _lovers_. Dyce would omit, and read _love-shooting_ in next line.

[3970] Stately ceremony.

[3971] Alsemero’s apartment in the Castle.

[3972] Q. _both_.

[3973] Is open to.

[3974] Trick.

[3975] Immediately

[3976] Gods.

[3977] Whim.

[3978] Chastity.

[3979] I suspect that there is an allusion here to the examination by matrons of the notorious Countess of Essex. (Bullen.)

[3980] Property, symptom.

[3981] Another apartment in the Castle.

[3982] Q. _One_.

[3983] Q. _sins and vices_. The correction was suggested by Dyce.

[3984] Q. _I_.

[3985] Celebrate your wedding day.

[3986] Profess, offer.

[3987] Anticipate.

[3988] Tainted.

[3989] A room in the house of Alibius.

[3990] So Bullen. Q. _Waiting_.

[3991] Take the words in their modest sense.

[3992] Deceive.

[3993] Provided that.

[3994] Fastidious.

[3995] Beg pardon.

[3996] The usual jest on the cuckold’s horns.

[3997] Q. _she_.

[3998] Q. _streets_.

[3999] Honest.

[4000] Whose custody, with the revenues of his estate, might be begged from the king.

[4001] A gallery in the Castle.

[4002] Q. _harsh_.

[4003] Q. _Bosphorus_.

[4004] Scheme.

[4005] Fire-arm.

[4006] Well done.

[4007] Another apartment in the Castle.

[4008] Q. omits.

[4009] Obtained.

[4010] Deceived.

[4011] Alsemero’s apartment in the Castle.

[4012] Answer.

[4013] Embrace.

[4014] See III. iii. 181, note.

[4015] Receive.

[4016] Idiocy.

[4017] Before Tapwell’s house.

[4018] Booze, drink.

[4019] Staled.

[4020] Hound.

[4021] Puritan.

[4022] Cudgel.

[4023] Matters.

[4024] A select number of the more learned justices, whose presence was necessary to constitute the bench.

[4025] Keeper of the county records.

[4026] Acknowledgments of indebtedness.

[4027] Whining beggars.

[4028] _I. e._ his cudgel.

[4029] Freed.

[4030] Where servants used to be punished.

[4031] Slipper.

[4032] _I. e._ the sky.

[4033] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.

[4034] The siege of Breda by Spinola in 1624-25 was one of the great events of the time.

[4035] Two bushels.

[4036] Bread soaked in hot water and milk.

[4037] Q. reads _Cooke_.

[4038] Q. _warn’d_.

[4039] A hall in the same.

[4040] Part of the back: ribs or sirloin.

[4041] The basket of broken meats given in alms.

[4042] Bow.

[4043] Leather beer cans.

[4044] Feed.

[4045] _Q. bung’d_.

[4046] A room in Overreach’s house.

[4047] Hollow-cheeked.

[4048] A writ issued for the offence of acknowledging foreign authority within the realm, or some offence with the same penalties.

[4049] At once.

[4050] Footpads.

[4051] Beggars pretending lunacy.

[4052] Bound. The reference is to the game of tossing in a blanket.

[4053] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.

[4054] Wenches.

[4055] Marsh birds.

[4056] Marvellously.

[4057] Off Fleet Street, famous for its restaurants.

[4058] The country near Lady Allworth’s house.

[4059] Cheating.

[4060] Ambergris, a fashionable perfume.

[4061] Cultivate.

[4062] Cheated.

[4063] Fat and short winded.

[4064] The country near Overreach’s house.

[4065] Charged.

[4066] Rhythmical.

[4067] Reinforced. Q. _lin’d_.

[4068] A room in Overreach’s house.

[4069] Responsibility for providing.

[4070] A coarse cloth.

[4071] One of the London prisons.

[4072] Fit.

[4073] Neck of a boar.

[4074] Fool.

[4075] So Gifford. Q. _when he is_.

[4076] Silks matched with woolen.

[4077] Gulf: here, insatiable glutton.

[4078] A writ commanding the sheriff to take bail.

[4079] Fool.

[4080] Anticipate.

[4081] If it please.

[4082] Terrifying.

[4083] Another room in Overreach’s house.

[4084] Admit.

[4085] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.

[4086] Devices.

[4087] Stainlessness.

[4088] Nothing beyond.

[4089] Wonder at.

[4090] Apparently a slip for “Parnassus.”

[4091] Promote.

[4092] Gossip.

[4093] Before Tapwell’s house.

[4094] Secret.

[4095] For “Rogue.”

[4096] Appointment.

[4097] Q. gives s. d., _This interim. Tapwell and Froth flattering and bribing Justice Greedy._

[4098] Wine from muscadel grapes.

[4099] Repairer.

[4100] Robbed.

[4101] A room in Overreach’s house.

[4102] Inserted by Dodsley.

[4103] Trifles.

[4104] Wait for.

[4105] Anticipate your objections.

[4106] Parrot.

[4107] A room in Lady Allworth’s house.

[4108] Fastidiously.

[4109] In Q. this entrance occurs after “took,” above.

[4110] Obvious.

[4111] Clothes in pawn were said to be “laid up in lavender.”

[4112] Seized.

[4113] The law against witchcraft.

[4114] Flay.

[4115] Wicker baskets filled with earth, used to protect soldiers when digging trenches.

[4116] Revealed.

[4117] Capture.

[4118] Fierce watchdog.

[4119] Q. _will I_.

[4120] Solid.

[4121] Crafty.

[4122] Q. _unsheathed_.

[4123] A writ of committal.

[4124] Q. _Gransis_, throughout.

[4125] Q. _a fiction_.

[4126] A room in Crotolon’s house.

[4127] A member of the Areopagus, the highest judicial court in Athens.

[4128] Decide.

[4129] Agree.

[4130] A room in the palace.

[4131] The laurel wreath ... conferred on those who added a province to the empire. (Gifford.)

[4132] Appropriately belittling terms.

[4133] Q. _are_.

[4134] Await.

[4135] Weave.

[4136] The gardens of the palace. A grove.

[4137] Certain.

[4138] With his arm round her waist. (Dyce.)

[4139] Coyness; over-particular scruples.

[4140] Hooks for stretching cloth; on the rack.

[4141] Rudiments.

[4142] Wait for.

[4143] Beyond what I could have planned.

[4144] A room in Bassanes’ house.

[4145] At once.

[4146] Agent.

[4147] Youth.

[4148] Embrace.

[4149] Cuckolded: the inevitable jest on the cuckold’s horns.

[4150] Direction.

[4151] Moulted.

[4152] Coaches.

[4153] Swelling.

[4154] Gifford emend, _saints_.

[4155] I did not see the point of.

[4156] The palace. Ithocles’ apartment.

[4157] Blinded by sewing up the eye-lids.

[4158] Gifford suggests _bait_.

[4159] Q. _extremities_.

[4160] Infer, understand.

[4161] Q. _Thy_.

[4162] The gardens of the palace. A grove.

[4163] Gifford’s emend. Q. reads

_as the incense smoking
The holiest altars, virgin tears (like
On Vesta’s odours) sprinkled dews to feed ’em,
And to increase._

[4164] Course.

[4165] Apparently corrupt.

[4166] The word was pronounced _aitches_.

[4167] Jaws.

[4168] Discipline.

[4169] The study of Tecnicus.

[4170] Suspicious.

[4171] Make me ever avail myself of thy precepts.

[4172] The palace. Ithocles’ apartment.

[4173] Q. _lover-blest_.

[4174] Streams.

[4175] Q. _Which_.

[4176] Q. omits.

[4177] _’Tis_, Dyce emend. Q. _as_.

[4178] _I. e._ You do not care for me as you say.

[4179] I will attempt to devise something.

[4180] Personal characteristics.

[4181] Attendant slave.

[4182] Wonderful.

[4183] Youthful.

[4184] Feeds; fattens, as one fattens swine.

[4185] Proclaim.

[4186] Freaks.

[4187] Q. _cry a Jealousie_.

[4188] A room in the palace.

[4189] Worship, courtship.

[4190] Acquired.

[4191] A room in the house of Crotolon.

[4192] Prosperity.

[4193] Disposition.

[4194] Calantha’s apartment in the palace.

[4195] So Q. Dyce suggests _enjoin_.

[4196] The palace. Ithocles’ apartment.

[4197] Sincere.

[4198] Badge of a retainer.

[4199] Q. omits.

[4200] Q. _supplying_.

[4201] Gifford suggests _not_.

[4202] A room in Bassanes’ house.

[4203] The _Honeycomb of Honesty_, like the _Garland of Goodwill_, was probably one of the popular miscellanies of the day. (Gifford.) See Additional Notes.

[4204] Mule.

[4205] Test me.

[4206] Sight.

[4207] Q. _appear’d, Impostors_.

[4208] Puppet.

[4209] Q. _baudy_.

[4210] Q._ Paine my_, and omits [_Pen._] in next line.

[4211] Tagged laces.

[4212] Excess.

[4213] Q. _augury_.

[4214] An apartment in the palace.

[4215] Q. _to_.

[4216] To the control of Ithocles.

[4217] Penthea’s apartment in the palace.

[4218] A piece of mechanism.

[4219] Probe.

[4220] A room in Bassanes’ house.

[4221] Q. _doublers_.

[4222] The index-hand.

[4223] Satisfied.

[4224] A state-room in the palace.

[4225] Capacity.

[4226] Confuted.

[4227] Q. _Org._

[4228] Dyce’s suggestion. Q. omits.

[4229] Skill.

[4230] A temple.

[4231] Q. _vow_.

[4232] Q. _not_.

[4233] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.

[4234] In the Q. Lady Bornwell is called _Aretina_ throughout in stage directions and speech-tags.

[4235] A common country-dance tune. Cf. p. 487.

[4236] Characters in the morris-dance.

[4237] Expense.

[4238] Unjust.

[4239] Desire.

[4240] Headdresses.

[4241] Obstruct.

[4242] A religious sect often accused of licentiousness.

[4243] “The Ball,” a comedy by Shirley and Chapman, 1632.

[4244] Moderate.

[4245] Corset.

[4246] Candied orange-peel.

[4247] Indulged.

[4248] Appeal, demand(?).

[4249] What sort of.

[4250] Like.

[4251] Gutter.

[4252] A room in Celestina’s house.

[4253] Will it? Gifford reads _with ’t_.

[4254] Courtesans.

[4255] A suburban resort for cakes and cream.

[4256] Chair-men.

[4257] Splendor.

[4258] Lower.

[4259] Jocular.

[4260] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.

[4261] Title, ornament.

[4262] Vain-glorious.

[4263] _I. e._ Bad luck.

[4264] Hair.

[4265] Pleased.

[4266] Usually, a mould for shaping a hat; here, head.

[4267] A room in Celestina’s house.

[4268] Expensive.

[4269] Flemish.

[4270] Foolishly eager.

[4271] Devices, schemings.

[4272] Ordinary kiss of salutation.

[4273] Lover.

[4274] Lose the scent.

[4275] Cf. _1 Henry IV_, II. ii. 2, “I have hid Falstaff’s horse, and he frets like gumm’d velvet.” (Gifford.)

[4276] Chastities.

[4277] Lord ——’s house.

[4278] Undressed.

[4279] Wait.

[4280] Obligation.

[4281] Accessible.

[4282] The punishment of bawds was to be whipt and carted.

[4283] Chaste.

[4284] Pay observance, worship.

[4285] Brought back.

[4286] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.

[4287] Absolute, unmixed.

[4288] Accuse.

[4289] Comforting.

[4290] Made of silk and gold thread.

[4291] Q. reads _least_.

[4292] A small vessel.

[4293] Cannon charged with grape-shot.

[4294] Q. continues _of the bears_ to Littleworth.

[4295] _I. e._ Were drunk.

[4296] A cheap substitute for tapestry.

[4297] A quick, lively dance.

[4298] Chaste.

[4299] Characterizing.

[4300] The place of execution.

[4301] A contemptuous term, sometimes associated with _pilchard_, a small fish like a herring.

[4302] Devices.

[4303] Guilty consciousness.

[4304] A dance like a cotillion.

[4305] Jaundice(?)

[4306] Smoke.

[4307] A game at cards.

[4308] A room in Decoy’s house.

[4309] Wrinkled, shrivelled.

[4310] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.

[4311] Span. _Cuerpo_, stripped of the upper garment.

[4312] Lombard Street: pawn-shops were common in Long Lane.

[4313] Been on the look-out.

[4314] Go-between.

[4315] A kind of milk-pudding.

[4316] Make arrangements.

[4317] Q. reads _holds_.

[4318] Bravo.

[4319] Gay women, prostitutes.

[4320] Foresight.

[4321] All.

[4322] Precedence.

[4323] Resident.

[4324] Lecture.

[4325] Waiter.

[4326] Pour out.

[4327] City militia.

[4328] Brought in comparison.

[4329] Perhaps, _Oh_.

[4330] Q. reads _when_.

[4331] A room in Celestina’s house.

[4332] Q. _yeares_.

[4333] Q. _knowne_.

[4334] Q. _were_.

[4335] Charles I and Henrietta Maria.

[4336] A room in Sir Thomas Bornwell’s house.

[4337] Thrower of the dice.

[4338] Gulls, simpletons.

[4339] Staked their coins(?).

[4340] Slippers.

[4341] Choice viands.

[4342] “Some unidentified kind of wine.” (N. E. D.)

[4343] Baccarach, a famous Rhine wine.

[4344] Hams.

[4345] Rouse.

[4346] One of a small order of military knights with pensions and apartments in Windsor Castle.

[4347] Contrivances.

[4348] All four terms are euphemisms for courtesan.

[4349] A vague piece of contemporary slang, the meaning of which has usually to be derived from the context.

[4350] Yields.

[4351] A small fish, like a herring.

[4352] Gifford conj. Q. _myself the very same_.

[4353] A punning allusion to Dowland’s _Lacrimae or Seven Tears_, etc., a popular musical work of the time for stringed instruments.

[4354] Daphne was transformed into a bay-tree.

[4355] Own.

[4356] An apartment in the palace.

[4357] In stage directions and speech-tags throughout, Antonio is called _Secretary_.

[4358] Bridegroom, as often.

[4359] Agree.

[4360] Force, momentum.

[4361] Wait.

[4362] A room in the Duchess’s house.

[4363] Yielding.

[4364] Q. _Valeria_, but cf. vv. 45-57, above.

[4365] Q. _Val._

[4366] Foolishness.

[4367] Q. transposes _Cel._ and _Val._ throughout this conversation.

[4368] Await.

[4369] Before the walls of the frontier city.—Columbo’s tent.

[4370] Boastful.

[4371] Depreciate.

[4372] Learn to use their arms.

[4373] Young rabbits, youngsters.

[4374] A room in the Duchess’s house.

[4375] An apartment in the palace.

[4376] Q. _wounds_.

[4377] Important.

[4378] Here, a telescope.

[4379] Apparently, an allusion to the Puritans.

[4380] An apartment in the palace.

[4381] A room in the Duchess’s house.

[4382] _I. e._ For the mute who was to take the servant’s part, blue being the general colour of a servant’s livery.

[4383] Flageolets.

[4384] Brought about.

[4385] Bought off, transferred.

[4386] Untimely.

[4387] Formal justice.

[4388] An apartment in the palace.

[4389] A room in the Duchess’s house.

[4390] Merry.

[4391] Deed.

[4392] Regards.

[4393] Whether you present.

[4394] Acquired.

[4395] Supposed.

[4396] A retired spot without the city.

[4397] A garden.

[4398] A room in the Duchess’s house.

[4399] Loyal (to the Duchess).

[4400] Referring, of course, to the color of the Cardinal’s robes.

[4401] Wait.

[4402] Another room in the same.

[4403] The Cardinal.

[4404] Replies.

[4405] Q. _pinc’d._

[4406] Disguise.

[4407] Telescopes; used also of other optical instruments.

[4408] Critical and biographical articles contained in the General Works listed above, or in collected editions, or in editions of separate plays, are not repeated in this paragraph.

Corrections

In the original, the texts in footnotes 395 and 396 were reversed. The correct text has been applied.

p. 4

_Edi._ Nay, my master will match them.
_Epi._ Nay, my master will match them.

p. 269

“Marco” was changed to “Macro”.

p. 689

That thou, which stood’st like a hugh pyramid
That thou, which stood’st like a huge pyramid

p. 732

May made us more acquainted. This the business:
May make us more acquainted. This the business:

p. 788

To you colossic greatness
To your colossic greatness

p. 876

Hierononimo
Hieronimo

Katharine
Katherine

Lacy, Roland
Lacy, Rowland

p. 877

Passerello
Passarello

p. 879

Hark, how everything is still
Hark, now everything is still