Chapter XXXVII: Act V: Scene I (3)

# 832:

_manchet_] i. e. small loaf or roll of fine white
bread.

# 833:

_Below the salt_] See note, vol. iii. p. 40.

# 834:

_voider_] i. e. basket or tray, into which the
trenchers, broken meat, &c., were swept from the table
with a wooden knife.

# 835:

_in_] So two eds. Quarto C. “on.”

# 836:

_faith_] So two eds. Quarto C. “faiths.”

# 837:

_her_] So two eds. Quarto C. “their.”

# 838:

_whom_] So two eds. Quarto C. “which.”

# 839:

_there_] So two eds. Quarto C. “within ’em.”

# 840:

_vild_] See note, p. 137.

# 841:

_a_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 842:

_Epistle to Nicholas the first_] _B. Udalrici,
Episcopi Augustani, pro conjugio clericorum ad
Nicolaum primum, Romanum Pontificem, epistola_,
contains the following passage: “Sunt vero aliqui, qui
sanctum Gregorium suæ sectæ sumunt adjutorium: quorum
quidem temeritatem rideo, ignorantiam doleo. Ignorant
enim, quod periculosum hujus hæresis decretum, a
sancto Gregorio factum, condigno pœnitentiæ fructu
postmodum ab eodem sit purgatum. Quippe quum die
quadem in vivarium suum propter pisces misisset, et
allata inde plus quam sex millia infantum capita
videret; intima mox ductus pœnitentia ingemuit, et
factum a se de abstinentia decretum, tantæ cædis
caussam confessus, condigno illud, ut dixi, pœnitentiæ
fructu purgavit, suoque decreto prorsus damnato,
Apostolicum illud (1 Cor. 9. 7.) laudavit consilium:
_Melius est nubere, quam uri_, addens ex sua parte,
Melius est nubere, quam mortis occasionem præbere.”
Appendix to _Calixti de Conjugio Clericorum Liber_,
Pars ii. p. 550, ed. Henke.

# 843:

_B. Knight_] One ed. and MS. Lansd. “_B. K._[_ing_],”
which may be right; B. B. Pawn presently says, “King
taken.”

# 844:

_B. King_] Two eds. and MS. Lansd. “_B. Kt._”

# 845:

_We_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “I.”—Compare l. 25 of
preceding page.

# 846:

_the bag, like hell-mouth_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “the
bags mouth like hell.”

# 847:

_The bag opens_, &c.] So MS. Lansd., except that it
makes no mention of the Fat Bishop. Quarto C. “_The
Bagge opens the Bl. Side in it._” Two eds. “_The Bag
opens, the B. B. slides in it._”—The bag, probably,
was either on one side, or at the back, of the stage,
during the whole of the play: see notes pp. 366, 370.

# 848:

_King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “King’s.”

# 849:

_given us the bag_] i. e. cheated, or rather, put a
trick on us: a colloquial phrase, common in our old
writers.

# 850:

_'Sfoot, this Fat Bishop_] Quarto C. “This Blacke
Bishop.” Other eds. “Sfoot this blacke Bishop.” MS.
Lansd. “This Fat Black Bishop.” MS. Bridge. “Slid this
fat Bishop.”

# 851:

_squelch’d_] i. e. crushed. So two eds. Quarto C.
“quelch’d.”

# 852:

_Spalato_] See note, p. 365.

# 853:

_so_] So MS. Bridge. Not in eds.

# 854:

_But I shall_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “I’em (and “I’me”)
sure to.”

# 855:

_greatness ever_] After these words MS. Bridge. has,

“For the Politician is not sound i’ th' vent,
I smell him hither.”

which does not connect well with the rest of the
speech.

# 856:

_Room for_, &c.] I have not ventured to insert a
stage-direction here, being doubtful which character
is meant by the “olive-coloured Ganymede.”

# 857:

_cease_] Though there is no corresponding rhyme to
this word, it does not appear that a line has dropt
out, the sense being complete.

# 858:

_yield_] Old ed. “yields.”

# 859:

_improve_] i. e. prove.

# 860:

_Nothing new there_] My attempt to restore the prose
speeches in this scene to the blank verse in which
they appear to have been originally written, proved on
the whole so unsuccessful, that I now give them as
exhibited in the 4to. The text of the play is, I
believe, corrupted throughout: and perhaps the reader,
when he meets with sundry passages which are scarcely
metrical, will be of opinion that I ought more
frequently to have left the prose of the old edition
undisturbed.

# 861:

_the Standard_] See note, vol. i. p. 438; but I find
nothing in Stow to illustrate the present passage.

# 862:

_brave_] i. e. finely dressed.

# 863:

_farcels_] Is, perhaps, a word formed from the verb
_farce_ (to stuff), though I have not elsewhere met
with it.

# 864:

_do_] Old ed. “does.”

# 865:

_George_] Old ed. “Franck.”

# 866:

_foxed_] i. e. drunk.

# 867:

_Artillery Garden_] “A field enclosed with a bricke
wall, without Bishopsgate.” Stow’s _Annales_, p. 1084,
ed. 1631: see, too, his account of “The practise in
the Artillery Garden reuiued [in 161O],” _ibid._ p.
995. At a later period, “the practice” was generally
held in Moorfields: vide Stow’s _Survey_, b. iii. p.
70, ed. 1720.

# 868:

_fustian and apes breeches_] May be right, though I
cannot explain it: but qy. “Naples breeches”? In _The
Rates of Marchandizes_ (reign of James I.) various
sorts of “Naples Fustians” are mentioned.

# 869:

_the Quest-house_] Was generally the chief watch-house
in a parish: to it those were brought who were taken
up by the common watchmen; and there, I believe, about
Christmas, the aldermen and citizens of the ward used
to hold a quest, to inquire concerning misdemeanours
and annoyances. Some parishes in London still have
Quest-houses; St. Giles, Cripplegate, for instance.
From the present passage it would seem that gambling
was sometimes carried on there.

# 870:

_voyage to Guiana_] i. e., I presume, the first
voyage, under Raleigh, in 1595: there were three
voyages to Guiana; see Southey’s excellent _Lives of
Brit. Admirals_, vol. iv. pp. 257, 317, 324.

# 871:

_mark_] See note, p. 10.

# 872:

_play at the ordinary_] See note, vol. i. p. 434.

# 873:

_bevers_] i. e. potations—(the word generally means—
refreshments between meals.)

# 874:

_possess’d_] i. e. informed: or, perhaps, convinced:
see note, vol. i. p. 420.

# 875:

_reclaim_] i. e. tame.

# 876:

_set up my rest for_] i. e. stand upon, take my chance
with: a metaphor from the game of primero: see the
long article in Nares’s _Gloss_. (_Rest, to set up._)

# 877:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 878:

_sumner_] i. e. apparitor.

# 879:

_stale_] See note, p. 213.

# 880:

_felfare_] A corruption of _fieldfare_.

# 881:

_even there_] Old. ed. “ever _there_.” Qy. “even
then”?

# 882:

_Have you drunk_, &c.] After arranging the whole of
this scene as blank verse, I found it so intolerably
rugged and halting, that, with the exception of a few
speeches, I have thrown it again into prose.

# 883:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 884:

_dead pays_] i. e. pay continued to soldiers who were
dead, taken by dishonest officers for themselves.

# 885:

_rushes_] With which the floor was strewed.

# 886:

_changeling_] i. e. fool.

# 887:

_Familists_] See note, vol. i. p. 104.

# 888:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 889:

_resolve_] i. e. inform, satisfy.

# 890:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 891:

_table_] i. e. palm of the hand.

# 892:

_manchet_] See note, p. 405.

# 893:

_brave_] i. e. fine.

# 894:

_shop_] See note, vol. iii. p. 54.

# 895:

_What is’t you lack_] See note, vol. i. p. 447.

# 896:

_carnadine_] Or _carnardine_—“Is,” says Steevens, who
quotes the present passage, “the old term for
carnation.” Note on Shakespeare’s _Macbeth_, act ii.
sc. 2.

# 897:

_tabine_] A sort of wrought silk: see in v. _The Rates
of Marchandizes_, &c. in the reign of James I. Old ed.
“Tobine.”

# 898:

_eyne_] i. e. eyes.

# 899:

_an ell_] i. e. an ell-wand: compare vol. iii. p. 166.

# 900:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 901:

_vent_] i. e. vend.

# 902:

_deceiving lights_] See note, vol. i. p. 482.

# 903:

_cousin_] See notes, vol. i. p. 499, vol. iii. p. 60.

# 904:

_gummed_] “Velvet and taffeta,” says Nares, “were
sometimes stiffened with gum, to make them sit
better.” _Gloss._ (in _Gumm’d velvet._)—Brathwait
gives another reason for the use of gum;

“If a penurious Master have a mind
To Satten-face his doublet, &c.

. . . . . . . . . .

Yet I confesse this Remnant that he bought
Such a commoditie ’twas good for nought,
_Being gumm’d throughout to make it neatly shine_,
Which gave content unto this spruce Divine.”
_Honest Ghost_, 1658, p.
189.

# 905:

_How_] Old ed. “for _how_.”

# 906:

_stript_] i. e. striped: why I have not altered the
old spelling will appear from what follows.

# 907:

_stript and whipt too_] An allusion, perhaps, to the
celebrated poetical work of Wither, entitled _Abuses
Stript and Whipt_.

# 908:

_the open part, which is now called the placket_]
Another passage which disproves the assertion of
Nares: see notes, vol. ii. p. 497, vol. iii. p. 241.

# 909:

_con him thanks_] i. e. feel thankful to him: see
Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. _Con._—Tyrwhitt thinks the
expression equivalent to the French _sçavoir gré_.
_Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_.

# 910:

_so forward for a knave_] i. e. so forward a knave:
compare vol. ii. p. 421, and note.

# 911:

_Right, right_, &c.] A speech originally, perhaps,
blank verse: see note, p. 421.

# 912:

_Why, when_] A frequent expression of impatience: see
notes, vol. i. pp. 289, 362.

# 913:

_Cole-Harbour_] See note, vol. ii. p. 58.

# 914:

_innocent_] i. e. foolish, silly.

# 915:

_cauterizer_] So old ed. afterwards (p. 454): here
“cauterize.”

# 916:

_luxinium_] Occurs twice afterwards; and (p. 466)
Ralph plays on the word: but qy. “_lixivium_”?

# 917:

_bolsters_] In Vigon’s _Workes of Chirurgerie_, 1571,
various kinds of _bolsters_ are described, that “must
be applyed in hollowe vlcers,” &c. fol. cxiii.

# 918:

_tabine_] See note, p. 440. Old ed. “Tobine.”

# 919:

_subeth_] “Subée: espèce d’apoplexie.” Roquefort,
_Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ in v.

# 920:

_luxinium_] See note, p. 451.

# 921:

_If it please you_, &c.] I suspect that the whole of
this scene was originally written in blank verse: see
note, p. 421.

# 922:

_bondage_] Here old ed. has a stage-direction “_Grasps
the skain between his hands_”—i. e. the feigned page
was to hold it so that his hands might seem to be
fettered.

# 923:

_condition_] i. e. disposition, nature.

# 924:

_next your leisure_] Old ed. “_your leisure next_.”

# 925:

_believe_] Qy. “receive”?—See first line of this
scene.

# 926:

_yield_] Old ed. “yields.”

# 927:

_fancy_] i. e. love.

# 928:

_corrupt a_] Old ed. “_a corrupt_.”

# 929:

_the body not_] Old ed. “_not the body_.”

# 930:

_bush_] An allusion both to the bush carried by the
man in the moon, and to the tavern-bush: see note, p.
177.

# 931:

_os coxendix_] Comes nearest to the reading of old ed.
“Oscox-Index:” but qy. “_os coccygis_”?

# 932:

_In your shop_, &c.] Compare p. 442 of this vol., and
p. 482 of vol. i.

# 933:

_retargé_] i. e. retardé: see Cotgrave in v.

# 934:

_Turnbull Street_] See note, p. 34.

# 935:

_luxinium_] See note, p. 451.

# 936:

_cacokenny_] Qy. “cacochymy”

# 937:

_United_] Old ed. “the _united_.”

# 938:

_wife_] There can be no doubt that this speech was
originally verse, however awkwardly, in the present
state of the text, it may read as such: the answer of
George is intended to rhyme with the second line.

# 939:

_toward_] i. e. at hand.

# 940:

_as_] Old ed. “is.”

# 941:

_Sir, I do now_, &c.] Were not this speech, and the
two preceding speeches of sir F. Cressingham,
originally blank verse? see note, p. 421.

# 942:

_wild benefits of nature_] This expression occurs in
Webster’s _Dutchess of Malfi_; see my edition of his
_Works_, vol. i. p. 253: but it may be traced to Sir
P. Sidney; “to have for food _the wild benefits of
nature_.” _Arcadia_, b. iv. p. 426, ed. 1633.

# 943:

_move_] Old ed. “moves.”

# 944:

_their_] Old ed. “your.”

# 945:

_Maria ... Edw._] Old ed. “1 Childe” ... “2 Childe.”
We learn their names from an earlier scene, p. 442.

# 946:

_grutched_] i. e. grudged.

# 947:

_wainscot-gown_] If there be no misprint here,
means, perhaps, a gown with a _waving_ pattern: see
Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. _Wainscot_: but qy.
“waistcoat-_gown_”?

# 948:

_cannot away with_] i. e. cannot endure.

# 949:

_Saint Patrick’s Purgatory_] See note, vol. iii. p.
131.

# 950:

_Scene II_] Here, instead of marking a new scene, the
old ed. has “_Exeunt. manet Knaves-bee_”; and the
audience were to imagine that, when the others had
gone out, the stage represented the interior of
Knavesby’s house: see note, p. 291.

# 951:

_mark_] See note, p. 10.

# 952:

_burst_] Perhaps a couplet was intended here.

# 953:

_new_] Qy. “_new_ thoughts”?

# 954:

_beholding_] See note, p. 40.

# 955:

_bugle-brow’d_] i. e. horned: _bugle_ meant several
kinds of horned cattle,—the bull, buffalo, &c.

# 956:

_byrlakins_] i. e. by our _lady-kin_ (the diminutive
of _lady_.)

# 957:

_too_] Here again, perhaps (see note, p. 477), a
couplet was intended.

# 958:

_the other_] Old ed. “_the_ t’_other_.”

# 959:

_towards_] i. e. at hand.

# 960:

_beholding_] See note, p. 40.

# 961:

_grow thorough_] An allusion to a proverbial saying;

“There is a nest of chickens which he doth brood
That will sure _make his hayre growe through his
hood_.”
Heywood’s _Dialogue_, sig. G 2,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.

Ray gives “_His hair grows through his hood_—He is
very poor, his hood is full of holes.” _Proverbs_, p.
57, ed. 1768.

# 962:

_banes_] i. e. bans: see note, vol. i. p. 471.

# 963:

_be_] Old ed. “by.”

# 964:

_pantofles_] i. e. a sort of slippers.

# 965:

_grutch_] i. e. grudge.

# 966:

_dearest_] i. e. most hurtful, most injurious
(from the old verb _dere_, to hurt). So also in
Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_, (act i. sc. 2, “_dearest_
foe”), though Steevens explains it “most immediate,
consequential, important.”

# 967:

_defeat_] Qy. “deceit”?

# 968:

_ought_] i. e. owed.

# 969:

_do_] Old ed. “does.”

# 970:

_Dagger-pies_] i. e. pies made at _The Dagger_, a low
ordinary and public-house in Holborn; they were in
great repute, as well as its ale.

# 971:

_our Puritans_, &c.] Compare vol. ii. p. 153, and
note; also the following passage of the Latin comedy
_Cornelianum Dolium_, 1638; “imo membra sua vix
tolerare queunt quia Organa appellata sunt,” p. 6:
though the play just cited has on its title-page
“auctore T. R.” (i. e., as commonly explained, Thomas
Randolph), I have little doubt that it was written by
Brathwait.

# 972:

_away with_] i. e. endure.

# 973:

_ought_] i. e. owed.

# 974:

_provant breeches_] i. e. such breeches as were
supplied to the soldiers from the magazines of the
army: see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_,
vol. i. p. 70.—_Provant_ meant provision: “put in
apposition with any other thing,” says Nares, it
“implied that such an article was supplied for mere
provision; as we say ammunition bread, &c., meaning
a common sort.” _Gloss._ in v.

# 975:

_George_] Is printed in old ed. as the prefix to “Sir,
rest assured,” &c.

# 976:

_Scene changes_, &c.] There can be no doubt, I think,
that, on the departure of the two Franklins and
George, the poet intended the audience to suppose that
a change of scene took place as I have marked it. See
notes, pp. 291, 476.

# 977:

_countess_, &c.] i. e. Godeva: see Dugdale’s
_Warwickshire_, p. 86, ed. 1656.

# 978:

_mark_] See note, p. 10.

# 979:

_So inconsiderate_, &c.] Two lines, evidently, of
blank verse—in which, probably, more of this scene was
originally written than I have been able to arrange as
such: see note, p. 421.

# 980:

_desire_] Qy. “deserve”? compare p. 279, and note.

# 981:

_brooks no poison_] See note, vol. iii. p. 177.

# 982:

_a room_] Intent mainly on bringing together nearly
the whole of the _dramatis personæ_, Middleton appears
to have left the location of this scene to the
imagination of the audience. Soon after Water-Camlet
and George have been concealing themselves “_behind
the arras_,” Sweetball and Knavesby enter, and agree
(as if they were walking out of doors), that “the next
man they meet shall judge them.”

# 983:

_means_] i. e. tenor.

# 984:

_is but fiddling_] Old ed. “his _but_ sidling.”

# 985:

_wittol_] i. e. tame cuckold.

# 986:

_macrio_] i. e. pander, pimp.

# 987:

_sink at Queen-hive_, &c.] See note, vol. iii. p. 255.

# 988:

_The place I speak of_, &c.] See Malone’s Essay on the
Origin of _The Tempest_, reprinted in vol. xv. of his
_Shakespeare_ (by Boswell). At p. 425 of the Appendix
to that tract, Malone, having occasion to notice the
present passage, says, that _Any Thing for a Quiet
Life_ “appears from internal evidence to have been
written about the year 1619.”

# 989:

_george_] i. e. the insignia of St. George.

# 990:

_Bermothes_] Or _Bermoothes_—an old form of
_Bermudas_.

# 991:

_Divelin_] i. e. Dublin.

# 992:

_other_] Old ed. here and next line but one,
“to’ther.”

# 993:

_parle_] i. e. parley.

# 994:

_Make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 995:

_already come_] Old ed. “come already.”

# 996:

_bravely_] i. e. finely (in fine apparel).

# 997:

_the best I ever saw you at_] Old ed. “at the best I
ever saw you.”

# 998:

_came_] Old ed. “can.”

# 999:

_civil_] i. e. sober, grave, plain—opposed to
“_gallant_,” which follows.

# 1000:

_Your state_, &c.] A speech the whole of which seems
to have been originally verse: see note, p. 421.

# 1001:

_banquerout_] i. e. bankrupt.

# 1002:

_knew_] Old. ed. “know.”

# 1003:

_Thanks, and a thousand_] i. e. a thousand thanks:
compare note, vol. ii. p. 86.

# 1004:

_hire_] Old ed. “her.”

# 1005:

_triumph_] See note, p. 403.

# 1006:

_aton’d_] i. e. reconciled.

# 1007:

_censure_] i. e. judgment.

# 1008:

_Nath. Richards_] According to the _Biogr. Dram._, “was of Caius
College, Cambridge, where, in 1634, he took the degree of LL.B.” He
was author of _Messalina the Roman Empress_, a tragedy, 1640, and
_Poems Sacred and Satyricall_, 1641.

# 1009:

_Bianca_] Old ed., both in the list of characters and
throughout the play, “Brancha.” The violation of metre
which the latter name occasions would alone be
sufficient to prove it a misprint: e. g.:

“Sure you’re not well, _Brancha_; how dost, prithee?”

“What shall I think of first? Come forth, _Brancha_.”

“Thou hast been seen, _Brancha_, by some stranger.”

“_Brancha._
Would you keep me closer yet?”

“I should fall forward rather.
Come, _Brancha_.”

“Come sit, _Brancha_.
This is some good yet.”

“Here’s to thyself, _Brancha_.
Nothing comes.”

“Of bright _Brancha_; we sat all in darkness.”

Her family name, as we learn from act iii. sc. 1, was
Capello.—Most readers will recollect the celebrated
_Bianca Capello_, second wife of Francis de Medici,
grand duke of Tuscany: the earlier events in her
history, and in that of the Bianca of the tragedy,
have a sort of resemblance; both fled from Venice to
Florence, &c.

# 1010:

_unvalu’dst_] i. e. invaluablest.

# 1011:

_spoke_] Old ed. “spake.”

# 1012:
GUAR. _Light her now, brother_] Here, I apprehend,
is some corruption of the text, and something wrong
in the assignment of the speeches; but feeling
dissatisfied with the alterations which I attempted,
I leave the passage as it stands in the old ed.

# 1013:

_jacks_] i. e. fellows.

# 1014:

_cat and cat-stick_] “TIP-CAT, or perhaps more
properly, the _game_ of CAT, is a rustic pastime well
known in many parts of the kingdom. Its denomination
is derived from a piece of wood called a _cat_, with
which it is played; the cat is about six inches in
length, and an inch and a half or two inches in
diameter, and diminished from the middle to both the
ends, in the shape of a double cone; by this curious
contrivance the places of the trap and of the ball are
at once supplied, for when the cat is laid upon the
ground, the player with his cudgel [or cat-stick]
strikes it smartly, it matters not at which end, and
it will rise with a rotatory motion, high enough for
him to beat it away as it falls, in the same manner as
he would a ball.” _Sports_, &c. (p. 86), by Strutt,
who describes two of the various ways in which the
game is played.—The “trap-stick” with which the Ward
enters is, of course, the same as cat-stick; and
“tippings” is a term of the game.

# 1015:

_mar’l_] i. e. marvel.

# 1016:

_thy_] Old ed. “that.”

# 1017:

_Byrlady_] i. e. By our lady.

# 1018:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 1019:

_Walk’d_] Altered by the editor of 1816 to “Wak’d:”
but compare p. 526, “they _walk_ out their sleeps,”
&c.

# 1020:

_revel_] Old ed. “revels.”

# 1021:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 1022:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 1023:

_to_] i. e. compared with.

# 1024:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 1025:

_summ’d_] Old ed. “sow’d.”

# 1026:

_bless you._—_Simple, lead_, &c.] Qy. “bless you
_simply_.—Lead”? &c. Old ed. thus, “bless; you simple,
lead,” &c.

# 1027:

_towards_] i. e. in preparation.

# 1028:

_likes_] i. e. pleases.

# 1029:

_passage_] “It is a game at dice, to be played at but
by two, and it is performed with three dice. The
caster throws continually till he hath thrown doublets
under ten, and then he is out and loseth; or doublets
above ten, and then he _passeth_ and wins. _Complete
Gamester._” Editor of 1816.

# 1030:

_trow_] i. e. think you.

# 1031:

_pearl in eye_] See note, p. 125.

# 1032:

_bum-roll_] See note, vol. i. p. 432.

# 1033:

_It may take handsomely_] After this speech the editor
of 1816 puts a stage-direction, “_Guard. goes out and
returns almost immediately_,” and follows the old ed.
in marking the subsequent entrance thus, “_Enter
Mother_.”

# 1034:

_merrily_] Old ed. “meerly.”

# 1035:

_Attend the gentlewoman_] Part of the present scene,—
from the entrance of the Mother to these words,—is
given, with a few omissions, in _Specimens of Engl.
Dram. Poets_, by Lamb, who observes, “This is one of
those scenes which has the air of being an immediate
transcript from life. Livia, the ’good neighbour,' is
as real a creature as one of Chaucer’s characters. She
is such another jolly Housewife as the Wife of Bath.”
P. 155.

# 1036:

_condition_] See note, p. 457.

# 1037:

_duke_] See p. 311.

# 1038:

_above_] The upper-stage (see note, vol. ii. p. 125)
was probably intended to represent “for the nonce” a
gallery.

# 1039:

_Draws a curtain_, &c.] The upper-stage was furnished
with curtains. Old ed. has merely “_Duke above_.”

# 1040:

_here_] Old ed. “here’s.”

# 1041:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 1042:

_why_] Old ed. “who.”

# 1043:

_beholding_] See note, p. 40.

# 1044:

_cutted_] i. e. “cross, querulous.” Editor of 1816.

# 1045:

_of_] Qy. “or”?

# 1046:

_byrlady_] See note, p. 530.

# 1047:

_likes_] i. e. pleases.

# 1048:

_casting-bottle_] See note, vol. ii. p. 216.

# 1049:

_white boys_] There is a play on words here: “white
boy” was often used as a term of endearment;
“And that’s to talk of her _white boy_, she’s fond
on.”
Brome’s _New Academy_, p. 7 (_Five New Playes_,
1659.)

# 1050:

_is_] Old ed. “as.”

# 1051:

_dislik’d_] i. e. displeased.

# 1052:

_’tis_] Old ed. “’till.”

# 1053:

_Bianca Capello_] Old ed. “Brancha Capella:” see note,
p. 516.

# 1054:

_sucket_] i. e. sweetmeat.

# 1055:

_march-pane_] See note, vol. iii. p. 269.

# 1056:

_Livia’s house_] See pp. 573, 576, 593. She and
Guardiano, it appears, were inhabiting the same
mansion.

# 1057:

_deft_] i. e. neat, spruce.

# 1058:

_wine and sweetmeats_] Of which a banquet consisted:
see note, vol. iii. p. 252.

# 1059:

_Rouans’_] A misprint, I presume; but qy. for what?

# 1060:

_barren_] i. e. dull, stupid.

# 1061:

_trow_] i. e. think you.

# 1062:

_cat and trap_] See note, p. 527.

# 1063:

_breast_] i. e. voice. Compare vol. iii. p. 576.

# 1064:

_pricksong_] See note, vol. iii. p. 626.

# 1065:

_of_] Old ed. “_of_ a.”

# 1066:

_Aside_] “I think there is every reason to believe
Brancha’s [Bianca’s] speech and the Duke’s spoken, as
I have marked them, the one _aside_, and the other to
Brancha; they were certainly not intended to be
generally heard.” Editor of 1816.—Perhaps Bianca’s
speech is addressed to the Duke.

# 1067:

_unvalu’d_] i. e. invaluable.

# 1068:

_prick and praise_] See note, vol. ii. p. 133.

# 1069:

_measures_] See note, vol. i. p. 233.

# 1070:

_sinquapace_] Properly _cinque-pace_: see note, vol.
iii. p. 631.

# 1071:

_hay_] Or _hey_—according to some, an abbreviation of
_hey-de-guize_ (see note, p. 163): is “gay” formed
from the same variously-spelt word?

# 1072:

_round_] See note, vol. ii. p. 190.

# 1073:

_canaries_] See note, vol. iii. p. 39.

# 1074:

_passion_] i. e. sorrow.

# 1075:

_vild_] See note, p. 137.

# 1076:

_hearse_] “In imitation of which [cenotaph] our
_hearses_ here in England are set up in churches,
during the continuance of a yeare, or the space of
certaine monthes.” Weever—cited in Todd’s Johnson’s
_Dict._ v. _Hearse_.

# 1077:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 1078:

_woodcock_] i. e. simpleton: compare vol. iii. p. 46.

# 1079:

_innocent_] i. e. idiot, fool: see pp. 299, 451.

# 1080:

_cried_] i. e. proclaimed as lost by the public crier.

# 1081:

_cater’s_] i. e. caterer’s.

# 1082:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 1083:

_do_] Old ed. “does.”

# 1084:

_stool-ball_] So called from being played with a stool
(or stools) and a ball: see _Sports_, &c., by Strutt,
who says, “it seems to have been a game more properly
appropriated to the women than to the men.” P. 77.

# 1085:

_rushes_] With which the floors were strewed.

# 1086:

_breed ’em all in your teeth_] “In allusion to a
superstitious idea, that an affectionate husband had
the toothache while his wife was breeding.” Editor of
1816.

# 1087:

_wait_] Old ed. “waits.”

# 1088:

_go_] Old ed. “goes.”

# 1089:

_in sadness_] i. e. in seriousness—seriously.

# 1090:

_three legs_] i. e. “three bows.” Editor of 1816.

# 1091:

_brave_] i. e. finely dressed.

# 1092:

_Will you_, &c.] I give these speeches as they stand
in old ed. In whatever way the lines are divided, the
metre will not run regularly.

# 1093:

_know_] Old ed. “knew.”

# 1094:

_cure’s_] Qy. “care’s”?

# 1095:

_low_] Old ed. “love.”

# 1096:

_set_] Old ed. “sets.”

# 1097:

_Sung for a hymn in heaven_] “It is needless to say
that our poet here alludes to a passage in the 15th
chapter of St. Luke.” Editor of 1816.

# 1098:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 1099:

_Break_] Old ed. “Breaks.”

# 1100:

_wilful murder_] After these words the editor of 1816
inserts a stage-direction “_They seize Hip._” But if
they lay hands on him now, it is plain, from what
follows, that they presently leave him at liberty.

# 1101:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 1102:

_breast_] See p. 583.

# 1103:

_sinquapace_] Properly _cinque-pace_: see note, vol.
iii. p. 631.

# 1104:

_pillowbeers_] i. e. pillow-cases.

# 1105:

_angels_] i. e. gold coins worth about ten shillings.

# 1106:

_all’s_] So old ed.—for “all as.”

# 1107:

_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied, convinced.

# 1108:

_thus_] Altered, unnecessarily I think, to “that’s,”
by the editor of 1816.

# 1109:

_And sets ’em all in order_] “Brancha [Bianca] here
evidently alludes to the 13th chapter of St. Paul’s
first Epistle to the Corinthians.” Editor of 1816.

# 1110:

_caltrop_] “A Caltrop; or iron engine of warre, made
with foure pricks, or sharp points, whereof one,
howsoeuer it is cast, euer stands upward.” Cotgrave’s
_Dict._ in v. _Chaussetrape_.

# 1111:

_triumph_] i. e. show, masque.

# 1112:

_stamp_] See vol. iii. p. 368.

# 1113:

_above_] i. e. on the upper stage: see note, vol. ii.
p. 125.

# 1114:

_sake ... part_] As the rest of the dialogue is in
rhyme, I suspect that something has dropt out here.

# 1115:

_antimasque_] i. e. an interlude introduced during the
masque, “something directly opposed to the principal
masque:” see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_,
vol. vii. p. 251.

# 1116:

_Ay, and makes love—take that_] The editor of 1816
follows the pointing of the old ed., “Ay, and makes
love take that,” remarking, in a note, “I confess I
have no very clear understanding of this passage.” The
difficulty lies in knowing what “that” is by which
Livia destroys Isabella.

# 1117:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 1118:

_Runs on a sword_, &c.] i. e. perhaps on a sword
carried by one of the guard. The editor of 1816 gives
“_Falls on his sword_;” but see the preceding speech
of Hippolito.

# 1119:

_Drinks_, &c.] Here the editor of 1816 gives
“_Stabs herself_,” observing in a note, “I have
added this stage-direction, without which I cannot
otherwise understand the following speech of the
Lord Cardinal’s.” But it is evident, I think, from
the last words of Bianca,—

“Tasting the same death in a cup of love,”—
that she drains off the poisoned cup which she had
prepared for the Cardinal, and which Ganymede had by
mistake presented to the Duke.

# 1120:

_no enemy_] Old ed. “_no Enemy_, no Enemy.”

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Transcriber’s Note

The author shifted between prose speech and blank verse,
sometimes in mid-speech. In this rendering, verse
sections are given without blank lines between speeches,
with an indentation for each speech.

Stage directions, except for entrances, can be:

in-line
in the middle of a line and delimited with ‘[
]’,

end of line
right-justified on the same line (where there
is room), with only the leading ‘[’,

next line
right-justified on the following line, where
there is insufficent room, with a hanging
indent, if necessary.

The same convention is followed here. Since this version
is wider than the original, most directions are on the
same line as the speech.

Entrances were centered and separated slightly from
lines above and below. This is rendered here as a full
blank line.

The footnote scheme used lettered references, repeating
a-z. On numerous occasions, letters were repeated, and
sometimes skipped. The numeric resequencing of notes
here resolves those lapses. Footnotes are sometimes
referred to directly in a footnote by its letter
designation. The few direct references to a lettered
note use the new numeric value.

Note 891 regarding “Familists” of Amsterdam, refers the
reader to a note on p. 104 of Volume 1. No relevant note
appears there, but it is likely that the reference
should be to the introductory note to “The Family of
Love” in Volume 2, beginning on p. 103.

The cross-reference in note 194 for the term
‘_foisting_’ refers to p. 544 of vol. iii. The reference
is to note 1186 in vol. ii.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been
corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the
page and line in the original.

26.33 Thou[l’/’l]t make me play Transposed.
118.33 _foisting_] See note, vol. ii[i]., p. 544. Removed
119.33 a very small coin.[”] Added.
193.34 [“]First, promise me Added.
466.36 _cacokenny_] Qy. [“]cacochymy” Added.

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A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE.

Vol. iv. p. 5, last line.

_board_] The spelling of the old ed. is right—“_bord_,”
i. e. size. So in Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Knight of the
Burning Pestle_;

“underneath his chin
He plants a brazen piece of mighty _bord_.”
Act iii. sc. 2—_Works_, vol. i. p. 214, ed. Weber.

where, says M. Mason, “_bord_ means rim or
circumference.”

Vol. iv. p. 32, l. 4.

_corps_] So the word is used as a plural in _Epigrams
and Satyres_, by Richard Middleton, 1608;

“the Tyrants brazen bull
Of Agrigentine, which being crammed full
Of humane _corps_, did roare with such a maine,” &c.
p. 34.

Vol. iv. p. 66, note, read

“111 _Rider’s Dictionary_] _A Dict. Engl. and Lat. and
Lat. and Engl._, by John Rider, first printed at Oxford,
1589, was a work once in great repute.”

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THE SPANISH GIPSY.

Vol. iv. p. 145, last line but one.

“this she, trow;”

Read

“this she, trow?”

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A GAME AT CHESS.

Vol. iv. p. 310, l. 1.

_Roch, Main, and Petronill, itch and ague curers_]
Compare Taylor the water-poet: “he must be content with
his office, as ... Saint Roch with scabbes and scurfes
... Saint Petronella the Ague or any Feuer.” _A Bawd_,
p. 93—_Workes_, 1630.

Vol. iv. p. 407, l. 6.

_Epistle to Nicholas the first_, &c.] Since writing the
note on these words, I have found in the Κειμηλια
_Literaria_ of Colomesius what he calls a confirmation
of the absurd story of the six thousand infants’ heads.
“Simile quid narratur a Joscelino, in Episcoporum
Cantuariensium Vitis, p. 210. editionis Hanovianæ.
_Anno 1309_, inquit, _Radulphus Bourn Augustinensis
Ecclesiæ Abbas electus, cum ad Papam Avinioni agentem
confirmandus accessisset, reversus domum, testatur se
vidisse in itinere piscinam in quadam Monialium Abbatia,
quæ_ PROVINES _dicebatur; in qua, cum educta aqua luto
purgaretur, multa parvulorum ossa, ipsaque corpora adhuc
integra reperiebantur. Unde ad criminalia judicia
subeunda viginti septem Moniales Parisios ductæ et
carceribus mancipatæ fuerunt, de quibus quid actum
fuerit, nescivit_.” Col. _Opera_, p. 301, ed. Fabr.

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ANY THING FOR A QUIET LIFE.

Vol. iv. p. 489, l. 25.

_the new prophet, the astrological tailor_] Perhaps
Ball, who is thus mentioned by Osborn: “And, if common
Fame did not outstrip Truth, King James was by Fear led
into this extreme; finding his Son Henry not only averse
to any Popish Match, but saluted by the Puritans as one
prefigured in the Apocalyps for Rome’s destruction. And
to parallel this, one Ball, a Taylor, was inspired with
a like Lunacy, tho’ something more chargeable; for not
only he, but Ramsay his Majesty’s Watch-maker, put out
Money and Clocks, to be paid (but with small Advantage,
considering the Improbability) when King James should be
crowned in the Pope’s chair.” _Trad. Memor. on the Reign
of K. James_—_Works_, vol. ii. p. 153, ed. 1722; see
also B. Jonson’s _Works_ by Gifford, vol. v. p. 242.

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WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN.

Vol. iv. p. 520, l. 20.

_To take out_] i. e. to copy—a not uncommon expression
in our old writers.