Chapter XXI: Appendix (2)

waft, ii. 394.
wainscot-gown, iv. 473.
waistcoat, iii. 45.
wale, i. 452.
walk, i. 449.
wapper-eyed, v. 528.
ward, iv. 221.
warden-tree, iii. 189.
[warning-piece, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxiv.]
wassail-bowl, v. 143.
wasters, iii. 166.
watchet, ii. 72.
watermen, great number of, ii. 451.
wears a smock, i. 436.
wedlocks, ii. 481.
welkin, iii. 16.
Welsh ambassador, ii. 88, 316.
welted, iii. 87.
western pug, ii. 522.
westward ho, ii. 520.
wet finger, with a, iii. 10.
what are you for a coxcomb, iii. 376.
what is she for a fool, ii. 421.
what lack you, i. 447; ii. 453; iii. 24; iv. 9.
what should he be for a man, ii. 137.
when, i. 289; ii. 233; iii. 164; iv. 451.
where, v. 355.
where, i. 28; ii. 96; iii. 562; iv. 16; v. 243.
whereas, v. 576.
whiblins, iii. 13.
whiffler, iii. 511.
while, i. 18; iii. 534.
whilom, v. 79.
whip-jack, ii. 535.
Whirligig, The, i. 202.
whist, v. 497.
white, iv. 568.
White-Friars’ nunnery, v. 576.
whittles, iii. 390.
wide a’ the bow-hand, iii. 14.
[widow’s notch, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxv.]
Wigmore’s galliard, ii. 280.
wild dell, ii. 538.
[wild of Kent, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxiv.]
wild rogue, ii. 537.
will, i. 437.
Willow, willow, willow, i. 234.
[wind-mills, the six, _Ad. & Cor._ i. lxxii.]
wine and sugar, iii. 542.
wings, v. 524.
wipes his nose, ii. 14.
wire, iv. 226.
wish, iii. 31.
Wit, whither wilt thou, iii. 611.
witches selling winds, iv. 210.
with child, iii. 65.
wittol, i. 331; ii. 335; iv. 14.
wood, i. 28; v. 445.
woodcock, iii. 46; iv. 595.
woodcock of our side, i. 203, 290.
Wookey-Hole, iii. 539.
Woolner, v. 508.
wool-ward, v. 527.
word, ii. 190.
word, ii. 258; iii. 537; iv. 334; v. 299.
world, it is a, v. 429.
worm, v. 556.
wrack, i. 403.
wrench’d, v. 426.

y-cleped, ii. 410.
y-meditate, v. 175.
yellow, i. 300; iii. 134; v. 182.
yellow bands, iii. 422.
yon, ii. 263.
youths, the, ii. 124.

zanies, i. 261.

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Footnotes

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# 1:

_passion_] i. e. sorrow.

# 2:

_arrant_] The rhyme requiring the old spelling.

# 3:

_Before Sir Oliver Twilight’s house_] There is nothing
in this scene to assist us in determining where it
takes place. Perhaps I have not marked it rightly; but
the location now given to it seems, on the whole, to
be that which is least objectionable.

# 4:

_his affected mistress_] i.e. the mistress whom he
affects.

# 5:

_have_] Old ed. “hath.”

# 6:

_See where he comes_] I possess a copy of this play,
which seems to have been used by the prompter towards
the end of the 17th century, several passages being
altered, and many marked for omission. As a specimen
of the former, the present speech will suffice:

“See where he comes, _as melancholly and angry as a
looseing Bully of Marribone_.”

# 7:

_True_] Qy. “Tush”?

# 8:

_ne’er_] Old ed. “now.”

# 9:

_the Dunkirks_] See note, vol. iii. p. 132.

# 10:

_him_] i. e. Philip.

# 11:

_unkindly_] i. e. unnatural (not according to _kind_—
nature).

# 12:

_dower_] Old ed. “Down.”

# 13:

_covetous_] Old ed. “courteous.”

# 14:

_May-butter_] “If during the moneth of May before you
salt your butter you saue a lumpe thereof, and put it
into a vessell, and so set it into the Sun the
space of that moneth, you shall finde it exceeding
soueraigne and medicinable for wounds, straines,
aches, and such like grievances.” G. Markham’s
_English Housewife_, p. 199, ed. 1637.

# 15:

_condition_] i. e. disposition, nature.

# 16:

_Thanks, good_, &c.] Makes in old ed. a portion of
Jane’s speech.

# 17:

_Dowland’s Lacrymæ_] “_Lachrimæ_ or seaven Teares
figured in seaven passionate Pauans, with divers other
Pauans, Galiards, and Almands, set forth for the Lute,
Viols, or Violons, in five Parts,” was a very popular
musical work, composed by John Dowland, a celebrated
lutanist.

# 18:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 19:

_my almanac_] Compare vol. iii. p. 537, and note.

# 20:

_tenth_] Old ed. “eleventh.”

# 21:

_against the hair_] i. e. against the grain, contrary
to nature.

# 22:

_devil_] old ed. “Devils.”

# 23:

_angels_] A play on the word—gold coins worth about
ten shillings each.

# 24:

_runs there ... no comfortable strain_] Compare
Skelton’s _Magnyfycence_;

“The _streynes_ of her vaynes [veins] as asure Inde
blewe.”
Sig. E ii. n. d.

The verb is more common;

“Rills rising out of euery Banck,
In wilde Meanders strayne.”
Drayton’s _Muses Elizium_, p. 2, ed. 1630.

# 25:

_jets_] i. e. struts.

# 26:

_price_] Qy. “piece”?

# 27:

_an adversary_] Old ed. “a longer _adversary_.”

# 28:

_brief_] i. e. short writing.

# 29:

_lose_] Used here perhaps ironically: but qy.
“taste”?

# 30:

_suits_] Old ed. “Suiters.”

# 31:

_glass_] A friend suggests “gloss:” but in act ii.
sc. 1, Lady G. says of the letter in question, “here’s
a _glass_ will shew him,” &c.

# 32:

_brave_] i. e. fine.

# 33:

_Herein_] Qy. “Wherein”?

# 34:

_shut_] Old ed. “shuts.”

# 35:

_Philip_] After this word old ed. gives a
stage-direction “_Enter Philip_,” though it has
previously marked his entrance at the commencement of
the scene.

# 36:

_Pist_] i. e. Hist: compare vol. ii. p. 460.—Old ed.
“Pish.”

# 37:

_ye_] Old ed. “you”—but this line was meant to rhyme
with the next.

# 38:

_ought_] i. e. owed.

# 39:

_sh’ owes_] Old ed. “shows:”—_owes_, i. e. owns,
possesses.

# 40:

_trow_] i. e. think you.

# 41:

_great slops_] i. e. wide trousers.

# 42:

_be cover’d_] i. e. put on your hat.

# 43:

_passion_] i. e. sorrow.

# 44:

_budgelling_] Perhaps a form of _boggling_. A friend
suggests “budgetting.”

# 45:

_son_] Qy. “sum”? but perhaps “this” in the next line
means Savourwit.

# 46:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 47:

_lets_] i. e. hinders.

# 48:

_I’d_] Old ed. “I’ll.”

# 49:

_hartichalks and cabishes_] i. e. artichokes and
cabbages.

# 50:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 51:

_squat_] Jamieson (_Sup. to Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._)
gives “_Squat_, to strike with the open hand,
particularly on the breech,” in which sense the word
seems to be used above.

# 52:

_Beholding_] i. e. Beholden—a form of the word
frequent in old writers.

# 53:

_resolve_] i. e. satisfy, inform.

# 54:

_quit_] i. e. requite.

# 55:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 56:

_necessary property_] This expression occurs in vol.
iii. p. 598: see note, p. 640 of that vol., and note,
vol. ii. p. 308.

# 57:

_strossers_] Or _trossers_, _trusses_, &c.—i. e. tight
drawers: see Gifford’s note on Shirley’s _Works_, vol.
i. p. 19.

# 58:

_trenchers_, &c.] Compare vol. i. p. 31; vol. iii. p.
98.

# 59:

_Now, gallant_, &c.] Is read, in old ed., by lady
Goldenfleece.

# 60:

_conceit_] i. e. fanciful thought, ingenious device—
alluding to the Signs which are presently brought in.

# 61:

_have at_, &c.] Compare vol. iii. p. 359.

# 62:

_banquet_] Equivalent (as I have already observed, see
note, vol. iii. p. 252,) to what we now call a
dessert. G. Markham, in his _English Housewife_, has
the following passage. “I will now proceed to the
ordering or setting forth of a Banquet, wherein you
shall observe, that Marchpanes have the first place,
the middle place and last place; your preserved fruits
shall be dish’d up first, your pastes next, your wet
Suckets after them, then your dryed Suckets, then your
Marmalades, and Goodiniakes, then your Comfets of all
kindes; Next your Peares, Apples, Wardens back’d, raw
or rosted, and your Orenges and Lemons sliced; and
lastly, your Wafer-cakes. Thus you shall order them in
the closet: but when they goe to the Table, you shall
first send forth a dish made for shew only, as Beast,
Bird, Fish, Fowle, according to the invention: then
your Marchpane, then preserved fruite, then a Paste,
then a wet Sucket, then a dry Sucket, Marmalade,
Comfets, Apples, Peares, Wardens, Orenges and Lemons,
sliced; and then Wafers, and another dish of preserved
fruites, and so consequently all the rest before, no
two dishes of one kinde going or standing together,
and this will not onely appeare delicate to the eye,
but invite the appetite with the much variety
thereof.” P. 136, ed. 1637.

# 63:

_Take no care for me, widow_] I may just observe, that
this speech of Weatherwise, and his next speech but
one, “By the mass,” &c., seem to have been intended
for blank verse; and probably are somewhat corrupted.

# 64:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 65:

_Yes_] Qy. “Yet”?

# 66:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 67:

_Come cut and long tail_] i. e. come who will—dogs of
all sorts.

# 68:

_Townbull Street_] i. e. a jocular corruption, I
suppose, of Turnbull, or, properly, Turnmill Street:
see note, vol. iv. p. 34.

# 69:

_Standard_] See note, vol. i. p. 438.

# 70:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 71:

_cypress_] Written also _cyprus_, _cipres_—a stuff
something like (or, according to Nares, _Gloss._ in
v., the same as) crape.

# 72:

_yon_] Old ed. “you.”

# 73:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 74:

_these_] Old ed. “this.”

# 75:

_resolve_] i. e. satisfy, inform.

# 76:

_beholding_] See note, p. 36.

# 77:

_quit_] i. e. requite.

# 78:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 79:

_resolve_] See note, p. 52—“her kinswoman” in this
line means Jane.

# 80:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 81:

_Staying Lady Twilight_] Old ed. “_Shogs his Mother._”

# 82:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 83:

_to_] i. e. compared with.

# 84:

_play_] Old ed. “plays.”

# 85:

_ye_] Old ed. “you:” but a couplet was evidently
intended.

# 86:

_jealous_] i. e. suspicious.

# 87:

_devotion_] Compare the _Communion Service_, “shall
receive the alms for the poor, and other _devotions_
of the people, in a decent basin.”

# 88:

_Approve_] i. e. prove.

# 89:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 90:

_these_] Old ed. “those.”

# 91:

_like_] i. e. please.

# 92:

_rubs ... mistress_] A metaphor from the game of
bowls: the _mistress_ meant the small ball, now called
the jack, at which the players aim.

# 93:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 94:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 95:

_knew_] Old ed. “know.”

# 96:

_peevish_] i. e. foolish, weak, poor.

# 97:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 98:

_Throws_, &c.] Old ed. “_Throws somewhat at him_.”

# 99:

_lead_] Old ed. “leads.”

# 100:

_cogging_] i. e. lying, cheating. The particular
allusion I do not understand.

# 101:

_voider_] See note, vol. iv. p. 405.

# 102:

_ordinary_, &c.] See note, vol. i. p. 389.

# 103:

_parbreaking_] i. e. vomiting.—Old ed. “Barbreaking.”

# 104:

_feed_] A friend conjectures “fleet”—i. e. float; but
notwithstanding the confusion of metaphors, I believe
that the text is right.

# 105:

_affection_] Old ed. “affliction.”

# 106:

_suffice_] Old ed. “suffer.”

# 107:

_proper_] i. e. handsome.

# 108:

_Make clear the weather_] The words of mistress
Low-water to Beveril: see above.

# 109:

_Act III._] I am not responsible (as in some other of
Middleton’s dramas) for the division of this play into
acts; which I notice on account of the comparative
shortness of the present act.

# 110:

_bewrayed_] i. e. betrayed, discovered.

# 111:

_tail_] Old ed. “tails.”

# 112:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 113:

_slander_] Old ed. “slave.” The author, I apprehend,
would hardly have written “slaver” (in the sense of
slander.)

# 114:

_whilom_] i. e. once, formerly.

# 115:

_passion_] i. e. grief.

# 116:

_Pond’s Almanac_] The following is the title of the
earliest Pond’s _Almanac_ I have met with,—“_Ponde.
1607. A President for Prognosticators. A new Almanacke
for this present yeare of our Lord God M.DCVII. Being
the third after Leape yeare. Calculated for the
Latitude and Meridian of the Auncient shire towne of
Essex called Chelmesford: And generally for all great
Britaine, amplyfied with new additions, By Edward
Pond: practicioner in the Mathematickes & Phisick.
Imprinted at London for the Company of Stationers._”

# 117:

_Fifth day_, &c.] Compare vol. iii. p. 537, and p. 18
of this volume.

# 118:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 119:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 120:

_believ’d_] Old ed. “bely’d.”

# 121:

_candles_] Qy. “caudles”?

# 122:

_aqua vitæ_] See note, vol. iii. p. 239.

# 123:

_stand_] Old ed. “stands.”

# 124:

_parsons_] So old ed.: compare vol. iii. p. 77, and
note.

# 125:

_slip_] See note, vol. ii. p. 417.

# 126:

_resolve_] See note, p. 52.

# 127:

_Are_] Old ed. “Is.”

# 128:

_nicely_] i. e. scrupulously.

# 129:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 130:

_proceeded_] A university term: compare vol. iv. p.
68, and note.

# 131:

_Air_] Old ed. “fair.”

# 132:

_aloof off_] Compare vols. i. p. 427; iii. p. 40, and
notes.

# 133:

_joy_] Old ed. “joys.”

# 134:

_lets_] i. e. hinders.

# 135:

_quit_] i. e. acquitted.

# 136:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 137:

_proper_] i. e. handsome.

# 138:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 139:

_faith_] Old ed. “y’_faith_.”

# 140:

_set_] Old ed. “sets;” and in next line but one “Has.”

# 141:

_’fection_] So old ed.—a contraction of _affection_—i.
e. affectation.

# 142:

_old_] See note, vol. ii. p. 538.

# 143:

_to approv’d_] i. e. to have proved.

# 144:

_Hole_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.]

# 145:

_Sir O. Twi., &c._] Old ed. “_All. Sir Ol._”

# 146:

_knows_] Old ed. “that _knows_.”

# 147:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 148:

_branched_] Has been explained—embroidered, flowered
(see Todd’s Johnson’s _Dict._ and Cotgrave’s in v.);
but if Gifford be right (note on Ford’s _Works_, vol.
ii. p. 510), it means “with tufts, or tassels,
dependent from the shoulders.”

# 149:

_sweep_] Old ed. “sweeps.”

# 150:

_bleaking-house_] i. e. bleaching-house.

# 151:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 152:

_warring_] Old ed. “waiting.”

# 153:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 154:

_blue-coats_] i. e. servants—who usually wore blue.

# 155:

_Scene closes_] Old ed. has “_Manent Widow and
Mrs. Low-water_,” and after that stage-direction,
distinctly marks, “_Act 5. Scæn. 1._”

# 156:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 157:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 158:

_miss’d_] Old ed. “must.”

# 159:

_powers_] Qy. “pores”?

# 160:

_above_] i.e. on the upper stage—which was supposed to
represent a gallery on this occasion: see note, vol.
ii. p. 125.

# 161:

_best_—] So old ed. Qy. “best _bow_”—a couplet being
intended?

# 162:

_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied.

# 163:

_refuse_] i. e. renounce.

# 164:

_knew_] Old ed. “know.”

# 165:

_no_] See note, vol. i. p. 169.

# 166:

_knew_] Old ed. “know.”

# 167:

_rule_] Used, perhaps, as a dissyllable; but qy. “yet
_rule_”?

# 168:

_the Bear at the Bridge-foot in heaven_] If Steevens
had recollected this passage, he would not have
proposed to alter the following one in _The Puritan_
by reading “in _the even_” for “in heaven,”—“Ay, by
yon Bear at Bridge-foot _in heaven_, shalt thou.”
Malone’s _Supp. to Shakespeare_, vol. ii. p. 559.—The
Bear was a well-known tavern—according to Steevens
(ibid.), “at the foot of London bridge.” Gifford says,
in a note on Shirley’s _Lady of Pleasure_, where this
expression occurs (_Works_, vol. iv. p. 72), that “the
_bridge_ meant was in Shirley’s time called the
Strand-bridge.”

# 169:

_Hoyday! there’s ... revenge to thee_] Here, perhaps,
the text is corrupted, as the metre is faulty.

# 170:

_quit_] i. e. requite.

# 171:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 172:

_the act_, &c.] “An Acte to restrayne all persons from
Marriage untill theire former Wyves and former
Husbandes be deade.”

# 173:

_neck-verse_] i. e. the verse (generally the beginning
of the 51st Psalm, _Miserere mei_, &c.) read by a
criminal to entitle him to benefit of clergy.

# 174:

_exercis’d_] Old ed. “examin’d.”

# 175:

_hose_] i. e. breeches.

# 176:

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

# 177:

_weakness_] An evident misprint; but I know not what
word to substitute for it: qy. “wittiness”? see title
of the play.

# 178:

_lets_] i. e. hinders.

# 179:

_cog_] See note, p. 71.

# 180:

_answer_] Here a line (ending with the word “Cancer”)
has dropt out.

# 181:

_vild_] i. e. vile: a form common in our early
writers.

# 182:

_who’s this_] Old ed. “_who’s_ t’is.”

# 183:

_Kersmas_] A corruption of _Christmas_.

# 184:

_poulters’_] i. e. poulterers’.

# 185:

_frampole_] A word variously written: see note, vol.
ii, p. 477.

# 186:

_spiny_] i. e. thin, slender.

# 187:

_nunchions ... bever_] Refreshments taken between
meals; see Richardson’s _Dict._ in vv.: the latter
seems, properly, to mean a _whet_.

# 188:

_stomachful_] i. e. stubborn.

# 189:

_Choosing King and Queen_] See much concerning the
Choosing of King and Queen on Twelfth Day, in Brand’s
_Pop. Antiq._ vol. i. p. 19, ed. 1813.

# 190:

_In-and-in_] A game at dice,—“very much used in an
ordinary,” says Cotton: see _Compleat Gamester_, p.
164, ed. 1674.

# 191:

_the basket_] In which the broken meat and bread from
the sheriffs’ table was carried to the Counters, for
the use of the poorer prisoners.

# 192:

_Gleek and Primavista_] Games at cards: concerning the
former, see _The Compleat Gamester_, p. 90; and for an
account of the latter, which is the same as _Primero_,
vide Singer’s _Researches into Hist. of Playing
Cards_, p. 248, and Nares’s _Gloss._ in v.

# 193:

_Noddy_] A game at cards, which seems to have been
played in more ways than one: see Nares’s _Gloss._ in
v.

# 194:

_Tickle-me-quickly_ ... _My-lady’s-hole_ ...
_My-sow-has-pigged_] Games at cards.

# 195:

_my nephew Gambols_] In _The Masque of Christmas_,
1616, Ben Jonson introduces Christmas and his ten
children, among whom is “GAMBOL, _like a tumbler, with
a hoop and bells; his torch-bearer armed with a
colt-staff and a binding-cloth_.” Works (by Gifford),
vol. vii. p. 274.

# 196:

_shoe the mare_] A Christmas sport:

“Of Blind-man-buffe, and of the care
That young men have to _shooe the Mare_.”
Herrick’s _Hesperides_, &c. p. 146, ed. 1648.

# 197:

_Wassail-bowl_] Filled with spiced wine or ale, &c.,
and used on New-year’s eve, &c.: see Brand’s _Pop.
Antiq._ vol. i. p. 1, sqq. ed. 1813. In the Masque by
Jonson just mentioned, one of the children of
Christmas is “WASSEL, _like a neat sempster, and
songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with
ribands and rosemary, before her_.”

# 198:

_affects_] i. e. affections, feelings.

# 199:

_D. Al._] Old ed. “_Fast_.”

# 200:

_the long porter_] “Walter Parsons born in this County
was first Apprentice to a Smith, when he grew so tall
in stature, that a hole was made for him in the Ground
to stand therein up to the knees, so to make him
adequate with his Fellow-work-men. He afterwards was
Porter to King James; seeing as Gates generally are
higher than the rest of the Building, so it was
sightly that the Porter should be taller than other
Persons. He was proportionable in all parts, and had
strength equal to height, Valour to his strength,
Temper to his valour, so that he disdained to do an
injury to any single person. He would make nothing to
take two of the tallest Yeomen of the Guard (like the
Gizard and Liver) under his Arms at once, and order
them as he pleased. Yet were his Parents (for ought I
do understand to the contrary) but of an ordinary
stature.... This Parsons died Anno Dom. 162-.”
Fuller’s _Worthies_ (p. 48, _Stafford-shire_), ed.
1662.

# 201:

_The guard ... bombards_] i. e. large cans: compare
_The Martyred Souldier_, 1638, by H. Shirley;

“the black Jacks
Or _Bombards_ tost by _the King’s Guard_.” Sig. D 4.

# 202:

_that he was, sir_] Should, perhaps, be given to
Doctor Almanac.

# 203:

_ye_] Old ed. “you.”

# 204:

_Antimasque_] “An Antimasque, or, as Jonson elsewhere
calls it, ‘a foil, or false masque,’ is something
directly opposed to the principal masque. If this was
lofty and serious, that was light and ridiculous. It
admitted of the wildest extravagancies; and it is
_only by Jonson that attempts are sometimes made to
connect it, in any degree, with the main story_.”
Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. vii. p.
251. The praise which Gifford would confine to Jonson
may certainly be extended to Middleton.

# 205:

_in cone_] Qy. _incontinent_ (i. e. immediately)?—the
MS. having had, perhaps, “_incon._” A friend suggests
that there might have been some abbreviation of
_contra_, or _contraries_: see what follows; doctor
Almanac charges them to do the reverse of what they
ought to do, for “to bid ’em sin’s the way to make ’em
mend.”

# 206:

_pull down bawdy-houses_, &c. ... _ruin the Cockpit_]
The apprentices used (as already observed, note, vol.
iii. p. 217) to pull down brothels on Shrove-Tuesday:
concerning Turnbull Street, see note, vol. iv. p. 34.
The rest of the present passage, where there is a pun
on the word “leak,” is explained by the following
extract from Dekker’s _Owles Almanacke_, 1618:
“Shroue-tuesday falles on that day, on which the
prentices plucked downe the cocke-pit, and on which
they did alwayes vse to rifle Madame Leakes house at
the vpper end of Shorditch.” Sig. C.

# 207:

_warmest_] A friend wishes to read “warnest.”

# 208:

_maundering_] i. e. muttering, grumbling: (and in cant
language, begging.)

# 209:

_collogue_] “To Collogue. To wheedle or coax.” Grose’s
_Class. Dict. of Vul. Tongue_, in which sense it is
probably used here: it means also—to talk closely
with, to plot.

# 210:

_gill_] i. e. wench.

# 211:

_Enter, for the second Antimasque_, &c.] This
stage-direction (not in old ed.) is sufficient here,
as the persons who compose the second Antimasque are
minutely described in a subsequent stage-direction.

# 212:

_Bretnor ... word_] See notes, vol. iii. p. 537.

# 213:

_city-wedlock_] i. e. wife: see note, vol. ii. p. 481.

# 214:

_the gear cottens_] i. e. the matter goes on
prosperously: see note, vol. ii. p. 150.

# 215:

_In dock out nettle_] Compare vol. iii. p. 611,
and note. The expression occurs in J. Heywood’s
_Dialogue_, &c.;

“But wauering as the winde, _in docke, out nettle_.”
Sig. F 2, _Workes_, ed. 1598.

and in Taylor’s _Farewell to the Tower Bottles_, p.
125—_Workes_, ed. 1630.

# 216:

_parcel-rascals_] i. e. partly rascals.

# 217:

_Brainford_] A corruption of Brentford—used here with a quibble.

# 218:

_In larger grounds_, &c.] Old ed.

“In larger bounds, in Parke, sports, delights, and
grounds.” In altering this corrupted line I have
preferred retaining the word “grounds” rather than
“bounds,” because the latter presently occurs.

# 219:

_Yet a third season_] Old ed. “A third season yet.”

# 220:

_talenter_] i. e. hawk. Our early poets repeatedly use
_talent_ for _talon_:

“His _talents_ red with blood of murthered foules.”
Drayton’s _Owle_, 1604, sig. D 2.

See, too, the quibble in Shakespeare’s _Love’s
Labour’s Lost_, act iv. sc. 2. “If a _talent_ be a
claw,” &c.

# 221:

_prick_] i. e. the point or mark in the centre of the
butts.

# 222:

_royal’st guest_] May mean Queen Anne; but more
probably, I think, her brother, the king of Denmark,
who visited England twice, in 1606 and in 1614. “In
the reign of King James I. the house before us
[Somerset-house] became, _ipso facto_, a royal
residence on the part of the Queen, and even changed
its name; and it appears that her Majesty repaired it,
at her own charge, for the reception of her brother
Christian IV., king of Denmark, who visited England
A.D. 1606, from which time it is said that the Queen
affected to call it _Denmark-House_.” _Curialia_, _P.
IV._ p. 63, by Pegge; who, after more on this subject,
chooses to rely on the statement of the continuators
of Stow’s _Survey of London_—that on Shrove-Tuesday,
1616, Queen Anne having feasted King James at
Somerset-House, _he_ then changed its name, and
appointed it to be thenceforth called Denmark-House,
p. 65: see also Nichols’s _Prog. of K. James_, vol.
iii. p. 253.

When this Masque was originally produced as a royal
entertainment, I know not. The noble pair to whom it
is dedicated were not married till 1620: see Collins’s
_Peerage_ (by Brydges), vol. iv. p. 277. Towards the
end of it there is an evident allusion to the wars in
the Palatinate.

# 223:

_maunding_] i. e. begging: see note, vol. ii. p. 536.

# 224:

_over-brave_] i. e. over-finely dressed.

# 225:

_valure_] Or rather _velure_—i. e. velvet.

# 226:

_a throwster_] “One that throws, or winds, silk or
thread” (Kersey’s _Dict._), preparing the materials
for the weaver.

# 227:

_superstichious_] So old ed.—with a quibble.

# 228:

_periphrase_] Old ed. “Paraphrase.”

# 229:

_the other’s_] Old ed. “_the_ t’others.”

# 230:

_pickadill_] i. e. collar with stiffened plaits.

# 231:

_presence glorious_] Old ed. “glorious presence.”

# 232:

_conscience knowing_] Old ed. “knowing conscience.”

# 233:

_Lady divine_] Old ed. “Diuine Lady.”

# 234:

_himself_] This word should, perhaps, be thrown out.

# 235:

_Altitonant_] i. e. thundering from on high.

# 236:

_Y-meditate_] The right reading, I presume: old ed. “I
meditate.”

# 237:

_upper-stage_] See note, vol. ii. p. 125.

# 238:

_states_] i. e. persons of dignity.

# 239:

_Honey-lingued_] i. e. Honey-tongued.

# 240:

_duke_] i. e. general, commander.

“And in lyke wyse _duke Josue_ the gente.”
Hawes’s _Pastime of Pleasure_, sig. C c ii. ed.
1555.

# 241:

_Mattathias’ son_] i. e. Judas Maccabæus.

# 242:

_psalmograph_] i. e. psalm-writer, viz. David.

# 243:

_a Macedonian born_] i. e. Alexander the Great.

# 244:

_Troy’s best soldier_] i. e. Hector.

# 245:

_Charles of France_] i. e. Charlemagne.

# 246:

_Bulloin duke_] i. e. Godfrey of Bouillon.

# 247:

_Britain’s glory_] i. e. Arthur.

# 248:

_The Nine Worthies dance_, &c.] Qy. did the authors
intend them to dance with the Muses? but in the
preceding stage-direction (which I have given as it
stands in old ed.) the entrance of the latter is not
marked.

# 249:

_affected colours_] i. e. the colours which they
affect: compare p. 7, and note.

# 250:

_jet_] i. e. strut.

# 251:

_frokin_] i. e. little fro (_frow_, Dutch for woman)—
little jade.

# 252:

_batter_] Used for the pancakes on that day.

# 253:

_yellow hose_] See note, vol. iii. p. 134.

# 254:

_state_] Gifford observes, that “the _state_ sometimes
means the raised platform and canopy under which the
ornamented chair was placed, and sometimes the chair
itself.” Note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 334.
Here, perhaps, it means the machine in which Jupiter
had descended: see p. 175.

# 255:

_cogging_] i. e. wheedling.

# 256:

_vild_] See note, p. 139.

# 257:

_Have_] Old ed. “Has.”

# 258:

_Chambers_] i. e. small pieces of ordnance.

# 259:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 260:

_rear_] i. e. raw.

# 261:

_agen_] The old spelling of _again_—required here for
the rhyme.

# 262:

_a_ ——] So old ed.

# 263:

_i’ their inn_] i. e. in their own house: concerning
this proverbial expression, see notes on Shakespeare’s
_Henry IV._ (_First Part_), act iii. sc. 3.

# 264:

_egrimony_] Used here with a quibble; an old form of
(the herb) _agrimony_, and also—sorrow. (Lat.
_ægrimonia_.)

# 265:

_trampler_] See note, vol. ii. p. 18.

# 266:

_civilly_] i.e. soberly, plainly drest: compare vol.
iv. p. 505, and note.

# 267:

_poniarded_] Poniards, or, as they were generally
called, knives, were formerly, says Gifford, “worn at
all times by every woman in England:” see note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, vol. V. p. 221.

# 268:

_needle-bearded gallants_] Taylor, the water-poet, in
a passage concerning the “strange and variable cut” of
beards, mentions “Some sharpe Steletto fashion, dagger
like.” _Superbiæ Flagellum_, p. 34—_Workes_, 1630.

# 269:

_stammel_] i.e. a kind of red, coarser and cheaper
than scarlet.

# 270:

_the prince_] i.e. Charles.

# 271:

_I’ll over yonder_, &c.] He means to the Palatinate:
great enthusiasm was felt in the cause of the
unfortunate Queen of Bohemia. Some passages, perhaps,
were inserted here subsequently to the original
production of the Masque: see note, p. 167.

# 272:

_deckt with laurel_] James was accustomed to receive
such incense.

“There he beholds a high and glorious Throne,
Where sits a King by Laurell Garlands knowne,
Like bright Apollo in the Muses quires.”
Sir J. Beaumont’s _Bosworth-field_, p. 5, ed. 1629.

See also B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. viii. p. 154, and
Gifford’s note.

# 273:

_properties_] i. e. ensigns proper to her character—a
theatrical term: see note, vol. ii. p. 308.

# 274:

_sithence_] i. e. since.

# 275:

_painted cloth_] See note, vol. iii. p. 97.

# 276:

_cant_] i. e. niche.

# 277:

_greeces_] i. e. steps.

# 278:

_penciled_] i. e. (not—having _pensils_, small flags,
but) painted; so in an earlier passage of this
pageant: “They helde in their handes _pensild_
Shieldes; vpon the first was drawne a Rose,” &c.

# 279:

_shapes_] i. e. dresses—a theatrical use of the word.

# 280:

_cantle_] i. e. part.

# 281:

_eronie_] Qy. “ourany”?

# 282:

_agen_] See note, p. 192.

# 283:

_clipt_] i. e. embraced—cherished.

# 284:

_Black Monday_] “Middleton here alludes to Anthony
Munday, his rival City Poet, who had composed the
Pageants of 1605 and 1611, and perhaps others of
which no copies are known to exist. Though he this
year (and the last, when Dekker was employed) lost
the office of author, he did not lose that of
supplying the apparell, &c., which was his business
as a draper, and to which office only Middleton
seems to have considered him competent [see p. 245].
This virulent attack, however, appears to have
experienced no greater attention than such violence
deserved, since Munday was employed in the three
following years.” NICHOLS.—The inscription on
Anthony’s tomb declares that he was a “citizen and
_draper_:” but I am not sure that he furnished “the
apparell and porters” for _The Triumphs of Truth_ in
the latter capacity; rather, perhaps, in consequence
of being keeper of the _properties_ of the pageants.
In the remarks prefixed to Munday’s _Downfall of the
Earl of Huntington_ (Suppl. vol. to Dodsley’s _Old
Plays_), I am surprised to find Mr. Collier doubting
if Middleton alludes to him here; and I can only
suppose that when Mr. C. wrote those remarks, his
recollection of the present passage was somewhat
imperfect.

The play just mentioned is evidence that Munday’s
powers were far from contemptible. The ill will which
the dramatists appear to have borne towards him was,
perhaps, called forth by the extravagant encomium of
Meres, who, in the _Palladis Tamia_, 1598, had chosen
to term him “our best plotter,” fol. 283. With respect
to the comedy called _The Case is altered_, in which
he is ridiculed under the name of Antonio Balladino,
there has been a question among critics, whether it is
the work of Ben Jonson. Gifford pronounced it to be an
early production of that poet; and he, I am confident,
would not have changed his opinion even if he had
lived to see the copy, without any author’s name on
the title-page, which some years ago was added to the
collection of the Duke of Devonshire.

# 285:

_Attend_] Old eds. “Attends.”

# 286:

_What greater_, &c.
... _his honour’s confirmation_] This second stanza
is not reprinted by Nichols. The old ed. omits it in
this place, but gives it afterwards with the musical
notes of the song.

# 287:

_burn_] Old eds. “burnes.”

# 288:

_are_] Old eds. “is.”

# 289:

_Spots_, &c.] We have had this couplet before, p. 199.

# 290:

_the river_, &c.] “Sir Thomas Middleton, grocer, and
mayor in 1613,” says Herbert, in his _History of the
Twelve Great Livery Companies of London_, “was nearly
the first who attempted an emblematical and scenic
representation of his company, in a water spectacle,
consisting (in imitation of the pageant mentioned to
have been exhibited by Sir John Wells to Henry
VI.[290A]) of ‘five islands, artfully garnished with
all manner of Indian fruit trees, drugges, spiceries,
and the like; the middle island having a faire castle
especially beautified:’ the latter probably allusive
to the newly-established East India Company’s forts,
and whose adventures had contributed so much to
enlarge the sphere of the grocers’ trade.” vol. i. p.
200.

# 290A:

See Herbert’s work, vol. i. pp. 93, 4.

# 291:

_stand_] Old eds. “stands.”

# 292:

_attend_] Old eds. “attends.”

# 293:

_cleave_] Old eds. “cleaues.”

# 294:

_slights_] i. e. artifices.

# 295:

_most_] Old eds. “must.”

# 296:

_the Five Senses_] “The Senses were personated at the
King’s Entry into London in 1603, and are represented
in the engraving of the Arch erected at Soper-Lane
end, in Harrison’s Arches. Jordan introduced them
again in the Lord Mayor’s Pageant of 1681 (see _Gent.
Mag._ vol. xcv. i. 131), at the same time assuring the
Grocers’ Company in his prefatory address, ’that in
these Triumphs there is nothing designed, written,
said, or sung, that ever was presented in any show
till this present day!’” NICHOLS.

# 297:

_appear_] Old eds. “appeares.”

# 298:

_yon place_] “Saint Paul’s Cross.” _Marg. Note._

# 299:

[_mists_] This and the other words in brackets were
supplied by Nichols.

# 300:

_the Standard_] See note, vol. i. p. 438.

# 301:

_where_] i. e. whereas.

# 302:

_Have_] Old eds. “Hath.”

# 303:

_apparel and porters_, &c.] See note, p. 220.

# 304:

_The Speech_] “Anthony Munday, who in his edition of
Stow’s Survey, published in 1618, has given another
version of the present story, and printed ‘the Speech
according as it was delivered to mee,’ says it was
spoken by ‘one man in behalf of all the rest;’ who, of
course, was either some hired actor, or, very
probably, [?] Thomas Middleton himself.” NICHOLS.

# 305:

_where_] i. e. whereas.

# 306:

_have_] Old ed. “hath.”

# 307:

_enginer_] An old and common form of—engineer.

# 308:

_chambers_] See note, p. 190.

# 309:

[_The City’s_, &c.] What I have here placed between
brackets is superfluous: Nichols omits it.

# 310:

_agen_] See note, p. 192.

# 311:

_Tho. Middleton_] The occurrence of this signature
here seems to indicate that the following portion of
the tract was not the composition of Middleton.

# 312:

_The Prince_, &c.] “Camden’s MS. volume, in Harl. MSS.
5176, whence other extracts are given between
crotchets in the following pages.” NICHOLS.

# 313:

_vierge_] i. e. rod.

# 314:

_sewer_] Whose office was to set on and remove
the dishes, taste them, &c.: see Steevens’s note
on Shakespeare’s _Macbeth_, act i. sc. 7, and
Richardson’s _Dict._ in v.

# 315:

_Inns of Court_] “At the Middle Temple the charges
incurred on this occasion were defrayed by a
contribution of thirty shillings from each Bencher;
every Student of seven years’ standing fifteen
shillings; and all other Gentlemen in Commons ten
shillings apiece. Dugdale’s _Origines Juridiciales_,
p. 150.” NICHOLS.

# 316:

_Brocke_] Properly _Brooke_, according to Nichols.

# 317:

_Peere_] Properly _Beare_, according to Nichols.

# 318:

_Master Littleton_] “The great Sir Edward Littleton.”
NICHOLS.

# 319:

_on Psalm_, &c.] “The Discourse is in the Bishop’s
‘xcvi. Sermons,’ the eighth on the occasion.”
NICHOLS,—who inserted the above bracketed passage.

# 320:

_running at the ring_] See note, vol. i. p. 390.

# 321:

_say_] Is commonly explained—“a thin sort of silk,”—“a
species of silk, or rather satin.”—Malone (note on
Shakespeare’s _Henry Sixth, Part Second_, act iv. sc.
7,) remarks, “it appears from Minsheu’s _Dict._, 1617,
that _say_ was a kind of serge.” Cotgrave has
“_Seyette_, serge, or sey.”

# 322:

_their oath_] “Of ‘this ancient exhortation or
well-wishing, which,’ says Camden, ‘is commonly
called, but improperly, an oathe,’ see some curious
particulars in vol. ii. p. 337 [of _Prog. of King
James_]. It was read, continues Camden, first to the
Lord Maltravers, by the Earl of Arundel his father, in
the character of Earl Marshal, and then to the other
Knights either by the Earl or by the Lord Chamberlain,
who then went with the Dean to read the same to the
Lord Percy, who had been forced to withdraw himself
from indisposition.” NICHOLS.

# 323:

_arson_] i. e. saddle-bow.

# 324:

_pectoral_] i. e. breast-piece.

# 325:

_paty_] Properly, patée.

# 326:

_angel_] See note, p. 20.

# 327:

_noble_] A gold coin worth 6_s._ 8_d._

# 328:

_Bertie_] Old ed. “Bartue.”

# 329:

_these being created_, &c.] This concluding sentence
is omitted by Nichols, who, instead of it, gives the
following from Camden’s MS. volume in Harl. MSS. 5176:

“On the 7th of November about five of the clock in the
afternoon, they mett in the Counsell-chamber, where
they and the Lords appoynted to carry their ornaments
and the assistants putt on their roabes, the Earles
and Viscounts their surcotes of crimson velvett with
close sleeves, having short flappes hanging upon their
shoulders, then their hoods and afterward their
mantles and roabes, fastned upon the shoulder and
pucking out the capuchio to hang over behinde, with
their cappes of estate and coronetts, or rather
circuletts for the Viscounts. They passed from thence
over the Tarras [Terrace] into the Privie Gallery, the
Heralds, Kings of Armes, Garter carying the Patent,
the Lord Compton in his Parliament roabes, carying the
Mantle, the Lord Wentworth the Capp of estate and
Circulet, the Lord Chancellour Lord Ellesmere in his
surcote and hood with his sword by his syde in a
usuall hatt, assisted by the Earle of Montgomery and
Viscount Villers, with their cappes of estat on. At
the Gallory-dore, the Lord Chamberlaine mett them, and
placing himself after the Kings of Armes, presented
them to the King, who satt there with the Queen and
the Prince. Garter presented the Patent to the Lord
Chamberlaine, he to the King; the King delivered the
same to Sir Ralph Winwood the Secretary, who [read the
same]; at the words _fecimus et creavimus_ the Roabes
were delivered to the King, who delivered the same to
the Assistants, who invested him therwith, and the
like with the Capp of estate and the Circulett
theruppon, and then the Earles Assistants putt on
their cappes of estate. When the Patent was fully
read, and he thus created Viscount Brackley, the
trumpetts and drummes standing without sounded.

“Then was brought in the Lord Knolles, the Lord Carew
carying the Mantle, the Lord Davers the Capp of
Estate, assisted by the Earle of Suffolk Lord
Treasurer and Viscount Lisle, and in like manner
created Viscount Wallingford.

“Afterward Sir Philipp Stanhop was brought in his
surcote of scarlett, the Lord Denny carying his Roabe,
the Lord Compton and the Lord Norris assisting him,
and was created Lord Stanhop of Shelford. Then they
retourned that way they came to the Counsell-chamber,
first, Viscount Brackley, then Viscount Wallingford
and the Lord Stanhop, in such order as they went, the
trumpetts and drummes sounding.”

# 330:

_wherein Art_, &c.] Alluding to the pageants of
Munday: see note, p. 219.

# 331:

_beholding_] See note, p. 36.

# 332:

_coronel_] Frequently used for (and the Spanish of)
colonel.

# 333:

_appear_] Old ed. “appeares.”

# 334:

_Allhollontide_] A corruption of All-hallows-tide.

# 335:

_states_] See note, p. 177.

# 336:

_Artillery-garden_] See note, vol. iv. p. 424.

# 337:

_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.

# 338:

_are_] Old ed. “is.”

# 339:

_luzerns_] Generally said to be Russian animals valued
for their fur; but, I apprehend, Middleton used the
word in the sense of lynxes. “A Luzarne. _Loup
cervier_,” says Cotgrave, who explains the French
term, “a kind of white Wolfe,” or “the spotted Linx,
or Ounce, or a kind therof.” See, too, Minsheu in vv.
_Luzarne_ and _Furre_.

# 340:

_bitter_, _estridge_] i. e. bittern, ostrich.

# 341:

_Crismas_] Or _Christmas_.—“At the end of this
[pageant,—Heywood’s _Londini Artium et Scientiarum
Scaturigo_, &c. 1632] is a panegyric on Maister Gerard
Christmas, for bringing the pageants and figures to
such great perfection both in symmetry and substance,
being before but unshapen monsters, made only of
slight wicker and paper. This man designed Aldersgate,
and carved the equestrian statue of James I. there,
and the old piece of Northumberland house.” _Biog.
Dram._, vol. iii. p. 118.

# 342:

_Hight_] i. e. called.

# 343:

_feel_] Old ed. “feels.”

# 344:

_word_] i. e. motto.

# 345:

_agen_] See note, p. 192.

# 346:

_To raise_, &c.] “The rhymster[!] here seems to allude
to a repair the New Standard had undergone, and
perhaps also to the repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral.”
NICHOLS. Compare vol. iv. p. 421.

# 347:

_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.

# 348:

_property_] i.e. article for the pageant—a theatrical
term: see note, vol. ii. p. 308.

# 349:

_pegmes_] i. e. machines, erections: see Facciolati,
Lex. in v. _pegma_.

# 350:

_rise_] i. e. rose.

# 351:

_prince of prophets_] “David.” Marg. note in old ed.

# 352:

_agen_] See note, p. 192.

# 353:

_approves_] i. e. proves.

# 354:

_state_] See note, p. 182.

# 355:

_tralucent_] i. e. translucent.

# 356:

_enginous_] i. e. inventive: see Gifford’s note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 281.

# 357:

_which_] Old ed. “with.”

# 358:

_afford_] Old ed. “affords.”

# 359:

_strike_] Old ed. “strikes.”

# 360:

_agen_] See note, p. 192.—An allusion to the return of
Charles from Spain.

# 361:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 362:

_bring_] Old ed. “brings.”

# 363:

_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.

# 364:

_showers_] Old ed. “flowers.”

# 365:

_unvalued_] i. e. invaluable. Old ed. “vnvaleed.”

# 366:

_are_] Old ed. “is.”

# 367:

_Death’s pageants_, &c.] King James having died in
1625.

# 368:

_agen_] See note p. 192.

# 369:

_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.

# 370:

_sit_] Old ed. “sits.”

# 371:

_meritorious_] i. e. merited.

# 372:

_murmuring_] Old ed. “murmurings.”

# 373:

_sith_] i.e. since.

# 374:

_need_] Old ed. “needs.”

# 375:

_grow_] Old ed. “growes.”

# 376:

_fond_] i. e. silly, idle.

# 377:

_Vild_] See note, p. 139.

# 378:

_An_] Old ed. “And.”

# 379:

_Give_] Old ed. “Giues.”

# 380:

_gain_] Old ed. “gaines.”

# 381:

_live_] Old ed. “liues.”

# 382:

_do_] Old ed. “doth.”

# 383:

_sith_] i. e. since.

# 384:

_see ... hear_] Old ed. “sees ... heares.”

# 385:

_differ_] Old ed. “differeth.”

# 386:

_core_] Old ed. “crue.”

# 387:

_are_] Old ed. “is.”

# 388:

_Begin_] Old ed. “Begins.”

# 389:

_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”

# 390:

_sith_] i. e. since.

# 391:

_do_] Old ed. “doth.”

# 392:

_tune_] Old ed. “tunes.”

# 393:

_plot_] i. e. scheme, form,—pattern.

# 394:

_Sith_] i. e. Since.

# 395:

_Where_] i. e. Whether.

# 396:

_covet_] Old ed. “covets.”

# 397:

_flow_] Old ed. “flowes.”

# 398:

_Three_] Old ed. “Their.”

# 399:

_corrupt_] Old ed. “corrupts.”

# 400:

_are_] Old ed. “is.”

# 401:

_spring_] Old ed. “springs.”

# 402:

_live_] Old ed. “liues.”

# 403:

_rife_] i. e. common, prevalent.

# 404:

_are_] Old ed. “is.”

# 405:

_fair_] i. e. fairness, beauty. The word was formerly
in common use as a substantive.

# 406:

_think_] Old ed. “thinkes.”

# 407:

_have_] Old ed. “hath.”

# 408:

_bring_] Old ed. “brings.”

# 409:

_say_] Old ed. “sayes.”

# 410:

_die_] Old ed. “dies.”

# 411:

_see_] Old ed. “sees.”

# 412:

_ne’er the near_] i. e. never the nearer.

# 413:

_stand_] Old ed. “stands.”

# 414:

_come_] Old ed. “comes.”

# 415:

_risse_] i. e. risen.

# 416:

_Plough_] Old ed. “Plowes.”

# 417:

_jesses_] i. e. the short leather straps round the
hawk’s legs, having little rings to which the
falconer’s leash was fastened.

# 418:

_shew_] Old ed. “shewes.”

# 419:

_bound_] Old ed. “bounds.”

# 420:

_wave_] Old ed. “waves.”

# 421:

_again_] i. e. against.

# 422:

_remorse_] i. e. pity.

# 423:

_steven_] i. e. voice, sound.

# 424:

_chambers_] i. e. ordnance: compare p. 190.

# 425:

_remorse_] i. e. pity.

# 426:

_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”

# 427:

_scorn_] Old ed. “skorns.”

# 428:

_flow ... ebb_] Old ed. “flowes” ... “ebbes.”

# 429:

_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetch’d.

# 430:

_bonner_] So written for the rhyme.

# 431:

_shadow_] Old ed. “shadowes.”

# 432:

_soul_] Old ed. “soules.”

# 433:

_swaddled_] To be pronounced as a trisyllable.

# 434:

_Sith_] i. e. since.

# 435:

_Are_] Old ed. “Is.”

# 436:

_Sith_] i. e. since.

# 437:

_Disgesting_] i. e. Digesting—a form common in our old
writers.

# 438:

_sith_] i. e. since.

# 439:

_Sith_] i. e. since.

# 440:

_steven_] See note, p. 371.

# 441:

_table-book_] i. e. memorandum-book.

# 442:

_seely_] i. e. silly, simple—harmless.

# 443:

_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”

# 444:

_alline_] i. e. ally.

# 445:

_remorse_] i. e. pity.

# 446:

_cognizance_] i. e. badge.

# 447:

_hope_] Old ed. “hopes.”

# 448:

_clifts_] i. e. cliffs.

# 449:

_prompt_] Old ed. “prompts.”

# 450:

_wrath-_] Old ed. “wraths-.”

# 451:

_nigrum_] This word, the meaning of which is obvious,
occurs in the “Defiance to Envy” prefixed to the next
poem in this vol.;

“My _nigrum_ true-born ink,” &c.

# 452:

_burst_] i. e. broken.

# 453:

_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetched.

# 454:

_Sith_] i. e. since.

# 455:

_think_] Old ed. “thinkes.”

# 456:

_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”

# 457:

_rife_] See note, p. 358: but in what sense it is used
here, I cannot pretend to determine.

# 458:

_Eschip_] A familiar corruption of _East-cheap_,
where, as Stow says, was a “flesh-market of butchers.”

# 459:

_seely_] See note, p. 392.

# 460:

_Sith_] i. e. since.

# 461:

_moul_] i. e. mould.

# 462:

_fire-durst_] Qy. “fire-dust”?

# 463:

_bin_] i. e. been.

# 464:

_team_] Old ed. “teene”—a word of common occurrence in
our earliest poetry, but doubtless a misprint here:
compare p. 369, l. 4, and p. 430, l. 19; and be it
observed, that in the passage last referred to the old
ed. has “teeme.”

# 465:

_rife_] See note, p. 358.

# 466:

_remorse_] i. e. pity.

# 467:

_plough_] Old ed. “plows.”

# 468:

_wrench’d_] i. e. perhaps, rinsed.

# 469:

_seely_] See note, p. 392.

# 470:

_It is a world to see_] Equivalent to—It is a wonder
to see.

# 471:

_fond_] See note, p. 343.

# 472:

_vild_] See note, p. 139.

# 473:

_breath_] i. e. breadth—for the rhyme.

# 474:

_world, hope_] Qy. “world’s hope”?

# 475:

_Cut ... vail_] Old ed. “Cuts ... vails:” (_vail_, i.
e. lower, make to fall.)

# 476:

_fair_] See note, p. 360.

# 477:

_Alastor’s_] In chapter xvii. of this interminable
poem, we find

“Troubled with visions from _Alastor’s_ park;”

and

“A night more ugly than _Alastor’s_ pack,
Mounting all nights upon his night-made back.” P. 457.

_Alastor_ meant frequently an evil genius, an avenging
fury; it is also the name of one of Pluto’s horses
(see Claudian, _De Rap. Pros._ i. 284): our author
seems to have confounded these two significations.

# 478:

_alline_] i. e. ally.

# 479:

_spill’d_] i. e. destroyed.

# 480:

_sort_] i. e. set, band.

# 481:

_spill’d_] i. e. destroyed.

# 482:

_Make_] Old ed. “Makes.”

# 483:

_hear ... read_] Old ed. “heares ... reades:” and in
the next line but one, “speeds.”

# 484:

_take_] Old ed. “takes.”

# 485:

_wood_] A wretched play on words—furious, mad.

# 486:

_bud_] Old ed. “buds.”

# 487:

_incolants_] i. e. inhabitants.

# 488:

_want_] Old ed. “wants.”

# 489:

_know_] Old ed. “knowes.”

# 490:

_rife_] See note, p. 358.

# 491:

_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”

# 492:

_fair_] See note, p. 360.

# 493:

_allines_] i. e. allies.

# 494:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 495:

_Alastor’s_] See note, p. 432.

# 496:

_risse_] i. e. risen.

# 497:

_cought_] So written for the rhyme.

# 498:

_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.

# 499:

_connizance_] Or _cognizance_, i. e. badge.

# 500:

_bind_] Old ed. “binds.”

# 501:

_rowl_] i. e. roll.

# 502:

_remorse_] i. e. pity.

# 503:

_sancited_] i. e. ordained, ratified.

# 504:

_Vail’d_] i. e. lowered.

# 505:

_steven_] See note, p. 371.

# 506:

_Have_] Old ed. “Hath.”

# 507:

_remorse_] i. e. pity.

# 508:

_know_] Old ed. “knowes.”

# 509:

_do_] Old ed. “doth.”

# 510:

_spill_] i. e. destroy.

# 511:

_thaw_] Old ed. “thaws.”

# 512:

_seely_] See note, p. 392.

# 513:

_her_] Is frequently used for _their_ by our early
writers; but most probably in the present passage the
author changed the number through carelessness.

# 514:

_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”

# 515:

_melt_] Old ed. “melts.”

# 516:

_His defiance_, &c.] In imitation of Hall, who had
ushered in his Satires with _A Defiance to Envy_.

# 517:

_smazky_] i. e., perhaps, smitchy or smeechy (reechy,
black.)

# 518:

_satire-days_] “Does he intend to pun upon the last
day of the week—_Saturday_? It may be a misprint for
_Satyr-dogs_, in allusion to his title, ‘Sixe
_Snarling_ Satyres.’” Collier’s _Poet. Decam._ vol. i.
p. 286.

# 519:

_nigrum_] Old ed. “Negrum:” compare p. 411.

# 520:

_hast_] Frequently thus written for the sake of the
rhyme—even long after the date of the present poem (as
by Butler in _Hudibras_, &c.).

# 521:

_beforne_] i. e. before.

# 522:

_Cur eget_, &c.] Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 103.

# 523:

_push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 524:

_Burse_] i. e. the Royal Exchange,—for the New
Exchange in the Strand (which our early writers
generally mean when they mention “_the Burse_”) was
not yet built.

# 525:

_mere compact_] i. e. wholly composed.

# 526:

_I, mortal_] Qy. “immortal”?

# 527:

_compt_] Qy. “complaint”?

# 528:

_bankerouts_] i. e. bankrupts.

# 529:

_Burse_] See note, p. 485.

# 530:

_goodly_] Qy. “godly”?

# 531:

_he_] Old ed. “ye.”

# 532:

_he_] Old ed. “she.”

# 533:

_Vail_] i. e. lower.

# 534:

_Troynovant_] i. e. London (founded, according to the
fabulous account, by the Trojan Brutus).

# 535:

_bravery_] i. e. finery of apparel, &c.

# 536:

_salts_] i. e. salt-cellars.

# 537:

_manchets_] i. e. small loaves or rolls of fine white
bread.

# 538:

_cupboard_] See note, vol. ii. p. 91.

# 539:

_fair_] See note, p. 360.

# 540:

_quotes_] i. e. notes.

# 541:

_Burse-gate_] See note, p. 485.

# 542:

_match_] i. e. pattern.

# 543:

_princocks_] Or _princox_,—i. e. pert, conceited
person: but perhaps the author uses the word here as
the plural of _princock_.

# 544:

_jets_] i. e. struts.

# 545:

_Paul’s_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.

# 546:

_angels_] See note, p. 20.

# 547:

_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetched.

# 548:

_cony_] i. e. dupe: see note, vol. i. p. 290.

# 549:

_chates_] i. e. chats, talks.

# 550:

_brave_] i. e. fine, smart.

# 551:

_tester_] i. e. sixpence: see note, vol. i. p. 258.

# 552:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 553:

_the other_] Old ed. “_the_ tother.”

# 554:

_agen_] See note, p. 192.

# 555:

_whist_] i. e. still.

# 556:

_Ingling_] See note, vol. i. p. 301.

# 557:

_mantian_] So written for the rhyme.

# 558:

_jets_] i. e. struts.

# 559:

_Troynovant_] See note, p. 489.

# 560:

_counterfeits_] i. e. portraits, likenesses.

# 561:

_juggling_] Qy. “ingling”? (Old ed. “jugling.”)

# 562:

_counterfeits_] See note, p. 498.

# 563:

_Innocent_] i. e. fool, idiot.

# 564:

_Way_] To this word (which is doubtless the right
reading), the “Why” of old ed. has been altered with a
pen in the Bodleian copy.

# 565:

_fond_] See note, p. 343.

# 566:

_scopious_] i. e. spacious, ample.

# 567:

_angels_] See note, p. 20.

# 568:

_the first book_] No second Book is known to have
appeared.

# 569:

_must have_] The first word is deleted, and the second
altered with a pen to “had,” in the Bodleian copy of
this poem,—a probable correction.

# 570:

_Qui color_, &c.] Ovid, _Metam._ ii. 541.

# 571:

_On the death_, &c.] These lines (the meaning of
which is sufficiently obscure) were first printed
in Collier’s _New Facts regarding the Life of
Shakespeare_, p. 26, from a MS. miscellany of poetry
belonging to the late Mr. Heber. The celebrated actor,
Burbage (who also handled the pencil, and is supposed
to have painted the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare),
died in March 1618-19.

# 572:

_In the just worth_, &c.] Prefixed to Webster’s
_Duchess of Malfi_, 1623.

# 573:

_luxury_] i. e. lust, lewdness.

# 574:

_Woolners_] Our old writers occasionally mention a
person named Woolner, or Wolner, as a notorious
gormandiser: Dekker calls him “that cannon of
gluttony,” _The Owles Almanacke_, 1618, p. 53; and in
_The Life of Long Meg of Westminster_, 1635, the
seventh chapter relates “how she used Woolner the
singing man of Windsor, that was the great eater, and
how she made him pay for his breakefast.”

# 575:

_bulks_] i. e. bodies.

# 576:

_luxurious_] i.e. lustful.

# 577:

_throw_] Old ed. “sowe.”

# 578:

_the Hole_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.

# 579:

_the Mid-walk_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.

# 580: