A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume I Part 89

375. _This_, edit 1569.

376. _You come late_, 1st edit.

377. _Sonyng_, 1st edit.

378. _Ye_, 1st edit.

379. _Ye_, 1st edit.

380. _Ye_, 1st edit.

381. _Hath_, 1st edit.

382. _Ye_, 1st edit.

383. _Be_, 1st edit.

384. _Cheap_, as Dr Johnson observes, is _market, and good cheap_ therefore is _bon marche_. The expression is very frequent in ancient writers, as in Churchyard's "Worthiness of Wales," Evans's edition, 1776, p. 3--

"Victuals _good cheap_ in most part of Wales."

Lyly's "Euphues," 1579, p. 8, "Seeing thou wilt not buy counsel at the first hande _good cheape_, thou shalt buye repentaunce at second-hande at such an vnreasonable rate that thou wilt cursse thy hard penyworth, and ban thy harde heart." Decker's "Lanthorne and Candlelight," H 4, "He buyes other men's cunning _good cheap_ in London, and sels it deare in the countrey." See other instances in Mr Steevens's note on "First Part of King Henry IV.," A. 3, S. 3.

385. _Leste_, 1st edit.; _least_, edit. 1569. And as _least_ is probably the reading the author intended, and is supported by both the old copies, it is restored; the Pardoner means in the _smallest_ quarter of the Palmer's voyage.--_Collier_.

386. _As, 1st edit.

387. _Bryngeth_, 1st edit.

388. _Dyd_, 1st edit.

389. _We will_, edit. 1569.

390. _Or_, 1st edit.

391. Hinderance.

392. _They rob_, edit. 1569.

393. _Hostely_, 1st edit.

394. Master, achieve.

395. _To be woe_ is often used by old writers to signify _to be sorry_.

So Shakspeare's "Tempest," A. 5, S. 1--

"_I am woe for't, Sir."

Chaucer's "Court of Love"-- "_I wolde be wo_, That I presume to her is writin so."

See Mr Steevens's note on Shakspeare, vol. 1, p. 106.

396. _That_, edit. 1569.

397 _From state of grace_, 1st edit.

398. _Then_. Mr Dodsley read _and_.

399. _You_, edit. 1569.

400. _Every tryfull_, 1st edit.

401. _Chefe_, 1st edit.

402. _Thinks_, edit. 1569.

403. _There_, edit. 1569.

404. _Where_, 1st edit.

405. _Unknotted_, edit. 1569.

406. _Lace_, 1st edit. La.s.ses = _leshes_, or _laces_.

407. _Needles, thread, thimbles, and such other knacks_, edit. 1569.

408. i.e., _Cyprus_; thin stuff of which women's veils were made. So in Shakspeare's "Winter's Tale," A. 4, S. 3--

"Lawn as white as driven snow, _Cyprus_ black as any crow."

Again, in "Twelfth Night"--

"A _cyprus_, not a bosom Hides my poor heart."--_S_.

409. i.e., Rollers in which infants were _swathed_. So, in "Timon of Athens"--

"Had thou, like us, from thy first _swath_," &c.--_S_.

410 _Uprising_, edit. 1569.

411. _Frontal_, Fr., a _frontlet_, or _forehead band_.--_Cotgrave_. A _frontlet_ is mentioned as part of a woman's dress in Lyly's "Midas,"

1592: "Hoods, _frontlets_, wires, cauls, curling-irons, periwigs, bodkins, fillets, hair laces, ribbons, rolls, knotstrings, gla.s.ses," &c.

See also Mr Steevens's note on "King Lear," A. 1, S. 4.

412. Ruffs or bands for women. See Glossary to Douglas's "Translation of Virgil."

413. Little bodkins or puncheons.--_Cotgrave_, voce _pinconnet_.

414. _It_, edit. 1569.