A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Ii Part 71

[13] Found.

[14] [Vele's ed. _nilet_.]

[15] [Intended as a sneer at Charity's pious sentiments. _Sir John_ is the common term in old plays, and literature generally, for a parson.]

[16] Cool.

[17] [Trumpington is in Ess.e.x, a county proverbial, rightly or wrongly, for the stupidity of its inhabitants.]

[18] [Equivalent to calling him a churl. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, pp. 315-316 and 489; and Halliwell's "Dictionary," _v_. Hogsnorton. But in none of the instances cited there do we find Trumpington mentioned.]

[19] See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 286.

[20] "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 315.

[21] Should we not read _Hey-go-bet_?

[22] See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iii. 73-4.

[23] _Post and pair_.

[24] [We do not find this mentioned elsewhere. The same remark applies to _aums-ace_.]

[25] [Halliwell, in his "Dict." v. Pink, says:--"A game, the same as post and pair." Surely this is not so. It seems rather to be used, here at least, in the sense of _gamble_. But _pink_, after all, may signify something very different, viz., _lechery_.]

[26] The target or b.u.t.ts.

[27] [Copland's ed. _books_.]

[28] [This line is omitted in Waley's ed.]

[29] [The colophon of Waley's ed. is: Imprinted at London by John Waley, dwellyng in foster lane.]

[30] [The colophon of Vele's ed. is at the end _infra_.]

[31] [Afterwards parted with to Dr Dibdin. A second copy is in the Bodleian.]

[32] [An error. No edition by Pinson is known, or is likely to have ever existed. The impression referred to is Copland's. _See_ Hazlitt's "Handbook," p. 649-50.]

[33] Gen. viii.; Jer. xvii.; Eccles. x.x.x.

[34] _And_, Copland's edition.

[35] _Forsakyn_, Copland's edition.

[36] _Consolaion_, Vele's edition.

[37] _Arbour_, Copland's edition.

[38] _Aslope_, Copland's edition.

[39] _Surel i-pight_, Copland's edition.

[40] Care.

[41] _Brake_, Copland's edition.

[42] Touch.

[43] _Ye_, Copland's edition.

[44] _Appetyte_, Vele's edition.

[45] The word _fitte_ sometimes signified a part or division of a song; but in its original acceptation a poetic strain, verse, or poem: from being applied to music, the word was easily transferred to dancing, as in the above pa.s.sages. See Dr. Percy's "Relics of Anc. Eng.

Poetry," vol. ii., p. 297 [edit. 1765].--_Hawkins_.

[46] _Compacions_, Copland's edition.

[47] _My_, Copland's edition.

[48] Thus.

[49] _Wyse_, Vele's edition.

[50] _For infecte_, Copland's edition.

[51] Teachings.

[52] _That_, omitted in Copland's edition.

[53] _You_, omitted in Copland's edition.

[54] _Infinitie_, Vele's edition.

[55] _The_, Copland's edition.

[56] _Way_, Copland's edition.

[57] Both the copies read _G.o.d_.

[58] _New_, Copland's edition.

[59] _Thus_, Copland's edition; but the sense is the same.

[60] _Accorde_, Copland's edition.

[61] _The_, Copland's edition.

[62] _Be_, Copland's edition.