A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Ii Part 74

[162] _This_, Vele's edition.

[163] _Austine_, Copland's edition.

[164] _As_, Copland's edition.

[165] _Returned_, Vele's edition.

[166] _Borde_, Vele's edition.

[167] Mr Garrick's copy is imperfect, and ends at this mark.--_Hawkins_.

[168] _Mot_, Vele's edition.

[169] The following lines being torn are filled up by conjecture with the words printed in _italics.--Hawkins_.

[170] Square.

[171] Edward VI.

[172] _Is_, Vele's edition.

[173] [The colophon of Vele's edition is: "Finis, quod R. Wever.

Imprinted at London in Paules churche yeard, by Abraham Vele, at the sygne of the Lambe." Of Copland's edition, besides the Garrick copy, there is a second, formerly Heber's, in the Devons.h.i.+re collection.]

[174] "Four Old Plays," 1848, 9-12.

[175] [Mr Child printed _moull_.]

[176] A fanciful name. See Halliwell's _Dict., v. Bonegrace_.

[177] Old copy, _bysye_.

[178] Disconcerted, put out in my plans. See Halliwell, _v. aray_.

[179] Original reads _that_.

[180] Original has _swet lookes_. Compare the "Pardoner and the Friar"

(i. 281)--

"Or by Jis I'sh lug thee _by the sweet ears_,"

and a pa.s.sage in the present piece--

"I have forgotten _with tousing by the hair_."

[181] Original reads _yet_.

[182] Original has _boons_. The sense appears to be that "Jack Juggler"

will, by killing Careaway, leave him to the mercy of the Virgin.

[183] i.e., Nearer.

[184] Finger-bones.

[185] i.e., On.

[186] Blow.

[187] Should do better.

[188] i.e., Noddy.

[189] Original reads, _vpo=n cai_.

[190] Original reads, _I thou hast_.

[191] Original reads, _pilorye peepours_.

[192] [A common abbreviation, leaving its substantive to be supplied at pleasure.]

[193] [Perhaps in our modern sense of _to walk into_.]

[194] Prove.

[195] [Orig. _kyrie_.]

[196] Nearer.

[197] Original reads, _beat me_.

[198] [A term of contempt, perhaps of no very definite or clear signification; but it does not seem to be glossed.]

[199] Original has _haue_.

[200] Thus.

[201] i.e., JACK JUGGLER.

[202] Move.

[203] [A line seems to have dropped out here.]

[204] [Original reads _have by therefore_.]

[205] [Beat his head against a post.]

[206] Verily.