A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Ii Part 75

[207] Spring.

[208] Calicow or Calicut, i.e., Calcutta.

[209] Shut.

[210] Original has _I_.

[211] [The colophon is: Imprinted at London in Lothbury by me Wyllyam Copland. The only copy known, formerly Inglis's and Heber's, is now in the Devons.h.i.+re collection.

 

The piece is undated, but it was licensed for the press in 1562-3.]

[212] Nursled.

[213] [Pets. See Halliwell's "Dictionary," _v. Tiddle_.]

[214] [I do not find this word in any other glossaries; but it occurs again below.]

[215] Old copy, _Kynge_.

[216] Trudging.

[217] Thirst.

[218] So in old copy, which is perhaps right. _To-to_, as an intensitive, is a common form.

[219] Are jealous of them.

[220] Barnabas.

[221] Old copy, _Gupliade_.

[222] This word, as a verb, has occurred above. It is evidently used in a bad sense, to signify an idle, _loafing_ person.

[223] Mistress.

[224] Old copy, _an_.

[225] Old copy, _a leaven_.

[226] Altogether.

[227] i.e., Do ye nick a cast! See Halliwell, _v. Nick_, No. 6.

[228] i.e., By G.o.d's wounds, a common phrase.

[229] Care.

[230] A term of contempt. A skinflint, a curmudgeon.

[231] Pet, spoil.

[232] Old copy, _no_.

[233] Old copy, _your_.

[234] Old copy, _you_.

[235] Old copy, _siker_, i.e., certainly, securely.

[236] Old copy, _whaler_.

[237] Old copy, _or_.

[238] Jury. Compare Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," ii. 149.

[239] Here probably the word means literally _briber_; but _bribour_ also means _a thief_. See Way's edition of the "Promptorium," p. 50, and Halliwell in _v. Brybe_ and _brybour_.

[240] Old copy, _intided_.

[241] In the old copy, this and the following line are transposed, and some of the speeches are wrongly addressed.

[242] Old copy, _in_.

[243] Old copy, _none_.

[244] Old copy, _hanged_.

[245] Old copy, _neder_.

[246] Old copy, _ever_.

[247] Swoon.

[248] See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iv. 239. The term _goldylocks_, curiously enough, seems to have been in early use in a contemptuous or bad sense.

[249] Old copy, _bid_.

[250] Old copy, _exhorting_.

[251] Old copy, _yea_.

[252] Old copy, _is_.

[253] Old copy, _cam me mery?_

[254] This marginal note has partly been cut off by the binder:--

resyng, _answer- ing other t always_ staff, , ysing to _other_.