A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Vii Part 118

[234] [Old copies read _when_.]

[235] So second edit. First edit., _in the_.

[236] So second edit. Not in first edit.

[237] [Meaning a tavern of that name.]

[238] Sheathe your sword.

[239] Edits., _me_.

[240] [Old copy, _He's_.] Read, for the metre, _He is_.

[241] i.e., Quality, disposition.

[242] [Old copies, _he'll_.] Read, for the metre, _he will_.

[243] [Fine worsted.]

[244] [Old copies, _his hat, and all green hat_.]

[245] [Old copies, _indirect_.]

[246] Edits., _va.s.sailes_.

[247] So second edit. First edit., _women's_.

[248] Qy. _for an_?

[249] [Old copies, _She's_.] Read, for the metre, _She is_.

[250] A corruption of G.o.d's.

[251] [Old copies, _pale_.]

[252] Edits., _apprehend_, but certainly Mall had spoken with sufficient plainness.

[253] i.e., Nature.

[254] So second edit. First edit., _nay_.

[255] The common dress of a serving-man.

[256] Edits., _you_, which, perhaps, is the right reading, some word having dropp'd out after it. Qy. thus--

'MRS BAR. Mistresse flurt, you _mean_, Foule strumpet, light a loue, short heeles! Mistresse Goursey Call her,' &c.

--_Dyce_. [But _yea_ seems to be the more likely word.]

[257] So second edit. First edit., _tell_.

[258] i.e., Vile.

[259] Edits., _forlorn_.

[260] Qy., _Mother, he loves_?

[261] So second edit. First edit., _the_.

[262] So second edit. First edit., _Thaust_.

[263] i.e., Refuse.

[264] So second edit. First edit., _Gads_.

[265] Edits., _His_.

[266] Qy., _Franke_ he is _young_? Compare the preceding line but one.

[267] i.e., By our lady.

[268] i.e., Miserly persons.

[269] The author probably wrote _neuer was_.

[270] i.e., Honest men.

[271] So second edit. First edit., _ma_.

[272] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 128.]

[273] So second edit. First edit., _faith in_.

[274] Edits., _some_.

[275] Edits., _treason_.

[276] i.e., Vomits: a common pun in old dramas.

[277] i.e., Easily.

[278] Edits., _But_.

[279] So second edit., First edit., _cehape_.

[280] Read, for the metre, _He is_.

[281] Equivalent to--poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. As _pingle_ signifies a small croft, Nares (citing a pa.s.sage from Lyly's "Euphues") says that _pingler_ is "probably a labouring horse, kept by a farmer in his homestead." "Gloss." in v.--In Brockett's "Gloss, of North Country Words" is "_Pingle_, to work a.s.siduously but inefficiently,--to labour until you are almost blind." In Forby's "Vocab. of East Anglia"