Act V
_Enter +All Ladies+, +Nurses+, +Pinguister+, and +Lean-man+, as in the vault; +Philidor+ as a Crier._
+Phil.+ O yes, O yes, O yes! did any man hear tale Or tidings of three nurses, called Three Flanders Mares, with three sucking colts?--
+All Nurses.+ Hark, we are cried In the streets.
+Phil.+ And also six maiden ladies, that should Have been married to a certain Promising gentleman?--
+All Ladies.+ Devil! we are Cried too.
+Phil.+ Also a very lean gentleman, That must be fatter before he's married?--
+Lean-man.+ Hark, that is I?
+Phil.+ And the hugest loss of All is one Master Pinguister, a lovely Fat gentleman, whom all that knew him, doubt him To be dead upon some privy-house; because He purged every day for love, by reason Mistress Mirida would not marry him till A certain measure that she[75] has will come About his waist--
Enter +Mirida+.
+Ping.+ Crier, I am here, I am here.
+Phil.+ If any can bring news of the six aforesaid Virgin ladies, or of the three Flanders nurses And colts, to one Master Philidor, a very Conscientious young man--
+Omnes.+ A pox take him!
+Phil.+ They shall be extremely paid for their pains. Again, if any can bring tidings of this Master Pinguister to Mistress Mirida, She will be very bountiful in her Reward: the poor soul weeps most bitterly For him.
+Ping.+ Does she so, poor wretch? [Cries aloud.] Prythee, good Crier, go tell her I am not dead, though I have been buried a great while in the Vault. Mercy of my bum-gut, my purge again?
+Omnes.+ You nasty rogue, turn your breech out of the Gate then.
[Goes to do so, +Philidor+ kicks him down, he roars out.
+Mir.+ Philidor, I have broke a vein With laughing, to hear thy rogueries. I'll call To Pinguister. Master Pinguister? My Love, my dear, sure, I hear thy voice?
+Ping.+ Who's that, My dear female?
+Mir.+ The same, fat love.
+Ping.+ O, prythee raise me from the dead.
+Phil.+ Well, ladies and gentlewomen, how d'ye Like your crier now?
+Omnes.+ The devil take thee, was it you?
+Phil.+ The very same.
+2d Lady.+ Well, won't you let us out? pray howsoever, Take away this fat gentleman from us; For he has such a coming looseness, and 'Tis so dark here, that he has Shit upon every one of us.
+Omnes.+ Well, but won't you let us out?
+Phil.+ Yes, if you ladies would set your hands To this paper, to quit me as to all promises, I will; and also, my reverend nurses, You must set your hands to this discharge, To quit me from all arrears of nursing: Else farewell t'ye--
+Omnes.+ Well, well, stay; we will. [Set their hands.
+Phil.+ So, now you may go take the air Again; there's the key to let yourselves out.
+Omnes.+ A cheating rogue!
+Phil.+ Come, Mirida, let's run away, for if They catch us, murder is the best we can Hope for. [Exit, with +Mirida+.
+1st Nurse.+ They went this way; let's run after Them, some one way and some t'other. [Exeunt +Women+.
+Ping.+ So you may, but if I run away, then Hang me; I am glad of my resurrection Howsoever. On my conscience, no green Carcase ever stunk as I did; to my best Remembrance I went to stool some Threescore times in the vault, ergo I was beaten threescore times; the Unmerciful nurses, with their huge Palm'd hands, every time I went to't, Play'd at hot-cockles[76] all the while upon My buttocks. Well, I hope I shall ne'er be Buried again whilst I live, and so with That prayer I'll go to bed.
Enter +Mirida+.
+Mir.+ My dear fat love, little dost thou think how many Tears I have shed for all thy sufferings; that rogue Philidor put a trick upon us all.
+Ping.+ Well, and has physic, heats, burial, Nor resurrection, made me yet lean Enough to be thy husband? why, I have Lost as much grease as would furnish A whole city with candles for a twelvemonth And all for the love of thee, sweet Mirida. [Cries and sobs.
+Mir.+ Dear love, come sit thee in my lap, And let me try if I can enclose thy world Of fat and love within these arms: See, I cannot nigh encompass my Desires by a mile.
+Ping.+ How is my fat a rival to my joys! [Cries. Sure, I shall weep it all away.
+Mir.+ Lie still, my babe, lie still and sleep, It grieves me sore to see thee weep: Wer't thou but leaner, I were glad; Thy fatness makes thy dear love sad. What a lump of love have I in my arms!
+Ping.+ Nay, if I had not taken all these courses To dissolve myself into thy embraces, One would think my looking on thee Were enough; for I never see thee but I am like a fat piece of beef roasting At the fire, continually drop, drop, drop. There's ne'er a feature in thy face, or Part about thee, but has cost me many A pint of fat, with thinking on thee; And yet not to be lean enough for Thy husband--O fate! O fate! O fat! [She lets him fall.
+Mir.+ O Lord, sir, I have let you fall, How shall I do to get you up again!
+Ping.+ Nay, that is more than all the world can tell.
+Mir.+ I'll e'en lie down by thee then.
+Ping.+ Nay, But prythee lie near me; thou hadst As good lie a league off, as that distance.
+Mir.+ Were I thy wife, fat love, I would.
+She+ sings.
_My lodging upon the cold floor is, And wonderful hard is my fare, But that which troubles me more, is The fatness of my dear. Yet still I do cry, O, melt, love, And I prythee now melt apace; For thou art the man I should long for, If 'twere not for thy grease._
+Pinguister+ sings.
_Then prythee don't burden thy heart still, And be deaf to my pitiful moan; Since I do endure the smart still, And for my fat do groan; Then prythee now turn, my dear love, And I prythee now turn to me; For, alas! I am too fat still To roll so far to thee._
+Mir.+ That were not modesty in me to turn To you; but if you can roll to me within This hour, I'll marry you in spite of all Your fat.
+Ping.+ Agreed, then I shall gain thee yet; You must lie still then.
+Mir.+ Yes, yes.
+Ping.+ Sure, I am Sysiphus's stone, for as fast as I turn Over, I think I turn back again, else I Must needs have been come to my journey's end [He rolls to her, and she rolls from him. By this time; for I am of such a breadth, That every roll I give I pass over An acre at least. Thou liest still, my love, Dost thou not?
+Mir.+ Yes, I long to have thee here.
+Ping.+ I doubt I shan't be with thee, though, This two hours.
+Mir.+ Then my heart will break.
+Ping.+ I'm sure mine will before I get to thee. O woman, O woman, O woman! They talk of woman in travail, I'm Sure I know a man in travail at This time, in more pain by half. [She rises and laughs at him.
+Mir.+ Why, my most extreme fat ass, dost Thou not find that I have fool'd thee All this while?
+Ping.+ Why, hast thou?
+Mir.+ Yes, indeed have I.
+Ping.+ O thou woman! may'st thou grow Fat, that thy breast and belly may Meet together, so that all the fat Hostesses in Christendom may appear But eels to thee.
+Mir.+ Farewell, my lowly love.
+Ping.+ Why, wilt thou not help me up, before You go?
+Mir.+ What to do? to run heats again for love?
+Ping.+ No, to fight with thee.
+Mir.+ Fight with me? by this light, would we Had two swords. I'd have one pass At all thy tripes.
Enter +Cutler+ with two swords.
Faith, and yonder's a fellow with two swords: Friend, lend me but thy swords one minute.
+Cut.+ I am going to carry them to two gentlemen.
+Mir.+ O, this will not hinder thee; thou shalt See rare sport. Go, help that gentleman Up that lies yonder, and give that sword Into his hand. Come, are ye ready, sir?
+Ping.+ Why, you dare fight then, it seems? Though thou art so ungodly a chit, as To say no prayers, before thou beginn'st, I will, I assure thee. Good--I pray and desire ye, if I Do miscarry in this duel, that I may Meet with no woman in the other World. Now, thou worst of females, Have at thee.
+Mir.+ Come, I'll let out all your fat and love at One thrust. [Fight, and she disarms him. Now ask thy life, and confess thou art an ass.
+Ping.+ I am an ass, and ask my life.
+Mir.+ Then I, thy conquering Cæsar, take my leave With this conclusion: veni, vidi, vici. And so farewell. O fate, O love, O fat! [Exit.
+Ping.+ After all my miseries, would I were Up again, else the next man that comes Will make a roller of me, for to roll Bowling-greens. [Makes several attempts to rise, and at last gets up. So, now I have a mile home at least, And every toilsome step I take, I will Curse women. [Exit.
_Enter +Zoranzo+ and +Amphelia+ lying upon straw together._
+Zor.+ Most bless'd of women, I must tell you truth; And yet I fear that truth will----
+Amph.+ Will what? I doubt he loves me-- [Aside. Speak it, sir, nothing from you can Be unwelcome.
+Zor.+ O yes, it will.
+Amph.+ I'll warrant you; out with it, sir.
+Zor.+ Then know, I----'Twill come no farther.
+Amph.+ Unhappy man! 'tis so, he loves me. [Aside. O sir, I have sadder truth to tell to you Than yours can be to me----I dare not Speak it.
+Zor.+ My fears are true; she loves me. [Aside. Pray tell me, what it is?
+Amph.+ Tell yours first, sir.
+Zor.+ Alas! you saw I tried, but could not get It past my lips.
+Amph.+ If I should try, mine would not come so far.
+Zor.+ Would I knew yours, I could tell it for you.
+Amph.+ So could I yours, [and] yet I can't my own.
+Zor.+ Alas! she loves me. [Aside.
+Amph.+ Poor Zoranzo! I see he loves me. [Aside. But, sir, consider we are going to die; Let us die undeceiv'd in one another.
+Zor.+ O, that some one that knows each of our hearts, Would hearken to our griefs, and bid An angel come and speak for both!
Enter +Jailor+.
+Jailor.+ Come, have you done your discourse? you must go To execution.
+Zor.+ A little patience, jailor: [To her] see, we are Called unto our deaths, pray tell me, what You mean.
+Amph.+ I cannot; first do you begin.
+Zor.+ Nor I.
+Amph.+ Let us tell both together then, that one May not blame the other.
+Zor.+ Agreed: are you ready now to speak!
+Amph.+ Yes--O no, I am not--well, now I am-- Are you?
+Zor.+ Yes, I am; begin--O, stay, I cannot yet.
+Jailor.+ Come, come, I can give you no longer time.
+Amph.+ Nay, then we must tell.
+Zor.+ Poor Amphelia! 'tis Amarissa that I love.
+Amph.+ O Zoranzo, I love the duke!
+Zor.+ Then I am joy'd, I was afraid 'twas me You lov'd.
+Amph.+ And so was I that you lov'd me. Now we shall both die happy, never was Two such friends as you and I.
+Jailor.+ Come, come.
+Amph.+ Good jailor, we go most willingly now. [Exeunt.
Enter as on a scaffold, +Duke+, +Amarissa+, +Ortellus+, +Zoranzo+, +Amphelia+, +Jailor+, and +Executioner+.
+Ama.+ Jailor, why didst thou let them stay so long?
+Jailor.+ They had so much to say to one another, That still they begged one minute, and then Another.
+Ama.+ D'ye hear, sir? pray let the jailor Be turn'd out of his place, for letting them speak to One another.
+Amph.+ See, Zoranzo, where they sit In triumph o'er our deaths.
+Ama.+ S'life, sir, they are Whispering, d'ye see Yonder? Executioner, why don't you Strike off their heads, and let them whisper then. Sir, you're melancholy.
+Duke.+ I am indeed.
+Zor.+ Now, Amphelia, to heaven and you I truly Vow, my love is still the same to cruel Amarissa.
+Amph.+ Heaven and you witness the same for me: My heart is still that undeserving duke's.
+Exec.+ Come, which of you will die first?
+Zor.+ Hast thou not Skill enough to strike our heads off together?
+Ama.+ Executioner, let them not have that Satisfaction; pray, sir, let that woman Die first, that damned Zoranzo may have Two deaths; it will be one to him to see Her die; shall it be so, sir?
+Duke.+ What you please.
+Exec.+ Come, lady, you must lay down your head First, the duke says.
+Amph.+ That word's the sharpest axe That I shall feel.
+Exec.+ Have you said all? [Both kneel as at prayers.
+Amph.+ To earth I have, But not to heaven. Farewell, dear friend, for one short minute.
+Zor.+ My soul Shall hasten after yours.
+Ama.+ S'life! jailor, will you Let them speak to one another again?
+Amph.+ Executioner, now I am ready.
+Duke.+ Hold, The prisoner shall die first.
+Zor.+ With all my Heart, I am ready.
+Duke.+ Nay, it is not you I mean, sir; rise; 'tis I that am the prisoner, I will make you a present, take your life, Your love; nay, and my dukedom too: and to Oblige you most of all, executioner, Strike off my head, for I am weary of it.
+Amph.+ Not for ten thousand worlds, sir, Whate'er you mean.
+Duke.+ Know then, I have lov'd you All this while, but seeing your hate so great to me, I have dissembled scorn to you. [She swoons. Why dost thou swoon, Amphelia?
+Amph.+ Did not I hear some voice just now, That said the duke does love me still?
+Duke.+ Thou didst; 'twas he himself that said so.
+Amph.+ If 'twere from heaven, good heaven, say it again!
+Duke.+ 'Twas I myself, I tell thee--and I will Ne'er speak another word, if that displease thee.
+Amph.+ O, I am in heaven then, it seems, and 'tis Some god that is telling me how the duke Loved me still.
+Duke.+ Dear Amphelia, 'tis I That loves thee, tells thee so.
+Amph.+ Hark, now there is a god that says he loves Me too; blest god, I'm sorry if you do. Since I have heard the duke does love me still, He must be your rival, indeed I cannot Help it. O, let me fly down to the earth Again, only to hear him say he loves me. I cannot promise when I shall return: That very word from him would keep me there.
+Duke.+ I must answer her no more: they say 'Twill keep 'em longer in a trance. [He rubs her.
+Ort.+ I am but in a scurvy condition now, if She comes to life again, for they will Examine one another, how the mistake Came between them, and then I am Sure it must come to light. [Aside.
+Amph.+ Who's that,--duke Archimedes?
+Duke.+ The same, sweet angel.
+Amph.+ O sir, I am come from heaven to see you, Since there I heard you love me still.
+Duke.+ Dear Amphelia, thou hast dream'd all this while; Heaven, 'tis true, is where thou art, but 'twas My voice that said I love thee.
+Amph.+ Was not my head struck off just now?
+Duke.+ Canst thou ask that, while I have A head and heart?
+Amph.+ Why, have you lov'd me still?
+Duke.+ With as much truth as ever lover did.
+Amph.+ So have I you with equal constancy.
+Ama.+ Well, sir, now you are satisfied, pray let Me be so too, and let Zoranzo's head Be struck off quickly, I see he's mean as well as false, to quit Me for a woman that does not love him.
+Amph.+ Hold, Amarissa, hear me speak, before Zoranzo dies; and be assur'd he loves You still.
+Ama.+ Would you deceive me too?
+Amph.+ Indeed I don't; when we were going to die, You may remember that we whispered, Then we called heaven and ourselves to witness, That both our loves were true, Mine to Archimedes, and his to you.
+Ama.+ You can forgive me, sir? [Kneels.
+Zor.+ I cannot answer yet; Thy civility has took away my speech.
+Duke.+ Dear Amphelia, how came this sad mistake 'Twixt you and I?
+Amph.+ I'll tell you, sir, in part; When you were in this last war, my woman Receiv'd a letter from one of the gentlemen Of your chamber, wherein he did assure Her that you had a new mistress in that Country, and therefore bid her tell me Of it, that I might by degrees wean my Affections from so false a man as you.
+Duke.+ Here has been some foul play; for this very man You spoke of, receiv'd a letter from your woman, Wherein she bid him assure me, that you Were prov'd false in my absence, and lov'd my Cousin Ortellus. Guard, go fetch them both Hither immediately; they shall die Without mercy.
+Ort.+ Nay, then, I had as good Discover, 'twill fall th' heavier on me else. Sir, let the guard stay, And I will tell you all. 'Tis I have sow'd the seeds of this mistake. I long have lov'd Amphelia, for which cause I tried this way to draw her heart from you. I knew this gentleman of your bed-chamber Was in love with Amphelia's woman, Therefore I brib'd her to write to him, To assure the duke that Amphelia lov'd me, And that she should also charge him, to write Another letter to her, wherein he Should complain of the duke's falling in love With another woman in that country. I knew your spirits both to be so great that Neither of you would stoop to one another, When you were both possess'd of either's falseness: And so it prov'd. For when the duke heard you lov'd me, he brought A fair new mistress over with him, to Let you see he did contemn you; and so Amphelia, sir, when she heard you lov'd Another, assur'd me then that she lov'd me, Which now I see was only to make you Think how much she scorn'd you, though still her heart Was true, and so was yours. Now, sir, I humbly beg your pardon.
+Duke.+ 'Twill be in vain, my lord; I cannot grant it. O Amphelia, how many hours of joy We two have lost!
+Amph.+ Base lord!
Enter +Artabella+.
+Art.+ O sir, I heard that people were to die To-day; let me be one, I pray.
+Amph.+ Not for The world, sweet innocent.
+Art.+ O madam, you are she The duke loves. Pray spare your pity, sir; can You have the heart to let me live, and see You married to another?
+Amph.+ Have patience, Sweet young maid, I will not marry him; you won't Blame me, if I love him, though?
+Art.+ No; For then I should condemn my fault in you.
+Duke.+ But sure, Amphelia, you did but jest, In telling her you would not marry me?
+Amph.+ Indeed, sir, I am in earnest; consider It is but justice; she loves you as well As I: her heart was quiet till you troubled It.
+Duke.+ All this is true; but how will your Love show, if you refuse to marry me?
+Amph.+ Not less at all, but make my pity more.
+Duke.+ If I would marry her, I can't believe, That she would be thus kind to you.
+Amph.+ Yes, I dare say she would; ask her and try.
+Duke.+ Well, Artabella, will you marry me?
+Art.+ You never hated me till now; can you Believe I'd wrong so blest a woman as Amphelia?
+Amph.+ See, sir, would it be justice now in me? She will not wound my heart; should I kill hers?
+Duke.+ But consider, 'tis you I love, not her.
+Amph.+ That's her misfortune, sir, yet she deserves. As much as I: I can but love you, so Does she.
+Duke.+ Dear Amphelia, marry me.
+Amph.+ I cannot Out of pity, sir.
+Duke.+ Talk not of pity, if Thou wilt show me none.
+Amph.+ My pity is her due: My love is yours.
+Duke.+ O Amphelia, this was A cruel way to make me happy. Thou'st Better still have kept my joys unknown, than let The knowing of it be my death. Once more, My dear Amphelia, marry me.
+Amph.+ Do not Petition her; you may command in any Thing but this.
+Duke.+ Monster of villains, thou hast caus'd All this! Executioner, immediately strike Off his head.
+Ort.+ I'm sure you will not let me die.
+Duke.+ Impudent villain, dispatch him straight.
+Ort.+ Hold, sir, 'tis only I can make you Three happy, which if you do not confess, When you have heard me speak, then let me die.
+Duke.+ Well, let's hear it.
+Ort.+ Promise me my life First, if I do.
+Duke.+ Well, you shall have it.
+Ort.+ Then know, the lady Artabella is Your sister.
+Duke.+ Ha!
+Ort.+ I say, your sister; You do remember that you had one once?
+Duke.+ Yes, I do, but she was lost at three years old.
+Ort.+ 'Tis true it was thought so; but thus it is:-- When 'twas reported you were slain in th' battle, I straight convey'd away this lady, then A child, because she should not stand 'twixt me And the dukedom. I being then acquainted With the mother to Arbatus, I brought This lady, and gave her a sum of money, T' adopt her for her child. With willingness My offer she embrac'd, the more, because Her son Arbatus had been lost about Seven years, thought to have been cast away At sea, though afterwards returned home: I had enjoin'd her secrecy, which she Kept, therefore she told Arbatus 'twas his Sister.
Enter +Arbatus+.
+Duke.+ And is she then my sister? O Arbatus, welcome, welcome! I've a crowd Of joys about my heart to tell thee.
+Arb.+ What! that you have broken my sister's heart?
+Duke.+ Thou hast no sister; 'tis I [that] possess that Blessing; Artabella is my sister. How blest a sound is sister to my ears! I'll give command no other word but sister Shall be spoke throughout my dukedom; I'll have it Taught to infants; so that when nature lends Their sucking tongues a means to speak one word, They shall all babble sister, 'stead of nurse. I'll have the name engrav'd in gold [up]on Every post and pillar in the streets, and passers- By shall worship it.
+Arb.+ I am amazed.
Enter +Philidor+ and +Mirida+.
+Duke.+ Welcome, Philidor.
+Phil.+ I am glad To see joy in your looks again, sir; The time is long since I have seen you smile.
+Duke.+ Philidor, all that is joy I have within This breast; it overflows And runs into my eyes. This is my sister! (O, what a word is sister!) and this my dear And true Amphelia. Come, Mirida shall be thine to-day too. [To +Philidor+.
+Mir.+ Hold, sir, I forbid that banns.
+Phil.+ Troth, so do I too; you always Take the words out of my mouth. You and I marry, quotha!
+Mir.+ No, faith, we'll be hang'd first. I'd Rather hear a long sermon, than Hear a parson ask me: _Mirida, Will you have this man for your Wedded husband, to have and to hold, From this day forward_, and so forth.
+Phil.+ Right, _for better for worse, in Sickness or in health._
+Mir.+ Ay, and perhaps after we have been Married half a year, one's Husband falls into a deep consumption, And will not do one the favour to Die neither, then we must be Ever feeding him with caudles. O, from a husband in a consumption Deliver me!
+Phil.+ And think how weary I should be Of thee, Mirida, when once we were Chain'd together: the very name of Wife would be a vomit to me: then Nothing but, _where's my wife? call My wife to dinner, call my wife to supper_; And then at night, _come, wife, will you Go to bed_?
+Mir.+ Ay, and that would be so troublesome To be call'd by one's husband every night To go to bed. O, that dull, dull Name of husband!
+Duke.+ Indeed you two are well met, The world has not two more such, I am confident.
+Mir.+ The more the pity, sir.
+Phil.+ No, sir, if you please, never propose Marrying to us, till both of us have Committed such faults as are death By the law; then instead of Hanging us, marry us.
+Mir.+ And then you shall hear how Earnestly we shall petition your Highness to be hang'd rather than Married.
+Duke.+ No man can judge which is the Wildest of these two. Now, brave Arbatus, in all my dukedom There is but one gift worthy thy Receiving, and that's my sister; Here, sir, take her as freely as heaven Gave her me.
+Arb.+ D'ye forgive me, sir?
+Duke.+ Or not myself, Arbatus. This day Hymen shall light his torch for all.
+Phil.+ With your pardon, sir, not for me And my female?
+Mir.+ No, faith, I'll blow it out, If he does.
+Art.+ Sir, though in my own desires I should have chose the man that you have given me, Yet I beg we may not marry yet; we have Call'd brother and sister so long, that yet We needs must think we are so still.
+Arb.+ Pray, madam, Let's think so as little a while as we can, That fancy may not keep my joy in prison.
+Duke.+ Let's to the temple now, and there thank Heaven for these unexpected joys. Each day the gods shall lend me in this life, I'll thank them for a sister and a wife. [Exeunt.
FOOTNOTES:
[75] [Old copy, he.]
[76] [See Thoms' "Anecdotes and Traditions," 1839, p. 95.]
HISTORIA HISTRIONICA.
EDITION.
_Historia Histrionica. An Historical Account of the English-Stage; showing the Ancient Uses, Improvement, and Perfection of Dramatic Representations, in this Nation. In a Dialogue, of Plays and Players._--Olim meminisse juvabit. _London. Printed by G. Croom, for William Haws, at the Rose in Ludgate-Street._ 1699. 8º.
This tract is said to have been the production of James Wright of New Inn, afterwards of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, who was the son of Abraham Wright, a well-known miscellaneous writer (1645-70). The former was the author of "The Antiquities of Rutlandshire," and some poems; particularly (1) "An Essay on the Present Ruins of St Paul's Cathedral." To which is annexed, "The Misfortunes of St Paul's Cathedral," in heroic verse, 4º. 1668; reprinted with two other poems under the title of (2) "Three poems of St Paul's Cathedral; viz., The Ruins, The Rebuilding, The Choire,[77] Fo. 1697," and (3) "Phœnix Paulina, a Poem on St Paul's Cathedral, 4º. 1709."[78] He was alive in 1710, being mentioned by Mr Hearne in his preface to Leland's "Itinerary," in this manner; "I could have supply'd more Lacunæ, and in all likelyhood have render'd this performance more perfect, if I had had the use of a very good transcript of Mr Leland's 'Itinerary,' taken about the time of Queen Elizabeth (before the originals took wet, as is suppos'd) and was formerly in possession of James Wright, of the Middle Temple, Esq., the worthy author of the 'Antiquities of Rutlandshire;' but this, with a multitude of other valuable curiosities, was unhappily burned in the fire at the Middle Temple, in the year 1698, as Mr Wright has been pleased to inform me." Anthony Wood says, he wrote an elegy on the death of Mr John Goad, Master of Merchant Taylor's School, who died 1689. (See Wood's "Athenæ," vol. i. p. 839.)
FOOTNOTES:
[77] British Topography, vol. 1. p. 610.
[78] Catalogue of pamphlets in the Harleian Library, p. 140.
THE PREFACE.[79]
Much has been writ of late pro and con about the stage, yet the subject admits of more, and that which has not been hitherto touched upon; not only what that is, but what it was, about which some people have made such a bustle. What it is we see, and I think it has been sufficiently displayed in Mr Collier's book; what it was in former ages, and how used in this kingdom, so far back as one may collect any memorials, is the subject of the following dialogue. Old plays will be always read by the curious, if it were only to discover the manners and behaviour of several ages, and how they altered. For plays are exactly like portraits, drawn in the garb and fashion of the time when painted. You see one habit in the time of Charles I., another quite different from that, both for men and women, in Queen Elizabeth's time; another under Henry VIII. different from both; and so backward, all various. And in the several fashions of behaviour and conversation there is as much mutability as in that of clothes. Religion and religious matters were once as much the mode in public entertainments as the contrary has been in some times since. This appears in the different plays of several ages: and to evince this the following sheets are an essay or specimen.
Some may think the subject of this discourse trivial, and the persons herein mentioned not worth remembering. But besides that I could name some things contested of late with great heat, of as little or less consequence, the reader may know that the profession of players is not so totally scandalous, nor all of them so reprobate, but that there has been found under that name a canonised saint in the primitive church, as may be seen in the "Roman Martyrology" on the 29th March: his name Masculas, a master of interludes (the Latin is Archimimus, and the French translation un Maître comedien) who, under the persecution of the Vandals in Africa by Geisericus the Aryan king, having endured many and grievous torments and reproaches for the confession of the truth, finished the course of this glorious combat, saith the said "Martyrology."
It appears from this and some further instances in the following discourse, that there have been players of worthy principles as to religion, loyalty, and other virtues; and if the major part of them fall under a different character, it is the general unhappiness of mankind, that the most are the worst.
FOOTNOTES:
[79] This preface was omitted by Mr Reed, probably because his copy was not perfect. It is reprinted from the first edition in 1699, which the former editor had not been able to procure.--Collier.
A DIALOGUE, &c.
+Lovewit+, +Trueman+.
+Love.+ Honest old cavalier, well met! faith, I'm glad to see thee.
+True.+ Have a care what you call me: old is a word of disgrace among the ladies; to be honest is to be poor and foolish (as some think); and cavalier is a word as much out of fashion as any of 'em.
+Love.+ The more's the pity. But what said the fortune-teller in Ben Jonson's "Masque of Gipsies," to the then Lord Privy Seal?--
_Honest and old! In those the good part of a fortune is told._
+True.+ Ben Jonson! how dare you name Ben Jonson in these times, when we have such a crowd of poets of a quite different genius, the least of which thinks himself as well able to correct Ben Jonson as he could a country schoolmistress that taught to spell!
+Love.+ We have, indeed, poets of a different genius, so are the plays; but, in my opinion, they are all of 'em (some few excepted) as much inferior to those of former times, as the actors now in being (generally speaking) are, compared to Hart, Mohun, Burt, Lacy, Clun, and Shatterel; for I can reach no farther backward.
+True.+ I can, and dare assure you, if my fancy and memory are not partial (for men of my age are apt to be over-indulgent to the thoughts of their youthful days), I say the actors that I have seen before the wars--Lowin, Taylor, Pollard, and some others--were almost as far beyond Hart and his company as those were beyond these now in being.
+Love.+ I am willing to believe it, but cannot readily; because I have been told that those whom I mentioned were bred up under the others of your acquaintance, and followed their manner of action, which is now lost: so far that, when the question has been asked why these players do not revive the "Silent Woman" and some other of Jonson's plays (once of highest esteem), they have answered, "Truly, because there are none now living who can rightly humour those parts; for all who related to the Blackfriars (where they were acted in perfection) are now dead and almost forgotten."
+True.+ 'Tis very true, Hart and Clun were bred up boys at the Blackfriars, and acted women's parts. Hart was Robinson's boy or apprentice; he acted the Duchess in the tragedy of the "Cardinal," which was the first part that gave him reputation. Cartwright and Wintershal belonged to the Private House in Salisbury Court; Burt was a boy, first under Shank at the Blackfriars, then under Beeston at the Cockpit; and Mohun and Shatterel were in the same condition with him at the last place. There Burt used to play the principal women's parts, in particular Clariana, in "Love's Cruelty;" and at the same time Mohun acted Bellamente, which part he retained after the Restoration.
+Love.+ That I have seen, and can well remember. I wish they had printed in the last age (so I call the times before the Rebellion) the actors' names over against the parts they acted, as they have done since the Restoration, and thus one might have guessed at the action of the men by the parts which we now read in the old plays.
+True.+ It was not the custom and usage of those days, as it hath been since. Yet some few old plays there are that have the names set against the parts, as "The Duchess of Malfy," "The Picture," "The Roman Actor," "The Deserving Favourite," "The Wild-Goose Chase" (at the Blackfriars), "The Wedding," "The Renegado," "The Fair Maid of the West," "Hannibal and Scipio," "King John and Matilda" (at the Cockpit), and "Holland's Leaguer" (at Salisbury Court).
+Love.+ These are but few indeed. But pray, sir, what master-parts can you remember the old Blackfriar's men to act in Jonson, Shakespeare, and Fletcher's plays?
+True.+ What I can at present recollect, I'll tell you. Shakespeare (who, as I have heard, was a much better poet than player), Burbage, Hemmings, and others of the older sort, were dead before I knew the town; but in my time, before the wars, Lowin used to act with mighty applause Falstaff, Morose, Volpone, and Mammon in the "Alchymist," Melantius in the "Maid's Tragedy;" and at the same time Amyntor was played by Stephen Hammerton (who was at first a most noted and beautiful woman-actor, but afterwards he acted with equal grace and applause a young lover's part); Taylor acted Hamlet incomparably well; Jago, Truewit in the "Silent Woman," and Face in the "Alchymist." Swanston used to play Othello. Pollard and Robinson were comedians; so was Shank, who used to act Sir Roger in the "Scornful Lady:" these were of Blackfriars. Those of principal note at the Cockpit were Perkins, Michael Bowyer, Sumner, William Allan, and Bird, eminent actors, and Robins, a comedian. Of the other companies I took little notice.
+Love.+ Were there so many companies?
+True.+ Before the wars there were in being all these play-houses at the same time. The Blackfriars and Globe on the Bank-side, a winter and summer house, belonging to the same company, called the King's Servants; the Cockpit or Phœnix, in Drury Lane, called the Queen's Servants; the Private House, in Salisbury Court, called the Prince's Servants; the Fortune, near Whitecross Street;[80] and the Red Bull, at the upper end of St John's Street: the two last were mostly frequented by citizens and the meaner sort of people. All these companies got money, and lived in reputation, especially those of the Blackfriars, who were men of grave and sober behaviour.
+Love.+ Which I admire at; that the town, much less than at present, could then maintain five companies, and yet now two can hardly subsist.
+True.+ Do not wonder, but consider that, though the town was then, perhaps, not much more than half so populous as now, yet then the prices were small (there being no scenes), and better order kept among the company that came; which made very good people think a play an innocent diversion for an idle hour or two, the plays themselves being then, for the most part, more instructive and moral. Whereas, of late, the play-houses are so extremely pestered with vizard-masks and their trade (occasioning continual quarrels and abuses), that many of the more civilised part of the town are uneasy in the company, and shun the theatre as they would a house of scandal. It is an argument of the worth of the plays and actors of the last age, and easily inferred, that they were much beyond ours in this, to consider that they could support themselves merely from their own merit, the weight of the matter, and goodness of the action, without scenes and machines; whereas the present plays, with all that show, can hardly draw an audience, unless there be the additional invitation of a Signer Fedeli, a Monsieur l'Abbé, or some such foreign regale expressed in the bottom of the bill.
+Love.+ To waive this digression, I have read of one Edward Alleyn, a man so famed for excellent action, that among Ben Jonson's epigrams I find one directed to him, full of encomium, and concluding thus--
_Wear this renown; 'tis just that who did give So many poets life, by one should live._
Was he one of the Blackfriars?
+True.+ Never as I have heard (for he was dead before my time). He was master of a company of his own, for whom he built the Fortune Playhouse from the ground, a large round brick building. This is he that grew so rich, that he purchased a great estate in Surrey and elsewhere; and having no issue, he built and largely endowed Dulwich College in the year 1619[81], for a master, a warden, four fellows, twelve aged poor people, and twelve poor boys, &c. A noble charity!
+Love.+ What kind of play-houses had they before the wars?
+True.+ The Blackfriars, Cockpit, and Salisbury Court were called private houses, and were very small to what we see now. The Cockpit was standing since the Restoration, and Rhodes's company acted there for some time.
+Love.+ I have seen that.
+True.+ Then you have seen the other two in effect, for they were all three built almost exactly alike for form and bigness. Here they had pits for the gentry, and acted by candlelight. The Globe, Fortune, and Bull were large houses, and lay partly open to the weather, and there they always acted by daylight.
+Love.+ But prythee, Trueman, what became of these players when the stage was put down, and the Rebellion raised?
+True.+ Most of them, except Lowin, Taylor, and Pollard (who were superannuated) went into the king's army, and, like good men and true, served their old master, though in a different, yet more honourable capacity. Robinson was killed at the taking of a place (I think Basing House) by Harrison, he that was after hanged at Charing Cross, who refused him quarter, and shot him in the head when he had laid down his arms; abusing Scripture at the same time in saying, Cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord negligently. Mohun was a captain, and (after the wars were ended here) served in Flanders, where he received pay as a major. Hart was a lieutenant of horse under Sir Thomas Dallison, in Prince Rupert's regiment; Burt was cornet in the same troop, and Shatterel quartermaster. Allen of the Cockpit was a major, and quartermaster-general at Oxford. I have not heard of one of these players; of any note that sided with the other party, but only Swanston; and he professed himself a Presbyterian, took up the trade of a jeweller, and lived in Aldermanbury, within the territory of Father Calamy. The rest either lost or exposed their lives for their king. When the wars were over, and the Royalists totally subdued, most of 'em who were left alive gathered to London, and for a subsistence endeavoured to revive their old trade privately. They made up one company out of all the scattered members of several; and in the winter before the king's murder, 1648, they ventured to act some plays, with as much caution and privacy as could be, at the Cockpit. They continued undisturbed for three or four days; but at last, as they were presenting the tragedy of the "Bloody Brother" (in which Lowin acted Aubery: Taylor, Rollo; Pollard, the Cook; Burt, Latorch; and, I think, Hart, Otto), a party of foot-soldiers beset the house, surprised 'em about the middle of the play,[82] and carried 'em away in their habits, not admitting them to shift, to Hatton House, then a prison, where, having detained them some time, they plundered them of their clothes, and let 'em loose again. Afterwards, in Oliver's time, they used to act privately, three or four miles, or more, out of town, now here, now there: sometimes in noblemen's houses, in particular, Holland House at Kensington, where the nobility and gentry who met (but in no great numbers) used to make a sum for them, each giving a broad piece, or the like. And Alexander Goffe, the woman-actor at Blackfriars (who had made himself known to persons of quality), used to be the jackal, and give notice of time and place. At Christmas and Bartholomew Fair, they used to bribe the officer who commanded the guard at Whitehall, and were thereupon connived at to act for a few days at the Red Bull,[83] but were sometimes, notwithstanding, disturbed by soldiers. Some picked up a little money by publishing the copies of plays never before printed, but kept up in manuscript. For instance, in the year 1652, Beaumont and Fletcher's "Wild-Goose Chase" was printed in folio, for the public use of all the ingenious, as the title-page says, and private benefit of John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, servants to his late majesty; and by them dedicated to the honoured few lovers of dramatic poesy, wherein they modestly intimate their wants, and that with sufficient cause; for whatever they were before the wars, they were after reduced to a necessitous condition. Lowin, in his latter days, kept an inn, the Three Pigeons at Brentford, where he died very old, for he was an actor of eminent note in the reign of King James I.; and his poverty was as great as his age. Taylor died at Richmond, and was there buried. Pollard, who lived single, and had a competent estate, retired to some relations he had in the country, and there ended his life. Perkins and Sumner of the Cockpit kept house together at Clerkenwell, and were there buried. These all died some years before the Restoration; what followed after, I need not tell you; you can easily remember.
+Love.+ Yes; presently after the Restoration, the king's players acted publicly at the Red Bull for some time, and then removed to a new-built play-house in Vere Street, by Clare Market. There they continued for a year or two, and then removed to the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, where they first made use of scenes, which had been a little before introduced upon the public stage by Sir William Davenant, at the Duke's Old Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, but afterwards very much improved, with the addition of curious machines, by Mr Betterton, at the New Theatre in Dorset Garden, to the great expense and continual charge of the players. This much impaired their profit o'er what it was before; for I have been informed by one of 'em, that for several years next after the Restoration every whole sharer in Mr Hart's company got £1000 per ann. About the same time that scenes first entered upon the stage at London, women were taught to act their own parts; since when we have seen at both houses several actresses, justly famed, as well for beauty as perfect good action. And some plays, in particular the "Parson's Wedding," have been presented all by women, as formerly all by men. Thus it continued for about twenty years, when Mr Hart, and some of the old men, began to grow weary, and were minded to leave off. Then the two companies thought fit to unite; but of late, you see, they have thought it no less fit to divide again, though both companies keep the same name of His Majesty's Servants. All this while the play-house music improved yearly, and is now arrived to greater perfection than ever I knew it. Yet for all these advantages, the reputation of the stage and people's affection to it are much decayed. Some were lately severe against it, and would hardly allow stage-plays fit to be longer permitted. Have you seen Mr Collier's book?
+True.+ Yes, and his opposers'.
+Love.+ And what think you?
+True.+ In my mind, Mr Collier's reflections are pertinent, and true in the main; the book ingeniously wrote, and well intended; but he has overshot himself in some places, and his respondents perhaps in more. My affection inclines me not to engage on either side, but rather mediate. If there be abuses relating to the stage--which, I think, is too apparent--let the abuse be reformed, and not the use, for that reason only, abolished. 'Twas an old saying, when I was a boy--
Absit abusus, non desit totaliter usus.
I shall not run through Mr Collier's book; I will only touch a little on two or three general notions, in which, I think, he may be mistaken. What he urges out of the primitive councils and fathers of the Church seems to me to be directed against the heathen plays, which were a sort of religious worship with them, to the honour of Ceres, Flora, or some of their false deities. They had always a little altar on their stages, as appears plain enough from some places in Plautus. And Mr Collier himself, p. 235, tells us out of Livy that plays were brought in, upon the score of religion, to pacify the gods. No wonder, then, they forbid Christians to be present at them, for it was almost the same as to be present at their sacrifices. We must also observe that this was in the infancy of Christianity, when the Church was under severe and almost continual persecutions, and when all its true members were of most strict and exemplary lives, not knowing when they should be called to the stake, or thrown to wild beasts. They communicated daily, and expected death hourly; as their thoughts were intent upon the next world, they abstained almost wholly from all diversions and pleasures (though lawful and innocent) in this. Afterwards, when persecution ceased, and the Church flourished, Christians, being then freed from their former terrors, allowed themselves, at proper times, the lawful recreations of conversations, and among other, no doubt, this of shows and representations. After this time, the censures of the Church indeed might be continued or revived upon occasion against plays and players; though, in my opinion, it cannot be understood generally, but only against such players who were of vicious and licentious lives, and represented profane subjects, inconsistent with the morals and probity of manners requisite to Christians, and frequented chiefly by such loose and debauched people as were much more apt to corrupt than divert those who associated with them. I say, I cannot think the canons and censures of the fathers can be applied to all players, quatenus players; for if so, how could plays be continued among the Christians, as they were, of divine subjects and scriptural stories? A late French author, speaking of the Hotel de Bourgogne, a play-house in Paris, says that the ancient dukes of that name gave it to the Brotherhood of the Passion, established in the church of Trinity Hospital, in the Rue St Denis, on condition that they should represent here interludes of devotion; and adds, that there have been public shows in this place six hundred years ago. The Spanish and Portuguese continue still to have, for the most part, such ecclesiastical stories for the subject of their plays; and if we may believe Gage, they are acted in their churches in Mexico and the Spanish West Indies.
+Love.+ That's a great way off, Trueman; I had rather you would come nearer home, and confine your discourse to Old England.
+True.+ So I intend. The same has been done here in England; for otherwise, how comes it to be prohibited in the 88th Canon, among those passed in convocation, 1603? Certain it is that our ancient plays were of religious subjects, and had for their actors, if not priests, yet men relating to the Church.
+Love.+ How does that appear?
+True.+ Nothing clearer. Stow, in his "Survey of London," has one chapter Of the Sports and Pastimes of old time used in this City; and there he tells us, that in the year 1391, which was 15 Richard II., a stage-play was played by the parish clerks of London, at the Skinner's Well beside Smithfield, which play continued three days together, the king, queen, and nobles of the realm being present. And another was played in the year 1409, 11 Henry IV., which lasted eight days, and was of matter from the creation of the world, whereat were present most part of the nobility and gentry of England. Sir William Dugdale, in his "Antiquities of Warwickshire," p. 116, speaking of the Grayfriars or Franciscans at Coventry, says: "Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city was very famous for the pageants that were played therein upon Corpus-Christi Day; which pageants, being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theatres for the several scenes very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of the spectators, and contained the story of the New Testament, composed in old English rhyme." An ancient manuscript of the same is now to be seen in the Cottonian Library, Sub Effig. Vesp. D. 8. Since the Reformation, in Queen Elizabeth's time, plays were frequently acted by quiristers and singing-boys; and several of our old comedies have printed in the title-page, "acted by the children of Paul's" (not the school, but the church); others, "by the children of her majesty's chapel:" in particular, "Cynthia's Revels" and "The Poetaster" were played by them, who were at that time famous for good action. Among Ben Jonson's epigrams you may find an epitaph on S. P. (Sal. Pavy), one of the children of Queen Elizabeth's chapel, part of which runs thus--
_Years he counted scarce thirteen, When fates turn'd cruel, Yet three fill'd zodiacs he had been The stage's jewel; And did act (what now we moan) Old men so duly, As, sooth, the Parcæ thought him one, He play'd so truly._
Some of these chapel-boys, when they grew men, became actors at the Blackfriars; such were Nathan. Field[84] and John Underwood. Now I can hardly imagine that such plays and players as these are included in the severe censure of the councils and fathers; but such only who are truly within the character given by Didacus de Tapia, cited by Mr Collier, p. 276, viz., The infamous playhouse; a place of contradiction to the strictness and sobriety of religion; a place hated by God, and haunted by the devil. And for such I have as great an abhorrence as any man.
+Love.+ Can you guess of what antiquity the representing of religious matters on the stage hath been in England?
+True.+ How long before the Conquest, I know not, but that it was used in London not long after, appears by Fitz-Stephen, an author who wrote in the reign of King Henry the Second.[85] His words are, Londonia pro spectaculis theatralibus, pro ludis scenicis, ludos habet sanctiores, representationes miraculorum, quæ sancti confessores operati sunt, seu repræsentationes passionum quibus claruit constantia martyrum. Of this the manuscript which I lately mentioned, in the Cottonian library, is a notable instance. Sir William Dugdale cites this manuscript by the title of Ludus Coventriæ; but in the printed Catalogue of that library, p. 113, it is named thus, A Collection of Plays in Old English Metre; h. e. Dramata sacra, in quibus exhibentur historiæ Veteris et N. Testamenti, introductis quasi in scenam personis illic memoratis, quas secum invicem colloquentes pro ingenio fingit poeta. Videntur olim coram populo, sive ad instruendum, sive ad placendum, a fratribus mendicantibus repræsentata. It appears by the latter end of the prologue, that these plays or interludes were not only played at Coventry, but in the other towns and places upon occasion. And possibly this may be the same play which Stow tells us was played in the reign of King Henry IV., which lasted for eight days. The book seems by the character and language to be at least 300 years old. It begins with a general prologue, giving the arguments of 40 pageants or gesticulations (which were as so many several acts or scenes) representing all the histories of both testaments, from the creation to the choosing of St Matthias to be an apostle. The stories of the New Testament are more largely expressed, viz., the Annunciation, Nativity, Visitation; but more especially all matters relating to the Passion, very particularly, the Resurrection, Ascension, the Choice of St Matthias. After which is also represented the Assumption, and Last Judgment. All these things were treated of in a very homely style, as we now think, infinitely below the dignity of the subject; but it seems the goût of that age was not so nice and delicate in these matters; the plain and incurious judgment of our ancestors being prepared with favour, and taking everything by the right and easiest handle. For example, in the scene relating to the Visitation:
Maria.[86] _But, husband, of oo thyng I pray you most mekely, I have knowing that our cosyn Elizabeth with childe is, That it please yow to go to her hastyly, If ought we myth comfort her, it were to me blys._
Joseph. _A Gods sake, is she with child, sche? Than will her husband Zachary be mery. In Montana they dwelle, fer hence, so mot y[87] the, In the city of Juda, I know it verily; It is hence, I trowe, myles two a fifty, We ar like to be wery, or we come at that same, I wole with a good will, blessyd wyff Mary; Now go we forth then in Goddys name_, &c.
A little before the Resurrection:--Nunc dormient milites, et veniet anima Christi de inferno, cum Adam et Eva, Abraham, John Baptist, et aliis.
Anima Christi. _Come forth, Adam, and Eve with the, And all my fryndes that herein be, In paradys come forth with me In blysse for to dwelle. The fende of hell that is your foo He shall be wrappyd and woundyn in woo: Fro wo to welth now shall ye go, With myrth evyrmore to melle._ Adam. _I thank the, Lord, of thy grete grace That now is forgiven my gret trespace, Now shall we dwellyn in blyssful place, &c._
The last scene or pageant, which represents the day of judgment, begins thus:[88]
Michael. Surgite, All men aryse, Venite ad judicium, _For now is set the High Justice, And hath assignyd the day of dome: Rape you redyly to this grett assyse. Both gret and small, all and sum, And of yowr answer you now avise, What you shall say, when that yow com, &c._
These and such like were the plays, which in former ages were presented publicly. Whether they had any settled and constant houses for that purpose, does not appear; I suppose not. But it is notorious that in former times there was hardly ever any solemn reception of princes or noble persons, but pageants, that is, stages erected in the open street, were part of the entertainment: on which there were speeches by one or more persons, in the nature of scenes; and be sure one of the speakers must be some saint of the same name with the party to whom the honour is intended. For instance, there is an ancient manuscript at Coventry, called the "Old Leet Book," wherein is set down in a very particular manner, p. 168, the reception of Queen Margaret, wife of Henry VI. who came to Coventry; and, I think, with her young son, Prince Edward, on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 35 Hen. VI. 1456. Many pageants and speeches were made for her welcome; out of all which I shall observe but two or three in the old English, as it is recorded:--
St. Edward. _Moder of mekenes, dame Margarete, princes most excellent, I king Edward wellcome you with affection cordial, Testefying to your highnes mekely myn entent. For the wele of the king and you hertily pray I shall, And for prince Edward my gostly chylde, who I love principal, Praying the, John Evangelist, my help therein to be, On that condition right humbly I give this ring to the._
John Evangelist. _Holy Edward, crowned king, brother in verginity, My power plainly I will prefer thy will to amplefy. Most excellent princes of wymen mortal, your bedeman will I be. I know your life so vertuous that God is pleased thereby. The birth of you unto this reme shall cause great melody: The vertuous voice of prince Edward shall dayly well encrease, St Edward his Godfader, and I shall prey therefore doubtlese._
St. Margaret. _Most notabul princes of wymen earthle, Dame Margarete, the chefe myrth of this empyre, Ye be hertely welcome to this cyte. To the plesure of your highnesse I will set my desyre; Both nature and gentlenesse doth me require, Seth we be both of one name, to shew you kindnesse; Wherefore by my power ye shall have no distresse._
_I shall pray to the prince that is endlese To socour you with solas of his high grace_; _He will here my petition, this is doubtlesse, For I wrought all my life that his will wace. Therefore, lady, when you be in any dredfull case, Call on me boldly, therof I pray you, And trust in me feythfully, I will do that may pay you._
In the next reign, as appears in the same book, fol. 221, another Prince Edward, son of King Edward IV., came to Coventry on the 28th of April, 14 Edward IV. 1474, and was entertained with many pageants and speeches, among which I shall observe only two; one was of St Edward again, who was then made to speak thus:--
_Noble Prince Edward, my cousin and my knight, And very prince of our line com yn dissent, I St Edward have pursued for your faders imperial right, Whereof he was excluded by full furious intent. Unto this your chamber, as prince full excellent, Ye be right welcome. Thanked be Crist of his sonde, For that that was ours is now in your faders honde._
The other speech was from St George, and thus saith the book:--
"---- Also upon the condite in the Croscheping was St George armed, and a king's daughter kneling afore him with a lamb, and the fader and the moder being in a towre aboven beholding St George saving their daughter from the dragon, and the condite renning wine in four places, and minstralcy of organ playing, and St George having this speech underwritten"--
_O mighty God, our all succour celestiall, Which this royme hast given in dower To thi moder, and to me George protection perpetuall_: _It to defend from enimys fer and nere, And as this mayden defended was here By that grace from this dragons devour, So, Lord, preserve this noble prince and ever be his socour._
+Love.+ I perceive these holy matters consisted very much of praying; but I pity poor St Edward the Confessor who, in the compass of a few years, was made to promise his favour and assistance to two young princes, of the same name indeed, but of as different and opposite interests as the two poles. I know not how he could perform to both.
+True.+ Alas! they were both unhappy, notwithstanding these fine shows and seeming caresses of fortune; being both murdered, one by the hand, the other by the procurement, of Richard, Duke of Gloucester. I will produce but one example more of this sort of action or representations; and that is of later time, and an instance of much higher nature than any yet mentioned; it was at the marriage of Prince Arthur, eldest son of King Henry VII., to the Princess Catherine of Spain, ann. 1501. Her passage through London was very magnificent, as I have read it described in old MS. chronicle of that time.[89] The pageants and speeches were many; the persons represented, St Catherine, St Ursula, a senator, noblesse, virtue, an angel, King Alphonse, Job, Boetius, &c. Among others, one is thus described:--"When this spech was ended, she held on her way tyll she came unto the standard in Chepe, where was ordeyned the fifth paygend made like an hevyn, theryn syttyng a personage representing the fader of hevyn, beyng all formyd of gold, and brennyng beffor his trone vii candyilis of wax standyng in vii candylstykis of gold, the said personage beyng environed with sundry hyrarchies off angelis, and sytting in a cope of most rich cloth of tyssu, garnishyd wyth stoon and perle in most sumptuous wyse. Foragain which said pagend upon the sowth syde of the strete stood at that tyme, in a hows wheryn that tyme dwellyd William Geffrey habyrdasher, the king, the queene, my lady the kingys moder, my lord of Oxynfford, wyth many other lordys and ladys, and perys of this realm, wyth also certayn ambassadors of France lately sent from the French king: and so passyng the said estatys, eyther guyving to other due and convenyent saluts and countenancs, so sone as hyr grace was approachid unto the sayd pagend, the fadyr began his spech as folowyth"
Hunc veneram locum, septeno lumine septum. Dignumque Arthuri totidem astra micant.
_I am begynyng and ende, that made ech creature. My sylfe, and for my sylfe, but man especially Both male and female, made aftyr myne aun fygure, Whom I joyned togydyr in matrimony, And that in paradyse, declaring opynly That men shall weddying in my chyrch solempnize, Fygurid and signifyed by the erthly paradyze._
_In thys my chyrch I am allway recydent As my chyeff tabernacle, and most chosyn place, Among these goldyn condylstikkis, which represent My catholyk chyrch shynyng affor my face, With lyght of feyth, wisdom, doctryne, and grace, And mervelously eke enflamyd toward me Wyth the [un]extyngwible fyre of charyte._
_Wherefore, my welbelovid dowthyr Katharyn, Syth I have made yow to myne awn semblance In my chyrch to be maried, and your noble childryn To regn in this land as in their enherytance, Se that ye have me in speciall remembrance: Love me and my chyrch yowr spiritual modyr. For ye, dispysing that oon, dyspyse that othyr._
_Look that ye walk in my precepts, and obey them well: And here I give you the same blyssyng, that I Gave my well beloved chylder of Israell; Blyssyd be the fruyt of your bely; Yower substance and frutys I shall encrease and multyply; Yower rebellious enimyes I shall put in yowr hand, Encreasing in honour both yow and your land._
+Love.+ This would be censured now-a-days as profane to the highest degree.
+True.+ No doubt on't: yet you see there was a time, when people were not so nicely censorious in these matters, but were willing to take things in the best sense; and then this was thought a noble entertainment for the greatest king in Europe (such I esteem king Henry VII. at that time) and proper for that day of mighty joy and triumph. And I must farther observe out of Lord Bacon's "History of Henry VII." that the chief man who had the care of that day's proceedings was Bishop Fox, a grave counsellor for war or peace, and also a good surveyor of works, and a good master of ceremonies; and it seems he approv'd it. The said Lord Bacon tells us farther that, whosoever had those toys in compiling, they were not altogether pedantical.
+Love.+ These things, however, are far from that which we understand by the name of a play.
+True.+ It may be so; but these were the plays of those times. Afterwards, in the reign of King Henry VIII., both the subject and form of these plays began to alter, and have since varied more and more. I have by me a thing called "A Merry Play between the Pardoner and the Friar, the Curate and Neighbour Pratt." Printed the 5th of April 1533, which was 24 Henry VIII. (a few years before the dissolution of monasteries.) The design of this play was to ridicule Friars and Pardoners. Of which I'll give you a taste. To begin it, the Friar enters with these words:[90]
Deus hic; _the holy trynyte Preserve all that now here be._
_Dere bretherne, yf ye will consyder The cause why I am com hyder, Ye wolde be glad to knowe my entent: For I com not hyther for mony nor for rent, I com not hyther for meat nor for meale, But I com hyther for your soules heale_, &c.
After a long preamble he addresses himself to preach, when the Pardoner enters with these words:
_God and St Leonarde send ye all his grace, As many as ben assembled in this place_, &c.
and makes a long speech, showing his bulls and his reliques, in order to sell his pardons, for the raising some money towards the rebuilding
_Of the holy chappell of sweet saynt Leonarde, Which late by fyre was destroyed and marde._
Both these speaking together with continual interruption, at last they fall together by the ears. Here the curate enters (for you must know the scene lies in the church):
_Hold your hands; a vengeance on ye both two, That ever ye came hyther to make this ado, To polute my chyrche_, &c.
Friar. _Mayster Parson, I marvayll ye will give lycence To this false knave in this audience To publish his ragman rolles with lyes. I desyred hym ywys more than ones or twyse To hold his peas tyll that I had done, But he would here no more than the man in the mone._
Pard. _Why sholde I suffre the, more than thou me? Mayster Parson gave me lycence before the. And I wolde thou knowest it I have relykes here, Other maner stuffe than thou dost bere: I wyll edefy more with the syght of it, Than with all thy pratynge of holy wryt; For that except that the precher himselfe lyve well, His predycacyon wyll helpe never a dell_, &c.
Par. _No more of this wranglyng in my chyrch: I shrewe yowr hertys bothe for this lurche. Is there any blood shed here between these knaves? Thanked be God they had no stavys, Nor egotoles, for then it had ben wronge, Well, ye shall synge another songe._
Here he calls his neighbour Prat, the constable, with design to apprehend 'em, and set 'em in the stocks. But the Friar and Pardoner prove sturdy, and will not be stocked, but fall upon the poor Parson and Constable, and bang them both so well-favouredly, that at last they are glad to let 'em go at liberty: and so the farce ends with a drawn battle. Such as this were the plays of that age, acted in gentlemen's halls at Christmas or such like festival times by the servants of the family or strollers who went about, and made it a trade. It is not unlikely that the[91] lords in those days and persons of eminent quality had their several gangs of players, as some have now of fiddlers, to whom they give cloaks and badges. The first comedy that I have seen, that looks like regular, is "Gammer Gurton's Needle," writ,[92] I think, in the reign of King Edward VI. This is composed of five acts, the scenes unbroken, and the unities of time and place duly observed. It was acted at Christ's College in Cambridge, there not being as yet any settled and public theatres.
+Love.+ I observe, Trueman, from what you have said, that plays in England had a beginning much like those of Greece; the Monologues and Pageants, drawn from place to place on wheels, answer exactly to the cart of Thespis, and the improvements have been by such little steps and degrees as among the ancients, till at last, to use the words of Sir George Buck (in his "Third University of England"), "Dramatic poesy is so lively express'd and represented upon the public stages and theatres of this city, as Rome in the auge (the highest pitch) of her pomp and glory, never saw it better performed, I mean (says he) in respect of the action and art, and not of the cost and sumptuousness." This he writ about the year 1631. But can you inform me, Trueman, when the public theatres were first erected for this purpose in London?
+True.+ Not certainly; but I presume about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign. For Stow, in his "Survey of London" (which book was first printed in the year 1598), says--"Of late years, in place of these stage-plays (i.e., those of religious matters) have been used comedies, tragedies, interludes, and histories, both true and feigned: for the acting whereof certain public places, as the Theatre, the Curtine, &c., have been erected." And the continuator of "Stow's Annals," p. 1004, says that in sixty years before the publication of that book (which was Ann. Dom. 1529), no less than seventeen public stages, or common playhouses, had been built in and about London. In which number he reckons five inns or common hostelries to have been in his time turned into playhouses--one Cockpit, Saint Paul's Singing-school, one in the Blackfriars, one in the Whitefriars, and one in former time at Newington Butts. And adds: Before the space of sixty years past, I never knew, heard, or read of any such theatres, stages, or playhouses, as have been purposely built within man's memory.
+Love.+ After all, I have been told that stage-plays are inconsistent with the laws of this kingdom, and players made rogues by statute.
+True.+ He that told you so strained a point of truth. I never met with any law wholly to suppress them: sometimes, indeed, they have been prohibited for a season; as in times of Lent, general mourning, or public calamities, or upon other occasions, when the government saw fit. Thus, by proclamation 7th of April, in the first year of Queen Elizabeth, plays and interludes were forbid until All-hallow-tide next following. Hollinshed, p. 1184.[93] Some statutes have been made for their regulation or information, not general suppression. By the stat. 39 Eliz. cap. 4[94] (which was made for the suppression of rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars) it is enacted "That all persons that be, or utter themselves to be, proctors, procurers, patent gatherers, or collectors for goals, prisons, or hospitals, or fencers, bearwards, common players of interludes and minstrels, wandering abroad (other than players of interludes belonging to any baron of this realm, or any other honourable personage of greater degree, to be authoris'd to play under the hand and seal of arms of such baron or personage) all juglers, tinkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen, wand'ring abroad, all wand'ring persons, &c., able in body, using loytering, and refusing to work for such reasonable wages as is commonly given, &c. These shall be adjudged and deemed rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars, and punished as such."
+Love.+ But this privilege of authorising or licensing is taken away by the stat. Jac. I., ch. 7, s. 1., and therefore all of them, as Mr Collier says, p. 242, are expressly brought under the aforesaid penalty without distinction.
+True.+ If he means all players, without distinction, 'tis a great mistake. For the force of the queen's statute extends only to wandering players, and not to such as are the king or queen's servants, and established in settled houses by royal authority. On such the ill character of vagrant players (or, as they are now called, strollers) can cast no more aspersion, than the wandering proctors, in the same statute mentioned, on those of Doctors'-Commons. By a stat. made 3 Jac. I.[95] ch. 21, it was enacted, "That if any person shall, in any stage-play, interlude, shew, may-game or pageant, jestingly or prophanely speak or use the holy name of God, Christ Jesus, or of the Trinity, he shall forfeit for every such offence 10_l._" The stat. 1 Charles I. ch. 1,[96] enacts, "That no meetings, assemblies, or concourse of people shall be out of their own parishes, on the Lord's day, for any sports or pastime whatsoever, nor any bear-baiting, bull-baiting, interludes, common-plays, or other unlawful exercises and pastimes used by any person or persons within their own, parishes." These are all the statutes that I can think of, relating to the stage and players; but nothing to suppress them totally, till the two ordinances of the Long Parliament, one of the 22d of October 1647, the other of the 11th [9th] of Feb. 1647;[97] by which all stage-plays and interludes are absolutely forbid; the stages, seats, galleries, &c., to be pulled down; all players, tho' calling themselves the king or queen's servants, if convicted of acting within two months before such conviction, to be punished as rogues according to law; the money received by them to go to the poor of the parish; and every spectator to pay five shillings to the use of the poor. Also cock-fighting was prohibited by one of Oliver's Acts of 31st March 1654. But I suppose nobody pretends these things to be laws. I could say more on this subject, but I must break off here and leave you, Lovewit; my occasions require it.
+Love.+ Farewell, old Cavalier.
+True.+ 'Tis properly said; we are almost all of us now gone and forgotten.
FOOTNOTES:
[80] This is afterwards said to be a large round brick building. Mr Steevens supposes, from the extent of it, that all the actors resided within its precincts. It was pulled down about the time of the Restoration, soon after the appearance of the following advertisement in the Mercurius Politicus, Tuesday, Feb. 14, to Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1661. "The Fortune Playhouse, situate between Whitecross Street and Golding Square, in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, with the ground thereunto belonging, is to be let to be built upon; where twenty-three tenements may be erected, with gardens; and a street may be cut through for the better accommodation of the buildings." (See edition of Shakespeare, 1778, i. 267.) From the following passage of "The English Traveller," by Heywood, 1633, sig. I 3, we find there was a picture or statue of Fortune before the building.
"I'le rather stand here Like a statue in the forefront of your house For ever; like the picture of Dame Fortune Before the Fortune Play-house."
[81] The Letters Patent under the Great Seal bear date the 21st June 1619.
[82] This is confirmed by Kirkman who, in his preface to "The Wits; or, Sport upon Sport," 1672, says, The small compositions of which his work was made up, being scenes and parts of plays, were at this period "liked and approved by all, and they were the fittest for the actors to represent, there being little cost in cloaths, which often were in great danger to be seized by the then soldiers; who, as the poet sayes, Enter the red coat, exit hat and cloak, was very true, not only in the audience but the actors too, who were commonly not only stripp'd, but many times imprisoned, till they paid such ransom as the souldiers would impose upon them: so that it was hazardous to act any thing that required any good cloaths: instead of which painted cloath many times served the turn to represent rich habits."
[83] "When the publique Theatres were shut up, and the actors forbidden to present us with any of their tragedies, because we had enough of that in earnest: and comedies, because the vices of the age were too lively and smartly represented; then all that we could divert ourselves with, were these humours and pieces of plays which, passing under the name of a merry conceited fellow, called "Bottom the Weaver," "Simpleton the Smith," "John Swabber," or some such title, were only allowed us, and that but by stealth too, and under pretence of rope-dancing or the like; and these being all that was permitted us, great was the confluence of the auditors; and these small things were as profitable and as great get-pennies to the actors as any of our late famed plays. I have seen the Red Bull Playhouse, which was a large one, so full, that as many went back for want of room as had entered; and as meanly as you may now think of these drols, they were then acted by the best comedians then and now in being; and I may say by some that then exceeded all now living, by name, the incomparable Robert Cox, who was not only the principal actor, but also the contriver and author of most of these farces."--Kirkman's Preface to "The Wits, or Sport upon Sport," 1672.
[84] [Concerning Field the actor and dramatist, see introduction to his "Woman is a Weathercock," &c., xi. 3-6, 89-91, and Collier's "Memoirs of Actors," p. 206, et seq.]
Nathaniel Field, on the authority of Roberts the player (see his answer to Mr Pope's preface to Shakespeare), has been considered as the author of two plays: "A Woman is a Weathercocke," 1612, and "Amends for Ladies," 1618. He is also supposed to be the same person who assisted Massinger in "The Fatal Dowry." I suspect that Roberts was mistaken in these assertions, as I do not find any contemporary writer speak of Field as an author; nor is it mentioned by Langbaine, who would have noticed it, had he known the fact. It seems more probable that the writer of these plays was Nathaniel Field, M.A., Fellow of New College, Oxford, who wrote some Latin verses, printed in "Oxoniensis Academiæ Parentalia, 1625," and who, being of the same university with Massinger, might join with him, while there, in the composition of the play ascribed to them. Nathaniel Field above mentioned was celebrated in the part of "Bussy D'Ambois," first printed in 1607. On the republication of that play in 1641, he is thus spoken of in the Prologue:--
"Field is gone, Whose action first did give it name, and one, Who came the neerest to him, is denide By his gray beard to shew the height and pride Of D'Ambois youth and braverie; yet to hold Our title still a foot, and not grow cold By giving it o're, a third man with his best Of care and paines defends our interest; As Richard he was lik'd, nor doe wee feare, In personating Dambois, hee'le appeare To faint, or goe lesse, so your free consent As heretofore give him encouragement."
[85] P. 73, 4º. Edit. 1772.
[86] [This and the other quotations were not correctly printed. See Halliwell's "Ludus Coventriæ," 1841, p. 121.]
[87] [Ibid., p. 343.]
[88] [See Halliwell's "Ludus Coventriæ," 1841, p. 401.]
[89] [See a description of the espousals in Stow's "Chronicle," ed. 1615, fol. 483-4.]
[90] [Compare vol. i. pp. 199, 201, &c.]
[91] Till the twenty-fifth year of Queen Elizabeth, the queen had not any players; but in that year twelve of the best of all those who belonged to several lords were chosen, and sworn her servants.--Stow's Annals, p. 698.
[92] [An error. This play, which has been long known not to be the first regular comedy, was probably performed about 1566.]
[93] [See "English Drama and Stage," edit. Hazlitt, p. 19.]
[94] [Ibid., p. 37.]
[95] ["English Dramas and Stage," p. 42.]
[96] [Ibid., pp. 59, 60.]
[97] [But see Ibid., pp. 63-70.]
ERRATA
VOL. I. Page 62, for goodness read goddess.
VOL. II. ... 135, ... knotted ... notted.[98]
... ... 216, ... noboby ... nobody.
VOL. III. ... 58,[99] ... oppose ... appose.
... ... 59, ... maketh ... keepeth.
... ... 71, ... fault ... faults.
... ... 82, ... so sore ... to fore.
... ... ib. ... be fed ... to be fed.
... ... 83, l. 17. The correspondent thinks this line belongs to Omnes Famulæ.
... ... 88, for had chid read chid.
... ... 95, ... I ever ... ever I.
... ... 97, ... wage-pasty ... way-pasty.[100]
... ... 99, ... he ... ye.
... ... ib. ... ield ... yelde.
... ... 105, ... to please ... it please.
... ... 108, ... a master ... an M.
... ... 117, ... as much ... so much.
... ... 118, ... make a ... make me a.
... ... 121, ... _another ... another but. than_
... ... ib. ... readiness ... a readiness.
... ... 122, ... other's ... others'.
... ... ib. ... _point ... _point whereof_ wherefore_.
... ... 125, ... draw ye ... draw we.
... ... 128, ... thou goose ... you goose.
... ... 139, ... _Not if all ... Nor if all the. the_
... ... 140, ... _where or ... where nor how. how_
... ... 158, ... all men ... of all men.
... ... 178, ... halse-aker ... half-acre.[101]
VOL. V. ... 115, ... Alvearic ... Alvearie.
... ... 285, ... Got ... Get.
VoL. IX. ... 98, ... collection ... collation.
... ... ib.} ... moldash ... molash.
... ... 332,} ... moldash ... molash.
... ... 205, ... Amoretta ... Amoretto.
VOL. X. ... 274, ... Foresaw ... Foreseen.
VOL. XI. ... 436, ... Sir Thomas ... St. Thomas.
FOOTNOTES:
[98] See Nares. ed. 1859, v. Nott. We still have the vulgarism nut for the head; but it more properly means a head with the hair cut close.
[99] These errors in "Ralph Roister Doister" have been pointed out by a correspondent, who states that he has detected them on a personal collation of the original copy at Eton College. But many of the variations noticed by this gentleman have been intentional corrections of the old copy.
[100] Yet in "Jack Juggler" (ii. 141), wage-pasty occurs.
[101] So in "Appius and Virginia" (iv. 136)--
"Hard by Hodge's half-acre, at Gaffer Miller's stile."
INDEX TO NOTES.
INDEX TO THE NOTES.
Abhominable, ii. 69
Abraham-men, iii. 171
Absolutions, tariff for, xi. 465
Accointenance, i. 79
Accombred, i. 299
Accomplished Woman, 1656, xiv. 483
Acquaince, i. 105
Actors' Remonstrance, x. 348
Addison, Joseph, ix. 490
Address, xiv. 326
Adonai, i. 109
Adultery, punishment for, xiv. 475-6
Adventures of Five Hours, a play, xv. 185-320
Adventures or insurances, xi. 137
A friend in court is worth a penny in purse, prov. i. 178
After kissing comes greater kindness, prov. xiii. 114
Agnes' Eve, St, xii. 21
Aim, to cry, v. 225
Ajax Oïleus, x. 132
Albricias, xv. 292
Albumazar, a play, xi. 294-421
Alcazar, battle of, xi. 213
Alder speed, i. 135
Alimony, Lady, a play, xiv. 273-367
Ale, i. 161, 185 -- Derby, xi. 234
Ales, church and other, xiii. 503
Alestake, i. 191
Alexander and Lodwick, a play, xi. 239
Algates, i. 237
Almond for a parrot, an, x. 534
Alva, Duke of, xv. 231
Amadis of Gaul, xv. 91
Amain, xiv. 182
Ambergris, xiii. 490
Ambree, Mary, xi. 111
Amends for Ladies, a play, xi. 88-172
America, viii. 406; xii. 135
Amias [Emaas], i. 333
Amphitruo of Plautus, xi. 314
Anagrams, xiv. 483
Ancients, xiii. 291
Andromana, a play, xiv. 194-271
Angoulême, Earl of, viii. 251
Antiquary, the, a play, xiii. 411-523
Apollo Shroving, a play, xi. 196
Apollonius of Tyana, xi. 310
Appaireth, i. 101
Appius and Virginia, a play, 1575, iv. 100-55
Apple-squires, xiii. 125
Appoline, St, vi. 74
Apricocks, xiv. 344
Arcadia, Sydney's, xiii. 468
Aretine's pictures, xiii. 309
Argiers, xiv. 327
Argosies, xii. 100
Aristippus, iv. 15 et seq., v. 286
Aristophanes, ix. 376
Armada, the Spanish, vi. 447
Arrayed (or rayed), i. 78, 178
Arride, xiii. 445
Artemisia (or southernwood), xii. 144
Arthur, King, iv. 255 et seq.
Arundel, xi. 70
As brisk as a body-louse, prov. iii. 209
Asinigo, xiii. 519
Assoil, vii. 169; xv. 253
As soon goeth to market the lamb's fell as the sheep's, prov. i. 78
Astræa, D'Urfe's, xiii. 468
Astrology, xi. 301-2 et seq.
As true as the skin between thy brows, prov., iii. 244
Athelwold, vi. 27
At nale, i. 166
Audience, direct allusions to, from the stage, vi. 288, 327; viii. 456
Aums ace, ii. 35; xii. 243
Aunt, xiii. 70, 160; xiv. 448
Autolycus, xiii. 486
Automatons, xiii. 230
Avoutry, i. 175; iii. 151, &c.
Away the mare, i. 57
A young man's darling, an old man's warling, prov., x. 303
Babylon, i. 162
Backare, quod Mortimer to his sow, iii. 65
Backrag (or Baccarach), xiii. 216
Bacon, Francis, iv. 251; xiii. 462
Bacon, Friar, vii. 357; xi. 84, 252
Baker, Henry, an actor, viii. 78
Bale, John, i. 278 et seq.
Bale or pair of dice, xi. 221
Bales, Peter, viii. 41
Ball, John, xiv. 488
Balloon, a game, vii. 50
Banbury, xii. 248
Bandello, M., x. 115
Bands, starched, xi. 328-9
Bankes's horse, xiv. 508-9
Barbary, xi. 213, 215
Barclay, Alexander, viii. 47
Barkley (or Barclay), Sir R., xii. 538 ---- Sir W., xii. 538-627
Barrey, Lodowick, x. 266-380
Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton, prov., iv. 77
Batteries, xiii. 218
Bayard, xiii. 94
Bay-window, xiv. 403
Bear and Ragged Staff, viii. 174
Bear in hand, to, x. 303
Beau Disconu, Le, a romance, i. 401
Beaumont and Fletcher, xii. 19; xiv. 194
Bedlams, iii. 170-1
Beer, broken, xii. 228 ---- four and six shilling, xiii. 12, 43
Beggars, frauds of, xii. 108
Beggars'-bush, vii. 335
Behight, i. 248
Behu, Mrs, ix. 469; xiii. 178
Bell, book, and candle, x. 309
Bells, to ring the, backwards, xiii. 230
Belsavage, the, a sign, viii. 116
Belvidere, or the Garden of the Muses, 1600, ix. 111
Benchers, xiii. 290-1
Benefit of clergy, viii. 244
Benlowes, E., xiv. 11
Berew, i. 246
Bergen-op-Zoom, ix. 293
Bermondsey, i. 335
Bermudas, the, xi. 137; xiv. 333
Bestial, i. 12, 13
Betso, xiii. 460
Betterton, Tho., xv. 196
Bevis of Hampton, xi. 70
Beyond Lawrence of Lancashire, prov., xi. 85
Bias, xiv. 454
Biggon, xiii. 288
Bilboa blades, x. 218
Bill of the plague, xiv. 449
Bills, x. 342; xi. 469
Birdbolt, xi. 200
Black, note on the word, xii. 245
Blackfriars, xi. 111
Black's her eye, prov., ix. 78
Blank, the, ii. 35
Ble, i. 251
Blind eats many a fly, the, prov., x. 503
Blind [men] can judge no colour, prov., v. 293
Blowpoint, xiii. 435
Blue coats or badges, x. 349
Boccaccio, Gio. xiii. 105
Bodenham, John, ix. 112
Booker, John, xiv. 396-7
Book-holder, viii. 17, 87
Boot, the Scotch, xi. 66
Bold, v., i. 182
Bonduca, a play, xii. 19
Bonerly, i. 243
Bongrace, Master, ii. 113
Bonner, Bp. iv. 244
Borachio, xv. 215
Bordella's blouses, xiv. 344
Boston, our Lady of, i. 337
Bothwell, Lord, xi. 224
Botolph, St, i. 334
Boulogne, our Lady of, iii. 199-200
Bourbonne-les-Bains, xiv. 52
Bowyer, Mich., xiii. 102
Brach, i. 185
Brai, the story of the physician of, vi. 207
Brandt, Sebastian, viii. 47
Brathwaite, R., xii. 23
Brennus, xii. 449 et seq.
Brewen (or Bruin), Alderman, xii. 91, et seq.
Brigand harness, i. 251
Bright, Dr Timothy, viii. 41
Brimstone, quick, i. 179
Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, xv. 1-107, 187
Britain, ancient divisions of, xii. 516
Brome, Richard, xiv. 480
Bromfield, Mr, xiii. 209
Broom, i. 65 ----, "A new broom sweeps clean," prov., iv. 21
Brothers of the blade, xiv. 330
Browne, Robert, xiii. 227
Buck, Paul, vi. 13
Buckets, fire, names inscribed on, xiii. 230
Buckingham, Duke of, v. 15, 37
Burbage, R., xi. 5
Burport--"taw halts of Burport," i. 158
Butcher (or Boucher), Richard, xiii. 413
Butler, S., xiii. 329
Butler's box, the, ix. 103; x. 299
Buxton, i. 334
Buzzardism, xiv. 357
Bye and main, xiv. 427
By the lock, a phrase, xiii. 168
Cacus, xii. 516
Calderon, Pedro, xv. 187, 193-4
Calisto and Meliboea, i. 52 et seq.
Calvary, Mount, i. 332
Calvinists, exiled, xiii. 295
Camoëns, Lois de, x. 468
Camomile, xiii. 138
Candles, holy, iii. 188
Cannon Street, x. 547
Cape, i. 162
Caperhay, vii. 421
Cap of maintenance, xii. 109
Caracts, xiv. 325
Carew, Thomas, xi. 510; xiv. 372
Carfax, vii. 333
Carouches, x. 336; xi. 202
Carpet-knight, viii. 173
Carry-coals, a phrase, viii. 417
Carta blanca, xv. 72
Cartwright, W., xii. 204-318; xiii. 203
Cary, Henry, Viscount Falkland, xv. 111
Case, Thomas, xiv. 516
Cassandra, x. 132
Castara [Lady Lucia Herbert], xiii. 324
Casti, Luigi, xiv. 480
Cat in pan, to turn, a phrase, iv. 41
Cats, gibbed or gib, xiii. 31
Catwade, i. 341
Cauls, xv. 90-1
Caveare, xii. 236
Cervantes, xiii. 105
Chadders, xiii. 231
Chains of gold worn by persons of quality, xi. 324-5
Chalk, to sin in, xiii. 287; xiv. 331
Challenges, etiquette of, xi. 224, 389
Chamberlain, Robert, xiv. 3, 9
Chanticleers, the London, a play, xii. 320-60
Charles I., xii. 206 ---- II., xv. 194
Charmers, xii. 505
Chase, the, vii. 41
Chaucer, Geffrey, xii. 240-2, 286
Chelsea College, xii. 277-8
Cherry-pit, i. 246
Chess, game of, ix. 387
Cheston [Cheshunt] nunnery, x. 215
Chettle, Henry, viii. 95-6, 200-327
Chopines, x. 367
Christ-cross, ix. 42
Christmas, xiii. 20-1
Chrysome, xiii. 280
Churchyard, T., ix. 118
Cicero's treatise, "De Republica," xiii. 476
Citizenship, xii. 136
City Match, a play, xiii. 200-320
City Nightcap, the, a play, xiii. 99-197
Clerkenwell Green, xi. 98
Cloak for every rain, to have a, prov., xiii. 56
Clocks, German, xii. 231
Cloth, flinching of, xii. 259
Cloth-dealers in Watling Street, iv. 243
Clouds, the, by Aristophanes, ix. 376
Clown, the, in plays, iv. 160
Coaches, x. 336-7
Cob's pound, xv. 32
Cockatrice, xiii. 499-500
Cock-sure, vi. 67
Cole, old, vii. 476
Coll my dog, iii. 8, 9
Cologne, three kings of, iii. 200
Combat, laws of, x. 129
Complaisant Companion, the, a jest-book, x. 115
Comptes du Monde aventureux, xiv. 480
Conduits, speeches delivered from, xiii. 243
Constable, Henry, ix. 113-14
Content--"To go look content," a phrase, xiii. 141
Contention between Liberality and Prodigality, a play, viii. 330-83
Convey, i. 159
Cooke, John, xi. 174-289
Cooke, Joshua, ix. 2
Cool his heels, to, a phrase, xiii. 52
Cooling card, xiii. 505
Coomb House, xiii. 14, 16
Cooper's "Thesaurus" referred to, x. 218
Copernicus, i. 38
Copesmate, xiii. 30
Copland, Robert, viii. 19
Corbet, Bp., xii. 248
Cornelia, a play, v. 176-252
Cornelys, St, i. 336; vi. 74
Corner-cap, iii. 11
Corney, Bolton, ix. 100; xiii. 203
Coryat, Thomas, iii. 200; xi. 313; xii. 227
Costermongers, xiii. 125
Cotswold or Cotsol, iii. 137
Cotterel, Sir Clement, i. xv.
Counters, the London, x. 344; xiii. 41
Coventry Mysteries, the, i. 374
Cow-cross, xi. 98
Cowley, Abr., xv. 199
Coxcomb Park, xiii. 14
Crabbed age and youth, &c., a song, quoted, xiii. 89
Cramp-rings, xii. 255-6
Crane, Sir Francis, xiii. 233
Cranes in the Vintry, the three, iv. 87; vii. 357
Creature, i. 123
Creeping to the cross, x. 236; xii. 255-6
Cries of London, xi. 436
Crofts, Cecilia, xiv. 372
Crome, i. 341
Cromwell, Oliver, ix. 334, 348; xii. 316; xiv. 475-6
Cross, red, houses marked with a, xiv. 405
Crotchets, xiii. 15
Crowned cups, xii. 39
Croydon sanguine, iv. 80
Crystals, pair of [the eyes], xiii. 55
Cucking-stool, xii. 127
Cue, xi. 225
Cuerpo, xiii. 278
Cupboard-beds, xv. 216
Cupid's arrows, fable of, xii. 31
Cupid's Revenge, a play, xiv. 194
Curfew-bell, the, x. 251
Curtains at theatres, xiv. 97
Curtal, iii. 211
Cushion, beside the, x. 237
Custom, xiv. 74
Cut, xiii. 85
Cut and long tail, xiii. 84-5
Cutpurse, Moll, xi. 90
Cutter, xiii. 16, 17
Dagenham, i. 336
Daisy, to leap at a, iii. 251
Danes, red-haired, v. 121
Daniel, S., ix. 114; xi. 449; xiii. 438
Danter, John, ix. 120
Darby's bands, ii. 362
Darius' doleful strain, King, iv. 159
Daubing--"There is craft in daubing," prov., i. 159
Davenant, Sir W., xi. 504; xv. 199
Davenport, Robert, xiii. 99-197; xiv. 7
David's, St, i. 339
Davies, Sir John, ix. 115
Daw, a fool, i. 8
Day, John, ix. 100
Daylight, to burn, prov., v. 115
Day's-man, iii. 14
Death, to die the, i. 291-2
Deboshed, xiii. 195
Dedekindus, viii. 73
Deep Ditch, xii. 127
Dejanira, ix. 169
Delayed, i. 81; xiii. 114
Demains, xiv. 346
Denham, Sir John, xiv. 245
Denis, St, i. 339
Derby ale, xi. 234
Deuce-ace, ii. 35
Devil, the, as a character in plays, ii. 307; iii. 205 ----, "The devil is in the horologe," prov., iii. 101 ----, "Who dips with the devil hath need of a long spoon," prov., iv. 118 ----, a tavern so called, xiii. 22; xiv. 454 ----, "The devil is dead," prov., xiii. 141
Dewes, Sir Simonds, xiii. 21
Dice, bale or pair of, xi. 221
Digby, Sir Kenelm, xii. 245, 362; xv. 4 ---- George, Earl of Bristol, xv. 1-107, 187 ---- Lady Venetia, xii. 362
Dionysius of Syracuse, iv. 29
Dismissed, xiv. 350
Divining-rod, the, v. 402
Doccy, i. 188
Dod, John xii. 299
Dod's blessing, xii. 299
Dodsley, R., i., xv., et alibi; xi. 360-1
Dodsley's Plays, note on the edit. of 1825-8, vi. 4
Dogberry, Shakespeare's, xiv. 333.
Dole, xi. 208-9
Dolent, i. 82
Dormer, Sir Clement, i., xv.
Dottrel, the, iv. 68
Dovercourt in Essex, viii. 399
Downton, Thomas, viii. 19
Drake, Sir F., xiii. 256
Drawers at taverns, xiii. 19
Dreaming of husbands on St Agnes' Eve, xii. 21
Drolleries and interludes, xv. 410
Drought, great, of 1592, viii. 37
Drunkenness, statute against, x. 335, 354 ----, excess of, xi. 251, 345
Dryden, John, vii. 7-8, 78
Ducarel, Dr, xiii. 419
Ducie family, xiv. 4
Ducking, xii. 127
Duels in England, xi. 390
Dulwich College, xv. 408
Dumb Knight, the, a play, x. 108-200
Duns Scotus, x. 57
Dunstan, St, viii. 391 et seq.
Duppa, Brian, xiii. 201
Duretta, xiii. 222
D'Urfé, Honoré, xiii. 468
Dutch, the, iii. 325
Dyer, Sir Edward, viii. 73; ix. 455
Eagles, young, v. 319
Earle's Microcosmography, xiii. 475
Early up, and never the near, prov., xi. 146
Echineis, the, xiii. 525
Echo poetry, vii. 148; xi. 477
Ecstasy, xiii. 511
Edmondsbury, St, i. 337
Edmund Ironside, xii. 287
Edward I., xii. 309
Edward VI., i. 431
Edwards, Richard (the elder), iv. 3-104; viii. 387
Eggs for money, xiii. 92
Elements, Interlude of the Four, i. 4-50
Elfrid, vi. 27
Elfrida, vi. 27
Elinor, Queen, xii. 309
Elizabeth, Q., viii. 22; ix. 161; x. 487; xv. 427-30
Elms, the, in Smithfield, iii. 324
Eltham, Sir John, viii. 105
Elvira, a play, xv. 1-107
Embalming, i. 60
England--"If England to itself," &c., xii. 468
Englishmen for my Money, a play, x. 470-564
Ennewed, i. 62
Erastus and Perseda, v. 255
Erragon, i. 162
Eschewed, i. 77
Essex man, an, xiv. 467
Eterne, i. 11
Eudoxus of Cnidus, xiii. 452
Eulenspiegel, vii. 358
Euphorbium, i. 178
Euripides, the "Hecuba" of, iv. 263
Euripus Euboicus, vii. 37
Evans, Dr, xii. 20
Evelyn, John, xi. 251; xv. 199
Everichone, i. 138
Every Man, the Summoning of, an interlude, i. 94-142
Exchange, the Royal, x. 487
Eyes, kissing the, xi. 396 ----, eloquence of the, xiii. 438
Fabell, Peter, x. 207
Faces about, xiv. 380
Fagaries, xiv. 289
Fair Quarrel, A, a play, xi. 139
Fair words maketh fools fain, prov., i. 117
Falantado (or Falanta), viii. 22
Falkland, Henry, Viscount, xv. 111-184
Fall, v., i. 285 Falstaff originally called Oldcastle, xi. 152
Farewell, fortypence, prov., x. 526
Far fetched and dear bought is good for ladies, prov., iii. 223
Fast and loose, xiii. 174
Faustulus, xii. 490
Favell, i. 164
Fere, i. 188
Fescennine poetry, xii. 312
Field, Nathaniel, xi. 2-172; xv. 416
Fifteens, x. 299-300
Firedrakes, ix. 572
Fisher, Jasper, xii. 446-536
Fishes, strange, xiii. 248, 259, 267
Fit, i. 246; ii. 48
Fitz-geoffrey, Charles, x. 110
Flageolet, the, viii. 31
Flemings, iii. 325
Fletchers' Company, iv. 19; xiii. 40
Fliegen, Eve, story of, xiii. 236-7
Floods, notices of, viii. 38
Floralia, xiii. 435
Flout, xiv. 190
Flower, Francis, iv. 251
Flowers, language of, xii. 144
Flute, the, viii. 31
Fodes, i. 243, 247
Foist, xiv. 385
Fool, i. 71
Fools--Begging for a fool, xiii. 246 ---- bauble, xi. 57 ---- coat, xiii. 30
Fools have fortune, xiv. 474
Fordoth, i. 68
Fortune theatre, xi. 136, 434; xv. 406
Foster, Sir Stephen, xii. 90, et seq.
Found, i. 244
Fountain, the, a tavern, xiii. 14
Fox, a sword, xiv. 387
Fox, intoxicate, xiii. 28
Free jug or bottle, the, xii. 336
French, broken, &c., put into the mouths of speakers (often improperly), vi. 200; vii. 139, 162 ---- pedlars, vi. 202; viii. 169
Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford, a play, viii. 19
Friars-Limiters, i. 216
Fuimus Troes: the True Trojans, a play, xii. 446-536
Fulbeck, W. iv. 251
Fullam, xii. 124
Fulwell, Ulpian, iii. 304-59; ix. 367
Funeral customs, xiii. 81-2
Funeral of Richard Cordelion, a play, viii. 206
Galaor, Sir, xv. 91
Gale, Samuel, xiii. 419
Galileo, xi. 317
Gallant, treatise of a, i. 174
Gallo-belgicus, xi. 513
Games, statute against unlawful, iii. 9 ---- noticed, ix. 387-8; xii. 120-1; xiii. 238-9
Gaming at Christmas, xiii. 20-1
Gammer Gurton's Needle, a comedy, iii. 164-256; x. 427
Garden-houses, xii. 119
Garlands, xiii. 37
Garlic, supposed to be a play or ballad, xi. 434
Gamier, Robert, v. 178 et seq.
Gazet, xiii. 477
George, the, at Waltham, xiv. 405
George-a-Green, viii. 151
Gerbier, Charles, xiv. 7
Gillivors, xii. 144
Girdle--"May my girdle break," a phrase, xiii. 10
Give a thing, and take a thing, xiv. 463
Glass House, the, xiv. 449
Glaucus and Seilla, x. 507
Gleek, a game, xiv. 396
Goad, Dr John, xv. 400
God, i. 100 ---- is a good man, ii. 73 ---- refuse me, xiii. 5
God's sonties, an oath, xiv. 145
Godfrey of Boulogne, xii. 137
Golding Square, xv. 406
Gold used in medicine, xii. 116
Gomersall, Robert, xiv. 488
Good, i. 152
Goodman, Nicholas, xiii. 414
Goshawk, haggard, xiii. 161
Got--"be got," i. 107
Gough, John, x. 384; xiv. 10 ----, Robert, x. 384
Grandmother, to see one's, xiii. 33
Grange, Laird of, xi. 224
Gredaline petticoat, xiv. 418
Green gowns, to give, a phrase, viii. 25-6
Greene, Robert, viii. 5, 8, 10-11; xi. 519; xiii. 105 ----, Thomas, actor, xi. 176 et seq.
"Green's Tu Quoque," a play, xi. 174-289
Gresham, Sir T., x. 487 ---- family, xi. 503
Grim the Collier of Croydon, a play, viii. 386-470
Groom, i. 252; iv. 283
Groom-porter or box-keeper, xii. 121
Grotius, Hugo, xiii. 254
Guardon, i. 206
Guilpin, Edward, vi. 15
Gwendoline, xii. 521
Gypsies, xiii. 174
Habington, Thomas, xiii. 323 ----, W., xiii. 321-409
Hair, combing the, on the stage, xiv. 394
Haled, xiv. 479
Hales, blood of, i. 338
Half-moon, xiv. 456
Hall, Old, viii. 24
Hampden, John, xii. 316
Handsel, vi. 403
Happily, xiii. 362
Happy man, happy dole, prov., iv. 21
Harbinger, xi. 307
Harlot, i. 253
Harlotry, viii. 351
Haro, clameur de, xii. 253
Harold Harefoot, viii. 233
Harpocrates, xii. 469
Harry groats, xiii. 232, 256
Harvey, Gabriel, viii. 3, 4 et seq. 10, 11
Haslewood, Joseph, i. 391-3
Hats worn by women, x. 16
Hatton, Sir Chr., vii. 75
Haught, xiv. 442
Haughton, W., x. 470-564
Hawkins, Sir Richard, xiii. 256 ----, W., xi. 196
Haxter, xiv. 282, 322
Hay, the, a dance, xii. 341
Haydigee, xii. 507
Hazard, a game, ii. 34
Hazlitt, W., x. 205
Heal, i. 212
Health-drinking, practices at, xiii. 441
Hearne, Thomas, xv. 400
Heart of grace, xii. 212
Hector, xi. 447
Heildom, xiii. 43
Heir, the, a play, xi. 502-84
Heirlooms, xi. 354
Hele, i. 129
Helmets plumed with ostrich feathers, xiv. 45
Hend, i. 250
Hengistus, xii. 287
Henslowe, P., xi. 4, 55
Herbs and flowers strewed at weddings, x. 366
Hercules and Lychas, xiii. 515
Hercules, x. 169; xii. 516
He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon, prov., viii. 460-1
Heywood, John, i. 196-238, 325 et seq. ----, Thomas, i. 329; iv. 348; xi. 177, 179; xii. 95
Hickscorner, an interlude, i. 143-95
Hieronimo, part of, iv. 361 ----. See Jeronymo
Highgate, viii. 380
High men and low men, xii. 244
Hight (or hyght), i. 129
Highwayman, xiv. 382
Hill, Aaron, vi. 27
Historia Histrionica, xv. 400-31
Histriomastix, Prynne's, xiii. 226
Hobby-horse, viii. 24; xi. 267 ----, "The hobby-horse is forgot," xi. 267
Hofman, Goody, xiii. 228
Hogsnorton, ii. 31
Holland's Leaguer, xiii. 414
Holt, i. 148
Homer, xi. 303
Hoodman-blind, x. 221
Horse-stealing, viii. 27
Hot-cockles, ix. 102; xv. 381
How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, a play, ix. 2-96
Howard, Mr Henry, xv. 189-90
How can that be? xiv. 458
Howleglass, Tyl, vii. 358
Hudson, Thomas, ix. 116
Huggermugger, x. 90
Hughes, Thomas, iv. 251
Humorous, xiv. 296
Humphrey, to dine with Duke, vi. 553; xiii. 31, 264
Hundred Merry Tales, A, a story-book, i. 25
Hungarians, x. 227, 244
Huntley, Dick, viii. 17
Hussey, xiv. 331
Hymen's Triumph, a masque, xi. 449
I am sorry for thee, but I cannot weep, prov., vi. 319
Iceland (or Isling) dogs, x. 321
If you know not me, you know nobody, prov., vii. 213
Image of Idleness, viii. 72
In danger, iii. 62
Indies, West, xi. 213
In dock, out nettle, prov. iii. 90
Ingelend, Thomas, ii. 266-320
Ingenious and ingenuous, xiii. 53; xiv. 281
Inkhorn phrases, viii. 70
Ink in the pen, ii. 92
Ink-pot terms, viii. 70
Inns of Court, Christmas at the, xiii. 20-1
Intellection, i. 124
Intreat, i. 237
Ireland, xi. 187
Irish, ii. 34
Irish earth, properties of, xii. 486
Irish footmen, xi. 121
Irus, xi. 548
Isle of Dogs, a play, viii. 6-8
Italian poets, study of the, viii. 5, 29, 72
Jack, the, at bowls, xii. 165
Jack Drum's Entertainment, prov., vi. 324
Jack Juggler, an interlude, ii. 104-57
Jack o' Lent, xi. 262
Jack Straw, a play, vi. 376-414
Jack will be a gentleman, prov., xii. 156
Jacob and Esau, an interlude, ii. 186-264
Jacques, Holy, xiv. 65
James I., ix. 114; xi. 328-9
James in Gales, St, i. 336
Janty, xiv. 401
Jehosaphat, i. 332
Jeronimo, a play in two parts, iv. 346-96; v. 3-173; xiv. 82 ----, go by, go by, v. 109
Jet, i. 69
Jews furnished with large noses on the stage, x. 481
Jis (for Jesus), iii. 225
John, King, Shakespeare's play of, xiv. 136
John, Sir, ii. 25; x. 224-5
Jonson, Ben. iv. 361; v. 3, 4, 56, 70, 103, 147; viii. 97; ix. 393; xi. 504
Jordan, Thomas, xiv. 9
Judas colour, v. 121
Julian (or Jyl) of Brentford, viii. 19
Jumped, xiv. 248
Jump out, to, xiii. 62-3
Ka kob, jackdaw's, ii. 215
Kempe, W., viii. 4, 7; ix. 194
Kest, i. 179
Killigrew, Anne, xiv. 375 ----, Henry, xiv. 375 ----, Sir Robert, xiv. 371 ----, Thomas, xiv. 370-535 ----, Sir Will., xiv. 375
Kind-heart, a dentist, xii. 139
Kind will creep, &c., prov. i. 113
King and queen chosen on Twelfth Day, xii. 132
King's-evil, xii. 256
Kirkman, Francis, xv. 410-11
Kirksley, Prioress of, viii. 248
Knack, a, to Know a Knave, a play, vi. 504-91
Knight, J., xiv. 13
Knight of the Bath, creation of a, iv. 349 ---- Post, vi. 533 ---- Sun, x. 322; xii. 12; xiii. 42; xiv. 478
Knights, King James I.'s, x. 272; xi. 59
Knowles, Sir Robert, xii. 193
Knox, John, xii. 300; xiii. 228
Kyd, Thomas, iv. 346-96; v. 3 et seq.; xiv. 82
Ladies' garden, xiv. 343
Lamb, Charles, x. 87
Lame, to do, i. 252
Lamphire, John, xiii. 203
Lance-prisado, xiv. 328
Lapis lasuli, viii. 239
Latten, i. 183; ix. 393
Lattice, the red, viii. 241; ix. 510
Laud, i. 131
Laundress, x. 275, 317; xiii. 231
Lawrence of Lancashire, xi. 85
Lay the country, to, xiii. 253
Lead apes in hell, to, prov. x. 518
Leather, to cut thongs out of other people's, xiv. 315
Le Brun, Hugh, Earl of March, viii. 251
Legs, to make, viii. 81; xiv. 443
Leicester, Earl of, viii. 174
Leman, xiii. 499
Leme, i. 64
Lesing, i. 159, 246
Lest, i. 80, 247
Let the cat wink, prov. i. 265
Levite's Revenge, the, xiv. 488
Lewt, i. 255
Libbards, xiii. 282; xiv. 325
Lieger, xiii. 271
Lightening before death, the, viii. 266
Like lettuce, like lips, prov., iii. 23
Lincolnshire bagpipes, vi. 393
Lind, i. 255
Lindabrides, xiv. 478
Lingua, a play, ix. 332-463
Liripup, iii. 322
Litchfield, Rich, pseud. viii. 67
Lithgow, W., xii. 226
Little John, viii. 106, et seq.
Loave-ears, xiv. 321
Lob's pound, xv. 32
Locrine, a play, xii. 484
Lodge, Thomas, vii. 98, et seq.; ix. 114
Lok (or Lock), Henry, ix. 116
Lombards, i. 266
London Bridge, the building of, on wool-packs, xii. 341
Longeth, i. 254
Long Meg, a play, xi. 115, 434
Look about you, a play, vii. 386-506
Lost Lady, the, a play, xii. 538-627
Love me little, and love me long, prov., viii. 83
Loves, for all the, iii. 254
Lucan, v. 244
Ludgate prison, xii. 127, 192-3
Ludus Coventriæ, xv. 418
Lues Venerea, x. 10; xii. 296
Lug, i. 231
Lust's Dominion, a play, xiii. 178; xiv. 93-192
Lute-strings and grey paper, viii. 26
Luxur, x. 8
Lye, xiii. 38
Lyly (or Lily), John, viii. 45
Machiavelli, N., viii. 72, 391
Machin, Lewis, x. 108-200
Macke, the, a play, ix. 388
Macquerellas, xiv. 296
Magisterium, i. 359
Mahomet and the mountain, vi. 410
Mahometans, xi. 318
Maids say nay and take, prov., viii. 308; x. 140
Maked, i. 252
Malacoton, xii. 236
Mandevile, Sir John, xii. 227
Mandubratius, xii. 508
Man of war, i. 185
Mantichora (or Mandragora), ix. 559
Mantle, Sir Thomas, viii. 105
Mapes, Walter, xii. 240
Marchpanes, xii. 235
Mare Liberum and Mare Clausum, xiii. 254
Marian, Maid, viii. 113 et seq.
Marius and Sylla, Wars of, vii. 105 et seq.
Markham, Gervase, x. 108-200 ----, Robert, x. 111
Mark's at Venice, St, i. 340
Marlowe, Chr., viii. 8; ix. 117; xiv. 93-6
Marmion, Shakerly, xiii. 411-523
Marriage customs, xiii. 81-2
Marriage Night, the, a play, xv. 111-184
Marriage of Wit and Science, an interlude, ii. 322-94
Marshall, Mrs, an actress, xiv. 377 ----, Stephen, xiv. 516
Massinger, Philip, xi. 3
Marston, John, ix. 116
Master of the game, xiv. 441
Match at Midnight, a play, xiii. 1-98
Matron, i. 72
Maw, a game, x. 539
Maw, the, a play, ix. 388
May, Richard, xi. 503 ----, Sir Thomas, xi. 503 ----, Thomas, xi. 502-84; xii. 2-83
Mayfield Place, Sussex, xi. 503
Mayne, Jasper, xiii. 200-320
Mayor of London, Lord, his inauguration sermon, xiii. 214 ---- show, xiii. 214
Mean, i. 62
Medoro, a hero of romance, xiv. 62
Meet with one, to, xiii. 62
Meg of Westminster, Long, iii. 215; xi. 111
Merchant, i. 69; ii. 255; xiii. 97, &c.
Merchants' marks, xii. 100
Mercuries (early newspapers so called), xi. 513
Meriell, John, xiv. 13
Merlins or Marlins, iv. 70-1
Mermaid, the, a tavern, xiii. 263
Merry Devil of Edmonton, a play, x. 202-64
Meve, i. 244
Microcosmos, ix. 336
Middleton, T., xii. 89, 94-5
Mightly, i. 248
Milton, John, iv. 273; xiii. 193
Mirror of Knighthood, x. 322; xi. 70; xiii. 42
Miseries of Enforced Marriage, a play, ix. 466-576
Miss, i. 186
Mistress, the, at bowls, xii. 165
Mistrist, i. 203
Misusing, i. 193
Mitre tavern in Bread Street, x. 313; two taverns of this name, xiii. 48
Mole, the French, x. 10
Mons, siege of, xv. 231
Monsieur Mingo, a song, viii. 55
Montague, the Hon. Walter, xiv. 413
Moorgate Prison, xii. 127, 192-3
Mooting and Reading Days, xii. 276
More, Sir Thomas, a play, ii. 269
Morglay, xi. 70; xii. 286
Mortlake, xiii. 233
Morvidus, xii. 520
Motions, xiii. 420
Mouchatoes, xiv. 305
Mount-saint, a game, x. 186
Mow, i. 246; x. 493
Mucedorus, a play, vii. 200-60; xi. 164
Much in my nock, Nichols, prov., vi. 242
Mulmutius Dunwallo, a play, xii. 484, 495
Mumblecrust, Jack, iii. 69
Munday, Anthony, viii. 94-327
M. under your girdle, to have an, x. 531
Mundungo, xiv. 291
Muscadel, xi. 491
Music between the acts of plays, iii. 211
Musicians, itinerant, x. 347-8
Muswell, i. 341
Naked, i. 44; xiv. 334, 511
Nash, Thomas, viii. 3-92; ix. 119
Neale, Richard, Bp. of London, i. 342
Need maketh the old wife trot, prov. iii. 43
Needlework, xiii. 227
Nemesis, xiv. 188
Nessary, i. 253
Nessus, xiv. 533
Nevile, Henry, xi. 503
Newcastle, xiv. 446
New Custom, an interlude, iii. 2-52
New England, xii. 316; xiii. 228
New-found-island (or Newfoundland), i. 162; xii. 165
New guise, the, ii. 260
Newington theatre, xi. 55, 115, 434
New Queen Street, iv. 87
Next, i. 194
Nice Wanton, an interlude, ii. 160-84
Niggler, iv. 313
Nineveh, the sight of, a show, ix. 406
Nipitaty, viii. 60
Noble--"To bring a noble to ninepence," prov. iii. 344
Noel (or Nowell), Henry, vii. 50
Noise of fiddlers, xii. 281
Nonsense verses, i. 49, 50
Novem (or Novum), a game, xi. 219
Nowl, hairy, iii. 23
Nuddled, xiv. 62
Nuns, change of name by, x. 240
Oaths, viii. 304-5, 307
Odd holes, xiii. 224
Oldcastle the original name of Falstaff, xi. 152
Old Couple, the, a play, xii. 2-83
Old fish and young flesh, xiii. 432
Olived, a term of cookery, xii. 239
Olivet, Mount, i. 332
One-and-thirty, a game, ii. 34
Onions--"Who'll buy my rope of onions?" a cry, xi. 436
Orange, Prince of, xv. 231
Ordinary, the, a play, xii. 204-318
Orlando, a phrase, xiv. 62
Ostend, siege of, ix. 170
Our Lady in the Oak, i. 342 ---- of Boston, i. 337 ---- of Boulogne, iii. 199-200
Outcry, xiv. 445
Out of his danger, i. 54, 132. Compare iii. 62
Out of his peril, i. 132
Overbury, Sir Thomas, xi. 328-9
Owe, i. 202
Oyster, a cant term, xiv. 463
Palermo, razors of, iv. 80; vii. 190
Palmer, i. 331
Palmerin of England, viii. 99
Pancridge (Pancras), viii. 380
Pancridge parson, xi. 33
Pantofle, iv. 67; xv. 105
Pardoner, i. 343
Paris (or Parish) Garden, viii. 124
Parismus, xii. 12
Parson's Wedding, the, a play, xiv. 370-535
Part, i. 243
Pasquil, x. 163
Passage, a game, i. 266; xi. 431
Passing measures pavin, ix. 408
Passions (love-poems), xi. 200
Pastance, i. 79; iii. 88
Patch, iii. 186-7; x. 493
Patrick's Purgatory, St, i. 337
Paul's, St, x. 341; xi. 313, 407; xiii. 264; xv. 400
Pee-dee, xiv. 289
Pembroke, William, Earl of, xiii. 326, 329
Peele, George, xii. 309
Pennycuicke, Andrew, xiii. 101
Pericles, a play, ix. 467; xi. 239, 428
Pepper in the nose, to take, xiii. 166
Perplexities, the, a play, xv. 199
Petticoat, to have on the, a phrase, ii. 252
Phantasia of Memphis, xi. 303
Pheer (or Fere), xiii. 425
Phlegm, vii. 193.
Pickthatch, xi. 19, 119
Pigeon-holes, a game, xii. 101
Pight, i. 249
Pilgrim, i. 331
Pimlico, xi. 233; xiii. 243-4
Pin of the wheel, xiv. 65
Pinder (or Pinner), of Wakefield, viii. 151
Pintas, a game, xv. 265
Pinion, ii. 35
Pink, ii. 35
Piot, Lazarus, pseud., viii. 99
Pirates, execution of, xi. 188
Pirate, the, a play, xiii. 101
Pissing-while, a, iii. 224
Pitiful, i. 81
Plagues, notices of, viii. 90; x. 342; xiv. 487
Plantain-leaf, xi. 399
Platform, xiii. 336
Platonists, xiv. 441
Plautus, xi. 314
Plays, Latin, performed at Cambridge, xi. 295, 299 ----, old, corrupt texts of, xii. 192
Plutarch's Lives, North's translation of, a Shakespeare book, vii. 105
Point-device, i. 44
Poking (or poting) sticks, viii. 161
Polydorus, xiii. 512
Pomanders, ix. 419
Pompey the Great, a play, xv. 188
Pope, Alex., xii. 19, 42
Porta, Battista, xi. 301
Porter, Henry, vii. 262-383
Portous, ii. 74; iii. 24; viii. 393
Poser, ix. 139
Possems, xiv. 296
Possess (inform), ix. 483; xiii. 144
Post, a game, ii. 35
Posts, i. 75 ---- set up at the sheriffs' doors, xii. 107
Powis, William, Lord, xiii. 324
Prague, Battle of, xiii. 45
Praty, i. 71
Prayers at the end of plays, iii. 51-2, 157-8; vi. 11.
Prefe, i. 179
Preston, Tho., ii. 158-248
Prest, i. 248
Prevent, xiii. 473
Primero, a game, xi. 363
Print well, i. 16
Prior, M., xii. 19; xiv. 421; xv. 204
Prisons, divisions of the old, ix. 514
Privy Seals, xiii. 267
Progresses, royal, customs at, xi. 330
Pro in my purse, to put, a phrase, iv. 60
Prologues, speakers of, xiii. 299-300
Promise is debt, prov. i. 137
Prompter (or book-holder), viii. 17, 87
Properties, theatrical, xi. 360; xiii. 274-5
Property, xiv. 78
Propriety, xiv. 364
Provand, xiv. 385
Proverbs on concealment of love, xi. 73
Prynne, W., xiii. 226
Ptolemy the geographer, xii. 226-7
Pudder, xiv. 444
Pudding--"You may draw me about the town with a pudding," ii. 78 ----, "In pudding-time," prov., iii. 319 ----, St Stephen's, xii. 235
Pudding, white, xi. 20 ----, "Everything hath an end," &c., xv. 61
Puddle Dock, xiii. 69
Puff (or Face), Captain, a character, x. 268
Pueriles confabulatiunculæ, a school-book, viii. 444.
Pugle, i. 162
Punto, xiv. 284
Purganti, Paulo, xiv. 421
Puritans, xi. 111; xii. 248, 316; xiii. 14
Q, ix. 195; x. 298
Quadragesimal wits, xii. 268
Quarry, xiv. 379
Quatre and trey, terms at dice, xii. 122
Quaver, xiii. 15
Queen of Arragon, the, a play, xiii. 321-409
Queen's-game, the, ii. 34
Quit, i. 132
Ragman-rolls, i. 234, 241-2
Ram-Alley, a play, x. 266-380 ----, a place so called, x. 271
Randolph, T., v. 54
Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, a play, vi. 144-243
Ravenscroft, E., vi. 27
Rawlins, T., xiv. 1-92
Readers at Inns-of-Court, xiii. 290-1.
Reason, to do one, xv. 214
Rebellion, the, a play, xiv. 1-92
Recorder, the, an instrument, viii. 31
Red Bull theatre, xi. 175
Redburn, i. 338
Reed, i. 179
Refuse me! an oath, xiii. 5
Regent, the, a ship, i. 371
Rehearsal, the, a play, v. 15, 37
Return from Parnassus, a play, viii. 8; ix. 98-217; x. 267
Revenger's Tragedy, the, a play, x. 3-105
Richards, Nath., xiv. 6
Reynard the Fox, xiii. 58
Ridley, Samuel, viii. 19
Ring Irish, vii. 497
Rings, wedding, xiv. 417
Ris, i. 252
Roaring boys, xi. 125, 135; xii. 102
Robert of Sicily, King, i. 255
Robin Goodfellow, viii. 442 et seq.
Robin Hood, plays upon the history of, viii. 95-327
Robinson, Richard, an actor, x. 451; xiii. 102
Rock, i. 65
Rock (or Roch), St, i. 342; vi. 74
Roger de Coverley, Sir, ix. 490
Rogues, vagabonds, &c., statutes against, iii. 195
Rome--"To go to Rome with a mortar on one's head," prov., iii. 80
Rood of Dovercourt, the, viii. 399
Rosamond, Fair, ballad of, xiii. 50
Rosemary, x. 342; xiii. 81-2, 296
Rose royals, xiii. 232
Roses of Poestum, x. 186
Rowena, xi. 487
Rowley, Ralph, xii. 87-8 ----, S., xii. 87 ----, W., ix. 467; xi. 139, 178; xii. 86-202; xiii. 1-98
Rub, rub! an exclamation in bowling, xi. 54
Ruddock, iv. 72
Ruffs, long story about, xi. 192-3
Rumbelow, i. 162
Rush, Friar, iii. 213
Rushes, viii. 87; x. 213
Rutter, Joseph, xii. 362-444
Sack with sugar, ix. 516-17
Sacring-bell, x. 235
Sadness, i. 187
Saints, list of unregistered, vi. 74
Sale, i. 243
Salisbury Plain, iii. 326
Salt-cellars, xi. 403
Samers, i. 251
Sasarara, x. 76
Saunce-bell, x. 422
Saw, old, xiii. 8
Scaledrake, xiv. 290
Scathlock, viii. 151 et seq.
Schemers, the, 1755, xiii. 209
Scholastic discipline, early, ii. 270-4
Scogin, vi. 340; viii. 16, 462
Scolds, punishment of, xii. 127
Sconce, xiii. 47
Se, i. 244
Second Maiden's Tragedy, x. 383-468
Selden, John, xiii. 254
Sellenger's round, ix. 195, 409; xiii. 492
Seller, i. 157
Seneca, the "Thyestes" of, iv. 263, 291
Servant, xiv. 407
Set a beggar on horseback, &c., prov., x. 17
Seymour, Queen Jane, i. 431
Shakespeare, W., note on his "Measure for Measure," iv. 174 ----, v. 54, 109, 139; ix. 101, 202, 393, 467; x. 158-9; xi. 246; xii. 88, 626; xiii. 89
Shaking of the sheets, a dance, x. 365; xiii. 59
Sheldon, Will., xiii. 233
Shepherds' Holiday, a play, xii. 362-444
Ship, the, a play, xi. 115
Shirley (or Sherley) Brothers, the, xi. 213 ---- James, xiv. 194
Shit, i. 183
Shoe, flinging an old, xiv. 501
Shoemaker of Bradford, the, viii. 151
Shoes, xiii. 217
Shooter's Hill, i. 185.
Shope, i. 163
Shoreditch, xii. 195
Shorn at Canterbury, Master John, i. 340
Shrove-Tuesday, xi. 195-6, 436-7
Sick man's salve, the, x. 153-4
Sickness, the, xiv. 486
Sidney, Sir Philip, viii. 63; ix. 114; xiv. 194
Siesta, xv. 22
Sims's, a house of entertainment, xiv. 453
Sin, i. 76, 175
Skelton, Merry Tales of, a story-book, i. 33; viii. 39, 105, et seq.
Skeltonical verse, viii. 110
Sleepers, the Seven, i. 362
Slot, xiv. 520
Smith, Wentworth, xi. 425
Soft fire makes sweet malt, prov., iii. 70
Soldiers, sham or swaggering, viii. 69; xi. 68
Solf, i. 71
Solyman and Perseda, a play, v. 254-374
Songs in old plays, iii. 70, 72, 189, 339, 358; xi. 146; xiv. 328-31; 346-7
Sons, literary, xi. 9
Sooner named, sooner come, prov., vi. 66
Sophy, the, a tragedy, xiv. 245
South, Robert, xiii. 203
Southwell, our Lady of, i. 341
Spain, xi. 213
Spanish Lady's Love, the, a ballad, xiii. 92
Spanish Tragedy, the, a play, v. 3-173; ix. 196; x. 370; xi. 12, 29, 248, 331, 386
Speck (or spick) and span, xi. 334; xiv. 433
Spectatrix, xiii. 513
Spere, i. 321
Sports, Book of, xii. 212, 316
Springal, xiii. 159.
Spring Garden, xiv. 350
Spurs, iii. 207 ---- gilt, ix. 469
Stafford, Robert, xii. 226
Stage, construction of the, ix. 540
Staniel, xiv. 284, 357
Stanielry, xiv. 351
Starch, yellow, xi. 328-9
Statist, xiii. 421
Stench, xiv. 329
Still, John, iii. 164-256; xv. 427
Stilo novo, xiii. 478
Stirling, W. Alexander, Earl of, xi. 477
Stirrups, i. 184
Stitchel, xiv. 357
St Nicholas' clerks, xiii. 15
Stowe, John, xiii. 209
Stra, i. 255
Strabo, xii. 226
Strain'd, xiii. 9
Strange (coy), xiii. 61
Strene, i. 55
Strow, xiv. 311
Stubbes, Katherine, xii. 272 ----, Philip, xii. 272
Studs, Andalusian, xiv. 342
Stukeley, Captain, xi. 213, 215
Successive, xiv. 325
Suckling, Sir John, xii. 4; xiii. 414; xv. 4
Summer's Last Will and Testament, viii. 15-92
Summers (or Sommers), Will., viii. 15 et seq.; xi. 535; xiv. 473
Super naculum, viii. 58
Surplices, xiii. 14
Sussex, Countess of, v. 179
Sutcliffe, Dr Matthew, xii. 277
Swearing, form of, borrowed from the Old Testament, vii. 92
Sweat, the, an epidemic, iv. 119
Swetnam, Joseph, xiv. 278
Swinnerton, Sir John, xi. 425
Tag, rag, and bobtail, xiii. 84-5
Tailor, Robert, xi. 424-599
Tailors, Italian, xi. 21
Talc, xiii. 225
Tallies, xii. 138
Tampion, i. 370
Tancred and Gismunda, vii. 27 et seq.
Tane, i. 254
Tapestry, ancient, v. 121; xiii. 233
Tappes, my Lord, ix. 421
Tappis, xiv. 322
Tarlton, Richard, his "Jig of the Horseload of Fools," vi. 12 ----, vi. 396-8; viii. 16
Tatham, John, xiv. 12
Taverns, list of, vii. 286; xiv. 342
Tax of the Roman Chancery, xi. 565
Taylor, John, the water-poet, xi. 6 ----, Joseph, xiv. 505
Tene, i. 251
Terence, versions of, viii. 263 ---- referred to, xv. 199
Termagant, x. 322-3
Terrent, Mr, xii. 205
Tester, xii. 125
That would I see, quod blind Hew, prov., i. 232
The, v., i. 155
Theatres, closing of the, xv. 410-11
The devil is good when he is pleased, prov., viii. 425
Theon, ix. 205
There are more maids than Malkin, prov., viii. 266
There are more ways to the wood than one, prov., ix. 352; xv. 142
There goes the hare away, prov., v. 108; xiv. 321
Thersites, an interlude, i. 389-431; iii. 145; iv. 176
Thing of nothing, iii. 22
This seven year, i. 47
Thomas of Kent, St, i. 249
Thornton, Roger, xiv. 446
Threatened men live long, prov., vii. 495
Three Ladies of London, a play, vi. 246-370
Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, a play, vi. 372-502
Three men's songs, viii. 48
Three merry men, and three merry men, &c., x. 298
Thrist, i. 138
Thule, xii. 459
Tice, i. 116
Tide, i. 249
Tiresias, x. 283
'Tis better to be a shrew than a sheep, prov., viii. 425
Titles of old plays hung up, v. 157
Toad, the, xi. 399
Tobacco, xiii. 441
Toll-book, x. 44
Tom Essence, a play, xiv. 3
Tomkis, John, xi. 294-421 ----, Thomas, musician, xi. 295
Tom Titivile, iii. 58
To-morrow is a new day, prov., i. 86; xv. 41
Tooth-drawers, xii. 139
Top, William, xii. 205
Torture, instruments of, xi. 66, 97
Tourneur, Cyril, x. 3-105
Toy, supposed to be an actor, viii. 59
Tracy, Little, viii. 105 et seq.
Tray-trip, a game, xiii. 238-9
Treatment, xiv. 350
Trencher-analects, xii. 269
Trenchmore, x. 316
Trentals, xiv. 170
Treygobet, ii. 34
Trinobantes, &c., xii. 516
Trial of Treasure, an interlude, iii. 258-301
Trithemius, Johannes, xii. 218-19
Triump (or Trump), ii. 34; iii. 199
Trott, Nicholas, iv. 251 et seq.
Trouchman, xiii. 344
Trow, i. 62
Trump, iii. 199
Trumpets sounded at theatres and shows, xiii. 250
Trumpington, ii. 30
Trundletail, xii. 121
Trunnion, St, i. 334
Tuck, Friar, viii. 105 et seq.
Tuke, Sir Samuel, xv. 4, 184
Turbervile, George, iv. 9
Turnbull (or Turnmill) Street, xi. 98
Turner, Mrs, xi. 328-9
Twelfth-Day, xii. 132
Twin, i. 244
Udall, Nicholas, ii. 274; iii. 54-161
Uncumber, St, i. 334
Undeserved, i. 71
Unfortunate Jack, History of, xii. 329
Unhappily, xiv. 243
Unicorn, i. 81
Unready, xiii. 79
Upse, xiv. 471
Up-se-frieze, viii. 58
Usurers, practices of, viii. 26
Utopian trunks, xiii. 86
Vanbrugh, Sir J., xii. 20
Venue (or Veney), xiii. 169-70
Verse, blank, vi. 20
Vice, the, ii. 307; iv. 160; vii. 386
Villiers, Colonel George, xii. 19
Vine-dee, xiii. 272
Vinegar used to represent blood, iv. 217; ix. 106
Virginia, xi. 187
Vortigern, xi. 487
Vox Piscis, or the Book-Fish, 1627, xii. 90
Wage, to take, i. 247
Waggons and other carriages impressed, xi. 330
Wait, i. 248
Waking Man's Fortune, a story, iv. 8
Walsingham, our Lady of, i. 335
Waltham, cross at, i. 335
Wanion, xiii. 158-9
Wapping, xi. 188
Warning for Fair Women, a play, v. 123
Wase, Chr., xv. 199
Wassail, xi. 487; xii. 285
Watch and ward, v. 75
Watching-candle, xi. 352
Watling Street, iv. 243; xi. 207
Watson, Thomas, v. 36-7; ix. 114
Wat Tyler, v. 376 et seq.
Wax, to bite the, xii. 256
Weakest goeth to the wall, prov., x. 124
Wealth, i. 73
Webbe, W., vii. 7, 13
Webster, John, xii. 89
Wed, i. 165
Weeping-Cross, vii. 337
Wenefrid (or Winifred), St, i. 337
Went, i. 119
Werewolf, the, ix. 351
Wever, R., ii. 42-102
Whales in maps, xiii. 267
Wheels laid for pike, xiii. 267
Whe'r for whether, xiii. 47
Whetstone, to throw the, a phrase, viii. 28
Whiffler, xiii. 244
White, to hit the, xiii. 177-8; xiv. 144
Whitecross Street, xv. 406
Whittington and his cat, xiv. 446
Who can sing so merry a note, &c., a ballad, viii. 28
Widow's phrase, the, x. 306; xi. 142
Wild, i. 245
Wildness, i. 149
Wilkins, George (the elder), ix. 466-576
Willesden, i. 341
Willowby, Lady (the rod), ix. 27
Wilmot, Robert, vii. 3 et seq.
Wilson, Robert, vi. 246-502
Wilson's "Art of Rhetoric," passage from "Ralph Roister Doister," cited in, iii. 112
Wily Beguiled, a play, ix 220-330
Wind--"Let the world wind," i. 20
Wine at marriages, xiii. 82
Wines, xi. 194; xiii. 82, 93, 216, 441, 500
Wisdom, Robert, xii. 271
Wished, xiii. 65
Wisp, xii. 127
Witch, the term applied to both sexes, xiii 259
Witched, xiii. 453
Witches, viii. 65
With a wet finger, prov., vi. 180
Wits, the Five, i. 130
Wizard, xiv. 358
Wizzel, xiii. 271
Woman, a, is a Weathercock, a play, xi. 2-86
Woman Never Vexed, a play, xii. 86-202
Women, note on the occupations, &c., of, temp Eliz. ix. 538
Women are forgetful, &c., prov., xii. 200
Wondersly, i. 16
Wood, i. 351
Woodes, Nath. vi. 4-9, 30 et seq.
Woodman, Richard, iii. 35
Wood Street counter, xii. 179
Woollen manufacture, xiii. 295
World and the Child, the, an interlude, i. 241-75
World, it is a, a phrase, i. 35
Worthies, the Nine, xi. 447
Wrapped in his mother's smock, xiii. 74
Wreaths, oaken, xiii. 459
Wright, Abraham, xv. 400 ----, James, xv. 400-431
Wrought, i. 249
Yellow, to wear the, vii. 474
Yeomen of the collar, i. 157
Ying, i. 245
Young, Edward, xiii. 178
Youth, Interlude of, ii. 5-40
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
GLOSSARIAL INDEX,
BY RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D.
A, in, i. 49; xv. 217; viii, 313; of, viii. 369; he, iii. 241; vi. 183
Abashed, downcast, i. 88
Abide, to remain, xi. 456; to endure, i. 308
Abide, } Abi, Aby, } to atone for, xi. 38; i. 406; iii. 95
Abiden, endured, ix. 425
Abject, an abject creature, vi. 95
Aboarding, coming to the coast(?), v. 265
About, round, i. 19
Aboven, above, xv. 422
Abroach, on broach, xiii. 93
Abusion, abuse, ii. 89
Accointance, acquaintance, i. 79
Accompt, account, xv. 119
Accomptant, accountant, xiv. 325
Accord, to agree, i. 229
Accumber, to destroy, i. 299
Accumbred, troubled, iii. 133
Acold, cold, iii. 189
Acquaince, acquaintance, i. 105
Acquittance, quittance, i. 127
Acrook, crookedly, iii. 125
Adamant, a magnet, loadstone, v. 300
Adauntrely (= avauntlay), a hunting term, ix. 149
A doors, "forth a doors" = out of doors, x. 561
Adrabbing, a-wenching, vii. 348
Adreamed, dreamed, x. 241; xiii. 169
Adry, dry, vi. 568
Advenient, coming, future, vii. 158
Advertise, to warn, xv. 23
Advertisement, counsel, i. 293
Advisement, advice, i. 106; vii. 109; consideration, i. 292
Advoutress, adultress, iii. 151
Advoutry, adultery, xii. 301
Af, of, vi. 73
Afeard, afraid, i. 110
Affect, to love, xi. 141, 453; xiv. 303
Affected, well disposed, xi. 454, 518
Affiance, trust, i. 107
Affine, lastly, iii. 246; lastly, i. 266
Affright, frightened, v. 213
Affront, to face, to meet face to face, v. 211; xi. 265; xii. 469
Agate, agoing, on the road, ii. 25, 306; ix. 400
Aggress, to approach, iv. 172
Aggrievance, grievance, xiv. 309
Aggrieves, grievances, xiv. 309
Aglet, point of a tag, v. 113
Ago, gone by, i. 107, 167, 168
Agone, ago, i. 28
Agood, goodly, iii. 116
Agooding, agadding(?), iii. 317
Ahungry, hungry, vi. 296
Akenning, being discerned, v. 354
A las pintas, note, xv. 265
Alate, late, lately, ii. 114; ix. 164; x. 444.
Alchochoden, an astronomical term, xi. 345
Alder of all, i. 135
Ale, to heel, i. 161, 185
Alestake, sign of an alehouse, i. 191
Alfridaria, a term used in astronomy, xi. 344
Algate, } Algates, } always, i. 237; xii. 288
Alimonial, pertaining to alimony, xiv. 314
Almicantarath, astronomical term, note, xi. 326
Almight, Almighty, i. 147
Alms, a charity, i. 72; ii. 285
Almuten, astronomical term, note, xi. 345
Alonely, only, i. 67
Along on, on account of, ix. 101
Alouten, utterly, xii. 241
Aloyse, iv. 79
Altogether (for), once for all, iii. 135
Alum-plumb, i. 178
Aly, holy (?), but see note, iii. 66
Amain, fast, vii. 281
Amate, to daunt, confound, vii. 79, 137
Amaze, amazement, x. 133
Ambassadress, xv. 208
Ambassage, embassy, vi. 463
Ambages, ambiguous, equivocal sayings, v. 30; ix. 265
Ambergrease, xi. 341; xiii. 490
Ambitiousness, ambition, xv. 161
Ambrosiac, xiv. 316
Ambry, pantry, vi. 412.
Amebly, trotting(?), xii. 284
Amend, to mend, iii. 176
Ames ace, note, xii. 243; xiii. 118
Ameved, moved, iii. 240
Amiss, fault, vi. 525
Among, now and then, at intervals, i. 71
Amorist, a lover, xiii. 376
Amort, melancholy, viii. 198; ix. 305; x. 310
Amuse, musing, x. 175
An, and, if, i. 142; xii. 259; xiii. 80; xv. 128; on, ii. 193
Ancient, ensign, viii. 174; xiii. 58
Anent, along, iv. 313
Angerly, angrily, iv. 136
Annoy, annoyance, iv. 317; xv. 120
Antiphon, alternate singing, xii. 503
Apace, quickly, i. 88
Apaid, pleased, i. 175; iii. 18
Apluck, in pluck, lustily, i. 146; ii. 368
Apoplex, apoplexy, x. 182
Appair, to impair, i. 100
Appealed, accused, i. 70
Appetite, desire, ii. 47
Apply, to apply one's self, ii. 284
Appointed, accoutred, equipped, i. 376; xii. 213
Apprehensive, perceptive, xii. 505
Approbate, approved, i. 7
Approve, to prove, x. 117
Arayed, { Arrayed, { defiled, soiled, disfigured, i. 78, 178; iii. 175; disconcerted, ii. 119
Areadiness, readiness, iv. 234
Arear, back, i. 166
Argosies, merchant ships, xii. 100
Armipotent, powerful in arms, iii. 282
Aroom, abroad, i. 154
A-row, in succession, xv. 91
Arre, to snarl, viii. 44
Arride, to please, xiii. 445
Arsyversy, xii. 137
Articulated, put down as articles of a treaty, v. 67
Ascendant, note, xi. 309
Ashen, ashes, xii. 240
Asinigo, a fool, xiii. 519
Aslake, to assuage, i. 400
Aspect (of planets), vii. 185
Aspy, to spy, i. 156
Assail, to essay, ii. 241
Assay, to essay, try, i. 19; ii. 389
Assoil, to remove doubts, explain, i. 70, 75, 179; vii. 169; xv. 253
Assurance, security, xii. 153
Assure, to make sure of, x. 139
Astonied, thunderstruck, vii. 80; ix. 570
At, with, x. 123
At odds, at variance, ix. 457
At one (with), to reconcile to, iii. 139
Atrust, on trust, x. 308
Attach, to seize, vii. 24, xii. 503
Attournment, x. 218
Aunt, a bawd, xiii. 70; xiv. 448
Autocousticon, note, xi. 314
Ayenst, against, i. 149
Azimuth, note, xi. 326
Bab, babe, vi. 73
Babble, to talk like a child, to prate, i. 8
Babbling, chattering, i. 19
Baberlipped, thick-lipped, ix. 404
Bable, bauble, vii. 359
Backside, backyard, x. 341; xi. 233; a house in the rear of another, x. 341
Backster, a female baker, i. 424
Baconpig, v. 104
Bade, an abode, iv. 307
Badst, invitedst, viii. 290
Baffle, xii. 174; xiv. 305
Balance, (pair of) scales, viii. 408
Bale (of dice), pair, xi. 221; xii. 121
Balk, beam of a house, iii. 173
Balladising, ballad-making, viii. 258
Ban, to curse, iii. 181
Band, bound, ix. 569; bond, iii. 361
Banding, bandied, vii. 116
Bandoliers, xii. 229
Bandy, game at tennis, ix. 381
Bane, death, v. 262
Banket, a banquet, i. 44; ii. 82
Bankrout, bankrupt, x. 361
Bannerets, v. 213
Bannings, curses, viii. 315
Bare, did bear, i. 165
Barm, yeast, xii. 269
Barmuthes, Bermudas, xi. 137
Barmy, yeasty, ix. 110
Barnacles, spectacles, iv. 81
Barren (of), devoid of, vii. 288
Barricado, to barricade, x. 260
Barrow gutlings, a pig's guts, x. 347
Base (at), game of base, viii. 400
Baseful, low, ix. 176
Bashaw, pashaw, v. 150
Basilisk, a piece of ordnance, x. 325
Bass, to kiss, i. 74, 181
Baste, to beat, xiv. 305
Bat, { to abate, decline in courage, x. 33; Bate, { to flutter, xi. 353
Bate, to debate, xii. 524
Batteries, xiii. 218, note
Battoon, a staff, xii. 238
Bawson, badger, ix. 452
Bayard, a bay horse; "blind as bayard," iv. 118
Bay, by, vi. 71
Be, been, i. 413
Bead, prayer, x. 234; viii. 393
Bead-folk, pensioners, i. 85
Bead-roll, a list of persons to be prayed for, v. 197
Bear in hand, x. 303
Beastly, like a beast, i. 30
Bebang, to bang, vii. 309
Beck, a beckoning (with the hand), xi. 262, 307; a nod, viii. 88; salutation, i. 373
Bedlam, a madman, iii. 245; mad, ii. 131
Bedstaff, xi. 337; xiii, 35
Bedward, bed-time, xi. 333
Beetle-browed, having overhanging brows, ix. 404
Beforne, before, i. 273
Behete, to promise, i. 258
Behyht, promised, i. 248
Being, existence, state, welfare, xi. 454, 464
Being that, since, x. 262
Beknave, i. 430
Beldam, old, xi. 247
Belike, perhaps, xi. 245
Belith, belongs, i. 258
Belive, quickly, viii. 158; xii. 507
Bemonster, to make a monster of, x. 157
Benedicite, i. 54
Benison, blessing, ii. 230
Bent, biassed, x. 118
Benters, coal-sacks, iv. 77
Beray, to dirt, mess, iii. 197, 329
Berew, by row, a-row, i. 246
Beseem, to suit, xii. 505
Beshrew, to curse, i. 20
Beside herself, out of her wits, i. 66
Beslaver, to slobber over, ix. 121
Besnow, cover with snow, xii. 457
Bestial, animal, i. 12
Bet, beaten, iii. 237; do better, ii. 127; better, xii. 257
Betruss'd, hanged, viii. 199
Bever, luncheon, ix. 366
Bevy, i. 20; a bevy, vii. 322
Bewray, to betray, ii. 241; xi. 239
Beyond, over, i. 152
Bias, term in game of bowls, vii. 283
Bib, to drink, x. 335
Bickering, fighting, iii. 217
Bid, did abide, vii. 296
Bidden, refrained, ii. 218
Bidding prayer, viii. 393
Bide, to endure, iv. 185; to suffer, vi. 588; to abide, stay, i. 137
Bidene, forthwith, together, i. 268
Biggon, see note, xiii. 288
Bilbo, sword, xiii. 35
Bill, a petition, viii. 378
Birdbolt, an arrow, xi. 200
Birdsnie, term of endearment, xiii. 124
Bis, fine silk, i. 252
Bitched (ale), i. 254
Bitter, a bittern, i. 424
Bi wi ye, (good) bye, vii. 312
Blackguard, iii. 323
Blackjack, viii. 57; ix. 471; xi. 470
Blank, white of a target, ii. 35
Blather, a bladder, vi. 114
Ble, complexion, i. 251
Blea, to bleat like a kid, ii. 237, 239
Blest, iii. 243
Blin, to cease, i. 248, 424; viii. 320
Blive, quick, xii. 311; to be quick, xii. 507
Bloat, a bloater (herring), xiii. 5
Blot, a term used in card-playing, vii. 276
Blot, to defile iii. 202; defame, iv. 143
Bluebottle, a liveried servant, ix. 471
Bluster, to blow, xii. 219
Bob, a blow, iv. 81; vii. 168; to strike, iv. 121; vii. 456, 490; taunt, iv. 81; vii. 309; to send away empty, xi. 435.
Bob (for eels), xii. 166
Bobb'd, beaten, baffled, x. 358; tricked, xiii. 129
Bode, to portend, viii. 47
Bodkin, a dagger, vii. 335
Body politic, xii. 230
Bold, to encourage, i. 182
Boll, bowl, i. 179
Bombard, a drinking-vessel, xi. 24; a piece of ordnance, i. 370
Bomfay, by my faith, iii. 272
Bonable, abominable, iii. 212
Bona robas, note, ix. 530
Bone, "a bone in your hood," ii. 169, 170
Bonerly, bonnerly, debonairly, mannerly, i. 243, 250
Bones, dice, xiii. 124; "make no bones," make no delay, i. 398
Bongrace, } Boongrace, } a bonnet, hood, i. 203; vi. 466
Boon, good, ix. 147
Boon sparks, fine fellows, xii. 270
Boot, remedy, medicine, i. 84
Boots, avails, xi. 81
Bord, jest, game, iii. 78
Borrels, peasants, xii. 567
Borrow, to preserve, save, secure, i. 269; ii. 120
Botkin, a dagger, ii. 301
Bots, worms, ii. 300; x. 491; venereal disease, vi. 257
Bottle, a bundle, xi. 22; vi. 176; vii. 208; "bite bread out of a bottle," i. 411
Bottom, a vale, i. 371; x. 247; foundation, i. 17
Bonget, cask, bucket, iv. 72
Bought, redeemed, i. 141
Bounce, to beat, iii. 218; bang, ix. 263
Bound, boon, iv. 143
Bounty, goodness, i. 248
Bountyhood, bounty, viii. 36
Bow, to bend, i. 77
Bowr, "ball and bowr," i. 247
Bowyer, a maker of bows, viii. 152; xiii. 60
Box, note, xii. 121
Boying, playing the boy, ii. 211
Brachs, shelves, shoals, i. 185
Brachygraphy, shorthand, viii. 41
Brag, fine, ii. 108, 336; iii. 209; vi. 394
Brainpan, skull, vii. 309
Brangled, encumbered, x. 228
Brast, burst, i. 148, 252
Brave, fine, well dressed, iii. 28; iv. 81; x. 125
Bravely, finely, xiii. 129
Bravery, finery, ix. 17; x. 125
Brawl (=broll), brat, child, iii. 201
Brawn, muscle, ii. 209
Brawnfallen, chapfallen, v. 207
Bray'd, pounded, xi. 333
Break up, to open, vii. 132
Breast, breath, voice, i. 353; iii. 61
Breech, to flog, whip, viii. 21; x. 282; xi. 148
Bren, to burn, i. 12, 54, 58, 211
Breviates, briefs, x. 166
Brewis, broth, vii. 218; x. 478
Brigand (harness), i. 251
Briggen (irons), i. 402
Brims, top of a hill, i. 371; fierce, iii. 138
Brocket, a hart of two years, ix. 148
Broderd, embroidered, iv. 243
Broideries, embroideries, x. 199
Brokage, xiv. 314
Broke (=broken), spoken with, iv. 483
Broken beer, xii. 228
Broken-bellied, ruptured, xii. 215
Brook, to endure, xi. 456
Broom, rushes, twigs of broom, i. 65
Brothel, a wicked woman, whore, a wretch, i. 82, 255
Brunt, burnt, vi. 76
Brusten, burst, iii. 197
Budge, to stir, ix. 525
Buffling, foolish, x. 370
Bug, a goblin, iv. 72; v. 172
Bugle-gown, x. 347
Bugle-horn, viii. 47
Buke, a book, vi. 73
Bulchin, a bull calf, viii. 369
Bulk, body, iv. 357; xi. 356
Bullbeggar, a bogy, goblin, xii. 122
Bully, a term of endearment, x. 260; fellow, ix. 494, 515; friend, xii. 120
Bum, by my, iv. 62; viii. 364; (?) to brand, vii. 466; (?) bumping, iv. 122
Bumbard, a cannon, xi. 263
Bumbast, to fill out, xii. 181
Bumbasting, stuffing out, x. 357
Bumfay, } Bumvay, } by my faith, ii. 375; iv. 219
Bumming, drinking, xiii. 8
Bunny, a term of endearment, ix. 252
Bur, by our, viii. 338
Burbolt(= bird-bolt), an arrow, iii. 101.
Burden (of a song), i. 49
Burgh, a town, i. 338
Bursemen, xii. 120
Bursting, breaking, iii. 180
Burtherous, burdensome, vi. 108
Busk, fine, trim, x. 235; a bush, iii. 81; part of a dress, ix. 17, note; ix. 368; xiii. 334
Buskle, to buckle, v. 242
Buss, to kiss, iv. 233; ix. 244; xii. 308; voice (?), iv. 81
But, without, x. 187
Buzzes, gossamers, xi. 37
Buzzing, spreading about rumours, iv. 366
B' w' y', be with you, vi. 532; God be with you, good-bye, xii. 297
By (=aby), atone for, pay for, iii. 139
Bye and main, on all sides, xiv. 427
By kind, naturally, vii. 294
By-word, a proverb, vi. 47
Caitiff, vile, xii. 10
Calf, a fool, ii. 288, 305
Caliver, xiii. 345
Callet, a drab, iii. 209, 215, 217; xiii. 499; x. 501; craven, iii. 219
Calverd (salmon), xiv. 450
Camerade, comrade, xv. 213, 215
Camp, to wrangle, nag, ix. 251.
Can, knows, i. 7; to acknowledge, i. 147, 364
Can (thanks) to acknowledge, iii. 66
Can of Catowe, Khan of Cathay, i. 32
Canicular, xiv. 336
Cannibal, the venereal disease, xi. 247.
Canst, knowest, i. 261; v. 129
Cant, to sing, xiv. 356
Capric (wine), i. 24
Caracts, ships, xiv. 325
Carantoman, xiv. 300
Caraways, caraway comfits, ii. 300
Carbonadoe, vii. 505
Carcanet, necklace, bracelet, v. 261
Card (to cool), note, xiii. 505
Care, sorrow, i. 120, 250
Carefully, sorrowfully, ii. 318
Cargo, courage, ix. 533
Cargohai, note, xi. 421
Cark, care, i. 225
Carl, a churl, viii. 50; ix. 215
Carlishness, churlishness, xii. 311
Carouch, } Caroch, } a coach, x. 336; xi. 202
Carping, talking, i. 267
Carriage, behaviour, xi. 117
Carriages, deeds, xiv. 202
Carta blanca, a fool, xv. 72
Cartel, xv. 92
Cartiff, wretch, i. 29, 106
Case, "if case," if it be, iv. 123
Casques, helmets, v. 243
Cassock, a riding-coat, ix. 372
Cassy, Cassia, i. 366
Cast, sleight, ii. 113; to vomit, vii. 303; to contrive, x. 312; suppose, iii. 68, 90; cast off, x. 341
Casten, cast, xiv. 290
Casting, spitting, expectoration, xi. 43
Casting-bottle, note, xi. 339.
Cataclysm, deluge, xii. 468
Cat-a-mountain, a panther, xi. 67
Catch, a song, xv. 119
Catchpole, thief-catcher, i. 156; a policeman, x. 330
Catchpole-bribed = bribed to be a catchpole, viii. 118
Cater, caterer, xii. 122
Cates, dainties, xi. 486; xii. 25
Cat in the pan, iv. 41
Caul, xv. 90, note
Cautelous, cautious, xi. 15
Cautelously, cautiously, xv. 280
Cautility, deceit, iii. 284
Caveary, xii. 236
Caviare, ix. 366
Cazimi, the sun's centre, xi. 344
Cees, note, iv. 367
Censing, incensing, iii. 11
Censings, incensings, ii. 66
Ceremonious, religious, xi. 449
Certain, for certain, certainly, i. 32, 129
Certify, to assure, xiii. 81
Cha, I have, iii. 179
Chad, I had, iii. 75; viii. 362
Chafe, a chafing, anger, iv. 382; viii. 412
Chafen, to chafe, iii. 39
Chalk, "sin in chalk," xiii. 287
Chall, I will, iii. 182
Challenge, to claim, xi. 34
Cham, I am, iii. 175; viii. 338
Champion, a level field, vii. 282
Champion-haxter, xiv. 322
Channot, I cannot, iii. 195
Chap, jaw, iv. 353; vi. 389
Chapfallen gums, x. 339
Chapman, a dealer, merchant, xi. 183; xii. 158; xiv. 427
Char, business, job, turn of work, ii. 375
Char'd, done, iii. 375
Chargeable, expensive, xii. 101
Charger, a dish, xi. 339
Charity, St., i. 112
Charmer, enchanter, xii. 505
Chat, jaw, jangling, iii. 243
Chave, I have, iii. 178
Chawbon, jawbone, i. 424
Che, I, viii. 388
Cheap, bargain, i. 184
Cheapen, to buy, xi. 183, 190
Cheaping, market, i. 260
Cheard, I heard, iii. 205
Cheatee, one cheated, xi. 404
Check, to cheek, abuse, ii. 315, 347
Checks, reproofs, vii. 156
Cheerly, cheerfully, xi. 72
Cherry-pit, i. 246
Chests, chess, ix. 387
Chieve, to achieve, iii. 74
Chill, I will, iii. 184; iv. 219
Chirurgeon, surgeon, xi. 363
Chitterlings, iii. 310
Chittyface, having face like a chit, viii. 188.
Choose, to help, xi. 251
Chop logic, x. 126.
Chope, I hope, iii. 205
Chopines, high shoes, x. 367
Choploge, chop logic, iii. 101
Chops, jaws, xi. 67
Chrisom clethes, chrisom clothes, vi. 72
Christcross row, alphabet, vii. 324
Christen'd, baptized, i. 148
Chrysome, note, xiii. 280
Chuck (= chick), a term of endearment, ix. 499; xii. 214
Chud, I would, viii. 347
Chuff, a churl, viii. 367
Churchman, a parson, xii. 110
Chwas, I was, iii. 75; iv. 73
Chwere, I were, iii. 179
Chwine, I ween, iii. 75
Chwould, I would, iii. 177
Cinque, term in dancing, ii. 91
Cinque-pace, name of a dance, xi. 478
Clang, withered, i. 269
Clap dish, } Clapperjaw, } a chatterer, viii. 446; xi. 274
Clap hands, xi. 42
Cary (wine), i. 24
Clave, did cleave, i. 147
Claw, to scratch, x. 122
Clean, quite, altogether, i. 25, 213
Clear, quit, v. 379; clearness, vii. 118
Clenchpoop, a fool, vi. 256
Clepe, to call, i. 245
Cleped, called, i. 200; viii. 347, 394
Clept, called, vi. 515
Clerk, a scholar, i. 6, 7; iii. 190; a parson, xii. 112
Clerkish, learned, ii. 9
Clerks (St Nicholas'), thieves, xiii. 15
Cling, to embrace, xvi. 22; (?), x. 22.
Clip, to embrace, ii. 180; ix. 254; x. 173; xiii. 182
Clock, to cluck, ix. 480
Cloister, to imprison, xiv. 190
Close, secret, viii. 64; xi. 61
Closely, secretly, viii. 62; xi. 306
Closeness, secrecy, xiv. 213
Clotter'd, clotted, vii. 82
Cloudy, gloomy, xi. 485
Clout, to patch, i. 183; a patch, iii. 181; centre of a target, xi. 249; used contemptuously of clothes, xv. 114
Clouted, clothed, xi. 197
Clownical, clownish, xi. 237
Clubbish, blockish, ii. 192
Clutchfist, a miser, xii. 238
Clyppen, to call, xii. 241
Coals (to carry), to bear injury, viii. 417
Coat, escutcheon, viii. 296
Cobblestones, pebblestones, iii. 210
Cock, God, iii. 71
Cock and pie (by), an oath, v. 274
Cock's, God's, i. 155
Cockatrice, xiii. 500, note
Cocker'd, pampered, xi. 254
Cockerill, a little cock, a term of contempt, iv. 68
Cockering, indulgence, iii. 8
Cocking, cock-fighting, xi. 364
Cockle, vi. 46
Cockney, i. 403; a pet, viii. 360
Cocksure, x. 309
Cod's, God's, iv. 221
Coddled, xv. 216
Cog, to cheat, vi. 257; viii. 416; x. 497; to flatter, deceive, viii. 157; falsity, viii. 134
Cogfoist, a cheat, ix. 239
Cogging, cheating, ix. 238
Coggled, swallowed (?), ii. 215
Coifs, xi. 181
Coil, cuff, iii. 130; noise, iii. 124; x. 123
Coil'd, torn, iv. 232
Coistrell, viii. 339
Coll, name of a dog, iii. 8
Collar, "yeoman of the collar," prisoners' chains, i. 157
Collaud, to praise, xi. 235
Collet, part of a ring in which a stone is set, x. 18
Colloge, to talk, xi. 256
Collop, a slice, v. 334
Colphise, to beat, buffet, iv. 60
Come off, to pay dearly for, ix. 185
Comen, come, i. 202
Commandment, committal, vi. 488
Commendadore, xiii. 521
Commerce, intercourse, xiv. 198
Commix, to mix, i. 11, 12
Commodious (to), according (to), ii. 271; fit, proper, ii. 318
Commodity, interest, iii. 52
Common, to commune, vi. 33
Commutative, exchangeable, xv. 240
Compact, compacted, viii. 76
Companion, equal, fellow, vi. 179; x. 119
Compare, comparison, vii. 72; x. 119
Comparisons are odious, xiv. 147
Compass, to achieve, comprehend, xi. 435, 553; xv. 12
Compeer, equal, ii. 13
Complement, requisite, ix. 367
Complet, crown, vii. 241
Complexion, nature, i. 287; xv. 281
Complice, an accomplice, xiv. 305
Complot, a plot, x. 519
Comport, to bear, behave, xv. 25
Comportment, behaviour, xv. 89
Composition, terms, agreement, x. 208; xv. 226
Compound, compounded, i. 12
Con, to acknowledge, iii. 198; ix. 257
Conceit, thought, imagination, i. 7, 10; v. 409; x. 178
Conceive, to understand, xi. 562; think, conceive, viii. 82; xii. 101
Concent, adherent, iv. 147
Concerner, xiii. 210
Concernment, concern, xv. 10, 40, 45; importance, xiv. 217
Concertation, a meeting, i. 409
Concordance, agreement, xiii. 119
Concurrents, xv. 29
Conditions, terms, xv. 52
Conduct, a guide, xiv. 337
Conduyter, conductor, i. 126
Coney, a rabbit, a term of endearment, ii. 286; iii. 150
Coney-catching, xii. 125
Coneygreen, a rabbit-burrow, vii. 336
Congies, good-byes, x. 121
Congruence, i. 285
Conjoin, to unite, xii. 114.
Conjuration, adjuration, xiv. 240
Connant, covenant, i. 265
Conserve, to preserve, vii. 56.
Conserver, preserver, xiv. 135
Consiliadory, xiii. 108
Consort, concert, xii. 355
Content, contentment, xi. 452, 459
Contentation, contentment, iii. 290; xi. 526
Continent, chaste, x. 141
Contrivement, contrivance, xii. 214
Controlment, control, vii. 69
Controversy, litigation, xi. 467
Conveniency, convenience, xiv. 395, 506
Convenient, fit, ii. 302
Conversation, life, iii. 270
Converse, conversation, xi. 484
Convey, to put, place, xi. 484; steal, i. 159
Conveyance, theft, iii. 135, 136
Convince, to conquer, iii. 267; iv. 174
Convinced, convicted, vi. 94
Cope, to exchange vi. 331
Copesmate, companion, vi. 395; vii. 449; xiii. 30
Corner-cap, iii. 11
Cornute, a cuckold, x. 173
Corporal, corporeal, i. 12
Corregidor, xv. 203
Correspondent (to), according (to), iv. 12.
Corrigidor, v. 125
Corrival, a rival, xi. 100
Corse, body, iv. 341; corpse, i. 408
Corsive, corrosive, ix. 558
Coscinomancy, xi. 338
Cosenage, cheating, x. 276; xi. 80, 547
Cosener, a cheat, xi. 582
Cosmography, geography, i. 7, 10, 27
Cost, "do cost," i. 156; "not worth a cost" (cost = coss = curs), not worth a cress, i. 259
Costard, apple, ii. 119; pate, head, i. 168: iii. 121; vii. 167; x. 552; xiv. 164
Costermonger, an applemonger, xii. 340; xiii. 125
Costomable, usual, i. 312
Costreling, iii. 82
Cot, cottage, i. 30
Coted, ix. 149
Cothurnal, xiv. 183
Cotswold lion, sheep, iii. 137
Cotton, to agree, iv. 215; succeed, xi. 204
Couch, to crouch in fear, i. 84; to collocate, xi. 303
Couch-quarl, a game, i. 396
Counsel, secresy, iii. 199
Count, a reckoning, i. 103
Countenance, pretence, i. 65
Counter, a term in hunting, ix. 454.
Counter-check, to oppose, v. 45, 329; xiv. 115
Counter-checking, reproving, vii. 203
Counterfeit, likeness, iv. 376; vi. 565; vii. 466; xi. 562; to imitate, xiii. 127
Counterly, iv. 233
Counter-match, xi. 320
Counter-mine, xiv. 167
Counter-puff, a return blow, v. 243
Counter-scarp, ix. 362
Counter-vail, to make up for, balance, vi. 96; viii. 30; xii. 8, 41
Counterview, vi. 464
Counting-book, i. 105
County, count, vii. 23
Courage, devotion, i. 27
Court-martialist, xiii. 158
Coutelace, cutlass, v. 240
Covent, convent, i. 252; viii. 240
Coverture, covering; viii. 77; x. 178
Covet, to desire, i. 257
Covetise, covetousness, i. 100, 206; v. 184; viii. 77
Covin, deceit, xii. 284
Cowardish, cowardly, i. 401
Cowr, to bend, crouch, iii. 177
Cox, a coxcomb, iii. 250
Coy, to act coy, v. 47
Crack'd, bankrupt, xii. 167
Crackrope, a term of contempt, iv. 63
Crake, boast, i. 410, 430; ii. 385
Craker, a boaster, iv. 67
Cramping, xii. 255, note
Crazed, broken, iv. 337
Cream (holy), ii. 65
Create, created, i. 12, 54
Creature, Creator, i. 123, 263
Credit, to believe, x. 123
Creke, see crik, iv. 222
Cresset-light, vi. 450
Crevis, crawfish, iv. 118
Crik, "to cry crik," to be afraid, to desist, i. 399
Crinkled, shrunk, x. 339
Crishcross, alphabet, ix. 42
Crismatory, vi. 71.
Crispy, rippled, v. 229
Croak, a croaking, xii. 160
Croch, iii. 280
Crock, a pot, xii. 351
Crone, an old woman, xi. 105
Crotchets, devices, x. 366
Crouch-cross, ii. 65
Crowded, crowed, iii. 201
Crown'd cup, a bumper, xii. 39
Cruel (garters), (garters) of fine worsted, vii. 286
Crust, curst, ill-tempered, cross, ii. 179; crushed, iii. 242; a term of abuse, vi. 539
Crusty, angry, iv. 184
Cry aim, to consent, v. 225
Crystals, eyes, xiii. 55
Cuckally, cuckoldy, vi. 200
Cucking-stool, xii. 127, note
Cuckold, to make a cuckold of one, xi. 119
Cuckoldy, like a cuckold, xi. 110
Cuerpo, xiii. 278
Cues, note, iv. 367
Cullies, fine broths, ix. 366
Culling, thrashing, beating, iv. 120
Cullion, a base fellow, iii. 239
Cullon, cullion, ii. 305
Culm, top, iv. 313
Culver, a dove, x. 153
Culverings, x. 325
Cumber'd, troubled, i. 54, 101
Cumbrance, encumbrance, i. 256
Cunning, knowledge, learning, i. 7, 10; learned, i. 7
Cunningly, learnedly, i. 37
Curchy, to crouch, bend, iii. 272
Cure, care, i. 13, 294
Curmudgeonly, vi. 380
Curst, ill-tempered, angry, iii. 278; vii. 474
Cursy, courtesy, viii. 339
Curtain lectures, xiv. 303
Curtal horse, a short-tailed horse, iii. 210; viii. 124
Cusp, see note, xi. 344
Customage, freight, xii. 99
Cut, a short-tailed horse, a term of abuse, iii. 216; x. 224; xi. 69
Cut and long-tail, xiii. 84
Cuts, lots, xv. 130
Cutter, swaggerer, xiii. 16
Dad, father, x. 359
Daintrels, dainties, iii. 192
Dainty, rare, i. 365
Dalliance, gossip, i. 293, 355; iii. 167; xii. 240
Dally, vb. trs., vii. 134
Dallying, toying, xi. 58
Dam and brat, mother and child, viii. 284
Damn, "a damn-me," a swearer xi. 139
Dandiprat, dwarf, ix. 390
Danger, control, i. 54; power, iii. 62
Dangerous, suspicious, iii. 309
Dapper, spruce, smart, iv. 84; ix. 229
Darby's bands, ii. 362
Dare net, a net for frightening birds into, x. 149
Darkling, in the dark, iii. 105; vii. 339, 358
Daster, a dastard, i. 395
Date, end or term of life, vii. 90; viii. 465
Daubing, deceit, i. 159
Daw, a fool, i. 8; ii. 285
Dawcock, a fool, iv. 119
Day's eyes, daisies, viii. 31, 33
Daysman, an umpire, iii. 14
Dazzle, a dazzling array, xv. 116
Dealt, distributed, xi. 470
Debate, strife, i. 411; vi. 178
Deboshed, debauched, xiii 195; spoilt, xii. 512
Decard, to throw away a card, x. 187
Decay, ruin, i. 293
Deepness, depth, i. 18; ii. 263
Defail, to fail, x. 128
Defame, defamation, vii. 56, 376; x. 311; xii. 104
Defend, to forbid, iv. 143
Defendam, xv. 143
Deft, handy, dexterous, ix. 394
Defy, to deny, in. 228; refuse, viii. 199
Degenerous, degenerate, xii. 507
Deject, dejected, i. 101
Delayed, checked, i. 81; diluted, xiii. 114
Dele, whit, xii. 284; xv. 426
Delibate, to taste of, xiii. 468
Delicates, delicacies, ii. 220
Delices, delicacies, ix. 171
Deliver, active, viii. 197
Dell, deal, bit, part, i. 235
Delve, to dig, iii. 183
Demand, to ask, question, i. 85; vi. 80
Demanding, a request, i. 84
Demean, to behave, vii. 290
Demeaning, behaviour, i. 84
Demesnes, estates, ix. 473
Demi-assignation, xv. 61
Demi-culverings, x. 325
Demi-deity, demi-god, xiv. 74
Denay, to deny, refuse, i. 257; vii. 52, 330
Dent, dint, iv. 215
Deny, to refuse, vii. 298
Depardieu, by God, xii. 240
Depart, to separate, part, i. 129, 404; ii. 6; viii. 134; ix. 479
Deprave, to depreciate, defame, i. 32; iv. 257; viii. 64; xi. 119; xiii. 172
Dere, to injure, i. 252
Dern, secret, xii. 284, 311
Derogate, to detract from, xi. 479
Derogation, detraction, depreciation, xi. 499
Descant, a musical term, v. 218; ix. 407
Descried, discovered, vii. 344
Descrive, to describe, i. 32
Desertful, meritorious, viii. 186
Desertfully, meritoriously, viii. 132
Designments, designs, xiv. 147
Desperateness, despair, x. 149
Despite, "in despite of," in spite of, i. 132; vii. 153; to treat cruelly, vi. 150; spite, cruelty, xi. 478
Despiteful, cruel, spiteful, v. 22
Devoir, duty, ii. 231; x. 128
Dice, to lose by dice, xi. 94
Dicker, ten, "a dicker of hides," vii. 303; name of a coin, xv. 131
Dict, a saying, i. 54
Dight, prepared, arrayed, i. 24, 227, 252, 409; arraign (?), i. 274
Dighter, preparer, i. 422
Digne, worthy, xii. 242
Diligence, a spy, xv. 58
Ding'd, struck, v. 26
Dis, Pluto, x. 349
Disaster, disastrous, vii. 481
Disbowelled, disembowelled, vii. 83
Disburse, disbursement, x. 199
Discern'd, distinguished, xi. 481
Discommend, to dispraise, i. 343
Disconsonancy, unfitness,(?), xv. 125
Discurtain, xiv. 280
Disdain, to treat disdainfully, ii. 167
Disease, distress, trouble, i. 87; to trouble, disturb, i. 203; ii. 191
Disfeature, to deform, xiv. 291
Disgest, digest, vii. 310
Dishonest, to disgrace, ix. 258
Dishonurate, dishonourable, viii. 297
Dismissed, dispersed, xiv. 350
Disobediency, disobedience, xi. 464
Dispilled, spilled, i. 251
Disport, sport, i. 45; ii. 111
Dispose, disposal, vi. 556
Dispossess, to disinherit, xiv. 190
Disquietness, unrest, vii. 304
Disrank, to disarray, xi. 264
Disrelish, dislike, xiv. 314, 352
Dissard, } Dizard, } a fool, ii. 304; ix. 383
Dissemblance, a dissembling, ix. 285
Distain'd, stained, vii. 111, 1791
Distaste, displeasure, xi. 454; xiv. 242
Distemper, to disturb, vii. 64, 123; ill-temper, xi. 197; xiv. 206
Distemperature, distemper, ix. 453; x. 116
Distemper'd, unreasonable, x. 209
Distempering, viii. 113
Distinctiveness, power of distinguishing, xv. 22
Distraught, distracted, v. 113
Distressful, distressed, v. 68
Diversely, differently, i. 14
Divinity, divine institution, i. 133
Do, done, i. 156
Doat, to rave, be mad, iii. 211; to act the fool, xiv. 185
Doccy, doxy, a loose wench, i. 188
Dock, tail, i. 247, 425
Documents, teachings, ii. 50
Doff (= do off), a put-off, the cold shoulder (?), ix. 276
Dog's, God's, an oath, ii. 84
Dole, lot, iv. 21; allowance to poor, xi. 208; grief, vii. 205
Dolent, invalid, sufferer, i. 82
Doll, mistress, sweetheart, ii. 169
Dolour, pain, grief, i. 55, 119; ii. 314
Dolt, a fool, iii. 343
Dolted, acted-like a dolt, iii. 19
Doltish, foolish, ix. 440
Don, a lord, xiv. 285
Done, to do, xii. 257
Doom, judgment, "day of doom," i. 111
Dop, to dip, i. 318
Dossers, panniers, x. 224; a basket, xi. 43
Dotard, a fool, xii. 190
Dottrel, } Dotterel, } a fool, xiii. 43; xiv. 300, 319
Doubt, fear, i. 252, 256, 257; vii. 400
Doughty, doughtily, i. 252
Dowdy, a slattern, vii. 475
Down, a hill, i. 250
Down-flat, plain, xv. 140
Doxy, a whore, a loose wench, xiv. 281, 286, 291; xv. 68
Drab, a loose woman, a term of abuse, iii. 202
Draff, dregs, rubbish, i. 25
Drawlatch, a thief, ii. 222; xi. 249
Dreariment, dreariness, vii. 152
Drench, potion, drink, vii. 303
Drifts, devices, xii. 52
Drivel, slave, wretch, fool, i. 222; iv. 119
Drolling, droll (?), xiv. 278, 356
Dronel, a drone, iv. 151
Drumble, a sleepyhead, iv. 118
Drumsler, a drummer, v. 303
Drunk as a mouse, ii. 300
Duck, to make a salutation by bending the head, iii. 78; xiv. 125
Ducks and drakes, xi. 212; xii. 150
Dudgeon, a dagger, v. 271
Duello, a duel, xi. 44
Dulcet, sweet, iv. 143
Dulsome, sweet, ii. 297
Dump, the dumps, iii. 180
Dumps, iii. 87; xii. 214
Duns, writings of Duns Scotus, iii. 19; one versed in writings of, iii. 20; Duns Scotus, x. 57
Dup, to do up, iv. 69
Durance, a kind of cloth, vi. 344
Duretta, a kind of cloth, xiii. 222
Dust, a broil. "a doughty dust," ii. 390
Duteous, dutiful, vii. 400; xi. 452
Eachwhere, everywhere, vi. 88
Eanlings, lambs, ix. 480
Earst, first, iv. 12
Eaths, easily, v. 209
Ecstasy, xiii. 511, note
Eftsoons, soon again, forthwith, i. 11; ii. 246; vi. 47; ix. 355
Egg, to urge on, iv. 67
Eighths, octaves, xii. 507
Eild, to requite, iii. 240
Eke, also, i. 203; iv. 11
Eld, age, vii. 121
Eldeth, troubleth, i. 414
Elect, elected, i. 101
Election, choice, x. 131
Elemental, elementary, i. 11
Elfish, elf-like, i. 399
Embalming, using cosmetics, i. 60
Embas'd, dishonoured, v. 210
Embossed, a hunting term, xi. 406
Embowelled, embedded, vii. 275
Embracement, embrace, v. 208
Empery, empire, rule, v. 191, 233; xii. 520; xiv. 105
Enamoret, xi. 289
Endamage, to damage, viii. 76
Endark, to cause to be dark, i. 62
Endeavour, to try to bring about, x. 156
Endentus (=entendu), understood, iii. 263
Ends, "no ends of," xi. 547
Ene, one, vi. 72
Enfeoff, to endow, ix. 256
Enforcement, compulsion, ix. 506
Engeuder'd, produced, i. 11
Enginer, engineer, xi. 63
Engorged, disgorged, ix. 211
Engraven, engraved, iv. 296
Enlumine, to illumine, i. 126
Ennewed, painted, i. 62
Ensample, example, i. 70
Ensconced, hidden, xiii. 47, note
Ensuing, following, in. 264
Ensure, to assure, i. 62
Ensured, plighted, affianced, iii. 90
Enthronised, enthroned, xi. 485
Entituled, entitled, ii. 10
Entreat, entreaty, viii. 140
Entreative, ix. 341
Environ, all round, i. 6
Envy, hatred, x. 58; xiii. 355
Ephemeris, xi. 320
Epitaph, to write an epitaph, xii. 506
Epitheton, epithet, v. 266
Epythite, a beggar, ix. 527
Equivalence, an equivalent, vi. 96
Ere, before, i. 31
Eremite, a hermit, xii. 231
Erewhile, previously, formerly, i. 32; vii. 211
Errant, arrant, xi. 57
Erst, before, iv. 125
Eschew, to avoid, i. 89; xii. 24
Eschieved, achieved, gained, i. 77
Espied, discerned, i. 78
Essay, to try, i. 181
Essex man, a fool, xiv. 361, 467
Estate, state, i. 7
Estridge, an ostrich, xiv. 41
Eterne, eternal, i. 11
Eternised, made eternal, v. 234
Evenness, indifference, impartiality, xiv. 200
Ever-each, every, v. 242
Everichone, { Everychone, { every one, i. 38, 163 (the note is wrong)
Every deal, every whit, i. 33
Excuse, defence, ix. 494
Exigent, exigency, vi. 546; xiv. 325; xv. 78
Expectance, expectation, xi. 95; xiv. 365
Explicate, to explain, iv. 236
Expound, expounded, i. 37
Express, expression, xv. 332
Expression, a proverb, xii. 262
Expulsed, expelled, i. 59
Extinct, put out, i. 375
Extirp, to extirpate, v. 226
Extromers, astronomers, i. 78
Exulcerate, to form an ulcer, xiv. 362
Eyen, } Eyne, } eyes, i. 254; iii. 217; xii. 311
+Fable+, lie, i. 224; to lie, i. 29; cajole, i. 68; deceive, i. 199
Fabler, liar, x. 47
Fablyng, lying, i. 78
Face, pretence, iii. 17
Face-physick, a cosmetic, xi. 133
Faces about, changes, xiii. 463
Facts, deeds, in. 66; iv. 167
Fader, a father, xii. 99
Fadge, to go, proceed, succeed, vii. 418; x. 230; do, suit, x. 481
Fadock, faggot, vi. 77
Fagaries, vagaries, xiv 289
Fair, beauty, viii. 255
Fairings, viii. 225
Fall, to come, fall out, i. 852; cadence, ix. 406
Fall (the French), x. 122
Famine, hunger, vii. 64
Famish (to), ii. 217
Famishment, death by starving, viii. 319
Fand, found, ii. 15
Fantastic show, fancy (?), xii. 81
Fantasy, fancy, i. 7, 312
Far, for, vi. 71
Farcing, stuffing, ii. 236
Fardingale, ix. 426
Fare, to go, i. 251; "fare fore," to go before, xiii. 154; to play, ii. 115
Farfet, farfetched, xi. 401
Farforth, far, i. 207
Far-forth day, late in the day, ii. 312
Faring, playing at dice, ii. 115
Fat, to fatten, xii. 451; "to feed fat" = to fatten, xi. 515
Fatting, fattening, ix. 516
Faulted, faulty, x. 157
Favelle, flattery, i. 164
Favour, look, appearance, i. 78; x. 340
Favoured (ill), lookling, xi. 520
Fay, faith, i. 111, 133; iii. 113
Faynd, find, vi. 74
Fear, to terrify
Feard, terrified, i. 83
Feat, neat, i. 62
Featly, neatly, i. 266; ii. 375
Fea'ty, fealty, fidelity, i. 54, 173
Feebled, enfeebled, x. 117
Fegary, vagary, trick, x. 366
Fell, cruel, fierce, i. 252; v. 36; xi. 556; skin i. 78
Fellness, fierceness, iv. 323
Felt, felt hats, xi. 268
Feofee, xii. 33
Ferdegew, iii. 92
Fere, "in fere," in company, i. 247
Feres, a-do, i. 168
Ferk, to urge on, hasten, x. 254
Fescennine, note, xii. 312
Festination, haste, iv. 216
Fet, to perform (?), ii. 384; to fetch, i. 43, 83; fetched, i. 381; vii. 165
Fetch, a trick, ii. 309; xii. 79
Fete, feet, i. 31
Fetting, fetching, ii. 234
Feutred, equipped, i. 376
Fewl, foul, xii. 507
Fib, a liar, ii. 254
Fierse, verse, vii. 190
Fifteens, x. 299
Figary, vagary, xiii. 166
File, to defile, ii. 216; iv. 110; ix. 511
Filed, flattering, iv. 102
Filth, a term of abuse, iii. 244
Finden, to find, ix. 119
Fined, refined, iii. 363
Fines, defines, ii. 80
Fire-drake, viii. 168; will-o'-the-wisp, ix. 572
Firk, to cheat, trick, xiv. 391; x. 291, 292, 328
Firk'd, beaten, iv. 64
Firker, a cheat, xii. 165
Firmable, firm, vi. 282
Fisher, a fisherman, iv. 164; xii. 115
Fish-hooks, ii. 378
Fit, air (in music), i. 246; song, iii. 92; to suit, xi. 456
Fivepence, "as fine as fivepence," iv. 118
Flags, a term used in falconry, xi. 341
Flanting, flaunting, xiii. 150
Flap-dragon, xiii. 44
Flashy, fiery, iv. 149
Flat, plain, plainly, iii. 19, 20; xi. 304; xiv. 398, 399
Flatcap, a term of abuse, xi. 152
Flative, flatulent, ix. 454
Flaw, a blast, vii. 149
Flayn, flayed, i. 416
Flecken, spotted, xii. 241
Fleet, to skim, viii. 443
Flet (=fleeth), flee ye, xii. 287
Fletcher, an arrow-maker, xiii. 40
Flicker, to flutter, xii. 477
Flim-flam, a flam, ii. 335
Flinch, to shrink, xii. 259
Flincher, a coward, xi. 470, 491
Flit, to depart, iv. 336; ix. 124
Flout, to scoff, mock, iv. 119; xi. 39; xii. 313; xiv. 190; a scoff, mock, x. 523
Flush, ii. 78
Fly-flops, xii. 331
Fode, person, i. 243, 247
Foggy, flabby, viii. 371
Foil (of a jewel), vii. 288; a defeat, iv. 322; to defeat, iv. 332
Foils, set-offs, xiii. 148
Foin, thrust, push, ii. 389, 392; to fence, xii. 285
Foist, to cheat, xi. 67; a cheat, deception, vi. 257; xiv. 359
Fold, bend, i. 135
Folt, a fool, ii. 304
Fond, foolish, iv. 125; x. 192; xi. 129
Fondly, foolish, vii. 63
Fondness, folly, iv. 55; xii. 8
Fong, to take, i. 257, 259
Fool, a term of endearment, i. 71, 72
For, by, i. 85; from, i. 135
Forbode, prohibition, "God's forebode" = God forbid, i. 68; forbidden, i. 212, 226; forbad, i. 285
Force, to care, i. 34; iii. 39; matter, worth, i. 8, 47; iii. 129; "of force," necessarily, iii. 255; iv. 19; vii. 503
Forceth, it matters, i. 214
Fordoth, ruins, i. 68
Fordull, very dull, ii. 368
Fore, before, i. 343
Foredulled, very dull, vii. 32
Forefend, to defend, iv. 377; to forbid, vii. 18
Foreflow, xiv. 287
Forepassed, overpassed, ii. 386; xi. 475
Forespoken, bewitched, vii. 465
Forethink, to repent, ii. 6
Foretop, forelock, xiv. 311
Foreween, to think of beforehand, iv. 302
Forfeit, forfeited, x. 196
Forfend, to forbid, vii. 168, 411; x. 255
Forge, to frame, mould, i. 84
Forged, fabricated, iv. 102
Forked crest, xiv. 140
Forlet, to stop, iv. 152
Forlore, } Forlorn, } ruined, lost, i. 147, 172, 269
Formosity, beauty, iv. 111
Forne, before, ix. 104
Forsworn, perjured, xiii. 148
Forth, out, from, ix. 564; xii. 174; xi. 485
Fortitude, an astrological term, xi. 319
Fortunates, an astrological term, xi. 319
Fortune, to happen, ii. 111
Foster, fosterer, iv. 143
Foulter, to falter, iv. 314, 327
Found, kept, supported, i. 244
Fox, a sword, vii. 318; xiv. 387; to intoxicate, xiii. 28
Foxed, drunk, xi. 448, 524
Foyson, plenty, xi. 380
Frame, to put, iii. 21; to turn out will, iii. 70; to try, iv. 190; xi. 12; the gallows, i. 158
Franion, a loose fellow, iv. 60; vi. 179
Frappet, a pet, ix. 548
Fraudful, fraudulent, v. 363
Fraught, laden, xi. 471
Fraughtage, freight, xii. 141
Fraughted, freighted, xiv. 353; laden, viii. 337
Fray, affray, fight, i. 41; to terrify, iii. 131; vii. 313; to scare, x. 412
Frayd, terrified, v. 201
Frea, from, vi. 71
Free, destitute of money, iii. 347
Freedom, generosity, i. 84
Freely, nobly, i. 244
Fremman, a stranger, ii. 210
French hood, iii. 28
Frere, friar, i. 155, 200; brother, i. 188
Fright, to frighten, viii. 389
Friscols, friskings, ii. 367, 384
Friskas, friskings, i. 44
Friskin, friskingly, xiv. 125
Fro, from, i. 185
Frolic (to) v. 15; viii. 158
Frolicsome, vii. 173
Front, face, xiv. 42
Frontisterion, entrance to a house, xi. 310
Frontless, xiv. 284
Froutlet, forehead, i. 350
Frounced, iv. 321
Frumping, frumpy, xi. 104
Fucus, xiv. 290; paint used as a cosmetic, x. 274
Fullam, note, xii. 124
Fume, passion, xii. 423
Fumishness, anger, i. 400
Furbish, to clean clothes, ix. 553
Furmenty, frumenty, ix. 155
Furnycard, ii. 78
Furth, forth, ii. 46
Fustigation, xv. 32
Ga, gave, iii. 193
Gaberdine, a long frock, xiv. 125
Gaffer, godfather, vi. 399
Gage, pledge, iii. 233; vi. 311
Gaged, gauged, i. 148
Gagtooth, a large tooth, viii. 119
Gainful, advantageous, viii. 35; xi. 547; meritorious, xiv. 117
Gallant, to act the gallant, x. 125
Galley-foist, a pleasure-boat, xiv. 385
Galliard, a dance, ii. 117, 372
Gallon, gallant, viii. 344
Gallow-tree, the gallows, ii. 15; viii. 189
Gallymawfries, cowards (properly a dish of remnants), xii. 166
Gambawds, gambols, i. 44
Gan, did, xii. 242
Gang, to go, xii. 257
Gape, to desire, iv. 353; ix. 519
Gar, to cause, mate, vi. 70; xii. 507; to force, x. 363
Gard, welt, vii. 213
Garded, laced, xi. 366
Garden-house, x. 135
Garden-plot, v. 155
Gardings, trimmings of a dress, x. 121
Garish, gay, fine, x. 199
Gash, tear in a garment, iii. 176
Gauding, toying, iii. 109
Gaudish, gaudy, i. 286
Gaurdon, reward, recompense, i. 206
Gauds, gauderies, x. 175; gaudy toys, iv. 130
Gazet, name of a coin, xv. 128
Gear, matter, business, ii. 302; xi. 204; costume, iii. 28
Geason, scarce, ii. 319; iv. 138; vii. 130
Gelt, gelded, xiv. 396
Generate, generated, i. 13
Genman, a gentleman, iii. 160
Gentle, gentle hearer, iv. 396; noble, i. 81, 147
Gergon, jargon, talk, xii. 241
German clock, xii. 231
Gewgaw, xiv. 291
Gib, a term of contempt, iii. 215
Gibb'd, castrated, xiii. 31
Gibe, to taunt, iv. 330; to mock, viii. 365
Gibridge, gibberish, viii. 75
Gif, if, vi. 75; xii. 507
Gimmal, a ring, ix. 372
Gin, a snare, xii. 232; a trick, xii. 242; a wire trap, xi. 134; contrivance, i. 246
Gin, to begin, x. 338; do, xii. 507
Ging, a gang, viii. 145
Gingerly, delicately, i. 147; mincingly, ii. 22.
Gi'r (= give her), iii. 217
Gird, "at a gird," in a trice, ii. 331; to strike, i. 429
Girl, a roebuck two years old, ix. 148
Gis, Jesus, ii. 129; iii. 225
Gittern, iii. 87; ix. 444; xv. 114
Give aim, to incite, x. 85
Glad, to gladden, xi. 516
Glassing (= glassen), of glass, i. 62
Glave, x. 358; a sword, ix. 362; xii. 477
Glay, a dirty wench, iii. 176
Gleek, three, xi. 217, 364; a term used in card-playing, xi. 395
Gleering, leering, ix. 191
Glister, to glitter, to shine, i. 252; xi, 432, 485; x. 218
Gloming, lowering, iii. 59
Glooming, sultriness, iii. 220
Glorify, to boast, i. 68
Glose, to flatter, i. 7; gloss, iii. 12
Gloser, a flatterer, iii. 224; liar, iii. 43
Glosing, flattering, vii. 165
Gloss, to glose, i. 199
Glossing, commenting, iii. 198
Glustering, glistering, xii. 351
Go-by, "a go-by," xv. 17
Go forth, to proceed, i. 17
Go prig, x. 288
Gob, mouthful, x. 273
God-a-marsy, God of mercy, iii. 313
God-a-mercy, xi. 452
God Mary mother, marry! vii. 405, 489
God's dear holy bread, viii. 267
God's Mary, marry! vii. 472
God's nigs, an oath, xiv. 422
God's so (=God's sonties), God's sanctities, xiv. 145
Gog, "on gog," agog, iv. 302
Gog's, God's, i. 20, 42
Gog's nails, an oath, i. 41
Gold the nerves of war, xii. 61
Goliardis, a buffoon; note, xii. 240
Goll, hand, fist, x. 92, 357
Golpol, a term of endearment, ii. 260
Good, goods, i. 152
Goodden, good even, x. 544
Gooseling, a gosling, xiv. 356
Gorbelly, a glutton, ix. 434
Gorboil, turmoil, x. 287
Goreblood, gore, ii. 273
Gorget, xiv. 464
Gorse, furze, v. 190
Goss, i. 232, 233; iii. 113
Gostly, spiritual, xv. 420
Got, begotten, i. 107
Governance, control, i. 150, 164
Government, control, x. 122
Gracious, graceful, ix. 342
Graff, graft, ii. 173; to graft, iii. 58
Gramercy, great thanks, i. 250; ix. 192
Grandsire, great (?), iv. 130
Grannam, ix. 251; grandmother, grand-dame, xii. 329
Grate, viii. 241
Graved, troubled (?), iv. 143; buried, ix. 124
Gravel, to sand, x. 21
Gravelled, xiv. 204
Gredaline, pucker'd, xiv. 418
Greedy, greed, iv. 193; "greedy fates," iv. 302
Grenning, gnashing, iv. 323
Grief, ill-will, grievance, iii. 153
Gripe, to grasp, iii. 273; vulture, vii. 60; to pinch, xi. 63
Griping, a grasp, xii. 231
Grisly, dreadful, i. 252; iv. 302; horrible, xii. 25, 502
Gristless, without muscle, viii. 278
Gromaly-seed, gromuiell seed, i. 422
Groom, man, i. 252; iv. 283; ix. 128
Grope, to search, iii. 184, iv. 176, 216
Gross, coarse, ii. 212
Ground, a musical term, ix. 338
Grutch, to grudge, murmur, to grumble, i. 63; iii. 133
Gude, good, vi. 71
Guerdon, a reward, iv. 337; vii. 122; ix. 448; xii. 311, 476
Guerdonless, rewardless, viii. 343
Guess, to deem, i. 57; a guest, viii. 180
Guid, guide, iv. 137
Guider, a guide, i. 172
Guise, mode, way, fashion, i. 73; ii. 260, 312
Gulch, a pool, ix. 452
Gumm'd, dimmed, v. 132
Gush, to weep, xi. 30
Guzzle, throat, xii. 349
Gyre, a circle, ix. 358
Gyve, a fetter, i. 170, 171; vii. 79
Gyved, fettered, i. 156
Habergeon, } Habergin, } a small coat-of-mail, i. 149, 399, 400
Hadiwist, had I known, vain after regret, vi. 457; vii. 356
Haggard, a wild hawk, v. 36; ix. 379; xiii. 161; xiv. 344
Halcyon, favourable, ii. 99
Hale, to drag, iv. 139; xiv. 479
Half-acre (not halse acre), iii. 178
Half-god, a demi-god, x. 127
Halidom, an oath; properly sacred relics, the sacrament, vii. 467
Hally, holy, vi. 71
Halse, neck, iii. 240
Han, have, vi. 71
Handkercher, handkerchief, iv. 140
Handle, to treat, iv. 63
Handling, treatment, i. 2 7
Handsel, earnest-money, xii. 335; to handsel, viii. 426
Handwork, handiwork, i. 250
Handy, hand to hand, v. 13
Hanker, to hang, ix. 379
Hap, to happen, i. 81; v. 111; x. 183; xi. 456; fortune, ii. 393
Happiless, unhappy, xi. 144
Happily, perhaps, xiii. 362
Harborough, { Harborow, { harbour, i. 228; vii. 85
Hardness, hardship, i. 298
Harecop, a hair-brained fellow, iv. 73
Harlot, a (low) fellow, i. 253
Harlotry, obscene, viii. 351
Harness, armour, iv. 329
Harnessed, equipped, i. 395; iv. 176
Harri'd, abused, x. 27
Harrow, note, xii. 253
Hasp, a fastening, ii 338; to embrace, x. 66
Hatch, a wicket-gate, vi. 535
Haught, haughty, v. 230; viii. 132; xiv. 442
Haunt, to frequent, i. 134; practise, i. 249
Hauster, note, viii. 444
Haviour, behaviour, x. 35; xi. 452
Haxter, xiv. 282
Hay, hedge, i. 401; a net for catching rabbits, vii. 341
Haydegyve, a kind of dance, xii. 507
Hazard, risk, xv. 225; game, ii. 34; plot of a tennis-court, ix. 381
Haze, note, iii. 110
He, one, iv. 357
He and she, man and woman, xiv. 443
Heal, salvation, i. 199, 212
Heale, xv. 425
Heart of grace, courage, xii. 212
Heats, "ride his heats," xv. 129
Hedgecreeper, a term of contempt, ii. 251
Heightening, aggravation, xv. 92
Heildom, properly "health," but here seems a corruption of "hilding," a caitiff, slave, xiii. 43
Heir, an heiress, ix. 535
Hele, health, salvation, i. 129
Helic, a term in astrology, xi. 336
Helm, helmet, i. 149
Helter-skelter, to waste, vii. 436
Hem, to clear the throat, iv. 69; talkative, i. 74
Hemuse, a roebuck of three years old, ix. 148
Hend, courteous, i. 250
Heng, to hang, i. 134
Hent, to seize, xii. 311
Herber, arbour, ii. 46
Heritor, inheritor, ii. 8
Herme, harm, xii. 311
Heronsew, ii. 282
Herry, to harry, i. 30
Hest, behest, command, vii., 18; xi. 99
Hey-pass, a term in legerdemain, x. 306
Hey troly lolly, i. 20.
Hidder, hither, xii. 507
High, "a high," loudly, i. 23; aloud, i. 33
Highmen and lowmen, xii. 243, note
Hight, } Highteth, } is called, i. 56; xii. 241, 253
Hind, a peasant, xii. 224
Hing, to hang, i. 274
Hire, to reward, i. 364; a reward, vii. 59; viii. 360
His, its, i. 12
His noun, his own, viii. 76
Ho, bounds, ix. 390
Hoart, hurt, xii. 253
Hobby (hawk), ix. 379
Hobil, a term of abuse, iii. 103
Hoddypeak, } Hoddypeke, } Hodypeak, } Huddypeke, } a fool, a term of contempt, i. 42; ii. 164, 211; iii. 217
Hodmandod, a snail, a term of abuse, xiv. 525
Hoise, to hoist, iii. 34, 218
Hold, to bet, ii. 275
Hold bias, xii. 280
Holes (nine), iii. 9
Holidam. See Halidom, iv. 219, 244
Hollen, of holly, i. 49
Holp, helped, i. 85, 191
Holt, wood, grove, i. 148
Holy, holly, wholly, i. 359
Honesty, honest people, iii. 228
Honor, credit, reputation, iv. 98, 185
Hope, to expect, xii. 132
Hop-holiday, ii. 379
Horrid, bristling, xi. 527
Hostelity, hospitality, v. 398
Hot, did hit, vii. 276
Hotchpotch, a pudding, ix. 183
Hoten, xii. called, 255
Hough, to hamstring, ix. 457; xiv. 164
Hound-fish, dog-fish, xii. 241
Hoved, abode, i. 178
How, who, xiv. 458
Howlet, an owl, iii. 87
Hucklebone, iii. 180
Hud, to hood(?), xi. 353
Huddle, thick, ix. 269
Huff, } an exclamation, i. 20, 188; ii. 13 Huffa, }
Huff, anger, vii. 311
Hugeously, much, xii. 276
Huggermugger, in secret, viii. 84; x. 91
Hugy, huge, v. 106
Humblesse, humility, viii. 166
Humorist, a madman, ix. 17
Humorous, fanciful, capricious, ill tempered, v. 31; vii. 433; xiv. 296
Hundreth, a hundred, vii. 278
Husbanded, economised, xi. 355
Husbandry, economy, iii. 16; v. 189; xi. 63
Hussy, housewife, xiv. 331
Huswife, huzzy, vii. 250; applied to a man, vii. 303(?)
Hydroptic, xiv. 288
Hyghten, } called, i. 129, 275; xii. 254 Hyght, }
Ibroken, broken, i. 49
Ich, I, i. 73; ii. 169; iii. 175
Icha, I have, iii. 227
Ichotte, I wot, I know, iii. 75
Iclipped, called, v. 363
I-dight, prepared, i. 243
Ield, to reward, iii. 75
Ifare, to go, v. 395
Ilk, same, i. 264; each, vi. 71
Ilkwhare, everywhere, vi. 71
Illicentiate, not lawfully licensed, xiv. 283
Ill-mutton, a strumpet, xi. 43
Ill-part, malapert(?), viii. 250
Illumine, to illuminate, i. vi.
Illustrate, to make illustrious, xv. 229
Immeriting, undeserving, xiv. 307
Imp, to graft, xi. 346
Impale, to surround with pall(?), vii. 112
Impal'd, surrounded, viii. 165
Imp'd, xii. 530.
Impede, impediment, xiv. 362
Impoisoned, poisoned, viii. 38
Impoisoning, poisoning, xi. 566
Import, importance, vii. 471; to concern, xv. 23
Imports, is necessary, xv. 102
Importune, importunate, i. 54; to be importunate, xi. 109
Impossible, impossibility, i. 152
Imposthumes, boils, i. 66
Impostume, a boil, xi. 343
Impostur'd, deceived, xiv. 352
Imprese, impress, xiv. 293
Imprinted, printed, i. 7
Imps, scions, xii. 450
Impudency, impudence, ix. 191; x. 31.
Incertain, uncertain, vii. 195
Incomposed, indisposed, xiv. 198
Incontinent, forthwith, i. 48
Inconveniency, inconvenience, xi. 442
Indeniz'd, one made free, xii. 472
Indent (to), ii. 213
Indifferent, impartial, i. 415; v. 405
Indifferently, impartially, viii. 32
Indite, to compose (ballads), i. 7
Indulgency, xiii. 466
Infect, infected, i. 302
Inferial, below, mundane, i. 9
Influence (of the stars), i. 11; vii. 63; xii. 339
Ingenious, ingenuous, 13, 53
Ingeniously, ingenuously, xiv. 281
Ingram, ignorant, vi. 397
Inis, I am not, xii. 287
Inkhorn, pedantic, viii. 70
Inquisition, inquiry, xiii. 156
Insame, together, i. 245, 247
Insculp'd, engraved, xii. 202
Insculption, inscription, x. 12
Insensate, without feeling, i. 12
Insensitive, irrational, xi. 144
Insidiate, to plot, xii. 605
Insolency, insolence, xiv. 200
Insort, to distribute, vii. 425
Inspire, to breathe into, xiv. 105
Insufferable, unbearable, x. 194
Insurance, affiance, iii. 136
Insure, to assure, iv. 220
Intea, into, vi. 71
Intellection, knowledge, i. 124; understanding, ii. 263
Intellective, intellectual, i. 12
Intelligence, watch, spying, x. 174; a spy, xi. 337
Intelligencer, a spy, informer, xi. 319, 554
Intelliment, meaning, i. 421
Intemperance, lust, viii. 303
Intend, to pretend, ii. 369
Intendiment, intention, x. 129
Intending, intention, i. 63
Intendment, intention, viii. 454
Intendments, intentions, xiv. 117
Intent, intention, xi. 455; purpose, xi. 465
Intentive, attentive, vii. 172
Intermete, intermeddle, xii. 286
Inter-parley, vii. 186
Interrogative, a question, xi. 279
Intreat, to treat, i. 237
Invective, abusive, viii. 75
Inversation, i. 268
Invocate, invoke, xv. 210
Inward, intimate, x. 38, 305, 434
Ipocras (wine), xi. 194
Ireful, angry, i. 81
Irked, irksome, ix. 176
Irremeable, having no way of return, xi. 567
Ise, I will, iii. 218
Ish, I will, i. 231, 232
Issue, outlet, xv. 88
I-the, to prosper, i. 155
I-wis, truly, i. 42; xii. 240
I-wiss, truly, i. 14
Jack, jacket, xi. 138
Jack-a-lent, xi. 262
Jack of beer, vii. 218
Jacksnipe, xiv. 450
Jack sprat, ii. 357
Jade, a strumpet, vi. 257
Jadishly, like a jade, xiv. 285
Jakes, a privy, x. 339
Jangler, a babbler, ix. 397; jester, xii. 240
Janty, jaunty, xiv. 401, 506
Jape, jest, trick, iii. 245; viii. 389
Japed, deceived, i. 171
Javel, a fool, iv. 150
Jawled, nagged, ix. 252
Jaxes, privies, ii. 276
Jealous, suspicious, xiii. 424
Jeltron, shelter, shield, i. 149
Jeopard (to), risk, i. 412; ii. 252; to lay a bet, iii. 309
Jeopardous, hazardous, i. 185
Jerted, jerked, viii. 52
Jerts, jerks, ii. 194
Jest, deed, vii. 186; part played in a mask, viii. 114
Jet, to go, strut, i. 356, 384; xiv. 176, 181
Jetter, strutter, i. 164, 384
Jetting, strutting, iii. 108; vii. 191
Jis, Jesus, i. 168
Jobbed, struck, i. 442
Jobbernole, pate (?), viii. 446
Job-nut, xiv. 306
Jockey, Jack, xii. 156
Jollity, i. 164
Jolly-tiraber'd, finely-built, vii. 145
Jouissauce, joy, vii. 192, 493
Joust, i. 74
Joyen, to rejoice, i. 249
Joying, rejoicing, joy, ii. 297, 320
Jug, a strumpet, iv. 183; mistress, vi. 511; viii. 409; term of endearment, xii. 115
Jumbler, a strumpet, x. 111
Juments, beasts of burden, xii. 234
Jump, exactly, iv. 366; to agree, viii. 430; x. 184; to eke, xiii. 63
Jump'd, agreed, xiv. 248
Justicer, a judge, xiii. 462
Jut, a jostle, iii. 102
Jutty, to jut, iv. 121
Keep, care, i. 202; ii. 233
Keep touch, x. 9
Keisar, emperor, ix. 202
Kembeth, combs, xii. 242
Kembs, combs, xii. 463
Kempt, combed, i. 376
Ken, to show, teach, i. 273; to thank, iv. 61
Kercher, covering for head, xiv. 464
Kerchief, a covering for the head, i. 429
Kern, an Irish soldier, iv. 308
Kest, cast, i. 179
Kestrel, a hawk, ix. 111
Kex, hemlock, ix. 534; xiv. 309
Kickshaws (for bashaw), xii. 280
Kind, nature, i. 113; iii. 312; natural, i. 245; "of kind," naturally, i. 246; iii. 210
Kit, a musical instrument, i. 48
Killing, a kitten, x. 349
Kit-strings, strings for the kit or fiddle, xii. 220
Knack, trick, ii. 214
Knacking (to be), iv. 121
Knacks, knick-knacks, i. 349; viii. 157
Knap, blow, i. 422; to knock, i. 428
Kneve, knave, viii. 122
Knit, bound, united, xi. 473; xiv. 153
Knocked bread, i. 405
Knotted (read netted), cut, ii. 135
Knottle, knotted, iii. 333
Knowing, knowledge, i. 249
Knowledge, to acknowledge, i. 293
Knowlition, knowledge, i. 89
Ko, quote, iii. 103
Kock's nowns, God's wounds (an oath), iii. 79
Koss, kiss, iii. 75
Lack, like, vi. 71
Lacquey, to act as lacquey, xiv. 111
Lad, led, i. 160
Lade, load, i. 31
Ladyfied, made a lady, x. 321
Ladyware, genital organs, v. 345
Laft, left, i. 28, 68
Lag, late, ii. 252; to linger, x. 48
Laken (=lady-kin), the Virgin Mary, x. 497
Lamback, to beat, vi. 204
Lambeak or Lamback, to strike, viii. 305
Lambswool, ix. 424
Lanard, ix. 379
Lance presado, the leader of a half file of soldiers, xiv. 328
Landskip, landscape, x. 178; xiv. 300; xv. 116
Lang, long, vi. 73
Lap-clap, to embrace, ix, 252
Larum, alarm, iv. 320; xiii. 110
Lash, snare, vi. 254
Lass, less, i. 256
Late, lately, i. 6
Lathe, barn, xii. 507
Latten, brass, ix. 393
Laud, to praise, i. 131; praise, i. 54, 397
Laundress, a woman employed at an Inns-of-Court, x. 275; xiii. 231
Lave, long, ix. 304
Laverock, lark, i. 425
Lavolta, a dance, ix. 408.
Lavoltoe, xiv. 111
Lawless, illegal, ix. 74
Lay (= waylay), xiii. 253
Layk, like, vi. 76
Lay out, "put out to interest" xi. 363
Laytell, little, vi. 72
Lazars, lepers, viii. 70
Lead, a caldron, iii. 231
Leady, heavy, i. 85
Lease, a leash, iii. 355
Leech, surgeon, i. 168; physician, x. 115
Lefe, dear, xii. 288
Leg, a bow, xiv. 443.
Leger wafers, xii. 334
Leman, a sweetheart, concubine, mistress, ii. 20; iv. 143; note, xiii. 497; xiv. 296
Leme, gleam, i. 64
Lemen, laymen, vi. 71
Lenger, longer, i. 29, 103
Lenity, softness, v. 388
Lese, to lose, i. 74, 83, 156; iv. 194
Lesing, leasing, falsehood, i. 119; i. 159
Lest, list, i. 247; please, i. 80
Let, hindrance, i. 347, 351; x. 150; to hinder, ii. 7, 387; iv. 93; to refrain, i. 252
Leteth, let (imperative), xii. 286
Leve, dear, iii. 208
Lewd, foolish, xiii. 442; ignorant, i. 35, 36
Lewdness, ignorance, i. 270; iv. 121
Lewt, a lout, i. 255
Libbard, leopard, xiv. 325
Libbards, leopards, xiii. 282
Liberal, licentious, v. 136
Liberally, licentiously, xi. 194
Lie, urine, x. 340
Lie at ward, a fencing term, viii. 149
Lief, soon, i. 20
Lieger, vii. 417; ledger, resident, xiii. 271
Liever, sooner, i. 35
Life-vein, life's vein, i. 152
Lift, a term used in card playing, x. 186
Lig, to lie, xii. 257
Ligg, lie, xii. 507
Light, easy, i. 25; "by this light," an oath, i. 33; x. 298
Light-a-love, vii. 296
Light-bolt, lightning-bolt, xi. 312
Lighted, lightened, i. 126
Light-fingered, ii. 167
Lightly, easily, vii. 304
Lightness, levity, ii. 318
Light-skirt, a woman of light reputation, ix. 127
Like, to please, i. 31, 137; ii. 213; xi. 225, 499; likely, i. 88
Likelihood, likeness, i. 55; probability xi. 15
Liking, pleasure, i. 80, 247, 269; xii. 378
Lilburn, a term of abuse, iii. 103
Limber, pliant, x. 363
Lim'd, snared, v. 80
Lin, to cease, ii. 116; viii. 447
Lind, to lend, i. 255
Lindabrides, a strumpet; note, xiv. 478
Lines, lineages, xii. 251
Linger, to prolong (?), viii. 440
Linstock, a stick with a match at the end, used by gunners, xiv. 141
Lip-clip, to kiss, ix. 252
Liripup, art, craft, iii. 322
List, pleasure, i. 24, 29; please, i. 79; xi. 487; pleases, iv. 15
Lither, bad, iii. 250; vii. 418
Livelihood, liveliness (?), x. 185
Lively, lifelike, xi. 514
Livery, to sue, to recover property, ix. 482
Living-giver, a master, xi. 465
Loadam (=lodam), a game at cards, ix. 101
Loading, laden, xiv. 248
Loathful, hateful, distasteful, i. 111
Loave-ears, long-ears, xiv. 321
Lob, term of contempt, ii. 221; fool, lout, iii. 272; viii. 448
Lobbish, blockish, iii. 268
Lobcock, a fool, iv. 75; foolish, ix. 241
Lobcocked, ix. 288
Lob's pound, a snare, xv. 32
Lock and hasp, ii. 338
Lode, leading, i. 50
Lode star, leading star, v. 103
Loggerhead, a blockhead, x. 478
Loggerheaded, blockhead, vi. 177
Logheaded, blockhead, iv. 65
Lombard, banker, i. 266
Long, to belong, i. 255; a long time, i. 149
Long coat, a nurse, xi. 464
Long of, on account of, ii. 300
Loose, purge, xv. 316
Loover, opening in the roof, sky-light, viii. 320; xi. 105
Lope, to run, vi. 70
Lore, learning, i. 60; lost, i. 413; to teach, xii. 241
Lorn, lost, i. 271
Losel, a loose, worthless fellow, iii. 128, 218; good for nothing, viii. 341
Loselled, losel, worthless (?), ix. 288
Losopher, a philosopher, i. 40
Losophy, philosophy, i. 42
Lout, iii. 103
Loud and still, openly and secretly, i. 269
Lough, to low, xii. 507
Lour, to look sad, ii. 290
Louse (to), to pick of lice, viii. 69
Louser, a catcher of lice, iv. 118
Lousious, luscious, iv. 73
Loute, to bow, xii. 507
Louted, treated as a loutish stupid, iii. 97
Loutishness, stupidity, iii. 117
Love-longing, i. 247
Love's dance, i. 156
Loving, love, iv. 15
Low, to allow, iii. 136
Loy, St, ii. 117
Lozel, a worthless fellow, vii. 155
Lub, love, iii. 67
Lug, to pull, drag by the ear, i. 231; ix. 304
Lugs, the ears, ix. 215
Luke, look, vi. 73
Lull, to seize by the ear (?), ii. 211
Lulling, iv. 120
Lumperdy-clumperdy, iii. 92
Lumpish, dull, xii. 212
Lungis, a lubber, viii. 53
Lurden, a term of reproach, i. 76; a lout, ix. 289
Lusk, sluggard, ix. 462
Luskish, slow, viii. 370
Lust, to please, i. 292; iii. 102; to desire, ii. 119
Lusty, pleasant, i. 48
Luxur, a lecher, x. 8
Lycand, pleasing, xii. 254
Lytherly, bad, xii. 241
Maculate, to spot, soil, i. 225
Mad, to madden, x. 169
Madding, mad, v. 185
Maddle-coddle, foolish, vi. 391
Made, "we're made," = our fortunes are made, xii. 211
Magnifico, a grandee, xi. 453
Maids, thornbacks, xii. 113
Mail, wallet, vi. 511
Maim'd, wounded, v. 13
Maintain, to encourage, iii. 155
Maintenance, servitude, xi. 468
Make ready, to dress, xiii. 489
Make, mate, iii. 24
Maked, matched, i. 252
Maker, poet, ii. 112
Making, mating, xi. 144
Malcontent, discontented, xiv. 107
Malcontented, discontented, x. 162
Malecotoon, peach, xii. 236
Malison, curse, iii. 181
Malkin, a term of contempt, iii. 65
Malvoisin, Malmsey wine, i. 24
Manchet, white bread, viii. 160
Manhood, manliness, xi. 459
Mankin, manly, furious, ii. 216
Mankind, manlike, vii. 319; ferocious, viii. 439
Mankine, masculine, iii. 146
Mannerly, well-behaved, vii. 162
Man-of-war, constable, i. 185
Manship, vii. 417
Mantle-tree, mantlepiece, ix. 222
Marchpane, ix. 424; xi. 540; note, xii. 235
Mare, nightmare, "let pass away the mare," i. 57; "two-legged mare," the gallows, iii. 335
Margarites, pearls, xii. 475
Margent, margin, ix. 169
Marish, marshy, x. 161
Marl, marvel, x. 504
Marl'd, marvelled, xi. 284
Marmoset, monkey, xiii. 298; xiv. 285
Marry, the Virgin Mary, xi. 461
Marry a God, marry, the Virgin Mary, vii. 477
Marshal (of the revels), i. 45
Martialist, v. 9; a soldier, viii. 440; xiii. 462
Martyrdom, suffering, x. 149
Marybone, marrow-bone, ii. 79
Masculine, male, xi. 452
Maship, mastership, i. 367; iii. 65
Massiness, massiveness, x. 131
Massy, massive, ii. 329; xi. 339
Masterdom, power, viii. 250
Mastlin, mixed metal, ix. 411
Match, rival, ii. 349
Maternal (tongue), mother (tongue) i. 7
Matron, an old crone, i. 72
Matt, the mass, iii. 146
Maugre, in spite of, xi. 316; xii. 288
Maukins, note, viii. 258
Maumet, puppet, x. 167
Mavors, Mars, xii. 451
Maw, term used in card-playing, ix. 387; x. 539
Mayhap, perhaps, i. 66
Maze, to amaze, iv. 65
Mazzard, pate, xi. 47
Me, expletive, x. 280; xi. 102
Meacock, a milksop, iv. 118
Meads, meadows, vii. 295
Mean, "a mean," i. 9; "the mean season," meantime, i. 48; "in a mean," of a medium size, moderate, i. 62; v. 285, 293
Measure, moderation, i. 258
Meaze, form of a hare, ix. 44
Meditation, mediation, xv. 19
Meed, reward, iii. 231
Meet with, to serve out, vii. 462; to be even with, xiii. 62
Megrim, megrims, i. 160; xv. 30
Melancholy, madness, i. 84
Melist, it pleases me, i. 154
Mell, to meddle, iii. 248
Mending, amendment, i. 153
Mends, amends, v. 299
Merce, to amerce, ix. 487
Merchant, person, fellow, chap, i. 69; ii. 255,383; xi. 28; iii. 8; rogue, xii. 165
Merchantman, merchant, xii. 158
Mercurials, xi. 301
Mere, pure, perfect, vii. 270
Merely, quite, absolutely, x. 204
Merk, to darken, xii. 507
Meseem, meseems, vi. 62
Meseraics, xi. 303
Met, dreamt, xii. 242
Metamorphose, to change, transmute, xi. 488
Mete, to measure out a reward, viii. 304; to measure, ix. 557; measured, x. 37
Metely, fitly, meetly, i. 48
Meteoroscope, xi. 344
Metheglin, xiii. 32
Methink, methinks, i. 9
Mettles, vii. 146
Meve, to move, i. 244; iv. 98
Mew'd, confined, restrained, i. 60
Meyne, company, i. 262
Mich, much, i. 22
Micher, a truant, flincher, i. 164; viii. 57; ix. 550; x. 332
Mickle, great, much, i. 249; iii. 86; viii. 151; xii. 507
Middes, midst, i. 16
Middle-earth, i. 250
Midsummer-ale, note, xiii. 503
Mightly, mightily, i. 248
Milksop, vii. 127
Mincing, ii. 290
Mind, to intend, iii. 45
Minion, favourite, darling, ii. 169; iii. 159; xi. 19; xiv. 100; servant, vii. 293
Minionly, mincingly, ii. 346
Minish, to diminish, i. 141, 417
Minister, to administer, xii. 104
Mischief, misfortune, i. 23, 234
Mischievous, unfortunate, i. 188
Misdeem, to misjudge, ii. 119
Miser, wretched, ii. 252; a wretch, vii. 62; viii. 343
Miserable, compassionate, vi. 360
Mislike, to dislike, i. 386; ii. 345; xi. 530; to displease, iv. 35
Miss, to be wanting to, i. 90; to lose, i. 215; to fail, ii. 225; iv. 54; fault, sin, i. 147, 186, 192
Mister, to serve, be needful, i. 264; to need, i. 347
Misterm, vii. 493
Mistress, note, xii. 120, 165
Mistrist, mistrust, i. 203
Misuse, to abuse, commit adultery, i. 308
Misusing, abuse, i. 193
Mit (=mist?), i. 356
Mo, more, i. 7, 246
Mockage, mockery, iii. 135
Mocking-stock, vii. 176
Model, plan, x. 65
Modesty, moderation, x. 475
Moiling, toiling, xiii. 7
Moilingest, most toilsome, x. 259
Molt, molten, x. 335
Moly, note, viii. 228
Mome, a fool, ii. 315
Moneth, month, ii. 179
Monethmayndes, (= month-minds), monthly remembrances of the departed, vi. 72
Moneths, months, iii. 183
Monition, admonition, i. 132; ii. 270
Moon, frenzy, x. 50
Moot, talk, iv. 258; to plead, ix. 180
Mooting, discussion, ix. 183
Mooting night, note, xii. 276
Moped, moping, xv. 521
Mopish, foolish, ii. 255
Moppet, a term of endearment, viii. 308
Moral, "a moral play," i. 99
More, greater, x. 118
Morglay, note, xii. 286
Morion, helmet, xii. 488
Morn, "to-morn," to-morrow, ii. 283
Mort, a loose woman, viii. 156
Most, greatest, i. 113
Most-part, ad. mostly, i. 30
Mot, may, i. 256, 257; xv. 418
Mote, may, ii. 255; xii. 241
Motion, movement, x. 119; puppet-show, x. 135; puppet, note, xiii. 420; xiv. 412
Motley, a fool, x. 525
Motte, witty saying, xi. 401
Mought, might, i. 249; iv. 306
Mounseer, a Frenchman, xiv. 32
Mount Saint, game of cards, x. 186
Moustachio, xi. 76
Movings, motions, i. 11
Mow, to make grimaces, 1. 246; to mock, viii. 49
Mowing, making grimaces, ii. 211; mouthing, x. 493
Mowt, might, vi. 72
Much, very, i. 379
Muck, riches, xiii. 7
Mued, moulted, xi. 360
Muliebrity, womanhood, v. 345
Mum, silent, i. 74; silence, iii. 352
Mumchance, note, xii. 120
Mummery, masking, v. 300
Mun, must, iii. 159; vi. 74; xv. 143
Mundungo, tobacco, xiv. 291
Murlons, merlins (hawks), iv. 70
Murnival, a term used in card-playing, xi. 217
Murrain, plague, curse, xiii. 160; plaguy, very, xv. 144
Murrainer, worse (?), iii. 221
Murrainly, much, exceedingly, iii. 213
Murrion, murrain, iii. 180
Muscadine (wine), ix. 526
Muskadine, muscadel, xi. 491
Muss, a term of abuse, ix. 367
Musselden, muscadine, iv. 73
Mussers, hiding-places, x. 294
Mutin, mutinous, iv. 258
Muzzling, iv. 120
Mynock (myn hock), vi. 242
Naked, without weapons, xiv. 334; note, 511
Nale, "at nale," (=atten ale) at the ale-house, i. 166; ale, vi. 73
Napery, napkin, xv. 159
Nat, not, iii. 177
Natural, an idiot, xi. 453
Naturate, natural, i. 11
Naturing, bringing into birth, i. 11
Naunt, aunt, whore, xiii. 161
Nawl, an awl, iii. 210
Nay, denial, iii. 38
Ne, nor, i. 226
Near, nearer, ii. 125; iii. 64; xi. 46
Nearhand, nearly, iii. 31
Neat, finely-dressed, vii. 286
Neck verse, i. 159
Neele, needle, iii. 180
Neighbourhood, neighbourliness, xii. 67
Nem, take, xii. 287
Nempd, named, xii. 242
Nessary, necessary, i. 253
Nething, nothing, vi. 72
New, "a new day," i. 86
New-joint (to), ix. 556
Next, nearest, i. 27; ix. 441; nearest of kin, x. 196; the next heir, x. 31
Nice, i. 116; foolish, i. 235; tender, delicate, ii. 272; coy, xi. 531
Nicely, quietly, iii. 232
Niches in the wall, note, xv. 216
Nick (of time), xii. 390; xv. 47, 60; a term used in dicing, ii. 171
Nicking, using a beer-can with a raised bottom, hence giving short measure, xii. 334
Nidiot, idiot, ii. 303
Nifling, trifling, xiv. 317
Niggers (= snigs), an oath, xiii. 6, 22
Niggersnoggers, an oath, xiii. 5, 10
Niggler, sporter, xiv. 313
Nill, will not, vi. 475; vii. 108; x. 474
Nim, to take, xiv. 350
Nimmer, thief, xi. 370
Ningle, a term of endearment, xiv. 297
Nipitaty, note, viii. 60
Nippitate, note, vii. 445
Niset, a term of endearment, ii. 22
Niters, note, xi. 430
Nitty-napry, xiv. 344
Nod, noddy, ii. 130
Noddlehead, x. 328
Noddy, nobody, iv. 17
Noiling, noise (?), iii. 230
Noise, band, x. 263; note, xii. 281
Noisome, poisonous, noxious, xii. 192
Nol, pate, vi. 253
Noly, ii. 171
Norice, nurse, xii. 241
Nosthrils, nostrils, i. 376
Not, nought, i. 321
Notable, well-known, i. 69
Note, mark, ix. 427
Notes, signs, vii. 187
Nother, nor, i. 22; neither, i. 200, 368
Nothing, not at all, i. 7
Noughtiness, badness, ii. 317
Noughty, naughty, bad, ii. 307
Nouns, zounds, x. 260
Nowl, an owl, ii. 113
Noy, annoy, ii. 109
Nuddled, note, xiv. 62
Nup, a fool, ix. 367
Nupson, a fool, ix. 458
Nurslings, ix. 453
Nusled, nurtured, in. 44
Obediency, obedience, xi. 486
Obeisance, obedience, i. 59
Obeying, obedient to, xii. 570
Obstination, obstinacy, i. 164
Occident, west, i. 18
Occupier, a merchant, x. 308
Occupy, cohabit, xii. 137
Occurents, occurrences, xi. 475
Odsnigs, an oath, xii. 249
Of, by, concerning, ii. 274
Officious, diligent in office, ii. 339
Oft among, often, at intervals, i. 7
Ointment, unction, i. 132
Old, much, ix. 381
Oliv'd, note, xii 239
Olivet, xiv. 344
On, of, i. 59
On-begging, a-begging, vi. 399
One, "at one," friendly, vi. 57; "in one," at one, vi. 148
One's, some one's, xi. 443
On's, of his, xi. 453
Oon, one, xv. 424
Ooze, mud, xii. 492
Ope, open, x. 116; xiii. 31
Open-arses, medlars, xiv. 414
Opinionated, thought of, viii. 139
Opportuneful, opportune, iv. 374
Opunctly, opportunely, xi. 264
Oration, prayer, i. 409
Orbicularly, around, circularly, i. 14.
Ordinately, in order, ii. 217
Orient, i. 296; east, i. 18
Orient pearl, xi. 489
Orison, vow, vii. 431; prayer, i. 89; x. 121
Other, or, i. 409
Otherwhere, elsewhere, iii. 266
Outcoming, a coming out, i. 255
Outcry, auction, xiv. 445
Outgnawn, gnawed out, iv. 338
Outher, either, i. 202
Outlandish, foreign, xiii. 43; v. 262
Outnick, xv. 60
Outraged, rased, scraped out, i. 293
Outsearch, i. 102
Outsep, except, vi. 392
Outvoice, xi. 86
Outward, outer, i. 484
Overbarring, viii. 77
Overblown, blown over, xi. 74
Overcrow, to overcome, subdue, viii. 452
Overlove, vii. 23
Overpeer, ix. 404
Oversayne, to oversay, i. 33
Overslip, to omit, xi. 490
Over-year, xi. 401
Owe, own, i. 202; v. 232; ix. 471; xi. 124
Pacifical, peacemaking, xii. 270
Pagend, pageant, xv. 423
Paicture, picture, vi. 74
Pain, pains, i. 7; to take pains, iv. 33
Paining, suffering, i. 81
Pair, pack, vi. 421
Paishe, passion, iii. 130
Pall, robe, vii. 106
Palliardize, dirtiness, viii. 135
Palmer, the rod, a schoolmaster (?), ii. 275
Palter, to mumble, speak indistinctly or shufflingly, iii. 205
Paltry, rubbish, viii. 137
Palyes, palace, xii. 253
Pander, panderer, viii. 148; xi. 520, 546
Panderise, to act as panderer, x. 294
Pantable, pantofle, slipper, iv. 67; vii. 409; xv. 105
Pantler, the keeper of a pantry, iv. 491
Parachitoe, xiv. 289
Parages, rank, lineage, iii. 66
Parator, apparitor, ix. 307
Parbreak, to vomit, viii. 462
Parcel, part, x. 275
Parcels, parts, xii. 62
Pardy, } Perde, } by God, i. 111, 154; ii. 221
Paril, peril, vi. 74
Parley, to speak, ix. 477
Parliament (= parament), apparel, vi. 312
Parlous, perilous, great, x. 77
Parlously, perilously, xiv. 395
Part, to share, i. 243
Partaker, a sharer, vii. 255
Parted, shared, i. 67
Partiner, partner, i. 126
Partlet, a ruff, i. 350
Parts, parties, iii. 248; conflicts, vii. 401
Party, person, x. 123
Pash'd, crushed, viii. 314
Pass, to care, ii. 47; care, ii. 171, 301; to surpass, i. 408; exalt, vii. 352; to exceed (belief), ix. 364; passage, xi. 375
Passable (pun on), xii. 220
Passage, game at dice, i. 266; xi. 431; note, xii. 120
Passages, love-passages, x. 194; what has passed between two persons, xi. 14, 33.
Passes, surpasses, xiii. 105
Passing measures, a slow dance, ix. 408
Passion, suffering, i. 274; a love sonnet, xi. 327
Passion-a-me, an oath, xi. 522
Pastance, pastime, i. 23; iii. 88
Patch, a fool, iii. 186; iv. 220; x. 493; xi. 140
Patter, to talk, i. 181
Paunch, to stab, ix. 451
Paunch'd, wounded in the belly, v. 26
Paxes, pax-breads (?), iii. 11
Pay, pleasure, iv. 71
Paynim, pagan, xii. 229
Peach, to impeach, accuse, i. 157
Peaching, blabbing, xv. 29
Peak, to be peaky, ii. 212
Peaking, prying (?), vii. 437
Peakish mome, ii. 208
Pearl, note, xiv. 424
Pearmains, xii. 328
Pease (a), iv. 224
Peat, pet, vii. 475; ix. 369; xiv. 321
Peccant, sinner, xiv. 355
Pectorals, xiv. 321
Pee-dee, note, xiv. 289
Peel, Pele, a baker's rod or shovel, i. 424
Peer, equal, i. 26; to look at, iv. 353
Peevish, foolish, ii. 304
Pelf, riches, wealth, xi. 466
Pelican, xii. 174
Pelt, a blow (?), ii. 391
Peltingly, paltry (?), viii. 350
Pelts, shields, xii. 477
Penitency, penitence, xi. 458
Pennyfather, miser, vii. 300; xi. 468
Pented, painted, vi. 74
Peppercorn, note, xii. 280
Peradventure, hazard, ix. 17
Percase, perhaps, i. 67; ii. 109
Perdue, a soldier on a forlorn hope, xii. 235
Perdurable, everlasting, i. 64
Perdy, by God, i. 43
Perfectness, perfection, vii. 302
Perfit, perfect, i. 7, 61, 353
Perfitly, perfectly, i. 383
Perilsome, perilous, viii. 46
Period, end, x. 170; xi. 472, 563
Perk, to perch, iv. 124
Perpend, iv. 167, 236
Perry, a squall, vii. 482
Personable, iii. 32
Personally, in person, i. 28
Perspicil, a telescope, xi. 311
Persuase, persuasion, vii. 376
Perturb, to disturb, i. 217
Perturbation, disturbance, xi. 86
Pervart, perverted, ii. 58
Pervert, perverted, i. 200
Pes, haunch, iii. 181
Pesle-mesle, pell-mell, v. 246
Pestens, pestilent, bad, iv. 82
Pester, iii. 32
Pestilent, troublesome, iii. 11
Pestilently, badly, iii. 271
Pestle, gammon, leg, iv. 82
Petitory, petitionary, ix. 341
Pettifogger, attorney, vi. 281; ix. 264
Pettifogging, cheating, ix. 238
Pettyfogging (groom), a knavish lawyer, x. 356
Phalange, phalanx, ix. 362
Pheer (= feer), companion, iv. 263; xiii. 425
Philosophy (natural), i. 6
Philtres, xiv. 520
Phlegm, "easy phlegm," xv. 199
Phlegmy, xv. 117
Physnomy, face, note, xiv. 253, 320
Pick, sharp point, vii. 318
Pickadel, part of a doublet, xi. 17
Picking, pilfering, vii. 214
Pickle, plight, viii. 364
Pick-thank, xv. 29
Piddling, petty, xiii. 143, 152
Piece, a cup, i. 178; a vessel, ii. 232; creature, xiii. 163; coin, xiii. 8; woman, xiv. 318, 479
Pigeon-holes, note, xii. 101, 120
Pight, placed, i. 249; ix. 176; pitched, i. 403; determined, ii. 47
Pigsnie, a term of endearment, ii. 151; xiii. 142
Pigsny, a term of endearment, iii. 80; ix. 547
Pilfries, pilferings, xi. 303
Pill and poll, to pilfer and to plunder, x. 501
Pilling and polling, vi. 49
Pin, "a merry pin," i. 45
Pinch, "at a pinch," in need, xii. 365
Pinchback, viii. 76
Pinchgut, miser, xiv. 291
Pinder, pinner, viii. 232
Pinion, term used in dicing, ii. 35
Pink, to gamble (?), ii. 35
Pinkany, a term of endearment, vii. 324
Pink'd, peep'd, xi. 117
Pinken eyes, small eyes (?), xi. 71, 72
Pinky eyne, small eyes, vii. 167
Pins, legs, i. 181
Pioner, pioneer, x. 160
Pishes, cries of pish, xii. 298
Pissing, "a pissing while," iii. 224
Pistoles, coins, xv. 131
Pistolets, pistols, xiv. 164; coins, xv. 126
Piteousness, pity, x. 189
Pithily, strongly, i. 250
Pitiful, merciful, compassionate, i. 81, 288
Pittance, a morsel of bread, ii. 242
Plain, to complain, vi. 414
Plaint, complaint, vii. 83; x. 189
Planch, to patch all round, iii. 176
Plantain, xv. 143
Plantation, colony, xi. 467; xv. 334
Plantations, colonies, xiii. 274
Plat, place, ii. 297; iii. 196
Platform, note, xiii. 336
Play fast and loose, xiii. 174
Pleasance, pleasure, i. 56
Pleasaunce, pleasure, xii. 240
Pleasure, to give pleasure, vi. 150; to humour, vi. 291; to please, viii. 299; x. 134
Plenal, full, xiii. 153, 156
Plete, to plead, i. 262
Plight, vow(?), i. 82; to pledge, i. 257; a pledge, promise, iv. 313; sort, company, iii. 173
Plotform, plot, platform, note, viii. 423
Pluck, to drag, pull, i. 72; xiii. 285
Pluck'd, pulled, xi. 282
Pluck up heart, iv. 245
Plumb, plummet, x. 199
Pocky, xi. 463
Podstick (= pot-stick), a staff, ii. 114
Poetise, to make poetry, xi. 451
Poignant (sword), sharp, ii. 250
Poignet, a little bodkin, i. 351
Poinard, poignard, ix. 117
Point-device, with great exactness, i. 23, 44
Pointed, appointed, i. 33
Pointment, appointment, i. 33, 37
Points (untrussed), ix. 41
Poise, weight, x. 119, 146, 190
Poking-stick, note, viii. 161
Politicly, craftily, xii. 52
Poll, to pill, rob, i. 199
Poll'd, having the hair cut, iv. 81, 82
Polldennery, extortion, ix. 229
Polling, plunder, iii. 118
Polt, lame, viii. 91
Pomander, balls of perfume, ix. 419
Ponderosity, heaviness, i. 14
Poopnoddy, a fool, ix. 242
Popinjay, a parrot, ii. 117
Porkling, a pig, viii. 369
Port, manner, bearing, behaviour, courage, ii. 248, 335; vii. 293
Portace, } Portass, } Portesse,} prayer-book, breviary, iii. 24; vii. 464; viii. 393
Portraiture, painting, i. 62
Pose, to question, vii. 291
Poser, examiner, ix. 139
Posnets, little pots, xii. 328
Possems, possets, xiv. 296
Possess, to inform, ix. 483
Possessed, acquainted, informed, xiii. 144, 175
Possing, pushing, iii. 183
Post, term used in dicing, ii. 35; haste, iv. 18, 19; viii. 399; to haste, v. 11; vii. 203; messenger, viii. 154; x. 488; "to ride post," ix. 102
Posting, hastening, xi. 488
Posts, supports (?), i. 75
Pot (go to), ii. 252; vi. 66; vii. 302
Potgun, popgun, iii. 141
Pothecary, apothecary, i. 178; i. 346
Potluck, viii. 87
Pottle, a half-gallon, xi. 136, 195
Poult-foot, club-foot, xiv. 308
Pouped, deceived, iii. 194
Powdered, salted, viii. 320
Power, force, iv. 260
Poynado, poignard, xii. 524
Poynant, sharp, xii. 286
Practic, practical, xi. 98
Practice, treason, plotting, plot, vii. 451; xiv. 128, 149
Præstigiatory, juggling, xi. 324
Praise-worth, praiseworthy, vii. 73
Prancome, a trick, iii. 177
Prank, trick, ii. 117, 230; iii. 198; to adorn, ix. 231
Pranker, finer, ix. 431
Prater, a chatterer, ii. 255
Pratty, pretty, viii. 23
Praty, pretty, i. 71, 165
Preachment, a declaration, ix. 307
Preacquainted, xiii. 487
Prease, crowd, vii. 53
Prebends, i. 226
Precious thief, ii. 143
Preciousness, xv. 103
Predication, preaching, i. 235
Predycacyon, preaching, xv. 426
Prefe, proof, i. 179
Pregnant, full of wit, xii. 111
Pregnant wits, i. 7
Prenticehood, apprenticeship, iii. 310
Presence, company, i. 35
Presently, at once, xi. 82
Presentment, representation, xiv. 280, 281
Prest, ready, i. 82, 248
Prester-Johnian, xii. 229
Prestly, readily, i. 253
Pretence, intention, iii. 307
Pretend, to intend, vii. 178; ix. 283
Pretended, intended, iii. 13
Pretty man, i. 19
Prevent, to forestall, anticipate, ii. 250; vii. 233; xii. 101; go before, xiii. 473
Prey, prize, ii. 360
Price, prize, renown, iii. 28
Prick, to ride, iv. 92
Prick-eared cur, i. 87
Prick-eared song, i. 48
Pricked, dressed, i. 244
Pricket, a young buck, ix. 149
Prickle, prick, v. 46; to prick, xiv. 318
Pricks (on a gall), i. 14
Prick-shafts, xiii. 39
Prick-song, i. 48; xi. 144
Priesthade, priesthood, vi. 72
Prime, spring, ix. 231
Primero, term used in card-playing, ix. 387
Prims, pretty lasses, i. 181
Princock, a dandy, ii. 170; iv. 308
Princocks, vii. 442
Princox, coxcomb, xi. 126; xii. 524
Prinkox, a fop, ii. 260
Prink up, iii. 6
Print, to impress, ii. 275
Privity, secresy, i. 34
Privy council, secret council, i. 157
Proface, note, viii. 160
Proine, to prune, x. 160
Promise is debt, i. 137
Propagation, conception, i. 290
Proper, "a proper wench," i. 26; well-behaved, i. 426; own, viii. 148
Properties, (of a theatre), xiii. 274
Property, (of a stage), a scene (?), viii. 316
Propriety, property, xiv. 364
Prospective, a view, vii. 269
Provand, plain, common, xiv. 385
Prune, to pick clean, trim, xi. 361
Pucellage, maidenhead, i. 77
Pudder, pother, disturbance, xiv. 444
Pudding-time, iii. 319
Pugging, pulling, iv. 120
Puisne, puny, x. 25
Puissance, power, i. 41
Puissant, powerful, xiii. 343
Pullen, poultry, iii. 239; chicken, ix. 491
Pumps, dancing-shoes, xv. 360
Pums, a term of endearment, i. 405
Punk, a prostitute, xiv. 60
Punks, ix. 471
Punto, note, xiv. 284
Purchase, to obtain, get, viii. 402; robbery, xi. 304; a prize, xii. 232; xiii. 406
Purchasing, getting, xi. 490
Purfled, trimmed, ix. 417
Purgation, cleansing, i. 213
Purls, hem or fringe, xi. 134
Purple, a disease, i. 175
Purporting, iv. 173
Purpose (to), to the purpose
Purpur, purple, i. 252
Pursy, fat, viii. 369
Purvey, to provide, i. 25
Putting out, lending money at interest, xi. 190
Pye, ii. 22
Pyketh, picks, xii. 242
Pyrdewy, i. 156
Quadragesimal, lenten, xii. 268
Quail, to terrify, vi. 266; to languish, vii. 48, 204
Quaintly, fitly, xiii. 158
Quapp, to quake, xii. 242
Quarled, curdled, x. 84
Quarry, xi. 404; game, xiv. 379
Quashed, smashed, i. 399
Quass, to quaff, iii. 327
Quatorzain, viii. 88
Quaver, to sing, ii. 117
Quean, woman, ii. 346
Queasy, sickly, ii. 112; xiii. 45; xiv. 145
Queck, blow (?), ii. 8
Queen's game, ii. 34
Quell, to kill, subdue, i. 79
Quere, quire, i. 194
Quest, jury, ii. 176; inquiry, xiv. 343
Quick, living, alive, i. 110; v. 248
Quick brimstone, gunpowder, i. 179
Quid, the what, x. 363
Quiddits, quibbles, v. 363
Quiddle, iv. 81
Quillets, quibbles, x. 289
Quirister, chorister, vii. 470
Quiristers, choristers, xv. 416
Quirk, trick, xv. 169
Quirks, quibbles, x. 125, 292
Quit, clear, free, i. 132, 373; to acquit, vi. 588
Quite, to requite, viii. 175
Quittance (to), x. 200
Quod, said, iii. 31
Quod-a, quoth he, ii. 81
Quodestow, saidest thou, iii. 23
Quoit, "to quoit away" (?), to quit, xiv. 208
Quotha, quoth he, i. 23
Rabblement, rabble, iii. 35
Rabbling, intriguing, iv. 143
Raches, a kind of dog, ix. 148
Raffraff, riffraff, viii. 39
Rage, fever, i. 85
Ragman rolles, } Ragman-rolls, } bulls, i. 234; xv. 427
Rakehell, ix. 450
Ramp, a romp, iii. 95, 215
Rampallion, rascal, xi. 197
Rampier, rampart, xii. 521
Rampiers, ramparts, iv. 309; x. 326
Ramping, rampant, i. 399; romping, iii. 94
Rampion (wine), i. 24
Randall, random, vii. 360
Rank, row, ix. 440
Rapt, ravished, x. 358
Rascal, rabble, ix. 223
Rascal deer, ix. 148
Rase, race, channel, i. 164; to erase, xi. 53
Raspice (wine), i. 24
Rather, sooner, i. 364; earlier, iii. 117
Ratsbane, poison for rats, xiv. 79
Rattled, rated, scolded, xiii. 112, 138
Raught, reached, gave, iv. 302; reft, vii. 57
Rave, to talk madly, iii. 228
Ray, array, iii. 137; to soil, viii. 87
Rayed, soiled, ix. 241
Razed, rooted out, iv. 337
Reach, aim, vii. 123; reaching cough, xi. 43
Reading, advice, xi. 14
Rear, to raise, xi. 489
Rear-banquets, xiv. 293
Rearward, rear, v. 11
Reason, right, ii. 118; "I'll do you reason," I'll pledge you, xv. 214
Rebato, an ornament for the neck, a kind of ruff, x. 122
Recede, withdrawal, xiv. 312
Rech, to care, ii. 290; care for, xii. 288
Rechless, careless, reckless, i. 298; iii. 196
Reck, to care, i. 188; vii. 68
Recoil, ii. 368
Reconcilement, reconciliation, ix. 52; xii. 275; xiii. 463; xv. 89
Record, to sing, v. 51; viii. 154
Recorder, a flageolet, iii. 87
Recover, to cause to recover, viii. 467
Recoverance, recovery, i. 287
Recreance, recreation, vi. 32
Recreate, to refresh, xi. 511
Recure, to recover, i. 369; vii. 107; xii. 172; recovery, ix. 52
Rede, reed, counsel, viii. 405
Reduce, to bring back, x. 280; xii. 452
Reed, to advise, i. 181; advice, ii. 257; vi. 475; vii. 337
Re-edified, rebuilt, xii. 200
Reek, to smoke, xi. 275
Reels, vii. 303
Refel, to refute, viii. 318
Refranes, proverbs, xi. 401
Reft, bereft, viii. 159
Refuge, refuse, vii. 335
Refuse me, oath, xiii. 5
Regiment, rule, viii. 77; authority, xii. 505
Rehearsing, repeating, i. 61
Reject, rejected, i. 213
Remit, to condone, xi. 474
Remorseless, pitiless, ix. 504
Ren, to run, ii. 253
Renne, to run, i. 181, 246, 395; iii. 70
Renowm, renown, iv. 338
Rent, i. 199
Rented, rent, distracted, ix. 133
Repass, a term used in legerdemain, x. 306
Reprefe, reproof, i. 120
Resolute, vii. 487
Resolution, i. 12
Resolve, to make one acquainted with the resolution of another, vii. 45; to dissolve, vii. 46
Resolved, dissolved, xi. 62
Respective, respectful, vii. 396; x. 342
Respire, to revive, xi. 67
Respite, delay, i. 103, 106
Rest, stake, xi. 363
Rested, arrested, i. 178
Resty, restive, vi. 32
Retchless, reckless, ii. 196
Retire, retirement, xiv. 312
Retrograde, recreant, x. 95
Reuth, pity, xii. 286
Reve, to rive, ii. 271
Revel, sport, fun, i. 371
Reven, to rob (?), i. 252
Revengement, revenge, vii. 162
Rever, robber, viii. 155
Reverent, reverential, xi. 143
Revert, to turn back, xi. 476
Rew, row, i. 262
Rewarding, a reward, i. 63
Rewhayre, require, vi. 71
Rheuming, ruminating (?), ix. 152
Rib, wife, xii. 214
Ribald, prostitute, i. 82
Ribble-rabble, nonsense, viii. 110
Riches (singular), i. 8
Rid, rode, v. 343
Ridder, deliverer, i. 216
Rig, strumpet, iii. 215
Righting, setting right, xv. 13; xv. 55
Rightwiseness, righteousness, i. 100
Rim, verge, degree, x. 22
Rine, rind, cane, i. 246; ix. 244
Riot, extravagance, xii. 101
Ria, branch (of a tree), i. 252
Rise-again, a rising again, i. 286
Roarer, a bully, swaggerer, xi. 139; xii. 102
Rock, distaff, i. 65
Rode, ridden, x. 118
Roguery, wantonness, xii. 241
Roil, to roam, iii. 91
Roister, roisterer, iii. 307; viii. 340
Roisters, roisterers, iii. 307, 320
Roisting, roistering, ii. 300; iii. 348; viii. 360
Romth, space, iii. 207
Ront, runt, a term of abuse (?), viii. 366
Rood, cross, i. 26, 137; ii. 36
Rood-tree, cross, i. 253
Roomer, "to cry roomer," a nautical term, x. 253
Roper, ropemaker, ii. 16
Rosary, a place where roses grow, x. 186
Rosy, blushing, xi. 306
Rot, to destroy, vii. 314
Rotten, a rat, iii. 216
Rought (= rout), to roar, snore, i. 270
Round, to whisper, v. 10; ix. 365, 436; to encircle, xiii. 184
Rounding, whispering, iii. 78
Roundly, plainly, xi. 471
Rouse, to praise, iii. 59
Rout, company, i. 260; to assemble, iii. 137
Rowt, to appear (in arms?), i. 256
Rub, a term used by bowlers, xi. 55
Rubbers, "a rubbers," a game of whist, vii. 272
Ruddock, redbreast, iv. 72
Rudeness, fault, i. 294
Ru'd, pitied, xii. 370
Ruffle, to swagger, i. 402; to brandish, i. 407
Ruffler, a swaggerer, i. 395
Ruinate, to destroy, to ruin, viii. 158, 184; xi. 480; ruined, xiv. 103
Rumney (wine), i. 24
Rumple, to play wantonly, viii. 389
Runagate, renegade, ix. 267
Ruth, pity, i. 256; vii. 30; cruelty, xiv. 138
Ruthful, piteous, v. 127
Rutter, trooper, v. 265
Sa, so, xii. 507
Sacket, xi. 340
Sacrament, "by God's sacrament," iii. 34
Sacrament (by Gog's), iii. 180
Sacring, consecrating, x. 235
Sad, adj. sober, serious, i. 20; iv. 137
Sadder, slower, iii. 132
Sadly, seriously, iii. 78; vii. 39
Sadness, seriousness, sobriety of conduct, i. 187; iii. 124
Safe-conduct, i. 375
Safeguard, to protect, ix. 565; x. 212
Sained, blessed, i. 261
Saker, a gun, xi. 325
Salacious, xiv. 344
Sale, hall, i. 243; shall, vi. 71
Sallet, a sort of helmet, i. 396; sallad, i. 397
Same, "in same," together, i. 245, 247
Sampler, v. 259
Sanctimonious, holy, x. 128
Sandry, sundry, vi. 74
Sanguine, ruddy, iv. 80
Sanguineous, ruddy, i. 54
Sans, without, i. 26; xi. 104
Sate, to satisfy, xiv. 337
Sauce-box, an impudent fellow, x. 509; xi. 536; xv. 68
Saunce-bell, a bell rung at different parts of the mass-service, x. 422
Saunt, term used in card-playing, ix. 387
Savour, smell, i. 20; to feel, experience, i. 294; to smack, xi. 454
Saw, proverb, xiii. 8
Sawl, soul, vi. 77
Saws, sayings, i. 20
Saxes, note, xii. 287
Sayn, to say, xii. 242
Saysmatic, schismatic, vi. 71
Scab, term of abuse, xii. 313
Scale, ladder, x. 139
Scaledrake, sheldrake, xiv. 290
Scamble, to scramble, x. 244
Scant, scarcely, i. 78
Scape, to escape, i. 163
Scaped, escaped, i. 41
Scapethrift, viii. 138
Scarbabe, a scarecrow, ix. 268
Scath, harm, ii. 249
Scathe, harm, to hurt, injure, v. 327; viii. 152; ix. 21; xv. 145
Sciotherical, belonging to a sundial, xi. 326
Sconce, head, x. 300; xiv. 304
Scot and lot, xii. 251
Scouting (= scutting), mucking, messing, ix. 154
Scrag, a scraggy, lean person, xiv. 164
Screeking, screeching, ix. 341
Screw'd, shrewd, supercilious (?), xiv. 351
Screwed, shrewd, xiv. 282
Scrine, a desk, iii. 141
Scrubbed, scrubby, shaggy, xii. 323
Scud, to run away, vii. 321; viii. 292
Se, seat, i. 244
Sear, a term in falconry, xi. 341
Search, try, prove, i. 199; xiii. 389
Secretness, secresy, i. 85
Sector, executor, iii. 105
Secure, confident, v. 167; vii. 180
Seducement, seduction, xiii. 213
Seech, to seek, i. 268; i. 406
Seely, blessed, i. 267; happy, ix. 216
Seeming, apparent, xi. 457
Seeth, to boil, ii. 171
Seethe, to boil, i. 162; ix. 490; xiii. 25
Segs, sedyes, v. 213
Seld, seldom, rare, iv. 302; x. 86
Seld-seen, seldom seen, rare, v. 107
Self, same, vi. 376; x. 139
Seller (= soler), a room aloft, i. 157
Sellinger, St Leger, ix. 409
Semblant, appearance, pretence, iii. 6
Sembling, dissembling, ii. 251
Sempiternal, everlasting, i. 286
Sempster, xi. 210
Send, sent, i. 64
Seneschalship, viii. 139
Sens, since, iii. 117
Sensibility, tender feelings, sensitiveness, xv. 207
Sensible, sensitive, xi. 15
Sentence, sense, i. 10; saw, saying, iii. 264
Sent-Loy, Saint-Loy, vi. 75
Sepulture, burial, ii. 274
Serpently, serpentlike, i. 60
Serviceable, willing to be of service, ii. 339
Sess, to assess, viii. 155
Set-by, to esteem, to prize, i. 46; iv. 17
Settles, benches, xi. 304
Sever, to separate, viii. 86
Several, separate, xi. 462
Sew, pottage, xii. 507
Sewen, follow, i. 248
Shagged, shaggy, iv. 279
Shag-hair, shaggy-haired, xii. 477
Shagrag, a beggarly fellow, xii. 132
Shake, shaken, iii. 88
Shamble, bandy, ix. 488
Shamefac'd, modest, xii. 295, 298
Shamefast, modest, iii. 68
Shapen, made, i. 247
Sharepenny, a miser, ix. 228
Shark, to rob, xii. 73
Sharp, to sharpen, ix. 422
Shase, she has, iii. 221
Shaveling, a monk, viii. 301
Shaver, ix. 116
She-chirurgeon, xiv. 399
Sheen, bright, vii. 58
Sheer, clear, viii. 443
Sheerly, quite, ix. 120
Shent, ruined, ii. 216; injured ii. 279; punished (?), iii. 71
Shewer, an example, ii. 388
Shidder, thither, xii. 507
Shifts, viii. 138
Shine, sheen, splendour, vii. 313
Shit, shut, i. 183; ii. 153
Shoot-anchor (= sheet-anchor?), iii. 58
Shope, ordained, provided, i. 163
Short, "at short and long," the long and the short of it, i. 25
Shot, reckoning, i. 353
Shot-anchor, sheet-anchor (?), i. 366
Shotlog, xi. 141
Show, to appear, x. 120
Shrew, to curse i. 33; ii. 223; xv. 426; a vicious horse (?), viii. 425
Shrewd, bad, i. 20, 60, 401; iii. 346; viii. 297; xi. 43; xii. 142; a wicked man, iii. 241
Shrewdly, badly, iii. 131; xiv. 473
Shrieve, sheriff, viii. 146; x. 344
Shrive, to confess, iii. 219
Shroud, to shelter, iv. 308; xi. 484
Shrow, shrew, iv. 232; viii. 302
Sib, akin, viii. 124
Sibber, ii. 78
Sickerly, certainly, i. 259
Side, wide, iv. 118
Sieged, besieged, x. 324
Siesta, note, xv. 22
Sifflements, whistlings, ix. 340
Signet (= sonata), iv. 349
Signiorise, v. 185
Signiorising, lording it, v. 220
Signiory, lordship, v. 216
Sikerly, surely, truly, iii. 255; xii. 241
Silder, less often, vii. 46
Simper, ix. 115
Simplitude, simplicity, i. 268
Sin, since, i. 175; since, xii. 257; sinner, x. 61
Sink and cise, terms used in card-playing, iii. 346
Sinksanker, a cardsharper, viii. 192
Sipers (= Cyprus), a white stuff of which veils were made, i. 350
Sir, a gentleman, xi. 463
Sisterne, sisters, xii. 242
Sistren, sisters, i. 226, 227
Sith, since, i. 13, 16, 268; iii. 282; x. 115
Sithence, since, iv. 336
Sitten, sat, xi. 520
Skald, a term of abuse, a scabby or shabby fellow, iii. 216, 217
Skein, a knife, x. 229
Skene, a dagger, ix. 337
Skill, knowledge, i. 7; to help, iii. 178; to matter, iii. 311; matter consequence, iv. 128
Skiuker, drawer, tapster, a pourer out of wine, viii. 426; x. 252
Skipjack, a dwarf, iii. 312; vi. 179
Skirret, x. 126
Slab, to lap up, ii. 215
Slack, late, ii. 245
Slake, to assuage, to soften, i. 202; iii. 30
Slampambs, craft, iii. 39
Slav'd, enslaved, x. 116; xiv. 437
Slaver, to slobber, viii. 60; x. 539
Slavering, slobbering, vii. 300; x. 499
Sle, to slay, i. 257; ii. 251; iii. 147
Sleight, craft, deceit, i. 82; prudence, iii. 27
Sleightly, slyly, ii. 243
Sleights (of hand), x. 208
Slick, sleek, soft, xiv. 58
Slidder, slippery, i. 213
Slide, to go astray, ii. 100
Slight, weak, x. 73
'Slight (= God's light), an oath, xi. 125; xiii. 235
Slim, frail, feeble, i. 288
Slip, false coin, x. 197
Slopped, lapped up, iii. 193
Slops, breeches, x. 345; xi. 67
Slot, note, xiv. 520
Slouch, a lout, xi. 282
Slouches, slutches, dirty fellows, i. 416
Slough, slew, i. 235
Sloughing hot cockles, ix. 102
Slubber, to obscure, iv. 374
Smack, to taste, ii. 230
Small, i. 10
Smattering, talking, i. 211
Smick-smack, ii. 85
Smit, smitten, i. 41
Smock-satyr, woman-hater, xiv. 277
Smolder, to smother, iii. 243
Smug, trim, nice, neat, iv. 183; ix. 326; x. 473; to adorn, xi. 532; pleasantly, xii. 327
'Snails, an oath, xiii. 7, 37
Sneaksbill, one who doesn't pay his score, xii. 258
Sneap'd, rebuked, x. 428
Snick-up, ix. 285
Snigs, xii. 257, 259
Snip, a snap, x. 346
Snipsnap, iii. 332
Snudge, a mean fellow, iv. 314; a miser, viii. 83
Snudge-snout, ix. 232
Snuff pepper, to feel offended, xiii. 166
Snyb, to snub, reprove, xii. 240
So, provided, i. 63
Soaker, drinker, xii. 334
Soap, "soap-ashes," i. 31
Soar, a young hawk, xi. 360
Sod, boiled, i. 25
Sodden, boiled, i. 34
Sodometry, Sodomy, ii. 65
Soldan, sultan, i. 31
Solf, to call over the notes of a tune, i. 71
Solicitancy, solicitation, xiv. 291
Somedele, somewhat, xii. 241
Sometime among, sometimes, at intervals, i. 7
Sonde, message, xv. 421
Sooth, true, i. 20, 66; to flatter, soften, iii. 59; viii. 455, to prove, iv. 258; truth, vii. 287; ix. 569; xii. 256
Sophy, philosophy, iii. 261
Sops, i. 79
Sorel, a buck of the third year, ix. 149
Sort, set, lot, company, i. 405; ii. 309; viii. 118, 291; xiii. 430; choose, v. 164; to turn out, viii. 411; xiv. 129; condition, rank, x. 343
Sossing, sousing (?), iii. 183
Sot, fool, ii. 378; xi. 525
Sothery, sweet, i. 376
Sotting, getting drunk, xiii. 437
Sound, to part, sunder, i. 244; swoon, iii. 107; vii. 323, 383; true, x. 49
Souse, soused fish, pickled fish, i. 418; iii. 356; a blow, ii. 126; to beat, iii. 218; (a dish of), vi. 291; ix. 240
Souterly, snobbish, iii. 321
Span-counter, xiv. 306
Sparkify, to make a spark (gallant) of, xv. 47
Sparkles, sparks, xii. 514
Speck-and-span new, xi. 334
Spectatrix, xiii. 513
Spectrum, a looking-glass, ix. 221
Speculation, sight, xii. 563
Speed, to prosper, i. 70; to despatch, xiv. 176; success, i. 135
Spells, x. 207
Spence, pantry, i. 35
Spent, spend, i. 407
Spere, to ask, i. 321
Spettle, iii. 11
Spial, espial, vi. 409; spy, viii. 274
Spice, species, i. 58
Spill, to destroy, i. 119, 270; iii. 118
Spindleshanks, legs, ii. 336
Spital-house, hospital, iii. 193
Spitchcock, xii. 236
Spitchcock'd, xii. 239
Spite, to anger, ii. 289
Spittle-house, hospital, viii. 70
Splayed, displayed, i. 147
Splendent, resplendent, ix. 310
Spokes, saws, sayings, vii. 300
Spongeous, spongy, ix. 422
Spot, to defame, x. 155
Spousail, marriage, xii. 241
Spousal, viii. 117
Spreet, spirit, iii. 177
Sprent, sprinkled, i. 425; vii. 83; ix. 267
Spright, spirit, vii. 474
Spring, dance, viii. 348
Springal, a young fellow, youth, ix. 271; x. 366; xiii. 159
Springe, a trap, snare, xi. 69
Springed, ensnared, xiii. 47
Springes, traps, xiv. 352
Sprite, spirit, iii. 49
Spriteful, sprightly, xi. 126
Sprites, spirits, i. 46
Spruce, finely dressed, vii. 286
Spun, to burst out, ii. 273
Spurt, ii. 291
Spyal, spy, viii. 397
Squall, a squalid thing, ii. 387; a little insignificant fellow, vi. 199, 200; one who squalls, xiv. 102
Squalms, i. 68
Square, to adjust, xi. 564
Squich, to skip, ii. 387
Squich'd, winced, v. 343
Squirrility, scurrility, iv. 62
Squitter-book, viii. 74
Stab (? slab), to eat up, ii. 215
Stacker, to stagger, i. 270
Stager (= an old stager), not a newcomer, xv. 19
Stale, stole, i. 171
Stales, baits, allurements, vii. 137; viii. 260
Stall, stole, i. 160; to forestall, xii. 45
Stalworthy, brave, i. 251
Stamel, a kind of fine worsted, ix. 164
Stammer, to stop, i. 250
Stand in paint, xi. 133
Standish, xii. 270
Stang, did sting, i. 363; stung, v. 348
Staniel, coward, note, xiv. 284
Stanielry, weakness, xiv. 357
Star Chamber, to bring before the Star Chamber, x. 378
Star-cross'd, x. 182
Stark, great, i. 65; strong, ii. 33; quite, iii. 69
Starken, stark, v. 403
Starker, greater, i. 68
Start, started, i. 49
States, note, xiv. 470
Statist, note, xiii. 421
Stead, "in the stead of," i. 30
Steely, like steel, xiv. 240
Steep-fall (hill), precipitous, vii. 210, 223
Stellified, made a star, xii. 114
Stench, staunch, xiv. 329
Stere, to stir, move i. 293
Stern, tail, xiv. 365
Sterve, to die, vi. 51
Stick, to hesitate, iii. 285; xiv. 241
Stickled, acted the umpire, xii. 275
Stickler, umpire, xii. 121
Sticklers, umpires, xii. 450
Stigmatic, branded, viii. 300
Stilling, distilling, iv. 236
Stinkard, a stinking fellow, x. 339; xiv. 145
Stint, stop, iv. 268; vii. 46
Stinted, stopped, x. 56
Stirrups, fetters, i. 184
Stir stumps, xv. 41
Stitch (in side), xv. 182
Stitchel, a term of abuse, xiv. 357
Stock, rapier, ix. 119
Stomach, bravery, pluck, iii. 138; indignation, viii. 324
Stomach'd, disliked, resented, iii. 125
Stone priest, viii. 461
Stoon, stone, xv. 423
Stoop, post, vii. 66; xi. 364, 400
Stound, interval, time, i. 183; ii. 213; iii. 117; a blow, vii. 64
Stout, brave, iii. 137
Stoutly, bravely, ii. 359
Stra, straw, i. 255
Straight, straightways, xi. 488
Strained, distressed, xiii. 9
Strait, strict, i. 109
Straitest, strictest, x. 188
Straitly, strictly, i. 73
Strakegrouud, struck, foundered, i. 163
Straking, stretching, i. 88
Strands, i. 243
Strange, "to make strange," to be shy, i. 83; shy, coy, xiii. 61
Strawed, strewed, iv. 120
Streck, vi. 31
Strene, strain (note is wrong), i. 55
Stricken, struck, iv. 218
Strike up, to play, i. 74
Stroke, struck, i. 49
Stroken, struck, i. 407; iv. 53; vi. 200
Strow, scattered, xiv. 311
Studious, musing, thoughtful, i. 88
Studs, mares, xiv. 342
Stung, bitten, i. 202
Stutter, stutterer, iv. 137
Sublime, sublimate, i. 366
Submiss, submissive, iv. 256
Subordination, gradation of higher and lower orders, xiii. 373
Subscribe, to agree, xiv. 148
Subsizer, ix. 181
Suburb-garden, note, xii. 119
Successive, successful, xiv. 325
Suckets, xiv. 337
Sufferance, suffering, endurance, x. 149; xiii. 300; permission, xi. 287
Suffisance, sufficiency, ii. 242
Suffrages, sufferings, x. 169
Sugarloaf-hat, v. 330
Sullenwood, southernwood, xii. 144
Sulpbury, sulphurous, xi. 486; xiv. 126
Summersault, xv. 69
Sumner, summoner, ix. 397; x. 356; xi. 537; xiii. 88
Supernaculum, viii. 58
Supernal, above, i. 396
Supportance, support, xiv. 319
Supportation, support, i. 6, 201
Suppose, conjecture, viii. 423
Suppository, viii. 370
Surcease, to stop, iv. 327
Surcloy'd, surfeited, v. 190
Surquedry, pride, v. 312
Suspect, suspected, ii. 167; vii. 56, 377; viii. 427; xi. 73; suspicion, i. 57; xi. 108, 490
Sustenance, support, xi. 472
Sustentation, sustenance, xi. 481
Swabber, one who swabs, xii. 219
Swabbers, xv. 216
Swad, a bumpkin(?), vi. 256; fellow, vi. 380; ix. 109
Swain, servant, ii. 247
Swap, to drink up, iv. 73
Swash, swaggerer, vi. 254
Swath-bands, rolls of cloth in which infants were swathed or swaddled, i. 350
Swearing, "of swearing," a-swearing, iii. 186
Sweat, "the sweat," the plague, iv. 119
Sweeting, darling, i. 417; ii. 286; viii. 364; a sweet apple, viii. 91; sweetheart, x. 551
Swelt, to swelter, vi. 291; die, xii. 253
Swerd, sword, i. 151
Sweven, dream, xii. 242
Swill, xii. 232
Swinepox, measles, xii. 337
Swinge, to beat, iv. 224
Swing'd, beaten (?), iii. 95, 246
Swink, toil, iii. 192
Swoons, } Swounds } (= God's wounds), an oath, vii. 344, 352
Swythe, quickly, iii. 182
Taberet, i. 48
Table-book, xi. 345
Tables (to play at), vii. 271
Tacklings, tackle, xii. 345
Tacon, vi. 197
Taffata, xi. 113
Taint with, to accuse of, xiv. 211
Taker, "the king's taker," i. 24
Taking, temper, condition, ii. 376; x. 226
Talc (oil of), note, xiii. 225
Tale of a tub, ii. 335
Tall, adj., valiant, brave, i. 41; iii. 147; vii. 318; x. 294
Tallies, note, xii. 137
Talter, to hang, swing, i. 428
Tampion, a plug, i. 370
Tane, taken, i. 255
Tango mongoes, x. 521
Tapester, a female drawer (of wine), i. 263
Tapper, a male drawer, i. 425
Tappis, to lie, xiv. 322
Taratink, xii. 327
Tare, tore, i. 148
Tarmagons, termagants, xiv. 286
Tarry, to delay, i. 14
Tartarian, a thief, x. 242
Task, v. 379; to rate, scold, xi. 225
Tatterdemalion, xii. 128
Tavern-bushes, xii. 130
Taverner, innkeeper, i. 23
Tawdry, towardly (?), v. 403
Tawrhalts (= tawed halters?), i. 158
Taym, time, vi. 75
Taythes, tithes, vi. 71
Te, to, vi. 71
Tee-hee, wee-hee! x. 231
Teen, sorrow, vexation, vii. 87; anger, ix. 123; grief, xii. 507
Teg, a young deer, ii. 193, 220
Temper, to mix, xiii. 107
Templars, xi. 496
Tend, to go to, i. 12; to attend, ix. 292
Tender, to regard, xi. 454
Tene, to anger, annoy, i. 251
Tensures, exertions, x. 380
Tent, to probe, iii. 311
Tenting, tempting, vi. 74
Tenure, tenor, vi. 69
Term, "term of thy life," i. 34
Termagant, a violent fellow, x. 322
Testament, will, i. 132
Tester, note, xii. 125; bed-head, xiii. 35
Testern, a coin, xi. 210
Tewell, bore, hole, i. 370
Thacked, thatched, ix. 164
Than, then, vi. 74
Thankworthy, ii. 112
The, to thrive, prosper, i. 257, 259; viii. 163; xv. 418
Thea, thou, vi. 74
Theatral, theatrical, xiv. 281, 293
Thedom, success, i. 261
Then, than, xv. 57
There, where, i. 132, 249
Thiles, roofs (?), xii. 489
Thilk, that same, i. 200; that, iv. 74
Thills, shafts, xii. 136
Thinks, things, ii. 287
Tho, then, i. 244; iv. 338
Thone, the one, ii. 211
Thorough, to go through with, xv. 78
Thother, the other, ii. 211, 260
Thratty, thirty, vi. 72
Thrist, thrust, i. 138; thirst, ii. 165
Throes, pains, xii. 481
Throst, starved, ii. 210
Throughgirt, pierced through, v. 164
Thrumming, threading (?), xi. 249
Thrusteen, thirteen, i. 405
Thwacks, blows, iv. 320
Thwart, cross, unlucky, xi. 42
Thylke, that same, xii. 242
Tibiard, shin, viii. 139
Tice, to entice, i. 115
Tick-tack, ii. 85
Tick (upon), credit, xv. 336
Tickle, ticklish, v. 82; unsteady, uncertain, v. 194; v ii. 128; xii. 241
Tickle our catastrophe, x. 225
Tiddle, to pet, spoil, ii. 173, 174
Tide, time, i. 12, 249
Tidlings, pets, ii. 164
Tie-dog, bandog, viii. 261
Till soon farewell, à bientôt, xi. 577
Timpany, viii. 370
Tink, to tinker, i. 261
Tire, attire, ii. 377; to prey on, v. 248; viii. 278
Tires, attires, xi. 201
Tirl, i. 20
Tisty-toisty, iii. 332
Tite, soon, directly, iii. 182
Tithing, tidings, i. 151
Titivile, iii. 58
Tittifills, knaves, i. 424
Tittle-tattles, viii. 418
Titubate, to stumble, viii. 139
To, compared with, ix. 154; in addition to, xiii. 234
Toast (in wine), i. 79
Tobacco man, xi. 127
To friend, "for a friend," xv. 14
Toiled, wearied, x. 208
Tollage, toll, xii. 111
Tomboy, iii. 94
Tone, the one, vii. 378
Tongue-wralling, tongue-jangling, iv. 120
Toohing, blowing of a horn, ii. 195
Too-too, very much, very, i. 423; vi. 68, 236; xi. 32; xi. 119
To pose, to puzzle, xv. 59
Topple, to wrestle (?), ii. 210
To-rent, rend asunder, i. 408
Torpedo, electric eel, xii. 426
Torrup, to interrupt, iv. 74
Tossing, sharp (?), iii. 207
Toteth, peeps, i. 42
Tother, second, vii. 292; the other, vii. 371
To-torn, torn to pieces, i. 424
Totter, to swing (on the gallows), i. 158; xi. 274
Touch, "to flee touch," i. 156; feeling, x. 117; trick (?), i. 262, 429; touchstone, iii. 89
Tourney, tournament, i. 74
Touse, to trouble, tease, iv. 323; to pull, drag, ix. 215
Towardly, good, xii. 120
Towards, about to come, coming, future, vii. 473; xi. 522
To-yere, this year, iv. 118
Trace, "to lead a trace," i. 47
Train, to allure, xiv. 116
Traitress, i. 83
Tralilly, term of endearment, ix. 326
Tralucent, clear, ix. 232; xii. 290
Translate, translated, i. 7
Transmue, to change, xii. 308
Transmued, transformed, xii. 242
Transportment, transport, xv. 70, 93, 103
Trans-shape, transform, xiv. 320
Trattling, talkative, ii. 211
Travail, pain, labour, viii. 312
Tread, a path, i. 293; business, ii. 235
Treatment, entertainment, xiv. 350
Tredging, trudging, ii. 126
Trencher-analects, note, xii. 269
Trencher-salt, xi. 403
Trentals, note, xiv. 170
Treygobet (= Hey-go-bet?), a game, ii. 34
Treytrip, note, xiii. 238
Triacle, medicine, i. 365
Triacles, medicines, viii. 46
Trick, neat, proper, ii. 233; iii. 92; to trim, vii. 254
Tricker, one who is neat, iii. 281
Tricksy, neat, trim, ii. 281
Trick up, to adorn, x. 175
Tricotee, xiv. 280
Trill (the bones), ii. 92
Trim, proper, fine, ii. 346; xiv. 357; adornment, xv. 116
Trimly, neatly, ii. 344
Trimmer, iii. 251
Trim-tram, ii. 66
Trine, astronomical term, xi. 336
Trink'd, adorned, xi. 363
Trip, a tripping, ii. 253
Triump, trump, ii. 34
Trot, an old woman, i. 427; iii. 72
Trote, (?), vii. 155
Troth, "of troth," truly, iv. 16
Trothing, belief, troth, vi. 73
Trothless, truthless, vii. 137; viii. 119
Troth-plight, pledged, viii. 109, 111
Troublous, troublesome, i. 287
Trouchman, interpreter, vi. 463
Trounce, ii. 221
Trowl the bowl, troll (pass) the cup, iii. 180
Truchman, note, xiii. 344
Truckers, xiv. 350
Trudge, to pack off, to trot, iii. 24, 43
Trug, a wench, vi. 512
Trull, loose wench, i. 44; xiv. 317; term of endearment, ii. 290
Trump, game at cards, iii. 199; triumph, iv. 144, 145; a trumpet, xi. 486
Truncheon, a headless spear, iv. 328
Trundletail, note, xii. 121
Trunk-hose, xii. 238
Trup up, pack up, x. 539
Trussed, packed, i. 117
Trust, fidelity, xi. 540
Truth, "of truth," of a truth, i. 67
Tuck, sword, xiv. 284
Tucket, a set of notes on the trumpet, iv. 380
Tune, voice, ii. 284
Turchis, turquois, ix. 422
Turmoil, to disturb, iv. 149; viii. 360; to trouble, x. 139
Tutress, a female tutor, vii. 499
Twain, two, i. 48
Twatter, to talk, chat, ix. 270
Twattox, viii. 369
Tway, two, ii. 376
Tweche, touch, ii. 47
Twichbox, touchbox, iv. 67
Twin, to separate, i. 244
Twist, twisted, i. 158; fork, xii. 553
Twitting, chattering, xii. 294
Tyrannious, tyrannical, iv. 217
Tyre (wine), i. 24
Tyren, to tear, xii. 254
Ud's, God's, an oath, xi. 101; xiv. 289
Ugly, horrible, v. 191
Umbrageous, xv. 9
Unaware, "at unaware," unawares, ix. 43
Unbaptized, heathenish, xii. 287
Unbiassed (bowl), ix. 539
Unbowelled, disembowelled, vii. 24
Uncharm, to take off the spell, xi. 563
Uncivilise, to cease to act civilly, xiii. 78
Unclear, unshriven, impenitent, x. 46
Uncompanied, having no fellow or equal, x. 119
Unconceiving, thoughtless, xi. 463
Unconcernedness, unconcern, xv. 102
Uncouth, unknown, vi. 171; harsh, unkind, strange, xi. 124; xii. 214
Uncreate, uncreated, x. 173
Uncuriously, xv. 24
Undecency, indecency, xiii. 78
Undelved, undigged, v. 118
Underlaid, soled (of boots), i. 183
Undermine, to supplant, ii. 250
Undeserved, undeserving, i. 71
Undo, to ruin, i. 75
Undoing, ruin, xi. 478
Unfallibly, infallibly, viii. 66
Unfoil'd, untroubled, unvanquished, iv. 330
Ungotten, i. 59
Unhappy, unlucky, unfortunate, ix. 566; xiv. 303
Unhappily, wickedly, xiv. 243
Unhelm, to take off the helmet, iv. 333
Uning, uniting, i. 302
Unkind, ungrateful, i. 100
Unlaced, ix. 180
Unladified, having lost the position of a lady, xi. 79
Unmaiden'd, deflowerd, xiv. 224
Unmannerly, wanting in courtesy, xi. 516
Unneath, scarcely, with difficulty, xii. 507
Unneth, scarcely, i. 7; iii. 117
Unperfect, imperfect, ix. 432
Unperfit, imperfect, ii. 329
Unplume, to take off the plume or crest, x. 134
Unquietness, disease, i. 311
Unready, "to make unready," to undress, xiii. 79
Unrest, disquietness, i. 56; disquiet, v. 97
Unrestful, unquiet, vii. 389
Unrevocable, irrevocable, x. 154
Unroosted, uprisen, out of bed, xi. 281
Unseized, unloosed, xv. 210
Unshamefacedness, immodesty, i. 60
Unshamefast, shameless, immodest, ii. 270; vi. 161
Unsufferable, intollerable, x. 194
Unthrift, extravagant, lavish, viii. 26; xi. 274; an extravagant person, viii. 29; a rogue, x. 183
Unthriftiness, folly, i. 91
Until, unto, i. 269
Untractable, unyielding, ii. 203
Untrimmed, dishevelled, vii. 87
Untruss, xi. 471
Unuseful, useless, xiii. 396
Unwenned (=unwemmed), pure, xii. 241
Unwieldy, without control, iv. 266
Unwitting (of), ignorant of, xi. 31
Unwitty, unwise, viii. 336
Unwreaken, unrevenged, vii. 86
Upbraid, a reproach, vii. 192
Upbringing, nurture, i. 91
Upbrought, nurtured, i. 92
Upholster, an upholsterer, xi. 247
Upland, the uplands, i. 262
Uplandish, foreigner, vi. 221
Upsey, note, xiv. 470
Up-trained, trained up, brought up, iv. 209
Urchen, hedgehog, ix. 382
Urchin, child, term of endearment, i. 72
Ure, use, practice, i. 378; to practise, i. 153; interest, xiv. 314
Utter, outside, i. 260
Vacabone, vagabond, iv. 63
Vade, to go, i. 424; vii. 38; to fade, go away, vi. 557
Vail, to doff, ix. 371; to lower, xi. 55
Vailing, bending, xiv. 105
Vain, fain, iv. 79
Vair, fair, viii. 339
Valiancy, valour, bravery, v. 37; viii. 322
Valter, to falter, iv. 219, 220
Valuation, value, iii. 264
Vantage, advantage, iii. 35
Vara, very, vi. 76
Vardingale, farthingale, vi. 434
Vast, fast, iii. 182; iv. 218
Vat, fat, iv. 220
Vatten, to fatten, vi. 177
Vaulting-house, a brothel, vii. 436
Vaut, fault, iii. 313
Vay, faith, viii. 364
Vear, fear, viii. 339, 362
Veget, lively, xii. 293
Venereous, unchaste, xiv. 191
Veneys, note, xiii. 169
Vengeance, terribly, very, i. 405; iv. 64
Venom, venomous, i. 297
Venter, to venture, i. 121: iv. 57
Verament, truly, i. 421; ii. 110
Verdit, verdict, ii. 177
Verity, truth, iii. 319
Vetch, note, xii. 132
Via, away! x. 217
Viand, sing, i. 21
Vild, vile, v. 85; vii. 296
Vill, to fill, viii. 338
Vilthy, filthy, iii. 176
Vired, fired, viii. 338
Virginal jacks, x. 346
Virtually, powerfully, xiv. 311
Visitants, visitors, xv. 61
Visitation, visit, xi. 13; plague, xv. 327
Visnomy, x. 323
Vizarded, concealed, xiv. 256
Vlat, flat, viii. 344
Vocation, trade, xv. 132
Voider, avoider, i. 125; a basket for clearing the table, xii. 112
Voiding knife, note, ix. 447
Voiding of, avoiding of, i. 34
Vool, a fool, iv. 219
Voolish, foolish, iv. 219
Vor, for, viii. 338
Vorbod (of God), prohibition, "God forbid," iv. 219
Vorty, forty, viii. 338
Vound, found, iv. 219
Vox, fox, iv. 75
Vriend, friend, iii. 313
Vull, full, viii. 344
Wade, to go, i. 67
Waesheal, note, xii. 285
Wage, hire, i. 247
Wage-pasty, a term of abuse, ii. 141
Wain-man, waggoner, v. 206
Wait, to watch, be on guard, i. 248
Waking, watchful, xi. 528
Walter, to feel sick, i. 365
Waltering, iv. 313
Wan, won, i. 385; did win, xi. 472
Wanderers, planets, xi. 302
Wane, waning, xv. 46
Wanion, curse, vi. 196; xiii. 158
Wannion, curse, iv. 121
Want, to do without, v. 350
Ward, award, vi. 166; "lie at ward," a term in fencing, viii. 149
Wards, spies, xiii. 183
Ware, be aware, i. 169: x. 8
Wark, work, i. 202; ii. 195; to work, i. 253
Warks, works, i. 7
Warling, a slave, x. 303
Warrantise, warranty, guarantee, iii. 139; vii. 126; to warrant, viii. 44, 301
Washen, washed, ii. 122
Washical, what-do-you-call-it, iii. 243
Wassail, note, xi. 487
Waste-good, a spendthrift, xii. 102
Watching-candle, xi. 352
Waterstairs, x. 124
Wawd, would, vi. 71
Wawl, to make a noise like cats, ix. 211
Wealth, welfare, prosperity, i. 73; iii. 122
Weam, belly, x. 366
Weapon'd, armed, vii. 417
Wearied, worried, ix. 325
Weary, aware, vi. 547
Weasand, windpipe, iii. 230
Wed, a pledge, i. 165; "to wed" for a pledge, i. 147; wedded, viii. 109
Weed, garment, v. 330
Weet, to learn, know, iii. 204
Weete, know, xii. 507
Weigh, to care, iii. 49
Welde, wielder, ruler, i. 268
Welding, to carry, v. 27
Wele, well, xii. 253
Welkin, sky, v. 274; xii. 507
Wellaway, well-a-day! i. 173
Well-a-year, cf. well-a-day, vii. 397
Well-left, having a rich inheritance, xi. 514
Wend, to go, vii. 36; x. 226; goes, xii. 241
Wenest, weenest, i. 119
Went, weened, i. 119; equipped, well-begone (?), i. 244
Werme, warm, xii. 311
Wete, to know, i. 119, 262
Wex, waxed, ix. 355
Whadragesima, quadragesima, vi. 74
Whaiet, quiet, vi. 76
What d'ye lack, a term of abuse, xi. 152
What is he for, x. 355
What-not, a term of abuse, ix. 78
Whatsomever, whatsoever, i. 427
Wher, whether, xiii. 47, 511
Whiffler, a tobacco smoker, hence a trifling fellow, x. 303; xiv. 360
While, until, vi. 65
Whiles, whilst, xii. 299; "the whilst," i. 65
Whimling, a weak person, viii. 231
Whin-yard, a sword, x. 363
Whips-talk, a whipstock, v. 95
Whipstock, xi. 384
Whist, be silent, ix. 432
Whit, aught, i. 428
White son, iii. 329; boy, darling, vii. 325
White, centre of target, xii. 455; xiv. 144
White-liver'd, coward, xiv. 284
Whittle, a dagger, i. 168
Whore, to act as a procurer or panderer, xi. 520
Whot, hot, vii. 47
Whur, to scold, iii. 70
Whylk, which, xii. 284
Wight, brave, active, i. 252; viii. 158, 221; xii. 507
Wild, vague, loose, i. 245
Wildfire, i. 72; xiv. 130
Wildness, wilderness, i. 149
Wilful, voluntary, i. 200
Will I nill I, viii. 302
Wimble, nimble, xii. 507
Wimple, a veil, iv. 146
Wimpled, veiled, vi. 429
Winch up, xii. 469
Wis, know, iv. 183
Wished, desired, recommended, xi. 449; xiii. 65, 140
Wit, to know, i. 102, 202, 223; opinion, iii. 7
Witch, a wizzard, x. 104
With, withy, vii. 176
Withdrawing-room, the drawing-room, x. 361
Withouten, without, i. 255
Wits, senses, i. 12, 130
Wittol, a cuckold, xi. 40; to make a fool of, xiii. 107
Witty, wise, clever, ii. 316
Wizard, wiseacre, xiv. 357
Wizzel, windpipe, xiii. 271
Wocum (= welcome), welcome, viii. 362
Woe, sorry, i. 347; ix. 565
Woll, will, ii. 113
Womankind, feminine, xi. 455
Womanshire, womankind, ix. 327
Women be the devil's nets, i. 61
Wonder, wonderfully, i. 250
Wondernise, to make wonderful, vii. 324
Wonderous, wonderfully, ii. 180
Wonders, wondrous, i. 9
Wondersly, wondrously, i. 16
Wonnot, will not, vi. 312; xiii. 80
Wonts, is accustomed, viii. 343
Wood, mad, i. 351; ii. 122
Woodcock, a simpleton, ii. 295
Wooden walls, ships, xii. 514
Woodman, forester, vii. 321
Woot, know, iv. 364; will it, x. 339; wilt, xiii. 29; xiii. 39
Worch, to work, i. 274
Worched, worked(?), ii. 375
Wordly, worldly, ii. 329
Wore (= ore), i. 29, 30
World, "a world", i. 35; ii. 291
Worm, reptile, i. 202; serpent, x. 117
Wort, herb, i. 428
Worth, "of worth," worthily, i. 142
Wost, knowest, iv. 219
Wot, know, i. 23; ii. 115; x. 123
Wottest, knowest, i. 264
Wott'st, knowest, i. 25
Wounds and hearts, an oath, iii. 265
Woundyn, wrapped, xv. 419
Wrabbed, rabid (?), i. 379; ii. 211
Wrack, wreck, iii. 345; xii. 186; ruin; viii. 270; vengeance, iv. 300, 308
Wrangle, to discuss, xi. 271
Wrangling, peevish, x. 155
Wreak, v. 386
Wrigaldry-wrag, i. 49
Writhen, wrinkled, viii. 89
Wrought, done, i. 249
Yall, to cry, viii. 242
Yalling, yelling, ii. 190
Yate, gate, vi. 76; xii. 255
Yawl, a noise made by the inside, iii. 193
Yawl and jawl, to wrangle and jangle, ix. 284
Yawled, yelled, ix. 252
Ycapred, capered, xii. 253
Ycleped, called, ix. 176; xii. 241; xiii. 163
Yclept, called, xiii. 12
Yclipped, called, x. 315
Year of the Lord, date of the year, a.d., xiv. 391
Yearthly, earthly, i. 55
Yeasty, frothy, vii. 300
Yede, went; i. 179; iii. 227; walk, xii. 507
Yeft, gift, xii. 288
Yeke, eke, xii. 242
Yell, to resound, ix. 279
Yellows, jaundice, x. 259
Yeoman of the collar, prisoner in chains, i. 158
Yerk, to jerk, iv. 74
Yert-point, xiv. 306
Yesternight, i. 34
Yfeel, to feel, xii. 253
Yferre, afar, xii. 311
Yfound, found, i. 252
Yfrounced, adorned, xii. 311
Ying, young, i. 245
Ylaft, left, xii. 240
Ylike, like, xii. 241
Yon, yonder, xi. 113
Yond, yonder, iii. 78
Yore, of yore, i. 262
Your, yours, i. 374
Yoush, you shall, iii. 187
Y-proved, true, i. 250
Yreken, raked, xii. 240
Ystept, advanced, xii. 241
Zacks, sacks, iii. 313
Zay, say, iv. 219
Zee, see, iii. 313
Zell, to sell, iv. 219
Zembletee, appearance, iii. 82
Zennight, a week, iv. 219
Zest, sayest, viii. 339
Zet, set, viii. 347
Zhrode, shrewd, iv. 219
Zold, sold, iii. 313
Zome, some, iv. 219
Zon, son, viii. 338
Zoons, zounds, xi. 65
Zow, sow, viii. 347
Zuch, such, iv. 221
Zure, sure, viii. 344
Zwap, swap, blow, iv. 222
A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS.
CONTENTS.
+Vol. I.+
Interlude of the Four Elements. The Tragic-Comedy of Calisto and Melibæa. Everyman: A Moral Play. Hickscorner. The Pardoner and the Friar. The World and the Child. God's Promises. The Four P.P. A New Interlude, called Thersites.
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Interlude of Youth. Lusty Juventus. Jack Juggler. Nice Wanton. History of Jacob and Esau. Disobedient Child. Marriage of Wit and Science.
+Vol. III.+
New Custom. Ralph Roister Doister. Gammer Gurton's Needle. The Trial of Treasure. Like Will to Like.
+Vol. IV.+
Damon and Pithias. Appius and Virginia. Cambyses. The Misfortunes of Arthur. Jeronimo.
+Vol. V.+
The Spanish Tragedy. Cornelia. Soliman and Perseda. Life and Death of Jack Straw.
+Vol. VI.+
The Conflict of Conscience. Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune. The Three Ladies of London. Three Lords and Three Ladies of London. A Knack to Know a Knave.
+Vol. VII.+
Tancred and Gismunda. Wounds of Civil War. Mucedorus. The Two Angry Women of Abington. Look about you.
+VOL. VIII.+
Summer's Last Will and Testament. Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon. Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon. Contention between Liberality and Prodigality. Grim the Collier of Croydon.
+Vol. IX.+
How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad. The Return from Parnassus. Wily Beguiled. Lingua. Miseries of Enforced Marriage.
+Vol. X.+
The Revenger's Tragedy. The Dumb Knight. The Merry Devil of Edmonton. Ram-Alley. The Second Maiden's Tragedy. Englishmen for My Money.
+Vol. XI.+
A Woman is a Weathercock. Amends for Ladies. Green's Tu Quoque. Albumazar. The Hog hath Lost his Pearl. The Heir.
+Vol. XII.+
The Old Couple. A Woman Never Vexed. The Ordinary. The London Chanticleers. The Shepherd's Holiday. The True Trojans. The Lost Lady.
+Vol. XIII.+
A Match at Midnight. The City Nightcap. The City Match. The Queen of Arragon. The Antiquary.
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The Rebellion. Lust's Dominion; or, The Lascivious Queen. Andromana. Lady Alimony. The Parson's Wedding.
+VOL. XV.+
Elvira; or, The Worst not always True. The Marriage Night. The Adventures of Five Hours. All Mistaken; or, The Mad Couple. Historia Histrionica.
+Index and Glossary.+
Transcriber's Notes:
Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
Enclosed unitalicized small capital markup in +plus signs+.