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James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
There is an authority for ascribing this play to Shakspeare,
which I think a very strong one, though not made use of, as I
remember, by any of his commentators. It is given to him,
among other plays, which are undoubtedly his, in a little book,
called Palladis Tamia, or the Second Part of Wit's Commonwealth,
written by Francis Meres, Maister of Arts, and printed at
London in 1598. The other tragedies, enumerated as his in that
book, are King John, Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth,
Richard the Third, and Romeo and Juliet. The comedies are,
the Midsummer-Night's Dream, the Gentlemen of Verona, the
Comedy of Errors, the Love's Labour's Lost, the Love's Labour
Won, and the Merchant of Venice. I have given this list, as it
serves so far to ascertain the date of these plays; and also, as
it contains a notice of a comedy of Shakspeare, the Love's Labour
Won, not included in any collection of his works; nor, as far as I
know, attributed to him by any other authority. If there should
be a play in being with that title, though without Shakspeare's
name, I should be glad to see it; and I think the editor would be
sure of the publick thanks, even if it should prove no better than
the Love's Labour's Lost.
Tyrwhitt. Dr. Farmer was of opinion that Love's Labour Won was another
name for All's Well That Ends Well. See the Preliminary
Remarks to that play, vol. x.
Boswell. The work of criticism on the plays of our author, is, I believe,
generally found to extend or contract itself in proportion to the
value of the piece under consideration; and we shall always do
little where we desire but little should be done. I know not that
this piece stands in need of much emendation; though it might
be treated as condemned criminals are in some countries,—any
experiments might be justifiably made on it. The author, whoever he was, might have borrowed the story,
the names, the characters, &c. from an old ballad, which is entered
in the books of the Stationers' Company immediately after the
play on the same subject. “John Danter] Feb. 6, 1563. A
book entitled A Noble Roman Historie of Titus Andronicus.”
Entered again April 19, 1602, by Tho. Pavyer. The reader will find it in Dr. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry, vol. i. Dr. Percy adds, that “there is reason to
conclude that this play was rather improved by Shakspeare with
a few fine touches of his pen, than originally writ by him; for not
to mention that the style is less figurative than his others generally
are, this tragedy is mentioned with discredit in the induction
to Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair in 1614, as one that had then
been exhibited ‘five-and-twenty or thirty years:’ which, if we take
the lowest number, throws it back to the year 1589, at which
time Shakspeare was but twenty-five: an earlier date than can be
found for any other of his pieces, and if it does not clear him entirely
of it, shows at least it was a first attempt.” Though we are obliged to Dr. Percy for his attempt to clear
our great dramatick writer from the imputation of having produced
this sanguinary performance, yet I cannot admit that the
circumstance of its being discreditably mentioned by Ben Jonson,
ought to have any weight; for Ben has not very sparingly censured
The Tempest, and other pieces which are undoubtedly
among the most finished works of Shakspeare. The whole of
Ben's Prologue to Every Man in his Humour, is a malicious sneer
on him. Painter, in his Palace of Pleasure, tom. ii. speaks of the story of
Titus as well known, and particularly mentions the cruelty of
Tamora: And, in A Knack to Know a Knave, 1594, is the following
allusion to it: Whatever were the motives of Heming and Condell for admitting
this tragedy among those of Shakspeare, all it has gained
by their favour is, to be delivered down to posterity with repeated
remarks of contempt,—a Thersites babbling among heroes, and
introduced only to be derided. See the notes at the conclusion of this piece.
Steevens. On what principle the editors of the first complete edition of
our poet's plays admitted this into their volume, cannot now be
ascertained. The most probable reason that can be assigned, is,
that he wrote a few lines in it, or gave some assistance to the
author, in revising it, or in some other way aided him in bringing
it forward on the stage. The tradition mentioned by Ravenscroft
in the time of King James II. warrants us in making
one or other of these suppositions. “I have been told” (says
he in his preface to an alteration of this play published in 1687,)
“by some anciently conversant with the stage, that it was not
originally his, but brought by a private author to be acted, and
he only gave some master touches to one or two of the principal
parts or characters.” “A From Ben Jonson's Induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614, we
learn that Andronicus had been exhibited twenty-five or thirty
years before; that is, according to the lowest computation, in
1589; or taking a middle period, which is perhaps more just, in
1587. To enter into a long disquisition to prove this piece not to have
been written by Shakspeare, would be an idle waste of time. To
those who are not conversant with his writings, if particular passages
were examined, more words would be necessary than the
subject is worth; those who are well acquainted with his works,
cannot entertain a doubt on the question.—I will however mention
one mode by which it may be easily ascertained. Let the
reader only peruse a few lines of Appius and Virginia, Tancred
and Gismund, The Battle of Alcazar, Jeronimo, Selimus Emperor
of the Turks, The Wounds of Civil War, The Wars of
Cyrus, Locrine, Arden of Feversham, King Edward I. The
Spanish Tragedy, Solyman and Perseda, King Leir, the old
King John, or any other of the pieces that were exhibited before
the time of Shakspeare, and he will at once perceive that Titus
Andronicus was coined in the same mint. The testimony of Meres, mentioned in a preceding note, alone
remains to be considered. His enumerating this among Shakspeare's
plays may be accounted for in the same way in which
we may account for its being printed by his fellow-comedians in
the first folio edition of his works. Meres was in 1598, when
his book appeared, intimately connected with Drayton, and probably
acquainted with some of the dramatick poets of the time,
from some or other of whom he might have heard that Shakspeare
interested himself about this tragedy, or had written a few
lines for the author. The internal evidence furnished by the
piece itself, and proving it not to have been the production of
Shakspeare, greatly outweighs any single testimony on the other
side. Meres might have been misinformed, or inconsiderately
have given credit to the rumour of the day. For six of the plays
which he has mentioned, (exclusive of the evidence which the
representation of the pieces themselves might have furnished,)
he had perhaps no better authority than the whisper of the
theatre; for they were not then printed. He could not have
been deceived by a title-page, as Dr. Johnson supposes; for Shakspeare's
same is not in the title-page of the edition printed in
quarto in 1611, and therefore we may conclude, was not in the
title-page of that in 1594, of which the other was undoubtedly
a re-impression. Had this mean performance been the work of
Shakspeare, can it be supposed that the booksellers would not
have endeavoured to procure a sale for it by stamping his name
upon it? In short, the high antiquity of the piece, its entry on the Stationers'
books, and being afterwards printed without the name of
our author, its being performed by the servants of Lord Pembroke,
&c. the stately march of the versification, the whole colour
of the composition, its resemblance to several of our most ancient
dramas, the dissimilitude of the style from our author's undoubted
compositions, and the tradition mentioned by Ravenscroft, when
some of his contemporaries had not been long dead, (for
Lowin and Taylor, two of his fellow-comedians, were alive a few
years before the Restoration, and Sir William D'Avenant,
who had himself written for the stage in 1626, did not die till
April 1668,) all these circumstances combined, prove with irresistible
force that the play of Titus Andronicus has been erroneously
ascribed to Shakspeare.
Malone. “Kyd—probably original author of Andronicus, Locrine, and
play in Hamlet.—Marloe, of H. 6. “Ben Jonson, Barthol. Fair—ranks together Hieronymo and
Andronicus, [time and stile]—first exposed him to the criticks—
shelter'd afterwards under another's name. “Sporting Kyd [perhaps wrote comedy] and Marloe's mighty
line—Jonson. [might assist Lily,] Perhaps Shakspeare's additions
outshone. “Tamburlaine mention'd with praise by Heywood, as Marloe's,
might be different from the bombast one—and that written by
Kyd.” From a loose scrap of paper, in the hand writing of Dr. Farmer.
Steevens. In the library of the Duke of Bridgewater, at Ashridge, is a
volume of old quarto plays, numbered R. 1. 7; in which the first
is Titus Andronicus. I have collated it with the tragedy as it stands in the edition of
Shakspeare, 1793: and the following remarks, and various readings,
are here assigned to their proper places.
Todd. The ingenious and accurate Mr. Todd has most obligingly collated
this tragedy (4to. 1600) with that in 8vo. 1793. Most of
his collations, &c. will be found at the bottom of the following pages.
Steevens. Mr. Malone, in a preceding note, has expressed his opinion
that Shakspeare may have written a few lines in this play, or given
some assistance to the author in revising it. Upon no other ground
than this, has it any claim to a place among our poet's dramas?
Those passages in which he supposed the hand of Shakspeare may be
traced, are marked with inverted commas. I cannot help thinking
that this system of seizing upon every line possessed of merit
as belonging of right to our great dramatist, is scarcely doing
justice to his contemporaries, and resembles one of the arguments
which Theobald has used in his preface to The Double
Falshood: “My partiality for Shakspeare makes me wish that
every thing which is good or pleasing in our tongue had been
owing to his pen.” Many of the writers of that day were men of
high poetical talent; and many individual speeches are found in
plays, which, as plays, are of no value, which would not have been
in any way unworthy of Shakspeare himself, of whom Dr. Johnson
has observed, that “his real power is not shown in the splendour
of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the
tenor of his dialogue, and he that tries to recommend him by
select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles,
who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his
pocket as a specimen.” It is with the utmost diffidence that I
venture to call in question the opinion of Dr. Farmer, who has
ascribed Titus Andronicus to Kyd, and placed it on a level with
Locrine; but it appears to me to be much more in the style of
Marlowe. His fondness for accumulating horrors upon other
occasions will account for the sanguinary character of this play;
and it would not, I think, be difficult to show by extracts from his
other performances, that there is not a line in it which he was
not fully capable of writing.
Boswell.
PERSONS REPRESENTED.
TITUS ANDRONICUS.
Re-enter Lucius, Quintus, Martius, and Mutius, with their Swords bloody.
Flourish. Re-enter, at one side, Saturninus, attended;
Tamora, Chiron, Demetrius, and
Aaron: At the Other, Bassianus, Lavinia,
and Others.
Enter Tamora.
Enter Marcus and Lavinia.
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ADDENDA.
The following very curious documents having
been mingled with other papers of a different description,
and mistakingly indorsed by Mr. Malone,
so as to mislead me concerning their contents,
were not discovered till The History of the Stage
was printed off. The first letter is perhaps not
strictly theatrical, but is worthy of preservation as
a picture of the simplicity of ancient manners.
Boswell. [Aug. 1, 1593.] My good sweet mouse2 note
know you will, and every evening throwe water
before yor dore & in yor bakc syd, and have in yor
windowes good store of rwe and herbe of grace3 note,
and, wtall, the grace of god, wch. must be obtaynd
by prayers; and so doinge, no dout but ye Lord will
mercifully defend you: now, good mouse, I have
no newse to send you but this, that we have all our
helts, for wch. the Lord be praised. I reserved yor
letter at Bristo, by richard couley4 note, for ye wich I
thank you. I have sent you by this berer, Thomas
Chockes kinsman, my whit wascote, because hit
is a trobell to me to carry it. reseave it wt this
letter, And lay it up for me till I com. if you send
any mor Letters, send to and by the carrier of
Shrowsbery or to wistchester, or to York5 note, to be
kept till my Lord Stranges players com. and
thus, sweet hart, wt. my harty comenda. [commendations]
to all our frends, I sett from Bristo
this wensday after saynt James his day, [August 1,
1593] being redy to begin the playe of hary of
cornwal6 note. mouse, do my harty c&obar;mend. [commendations]
to mr. grigs, his wife and all his
household and to my sister Phillips.
Yor Loving husband
mouse, you send me no newes of any things houshould
and of yo.r domesticall matters, such things
as happens att homes; as how yor distilled watter
proves, or this or that or any thing, what you will.
And Jug7 note, I pray you. Lett my orayng tawny stokins
of wolen be dyed a newe good blak against I com
hom, to wear in the winter. you sente me not word
of my garden, but next tym you will. but remember
this in any case, that all that bed wch. was parsley,
in the month of September, you sowe itt wt. spinage,
for then is the tyme I would do it my selfe,
but we shall not com hom till all holand tyde. and
so, sweet mouse, farwell, and broke our Long
Jorney wt. patience. “This be delyvered to mr. hinslo, on
[one] of the gromes of hir mats. chamber,
dwelling on the banksid, right over against
the clinke.” Mr. hinchloe, I have harde fyve shetes of a playe
of the Conquest of the Indes, & I dow not doute
but It will be a verye good playe: tharefore I praye
ye delyver them fortye shyllynges In earneste of It,
& take the papers Into yor one hands, & on easter
eve thaye promyse to make an ende of all the Reste.
Samuel Rowley. lent the 4 of Aprell 1601—xxxx8. R. of Mr. Henslowe & Mr. Alleyn, the i day of
Janewary 1601, for i qters Rent dewe unto my Mr,
Mr. Doryngton, for the commisyon for the Beargarden
the some of tenne pownds1 note by me Richard
lefwicke, I say R. xlb.
Richard [ ] lefwicks marck. Mr. Hynchlye I praye ye dow so muche for us
If Ihon Daye & wyll haughton have reseved but
thre pounde ten shyllynges, as to delyver them
thurtye shyllynges more, & take thare parers.
yors. to comande, Mr. Hinchlowe I pray let me intreate you to
lende me forty shillings till the next weke and Ile
then paye it you agayne by the grace of god, I pray
as you love me fayle me not: here is one at home
must receave it presently. if you will doe me this
favour, you shall comaunde me in a greater matter.
yors. feched by William felle, his man. Mr Henchlowe, I pray ye delyver the Reste of
the Monye to John daye & wyll hawton dew to
them of the syx yemen of the weste.
Samuell Rowlye. I have occasion to be absent note about the plott of the Indyes, therefore pray
delyver it to will hawton . . . .
by me
Mr Henslowe, we have heard their booke and
lyke yt. their price is eight pounds, weh I pray pay
now to Mr. Wilson according to our promyse. I
would have come my selfe, but that I am trobled
with a scytation.
Yors On the back of this paper: 1. Sci. W. Wor. & Ansell, & to them the
ploughmen. 2. Sci. Richard & Eliza. Catesbie, Lovell,
Rice ap Tho. Blount, Banester. 3. Sci. Ansell Davye Denys, Hen. Oxf. Courtney
Bou'ttner, & Grace. 4. Sci. To them Rice ap Tho. & his Soldiers. 5. Sci. K. Rich. Catesb. Lovell, Norf. Northumb.
Percye. Mr. hynchla, I praye ye let Mr hathwaye have
his papars a gayne of the playe of John a gante, &
for the Repayemente of the monye back a gayne he
ys contente to gyve ye a byll of his hande to be
payde at some cartayne tyme as In yor dyscressyon
yow shall thinke good, wch done ye may crose It
oute of yor boouke & keepe the byll, or else wele
stande so muche indetted to you & keepe the byll
or selves.
Samuell Rowley. I pray you Mr. Henshloue deliver in behalfe of
the Company, unto the fifty Shillings wch they receaved
the other day, three pounds & tenn shillings
more, in full payment of six pounds the pryce of
their play called To Good to be True.
Yors
The xxiiith Daye of october 1601. Receved of Phillipe Henslowe Esquire the some
of ixs. viid. and ys for one yeares Rente due at the
feast of st Michaell last past 1601, unto the
Reverent Father in god Thomas by gods providence
Lord Bishope of Winchester and ys for Certeine
tenemts one the banke syde Late one willm
Paynes and nowe in the tenore of the saide Phillipe
Henslowe.
&per; me Sum Total. . . . iis. xid. ob Inn all 1s. 2½d. ppd R the xxvth day of October Anno Dom 1611 of
Mr Edwarde Allen Esquier, for one half yeares rent
of his howse and wharfe within the Cloose of St
Maryoveries dewe to the Ryghte Honnorable
Antony Lorde Viscounte Mountague att the feast
of St mychaell Tharchaungell, last past, the some
of fiftye shillings of lawfull Englishe money; I say
R ls.
&per; me I pray you, Mr Hinchlow, deliver unto the
bringer hereof the some of fyve and fifty shillings, to
make the 3l. fyve shillings w.ch they receaved
before, full six pounds, in full payment of their
booke called The fayre Constance of Rome;
whereof I pray you reserve for me Mr Willsons
whole share, wch is xls, wch I, to supply his neede,
delivered him yesternight.
Yor Lovinge ffreind Mr Hinchlow:
bookes owinge for (5), baxsters tragedy, Tobias,
Comedy, Jepha Judg of Israel, love parts frendshipp,
The cardinall8 note. Mr Allen, I commend my love and humble duty
to you, geving you thankes for yor great bounty
bestoed upon me in my sicknes, when I was in
great want, god blese you for it; Sir, this it is, I
am to go over beyond the seeas wt Mr Browne and
the company, but not by his meanes, for he is put
to half a shaer, and to stay hear, for they ar all
against his going, now good Sir, as you have ever
byne my worthie frend, so helpe me nowe. I have
a sute of clothes and a cloke at pane for three
pound, and if it shall pleas you to lend me so
much to release them, I shall be bound to pray for
you so longe as I leve; for if I go over and have
no clothes, I shall not be esteemed of; and by
gods helpe the first mony that I gett I will send it
over unto you, for hear I get nothinge; some tymes
I have a shillinge a day and some tymes nothinge,
so that I leve in great poverty hear, and so humbly
take my leave praying to god, I and my wiffe, for
yor health and mistris allen's, which god continew.
Yor poor frend to commaund, Memorandun. 'tis agreed between Phillip Hinchlow
Esqr & Robert Daborne gent, yt ye sd Robert
shall before ye end of this Ester Term deliver in
his Tragoedy cald Matchavill & ye Divill into the
hands of ye sd Phillip, for ye sum of xxty pounds,
six pounds whearof ye sd Robert aknowledgeth to
hav receaved in earnest of ye sayd play this 17th
of April, & must hav other fowr pound upon
delivery in of 3 acts. & other ten pound upon
delivery in of ye last scean &pab;fited. In witnes
hearof the sd Rober Daborne hearunto hath set his
hand this 17th of Aprill 1613.
Pr me Good Mr Hinchlow, I am upon ye sodoyn put to
great extremyty in bayling my man, c&obar;mitted to
newgate upon taking a Possession for me, & I took
less mony of my Kinsman, a lawier yt was with
me, then servd my turn. I am thearfore to beseech
yu to spare me xxs., which will doe me so great
Pleasure yt yu shall find me thankfull & &pab;forming
more then ever I promisd or am tyed to: so, bold
upon so great an occation to truble yu, I crave yr
favorable interpretation & rest.
ever at yr comand 28 Aprill 1613. Lente Mr Daborne this money wittness M Hinchlow, the company told me yu ware expected
thear yesterday to conclude about thear
coming over or goinge to Oxford. I have not
only labord my own play, which shall be ready
before they come over but givn Cyrill Tourneur an
act of ye Arreignment of london to write, yt. we may
have yt likewise ready for them. I wish yu had
spoken with them to know thear resolution, for they
depend upon yr purpose. I hav sent yu 2 sheets
more fayr written. upon my ffayth, sr, they shall
not stay one howr for me; whearfor I beseech yu
as heatherto, so yu would now spare me xxs. which
stands me upon to send over to my counsell in a
matter concerns my whole estate, & when I deale
otherways then to yr content, may I & myne want
ffryndship in distress! so, relijng one [on] yr favor,
which shall never reap loss by me, I rest
at yr comand 5o June 1613. Receved by me Garred Leniaghe xxs. Sr I expected yu one [on] munday. I &pab;ceav yu
misdoubt my readynes; sr I would not be hyred
to break my ffayth with yu. Before god, they shall
not stay one hour for me; for I can this week
diliver in ye last word & will yt night they play
thear new play read this; whearof I have sent yu
a sheet & wone fayr written yu may easyly know
thear is not much behind, & I intend no other
thing, god is my judge, tell this be finisht; ye necessity
of term busnies exacts me beyond my
custom to be trublesom unto yu; whearfore I pray
send me the other 20s. I desyred, & then when I
read next week, I will take ye 40s. yt remaynes,
& doubt not yu shall receav thanks in doing me this
curtesy. so presuming one yr favor, I rest
Yrs to comaund 10 June 1613. Mr Hinchlow, I am inforced to make bold with
yu for one 20s. more of ye xl, & one fryday
night I will deliver in ye 3 acts fayr written, and
then receve ye other 40s: & if yu please to have
some papers now, yu shall; but my promise shall
be as good as bond to yu, & if yu will let me have
&pab;usal of any other book of yrs I will after ffryday
intend it speedyly & doubt not to giv yu full content;
so with my best remembranc I rest
at yr comaund 3 May, 1613, R. the some of xxs. of Mr Hinchley to the use of
Mr. Daborne the 3 of Maye 1613, by me,
Thos. More. Mr Hinchlow, my trubles drawing to some end,
have forced me to be trublesome to yu beyond my
purpose, bycause I would be free at any rate. some
papers I have sent yu, though not so say written all
as I could wish. I will now wholy intend to finishe
my promise, which though it come not within compass
of this Term, shall come upon ye neck of this
new play they ar now studynge, my request is, the
xl might be made up, whearof I have had 9l. if yu
please to appoynt any houer to read to Mr Allin, I
will not fayle, nor after this day loose any time till
it be concluded; my best rememberance to yu I
rest
yors 8 May, 1613. Mr. Hinchlow, yr tried curtesy hath so fur ingaged
me yt howsoever this term hath much hindred
my busnies, yu shall see one Tuesday
night, I have not bin Idle, I thank god moste of
my trubles ar ended, upon heering whearof I have
taken home my wife agayne; soe yt I will now,
after munday, intend yr busnies carefully, yt the
company shall aknowledg themselfs bound to yu.
I doubt not. one Tuesday night, if yu will appoynt,
I will meet yu & Mr Allin & read some, for
I am unwilling to read to ye generall company till
all be finisht; which upon my credit shall be to
play it this next term, with ye first. Sr, my occations
of expenc have bin soe great & soe many, I
am ashamed to think how much I am forct to
press yu, whearin I pray let me finde yr favorablest
construction, & ad one xxs. more to ye mony I
have receaved, which makes xil. & yu shall one
Tuesday see I will deserve, to my best ability, yr
love, which I valew more in it selfe, then ye best
companies in ye town; so myself & labors resting at
yr service I comit yu to god.
yrs to co&mbar;and 16 May, 1613. Receved by me, I have receaved of Mr Hinchlow the full some of
sixteen pounds in pt of Matchavill & ye Divill. Mem. I have receaved of Mr Hinchlow the full
some of sixteen pounds in pt of twenty pounds due
to me Robert Daborne for my Tragoedy of Matchavill
& ye Divill. I say receaved sixteen pounds this
19th of May as aforesayd. In witnes whearof I
hereunto hav sett my hand, 1613.
Robt. Daborne. this play is to be deliverd in to Mr
Hinchlow with all speed.
John Alleyn.
Sr. I did thinke I deservd as much mony as Mr
Messenger, although knowinge yr great disbursments
I forbour to urdge yu beyond yr own Pleasure;
but my occations press me so neerly yt I
cannot but expect this reasonable curtesy, consydering
I pay yu half my earnings in the play besyds
my continuall labor & chardge imployd only for yu;
which if it prove not proffitable now, yu shall see I
will giv yu honnest satisfaction for the utmost
farthinge I owe yow, & take another course: whearfore
this being my last, I beseech yu way [weigh]
my great occation this once, & make up my mony
Even with Mr Messengers, which is to let me have
xs. more. I am sure I shall deserv it & yu can
never doe me a tymelyer curtesy, resting at yr
comand
Robt. Daborne. I pray Sr let yr boy giv order this night
to the stage-kee&pab;, to set up bills agst
munday for Eastward hoe, & one wenasday,
the New play. Sr if yu doe not like this play when it is read, yu
shall have the other which shall be finished with all
expedition; for befor god this is a good one, & will
giv yu content: howsoever, yu shall never loose a
farthing by me; whearfor I pray misdoubt me not,
but as yu hav bin kynd to me, so continew it till I
deserv the contrary; and I pray send me ten shillings
& take these papers, which wants but one
short scean of the whole play, so I rest.
yrs at comand
Mr Hinchlow yu hav now a full play. I desyr yu
should disburse but 12l. a play tell they be playd;
I mean to urdge yu no farther, for if yu like not this,
yu shall hav another to yr. content. befor god, yu
hav the full play now, & I desyr but 20s. to serv
my ordynary turn, till I have finished one, yt. yu
may hav yr. choyse, for I would hav yu Know, I
can hav mony for papers though I hav cast myself
upon yu with a purpose to deserv yr. love. As for
Mr Pallat, is much discontented with your neglect
of him, I would I knew yr. mynd to giv him
awnswer. Sr if yu deny me this reasonable kyndnes,
it will forc me to ingage a play which yu will
miss: so desyring yt awnswer I rest,
yr at comand 28 March 1613 pd unto Mr Daborne
the 2 of Aprell 1614 in
earnest of The Shee
Saynte, at his owne
howse the some of viiis. Lent of this bille the
29 of Marche in fulle
payment of his new
playe laste written; the
some of . . . . . . . . . . xs. Mr Hinchlow, of all ffryndship let me beholding
to yu for one xxs. which shall be the last I will
request till the play be fully by us ended. upon my
honnest ffayth, with yu which I will never break, I
will request no more, & soe much will be due to me
then. Sr this is my last request of yr trouble which
my speedy occation presses me to; soe I rely upon
yr lov hearin, for which yu shall ever
comaund me 16th July 1613. pd this xxs. the 16th of July, 1613.
M Hinchlow I wrote a leter to Mr Griffyn requestinge
thearin yr awnswer & end to these businesses
& debts betwixt us but I cannot hear from
him my desyer was yt eather yu would be my paymayster
for another play or take xl. of yt mony we
hav had into yr hands agayne & security for the
rest, sr it is not unknown to yu yt I could & had
good certeynty of means before I wrote unto yu
which upon hopes of yr love I forsooke & must now
if yu & I had ended return to them agayne, for my
occations untill I have made sale of yt estate I have
ar soe urgent yt I can forbear no longer, whearfor
I pray Sr of yr much ffryndship doe me one curtesy
more till Thursday when we deliver in or play to yu
as to lend me twenty shillings & upon my ffayth
and Christianyty I will then or giv yu content or
secure yu to the utmost farthing yu can desyre of
me, Sr I pray of all yr gentlenes deny not this curtesy
to me & if yu fynd me not most just & honnest
to yu may I want a ffrynd in my extremyty it is
but till thursday I request yu hearing & so rest
at yr comaund Sr yu hav a receipt of myne for twenty
shillings which I sent yu by the waterman
at the cardinalls hatt that or this shall
sufficiently giv yu assurance. 30 July 1613. Sr I sat up last night till past 12, to write out this
sheet & had not necessity inforct me to ye comon
place [pleas] bar this morning to acknowledge
a ffynall recovery, I would this day hav deliverd in
all. I hav bin heartofor of ye receaving hand;
yu shall now find return to yr content & yt speedyly.
I pray, Sr, let me have 40s. in earnest of ye Arreighnment,
& one munday night I will meet yu
at ye new play & conclud further, to yr content
I doubt not, resting my self & whole Indevors
wholly at yr Service 18 June 1613. Mr Hinchlow, I &pab;ceave yu think I will be behind
with my Tragoedy; if so yu might worthely
account me dishonest, indeed for thear good &
myne own I have took extrardynary payns with
the end, & alterd one other scean in the third act.
which they have now in parts. for ye Arreighnment, if
yu will please to be my paymr. as for the other, they
shall have it, if not, try my Tragoedy first & as yt
proves so deal with me, in the mean my necessity is
such yt I must use other means to be furnisht upon
it; Before god, I can have 25l. for it as some of ye
company know; but such is my much debt to yu,
yt. so long as my labors may Pleasure them & yu say
ye word, I am wholy yours to be
ever comaunded I pray, Sr, if yu resolv to do this curtesy
for ye company, let me hav 40s. more
tell we seatel, 25 June 1613. Father Hinchlow,
have it againe; and make any satisfaction by writing,
or otherwise yt you can devise. I am loath
to importune, because I know yor disbursments
are great; nor must any know I send to you, for
then my creditor will not free me, but for the
whole some. I pray speedily consider my occasion,
for if I be putt to use other means, I hope all men,
and yor selfe will excuse me, if (inforcedly) I cannot
proove so honest, as towards you, I ever resolv'd
to be.
yor Loving son, Mr. Hinchlow, I have ever since I saw yu kept
my bed, being so lame that I cannot stand. I
pray, Sr, goe forward with that reasonable bargayn
for The Bellman; we will hav but twelv pounds
and the overplus of the second day, whearof I hav
had ten shillings, and desyre but twenty shillings
more, till yu hav 3 sheets of my papers. Good Sr,
consyder how for yr sake I hav put myself out
of the assured way to get mony, and from twenty
pounds a play am come to twelv; thearfor in my
extremyty forsake me not, as yu shall ever comand
me. my wif can aquaynt yu how infinite great my
occation is, and this shall be sufficient for the receipt,
till I come to set my hand to your booke.
yor at comand 3 Agust, 1613. Lent Mr Daborne upon this not [note]
the 23 of Agust in earnest of a playe called
The Bellman of London, xxs. Mr Allen, co&mbar;ends
till more Intemperatr Mr. Meade thrust us over,
taking the day from us wch by cours was owrs;
though by the time wee can yet claime none, &
that power hee exacted on us, for the prosecution
of or further suite in a house; wee intreate you to
for-think well of the place, (though it crave a
speedie resolution) lest wee make a second fruitless
paines and as wee purpose to dedicate all or paines
powers & frends all referent to yor uses: so wee intreate
you in the meane time, to look toward or necessityes;
leaving you ever a certaine forme of satisfaction;
wee have neede of some monie (indeed
urdgent necessitie,) wch wee rather wish you did
heare in conference then by report in writing; wee
have to receive from the court (wch after shrovetide
wee meane to pursue with best speede) a great
summe of monie; meane while, if you'le but furnish
us with the least halfe, wch will be fortie
pounds; it shall be all confirm'd to you, till your
satisfaction of the fourty. what we can do for yor
availe or purpos, wee profess or readiest furtherance,
and you shall co&mbar;and it, for wch wee entreat this
kindness from you, still resting
In your emploimente Sr. I hav bin twise to speak with yu both for the
sheet I told yu off, as also to know yr determination
for the company, wheather yu purpose they shall
have the play or noe. they rate upon me, I hear,
bycause the Kingsmen hav given out they shall
hav it. if yu please, I will make yu full amends for
thear wrong to yu in my last play, before they get
this; for I know it is this play must doe them
good, if yu purpose any to them. I hav sent yu 2
sheets more, so yt yu hav 3 sheets, & I desyre yu to
send me 30s. more, which is just eight pound,
besyds my rent, which I will fully satisfy yu eather
by them or the Kings men, as yu please. good sr let
me know yr mynd, for I desyre to make yu part of
amends for yr great ffryndship to me, wishing my
labor or service could deserv yu: so trusting one
yr gentlenes, which cannot long be without satisfaction,
now I rest
ever at yr comaund Lent Mrs Daborne upon this bill more,
the 29 of october . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxs. Sr., yr man was with me, whoe found me wrighting
the last scean, which I had thought to have
brought yu to night, but it will be late ear I can doe
it; & being satterday night, my occation urges me
to request yu spare me xs. more, & for yr mony, if
yu please not to stay till Johnsons play3 note be playd,
the Kings men hav bin very earnest with me to
pay yu in yr mony for yr curtesy, whearin yu shall
have 30s. profit with many thanks. purposing to
morow nyght, if yu call not upon me, to com &
shew yu fynis. I pray Sr supply this my last occation,
which crowns ye rest of yr curtesies, to which
I will now giv speedy requitall, resting.
ever at yr comaund Nov: 13 1613 Sr, if ever my service may do yu so much pleasure,
or my ability make yu payment for it, let me receav
now this curtesy from yow, being but xs. by god,
had it not bin sunday, I would not have for twise so
much wrote to yu in this manner, but my Lord
Willoughby hath sent for me to goe to him to
morow morning, by six a clocke, & I know not how
Proffitable it may be to me; & without yr kindnes
hearin I cannot goe: he goes away with the king
to-morow morning; whearfor I must be thear by
tymes. making this last tryall of yr love & favor, I
rest
yis to comaund Lent upon this bill the 2 of Aguste 1614. Mr Hinchlow, I builded upon yr promyse to my
wife, neather did I aquaint the company with any
mony I had of yow, bicause they should seek to
yu., as I know they will & giv you any terms yu can
desyre: if they doe not, I will bring yu yr mony for
the papers & many thanks, neather will I fayle to
bring in the whole play next week; whearfor I
pray Sr of all ffryndship, disburse one 40s. & this
note shall suffice to acknowledg my self indebted
to yu with my qrters rent 8l., for which yu shall
eather have the whole companyes bonds to pay
yu the first day of my play being playd, or the
Kings mershall pay it yu & take my papers. Sr my
credit is as deer to me now as ever & I will be as
carefull of it as heartofore, or may I never prosper
nor myne! so, desyring this may satisfy yu till yu
appoynt a tyme when I shall bring yu the companies
bond, I rest expecting yu no more defering me,
ever at yr comand Mr Hinchlow, yu accuse me with the breach of
promise. trew it is, I promysd to bring yu the last
Scean, which yt yu may see finished, I send yu the
foule sheet, and ye fayr I was wrighting as yr man
can testify; which, if great busnies had not provented,
I had this night fynished. Sr, yu meat me
by ye comon measuer of Poets: if I could not liv
by it & be honest, I would giv it over: for rather
then I would be unthankfull to yu, I would famish.
thearfor accuse me not till yu hav cause. if yu
pleas to &pab;form my request, I shall think myself beholding
to yu for it. howsoever, I will not fayle to
write this fayr & &pab;fit the book, which shall not ly
one yr hands.
yrs to comaund Lent at this tyme 8s. the 13 of November, 1613. Sr I have sent to yu to request yu to send me the
twenty shillings I soe earnstly desyred yu to lend
me last night; for which, as all the rest of yr mony,
I will give yow that honnest & just satisfaction one
Tuesday next, if yu please to come or send to
me, as I told yu, yt yu shall never repent yr many
curtesyes to me; which ty me so far to &pab;form the
faythfull part of an honnest man, yt I shall never
trewly rest contented till I manyfest myself worthy
yr great favor, which ever I will aknowledge in all
servic
to be comaunded 27 Nov. 1613. Wittnes Sr out of the great love I have felt from yu, I am
to request yu to my great occation & present necessety,
which with less mony will be unsupplied,
to send me 20s. I pray, sr, accoumpt me not
amongst the number of those yt wholy serv thear
own turns, for god knows it is not mony could hyre
me to be dishonest to so worthy a ffrynd as yu ar:
whearfor sinc thear remayns so small a so&mbar;, I pray
part with it to my good which xs. will not I protest
doe: yu know it is term tyme, and a litle mony
wanting will much hynder me; whearfor, good Sr,
let me fynd yu put some trust in me, which when I
deceav, god forsake me & myne. one munday
I will be with yu, so desyring yu to send me the
Book yu promysd & no less than 20s. I rest
ever at yr comaund 7 Nov. 1613. Witnes Mr Hinchlow, I acquaynted you with my necessity,
which I know you did in part supply, but if yu
doe not help me to tenn shillings by this bearer by
the living god I am utterly disgract, one ffryday
night I will bring you papers to the valew of three
acts. Sr my occation is not ordynary, that thus sodeynly
I write to you; whearfor I beseech you doe
this for me, as ever yu wisht me well, which if I
requite not, heaven forget me. Lent upon this bill xs. to the fencer, upon the owle. Mr Griffin, my occation is so much above
ordynary loss, yt if yu cannot procure Mr Hinchlow
to let me have the 40s. Ile deliver yu a paten worth
a hundred pound into yr hands for it, till I pay it
agayn: whearfor I pray, Sr, doe my extremyty this
curtesy, & I will requitt it more then I will write.
I pray, Sr, let me instantly speak with yu, for it concerns
me nearly
yr much distressed frynd, Lent uppon a pattent to Mr Dawborne xls. Sr I wrote to yow by my wif, hopinge, upon yr
receipt of all my papers, yt yow would have pleasured
me with 20s. if not upon the play yow have,
yet upon my other out of yr booke, which I will
undertake shall make as good a play for yr publiqe
howse as ever was playd; for which I desyre but
ten pounds, & I will undertake upon the reading it,
your company shall giv yu 20l. rather than part with
it. Sr, howsoever my want inforces me for a tyme,
I shall shortly be out of it, & be able to forbear a
play till I can make the best. it is but 20s. I desyre,
till yu have mony or security to yr content. for yt yu
ar out of. I have upon my wifes words keept
one all this day heer, assuring myself yu would
for my much good have pleasured me this onc,
which I beseech at yr hands, though yu never lay
out penny more in which trust I rest
ever at yr comaund 9 December 1613. Sr. doe not thinke I incroch upon yu, for
god is my judg, I mean playnly & justly
& yu shall make yr own terms with me in
any thinge. Receaved by mee Robert Daborne gentleman of
Phillip Hinchlow Esquier the 24 of December 1613,
the some of seven pounds in part of payment of
the some of tenn pounds, which I am to receave
of the said Phillip Hinchlow in full satisfaction of a
plaie called The Owle, when I have fynishedd and
made perfect the same, accordinge to a bond made
by mee to the said Phillip for the same. In wittnes
whereof I have hereto sett my hand the daye and
yeare first above written.
Rob: Daborne. The Condition of this obligac&obar;n is such, that if
the above bounden Robert Daborne shall deliver or
cause to be deliverd one plaie fullie perfected and
ended Called by the name of The Oule unto the
said Phillip Hinchlow, at, or uppon, the tenth
daye of ffebruarie next ensuinge the date hereof,
which the said Phillip Hinchlow shall approove
alowe and accept of, that then and from hence
foorth this present obligac&obar;n to bee voyde and of
non effect, or else to remayne in full power strength
and virtue.
Robert Daborne. Signed Sealed and Delvred in the presence
of Edwarde Griffin, Walter Hopkinss,
Geo: Hales.
Sr, I yeeld yu many thanks for yr last kindnes,
which did me infinite pleasure. I hav bin very ill
this week of an extream cold, ells I had come this
night unto you. I will request no farther curtesy at
yr hands upon any occation till yu hav papers in
full & to yr content only the other tenn shillings
which I requested agst this day, being a tyme yt requires
me beyond my present means. Sr, think not
yr curtesy can loose by me. I will be any thing
rather then Ingratefull to so much love as I hav
receaved from yu. as yu hav donn what I can desyre
in doing this, so now look for my honnest care to
discharge my bond. I will not truble yu with many
words. god send yu many hapy new years & me no
otherwise then I approv myself honnest to yu
yrs ever at comaund 31o December 1613 one [on] munday I will come to yu, &
appoynt for the reading the old Book &
bring in the new. pd upon this bille toward The Owle. xs. Articles of Agreement,] made concluded and
agreed uppon and wch are to be kept & performed
by Robert Dawes of London Gent unto and with
Phillipp Henslowe Esqre and Jacob [Meade Waterman]
in manner and forme following, that is to
say Imprimis. the said Robert Dawes for him his
executors and administrators doth covenante promise
and graunt to and with the said Phillipp
Henslowe and Jacob Meade their executors administrators
and assynes in manner and formme followinge
that is to saie that he the said Robert
Dawes shall and will plaie with such company as
the said Phillipp Henslowe and Jacob Meade shall
appoynte for and during the tyme and space of
three yeares from the date hereof for and at the
rate of one whole Share accordinge to the custome
of players; and that he the said Robert Dawes
shall and will at all tymes during the said terme
duly attend all suche rehearsall which shall the
night before the rehearsall be given publickly out;
and if that he the saide Robert Dawes shall at any
tyme faile to come at the hower appoynted, then
he shall and will pay to the said Phillipp Henslowe
and Jacob Meade their executors or assignes
Twelve pence; and if he come not before the
saide rehearsall is ended then the said Robert
Dawes is contented to pay twoe shillings; and
further that if the said Robert Dawes shall not every
daie whereon any play is or ought to be played be
ready apparrelled and &wblank; to begyn the play at the
hower of three of the clock in the afternoone unles
by sixe of the same Company he shall be lycenced
to the contrary, that then he the saide Robert
Dawes shall and will pay unto the said Phillipp and
Jacob or their assignes three [shillings] and if that
he the saide Robert Dawes Happen to be overcome
with drinck at the tyme when he [ought to] play,
by the Judgment of ffower of the said company, he
shall and will pay Tenne shillings and if he [the
said Robert Dawes] shall [faile to come] during any
plaie having noe lycence or just excuse of sicknes
he is contented to pay Twenty shillings; and
further the said Robert Dawes for him his executors
and administrators doth covenant and graunt to
and with the said Phillipp Henslowe and Jacob
Meade their executors administrators and asignes
by these presents, that it shall and may be lawfull
unto and for the said Phillip Henslowe and Jacob
Meade their executors or assignes during the
terme aforesaid to receave and take back to their
owne proper use the &pab;t of him the said Robert
Dawes of and in one moyetie or halfe part of all
suche moneyes as shal be receaved at the Galleres
& tyring howse of such house or howses wherein
he the saide Robert Dawes shall play; for and in
consideration of the use of the same howse and
howses, and likewis shall and may take and receave
his other moyetie
of ffortie pounds of lawfull [money of England]
Imprimis in march 1612, uppon Mr Hinchlowes
joyning companes with Mr Rossiter, the companie
borrowed 80li. of one Mr Griffin, and the same was
put into Mr Hinchlowe's debt, which made it sixteen
score pounds, who after the receipt of the
same or the most parte thereof, in march 1613, hee
broke the said companies againe and ceazed all the
stocke under culler to satisfie what remayned due
to him; yet perswaded Mr Griffyne afterwards to
arest the companie for his 80li. who are still in
daunger for the same. Soe nowe there was in
equitie due to the companie Item, Mr. Hinchlowe having lent one Taylor2 note
30li. and 20li. to one Baxter, fellowes of the companie,
cunninglie put theire said privat debts into
the general accompt, by which meanes hee is in
conscience to allow them Item, havinge the stock of Apparell in his hands
to secure his debt, he sould tenn pounds worth of
ould apparell out of the same, without accomptinge
or abatinge for the same. heare growes due to the
Companie Alsoe uppon the departure of one Eglestone a fellowe
of the companie, he recovered of him 14li.
towards his debt which is in conscience likewise to
bee allowed to the companie In march 1613 hee makes up a Companie and
buies apparell of one Rosseter to the value of 63li.:
and valued the ould stocke that remayned in his
hands at 63li. likewise then uppon his word acceptinge
the same at that rate, which beinge prized
by Mr Daborne justli, betweene his partner Meade
and him came but to 40li. so here growes due to
the Companie Item, he agrees with the same companie that
they should enter bond to plaie with him for three
yeares at such house and houses as hee shall appointe,
and to allowe him halfe galleries for the
said house and houses and the other halfe galleries
towards his debt of 126li. and other such moneys
as hee should laie out for playe apparrel duringe the
space of the said three yeares agreeinge with them,
in considerac&obar;n wheareof to seale each of them a
bond of 200li. to find them a convenient house and
houses and to laie out such monies as fower of the
sharers should think fitt for theire use in apparrell
which at the three yeares beinge paid for to be delivered
to the Shares; whoe accordinglie entered
the said bonds, but Mr Henslowe and Mr Mead
deferred the same and in conclusion utterly denied
to seale at all. Item, Mr Hinchlowe having promised in considerac&obar;n
of the companies lying still one daie in
forteene for his baytinge, to give them 50li. hee
having denied to bee bound as aforesaid gave them
onlie 40li. and for that Mr Field would not consent
thereunto, hee gave him soe much as his share out
of 50li. would have come unto, by which meanes
hee is dulie indebted to the companie. In June followinge the said agreement, hee
brought in Mr. Pallant and shortlie after Mr Dawes
into the said Companie, promising one 12s. a
weeke out of his part of the galleries and the other
6s. a weeke out of his part of the galleries, and
likewise Mr Field was thought not to be drawne
thereunto; hee promised him six shillinges
weeklie alsoe, which in one moneth after unwilling
to beare so greate a charge, he called the Companie
together, and told them that this 24s. was to
be charged upon them; threatninge those which
would not consent thereunto to breake the Companie
and make up a newe without them. Wheareuppon
knowinge hee was not bound, the three
quarters sharers advauncing them selves to whole
sharers consented thereunto, by which meanes
they are out of purse 30li. and his parte of the
galleries bettred twise as much. Item, having 9 gatherers more than his due, itt
comes to this yeare from the Companie. Item, the Companie paid for Arras and other
properties 40li. which Mr Henchlowe deteyneth 40li. In februarie last 1614, perceivinge the Companie
drew out of his debt and called uppon him for his
accompts hee brooke the Companie againe by withdrawinge
the hired men from them, and sells theire
stocke in his hands for 400li. givinge under his
owne hand that he had receaved towards his
debt Which with the juste and conscionable allowances
before named made to the Companie which
comes to 267li. makes He chargeth the stocke with 600li. and odd
pounds, towards which hee hath receaved as aforesaid
567li. of us; yet sells the stocke to strangers
for fower hundred pounds and makes us no satisfaction. Hee hath taken all bonds of our hired men in his
own name, whose wages though wee have truly
paid, yet att his pleasure hee hath taken them
awaye, and turned them over to others to the
breckinge of our Companie. For lendinge of vili. to pay them their wages,
hee made us enter and to give him the profitt of a
warrant of tenn pounds due to us at court. Also hee hath taken right gould and silver lace of
divers garments to his owne use without accompt to
us or abatement.
Uppon every breach of the Companie hee takes
new bonds for his stocke, and our securitie for
playinge with him: soe that hee hath in his hands
bonds of ours to the value of 5000li. and his stocke
to; which he denies to deliver, and threatens to
oppresse us with. Alsoe havinge appointed a man to the seeinge of
his accompts in byinge of clothes, hee beinge to
have vis. a weeke, he takes the meanes away and
turnes the men out. The reason of his often breakinge with us hee
gave in these words: Should these fellowes come
out of my debt, I should have noe rule with them. Alsoe wee have paid him for plaie-books 200li.
or thereabouts, and yet he denies to give us the
coppies of any one of them. Also within 3 yeares hee hath broken and dismembered
five Companies. [By the liberal friendship of Mr. Douce, I am
permitted to enrich the present work by the insertion
of the following very curious and valuable
essay. The cuts by which it was originally illustrated
are unfortunately mislaid; but Mr. Douce is
not one of those writers of whom it need be said
that “the pictures for the page atone.”
Boswell.] The ensuing dissertation originated from the
opinion of a late eminent critic and antiquary that
the subject was deserving of particular consideration.
How imperfectly it must be executed will
best be felt by those who are already accustomed
to obscure inquiries; and little more can here be
offered, or reasonably expected, than some attempt
to arrange a few materials that have occurred during
a course of reading immediately connected with
the history of ancient manners. The critic above
alluded to had remarked, that Shakspeare has
most judiciously varied and discriminated his fools3 note.
Without doubting that great writer's capacity to
have done so, it certainly remains to be proved
that he has; or it might even be maintained that
on some occasions he has left his sketches so imperfect
as to render it by no means an easy matter to
comprehend them. It has already been thought
better to make the attempt in a separate note to
the plays in which a clown or fool is introduced, and
to direct what is now offered to a more general
view of the subject. It is so exceedingly clear that the terms clown
and fool were used, however improperly, as synonymous
by our old writers, that it would be an
unnecessary occupation of the reader's time to adduce
examples. Their confused introduction in the
dramatis personæ might indeed render this position
doubtful to any one who had not well considered
the matter; but although the fool of our old plays
denoted either a mere idiot or natural, or else a
witty hireling or artificial fool, both retained for the
purpose of making sport for their employers, the
clown was certainly a character of much greater
variety. He occasionally represented one of the
above personages; sometimes he was a mere rustic,
and very often no more than a shrewd and witty
domestic. There are some instances in which any
low character in a play served to amuse the audience
with his sallies of coarse buffoonery, and thus
became the clown of the piece. In short, the
theatrical clown or fool seems to have been a kind
of heterogeneous character, drawn in part from
real life, but very considerably heightened in order
to produce stage effect: an opinion that derives
considerable support from what Shakspeare has put
into the mouth of Hamlet, when he makes him
admonish those who play the clowns to speak no
more than is set down for them. Indeed the great
dramatist himself cannot be absolved from the imputation
of having given too high a colouring
to the characters in question, unless we suppose,
what is extremely probable, that his plays have
been very much interpolated with the extemporaneous
nonsense of the players. To this licentious
practice the author of an excellent and well
written satire, entitled Pasquil's Mad-cappe, throwne
at the Corruptions of these Times, 1626, 4to. alludes
in the following lines: Among other grave writers of the age, Sir Philip
Sidney has reprobated the practice of introducing
fools on the theatre. He remarks that the plays of
his time were neither right tragedies nor right
comedies, but that the authors mingled kings and
clowns, “not,” says he, “because the matter so
carieth it, but thrust in the clowne by head and
shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with
neither decencie nor discretion: so as neither the
admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnesse
is by their mongrell tragi-comedie obtained4 note.”
William Rankin, a puritan, and contemporary
with Shakspeare, has left us a most virulent
attack on plays, and players, whom he calls monsters;
“And whie monsters,” says he, “Bicause
under colour of humanitie they present nothing but
prodigious vanitie. These are wels without water,
dead branches fit for fuell, cockle amongst corne,
unwholesome weedes amongst sweete hearbes, and
finallie, feends that are crept into the worlde by
stealth, and holde possession by subtill invasion.”
In another place, describing the performers at a
fictitious banquet in Terralbon, [England] he says,
“Some transformed themselves to roges, other to
ruffians, some other to clownes, a fourth to fooles It may be the means of affording a clearer view
of the present subject, if something like a classification
of the different sorts of fools and clowns be
given. The following is therefore offered as a substitute
for a better. I. The general domestic fool, often, but as it
should seem improperly, termed a clown. He was,
1. A mere natural, or idiot. 2. Silly by nature,
yet cunning and sarcastical. 3. Artificial. Puttenham,
speaking of the latter, says, “A buffoune
or counterfet foole, to here him speake wisely
which is like himselfe, it is no sport at all; but for
such a counterfait to talke and looke foolishly it
maketh us laugh, because it is no part of his
naturall6 note.” All these officiated occasionally as
menial servants. II. The clown, who was, 1. A mere country
booby. 2. A witty rustic. 3. Any servant of a
shrewd and witty disposition, and who, like a
similar character in our modern plays, was made to
treat his master with great familiarity in order to
produce stage effect. III. The female fool, who was generally an idiot. IV. The city or corporation fool, whose office
was to assist at public entertainments and in
pageants. To this class belong perhaps the Lord
Mayor's state fool, and those employed by the
companies of trades, &c. V. Tavern fools. These seem to have been
retained to amuse the customers. We learn from
one of Ben Jonson's plays that they exhibited with
a Jew's harp, mounted on a joint-stool7 note, and in another
of them he has preserved the name of such a
character8 note: they were sometimes qualified to sing
after the Italian manner9 note. Fools were also employed
in the common brothels1 note. VI. The fool of the ancient theatrical mysteries
and moralities. He was, more properly speaking,
the Vice, a singular character, that would afford
sufficient matter for much better dissertations than
those of Warburton or Upton. Being generally
dressed in a fool's habit, he appears to have been
gradually and undistinguishably blended with the
domestic fool; yet he was certainly a buffoon of a
different sort. He was always a bitter enemy to
the Devil, and a part of his employment consisted
in teazing and tormenting the poor fiend on every
occasion. He ceased to be in fashion at the end of
the sixteenth century2 note. VII. The fool in the old dumb shows exhibited at
fairs and perhaps at inns, in which he was generally
engaged in a struggle with Death; a fact that
seems alluded to more than once in Shakspeare's
plays. It is possible that some casual vestiges of
this species of entertainment might have suggested
the modern English pantomimes. VIII. The fool in the Whitsun ales and Morris
dance. IX. The mountebank's fool, or Merry Andrew. There may be others introduced into our old
dramas of an indefinite and irregular kind, and not
reducible to any of the above classes; but to exemplify
these or many of the above by a specific
reference to authorities is not within the scope of
the present essay. It is hoped that what has been
just stated may contribute to assist the readers of
old plays in forming some judgment of their own
whenever the necessity shall arise. A general investigation of that most singular and
eccentric character the real domestic fool would
occupy more space than could here have been
spared. It would indeed extend to a length that
few will conceive; but should the same laudable
spirit of curiosity respecting the manners of former
times which at present constitutes much of the
amusement of an enlightened public continue to
maintain its influence, encouragement would not
be wanting to resume the subject more at large.
In the mean time it may be sufficient to remark
that the practice of retaining fools can be traced in
very remote times throughout almost all civilized
and even among some barbarous nations. It prevailed
from the palace to the brothel. The pope
had his fool, and the bawd her's; and ladies entertained
them of both sexes. With respect to the
antiquity of this custom in our own country, there
is reason to suppose that it existed even during the
period of our Saxon history; but we are quite
certain of the fact in the reign of William the conqueror.
An almost contemporary historian, Maitre
Wace, has left us a curious account of the preservation
of William's life when he was only duke of
Normandy by his fool Goles3 note. Mention is made in
Domesday of Berdic joculator regis; and although
this term was unquestionably applied in numerous
instances to denote a minstrel, much evidence
might be adduced to show that on this occasion it
signified a buffoon. Latin terms were used by the
middle-age writers so licentiously and with such
extreme carelessness, that in many cases it is difficult
to obtain a precise idea of their meaning.
Thus the jesters and minstrels were indefinitely expressed
by the words joculator, scurra, mimus,
ministrallus, &c., a practice that may admit of justification
when we consider that in early times the
minstrel and buffoon characters were sometimes
united in one person. It must be allowed, however,
that in an etymological point of view the term
joculator is much better adapted to the jester than
the minstrel. The accounts of the household expenses of our
sovereigns contain many payments and rewards to
fools both foreign and domestic, the motives for
which do not appear, but might perhaps have been
some witty speech or comic action that had pleased
the donors. Some of these payments are annual
gifts at Christmas. Dr. Fuller, speaking of the
court jester, whom he says some count a necessary
evil, remarks, in his usual quaint manner, that
it is an office which none but he that hath wit can
perform, and none but he that wants it will perform4 note.
A great many names of these buffoons
have been preserved; and sufficient materials
remain to furnish a separate biography of them,
which might afford even more amusement than can
be found in the lives of many of their betters. They
continued an appurtenance to the English court to
a late period. Muckle John, the fool of Charles
the First, and the successor of Archee Armstrong,
is perhaps the last regular personage of the kind5 note
The discontinuance of the court fool had a considerable
influence on the manners of private life;
and we learn from one of Shadwell's plays, that it
was then “out of fashion for great men to keep
fools7 note.” But the practice was by no means abolished;
it maintained its ground in this country so
late as the beginning of the last century; and we
have an epitaph, written by Dean Swift, on Dicky
Pearce the Earl of Suffolk's fool, who was buried
in Berkley church-yard, June 18, 17288 note. This
person was an idiot. Lord Chancellor Talbot kept
a Welsh jester named Rees Pengelding. He was
a very shrewd fellow, and rented a farm of his master.
Being distrained on for his rent by an oppressive
steward, who had been a tailor and bore
him a grudge, the surly fellow said to him on this
occasion: “I'll fit you, sirrah.” “Then,” replied
Rees, “it will be the first time in your life that
you ever fitted any one.” Another Welshman
called Will the taborer was retained in a similar
capacity, about the beginning of the last century,
by Sir Edward Stradling, of St. Donat's castle, in
Glamorganshire. He is said to have been a very
witty fellow, and man of strong intellects. Lord
Bussy Mansel, of Margam, had likewise in his service
one Robin Rush an idiot by nature, but who
often said very witty things. There are people
now alive in Wales, or lately were, who well remembered
him. The sort of entertainment that fools were expected
to afford, may be collected in great variety
from our old plays, and particularly from those of
Shakspeare; but perhaps no better idea can be
formed of their general mode of conduct than from
the following passage in a singular tract by Lodge,
entitled Wit's Miserie, 1599, 4to. “Immoderate
and disordinate joy became incorporate in the
bodie of a jeaster; this fellow in person is comely,
in apparell courtly, but in behaviour a very ape,
and no man; his studie is to coine bitter jeasts, or
to shew antique motions, or to sing baudie sonnets
and ballads: give him a little wine in his head, he
is continually flearing and making of mouthes: he
laughs intemperately at every little occasion, and
dances about the house, leaps over tables, out-skips
mens heads, trips up his companions heeles, burns
sack with a candle, and hath all the feats of a lord
of misrule in the countrie: feed him in his humor,
you shall have his heart, in meere kindness he will
hug you in his armes, kisse you on the cheeke, and
rapping out an horrible oth, crie God's soule Tum,
I love you, you know my poore heart, come to my
chamber for a pipe of tobacco, there lives not a
man in this world that I more honor. In these
ceremonies you shall know his courting, and it is
a speciall mark of him at the table, he sits and
makes faces: keep not this fellow company, for in
jugling with him, your wardropes shall be wasted,
your credits crackt, your crownes consumed, and
time (the most precious riches of the world) utterly
lost.” This is the picture of a real hireling or artificial
fool. As the profession of these hirelings required a
considerable degree of skill and dexterity to amuse
their employers, so it would in some instances fail
of success, and the want of the above talents would
excite considerable disgust and dissatisfaction.
Cardinal Perron being one day in company with the
duke of Mantua, the latter speaking of his fool, said
that he was un magro buffone et non haver spirito.
The cardinal remarked that nevertheless he had
wit. “Why so?” demanded the duke; “Because,”
replied the other, “he lives by a trade
which he does not understand9 note.” The liberties
allowed them were necessarily very great; but
this was not always a protection to them. Every
one knows the disgracefully severe conduct of
archbishop Laud to poor Archee. The duke
d'Espernon, though a man of great haughtiness
of spirit, conducted himself on a similar occasion
with much more discretion. His Gascon accent
was a constant subject of raillery on the part of
Maret, the fool of Louis XIII., whose great talent
lay in mimicry. Cardinal Richelieu, who took upon
him to give the duke some pointed admonitions,
ordered him among other things to endeavour to
get rid of his provincial tones, at the same time
counterfeiting his speech, and sarcastically intreating
him not to take his advice in bad part. “But
why should I,” replied the duke, “when I bear as
much every day from the king's fool who mocks
me in your presence1 note?” Selden has remarked,
on a similar occasion, that a gallant man is above
ill words, and has left us a story of the forbearance
of the old lord Salisbury, whom he calls a great
wise man, towards Stone, a celebrated fool in the
reign of James the First2 note. Fools, however, did
not always escape with impunity; they were liable
to, and often experienced, very severe domestic
castigation. Whipping was the punishment generally
inflicted3 note. On the other hand they appear
to have been sometimes used with great tenderness.
This is very feelingly exemplified in the conduct of
Lear. Stafford, in his Guide of Honour, 1634,
18mo. tells us, that he “had knowne a great and
competently wise man who would much respect
any man that was good to his foole.” An opportunity
here presents itself of explaining the old
proverb of “five pounds; you've bled a fool,”
which, adverting to the usual privilege or allowance
belonging to this character, seems to demand a
forfeit from whoever had infringed it by inflicting
an improper and unlawful chastisement. This exposition
derives support from a passage in Ben
Jonson's Fox, and also contributes to its illustration.
In the second act there is a song describing a fool,
in which it is said that he “speaks truth free from
slaughter.” This has been with some ingenuity
supposed to mean “free from hurting any one.”
The other construction may perhaps be thought as
plausible. With respect to his office on the stage, we may
suppose it would be nearly the same as in reality;
the difference might be that his wit was more
highly seasoned. Mr. Malone has already cited a
very curious passage on this subject from the play
of The Careless Shepherdess, 16564 note. In Middleton's
Mayor of Quinborough, a company of
actors with a clown make their appearance, and
the following dialogue ensues: Whoever is desirous of obtaining general and
accurate information concerning the great variety
of dresses that belong to some of the characters in
question at different periods, must study ancient
prints and paintings, and especially the miniatures
that embellish manuscripts. These will afford
sufficient specimens; but the difficulty of ascertaining
how the theatrical fools and clowns of Shakspeare's
time were always habited, is insuperable.
In some instances the plays themselves assist by
peculiar references that leave but little doubt; but
this is not the case in general. It is to be lamented
that our artists did not appropriate more of their
labours to the representation of theatrical subjects,
and the fortunate discovery of a single ancient
painting of this kind would be of more importance
than a volume of conjectural dissertations. As it
may be presumed that former theatrical managers
exhibited with fidelity on the stage the manners of
their own times, a reference to the materials which
remain to illustrate the dress of the real fools, may
supply the defect before alluded to. It may be collected both from the plays themselves,
and from various other authorities, that the
costume of the domestic fool in Shakspeare's time
was of two sorts. In the first of these the coat
was motley or parti-coloured, and attached to the
body by a girdle, with bells at the skirts and elbows,
though not always. The breeches and hose close,
and sometimes each leg of a different colour. A
hood resembling a monk's cowl, which, at a very
early period, it was certainly designed to imitate,
covered the head entirely, and fell down over part
of the breast and shoulders. It was sometimes decorated
with asses' ears, or else terminated in the
neck and head of a cock, a fashion as old as the
fourteenth century. It often had the comb or crest
only of the animal, whence the term cockscomb or
coxcomb was afterwards used to denote any silly
upstart. This fool usually carried in his hand an
official scepter or bauble, which was a short stick
ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's
head, or sometimes with that of a doll or puppet3 note
To this instrument there was frequently annexed
an inflated skin or bladder, with which the fool
belaboured those who offended him, or with whom
he was inclined to make sport; this was often used
by itself, in lieu, as it should seem, of a bauble.
The form of it varied, and in some instances was
obscene in the highest degree. It was not always
filled with air, but occasionally with sand, or pease.
Sometimes a strong bat or club was substituted for
the bauble4 note. In the second tale of the priests of
Peblis, a man who counterfeits a fool is described
“with club and bel and partie cote with eiris;”
but it afterwards appears that he had both a club
and a bauble. In an inventory of the goods of the
ancient company of Saint George at Norwich, mention
is made of “two habits, one for the club-bearer,
another for his man, who are now called fools5 note;”
and the author of Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatory,
1630, 4to. describes a dream in which he saw
“one attired in russet with a button'd cap on his
head, a great bag by his side, and a strong bat in
his hand, so artificially attired for a clowne, as I
began to call Tarlton's woonted shape to remembrance.” In some old prints the fool is represented with
a sort of flapper or rattle ornamented with bells.
It seems to have been constructed of two round
and flat pieces of wood or pasteboard, and is, no
doubt, a vestige of the crotalum used by the
Roman mimes or dancers6 note. This implement was
used for the same purpose as the bladder, and occasionally
for correcting the fool himself whenever
he behaved with too much licentiousness. Such a
castigation is actually exhibited in one ancient
German edition of the Ship of Fools, by Sebastian
Brandt; but the usual punishment on this occasion
was a simple whipping. In some old plays the
fool's dagger is mentioned, perhaps the same instrument
as was carried by the Vice or buffoon of
the Moralities; and it may be as well to observe
in this place that the domestic fool is sometimes,
though it is presumed improperly, called the Vice7 note.
The dagger of the latter was made of a thin piece
of lath; and the use he generally made of it was
to belabour the Devil. It appears that in queen
Elizabeth's time the archbishop of Canterbury's
fool had a wooden dagger and coxcomb8 note. In
Greene's play of Fryer Bacon, the fool speaks of
his dagger. In Beaumont and Fletcher's Noble
Gentleman, a person being compared to a fool, it
is added that he should wear a guarded coat and
a great wooden dagger. In Chapman's Widow's
Tears, an upstart governor is termed “a wooden
dagger gilded o'er;” and Rabelais has made
Panurge give Triboulet the fool a wooden sword.
In an old German print a fool is represented with a
sword like a saw. The other dress, and which seems to have been
more common in the time of Shakspeare, was the
long petticoat. This originally appertained to the
ideot or natural fool, and was obviously adopted for
the purposes of cleanliness and concealment. Why
it came to be used for the allowed fool is not so apparent.
It was, like the first, of various colours, the
materials often costly, as of velvet, and guarded or
fringed with yellow9 note. In one instance we have a
yellow leather doublet1 note. In Bancroft's Epigrams,
1639, quarto, there is one addressed “to a giglot
with her greene sicknesse,” in which are these lines: And a manuscript note in the time of the commonwealth
states yellow to have been the fool's
colour. This petticoat dress continued to a late
period, and has been seen not many years since in
some of the interludes exhibited in Wales. But the above were by no means the only modes
in which the domestic fools were habited. Many
variations can be traced. The hood was not always
surmounted with the cock's-comb, in lieu of which
a single bell and occasionally more appeared.
Sometimes a feather was added to the comb. In
the old morality of The Longer Thou Livest the
More Foole Thou Art, Moros the fool says, The head was frequently shaved in imitation or
perhaps ridicule of a monk's crown. This practice
is very ancient, and can be traced to the twelfth
century. In one instance the hair exhibits a sort
of triple or Papal crown. The tails of foxes or
squirrels were often suspended to the garment.
Godfrey Gobilive the fool in Hawes's Pastime of
Pleasure, 1517, 4to. is described as so habited. In
The Pope's Funerall, 1605, 4to. the author says,
“I shall prove him such a noddy before I leave him
that all the world will deeme him worthy to weare
in his forehead a coxcombe for his foolishness, and
on his back, a fox tayle for his badge.” It was
likewise the dress of the fool in the plough pageant
and morris dance2 note. One might almost conclude
that this custom was designed to ridicule a fashion
that prevailed among the ladies in the reign of
Edward the Third, and which is mentioned by the
author of the old chronicle of England, erroneously
ascribed to Caxton the printer in the following
terms, “And the women more nysely yet passed
the men in aray and coriouslaker, for they were so
streyt clothed that they let hange fox tailles sowed
bineth within hir clothes for to hele and hide thir
a—, the which disguysinges and pride paradventure
afterward brouzt forth and encaused many
myshappes and meschief in the reame of Englond.”
The idiot or natural was often clothed in a calf or
sheep's skin3 note. A large purse or wallet at the girdle is a very
ancient part of the fool's dress. Tarlton, who personated
the clowns in Shakspeare's time, appears
to have worn it4 note. The budget given by Panurge
to Triboulet the fool is described as made of a
tortoise shell5 note. We may suppose, that the same variety of dress
was observed on the stage which we know to have
actually prevailed in common life. The fools,
however, did not always appear in a discriminative
habit, and some of their portraits still remaining
confirm this observation. A very fine painting by
Holbein, in Kensington palace, represents Will
Somers the fool of Henry the Eighth, in a common
dress6 note. In a wardrobe account of that sovereign
we find these articles: “For making a dubblette of
wursteede lyned with canvas and cotton, for
William Som'ar oure foole. Item for making of a
coote and cappe of grene clothe fringed with red
crule and lyned with fryse, for our saide foole.
Item for making of a dublette of fustian, lyned with
cotton and canvas for oure same foole.” Yet he
sometimes wore the usual hood instead of a cap;
for in the same account is an article “For making
of a coote of grene clothe with a hoode to the same,
fringed with white crule lyned with fryse and bokerham,
for oure foole aforesaid7 note;” and there is a
print of him after a picture by Holbein, in which he
is represented in a long tunic with a chain and
horn in his hand8 note. In the celebrated picture of Sir
Thomas More's family by Holbein, Patenson the
fool is not distinguished by any peculiarity of dress;
and, in one instance at least, the same remark
applies to Archy the fool of James I.9 note In those
families where the fool acted as a menial servant,
it is possible that he might have reserved his official
habit for particular occasions. The paucity of
materials that illustrate the theatrical character in
question, must necessarily leave this part of the
subject still more imperfect than the rest; but the
plays of Shakspeare have furnished more information
than those of any other writer. It is surprising,
on the whole, that the character of the
domestic fool is so seldom found in the old dramas
that remain; because it was not only capable of
affording considerable mirth to the unrefined part
of the audience, but of giving the authors an
opportunity of displaying a great deal of ingenuity
so far as regarded extemporary wit. It is certain
that the fools in Shakspeare's plays were preeminent
above all others. For this we have the authority
of Shadwell, who makes one of his characters
say that they had more wit than any of the wits
and critics of his time1 note. Beaumont and Fletcher
have but rarely introduced them; Ben Jonson and
Massinger never. Indeed the originals had rapidly
declined at the period in which most of their plays
were written, and another character of a mixed
nature been substituted in their room. This was
the witty servant or clown, (Class II. No. 3,) and
of course his dress was not distinguished by any
peculiarity. The practice of introducing the fools and clowns
between the acts and scenes, and after the play
was finished, to amuse the audience with extemporaneous
wit and buffoonery, has been so well
illustrated by the able historian of the English
stage, that very little can remain to be said on the
subject2 note. It has been traced from the Greek and
Roman theatres; and, as their usages were undoubtedly
preserved in those of the middle ages
that belonged to the countries where Roman
influence had been spread, it would not of course
be peculiar to the early stage in England. Indeed
the records of the French theatre amply demonstrate
the truth of this position, and furnish several
examples of the practice in question. In the
mystery of Saint Barbara we find this stage direction,
“Pausa. Vadant, et Stultus loquitur;” and
he is several times introduced in like manner
between the scenes, in order that the amusement
of the spectators might not be suspended whilst
something was in agitation for the further prosecution
of the piece3 note. Perhaps the most singular
pause in any dramatic composition whatsoever is
one which occurs in the very rare morality of La
Condamnacion des Banquetz in the following
words, “Pause pour pisser le fol. Il prent ung
coffinet en lieu de orinal & pisse dedans, et tout
coule par bas,” sign. M iiij. Nor was the English
stage in Shakspeare's time allowed to remain
empty. Lupton has related a story of the clown at
the Red Bull theatre, who was suddenly called for
between the acts and forgot his fool's cap4 note. Puttenham,
speaking of verses that rhyme in the
middle and end, observes that “they were more
commodiously uttered by the buffoons or vices in
playes then by any other person5 note.” It was likewise
a part of the stage fool's office to introduce at
his own discretion a great many old songs, or at
least the fragments of them6 note. The first symptoms of the decline of the domestic
fools, and the causes of it, have been already
touched on; and the same reasons may partly be
assigned for their exile from the stage. In the
præludium to Goffe's Careless Shepherdess, 1656,
4to. there is a panegyric on them7 note, and some concern
is manifested for the fool's absence in the play
itself. It is likewise expressly stated that “the
motly coat was banish'd with trunk-hose.” Yet
during the reign of Charles the Second occasional
efforts were made to restore the character. In the
tragedy of Thorney Abbey, or the London Maid,
1662, 12mo. the prologue is spoken by a fool who
uses these words, “the poet's a fool who made the
tragedy to tell a story of a king and a court and
leave a fool out on't, when in Pacy's and Sommer's
and Patche's and Archee's times, my venerable
predecessours, a fool was alwaies the principal verb.”
Shadwell's play of The Woman Captain, 1680, is
perhaps the last in which a regular fool is introduced,
and even there his master is made to say
that the character was then exploded on the stage. [It would be vain for me to attempt any addition
to the researches of Mr. Douce on this or any other
subject, to which he had applied his inexhaustible
stores of curious information. Yet there is one
question to which he has not adverted, which is not
without its interest to those who are inclined to trace
what Dr. Johnson would have called the anfractuosities
of the human mind. From whence could
this singular custom have first arisen? I should
be unwilling to think that our ancestors could have
derived pleasure from the mere exhibition of a
fellow creature in the lowest and most calamitous
state of degradation; and should therefore rather
be desirous of deriving the employment of domestick
fools from a superstition, which, however absurd,
appears to have been more widely prevalent than
has been generally supposed. We have been told
by many travellers in the East, that the Turks
regard an idiot with reverence as a person divinely
inspired; and the following extraordinary passage
from the Visions of Piers Plouhman, seems to prove,
that a similar notion was entertained even by our
countrymen at an early period.
As knowledge and civilization increased, this wild
fancy would disappear, but the practice founded
upon it, would, from the force of habit, still subsist,
till by degrees the place of the fool would be
supplied by the licensed jester; and at last, this
barbarous and absurd custom would be totally
abolished. That eagerness to become acquainted with futurity,
which is confined to no period of the history
of mankind, has led to every kind of irrational
mode of divination, and to this perhaps among the
rest. Nothing supernatural could be expected from
a butcher or baker, or any one with whom the
people were living in daily and familiar intercourse;
but these unfortunate beings had nothing in
common with the rest of the species; and their
wild gestures and incoherent language would give
them something of a mysterious character. From
whence have the gipsies obtained the reputation of
being fortune-tellers, but from their strange habits
by which they are insulated from all around them?
and why should the powers of witchcraft have been
ascribed to miserable and decrepid old women, but
because they have been driven into solitude by their
poverty and infirmities? The following extracts exhibit Mr. Douce's notions
more particularly respecting the Fools in
Shakspeare.
Boswell.]
E. Alleyn.Samuell Rowlye.Will. Birde.John Daye.Robt. Shaa.
[Nov. 1599.]Robt. Shaa.Johan Middleton.
s. d. Item for a Staple for Georg Sommersetts Dore
0 ii Item for a plat for one other Dore 0 i Item for taking of a lock & setting in newewards & mending the same 0 iiii Item for fowr barrs weying nyne pounds & half ii iiii ob Mathewe Woodwarde.
Robt. Shaa.
Mr Dawborne and I have spent a great deale of
time in conference a bout this plott, wch will make
as beneficiall a play as hath come these seaven
yeares. It is out of his Love he detained it for us;
onely xl. is desir'd in hand, for wch, wee will be
bound to bring you in the play finish'd upon the
first day of August; wee would not Loose it, wee
have so assured a hope of it, and, on my knowledge
Mr Dawborne may have his request of another
Companie. pray, let us have speedie answere,
and effectuall; you know, the last money you
disburst was instly pay'd in, and wee are now in a
way to pay you allso, unlesse yor selfe, for want of
small spplie, will put us out of it. pray, let us
know when wee shall speake with you; Till when
and ever I rest
Nat. Field.
Receved of Mr Henchlowe the iiiith of
Agust 1602 for one months pay due unto my
Mr Mr Edmund Tylney upon the xxxth day
of July last the som of iiil. I say R. iiil.
Pr mei Phil. Plaistowe.
Richard Jones.Rob: Daborne.
Rom: Daborne.Hugh Attwell.
Rob: Daborne.
Rob: Daborne.
Robt. Daborne.Robt. Daborne.
R the some of xxs. of Mr Hinchlow to the
use of Mr Daborne 8o May Pd xxs.
Thos. More.
Robt. Daborne.Garret Leniage, xxs.
Robt. Daborne.
pd unto your Daughter the 11th of
March 1613 [1614] xs.
Robt. Daborne.
Rob: Darborne.
Rob: Daborne.Moyses Bawler.
Rob: Daborne.
Rob: Daborne.
I am unluckily taken on an execution of 30l. I
can be discharg'd for xxl. xl. I have from a frend:
if now in my extremity you will venture xl. more
for my Liberty, I will never share penny till you
Nat. Field.
Rob. Daborne.
Sr I hope you mistak not or remooval from the
bank's side. wee stood the intemperate weather,
frends to their best powers
Rob: Paltant
William Rowley
Joseph Taylor
John Newton
Robt. Hanten
Hugh Attwell
Anthony Smyth
Rob: Daborne
Rob Daborne
Rob: Daborne
Rob: Daborne.Moyses Bowler.
october xiiij 1613
Rob: Daborne.
Rob: Daborne.Moyses Bowler, xxs.
Rob: Daborne.Moyses Bowler.
Rob: Daborne.
Rob: Daborne.
Rob: Daborne.
Rob: Daborne
the moneys receaved at the galleries and tiring
howse dues towards the pa[ying] to them the
saide Phillip Henslowe and Jacob Meade of the
some of one hundred twenty and fower pounds
[being the value of the stock of apparell furnished
by the saide company by the said Phillip Henslowe
and Jacob Meade
the one part of him the
saide Robert Dawes or any other somes
to them for any apparell hereafter newly to be
bought by the [said Phillip Henslowe and Jacob
Meade until the saide Phillip Henslowe and Jacob
Meade] shall therby be fully satisfied contented
and paid. And further the said Robert Dawes
doth covenant [promise and graunt to and with the
said Phillip Henslowe and Jacob Meade that if he
the said Robert Dawes] shall at any time after the
play is ended depart or goe out of the [howse]
with any [of their] apparell on his body Or if the
said Robert Dawes [shall carry away any propertie]
belonging to the said Company or shal be consentinge
[or privy to any other of the said company
going out of the howse with any of their apparell
on his or their bodies, he the said] Robert Dawes shall
and will forfeit and pay unto the said Phillip and
Jacob or their administrators or assignes the some
and the said Robert Dawes for him his executors
and administrators doth [covenant promise and
graunt to with the said] Phillip Henslowe and Jacob
Meade their Executors and Administrators, [and
assigns]
that it shall and may be lawfull
to and for the said Phillip Henslowe and Jacob
Meade their executors and assignes to have and
use the playhows so appoynted [for the said company
one day of] every fower daies, the
said daie to be chosen by the said Phillip and
[Jacob]
monday in any week on which day it shalbe lawful
for the said Phillip [and Jacob their administrators]
and assignes to bait their bears and bulls
ther, and to use their accustomed sport and
[games]
and take to their owne use all
suche somes of money as therby shall arise and be
receaved
And the saide Robert Dawes his executors administrators
and assignes [doth hereby covenant promise
and graunt to and with the saide Philip and
Jacob,] allowing to the saide company for every
such daye the some of ffortie shillings money of
England.
[In testimony] whereof I the saide
Robert Dawes have hereunto sett my hand and
seal this [sev]enth daie of April 1614 in the
twelfth yeare [of the reign of our sovereign lord
&c.]
80li.
50li.
10li.
14li.
23li.
xli.
30li.
10li.
300li.
567li.
“Tell country players, that old paltry jests
“Pronounced in a painted motley coate,
“Filles all the world so full of cuckoes nests,
“That nightingales can scarcely sing a note:
“Oh bid them turne their minds to better meanings;
“Fields are ill sowne that give no better gleanings.”
the roges were ready, the ruffians were rude, theyr
clownes cladde as well with country condition, as in
ruffe russet; theyr fooles as fonde as might be,”
&c.5 note The latter passage is interesting, because
the clown is properly distinguished from the fool,
as he always should have been.
“This is our clown, sir.
“Simon.
“Fye, fye, your company
“Must fall upon him and beat him; he's too fair, i' faith
“To make the people laugh.
“First Cheater.
“Not as he may be dress'd sir.
“Simon.
“'Faith, dress him how you will, I'll give him
“That gift, he will never look half scurvily enough.
“Oh, the clowns that I have seen in my time.
“The very peeping out of one of them would have
“Made a young heir laugh, though his father lay a dying;
“A man undone in law the day before
“(The saddest case that can be) might for his second
“Have burst himself with laughing, and ended all
“His miseries. Here was a merry world, my masters!
“Some talk of things of state, of puling stuff;
“There's nothing in a play like to a clown,
“If he have the grace to hit on it, that's the thing indeed.
“Simon.
“Away then, shift; clown to thy motley crupper.”
“Thy sicknesse mocks thy pride, that's seldom seene
“But in foole's yellow, and the lover's greene.”
“By my trouth the thing that I desire most
“Is in my cappe to have a goodly feather.”
“And yut arn yr other beggers in hele as hit semeth
“Ac hem wanteth here wit, men and women bothe
“The wiche aren lunatik lollers, and leperes aboute
“And mad as the mone sitt: more other lasse
“Thei caren for no cold ne counteth of no hete
“And are mevinge after the mone. Moneyless thei walke
“With a good wil witlees meny wyde contreys
“Ryght as Peter dude and Paul, save that thei preche nat
“Ne myracles maken: ac meny times hem happeth
“To pphetienation of the people pleynige as hit were
“And to oure sight as hit semeth: suththe God hath the mighte
“To yeven each a whit wit. welthe and his hele
“And suffreth such so gon, hit semeth to myn inwitt
“Hit arn as hus aposteles suche peeple othr as his pvye disciples.”
Whitaker's Edition, p. 152.
The Clowns.—The character of Speed is that
of a shrewd witty servant. Launce is something
-- 444 --
different, exhibiting a mixture of archness and
rustic simplicity. There is no allusion to dress,
nor any other circumstance, that marks either of
them as the domestic fool or jester.
Love's Labour's Lost.
The Clown.—The clown in this play is a mere
country fellow. The term fool, applied to him in
Act V. Scene II. means nothing more than a silly
fellow. He has not sufficient simplicity for a natural
fool, nor wit enough for an artificial one.
Merchant of Venice.
The Clown.—There is not a single circumstance
through the whole of this play which constitutes
Lancelot an allowed fool or jester; and yet
there is some reason for supposing that Shakspeare
intended him as such, from his being called a patch
a fool of Hagar's offspring, and in one place the fool.
It is not reasonable, however, to conclude that
person like Shylock would entertain a domestic of
this description; and it is possible that the foregoing
terms may be merely designed as synonymous
with the appellation of clown, as in Love's
Labour's Lost. On the whole, we have here a
proof that Shakspeare has not observed that nice
discrimination of character in his clowns for which
some have given him credit.
As You Like It.
The Clown.—Touchstone is the domestic fool
of Frederick the duke's brother, and belongs to the
class of witty or allowed fools. He is threatened
with the whip, a mode of chastisement which was
often inflicted on this motley personage. His dress
should be a party-coloured garment. He should
occasionally carry a bauble in his hand, and wear
-- 445 --
asses' ears to his hood, which is probably the head
dress intended by Shakspeare, there being no
allusion whatever to a cock's head or comb. The
three-cornered hat which Touchstone is made to
wear on the modern stage is an innovation, and
totally unconnected with the genuine costume of
the domestic fool.
Measure for Measure.
The Clown.—The clown in this play officiates
as the tapster of a brothel; whence it has been
concluded that he is not a domestic fool, nor ought
to appear in the dress of that character. A little
consideration will serve to show that the opinion is
erroneous, that this clown is altogether a domestic
fool, and that he should be habited accordingly. In
Act II. Sc. I. Escalus calls him a tedious fool, and
Iniquity, a name for one of the old stage buffoons.
He tells him that he will have him whipt, a punishment
that was very often inflicted on fools. In
Timon of Athens we have a strumpet's fool, and a
similar character is mentioned in the first speech
in Antony and Cleopatra. But if any one should
still entertain a doubt on the subject, he may
receive the most complete satisfaction by an attentive
examination of ancient prints, many of which
will furnish instances of the common use of the
domestic fool in brothels. In Twelfth Night,
Act IV. Sc. I. Sebastian mistakes the clown for
such a character as that before us, and calls him a
foolish Greek, a term that is very happily explained
by Dr. Warburton, whose note both communicates
and receives support on the present occasion.
Othello.
The Clown.—He appears but twice in the
play, and was certainly intended to be an allowed
-- 446 --
or domestic fool in the service of Othello and
Desdemona.
King Lear.
The Fool.—The fool in this play is the genuine
domestic buffoon; but notwithstanding his sarcastical
flashes of wit, for which we must give the
poet credit, and ascribe them in some degree to
what is called stage effect, he is a mere natural
with a considerable share of cunning. Thus Edgar
calls him an innocent, and every one will immediately
distinguish him from such a character as
Touchstone. His dress on the stage should be
parti-coloured; his hood crested either with a
cock's-comb to which he often alludes, or with the
cock's head and neck. His bauble should have a
head like his own with a grinning countenance, for
the purpose of exciting mirth in those to whom he
occasionally presents it.
The kindness which Lear manifests towards his
fool, and the latter's extreme familiarity with his
master in the midst of the most poignant grief
and affliction, may excite surprise in those who are
not intimately acquainted with the simple manners
of our forefathers. An almost contemporary writer
has preserved to us a curious anecdote of William
duke of Normandy, afterwards William I. of England,
whose life was saved by the attachment and
address of his fool. An ancient Flemish chronicle
among the royal MSS. in the British Museum,
16, F. iii., commences with the exile of Salvard
lord of Roussillon and his family from Burgundy.
In passing through a forest, they are attacked by a
cruel giant, who kills Salvard and several of his
people; his wife Emergard and a few others only
escaping. This scene the illuminator of the manuscript,
which is of the fifteenth century, has chosen
to exhibit. He has represented Emergard as driven
-- 447 --
away in a covered cart or waggon by one of the
servants. She is attended by a female, and in the
front of the cart is placed her fool, with a countenance
expressive of the utmost alarm at the impending
danger. Nor would it be difficult to
adduce, if necessary, similar instances of the reciprocal
affection between these singular personages
and those who retained them.
All's Well that Ends Well.
The Clown.—He is a domestic fool of the
same kind as Touchstone.
Twelfth-Night.
The Clown.—The clown in this play is a
domestic or hired fool, in the service of Olivia. He
is specifically termed “an allowed fool,” and
“Feste the jester, a fool that the lady Olivia's
father took much delight in.” Malvolio likewise
speaks of him as “a set fool.” Of his dress it is
impossible to speak correctly. If the fool's expression,
“I will impeticoat thy gratility,” be the
original language, he must have been habited
accordingly. Mr. Ritson has asserted that he has
neither coxcomb nor bauble, deducing his argument
from the want of any allusion to them.
Yet such an omission may be a very fallacious
guide in judging of the habit of this character on
the stage. It must however be admitted that where
this happens there can be no clue as to the precise
manner in which the fool was dressed.
Antony and Cleopatra.
The Clown.—He is a mere country fellow; but
Shakspeare, in compliance with the usual expectations
of the audience, has bestowed on him a due
portion of wit and satire.
-- 448 --
Timon of Athens.
The Fool.—The fool in this play is a very
obscure and insignificant character. Dr. Johnson's
conjecture, that he belongs to one of Alcibiades's
mistresses, is very probable. Many ancient prints
conduce to show that women of this description
were attended by buffoons: and there is good
reason for supposing, probably from the same kind of
evidence, that in most brothels such characters
were maintained to amuse the guests by their
broad jokes and seasonable anticks. In Measure
for Measure we have such a person, who is also a
tapster; and in Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Sc. I.
we hear of a strumpet's fool.
The dress, in the present instance, should be a
parti-coloured garment, with a hood and asses'
ears, and a cock's-comb. He might also carry a
bauble.
Winter's Tale.
The Clown.—He is a mere country booby.
Tempest.
The Fool.—The character of Trinculo, who in
the dramatis personæ is called a jester, is not very
well discriminated in the course of the play itself.
As he is only associated with Caliban and the
drunken butler, there was no opportunity of exhibiting
him in the legitimate character of a professed
fool; but at the conclusion of the play it
appears that he was in the service of the king of
Naples as well as Stephano. On this account
therefore, and for the reasons already offered in
vol. xv. p. 116, he must be regarded as an allowed
domestic buffoon, and should be habited on the
stage in the usual manner.
-- 449 --
Pericles.
The Clown.—Although Boult, the servant to
the pandar and his wife, is not termed a clown in
the dramatis personæ, it should seem that he has
an equal claim to the appellation with several
other low characters that have been introduced
into plays for the purpose of amusing the audience.
He bears some affinity to the tapster in Measure
for Measure; but there is nothing that immediately
constitutes him the jester to a brothel. See what
has been said on such a character in the article
relating to the clown in Measure for Measure.
Titus Andronicus.
The Clown.—He is nothing more than a
shrewd rustic, performing the office of a messenger.
List of Variations in two Copies of Shakspeare, folio 1623, belonging to T. Amyot.
In a copy belonging to Mr. Litchfield, in As You
Like It, p. 204, col. 1, the Clown's speech, “a
ripe age,” &c. is given to Orlando, and William's
speech, immediately following it, is assigned to
the Clown.
In a copy now or very lately in the hands of
Messrs Longman and Co, in Othello, p. 333,
col. 1, top line, the words “and Hell gnaw his
bones,” are substituted for the first line of
Roderigo's speech, “I have heard thus much,” &c.
And in a copy lately at Messrs Arch's, the title-page
(evidently genuine) is dated 1622, but the
last page has the usual date 1623.
James Street, 7th March, 1821.COPY NO. I. COPY NO. II. Merchant of Venice. p. 160 166 All's Well, &c. 233 237 Hamlet, p. 278, col. 1, line 17 sirh, is sir, his Hamlet, p. 278, col. 1, line 20 yearys years Hamlet, p. 278, col. 1, line 41 o-n thing onething. Cooffin Coffin. Hamlet, Col. 2, line 3 foredo for do Hamlet, Col. 2, line 30 Brid-bed Bride-bed Maide Maid Hamlet, Col. 2, line 43 Emphasies Emphasis Hamlet, Col. 2, line 52 wisensse wisenesse Hamlet, Col. 2, line 4 from bottom forebeare forbeare
note
-- 451 --
note
-- 461 --
-- 464 --
-- 465 -- -- 466 --
note
-- 467 --
note
-- 468 --
note
-- 469 --
Abated, depressed in spirit, xiv. 149.
A B C, a catechism, xv. 215.
abhor, protest against, xix. 388.
abide, v. 269.
able, uphold, x. 231.
abridgement, v. 311.
........... vii. 299.
absolute, complete, ix. 319.
........ completely accomplished, xxi. 134.
abuse, deception, ix. 188.
abused, deceived, ix. 441.
....... xii. 33.
aby, v. 269, 279.
abysm, abyss, xv. 29.
accost, xi. 352.
Acheron, xi. 183.
acknown, ix. 376.
acquittance, requital, ix. 443.
Adam Cupid, vi. 72.
aches, xv. 57.
actures, actions, xx. 381.
addition, character, vii. 228.
....... title, viii. 313.
addressed, prepared, iv. 311.
......... v. 67.
admittance, favour, viii. 88.
advertise, inform himself, ix. 11
advertisement, admonition, vii. 131.
advice, consideration, iv. 56.
...... v. 133.
advised, on reflection, iv. 259, 431.
adulterate, xix. 174.
affection, affectation, iv. 393.
affectioned, affected, xi. 400.
affections, v. 111.
affeered, established, xi. 221.
affined, related to, ix. 224.
affront, meet face to face, vii. 319.
...... viii. 334.
affy, betroth, xviii. 287.
agate, xvii. 24.
aged custom, xiv. 99.
agood, in good earnest, iv. 115.
aglet, v. 400.
agnise, acknowledge, ix. 271.
Ajax, a jakes, iv. 443.
aim, guess, iv. 68.
.... ix. 250.
.... verb, to aim at, iv. 207.
aiery, a hawk's or eagle's nest, ix. 49.
alapt, x. 72.
alder liefest, most loved, xviii. 168.
-- 476 --
ale, a country festival, iv. 59.
a'life, xiv. 367.
allow, approve, viii. 88.
..... x. 125.
allowance, approbation, vii. 340.
......... viii. 307.
allowed, licensed, iv. 435.
all waters, xi. 475.
alms-drink, xii. 261.
amaze, perplex, vi. 362.
...... viii. 200.
ames ace, x. 379.
a mile beyond the moon, xxi. 347.
amiss, misfortune, vii. 424.
among, xvii. 216.
amort, dispirited, v. 480.
an, as if, v. 197.
an if, if, v. 264.
anchor, anchoret, vii. 359.
angerly, angrily, iv. 22, n. 2.
ancient, ensign, the officer, ix. 223.
....... xvii. 76.
....... the flag, xvi. 369.
angel, v. 473.
an-heeres, viii. 69.
anight, at night, vi. 392.
antiquity, old age, xvii. 36.
antres, caves, ix. 261.
a one, an individual, xi. 178.
ape, a term of endearment, vi. 73.
.... vii. 412.
.... xix. 105.
apperil, peril, xiii. 273.
apple-John, xvii. 69.
apply, ply, or apply to, v. 383.
apply, viii. 253.
appointment, preparation, viii. 380.
........... ix. 102.
approbation, proof, xiii. 33.
........... noviciate, ix. 26.
approve, justify, v. 82.
....... vii. 174.
....... recommend, vii. 497.
approved, experienced, iv. 128.
arbitrate, determine, xi. 260.
arch, chief, x. 80.
argentine, silver, xxi. 210.
Argier, Algiers, xv. 48.
argosies, v. 7.
argument, contents of a book, vi. 415.
......... conversation, vii. 76.
armado, xv. 295.
arm, to take up in the arms, xii. 176.
arm-gaunt, xii. 210.
aroint, x. 160.
...... xi. 29.
arrive, arrive at, xiv. 100.
articulate, set down article by article, xiv. 53.
artificial, ingenious, v. 271.
aspersion, sprinkling, xv. 134.
aspire, verb active, to ascend, vi. 127.
assinego, an ass, viii. 284.
associate, verb active, accompany, vi. 227.
assured, affianced, iv. 213.
astre* note
, vii. 182.
-- 477 --
astringer, a falconer, x. 464.
atomy, atom, vi. 51.
atone, reconcile, ix. 426.
..... xii. 28.
attask'd, blamed, x. 73.
attent, attentive, vii. 209.
attest, attestation, viii. 414.
audacious, spirited, iv. 393.
aukward, adverse, xviii. 257.
aunts, strumpets, xiv. 335.
auspicious, joyful, vii. 191.
awful, iv. 96.
awful banks, xvii. 155.
B.
Babe, xii. 107.
babbled of green fields, xvii. 313.
Baccare, v. 414.
Bajazet's mule, x. 427.
Bajazet's mute, x. 427.
bairns, children, vii. 98.
baldrick, vii. 22.
bale, misfortune, xiv. 14.
balk, v. 385.
balked, xvi. 186.
ballase, ballast, iv. 212.
ballow, x. 237.
ban dog, xviii. 198.
band, bond, iv. 228.
bandy, x. 52.
banked, xv. 350.
banquet, v. 510.
........ vi. 68.
........ xii. 261.
bans, curses, x. 106.
barbed, xix. 9.
bare, mere, iv. 80.
.... to shave, x. 428.
barful, full of impediments, xi. 360.
barlet, xi. 70.
barm, yeast, v. 284.
barne, a child, xiv. 325.
barns, keeps in a barn, xx. 155.
barren, ignorant, v. 258.
base court, xvi. 113.
bases, xxi. 71.
basilisk, xvii. 465.
basilisks, cannons, xvi. 254.
basta, enough, v. 392.
bastard, raisin wine, ix. 117.
....... xvi. 265.
bat, x. 237.
battero, x. 237.
bate, to flutter, v. 469.
.... vi. 136.
bauble, carried by a fool, vi. 105.
bawcock, xiv. 248.
bay, ix. 55.
bay window, xi. 473.
bear a brain, vi. 36.
bear in hand, vii. 120.
............ ix. 38.
bearing, deportment, v. 49.
....... vii. 40.
bearing cloth, xiv. 326.
beaver, vii. 212.
beautified, vii. 271.
becks, xiii. 288.
beetles, overhangs, vii. 236.
beguiled, deceitful, xx. 195.
behave, manage, xiii. 340.
-- 478 --
behaviour, xv. 197.
beholding, viewing with regard, xix. 436.
belee'd, ix. 223.
bellows-mender, v. 195.
belongings, endowments, ix. 10.
be-mete, be-measure, v. 487.
bemoiled, bemired, v. 461.
bench-hole, forica, xii. 353.
beneath world, under world, xiii. 255.
bent, utmost degree of any passion or mental quality, vii. 115, 265.
beshrew, v. 238.
bestraught, distracted, v. 375.
beteem, v. 183.
....... vii. 203.
bewray, disclose, x. 84.
Bezonian, a mean fellow, xvii. 224.
bias cheek, cheek swelling out like the bias of a bowl, viii. 381.
bickerings, skirmishes, xviii. 173.
bid the base, to challenge to an encounter, iv. 23.
........... xx. 8.
bid, to invite, v. 53.
bifold, twofold, viii. 415.
biggin, xvii. 185.
bilboes, vii. 485.
bill, v. 489.
bills, vi. 363.
.... vii. 7.
.... xiii. 335.
bird-bolt, an arrow, vii. 9.
bisson, blind, vii. 310.
...... xiv. 61.
blade of youth, x. 472.
blank, mark, x. 17.
blank and level, xiv. 293.
blanket of the dark, xi. 65.
blaze of youth, x. 472.
blench, shrink, vii. 317.
...... viii. 230.
...... ix. 175.
blent, blended, xi. 373.
bless the mark, ix. 223.
blind worm, v. 236.
.......... xi. 193.
block, vii. 12.
..... x. 232.
blood, amorous heat, vii. 41, 66.
blood-bloter'd, smeared with blood, xi. 206.
bloody fire, fire in the blood, viii. 192.
bloody, sanguine, xvii. 144.
blow, xv. 109.
blown, swelled, xii. 425.
blue bottle, xvii. 229.
blue caps, the Scotch, xvi. 288.
blurted, xxi. 162.
board, accost, vii. 277.
..... q? xi. 353.
bobb'd, fooled, ix. 454.
bobtail-tike, x. 175.
bodged, xviii. 392.
bodkin, a dagger, vii. 325.
boitier, viii. 49.
bold of, confident in, iv. 309.
bolds, emboldens, x. 252.
boll'n, swollen, xx. 187.
bona robas, xvii. 116.
bond of air, viii. 256.
bons, vi. 99.
book, xvi. 322.
books, vii. 12.
boot, profit, ix. 76.
-- 479 --
boots, iv. 11.
bordered, restrained, x. 199.
bore, to stab, xix. 321.
borrower's cap, xvii. 62.
bosky, woody, xv. 148.
bosom's lord, vi. 216.
bosomed, x. 251.
bots, worms in the stomach of a horse, xvi. 232.
bottled spider, ix. 4.
bought and sold, xviii. 120.
........... xix. 233.
bourn, a boundary, viii. 314.
..... a rivulet, x. 171.
bow, a yoke, vi. 448.
bower, a chamber, xiv. 136.
brace, defence, ix. 251.
brach, v. 361.
..... viii. 287.
braid, x. 435.
brake, a thicket, v. 248.
brakes, ix. 43.
brave, to make fine, v. 487.
bravery, fine cloaths, vi. 405.
....... ix. 28.
brawl, a kind of dance, iv. 323.
bray, vii. 227.
.... xv. 283.
break up, to carve, iv. 343.
........ v. 51.
break with, to open the subject with, iv. 30.
breast, a voice, xi. 386.
breath, a breathing, a slight exercise of arms, viii. 306, 387.
...... xiii. 248.
breathe in your watering, xvi. 260.
breathing courtesy, made up of mere words, v. 146.
breeched, xi. 127.
breeching, liable to be flogged, v. 436.
breed-bate, one who excites quarrels, viii. 45.
brewer's horse, xvi. 337.
bride buck, viii. 184.
brief, x. 385.
broach, to spit, xxi.
brock, a badger, xi. 422.
broken musick, vi. 365.
broker, a procurer or procuress, iv. 21.
...... vii. 224.
...... viii. 446.
brokes, pimps, x. 414.
brooch, viii. 287.
brooched, adorned, xii. 382.
brooded, watchful, xv. 293.
broom groves, xv. 138.
bruit, report, xviii. 507.
bruited, loudly reported, xi. 269.
buff jerkin, xvi. 194.
bug, an object of terror, xviii. 519.
buggle boe, xvii. 234.
bugs, bugbears, v. 407.
.... objects of terror, xii. 190.
bulk, vii. 261.
bully-rook, viii. 34.
bumbard, xv. 94.
bung, a pocket, hence a pickpocket, xvii. 79.
bunting, x. 395.
burgonet, helmet, xii. 208.
buried with the face upwards, vii. 32.
burst, broken, v. 358, 461.
buss, to kiss [formerly not a low word], xv. 298.
butt-shaft, an arrow, iv. 307.
....... vi. 96.
-- 480 --
butter woman, vi. 422.
buxom, xvii. 360.
buz, vii. 296.
byrlakin, by our lady, v. 245.
by day and night, always, viii. 54.
C.
cade, xviii. 295.
caitiff, xvi. 21.
calino costore me, xvii. 425.
callet, strumpet, ix. 439.
..... xviii. 422.
calling, appellation, vi. 369.
came hardly off, did not succeed, iv. 37.
canary, a kind of dance, iv. 323.
...... viii. 79.
candle cases, v. 442.
candle wasters, vii. 129.
candles of the night, stars, v. 150.
canker, vii. 30.
...... the canker rose, xvi. 221.
canstick, candlestick, xvi. 311.
cantle, a fragment, xii. 304.
..... xvi. 311.
cantons, cantos, xi. 375.
cap, to put off the cap in salutation, ix. 217.
cap with suspicion, vii. 19.
capable, intelligent, vii. 398.
...... viii. 358.
capacious, ix. 390.
capitulate, xvi. 333.
capocchio, a fool, viii. 368
capon, a letter, iv. 343.
capricious, vi. 444.
captious, x. 348.
carack, a vessel of great bulk and value, ix. 243.
caraways, xvii. 213.
carbonadoed, cut like a piece of meat for the gridiron, x. 464.
card, a sea-chart, vii. 471.
.... of tin, v. 433.
carded, xvi. 327.
carduus Benedictus, vii. 100.
care, inclination, vi. 162.
careful, full of care, iv. 262.
carkanet, a necklace, iv. 189.
carl, xii. 136.
carlot, peasant, vi. 463.
carnal, sanguinary, vii. 518.
carry coals, vi. 7.
case, to strap, x. 421.
.... the skin, xi. 491.
cased lion, confined lion, xv. 280.
cassock, x. 444.
cast, ix. 319.
castilian, viii. 94.
Castiliano vulgo, xi. 351.
castle, viii. 419.
..... xxi. 319.
Cataian, viii. 65.
catling, a small lutestring, vi. 213.
...... viii. 357.
cavalero, viii. 68.
caviare, vii. 302.
cautel, craft, vii. 215.
cautelous, insidious, xiv. 152.
cease, dies, x. 279, 485.
..... to put a stop to, xiii. 293.
censer, v. 486.
..... xvii. 228.
-- 481 --
censure, to give an opinion, iv. 19, n. 7.
....... to condemn, ix. 39.
....... an opinion, vii. 219.
ceremony, a thing highly valued, v. 149.
certes, certainly, iv. 230.
..... xv. 123.
cess, measure, xvi. 231.
chamberers, men of intrigue, ix. 372.
chambers, pieces of ordnance, xvii. 75.
........ xix. 351.
change that name, vii. 207.
changeling, v. 202.
chapman, market-man, iv. 308.
charácter, writing, vii. 218.
characts, ix. 180.
chares, task work, xii. 327.
charge house, free school, iv. 399.
chariest, most cautious, vii. 216.
chariness, caution, viii. 62.
charitable, endearing, xiii. 277.
charm your tongue, be silent, ix. 477.
charmer, one who deals in charms, ix. 399.
chaudron, entrails, xi. 195.
cheater, escheatour, viii. 41.
check, xii. 107.
checking, a term in falconry, vii. 450.
cheer, countenance, v. 95, 329.
cheveril, soft leather, vi. 104.
cheveril, conscience, xix. 375.
chewet, xvi. 382.
chide, resound, xvii. 332.
chiding, clamour, v. 297.
....... clamorous, viii. 257.
....... resounding, xix. 417.
chief, vii. 219.
child, a female infant, xiv. 324.
child changed, x. 242.
childing autumn, v. 220.
chopine, high heeled shoe, vii. 300.
chough, a jackdaw, vii. 493.
christendom, xv. 309.
christian, xvii. 316.
christian name, x. 323.
chrysom, xvii. 316.
chuck, a term of endearment, xi. 156.
chuffs, xvi. 249.
circlet, xix. 437.
circumstance, conduct, iv. 12.
........... detail, viii. 343.
........... ix. 217.
cite, incite, iv. 49.
cittern, a musical instrument, iv. 448.
civil, vi. 424.
clamour, xiv. 365.
....... moistened, x. 206.
clap, join hands, xiv. 246.
clap into, begin, ix. 164.
claw, to flatter, iv. 357.
.... vii. 30.
clean, completely, iv. 158.
.... xii. 27.
clean kam, awry, xiv. 124.
clear, pure, xiii. 307.
-- 482 --
clear, xv. 129.
clear stories, xi. 474.
clear thy chrystals, xvii. 322.
clerkly, like a scholar, iv. 36.
...... viii. 169.
cling, shrivell, xi. 265.
clinquant, shining, xix. 313.
clip, embrace, xiv. 168.
closely, secretly, xv. 314.
clout, the mark in archery, x. 226.
.... xvii. 120.
clouted brogues, xii. 162.
cloys, xii. 200.
clutch, grasp, xi. 95.
..... xiv. 145.
coach fellow, confederate, viii. 74.
coasting welcome, viii. 383.
cobloaf, viii. 283.
cock, xiii. 306.
.... a cock-boat, x. 218.
cock and pye, xvii. 198.
cock shut time, twilight, xix. 313.
cockatrice, vi. 140.
cockney, x. 116.
codling, xi. 368.
codpiece, iv. 64.
coffin, pie paste, v. 485.
cognizance, badge, xviii. 66.
coigne, corner, xi. 71.
coil, vii. 152.
collection, deduction, vii. 423.
collied, blackened, v. 134.
...... ix. 336.
collier, xi. 453.
collop, xiv. 250.
colt, a wild fellow, iv. 325.
... v. 19.
colt, to trick, xvi. 246.
co-mart, vii. 179.
combinate, betrothed, ix. 114.
combine, bind, vi. 508.
....... ix. 168.
come bird, vii. 251.
co-meddled, commingled, vii. 343.
come of will, to succeed, viii. 251.
come of, to pay, viii. 159.
come your ways, x. 360.
comma, connection, vii. 490.
commission, authority, vi. 183.
committed, ix. 436.
commodity, convenience, v. 97.
.......... interest, xv. 258.
common, verb, vii. 444.
commonty, comedy, v. 381.
compact, made up, iv. 204.
....... to make a thing consistent, x. 72.
companion, fellow, a term of contempt, iv. 239.
.......... xii. 122.
company, companion, x. 438.
comparative, xvi. 198, 330.
compassed cape, round cape, v. 488.
compassed window, a bow window, viii. 243.
competitor, a confederate, iv. 61, 311.
.......... xi. 472.
complain, lament, verb active, xvi. 20.
complement, accomplishments, iv. 288, 323.
-- 483 --
complexion, humour, vii. 228.
comply, compliment, vii. 295, 501.
compose, to agree, xii. 220.
composition, consistency, ix. 250.
composture, compost, xiii. 404.
comptible, xi. 369.
con thanks, thanks, x. 443.
concealed wells, xv. 352.
conceit, imagination, wit, vi. 120.
...... vii. 398.
...... fanciful conception, xvi. 70.
conceited, ingenious, xx. 185.
conceived to scope, properly imagined, xiii. 227.
concludes, is decisive, xv. 207.
conclusions, experiments, v. 40.
.......... vii. 405.
.......... xii. 37.
conclusions past the careires, viii. 24.
concupy, concupiscence, viii. 418.
condition, quality, ix. 424.
conditions, qualities, iv. 81.
......... v. 23.
......... v. 521.
condole, v. 193.
condolement, sorrow, vii. 198.
conduct, guide, vi. 128, 243.
....... viii. 292.
....... xv. 176.
coney catch, to cheat, viii. 19.
confess and be hanged, ix. 414.
confess and be hanged, xiii. 273.
confession, profession, viii. 273.
confineless, boundless, xi. 222.
confound, to destroy, iv. 162.
........ v. 329.
........ viii. 321.
........ xiii. 29.
........ to expend, xiv. 39.
conger and fennel, xvii. 94.
conject, conjecture, ix. 258.
conjecture, suspicion, vii. 110.
conjuring, supplicating, vii. 417.
consent, conspiracy, iv. 432.
....... agreement, viii. 293, 296.
consider, reward, xii. 72.
consigned, sealed, viii. 272.
consist, stand, xvii. 156.
consort, subst. iv. 91.
consort, to consort with, iv. 161.
conspectuity, sight, xiv. 61.
consummation, end, xii. 169.
constancy, stability, v. 310.
constant, steady, x. 8.
....... xiv. 20.
constantly, certainly, ix. 140.
contain, retain, v. 149.
contemptible, contemptuous, vii. 66.
continent, that which contains, vii. 422, 495.
continuate, less interrupted, ix. 408.
continued, xiii. 248.
contráry, to contradict, vi. 65.
contrive, spend, v. 410.
-- 484 --
convented, summoned, ix. 186.
conversation, intercourse, xix. 131.
converse, associate, x. 49.
convertite, a penitent, vi. 510.
......... xv. 341.
......... xx. 141.
convey, to steal, viii. 37.
conveyance, slight of hand, vii. 44.
conveyers, thieves, xvi. 138.
convicted, subdued, xv. 296.
convince, convict, viii. 296.
........ overcome, ix. 412.
........ xii. 23.
convive, to feast, viii, 398.
cooling card, xviii. 144.
copatain, i. e. conical hat, v. 504.
cope, encounter, vi. 384.
copp'd, xxi. 29.
copy, pattern, iv. 248.
Corinth, a brothel, xiii. 300.
Corinthian, a wencher, xvi. 260.
coronal, xix. 437.
corporal, corporeal, iv. 369.
corporal of the field, iv. 336.
costard, a head, iv. 327, 330.
...... xix. 62.
costermonger, xvii. 35.
cote, iv. 369.
coted, overtook, vii. 237.
couch, to lie, v. 153.
..... ix. 450.
court confect, a specious nobleman, vii. 120.
counter, a hunting term, iv. 226.
...... vii. 433.
counter caster, one who counts with counters, ix. 223.
counter-check, a term at chess, xv. 237.
counterfeit, a portrait, v. 86.
county, compte, an earl, Romeo and Juliet passim.
couplement, a couple, iv. 439.
court of guard, the place where the guard musters, ix. 311.
court holy water, flattery, x. 139.
courtsies, xi. 418.
cousin, kinsman, vi. 61.
cowl-staff, staff used in carrying a cowl or tub, viii. 126.
coy, to soothe, v. 288.
coystril, xi. 350.
coziers' catches, xi. 396.
crack, a boy child, xiv. 29.
crack of doom, xi. 205.
cracks, xi. 22.
cracked in the ring, vii. 301.
crank, to wind, xx. 51.
cranks, windings, xiv. 13.
crants, garlands, vii. 477.
crare, a small trading vessel, xiii. 161.
craven, a coward, a mean disspirited cock, v. 433.
...... cowardly, vii. 420.
cravens, makes cowardly, xii. 120.
credent, enforcing credit, ix. 173.
credit, xi. 481.
creep, viii. 349.
crescive, xvii. 263.
crewel, worsted, x. 107.
crisp, curled, xv. 144.
.... xvi. 216.
critick, cynick, viii. 414.
-- 485 --
crone, an old woman, xiv. 298.
cross, a coin, vi. 390.
crush a cup, crack a bottle, vi. 33.
crushed, confused into one mass, viii. 239.
crulentious, cruel, x. 147.
cruzadoes, a coin, ix. 394.
cry, a pack of hounds, xiv. 147, 185.
cry aim, to encourage, viii. 113.
...... xv. 235.
cry, havock, xii. 89.
.......... xiv. 122.
cry hem, xiii. 128.
........ xvi. 260.
cry'd game, viii. 98.
cub-drawn, x. 135.
cue, a theatrical term, vii. 313.
... xix. 121.
cullion, v. 471.
cunning, knowing, v. 387.
....... skill, vi. 83.
curb, truckle, vii. 401.
curiosity, scrupulousness, x. 5.
....... affectation, xiii. 393.
curious, scrupulous, v. 493.
curst, mischievous, v. 277.
.... petulant, xi. 442.
curtail dog, a cur, viii. 63.
customer, a strumpet, or one who visits her, iv. 239.
........ ix. 420.
cut, xi. 401.
cut and long tail, viii. 133.
D.
daff, do off, vii. 66, 133.
damned in a fair wife, ix. 218.
danger, controul, v. 121.
dank, mouldy, xvi. 232.
Danskers, Danes, vii. 257.
dare, ix. 173.
darkling, in the dark, v. 240.
........ xii. 381.
darraign, set in array, xviii. 416.
date broken bonds, bonds not paid when due, xiii. 298.
daub, to disguise, x. 192.
daubery, disguise, viii. 156.
day of season, x. 474.
day woman, iv. 304.
dear, iv. 307, 461.
.... v. 191.
.... vi. 238.
.... vii. 208.
.... xi. 487.
dearn, dreary, x. 187.
death'sman, executioner, x. 239.
debitor, debtor, ix. 223.
deboshed, x. 485.
....... xv. 113.
deck of cards, pack of cards, xviii. 515.
decked, xv. 37.
decline, fall, xiv. 65.
deer, animals in general, x. 163.
defeat, vii. 314.
...... ix. 285.
...... x. 383.
defeatures, iv. 173, 262.
defence, art of fencing, vi. 447.
defend, to forbid, vii. 37.
...... ix. 280.
deftly, adroitly, xi. 199.
-- 486 --
defy, reject, vi. 234.
.... xv. 298,
deject, dejected, vii. 333.
delations, ix. 353.
delay, let slip, xiv. 42.
delighted, ix. 108.
demerits, merits, ix. 240.
demurely, solemnly, xii. 258.
denay, denial, xi. 412.
denier, a coin, xix. 33.
depart, part, iv. 314.
departed, xv. 257.
deprive, take away, vii. 236.
....... x. 32.
deracinate, tear up by the roots, viii. 262.
......... xvii. 467.
derogate, x. 68.
descant, variations in musick, iv. 23.
designed, marked out, vii. 180.
despatched, bereft, vii. 246.
desperate, bold, vi. 158.
desperately mortal, ix. 155.
detected, suspected, ix. 126.
determine, to end, xvii. 188.
dewberries, v. 254.
Diablo, ix. 326.
Diana's priest, Diana's priestess, xii. 56.
Diccon, Richard, xix. 233.
diet, regimen, iv. 33.
.... xiii. 371.
difference, vii. 442.
differing, xii. 143.
diffuse, disorder, x. 48.
diffused, irregular, viii. 163.
digression, transgression, iv. 304.
dilations, ix. 353.
disable, undervalue, vi. 466.
disappointed, unprepared, vii. 246.
discandy, disclaim, x. 90.
disclose, to hatch, vii. 482.
discontents, malecontents, xii. 203.
discourse of reason, vii. 205.
........ reason, xi. 482.
disease, trouble, x. 19.
...... xviii. 73.
dishabited, dislodged, xv. 236.
dislike, displease, vi. 81.
disme, tenth or tithe, viii. 289.
disnatured, unnatural, x. 68.
disparked, xvi. 89.
dispose, command, iv. 106.
disposition, vii. 235.
disputable, disputatious, vi. 397.
disputation, xii. 325.
dispute, contend, xi. 236.
disseat, depose, xi. 249.
dissemble, disguise, xi. 471.
dissembling, xix. 9.
distaste, corrupt, viii. 294.
distemperature, v. 218.
distempering, intoxicating, ix. 228.
distractions, xii. 303.
distraught, distracted, vi. 199.
divert, turn aside, vi. 388.
division, a term in music, vi. 162.
do me right, fill a bumper, vii. 138.
do withal, v. 102.
doff, do off, put off, xi. 232.
don'd, put on, vii. 427.
-- 487 --
done upon the gad, suddenly, x. 34.
done to death, killed, vii. 153.
door particulars, particulars at our doors, close to us, x. 253.
dotant, dotard, xiv. 201.
double, full of duplicity, v. 151.
...... potential, ix. 238.
double vouchers, a law term, vii. 470.
dout, vii. 229.
dowle, a feather, xv. 127.
down gyved, vii. 261.
Dowsabel, iv. 220.
drachma, a Greek coin, xii. 103.
draw, vii. 136.
drawn fox xvi. 345.
dribbling, ix. 29.
drink, xiii. 257.
drink the air, xv. 167.
drollery, a puppet show, xv. 122.
dropping, vii. 191.
drumble, loiter, viii. 126.
dry foot, iv. 226.
duc dame, vi. 398.
dudgeon, handle of a dagger, xi. 96.
dugs, not a low word, xix. 78.
duke, a leader, v. 176.
dull, xvii. 183.
dullard, x. 81.
dumb'd, xii. 211.
dump, an elegy, iv. 91.
..... vi. 210.
dun out of the mire, vi. 46.
dun's the mouse, vi. 46.
dung, xii. 396.
dungy earth, xii. 169.
.......... xiv. 288.
dupp'd, did up, opened, vii. 427.
durance, xvi. 194.
dwell, continue, v. 32.
E
eager, sharp, vii. 226.
eanlings, lambs just dropt, v. 27.
ear, to plough, x. 338.
ear kissing, x. 77.
earthlier, v. 180.
easy, slight, xiv. 201.
.... xvii. 209.
eat no fish, x. 490.
ecstacy, strong emotion, iv. 209.
effects, actions, vii. 399.
eftest, vii. 124.
egal, v. 95.
eld, viii. 162.
elf locks, vi. 55.
elf skin, xvi. 280.
elves, xv. 160.
elvish marked, ix. 45.
emballing, xix. 376.
embarquements, xiv. 56.
embossed, v. 361.
........ swelling, x. 127.
........ x. 422.
embowelled, exhausted, x. 350.
......... with the bowels taken out, xvi. 405.
empery, sovereignty, xii. 56.
empiricutick, xiv. 63.
emulation, envy, viii. 299.
......... faction, xiv. 14.
emulous, viii. 303, 312.
-- 488 --
enactures, what is enacted, vii. 357.
end, an end, at the conclusion, iv. 111.
endart, dart forth, vi. 41.
endless night, xv. 361.
engross, fatten, xix. 141.
engrossing, vi. 243.
enmew, ix. 104.
enormous, out of rule, x. 100.
enridged, x. 223.
enscerped, ix. 300.
ensconce, fortify, viii. 76.
enseamed, greasy, vii. 396.
enseer, dry up, xiii. 383.
enshield beauty, ix. 84.
ensteeped, ix. 300.
entertain, to retain in service, viii. 39.
entertainment, admission of a soldier into pay, ix. 370.
............ xiv. 159.
entrance of this soil, xvi. 181.
entreatments, company, vii. 224.
enviously, angrily, vii. 422.
envy, hatred, v. 108.
.... viii. 330.
Ephesian, a cant term, viii. 167.
.... xvii. 63.
equipage, viii. 73.
erring, wandering, vii. 189.
...... ix. 287.
escoted, paid, vii. 293.
Esil, vii. 480.
essential, existing, ix. 297.
esteem, x. 471.
estridges, xvi. 359.
eterne, eternal, xi. 154.
even, xii. 127.
even christian, fellow christian, vii. 463.
evils, forica, ix. 70.
examined, doubted, x. 413.
excrement, beard, iv. 401.
excrements, hair, vii. 398.
execute, employ, viii. 439.
executors, executioners, xvii. 281.
exempt, iv. 184.
exercise, a religious term, ix. 395.
exhale, xvii. 301.
exhaust, drawforth, xiii. 376.
exhibition, allowance, iv. 30.
......... ix. 272.
exigent, end, xviii. 72.
exorciser, one who raised spirits, x. 490.
....... xii. 168.
expect, wait, v. 494.
expedient, expeditious, x. 385.
........ xvi. 45.
expediently, expeditiously, vi. 416.
expiate, end, xix. 119.
expire, verb active, vi. 57.
expostulate, discuss, vii. 268.
exposture, exposure, xiv. 153.
express, reveal, xi. 379.
expulsed, expelled, xviii. 97.
exsufflicate, ix. 364.
extasy, emotion, vii. 65.
...... alienation of mind, vii. 400.
extend, xii. 180.
...... xii. 8.
extent, a law term, vi. 416.
...... violence, xi. 470.
extern, external, ix. 225.
extracting, distracting, xi. 494.
extravagant, wandering, vii. 189.
.......... ix. 233.
-- 489 --
extremity, calamity, xxi. 200.
eye, a small portion, xv. 74.
eyas musket, a young hawk, viii. 118.
eyases, nestlings, vii. 290.
eyeless night, xv. 361.
eyliads, glances, viii. 40.
eyne, eyes, v. 190.
eyry, a nest of hawks, vii. 290.
eysell, vinegar, xx. 324.
F.
face, to feign, xviii. 146.
facinorous, wicked, x. 376.
faded, vanished, vii. 189.
fadge, succeed, iv. 403.
..... xi. 384.
fadings, dances, xiv. 359.
fair, beauty, iv. 173.
.... v. 186.
.... vi. 69, 421.
fairy, iv. 224.
faithfully, xiii. 319.
faitors, evil doers, xvii. 83.
fall, verb active, iv. 182.
.... v. 320.
.... ix. 427.
fall and cease, x. 279.
false, falsify, xii. 74.
falsing, deceiving, iv. 180.
falsehood, dishonesty, v. 29.
fancies, v. 443.
fancy, love, v. 81, 188, 227, 301.
fang, gripe, xiii. 363.
fangled, xii. 201.
fantastical, xi. 39.
fantasticoes, vi. 98.
fap, drunk, viii. 24.
farced, stuffed, tumid, xvii. 401.
farre, xiv. 378.
fashions, farcy, a disease in horses, v. 442.
favour, countenance, vii. 475.
...... ix. 146.
fear, to timify, v. 510.
fear no colours, xi. 361.
fearful, xv. 67.
fearful bravery, xii. 32.
feat, xii. 10.
feature, form, iv. 47.
...... q? vi. 443.
...... x. 203.
...... xii. 253.
federary, ix. 88.
fee-grief, a peculiar sorrow, xi. 232.
feeders, xii. 329.
...... xiii. 306.
feere companion, xxi. 333.
fell of hair, capilitium, xi. 261.
fellow, companion, xi. 452.
..... one of the same rank, xii. 121.
fence, skill in fencing, vii. 133.
feodary, ix. 88.
...... xii. 100.
...... xiv. 230.
festinately, hastily, iv. 322.
festival terms, vii. 151.
fet, fetched, xvii. 339.
fetch in, apprehend, or subdue, xii. 338.
.... xiii. 137.
fico, a term of contempt, viii. 37.
fielded, in the field, xiv. 32.
fierce, vehement, iv. 461.
-- 490 --
fierce, xii. 224.
..... xiii. 356.
fig, xvii. 225.
fig of Spain, xvii. 364.
fights, a sea term, viii. 83.
file, to defile, xi. 142.
... to go an equal pace, xix. 415.
filed, polished, iv. 394.
finder of madmen, xi. 454.
fine end, x. 457.
... artful, x. 488.
firago, xi. 461.
fire, xix. 486.
fire new, new-coined, iv. 290.
firk, xvii. 430.
firstlings, first produce, viii. 227.
fishmonger, vii. 277.
fitchew, a polecat, viii. 404.
fits, viii. 317.
fives, a disease in horses, v. 442.
five wits, vii. 11.
... x. 152.
... xi. 477.
fixure, xiv. 424.
flap dragon, to swallow like a flap dragon, xiv. 325.
flap dragons, iv. 397.
flaw, a blast, vii. 476.
.... a fragment, x. 131.
flaws, ix. 72.
flecked, spotted, vi. 90.
fleet, float, 333.
fleeting, fickle, xix. 57.
flesh and fell, flesh and skin, x. 259.
fleshment, confidence, x. 97.
flewed, having large chaps, v. 298.
flickering, x. 96.
flight, vii. 8.
flote, wave, xv. 45.
foining, thrusting, vii. 134.
...... viii. 93.
foison, plenty, ix. 37.
...... xv. 80, 143.
folly, unchastity, ix. 474.
fond, foolish, v. 96, 278.
.... vi. 208.
.... to be fond, xi. 384.
fool and death, iv. 407.
fool and feather, xix. 345.
fools of Nature, vii. 235.
footcloth, xix. 127.
for, because, passim.
forage, to range abroad, xv. 343.
forbid, accursed, xi. 33.
force, to consider as a matter of consequence, iv. 431.
.... xx. 165.
.... to stuff, viii. 312.
.... to urge, xiv. 131.
foredo, destroy, vii. 262, 476.
forefended, forbid, x. 251.
forslow, delay, xviii. 429.
forspent, tired, xvii. 11.
forestall. deprive by anticipation, xii. 131.
forfeit, ix. 207.
forgot, forgetful, ix. 329.
forked one, a cuckold, iv. 255.
formal, sober, iv. 251.
...... xii. 247.
formal capacity, soundness of mind, xi. 423.
former, foremost, xii. 137.
forspoke, xii. 297.
fortune's fool, vi. 128.
fortune's star, vii. 229.
forwearied, worn out, xv. 237.
-- 491 --
foundation, vii. 147.
fox, a sword, xvii. 426.
fractions, broken hints, xiii. 309.
frame, vii. 112.
frampold, froward, viii. 81.
frank, a sty, xviii. 63.
..... xix. 51.
franklin, a freeholder, xii. 105.
....... xiv. 419.
frayed, frightened, viii. 325.
free, xi. 405.
frets, stops in musick, v. 419.
friend, a lover, vii. 36.
...... xii. 30.
friend, to befriend, xi. 219.
frippery, an old cloaths shop, xv. 153.
frontlet, part of female dress, x. 59.
froth and lime, viii. 35.
frush, to break, viii. 438.
fulfill, to fill full, viii. 224.
full, complete, ix. 226.
full fortune, great success, ix. 226.
full of bread, vii. 381.
full of quality, accomplished, viii. 374.
full of view, xii. 124.
fulsome, v. 28.
....... xix. 220.
fumiter, x. 211.
funeral, baked meats, vii. 207.
furnishings, pretences, x. 136.
furred pack, a wallet of skin with the hair outward, xviii. 296.
fur ow, x. 211.
fustilarian, xvii. 49.
G.
gaberdine, v. 80.
......... xv. 96.
gain giving, misgiving, vii. 504.
gait, passage, vii. 193.
galliard, a kind of dance, xvii. 285.
galliass, a ship, v. 432.
gallow, frighten, x. 141.
gally mawfry, confused heap of things, xiv. 373
gamester, v. 433.
........ vi. 357.
........ x. 485.
garboils, commotion, xii. 194.
garden house, ix. 189.
garish, gawdy, vi. 138.
gasted, frightened, x. 80.
gawd, a bauble, v. 178, 301.
gawdy, festival, xii. 325.
gazed, xii. 25.
gear, xviii. 236.
geck, a fool, xi. 497.
gelded, in a general sense mutilated, iv. 315.
gemel, v. 302.
gender, race, vii. 448.
general, the people, vii. 302.
general assault, such as youth in general is liable to, vii. 259.
generosity, high birth, xiv. 18.
generous, of rank, ix. 176.
gentleness, gentility, v. 243.
gentry, complaisance, vii. 265.
-- 492 --
german, akin, vii. 499.
germens, seeds, x. 139.
germins, seeds, xi. 198.
gest, xiv. 241.
ghosted, appear as a ghost, xii. 253.
gib, vii. 405.
gib cat, xvi. 196.
giglot, a wanton, ix. 197.
gilder, a coin, iv. 215.
gilt, gold money, xvii. 291.
gimmal, xvii. 411.
ging, gang, viii. 153.
gird, gibe, xiv. 21.
gis, vii. 427.
give the bucklers, to yield the day, vii. 149.
glared, xii. 28.
glass-gazing, x. 88.
glazed, xii. 25.
gleek, a scoff, v. 253.
..... to scoff, vi. 211.
gleeking, scoffing, xvii. 461.
glib, castrate, xiv. 286.
glooming, gloomy, vi. 257.
gloze, expound, xvii. 367.
glozed, commented, viii. 296.
glut, to swallow, xv. 23.
gnarled, knotty, ix. 64.
go to the world to be married, vii. 48.
...... x. 336.
go your gait, go away, x. 237.
God before, God being guide, xvii. 272.
God dig you den, xiv. 342.
God 'ield you, vii. 425.
God 'ild you, vi. 448.
God save the mark, vi. 141.
God warn us, vi. 468.
Gongarian, viii. 36.
good leave, assent, vi. 255.
good life, xi. 398.
........ xv. 130.
goodman devil, xi. 479.
good master, patron, xiv. 420.
gospelled, xi. 145.
gossomer, vi. 120.
goujeers, x. 259.
goujere, vii. 29.
gouts, drops, xi. 96.
graceful, virtuous, xiv. 408.
gracious, graceful, lovely, iv. 86.
........ vii. 111.
........ viii. 296.
grange, a lone house, ix. 116.
...... ix. 229.
gratulate, ix. 208.
grave, to entomb, xiii. 381.
grave man, a man in his grave, vi. 126.
greasily, coarsely, iv. 351.
great morning, viii. 369.
..... xii. 150.
Greek, xi. 469.
green eyes, vi. 178.
green sleeves, an old song, viii. 60.
greenly, unskilfully, vii. 430.
grey eyes, iv. 118.
.... vi. 100.
griefs, grievances, xii. 113.
grievances, griefs, iv. 107.
grise, a step, xi. 438.
..... xiii. 363.
grize, a step, ix. 267.
groundings, mean part of an audience at the theatre, vii. 336.
growing, accruing, iv. 216.
grunt, groan, vii. 326.
guard, to fringe, vii. 25.
..... xv. 315.
-- 493 --
guard of safety, court of guard and safety, ix. 331.
guerdon, reward, iv. 332.
........ vii. 153.
guiled, deceitful, v. 84.
Guinea hen, ix. 23.
gules, a term in heraldry, vii. 306.
gull, xiii. 293.
gummed velvet, xvi. 244.
guts, not a low word, vii. 406.
H.
H. vii. 99.
haggard, a wild hawk, v. 469
........ vii. 71.
hair, xvi. 356.
half faced, xvi. 224.
half kirtles, xvii. 229.
halfpence, small pieces, vii. 65.
hall! a hall, make room, vi. 61.
halidom, holy doom, the day of judgment, iv. 105.
hands not hearts, ix. 396.
hanged an hour, ix. 197.
happily, accidentally, v. 494.
happy, accomplished, xii. 126.
hardiment, bravery, xvi. 216.
hardokes, x. 211.
hare-finder, vii. 18.
harlocks, x. 211.
harlot, applied to males, iv. 258.
harlotry, vi. 190.
harness, armour, xi. 267.
....... xiii. 275.
harrows, subdues, vii. 175.
harryed, xii. 284.
hart of Greece, v. 378.
haste, post haste, ix. 242. 253.
hatch, viii. 256.
..... xxi. 149.
have with you, I will go with you, xix. 115.
having, possessions, iv. 291.
...... vi. 440.
...... viii. 115.
haviour, xii. 115.
haught, haughty, xvi. 134.
...... xviii. 411.
haughty, high, xvii. 75.
hay, a term in fencing, vi. 98.
hearted, ix. 288.
hearted throne, the heart on which you were enthroned, ix. 389.
hebenon, vii. 244.
hebona, vii. 244.
hefts, heavings, xiv. 278.
hell, a dungeon, iv. 226.
hem, vii. 128.
henchman, a page, v. 220.
hend, to seize, ix. 177.
herb of grace, rue, vii. 441.
............ x. 459.
hereby, as it may happen, iv. 305.
hermits, xi. 73.
hest, command, xv. 49, 107.
Hey no nonny, vii. 437.
high fantastical, fantastical to the height, xi. 340.
high lone, quite alone, vi. 36.
high tides, solemn seasons, xv. 268.
hight, named, iv. 290.
..... v. 320.
hilding, a low wretch, v. 412.
...... x. 416.
-- 494 --
Hiren, xvii. 83.
hit, agree, x. 30.
hizzing, x. 169.
ho, ho, ho, v. 284.
........ xii. 341.
hob, nob, xi. 459.
holla! vi. 433.
hold, enough, xi. 66, 272.
honorificabilitudinitatibus, iv. 397.
hook and line, xvii. 32.
hope, expect, xii. 217.
hordocks, x. 211.
horologe, a clock, ix. 324.
hot-house, bagnio, ix. 47.
house, order of families, x. 121.
hugger mugger, secretly, vii. 430.
hull, to float without guidance, xix. 394.
human mortals, v. 215.
humorous, humid, vi. 74.
Humphrey Hour, xix. 180.
Hungarian, a cant term, viii. 35.
hunt counter, xvii. 30.
hunts up, vi. 163.
hurly, noise, xvii. 106
hurly burly, xi. 11.
hurtle, xii. 60.
hurtling, tumult, vi. 483.
husbandry, thrift, viii. 237.
Hyrcan, x. 171.
I. and J.
I cannot tell, xvii. 35.
Jack, a term of contempt, vii. 18.
Jack-a-lent, a puppet thrown at in Lent, viii. 118, 196.
Jack-guardant, a jack in office, xiv. 202.
Jack sauce, saucy fellow, xvii. 448.
Jack and jills, v. 458.
jade, xvii. 375.
jaded, xviii. 285.
jauncing, xvi. 167.
jaunce, jaunt, vi. 116.
jay, a strumpet, viii. 119.
... xii. 117.
ice brook, ix. 484.
idle, sterile, ix. 261.
jesses, a term in falconry, ix. 371.
jest, to act a part in a jest or masque, xvi. 29.
jet, to strut, x. 414.
Jew, a term of endearment, iv. 331.
Jewel, an ornament generally, xi. 457.
ignomy, ignominy, viii. 447.
jig, vii. 308, 348.
. . xii. 121.
ill roasted egg, vi. 418.
illustrious, without lustre, xii. 53.
imagined speed, with celerity, like that of imagination, v. 100.
imbare, xvii. 273.
immanity, barbarity, xviii. 135.
immediacy, x. 262.
imp, iv. 296.
.... xvii. 234.
impair, unsuitable, viii. 387.
impartial, partial, ix. 187.
impawn, xvii. 266.
impawned, wagered, vii. 497.
-- 495 --
imponed vagard, vii. 497, 498.
impeachment, xvii. 371.
imperious, imperial, iv. 50.
......... vii. 474.
......... viii. 392.
imperseverant, xii. 144.
import, xiv. 412.
importance, importunity, xi. 498.
.......... xii. 29.
important, importunate, iv. 253.
........ vii. 35.
impose, injunction, iv. 106.
impositions, commands, x. 455.
impossible, vii. 39, 44.
impress, vii. 178.
in blood, xiv. 14.
in compt, subject to account, xi. 74.
in his eye, in his presence, vii. 419.
in little, in miniature, vii. 295.
in place, present, xviii. 485.
in that, because, vii. 161.
insensible, vii. 460.
incarnardine, stain red, xi. 110.
incarnate, xvii. 321.
incense, instigate, vii. 142.
............... viii. 44.
inclips, embraces, xii. 266.
include, iv. 136.
incony, iv. 331.
increase, produce, v. 220.
indent, sign an indenture, xvi. 214.
indifferent, v. 462.
Indian, ix. 491.
indigest, shapeless, xviii. 540.
indite, accuse, vii. 304.
induction, preface, xix. 169.
inductions, preparations, xix. 11.
indued, endowed, vii. 460.
inexicrable, v. 118.
infestion, xvi. 49.
infinite, infinity, iv. 66.
.............. vii. 62.
informal, deranged, ix. 191.
ingraft, rooted, ix. 325.
inhabit, verb neuter, xi. 172.
inhabitable, uninhabitable, xvi. 10.
inherit, possess, iv. 93.
............... vi. 28.
...... to make to possess, xvi. 11.
inhibit, forbid, xi. 172.
inhibited, x. 319.
inhibition, prohibition, vii. 288.
inhooped, xii. 242.
inkhorn mate, a book-man, xviii. 33.
inkle, a kind of tape, xxi 184.
inland, polite, vi. 406.
innocent, a fool, x. 169, 446.
insane root, xi. 42.
insanie, insanity, iv. 395.
insconce, fortify, iv. 178.
instance, proof, x. 427.
........ example, xi. 482.
instances, motives, vii. 357.
integrity, consistency, xiv. 116.
intemible, x. 348
-- 496 --
intend, pretend, vii. 54.
.............. xix. 129.
intended, understood, xvii. 153.
intendment, xvii. 274.
intention, eagerness, viii. 40.
intentively, attentively, ix. 264.
interessed, x. 12.
intergatories, interrogatories, x. 445.
intrenchant, which cannot be cut, xi. 271.
intrinse, x. 92.
invised, invisible, xx. 382.
inward, intimate, iv. 400.
.............. ix. 128.
inwardness, intimacy, vii. 117.
John a dreams, vii. 314.
joint ring, ix. 451.
Jove's accord, viii. 270.
Jovial, resembling Jove, xii. 170.
journal, daily course, xii. 146.
irregulous, xii. 171.
isebrooks, ix. 434.
itination, recitation, xvi. 199.
Judean, ix. 491.
jump, just, vii. 177.
......... ix. 343.
jump, to hazard, xii. 204.
............... xiv. 115.
justicer, justice, x. 170.
jutty, xi. 70.
K.
keech, fat rolled up, xvii. 51.
..... xix. 315.
keel, iv. 465.
keep close, iv. 465.
Keisar, viii. 34.
Kendal Green, xvi. 278.
kickie wickie, x. 390.
kid fox, vii. 58.
kiln hole, xiv. 364.
kind, nature, v. 27.
.......... vi. 479.
kind, q? vii. 195.
kindle, incite, vi. 357.
kindly, natural, vii. 109.
king'd of our fears, governed by our fears, xv. 244.
kinsman, akin to, iv. 249.
kirtle, xvii. 98.
knap, to break short, v. 73.
knapt, x. 117.
knave, servant, xii. 369.
knife, xi. 65.
knights of the battle, xii. 206.
knights will hack, viii. 58.
knots, figures planted in box, xvi. 117.
L.
lackeying, following, xii. 204.
lady of the strachy, xi. 415.
languish, subst. vi. 31.
....... xii. 401.
land-damn, xiv. 284.
land-rakers, xvi. 238.
lane of children, xii. 74.
lantern, vi. 237.
lapwing, vii. 500.
....... ix. 35.
large, not kept within bounds, vii. 108.
-- 497 --
large discourse, vii. 422.
lass lorn, xv. 139.
latch, to catch, xi. 232.
latched, v. 261.
late, lately, xviii. 436.
......... xx. 209.
lated, benighted, xi. 161.
.............. xii. 309.
latten, viii. 22.
launch, lance, xii. 393.
laund, lawn, xviii. 448.
laundering, wetting, xx. 369.
law of children, xii. 74.
lay by, xvi. 192.
leaguer, camp, x. 417.
leasing, lying, xi. 366.
leave, to part with, iv. 111.
leavened choice, considerate, ix. 13.
leer, complexion, vi. 467.
leets and law days, ix. 354.
leg, obeisance, xvi. 290.
legerity, lightness, xvii. 389.
leiger, resident, ix. 102.
leman, a lover, viii. 155.
lenten, sparing, vii. 286.
l'envoy, end of a poem, iv. 327.
leno, a pander, xvii. 400.
let be, vii. 141.
lethe, death, xii. 36.
let the musick knock it, xix. 355.
let slip, a term of the chase, xii. 89.
lewd, ignorant, vii. 147.
..... wicked, xvi. 12.
liberal, licentious, iv. 34.
............... v. 43.
............... vii. 110, 459.
...... uncontrouled, ix. 481.
liberties of sin, iv. 166.
lie, to reside, iv. 237.
.......... viii. 79.
lieger, ambassador, xii. 40.
lifter, a thief, viii. 243.
light o' love, the name of an old tune, iv. 23.
........... vii. 93.
lightly, commonly, xix. 103.
likelihood, semblance, xix. 123.
like, please, x. 95.
liking, condition of body, viii. 59.
limbeck, the vessels through which distilled liquors pass into the recipient, xi. 37.
limbs of Limehouse, xix. 439.
lime, bird-lime, iv. 90.
limited, appointed, xi. 120.
Lincolnshire bagpipe, xvi. 197.
lines, viii. 148, 307.
linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed when ordnance is fired, xvii. 336.
lip, to kiss, ix. 417.
Lipsbury penfold, x. 86.
list, vii. 432.
... bound, ix. 5.
lither, flexible, xviii. 130.
living, manifest, ix. 386.
loach, xvi. 232.
lob, lubber, v. 201.
lockram, xiv. 70.
lode stars, v. 186.
lone woman, unmarried woman, xvii. 47.
long purples, a flower, vii. 459.
-- 498 --
longly, longingly, v. 391.
loof, to bring a ship close to the wind, xii. 307.
looped, x. 149.
loose, too unreserved, xix. 363.
love in idleness, a flower, v. 227.
love, the queen of love, iv. 206, 392.
................ xii. 169.
love springs, young shoots of love, iv. 199.
lover, a friend, v. 99.
..... xii. 93.
lover, a mistress, vi. 455.
..... ix. 36.
lown, a sorry fellow, 323.
lowted, xviii. 117.
lozel, a worthless fellow, xiv. 300.
lullaby, xxi, 297.
lunes, viii. 148.
..... xiv. 291.
lurched, xiv. 83.
lush, xv. 73.
lust, will, pleasure, viii. 373.
lustick, lusty, x. 376.
luxurious, lascivious, vii. 107.
luxury, lust, vii. 248.
...... viii. 193.
lym, x. 175.
M.
mace, a sceptre, xii. 129.
mad, xviii. 148.
.... wild, ix. 447.
magot pie, magpie, xi. 176.
magnificent, boastful, iv. 343.
make all split, v. 194.
make hopes, x. 432.
makeless, without a make, or mate, xx. 232.
make remain, remain, xiv. 37.
make ropes, x. 432.
make the doors, bar the doors, iv. 197.
............... vi. 471.
male, a bag, iv. 327.
malkin, xiv. 70.
malmsey nose, red nose, xvii. 48.
maltworms, topers, xvi. 239.
mammering, hesitating, ix. 348.
mammets, xvi. 257.
mammock, to tear, xiv. 29.
man, applied to the devil, viii. 179.
mandragora, mandrake, a soporifick, ix. 378.
mankind, xiv, 155, 297.
manner, mannour, a forensick term, iv. 292.
........ xvi. 283.
man-queller, a murderer, xvii. 48.
many, the multitude, xiv. 109.
..... xvii. 45.
marble heaven, ix. 390.
marble pavement, heavens, xiii. 201.
march pane, biscuit, vi. 59.
margent, margin, iv. 321.
market, vii. 420.
marry trap, viii. 25.
masters, xv. 71.
mated, xi. 243.
material, full of matter, vi. 445.
material sap, x. 200.
-- 499 --
mates, v. 386.
maugre, x. 267.
....... xi. 439.
maund, a basket, xx. 370.
meacock, a mean wretch, v. 428.
mealed, ix. 151.
mean, the tenor in musick, iv. 23, 424.
mean, to moan, v. 333.
means, to make means, to take measures, iv. 135.
measure, a solemn dance, iv. 414.
........ vii. 35.
meazles, lepers, xiv. 109.
medicin, physician, xi. 245.
meed, reward, iv. 127.
..... excellence, vii. 497.
..... desert, xiii. 270.
..... xviii. 511.
meiney, retinue, x. 110.
mell, x. 449.
memorize, make memorable, xi. 23.
memory, memorial, vi. 386.
....... xiv. 166.
men of hair, satyrs, xiv. 371.
mercatante, a merchant, v. 474.
mercantant, a merchant, v. 474.
merchant, a low fellow, vi. 108.
mere, complete, vi. 147.
..... viii. 263.
mered, xii. 319.
merely, entirely, vii. 203.
merit, a reward, xvi. 33.
mermaid, a syren, iv. 205.
Merop's son, iv. 74.
merry Greeks, viii. 243, 374.
metaphysical, supernatural, xi. 60.
metal of India, xi. 414.
micher, xvi. 291.
miching mallicho, vii. 352.
middle earth, viii. 191.
midsummer madness, xi. 451.
milled sixpences, viii. 21.
mimick, an actor, v. 259.
mind of honour, honourable mind, ix. 93.
mind's eye, vii. 208.
mineral, a mine, vii. 409.
minikin, x. 173.
minim, a term in musick, vi. 97.
minnow, a term of contempt, iv. 294.
minions of the moon, thieves, xvi. 192.
minute Jacks, xiii. 351.
minutes of the night, vii. 174.
mirable, admirable, viii. 389.
miscreate, illegitimate, xvii. 266.
miser, a wretched person, xviii. 150.
misery, avarice, xiv. 36.
misprised, mistaken, v. 263.
missingly, at intervals, xiv. 332.
missives, messengers, xi. 59.
mistake, vii. 361.
mistempered, angry, vi. 13.
mistress, the jack at bowls, viii. 326.
mobled, vii. 309.
mock, ix. 359.
mock-water, viii. 96.
model, copy, vii. 491.
modern, vi. 145, 409.
-- 500 --
modern, ix. 259.
....... xi. 230.
modesty, moderation, v. 366.
module, x. 440.
....... xv. 373.
moe, make mouths, xv. 93.
moiety, a portion, x. 5.
moist star, the moon, vii. 184.
mome, a fool, iv. 192.
momentany, momentary, v. 184.
monsters, x. 23.
month's mind, iv. 26.
mood, anger, iv. 97.
moon-calf, xv. 100.
moon-like, inconstant, iv. 376.
moonish, inconstant, vi. 441.
mope, to exhibit marks of stupidity, vii. 395.
mopping and mowing, x. 194.
mops and moes, xv. 129.
moral, secret purpose, v. 495.
..... vii. 100.
..... meaning, viii. 376.
more, greater, xv. 223.
more and less, greater and less, xi. 261.
morris pike, iv. 232.
mort o' the deer, a lesson played on the horn at the death of the deer, xiv. 247.
mortal, deadly, vi. 393.
mortal coil, viii. 323.
mortified man, an ascetic, xi. 244.
mot, motto, xx. 153.
mother, hysterica passio, x. 112.
motion, a puppet, or puppet-show, iv. 36.
motion, ix. 246.
motive, motion, viii. 283.
...... instrument, xvi. 17.
mountain, a great deal, vii. 50.
mouse, a term of endearment, iv. 404.
...... vii. 603.
mouse hunt, vi. 201.
mousing, xv. 243.
much, vi. 476.
..... xiii. 280.
..... xvii. 80.
muck water, viii. 96.
muffler, a dress for the face, viii. 151, 157.
...... xvii. 361.
muliters, muliteers, xii. 300.
mulled, softened, xiv. 174.
multitudinous, xi. 110.
murdering piece, vii. 431.
murky, dark, xi. 241.
muse, to wonder, x. 398.
muss, a scramble, xii. 326.
musits, xx. 52.
mutine, to mutiny, vii. 395.
mutines, mutineers, vii. 485.
....... xv. 246.
mutton, lost, iv. 15.
....... laced, iv. 15.
...... ix. 130.
mysteries, ix. 344.
N.
napkin, handkerchief, vi. 481.
...... ix. 374.
native, adv. naturally, iv. 303.
naughty, unfit, x. 158.
nayword, a bye-word, xi. 399.
-- 501 --
neat, xiv. 248.
neb, mouth, xiv. 255.
neeld, needle, v. 271.
neglection, neglect, viii. 264.
neif, fist, v. 289.
.... xvii. 88.
nephew, a grandson, ix. 230.
nether stocks, stockings, x. 108.
newt, an eft, v. 236.
nice, trifling, vi. 130, 229.
nick, reckoning, iv. 102.
night rule, v. 257.
nill, ne will, will not, v. 425.
nine men's morris, v. 213.
nobility, vii. 199.
noble, a coin, xviii. 151.
noddy, a fool, iv. 16.
nonce, xvi. 205.
non com, nonplus, vii. 105.
nook-shotten, xvii. 354.
nott pated, with the hair cut short, xvi. 263.
novum, a game at dice, iv. 440.
nourish, nurse, xviii. 11.
nousle, xxi. 50.
nowl, a head, v. 259.
nut-hook, xvii. 227.
O.
O, a circle, v. 270.
.. xvii. 254.
Os, pockmarks, iv. 406.
objects, xii. 109.
obsequious, careful of obsequies, xvii. 198.
.......... viii. 439.
observation, celebration, v. 292.
obstacle, obstinate, xviii. 150.
occupation, mechanicks, xiv. 182.
occurrents, occurrences, vii. 516.
od's pitikins, xii. 170.
Oeliads, x. 215.
o'ercrow, overcome, vii. 515.
o'erlooked, fascinated, v. 79.
......... viii. 192.* note
o'er raught, overlook, vii. 319.
o'erwrested, viii. 265.
of all loves, by all means, v. 243.
........... viii. 82.
officers of night, ix. 236.
offices, rooms of entertainment, ix. 318.
...... xiii. 305.
...... xvi. 22.
off capp'd, ix. 217.
oh, oh, xv. 55.
old, an augmentative, v. 133, 441.
... vii. 152.
... xvii. 71.
old utis, xvii. 71.
old age, ages past, xi. 405.
old ends, vii. 25.
old lad of the castle, xvi. 193.
old tale, vii. 20, 163.
omen, vii. 185.
once, once for all, iv. 197.
.... vii. 27.
.... xiv. 89.
.... at some time, viii. 137.
.... xii. 125.
.... xiv. 89.
oneyers, xvi. 239.
opal, xi. 407.
-- 502 --
open, ix. 49.
operant, active, vii. 356.
opinion, obstinacy, iv. 393.
opposite, antagonist, ix. 129.
........hostile, xi. 425.
opposition, combat, xii. 145.
oppression, xii. 352.
or, e'er, xii. 79.
..xv. 27.
or ever, before, vii. 208.
orbs, fairy circles, v. 200.
orchard, a garden, vii. 55.
ordinance, rank, xiv. 128.
orgulous, proud, viii. 223.
osprey, xiv. 187.
ostent, outward show, v. 48.
ostentation, appearance, vii. 116.
overcome, come over, xi. 175.
overscutched, xvii. 138.
overture, xiv. 51.
Ouph, a fairy, viii. 163.
ousel cock, v. 251.
out, interj. iv. 65.
. . . completely, xiv. 169.
...xv. 28.
out of suits, vi. 270.
outward, not intimate, x. 400.
owe, to possess, iv. 193, 303.
.... v. 240.
.... xv. 238.
owches, xvii. 74.
P.
pack, combine, vii. 144.
packing, underhand contrivances, x. 135.
paddock, a toad, xi. 13.
pagan, ix. 249.
...... xvii. 64.
pain, punishment, ix. 85.
paiock, vii. 366.
paicocke, vii. 366.
pajocke, vii. 366.
pale, incircle, xviii. 396.
pale, paleness, xx. 46.
pall, to fail, vii. 486.
palmy, vii. 182.
palter, to deceive, viii. 313.
..... xi. 272.
paly, pale, vi. 187.
pang, to afflict, xix. 374.
pantaloon, vi. 410.
paper epitaph, xvii. 282.
papers, verb, xix. 317.
parcel, part, viii. 28.
parcell gilt, partly gilt, xvii. 51.
parcell, verb, xii. 411.
pardonnez moy's, vi. 99.
parle, conference, vii. 176.
parlous, perilous, v. 245.
....... shrewd, xix. 91.
partake, participate, xiv. 427.
partaker, accomplice, xviii. 66.
parted, endowed, viii. 346.
partial slander, reproach of partiality, xvi. 38.
particular, private, ix. 173.
Partlet, xiv. 298.
pash, to strike, viii. 310.
.... a head, xiv. 249.
pass, to go beyond bounds, viii. 153, 245.
.... to die, x. 221.
pass on, decide, ix. 42.
passes, ix. 199.
passion, to feel acutely, iv. 116.
passionate, sorrowful, xv. 256.
-- 503 --
passionate, to lament, xxi. 312.
passy measure, xi. 492.
pastry, room where pastry was made, vi. 200.
patch, iv. 192.
..... v. 258.
patches, v. 258.
path, to walk, xii. 42.
pathetical, promise-breaker, vi. 473.
patient, to make patient, xxi. 268.
patines, v. 138.
pattern, instance, xix. 21.
pavan, xi. 492.
paucas pallabris, v. 358.
pay, to beat, iv. 237.
.... viii. 170.
pax, xvii. 362.
peacock, vii. 366.
pearl, ornament, xi. 274.
peat, pet, or darling, v. 337.
peculiar, private, ix. 19.
pedant, a schoolmaster, v. 474.
peer, ix. 323.
peevish, foolish, iv. 124, 219, 242.
peize, to weigh, v. 79.
pelting, paltry, v. 212.
...... viii. 398.
...... x. 105.
pennons, flags, xvii. 357.
penthouse lid, xi. 33.
perdu, x. 244.
perdurable, lasting, xvii. 433.
perdurably, lastingly, ix. 108.
perdy, pardieu, Fr. iv. 240.
perfect, well informed, xi. 214.
...... xii. 97.
....... xiv. 331.
periapts, charms, xviii. 138.
period, to end, xiii. 259.
perjure, iv. 366.
periwig, iv. 117.
person, parson, persona ecclesiæ, iv. 358.
perspective, xi. 495.
pestilence, poison, ix. 339.
pew fellow, comrade, xix. 173.
phantasma, xii. 42.
pheere, companion, xxi. 14.
pheezar, viii. 34.
pheeze, v. 357.
...... viii. 310.
Philip, xv. 217.
phill-horse, shaft-horse, v. 43.
phisnomy, physiognomy, x. 461.
pia mater, iv. 357.
........ viii. 285.
pick, pitch, xiv. 14.
pick axes, fingers, xii. 175.
picked, iv. 394.
...... vii. 472.
...... xv. 214.
pickers and stealers, hands, vii. 369.
picking, petty, xvii. 157.
Pickt hatch, viii. 76.
pick thanks, parasites, xvi. 324.
piece of him, vii. 173.
pied ninny, a fool, xv. 116.
pieled priest, xviii. 31.
pierced, penetrated, ix. 268.
pight, pitched, viii. 445.
pilche, a leathern coat, xxi. 61.
pilcher, a cloak, vi. 125.
pil'desteemed, xviii. 37.
pilled, pillaged, xix. 42.
-- 504 --
pillicock, x. 154.
pin, a term in archery, vi. 96.
pin and web, a cataract, x. 159.
pinched thing, xiv. 278.
pink eyne, xii. 270.
pioned, xv. 136.
pious chansons, vii. 299.
pipe wine, viii. 116.
piss tallow, viii. 183.
pissing while, iv. 108.
pitch and pay, xvii. 323.
pith and marrow, vii. 228.
pitiful-hearted, xvi. 268.
pittie ward, viii. 100.
pix, xvii. 363.
place, a mansion, vi. 387.
placket, x. 156.
plagued, punished, xix. 43.
plain song, v. 253.
planched, made of planks, ix. 140.
plantage, viii. 335.
plantain leaf, vi. 31.
plants, feet, xii. 261.
plates, xii. 406.
plausive, applauded, vii. 228.
plot, a piece of ground, vii. 421.
plurisy, plethory, vii. 453.
point, a negative, iv. 316, 419.
point-device, vi. 440.
........... xi. 426.
point devise, finical, iv. 395.
poize, weight, ix. 349.
Polacks, Poles, vii. 177.
poleaxe, vii. 177.
polled, cleaned, xiv. 173.
pomewater, a kind of apple, iv. 353.
pons chansons, vii. 299.
poor fool, a term of endearment, x. 283.
........ xviii. 433.
poor fool, xx. 45.
Poprin peer, vi. 74.
popinjay, xvi. 211.
porpentine, porcupine, iv. 2, 14.
porringer, a cup, v. 484.
port, external appearance, v. 15, 392.
.... a gate, viii. 377.
portable, bearable, xi. 224.
portance, carriage, behaviour, ix. 260.
....... xiv. 102.
ports, gates, xiv. 45.
possess, inform, vii. 144.
...... viii. 377.
...... ix. 141.
potatoes, viii. 409.
potch, strike, xiv. 55.
poulter, poulterer, xvi. 294.
pouncet box, xvi. 210.
practice, vii. 456.
practise, insidious stratagems, ix. 184.
prank, adorn, xi. 408.
..... xiv. 106.
precedent, rough draft, xv. 345.
precept, a justice's warrant, xvii. 201.
precisian, a puritan, viii. 54.
prefer, offer, v. 308.
..... vii. 458.
..... recommend, xii. 154.
pregnant, ready, viii. 343.
........ ix. 9.
prescribe, prescrips, commands, what is prescribed, vii. 274.
presence, a publick room, vi. 237.
....... the presence chamber, xix. 399.
-- 505 --
presence, dignity of appearance, xv. 207.
present, present time, xi. 67.
...... xv. 21.
prest, ready, v. 17.
pretence, design, iv. 69.
........ x. 37.
pretend, intend, passim.
pretended, intended, iv. 62.
prevent, anticipate, xvii. 39.
prick in, insert, v. 444.
prick'd on, instigated, vii. 179.
pride, the haughty power, xviii. 90.
prig, xiv. 342.
prima mater, iv. 357.
primero, a game at cards, viii. 170.
principality, iv. 51.
principals, the strongest rafters in the roof of a building, xxi. 144.
princox, vi. 65.
print, in, with exactness, iv. 39.
private, subst. private account, xv. 331.
probal, probable, ix. 337.
proceed, iv. 283.
prodigious, portentous, v. 339.
producted, produced, ix. 233.
proface, xvii. 216.
profane, licentious, ix. 230.
prognostication, almanack, xiv. 397.
project, verb, xii. 408.
projection, xvii. 328.
prolixious, delaying, ix. 92.
prone, ix. 26.
..... forward, xii. 205.
propagate, advance, xiii. 257.
propagation, ix. 24.
proper, good looking, iv. 94.
...... v. 21.
...... vii. 67.
proper-false, xi. 382.
properties, a stage term, v. 198.
property, to make a property of, xi. 477.
propose, to converse, vii. 70.
...... conservative, vii. 70.
prorogue, delay, vi. 32.
protest, vi. 110.
provand, provender, xiv. 74.
provant, vi. 71.
provincial, ix. 195.
provincial roses, vii. 363.
provost, a gaoler, ix. 41.
provulgate, make known, ix. 239.
prune, xvi. 189.
pugging, xiv. 334.
pun, to pound, viii. 283.
purchase, stolen goods, xvi. 243.
purl, to curl, xx. 186.
push, vii. 131.
pussel, pucelle, xviii. 42.
put on, instigate, vii. 518.
...... ix. 305.
putting down, viii. 56.
puttock, xii. 17.
pyrámides, xii. 403.
pyramises, xii. 264.
Q.
quail, to be defeated, vi. 385.
..... xii. 212.
-- 506 --
quail, subst. viii. 403.
quaintly, skilfully, iv. 72.
quake, terrify, xiv. 48.
qualify, to moderate, ix. 151.
quality, profession, iv. 98.
...... vii. 293.
...... viii. 186.
quarry, game that has been killed, vii. 517.
...... x. 233.
...... xiv. 17.
quart d'ecu, a coin, x. 452.
quarter, ix. 328.
quartered, fives, xii. 180.
quat, ix. 453.
queasy, squeamish, vii. 52.
quell, kill, v. 329.
.... murder, ii. 87.
quern, a hand-mill, v. 202.
quest of love, amorous expedition, x. 21.
quests, ix. 143, 243.
question, conversation, v. 115.
....... vi. 23.
....... theme, vii. 181.
questionable, vii. 233.
questrist, one who goes in quest of another, x. 182.
quick, lively, iv. 288.
..... xii. 415.
quick winds, xii. 182.
quicken, animate, v. 385.
quiddits, subtilties, vii. 469.
quietus, discharge, vii. 325.
quillets, substilties, vii. 469.
quintain, vi. 370.
quire, to play or sing in concert with, v. 138.
.... xiv. 138.
quit, requite, vii. 492.
.... ix. 206.
quittance, return, xvii. 16.
quiver, nimble, xvii. 135.
quote, to observe, iv. 45.
..... vi. 45.
..... vii. 262.
R.
R, dog's letter, vi. 113.
rabato, a ruff, vii. 95.
rack, exaggerate, vii. 117.
.... subst. xii. 369.
.... xv. 147.
.... xx. 257.
ragged, rugged, vi. 396.
...... xvii. 18.
ragged end, forestall'd, remission, xvii. 207.
rake up, cover up, x. 240.
rampallian, xvii. 49.
ranged, xii. 168.
rank, vi. 495.
.... xii. 83.
rank garb, ix. 316.
rank time, vi. 495.
rapture, a fit, xiv. 69.
rascal, a lean deer, vi. 447.
..... xvii. 73.
rased shoes, vii. 363.
rash, hasty, viii. 366.
rash, verb, to strike, x. 185.
ravin, devour, ix. 22.
.... ravenous, x. 407.
ravin'd, ravenous, xi. 194.
raught, reached, iv. 355.
raw, ignorant, vi. 420.
... vii. 495.
rawly, hastily, xvii. 395.
rawness, without preparation, xi. 221.
rayed, v. 456.
razes of ginger, xvi. 234.
read, counsel, vii. 217.
reason, discourse, iv. 393.
reasoned, conversed, v. 65.
-- 507 --
reasoning, conversing, iv. 38.
rebeck, a fiddle, vi. 213.
receive, understand, xi. 381.
receiving, ready apprehension, xi. 437.
recheate, vii. 21.
reck, to care for, iv. 107.
reckless, careless, iv. 124.
recollected, xi. 402.
record, to sing, iv. 126.
recorded, xi. 263.
recorder, v. 317.
....... vii. 369.
recover the wind, vii. 370.
recourse of tears, tears coursing one another, viii. 424.
recure, recover, xix. 145.
red plague, erisipelas, xv. 571.
reduce, bring back, xix. 241.
reechy, smoky, vii. 92, 403.
...... xiv. 70.
refelled, refuted, ix. 182.
regiment, government, xii. 296.
regreet, salutation, xv. 279.
regreets, reward, v. 72.
reguerdon, xviii. 86.
relapse, xvii. 422.
relume, relight, ix. 465.
relumine, ix. 465.
remorse, pity, v. 108.
....... vi. 370.
remorseful, feeling pity, iv. 106.
remotion, xiii. 395.
removed, remote, vii. 236.
render, describe, vi. 483.
...... an account, xii. 180.
reneg, deny, x. 93.
..... xii. 165.
rent, rend, xi. 230.
repeal, recall, ix. 339.
repugn, resist, xviii. 108.
rere-mouse, a bat, v. 237.
reserve, preserve, xx. 256.
resolve, dissolve, vii. 202.
...... xv. 357.
respect, consideration, vii. 323.
...... viii. 291.
respective, repected, iv. 119.
........ considerate, vi. 128.
resty, mouldy, xii. 138.
retail, recount, xix. 189.
retire, draw back, xvi. 72.
reverbs, reverberates, x. 17.
revolt of mein, viii. 44.
revolts, rebels, xii. 180.
rheumatick, splenetick, xvii. 75.
rib, to inclose, v. 61.
riched, enriched, x. 10.
rid, destroy, xv. 576.
riddles, book of, viii. 26.
ride the mare, xvii. 50.
rift, rive, split, xiv. 403.
riggish, wanton, xii. 237.
rigol, a circle, xvii. 186.
rim, xvii. 427.
ripe, v. 241.
ripe wants, v. 26.
rivage, bank, xvii. 335.
rivality, equal rank, xii. 289.
rivals, associates, vii. 172.
Rivo, xvi. 268.
romage, vii. 180.
ronyon, scabbed, viii. 156.
...... xi. 28.
rood, the cross, xvii. 114.
rook, to squat down, xviii. 539.
rooky, xi. 159.
-- 508 --
rooting hog, xix. 45.
rope tricks, roguery, v. 401.
ropery, roguery, vi. 108.
rose, vii. 388.
rough hew, vii. 487.
round, free in speech or action, iv. 172.
..... vii. 272.
..... to whisper, xiv. 257.
..... without reserve, vii. 383.
rounded, whispered, xv. 257.
roundel, a dance, or a song, v. 234.
roundure, circle, xv. 238.
rouse, vii. 201.
.... ix. 321.
royal, a coin, xvi. 282.
royal faith, faith due to a king, xvii. 156.
royal merchant, v. 109.
royalize, make royal, xix. 40.
royalty, excellence, xi. 140.
roynish, scabby, vi. 385.
ruddock, red-breast, xii. 164.
ruff, a boot-top, x. 401.
ruffle, v. 482.
.... xxi. 277.
running banquet, a hasty banquet, xix. 342.
S.
sables, suit of, vii. 348.
sacred, accursed, xxi. 291.
sacrificial whisperings, xiii. 257.
sacring bell, bell that gives notice of the Host approaching, xix. 423.
sad, serious, iv. 27.
sad and civil, solemn and grave, xi. 448.
sadness, seriousness, vi. 216.
safe, be secure, xii. 194.
sag, swag, xi. 247.
said I well, viii. 34.
Saint George to boot, xix. 232.
Saint Nicholas, patron of scholars, iv. 81.
sallet, vii. 303.
.... xviii. 330.
saltiers, xiv. 373.
Samingo, xvii. 221.
........ xxi. 467.
sans, without, iv. 430.
savage, uncultivated, xvii. 353.
savageness, wildness, vii. 259.
save reverence, vi. 48.
say, xviii. 313.
'say, sample, x. 269.
scald, scabbed, xii. 415.
scale, ix. 115.
.... xiv. 9.
scaling, weighing, xiv. 104.
scall, a scab, viii. 111.
scamble, scramble, xv. 339.
scambling, scrambling, vii. 134.
scamble, to divide into small portions, xvi. 309.
scamels, xv. 103.
'scape of nature, an abortion, xv. 305.
scare, viii. 176.
scarre, x. 433.
scath, to do an injury, vi. 65.
scathful, destructive, xi. 486.
scattered, disunited, x. 136.
sconce, a head, iv. 164.
...... vii. 469.
-- 509 --
scotch, to cut, xi. 152.
scrimers, fencers, vii. 452.
scroyles, scabby fellows, xv. 246.
scrubbed, v. 147.
sculls, shoals, viii. 432.
sea-mells, xv. 103.
seam, fat, viii. 309.
sear, burn, xi. 204.
sear up, xii. 14.
season, vii. 113, 209, 220.
seasoned, established and settled by time, xiv. 145.
sect, a cutting, ix. 284.
securely, confidently, viii. 385.
seel, to close up, ix. 367.
.... xi. 158.
seeming, specious, viii. 113.
seen, well seen, practised, v. 403.
seld-shown, seldom shown, xiv. 71.
seldom, rare, xx. 273.
self, self-same, x. 210.
... xi. 344.
self covered, x. 202.
self figured knot, xii. 76.
semblably, resembling, xvi. 394.
sennet, xii. 11.
...... xix. 381.
sense, sensual desires, ix. 66, 70.
sensible, having sensation, xiv. 35.
septentrion, the north, xviii. 398.
sequestration, ix. 285.
sere dry, withered, iv. 222.
....... xi. 250.
sergeant, xi. 15.
serpigo, a kind of tetter, viii. 303.
...... ix. 98.
servant, a lady's lover, iv. 36.
sessey, x. 156.
set, vii. 417.
set by, to value, iv. 22.
set cock-a-hoop, vi. 64.
set down, ix. 309.
set up rest, iv. 232.
......... vi. 263.
several, iv. 318.
severals and hidden passages, xvii. 264.
sewer, xi. 74.
shaft or bolt, two kinds of arrows, viii. 132.
shag eared, xi. 215.
shag haired, xviii. 250.
shapeless, iv. 10, n. 5.
shapes our ends, vii. 486.
shard borne, xi. 155.
sharded, xiii. 107.
shards, potsherds, vii. 476.
shark up, vii. 180.
sheen, bright, v. 202.
sheep, pronounced like ship, iv. 14, 220.
sheer ale, v. 375.
sheer, transparent, xvi. 155.
shent, vii. 374.
..... rebuked, viii. 304.
..... xiv. 203.
shog off, xvii. 300.
short, defective, vi. 192.
shoughs, a kind of dogs, xi. 146.
shoulder clapper, a bailiff, iv. 225.
shoulder of the sail, vii. 217.
shouldered, xix. 143.
-- 510 --
shrew, applied to males, v. 461.
shrewd, bitter, v. 401.
shrift, confession, vi. 191.
shrive, to call a person to confession, iv. 188.
shrup'd, viii. 393.
shut up, xi. 91.
side, x. 255.
side sleeves, vii. 96.
siege, place, or rank, vii. 451.
.... ix. 239.
.... seat, ix. 152.
sigh away Sundays, vii. 19.
sightless, invisible, xi. 64.
........ unsightly, xv. 262.
sights of steel, the perforated part of their helmets through which they could see, xvii. 152.
signior, senior, iv. 297.
silly, simple, x. 95.
silly cheat, a cant term for thieving, xiv. 337.
silver sound, vi. 213.
sincere motions, honest indignation, ix. 323.
single, xvii. 35.
single-soled, vi. 103.
single state, xi. 49.
sirrab, sometimes not a term of contempt, xvi. 205.
Sir-reverence, save reverence, salvâ reverentiâ, iv. 208.
........... vi. 47.
sisters, verb, xxi. 184.
sith, since, xviii. 371.
sixpenny strikers, xvi. 238.
sizes, allowance, x. 123.
skain's mate, vi. 109.
skill-less, viii. 230.
skills, is of importance, xviii. 245.
skimble scamble, xvi. 313.
skipping, frolicksome, xi. 370.
skirr, xi. 245.
..... xvii. 440.
slack, to neglect, viii. 138.
slave, to make subject, x. 195.
sleave, xi. 106.
sleided silk, untwisted silk, xxi. 132.
slip, a counterfeit, vi. 101.
sliver, tear off, x. 199.
slops, large breeches, iv. 367.
....vi. 101.
slough, the skin which a serpent throws off, xvii. 389.
slow, to retard, vi. 181.
slower, graver, xix. 25.
slubber, to obscure, ix. 271.
sluggabed, sluggard, vi. 204.
sly-slow hours, xvi. 33.
smaller, shorter, vi. 372.
smirch, to soil, vi. 378.
...... vii. 92, 112.
smooth, to sooth, x. 93.
snake, a term of contempt, vi. 479.
sneap, to check or rebuke, xvii. 53.
sneaping, checking, iv. 284.
........ nipping, xiv. 240.
sneck up, xi. 396.
snipe, a fool, ix. 289.
snuff, anger, iv. 404.
snuffs, dislikes, x. 135.
soldier to, xii. 127.
-- 511 --
solemn supper, xi. 136.
soliciting, xi. 48.
solidares, xiii. 313.
sometimes, formerly, v. 17.
soope, vii. 465.
sooth, truth, xi. 405.
..... sweetness, xvi. 111.
sop o' the moonshine, x. 88.
sorrow wag, vii. 128.
sort, a company, v. 260.
.... a lot, viii. 279.
.... and suit, ix. 171.
.... degree, v. 269.
.... to choose out, iv. 93.
.... to succeed, v. 481.
.... to suit, vii. 181.
.... viii. 235.
sorry, dismal, iv. 251.
..... xi. 105.
sovereignty of reason, sovereign reason, vii. 236.
souced gurnet, xvi. 366.
soud, v. 465.
soul fearing, soul appalling, xv. 247.
soul of great article, soul of large comprehension, vii. 496.
sound, declare, xv. 319.
sowle, drag by the ears, xiv. 172.
sowter, xi. 423.
spanieled, followed like a spaniel, xii. 362.
spare, to let go a thing, xiv. 308.
Spartan hounds, v. 298.
speak fewer, speak less, xvii. 391.
speak parrot, talk idly, ix. 335.
special soul, ix. 9.
speculation, viii. 347.
speculative instruments, eyes, ix. 280.
sperre, shut up, viii. 224.
spirit of sense, viii. 233.
spleen, haste, v. 184.
sprag, alert, viii. 147.
sprighted, haunted, xii. 78.
springs, young shoots or buds, iv. 199.
spurring, xiii. 379.
spurs, fibres or roots of trees, xiii. 149.
spy of the time, xi. 148.
square of sense, x. 11.
square, to quarrel, v. 202.
squarer, a quarrelsome fellow, vii. 14.
squash, an immature peascod, v. 256.
....... xi. 268.
squiny, squint, x. 229.
squire, a rule to measure with, iv. 435.
squire of the night's body, xvi. 190.
staff tipped with horn, vii. 161.
staggers, x. 384.
stain, x. 316.
stale, a stalking horse, iv. 174.
stale, a term at chess, v. 386.
stalk on, vii. 61.
stands upon, is important, xii. 219.
........... xix. 160.
stannyel, xi. 422.
stark, stiff, xii. 162.
starkly, stiffly, ix. 150.
state, viii. 305.
.... xi. 164, 416.
-- 512 --
state, xii. 117.
.... xvii. 213.
state of law, xvi. 57.
station, attitude, vii. 392.
statist, statesman, vii. 489.
..... xii. 80.
statua, xii. 65.
...... xix. 139.
statue, a picture, iv. 119.
statute caps, iv 420.
statutes, securities, vii. 470.
staves, wood of the lances, xix. 212.
stay, xv. 250.
sternage, xvii. 235.
stewed prunes, xvi. 345.
sticking place, xi. 84.
stickler, viii. 442.
stigmatical, stigmatised, iv. 223.
stigmatick, a person branded, xviii. 348.
stint, to stop, v. a. viii. 387.
.... to stop, v. n. vi. 36.
stithy, a smith's shop, vii. 344.
stoccata, a thrust, vi. 124.
stomach, passion or obstinacy, iv. 22.
....... resolution, vii. 180.
....... pride, xix. 44.
stone bow, xi. 417.
stoup, a flaggon, vii. 465, 508.
strain, a fault, viii. 61.
.... to embrace, xix. 438.
strange, coy, vi. 83.
....... q? xii. 49.
...... a stranger, xii. 58.
strangle, suppress, xi. 490.
stratagem, dreadful event, xvii. 10.
stratagem, xviii. 435.
straying shapes, iv. 455.
stricture, strictness, ix. 29.
strides, xi. 98.
strike the vessels, tap the vessels, xii. 269.
strumpeted iv. 183.
stuck, a thrust, vii. 458.
.... xi. 461.
stuff, baggage, iv. 244.
stuff of the conscience, ix. 237.
stuffed, vii. 10.
stuffed sufficiency, abilities more than enough, xiv. 289.
subscribe, agree to ix. 86.
........ yield, viii. 388.
........ x. 34.
success, consequence either. good or evil, ix. 368.
successantly, xxi. 354.
successive title, title to the succession, xxi. 263.
sudden, violent, vi. 409.
suggest to tempt, iv. 60.
suggestion, temptation, x. 411.
......... xi. 48.
suitor, pronounced like shooter, iv. 348.
summer seeming xi. 223.
summer swelling, which swells in summer, iv. 52.
sumpter, a horse that carries provisions, x. 127.
sun breeding maggots in a dead dog, vii. 278.
suppliance, vii. 215.
supplied, ix. 412.
surcease, an end, xi. 76.
sur-reined, xvii. 354.
suspect, suspicion, xx. 288.
-- 513 --
sustaining, xv. 44.
swaid, bent, v. 443.
swart, black, iv. 209.
swashing, swaggering, vi. 378.
swashing blow, vi. 11.
swaying, inclining, xvii. 263.
sweet, subst. iv. 427.
sweet mouth, iv. 83.
sweeting, a term of fondness, ix. 334.
swift, ready, vii. 76.
sworn brother, vii. 12.
sworn rioter, xiii. 343.
T.
table, the palm of the hand, v. 45.
.... a picture, x. 315.
table of green fields, xvii. 320.
tables, memorandum books, vii. 249.
tabourines, small drums, viii. 398.
tailor cries, v. 208.
taint, x. 23.
take in, overcome, xii. 99, 299.
take order, to take measures, iv. 253.
take out, copy, ix. 375.
take the earth, xvi. 124.
take the hatch, leap the hatch, xv. 252.
take thought, grieve, xii. 318.
take up, contradict, x. 387.
takes affects magically, vii. 190.
..... blasts, viii. 162.
talent, a talon, iv. 357.
tall, viii. 47, 70.
tall fellow of his hands, xiv. 419.
tallow keech, xvi. 279.
tame cheater, xvii. 77.
tang, xi. 451.
tarre, incite, vii. 294.
.... viii. 280.
.... xv. 313.
Tartar's bow, vi. 43.
tassel gentle, the male of the goshawk, vi. 87.
taste your legs, xi. 434.
taxation, censure, vi. 361.
tear a cat, to bluster, v. 194.
teen, sorrow, vi. 35.
.... xv. 30.
temnest, most contemned, x. 98.
temper, verb, xviii. 499.
...... to mould, xix. 13.
temperance, temperature, xv. 73.
temporary meddler, ix. 187.
tenable, held, vii. 213.
tend, i'the eyes, xii. 235.
tender, dear, iv. 127.
tender, verb, vii. 222.
tender-hefted, x. 123.
tender-hested, x. 123.
ten fingers, xviii. 191.
tent, dwell as in a tent, xiv. 139.
tent, search, vii. 317.
tercel, the male hawk, viii. 327.
testern'd, getting sixpence, iv. 18, n. 4.
Theban, x. 164.
theorick, theory, ix. 220.
thewes, vii. 215.
...... xvii. 129.
-- 514 --
thick as tale, xi. 43.
thick pleached, thickly interwoven, vii. 28.
thick, quick, xii. 103.
thieves of the day's beauty, xvi. 191.
thill horse, v. 43.
thing of nothing, vii. 413.
thin helm, x. 244.
think and die, xii. 317.
thirdborough, a constable, v. 360.
thought, melancholy, vi. 474.
....... vii. 443.
thou'st him, xi. 442.
thrasonical, iv. 394.
thread, to pass through, x. 84.
...... xiv. 112.
thread of mine own life, xv. 133.
three hooped pots, xviii. 297.
three-nooked, three-cornered, xii. 349.
three pile, rich velvet, xiv. 335.
three souls, xi. 390.
throstle, v. 20.
thrumbed hat, viii. 151.
thrum, end of a weaver's warp, v. 328.
thunder stone, thunderbolt, xii. 168.
thwarting, crossing, xxi. 166.
tickle brain, xvi. 291.
tickle, ticklish, xviii. 177.
tickle your catastrophe, xvii. 49.
tickled in the sere, vii. 287.
tide, pun on tide and tied, iv. 43.
tidy, xvii. 92.
tight, adroit, xii. 345.
tightly, adroitly, viii. 41.
tilly vally, xi. 394.
tilth, tillage, ix. 37.
time of scorn, ix. 433.
time, the present times, vii. 323.
timely parted, xviii. 263.
tinct, tincture, x. 478.
tire, a term in falconry, xiii. 347.
tired, dressed, iv. 362.
tiring, dressing, iv. 181.
tirra-lirra, the song of the lark, xiv. 335.
toasting iron, xv. 337.
tods, amounts to a tod of wool, xiv. 338.
toged, ix. 222.
toll, x. 480.
tolling, taking toll, xvii. 188.
tomboys, xii. 54.
tongued, wordy, ix. 222.
topple, tumble, x. 218.
totter'd, xv. 359.
touch, exploit, v. 263.
..... feeling, v. 390.
..... viii. 368.
..... xii. 16.
..... touchstone, xiii. 397.
toward, xiii. 349.
towards, ready, vi. 68.
toys, vii. 237, 424.
toze, xiv. 394.
trace, follow, xi. 209.
.... xix. 408.
trade, dealing, vii. 368.
.... practise, ix. 111.
trail, course of an animal
-- 515 --
pursued by the scent, vii. 266.
.... viii. 157.
tranect, v. 101.
translate, transform, v. 187.
....... explain, vii. 408.
....... viii. 38.
trash, ix. 314.
..... xv. 31.
travel, to stroll, applied to players, vii. 288.
traverse, march, ix. 288.
tray trip, xi. 427.
treacherous persons, x. 42.
treble, vii. 213.
trenched, carved, iv. 87.
tribulation of Tower-hill, xix. 489.
trick, peculiarity, x. 315.
.......... xv. 205.
Trigon, xvii. 97.
triple, third, x. 361.
triple-turned, xii. 361.
triumphs, shows, iv. 136.
........ xvi. 149.
Trojans, xvi. 238.
trol my dames, xiv. 341.
trossers, xvii. 376.
trot, a term of contempt, ix. 123.
trow, vii. 99.
true man, honest man, ix. 146.
........ xviii. 394.
true penny, vi. 353.
trundle tail, x. 175.
truth, honesty, v. 122.
tub fast, xiii. 371.
tucket sonuance, xvii. 409.
tugged with fortune, xi. 147.
tumbler's hoop, iv. 337.
tup, a ram, ix. 228.
turn his girdle, vii. 137.
turn to, occasion, viii. 192.
turn Turk, vii. 99, 361.
twangling jack, v. 418.
twiggen bottle, wickered bottle, ix. 326.
twilled, xv. 136.
twire, xx. 251.
tyed, xix. 444.
V.
vail, to lower, v. 9.
.... ix. 178.
.... xvii. 17.
vailing, lowering, iv. 422.
valanced, vii. 300.
validity, value, x. 11, 484.
valued file, xi. 146.
vanity, an illusion, xv. 135.
vantage, opportunity, xii. 24.
vantbrace, armour for the arm, viii. 274.
varlet, a servant, viii. 229.
vast of night, xv. 53.
vaunt, what goes before, viii. 226.
vaward, forepart, v. 296.
velure, velvet, v. 443.
venew, iv. 308.
veneys, hits, viii. 31.
vengeance, mischief, vi. 478.
ventages, holes of a flute, vii. 371.
verbal, verbose, xii. 76.
Veronesé, a ship from Verona, ix. 293.
versing, writing verses, v. 210.
vice of kings, vii. 397.
vie, v. 427.
vild, vile, viii. 192.
-- 516 --
violenteth, acts with violence, viii. 371.
virginal, belonging to virgins, xiv. 201.
...... to play on the virginal, a small kind of spinnet, xiv. 248.
virgin knight, vii. 153.
virtuous, salutiferous, v. 280.
visitor, xv. 71.
vizaments, advisement, consideration, viii. 13.
vox, xi. 49.
vulgar, common, xi. 438.
vulgarly, publickly, ix. 187.
U.
Ullorxa, xiii. 337.
umber, vi. 378.
umber, vii. 371.
umbered, xvii. 384.
unaneled, without extreme unction, vii. 246.
unbarbed, xiv. 137.
unbolt, explain, xiii. 255.
unbonnetted, ix. 240.
unbraided wares, xiv. 360.
unbreathed, unpractised, v. 314.
uncape, a term in hunting, viii. 127.
unclean, unchaste, x. 25.
unclew, xiii. 264.
unconfirmed, unpractised, vii. 91.
uncurrent encounter, xiv. 309.
undercrest, xiv. 53.
under fiends, xiv. 167.
undergoes, is subject to, vii. 151.
understand, stand under, iv. 58, 171.
underwrite, subscribe to, obey, viii. 306.
uneath, scarcely, xviii. 228.
uneffectual fire, vii. 248.
unexpressible, unexpressive, vi. 417.
unfair, to deprive of beauty, xx. 229.
unhaired sauciness, xv. 351.
unhappy, mischievous, x. 462.
unhouselled, without having received the sacrament, vii. 246.
union, a pearl, vii. 509.
unkind, unnatural, vi. 411.
unlace, ix. 330.
unless, except, xiv. 197.
unlived, lifeless, xx. 206.
unlustrous, without lustre, xii. 53.
unmanned, a term in faulconry, vi. 136.
unmastered, licentious, vii. 216.
unpregnant, vii. 314.
unprepared, ix. 171.
unprevailing, unavailing, vii. 199.
unproper, not confined to one, ix. 416.
unqualitied, xii. 312.
unquestionable, vi. 439.
unready, undressed, xviii. 51.
unrespective, thoughtless, xix. 158.
unrest, disquiet, xxi. 294.
unrough youths, unbearded, xi. 245.
unsifted, vii. 221.
unsisting, ix. 152.
-- 517 --
unsmirched, unsoiled, vii. 434.
unstaunched, xv. 22.
unthread, xv. 356.
untraded, not in common use, viii. 392.
untrimmed, xv. 276.
unvalued, invaluable, xix. 55.
upspring, a dance, vii. 226.
urchins, viii. 163.
....... xv. 55.
use and usance, v. 30.
Utis, xvii. 71.
utterance, a l' outrance, to extremity, xi. 143.
......... xii. 97.
W.
wafts, beckons, iv. 181.
wage, xiv. 221.
waist, middle, vii. 209.
walk, xv. 323.
wannion, xxi. 61.
wanton, an effeminate man, vii. 512.
wappened, xiii. 264.
ward, defence, xv. 68.
warden pies, xiv. 339.
warder, a guard, xi. 87.
warn, to summon, xii. 132.
..... xix. 36.
warp, vi. 413.
wassel, iv. 423.
...... vii. 226.
...... xi. 86.
wassel candle, xvii. 34.
wasp tongue, xvi. 226.
wasp stung, xvi. 226.
watch, xix. 211.
water fly, a term of contempt, vii. 493.
water galls, xx. 197.
wawl, wail, x. 232.
wax, to grow, iv. 404.
waxen, xvi. 27.
waxen epitaph, xvii. 383.
way of life, xi. 249.
weal, balanced, ix. 166.
wealth, prosperity, v. 151.
weather bitten, xiv. 414.
weazel, xii. 125.
wee, little, viii. 46.
weigh, value, x. 410.
weird sisters, xi. 35.
welkin, the sky, iv. 326.
well liking, enbonpoint, iv. 418.
wench, a young woman, ix. 486.
wend, to go, iv. 160.
........... v. 281.
whalesbone, iv. 424.
what make you? what are you doing? vii. 207.
wheel, vii. 438.
whelked, curled, x. 222.
whelks and knobs, xvii. 369.
when, an interrogation expressive of impatience, xii. 34.
........... xv. 51.
where, whence, iv. 70, 312.
whereas, where, xviii. 181.
whiffler, xvii. 455.
whiles, until, xi. 483.
whinidst, mouldy, viii. 282.
whipping cheer, xvii. 227.
whipstock, a carter's whip, xxi. 76.
whirring, xxi. 141.
white, the mark in archery, v. 522.
white death, x. 378.
white liver'd, cowardly, xix. 197.
whiting time, bleaching time, viii. 125.
-- 518 --
whitsters, bleachers of linen, viii. 117.
whittle, a clasped knife, xiii. 422.
whooping, vi. 429.
wide, irregular, viii. 108.
wide of the mark, viii. 320.
wilderness, wildness, ix. 110.
wild goose chase, vi. 103.
will, in opposition to inclination, vii. 368.
wimpled, having a wimple, or veil, iv. 343.
Winchester goose, viii. 447.
window-bars, xiii. 374.
windows of the eyes, eyelids, vi. 187.
window'd, x. 149.
wing-led, xii. 80.
wink, xv. 86.
winter ground, xii. 164.
winters pale, xiv. 335.
winters sisterhood, vi. 452.
wise gentleman, vii. 139.
wise woman, a witch, viii. 168.
wish, recommend, vii. 72.
.... ix. 253.
wisp, xviii. 421.
wittol, a contented cockold, viii. 91.
witty, able, xviii. 384.
woe begone, xvii. 13.
woman, to affect as a woman, x. 403.
woman-tired, henpeck'd, xiv. 297.
wondered, wondrous, xv. 144.
wood, mad, iv. 42.
.... v. 229.
woodbine, v. 291.
woodcock, a fool, iv. 368.
........ vii. 138.
wooden thing, an awkward business, xviii. 144.
woodman, viii. 184.
........ ix. 169.
........ xii. 137.
woolvish, xiv. 94.
woolward, wearing wool, iv. 450.
world to see, wonderful, v. 427.
.......... vii. 104.
Worm, a serpent, xi. 165.
...... xii. 418.
worship, dignity, xii. 376.
worth, wealth, xi. 446.
wrest, viii. 343.
wretch, a term of fondness, ix. 350.
writ, written composition, vii. 299.
write against, vii. 108.
write, to pronounce confidently, x. 261, 414.
writhled, wrinkled, xviii. 57.
wrong, hurt, xii. 75.
...... to punish, xx. 159.
wronging, vii. 222.
wroth, misfortune, v. 71.
wrying, xii. 183.
wry-neck'd fife, v. 54.
Y.
yare, handy, ix. 149.
yearn, to vex, xvii. 415.
years, into years, into wrinkles, iv. 433.
yield in form, x. 400.
yellowness, jealousy, viii. 44.
yokes, viii. 194.
young, early, vi. 17.
...... xix. 409.
youngest wren of nine, xi. 444.
Acheron, what place was signified by that name, discussed, xi. 182.
actors, in Shakspeare's time, sometimes performed several parts in the same play, iv. 440.
...... xvi. 162.
Adam Bell, vii. 23.
Adonis' gardens, xviii. 45.
aldermen distinguished by thumb-rings, xvi. 285.
Alexandreis, a poem, by Philip Gualtier, v. 104.
alliteration ridiculed, iv. 356.
.................. v. 320.
Alnaschar, story of, in the Arabian Nights, found also in the Dialogues of Creatures Moralized, xi. 419.
Amaimon and Barbazon, dæmons, viii. 91.
anachronisms, singular, pointed out in contemporary authors, xii. 174.
anthropophagi, ix. 262.
apes in hell, v. 412.
apostle spoons given at christenings, xix. 480.
arras, large in Shakspeare's time, so that a person might be concealed behind them, vii. 378.
.......... xvi. 298.
Arthur's show at Mile End, xvii. 131.
aurum potabile, xvii. 192.
B.
baffuling, an ignominious punishment for perjury, xvi. 16.
bagpipe, effects of its musick, v. 111.
ballads, written upon all occasions, xiv. 368.
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barbarous exhibitions on the ancient stage, x. 186.
barber's chair, x. 369.
....... forfeits, ix. 195.
barnacles, ancient opinions concerning them, xv. 155.
Bartholomew pigs, xvii. 92.
basilisk, killed by its look, xviii. 255.
bason and ewer expensive, because displayed at table when they washed their hands before and after dinner, xiii. 312.
bastardy, how far thought disgraceful, xviii. 21.
beards, how worn, v. 197, 307.
............... vi. 409.
............... xvii. 366.
Judas's beard, vi. 451.
Cain's beard, viii. 46.
Abram's beard, viii. 46.
beaver of a helmet, passages mentioning it, explained, xvi. 429.
bedfellows, men of the highest rank, so to each other, xvii. 305.
Bedlam beggars, x. 104.
beggars' clack-dish, ix. 127.
bell, book, and candle, excommunication by, xv. 289.
Bergomask dance, v. 33.
Bermudas supposed to be inhabited by devils, xv. 44.
........ in cant language applied to privileged places resorted to by rogues and bullies, xv. 44.
Sir Bevis, a romance, quoted, x. 163.
bilboes, a punishment, described, vii. 485.
bills, weapons carried by watchmen; represented in a wood-cut, vii. 87.
.... frequent puns on the word, xiii. 335.
bishops dressed in white, xvii. 145.
biting thumbs an insult, vi. 10.
Black Monday, Easter Monday, why so called, v. 54.
blanks, an oppressive mode of taxation, xvi. 63.
bleeding at the nose deemed ominous, v. 54.
blue coats, the dress of servants, v. 461.
brake, an instrument of torture, explained, with a wood cut, ix. 43.
breaking a lance across, a disgraceful piece of awkwardness, vi. 454.
.................... x. 358.
breeches ridiculously large, ix. 53.
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breeches ridiculously large, xi. 116.
...................... xix. 346.
bride-bed blessed, v. 338.
Bucklersbury inhabited by druggists, viii. 123.
Burbage, the original performer of Richard the Third, xix. 241.
burning crown, a punishment for regicides, xix. 153.
bush, generally of ivy, hung out as a sign at vintners' doors, vi. 511.
Buttery, players taken to, v. 369.
C.
cakes made in honour of saints' days, xi. 398
Camelot, King Arthur's court, x. 94.
calf-skin, worn by fools, xv. 27.
captain, a title assumed by rogues, xvii. 80.
captives, whom they belonged to, xvi. 188.
carpets used for table cloths, v. 460.
carpet knights, xi. 458.
carraways eaten with apples, xvii. 213.
carving, an accomplishment, perhaps a mode of showing kindness, viii. 38.
cat in a bottle, a cruel sport, described, vii. 23.
St. Charity, name of a saint, vii. 427.
Child Rowland, x. 166.
Christmas carols, v. 216.
clowns, dramatick, described, x. 334.
......................... xi. 361.
...... their extempore wit, vii. 341.
clubs, the cry of the citizens of London when they wanted assistance, vi. 490.
...... ix. 487.
coals, to carry coals signified to submit to disgrace, vi. 7.
......................................... xvii. 343.
cockatrice, its look deadly, xix. 152.
conjuration, its ceremonies described, xviii. 199.
cooks, their perquisites, xi. 30.
corpse bleeding at the approach of the murderer, xix. 22.
Cotswold games, founded by Dover, viii. 16.
............................... xvii. 115.
court of wards, iv. 253.
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country girls, their finery:
inkles, caddesses, sleeve hand, and the work about the square ont, sweet gloves, masks, bugle bracelets, necklace amber, golden quoifs, poking sticks, tawdry lace, xiv. 361.
pomander, brooch, horn ring, xiv. 388.
cowslip, a favourite flower with fairies, v. 200.
coxcomb, part of a fool's dress, x. 53.
St. Crispin, his history, xvii. 416.
crocodile's tears, ix. 426.
crow-keeper described, x. 224.
crusades, their object pointed out and defended, xvi. 183.
curled hair, the mark of a man of fashion, or sometimes of a fop, ix. 245.
.......... x. 154.
D.
day-bed, a luxury in Shakspeare's time, xi. 417.
.................................. xix. 141.
Dæmons, names of, and their qualities, described: Flibbertigibbet, xi. 159, 194.
Modo, x. 163, 194.
Mahu, x. 163, 194.
Smolkin, x. 163.
Frateretto, x. 168.
Hopdance, x. 172.
Obbidicut, x. 194.
Hobbididance, x. 194.
deaths-head in a ring, worn by bawds, xvii. 93.
death and the fool, ix. 95.
................. xxi. 116.
death-tokens of the plague, viii. 309.
deer, their names at different ages, iv. 353.
degrees taken in the art of fencing, viii. 30.
demoniacal possession described, x. 151, 155, 172.
devil in old mysteries, v. 368.
................... xi. 479.
devils, six kinds of them: fiery, aerial, terrestrial, watery, subterranean, and fawns, satyrs, nymphs, &c. xv. 286.
..... names of, xvi. 313.
Diana in a fountain, vi. 470.
distinctions of rank at table:
lower messes, xiv. 258.
higher messes, xv. 213.
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dress regulated by law in Queen Elizabeth's reign, iv. 419.
drugs given to procure love, ix. 254.
........................ xvi. 243.
duello, the laws of it settled with great nicety, xi. 463.
Duke, a general term for a military leader, v. 126.
.................................... xvii. 342.
Duke Humphrey, dining with him, the phrase explained, xix. 179.
E.
ears burning, what it betokened, vii. 77.
earls first created in Scotland by Malcolm III. xi. 275.
Edward shovel boards, viii. 21.
elegies had black title pages, xvii. 13.
elephants supposed to have no joints, viii. 305.
English deemed epicures by the Scotch, xi. 247.
eunuchs made for the voice, xi. 348.
Essex, Lord, alluded to, xvii. 427.
F.
face, a round one, a mark of folly, xii. 283.
fading, an old Irish dance, described, xiv. 429.
fairies, their practices described, v. 199.
............................ viii. 185.
...... fond of cleanliness, v. 336.
...... sometimes beautiful and kind to men; sometimes ugly and hostile, iv. 225.
....................................... xii. 354.
...... whether they die, discussed, v. 215.
falconry excelled in by the French, vii. 302.
fancy, an ornament worn in the hat, v. 444.
.... a ballad, v. 444.
fans, expensive in their materials, viii. 74.
.... large, carried by servants, viii. 74.
.... made of feathers, this illustrated by a wood-cut, viii. 74.
.... worn sometimes by male fops, xix. 345.
feasts, accompanied with artificial tempests, and other pantomimical devices, viii. 184.
...................................... xv. 127.
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feathers and flowers worn in the cap by men, xi. 231.
........................................ xix. 345.
fellow with a great belly and his dog, xvii. 23.
fern-seed made the person who carried it invisible, xvi. 242.
fish-eating in Lent, how far a mark of popery, x. 50.
fillipping toads, how practised, (with a wood-cut,) xvii. 38.
Finsbury walks, the resort of citizens, xvi. 320.
Flemings, notorious as drunkards, viii. 55.
Florentius' love, an allusion to a story in Gower's Confessio Amantis, v. 398.
flowers, their emblematical characters, vii. 439.
.................................. xiv. 349.
fools bauble described, x. 460.
.... their songs, x. 61.
fool at city feasts leaped into a custard, x. 396.
footcloths described, xviii. 315.
forehead, a high one, a beauty, vi. 73.
........ a low one, a deformity, xi. 283.
............................ xv. 127.
foreign physicians, popular, viii. 49.
fortune, what deemed an ample one, viii. 131, 132.
forty, a favourite number, xix. 421.
fourscore, a general term for old age, viii. 106.
French, how pronounced in Shakspeare's time, xvii. 428.
fumbling with the sheets, a sign of approaching death, xvii. 428.
fumigating rooms, its necessity, vii. 32.
............................ xvii. 228.
G.
Garagantua, vi. 431.
galliard, the dance so called, described, xvii. 285.
garters made very expensive, xvi. 265.
German clocks, iv. 338.
....... hunting in waterwork, xvii. 154.
ghosts, supposed to vanish when the cock crew, vii. 187, 189, 211.
gloves worn in the hat, upon what occasions, x. 155.
gourd, fullam, high and low, gambling terms, explained, viii. 42.
............ alluded to, xiv. 410.
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green, the colour of lovers, iv. 302.
green eyes, vi. 178.
groats half-faced, when introduced, xv. 205.
guests at private tables attended by their own servants, viii. 29.
Guinever, King Arthur's Queen, iv. 350.
gun-stones used in ordnance instead of iron balls, xvii. 288.
H.
hands always washed before and after meals, v. 466.
handy-dandy, a game described, x. 230.
hand, a dry one, sign of a cold constitution, xi. 354.
..... a moist one, of the contrary, ix. 395.
.............................. xii. 177.
Hecate, mistress of the witches, xi. 180.
hair, artificially coloured, fashionable, vii. 57, 95.
hangers, the sword-belt so called, described, vii. 498.
hangman, a name applied to Cupid, vii. 79.
Harry ten shillings, xvii. 127.
hare, why called melancholy, xvi. 197.
hare-lip, how cured, v. 339.
hats worn during dinner, v. 48.
heart supposed to be the seat of the understanding, xiv. 12.
Heliodorus, a story quoted from his Æthiopicks, xi. 488.
Herne the hunter, story of, viii. 162.
Herod, how represented in the mysteries, vii. 338.
hide fox and all after, a child's play, described, vii. 414.
hobby-horse in May-games, iv. 324.
........................ vii. 350.
honour, the address to a lord, ix. 58.
.......................... xiii. 260.
horn for drinking, carried about by Bedlam beggars, x. 177.
horses actually shod with felt, x. 233.
horse hair dropped into corrupted water supposed to become an animal, xii. 190.
Howleglass, an old story book, referred to, vii. 82.
hundred merry tales, vii. 39, 165.
hunting in the evening, xiii. 296.
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I. and J.
Jerusalem, dying there, a story told in many shapes, xvii. 196.
Jesuits satirized as equivocators, xi. 116.
Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim, the author of that line pointed out, v. 104.
index always prefixed to books, vii. 391.
........................... ix. 313.
Indians exhibited in London, xv. 95.
.................. xix. 485.
John Drum's entertainment, x. 417.
Ireland, no poisonous reptiles there, xvi. 69.
Irish could rhyme rats to death, vi. 428.
............... either man or beast to death, xviii. 10.
judicial astrology satirized, x. 40.
justices of peace, their extortion, xvii. 203.
K.
Kempe probably acted Justice Shallow, xvii. 114.
kernes and gallow glasses described, xi. 16.
kissing comfits, viii. 183.
...... the hands often the mark of a fop, xi. 450.
knives worn by women, vi. 196.
..... brought by the guests invited to an entertainment, xiii. 275.
knot grass given to young animals to prevent them from growing, v. 278.
L.
ladies accustomed to strike their servants, xi. 445.
..... went deer-shooting, iv. 340.
..... wore mirrors at their girdles, iv. 341, 344.
..... wore a pocket at the bosom, for letters, vii. 272.
..... frequently acquired classical learning, v. 416.
..... kissed by their partners before dancing, xix. 354.
lavolta, a dance, described, xvii. 355.
lie, how many ways of giving it, vi. 501.
lion in a masque, at court, represented by a blackamoor, v. 246.
... would not hurt the blood-royal, xvi. 281.
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liver, the seat of love, iv. 368.
.................. vii. 117.
.................. viii. 63.
loggats, an old game, described, vii. 468.
London called the king's chamber, xix. 94.
Londoners called, in contempt, eaters of buttered toasts, xvi. 368.
long swords disused after the introduction of rapiers, viii. 70.
.......................................... xvi. 123.
loose-bodied gowns the dress of harlots, v. 488.
Lord have mercy upon us, written on the doors of houses infected with the plague, iv. 430.
love and lover applied by one male to another, xx. 256.
love described as made up of contrarieties, vi. 481.
love-locks, how worn, vii. 146.
louse, a familiar beast to man, and signifies love, viii. 9.
lying at the feet of a mistress, a common fashion, vii. 468.
M.
Mab, the fairy queen, described, vi. 50.
maid Marian, xvi. 347.
magicians, their power over the operations of nature, xv. 161; and Tempest, passim.
......... showed future events in a glass, xi. 205.
man in the moon, his dog and his bush, v. 325.
.................................. xv. 107.
mandrakes, what they were supposed to be, vi. 198.
......... their groan destructive, vi. 198.
............................. xviii. 270.
Maningtree fair, ox roasted whole there, xvi. 295.
.............. metrical interludes performed there, xvi. 295.
Mantuan quoted, much read at that time, iv. 359.
Mary Frith, or Mistress Mall, account of her, xi. 356.
map of the Indies alluded to, xi. 445.
May day, a favourite time for authors to publish on, v. 299.
May-pole described, v. 277.
medals worn, appended to a ribbon round the neck, xiv. 264.
.............................................xix. 366.
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melancholy affected by those who wished to be thought fashionable, xv. 308.
men whose heads did grow beneath their shoulders, ix. 262.
....................................... xv. 125.
................... represented in a wood-cut, ix. 500.
Mephostophilus, a demon in the old romance of Doctor Faustus, viii. 20.
Mile-end celebrated for its shows, x. 451.
............................. xvii. 131.
milled sixpences used for counters, viii. 21.
mistaking words, a common source of humour on the old stage, vii. 89.
Monarcho, a fantastical character of that time, iv. 345.
Merlin and his prophecies, xvi. 312.
....................... xxi. 463.
Monmouth caps, xvii. 445.
monopolies, frequently satirized, x. 57.
Moorditch, why called melancholy, xvi. 197.
mountaineers dewlapped like bulls, xv. 125.
mules, Cardinals accustomed to ride on them, xix. 442.
mummy, to what uses it was applied, ix. 401.
Muscovites, frequently introduced in masques, iv. 410.
mustard, injurious to cholerick persons, v. 480.
N.
Nero, an angler in the lake of darkness, x. 168.
Nicholas (St.), the patron of scholars, and of parish clerks, iv. 82.
............. ludicrously called the patron of thieves, xvi. 237.
nobody, a ridiculous figure sometimes exhibited on signs, xv. 119.
nuncle, a vulgar term of respect, x. 54.
O.
Oberon, the king of fairies, v. 209.
O Lord! sir, an affected exclamation, ridiculed, x. 372.
owl, a baker's daughter, vii. 426.
out roaring Dick, a celebrated ballad singer, iv. 433.
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P.
pageants, iv. 441.
........ xii. 368* note
.
........ xv. 146.
painted cloths, vi. 435.
painted cloths had labels issuing from the mouths of the figures containing moral sentences, vi. 435.
................................ xvi. 147.
painted tyrants, in tapestry, vii. 307.
painting, much used by women, vii. 332.
Paris garden, xix. 483.
parish top, xi. 351.
Patience on a monument, xi. 411, 505.
patient Grisel alluded to, v. 426.
Pavan, a dance, described, xi. 492.
pawnbroker, his dress a leathern jerkin with chrystal but tons. xvi. 263.
pelican, vii. 426.
...... x. 153.
pensioners, v. 200.
perjured persons wore papers on their breasts, expressing the crime, iv. 366.
Perseus's horse, a ship, viii. 254.
periwigs, v. 83.
........ worn by women, satirized, xiii. 378.
........ made of hair from dead bodies, xiii. 377.
.................................... xx. 286.
........ children plundered of their hair for this purpose, xiii. 377.
perspective, a pictorial device described, xvi. 69.
phœnix, xv. 123.
picktooth, mark of a courtier, xiv. 394.
......................... and of a traveller, xv. 213.
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picture of we three, xi. 386.
pioneers disgraced soldiers, ix. 379.
pilgrims, their dress, vii. 424.
....... how distinguished from palmers, x. 412.
pillars borne before Cardinal Wolsey, what they denoted, xix. 383.
philosopher's stone, xvii. 141.
plague, death tokens of it, viii. 309.
playhouse prices, ix. 448.
players at the conclusion of the performance sometimes knelt down and prayed for the queen or their patron, xvii. 242.
points, a part of dress, described, xi. 363.
Portunus, a frolicksome dæmon in ancient superstition, resembling Puck, v. 205.
posies inscribed on rings, vii. 354.
..... and on knives, when they were termed cutler's poetry, v. 146.
possets taken at bed time, how made, xi. 103.
primero, a game at cards, explained, xix. 456.
Puck, a description of his pranks, v. 203, 207.
..... whence the name derived, v. 206.
punishments after death fancifully described, ix. 108, 486.
purgatory described, vii. 239.
putting out of one for five, a mode of speculation in our author's time, xv. 125.
Q.
questions and commands, a game, vii. 465.
quintaine described, vi. 370, 514.
R.
reckonings adjusted by small pieces of metal called counters, vi. 404.
...... xiv. 339.
red lattice, the mark of an alehouse, viii. 75.
riddles, book of, viii. 26.
riding wagers, xii. 104.
roasted pig, antipathy to, v. 100.
Robin Goodfellow, v. 203, 207.
roses stuck in the ear, xv. 209.
.... on Queen Elizabeth's three-farthing pieces, xv. 209.
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ruddock, or robin red-breast, said to cover dead bodies with leaves, xiii. 164.
Rumour painted full of tongues, xvii. 5.
rushes strewn in rooms in place of carpets, vi. 45.
.................................... xiii. 63.
.................................... xvi. 41, 317.
rush rings, when given, and by whom, x. 370.
S.
sack, what kind of wine it signified, discussed, xvi. 200, 272, 296.
.......................................... xvii. 170.
.... drunk with sugar, xvi. 200.
.... for which purpose sugar carried by waiters made up in small papers, xvi. 261.
.... sent, as a present at taverns from one guest to another, viii. 85.
.... adulterated with lime, xvi. 271.
.... not known till Henry VIII. [1543,] xvi. 301.
.... its beneficial effects on the intellect, xvii. 170.
Sackerson, a celebrated bear at the Paris garden, viii. 32.
Sagittary, a monster engaged at the siege of Troy, described, viii. 431.
sand bag, the weapon of inferior men in the trial by battle, xviii. 223.
satyrs, in masques, personated by persons covered with hair; account of some of the most remarkable of these exhibitions, with a wood-cut, xiv. 371.
Scogan, whether two poets of that name, xvii. 116.
schoolmaster, often reckoned a conjurer, iv. 238.
seamanship, Shakspeare's accurate knowledge of, and skilful use of its technical language, xv. 184.
Setebos, a god of the Patagonians, xv. 58.
seven deadly sins, ix. 107.
shaving a man considered as a disgrace, iv. 256.
sheep-shearing feasts, expensive, xiv. 339.
sheriff's fool, what persons so designated, x. 445.
....... posts, xi. 367.
shirts expensive, xvi. 341.
shoes worn with pointed toes of an absurd length, forbidden by statute, vii. 472.
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shovegroat shillings, xvii. 89.
shoulders of a buck, the keeper's perquisite, viii. 184.
shrove-tide, xvii. 218.
silence necessary during incantations, xi. 199.
sir, a title given to clergymen, vi. 447.
.......................... viii. 7, 210.
.......................... xix. 202.
Sir Dagonet, in Arthur's show, xvii. 132
Sir Eglamour, a common name for an inamorato, iv. 19.
sirrah, not always a disrespectful expression, xvi. 205.
...................................... xxi. 328.
sleeping in the afternoon, a common practice, vii. 244.
soldiers accused of being in the habit of stealing linen, xvi. 370.
son, a title frequently given by one literary man to another, viii. 314.
songs and sonnets, book of, viii. 26.
spitting white, the mark of a drunkard, xvii. 37.
spleen, supposed to be the cause of laughter, iv. 410.
...................................... ix. 65.
Squire of Low Degree, a romance, alluded to, xvii. 460.
stage, its licentiousness in our author's time, vii. 290.
..... hung with black at the performance of tragedies, x. 149.
.......... xviii. 7.
..... poverty of its scenery in Shakspeare's time, xix. 368, 471.
statesmen affected to write a bad hand, vii. 489.
statues painted, xiv. 416.
statute caps directed by law to be worn by citizens, iv. 419.
stewards wore gold chains, xi. 398.
stocks introduced on the stage, x. 98.
strange fish exhibited in London, xiv. 368.
............................. xv. 95.
strange exhibitions of various kinds, xiv. 368
............................... xv. 95.
............................... xix. 485.
strumpets, by an old statute, compelled to wear their garments the wrong side outward, xiii. 377.
subtilties, a term in cookery, used to signify dishes made to appear different from what they really were, a frequent practice, xv. 169.
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swearing by a sword, vii. 253.
........ by St. Patrick, vii. 252.
sweet Oliver, a common phrase, without any very distinct meaning, vi. 449.
sword and buckler carried by serving-men, vi. 225.
................. their use occasioned frequent quarrels, xvi. 225.
................. at what period they fell into disuse, viii. 70.
.................................... xvi. 275.
sworn brothers, what that term signified, xvi. 141, 258.
................................... xvii. 295.
T.
taylors fond of singing, xvi. 321.
Titania, the Queen of Fairies, v. 209.
tongs, &c. rural musick, v. 289.
travellers, their dress and manners described, xv. 212.
........ their society sought after, x. 396.
.............................. xv. 213.
........ their wonderful stories ridiculed, xv. 123.
travelling, particularly in Italy, censured by Ascham and Hall, and ridiculed by Shakspeare, vi. 466.
............................... xv. 212.
trees, branches of them hewn down for a screen to conceal the numbers of an army, xi. 257.
trenchers in general use, xv. 104.
trial by battle described, xviii. 226.
truckle-bed, its use, vii. 167.
trumpets sounded thrice before the prologue, v. 317.
trunks richly ornamented, considered as furniture, xi. 466.
tumblers' hoops, iv. 337.
Turnbull-street, infamous, xvii. 136.
U.
undertakers, what persons were satirized under that name, xi. 461.
ungartered, going ungartered, the mark of a lover, iv. 35.
......................................... vi. 440.
unicorns and bears, how caught, xii. 50.
universities, plays acted there, vii. 343.
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usurers wore chains, vii. 42.
...... their practices described, ix. 159.
Utopian schemes ridiculed, xv. 78.
V.
St. Valentine's day, vii. 426.
vapours, a game at, described, xvi. 192.
velvet guards worn by the wives of opulent citizens, xvi. 320.
Venetian dresses, fashionable, described, viii. 120.
Venetians had always foreign generals, ix. 253.
Venice, officers of night there, ix. 236.
vice, the fool of the old moralities, xi. 469.
............................. xvii. 138.
.... armed with a dagger of lath, xi. 469.
............................. xvi. 274.
............................. xvii. 432.
.... used to belabour the devil, xi. 469.
vows of chastity entered into by widows, or widowers, or lovers, on the death of their mistresses, iv, 106.
W.
wardship prevailed in France as well as in England, x. 307.
watches, uncommon, xi. 427.
....... Guy Faux fell under suspicion for wearing one, xi. 427.
wax, soft, used in sealing letters, xi. 421.
waxen images, how employed in witchcraft, iv. 55.
..................................... xv. 357.
weavers fond of singing psalms, xi. 390.
........................... xvi. 227.
we three, picture of, xi. 386.
Welsh-hook, a warlike instrument, described, xvi. 286.
Winchester, bishop of, had jurisdiction over the stews in Southwark, viii. 448.
wine drunk at weddings, v. 449.
wisp, a punishment for a scold, xviii. 421.
witches, popular superstitions with regard to them, detailed, xi. 189.
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witches could sail in sieves, xi. 29.
....... or in an egg-shell, or cockle-shell, xxi. 165.
....... sold winds, xi. 31.
....... when transformed into other animals, had no tails, why, xi. 30.
....... had beards, xi. 38.
....... by what gifts propitiated, iv. 235.
....... their power over the operations of nature, xi. 197.
....... lost their power over those who drew blood from them, xviii. 43.
....... distinguished from conjurers and enchanters, x. 491.
Withold (St.), x. 160.
worship, the address to a knight, or esquire, xv. 213.
Y.
yellow starch, x. 457.
yellow stockings, wearing them, and being cross-gartered, what they denoted, xi. 425.
A bad cook that cannot lick his own fingers, vi. 190.
a little pot soon hot, v. 456.
a long spoon to eat with the devil, iv. 235.
............................ xv. 98.
a man of forty is either a fool or a physician, viii. 136.
a friend at court is worth a penny in purse, xvii. 202.
a crafty knave needs no broker, xviii. 183.
all hoods make not monks, xix. 398.
an two men ride of a horse one must ride behind, vii. 104.
as fit as Tib's rush for Tom's fore finger, x. 370.
as the bell clinketh, so the fool thinketh, vii. 79.
as true as steel, viii. 334.
at hand, quoth pick-purse, xvi. 236.
baccare, quoth Mortimer to his sow, v. 416.
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black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes, iv. 122.
blessing of your heart, you brew good ale, iv. 83.
blush like a black dog, xxi. 360.
bought and sold, viii. 285.
Brag is a good dog, but Hold-fast is a better, xvii. 323.
by chance, and not by truth, xv. 211.
something about, a little from the right, xv. 211.
in at the window, or else o'er the hatch, xv. 211.
have is have, however men do catch, xv. 211.
care killed a cat, vii. 137.
cry with the lapwing farthest from her nest, iv. 223.
cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool, x. 174.
curæ leves loquuntur ingentes stupent, x. 234.
dead as a door-nail, xvii. 225.
good goose bite not, vi. 104.
good liquor will make a cat speak, xv. 99.
good wine needs no bush, vi. 511.
happy man be his dole, viii. 135.
................... xiv. 24.
he is mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath, x. 170.
honest as the skin between his brows, vii. 102.
I know a hawk from a hand-saw, vii. 296.
I'll make a shaft, or a bolt, of it, viii. 132.
it is easy to steal a shive from a cut loaf, xxi. 289.
it is an ill wind which blows no man to good, xvii. 222
let the galled jade wince, vii. 360.
let the world slide, v. 358.
love will creep where it cannot go, iv. 99.
maids say nay, and take it, iv. 21.
more water glideth by the mill than the miller wots of, xxi. 289.
my cake is dough, v. 508.
needs must, when the devil drives, x. 336.
neither flesh, nor fish, nor good red herring, xvi. 348.
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out of God's blessing, into the warm sun, vii. 196.
patience, per force, is a medicine for a mad dog, vi. 65.
pitchers have ears, xix. 91.
praise in departing, xv. 124.
pray God my girdle break, xvi. 348.
respice finem, respice funem, iv. 238.
service is no heritage, x. 336.
sowed cockle reap no corn, iv. 392.
still swine eat all the draff, viii. 152.
tell truth and shame the devil, xvi. 307.
the cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet, xi. 82.
the devil rides on a fiddle-stick, xvi. 297.
there went but a pair of shears between them, ix. 16.
'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all, xvii. 218.
two may keep counsel, putting one away, vi. 112.
ungirt, unblest, xvi. 348.
Vineggia, Vineggia,
chi non te vede ei non te preggia, iv. 359.
walls have ears, v. 324.
wedding and ill-wintering spoil both man and beast, v. 458.
we burn day-light, vi. 49.
while the grass grows the steed starves, vii. 369.
who goes to Westminster for a wife, to St. Paul's for a man, and to Smithfield for a horse, may meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade, xvii. 27.
worth a Jew's eye, v. 55.
young ravens must have food, viii. 37.
a cup of wine that's brisk and fine, xviii. 219.
be merry, be merry, my wife has all, xvii. 217.
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bonny sweet Robin is all my joy, vii. 443.
come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me, x. 173.
Dolphin, my boy, my boy, x. 156.
do me right, and dub me knight, Samingo, xvii. 220.
do nothing but eat and make good cheer, xvii. 215.
farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone, xi. 397.
fill the cup and let it come, xvii. 219.
hey, Robin, jolly Robin, xi. 496.
how should I your true love know, x. 424.
Jack boy, ho boy, iv. 459.
I shall no more to sea, to sea, xv. 97.
Jephtha, judge of Israel, vii. 298.
in youth, when I did love, did love, vii. 466.
it was the friar of orders grey, v. 466.
king Cophetua and the beggar maid, iv. 303.
.............................. vi. 72.
.............................. xvi. 156.
.............................. xvii. 223.
king Stephen was a worthy peer, ix. 323.
larded all with sweet flowers, vii. 425.
let me the canakin clink, clink, ix. 322.
let the welkin roar, xvii. 86.
Peg a Ramsey, xi. 392.
sleep'st thou, or wak'st thou, jolly shepherd, x. 173.
the god of love that sits above, vii. 148.
the master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, xv. 97.
was this fair face the cause, quoth he, x. 339.
when Arthur first in court began, xvii. 72.
when griping grief the heart doth wound, vi. 212.
whoop! do me no harm, good man, xiv. 360.
Abradas, a Macedonian pirate, xviii. 289.
Agincourt, the numbers engaged on both sides in that battle, xvii. 419.
......... dignities conferred on the Englishmen who fought there, xvii. 417.
Albertus, Alasco, v. 20.
Althea, erroneously, instead of Hecuba, said to have dreamed of a burning brand, xvii. 60.
Amurah the Third, Emperor of the Turks, xvii. 208.
Apollo, his temple in ancient Britain, x. 17.
Arthur, King John's nephew, at what time he was put to death, xv. 295, 307.
...... the manner of his death uncertain, xv. 330.
Arundell, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, xvi. 64.
........ Thomas, son of Richard Duke of, xvi. 64.
Aumerle, Duke of, xvi. 24.
Austria, Leopold, Duke of, xv. 221.
B.
Bankes, and his bay horse, iv. 299.
Barbarossa, the Emperor, his punishment of the Milanese, xvii. 225.
Bargalus, an Illyrian pirate, xviii. 289.
Baynard's castle, xix. 133.
Beaufort, Cardinal, historical account of his death, xviii 277.
Bolingbroke, at what time Henry Earl of Hereford assumed that name, xvi. 9.
.......... his mode of taking possession of the throne, described, xvi. 128.
a conjuror of that name, xviii. 196.
Blanch, the lady niece to King John, xv. 248.
Buckingham, Henry Duke of, grounds of his quarrel with Richard III. xix. 162.
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Buckingham, Duke of, grounds of his execution, xix. 204.
........... Edward Duke of, the son of the foregoing, a learned man, xix. 336.
................... his arraignment, xix. 343.
................... his execution, xix. 358.
................... affected the name of Bohun, xix. 362.
C.
Cataline, xviii. 464.
Cadwall, xiii. 112.
Cassibelan, great uncle to Cymbeline, xii. 112.
Cawdor, xi. 26.
Clarence, George Duke of, brother to Edward IV. suspected by his brother on account of a prophecy, xix. 12.
...................... another cause assigned for their quarrel, xix. 54.
...................... grounds of his quarrel with his brother Richard, xix. 66.
...................... tried, and found guilty, by his Peers, xix. 63.
...................... fate of his children, xix. 134, 168.
Claribel, xv. 75.
Clerk of Chatham, xviii. 298.
Colbrand, the giant, xv. 216.
Colevile of the dale, xvii. 165.
Colmes-inch, or Inch-comb, xi. 27.
Colme-kill, or Icolm-kill, xi. 134.
Cranmer, Archbishop, the conspiracy against him described, xix. 460.
Crosby place, xix. 30.
Cumberland, Prince of, xi. 56.
Cyprus, ix. 290.
D.
Damascus, the spot where Cain killed Abel, xviii. 32.
Darius's coffer, xviii. 47.
Decius Brutus, xii. 9.
Decimus Brutus, xii. 9.
Dido, xv. 75.
Drayton's Barons' Wars, when first published, xii. 155.
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E.
Eastcheap, the Boar's Head tavern in, xvi. 259.
......... why selected for Prince Henry's revels, xvii. 69.
Edward the Confessor had the power of curing diseases; the mode described, xi. 228.
...... the young King Edward V. question as to his journey towards London after his father's death, xix. 88.
Eleanor, Queen, hostile to Prince Arthur from jealousy of his mother Constance, xv. 227, 248.
Essex, Lord, his great popularity, xvii. 457.
F.
Falstolfe, Sir John, real person in history, xviii. 15, 105.
Fauconbridge, what was the historical foundation for this character, xv. 202.
Faulconbridge, Thomas Nevil, bastard son of Lord Faulconbridge, his character, xviii. 378.
Florio, whether he was pointed at in the character of Holofernes, discussed, iv. 479.
Fores, xi. 37.
G.
Gadshill, account of a celebrated gang of robbers there, xvi. 431.
Galen, spoken of as in the time of Coriolanus, xiv. 63.
Gam, Davy, Esquire, a valiant Welshman, honourably mentioned, xvii. 453.
Gascoigne, Sir William, chief justice, his conduct to Henry V. when Prince of Wales, xvii. 243.
Glendower, xvi. 90.
.......... the time of his death mistaken, xvii. 113.
Gough, Mathew, xviii. 311.
Grey, Sir John, xviii. 454.
..... Lady Elizabeth, afterwards Queen to Edward IV. her family, xviii. 484.
................... her character, xix. 195.
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Grey, Sir Richard, son to Queen Elizabeth Grey, his death, xix. 118.
Guiscard, King of Sicily, prophecy that he should die at Jerusalem, xv. 197.
Gurney, James, xv. 216.
H.
Hastings, Lord, his condemnation, xix. 124.
Henry the Fifth, when Prince of Wales, prematurely introduced in Richard II. xvi. 152.
..... his dissipation in early life denied, xvi. 152.
Henry VI. why Pope Julius refused to canonize him, xviii. 501.
......... manner of his death, xviii. 533.
Henry VIII. his interview with Francis I. of France, xix. 341, et seq.
........... extravagant expences incurred by those who attended it, xix. 318.
........... the masque given to him by Wolsey, described, xix. 353, et seq.
Hotspur, why so called, xvi. 185.
Hotspur's wife mistakingly called Kate, her name was Elizabeth, xvi. 252.
Howard, Sir Thomas, afterwards Earl of Surrey temp. Richard III.; his jesting conversation with Lord Hastings, xix. 116.
I and J.
Jaques, St. his church at Orleans.
Iden or Eden, Alexander, put Cade to death, xviii. 329.
Imogen, xii. 11.
John, Prince of Lancaster, not Duke of Lancaster, xvi. 178.
........................................... xvii. 44.
..... King, how often he was crowned, xv. 315.
.......... where he was buried, xv. 373.
John of Gaunt, only 58 when described as an old man, xvi. 7.
Jourdan, Margery, the witch, xviii. 182.
Ipswich College, founded by Wolsey, xix. 449.
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Isabella, wife to King Richard II. her marriage, xvi. 13.
....... Duchess of York, an anachronism in her introduction in Richard II. xv. 146.
Julio Romano, xiv. 416.
Julius Cæsar's tower, the tower of London traditionally so called, xvi. 139.
L.
Lewis the Tenth, xvii. 270.
Lingare, the lady, daughter to Charlemagne, xvii. 269.
London Bridge, made formerly of wood, xviii. 310.
Lucy, the lady Elizabeth, said to have been affianced to Edward IV. xix. 137.
Luke's iron crown, xix. 153.
Lymoges confounded with Leopold Duke of Austria, xv. 269.
M.
Machiavel, frequent mention made of him in our old dramas, xviii. 153.
Macdowald, xi. 16.
Mahomet inspired with a dove, xviii. 27.
Malmutius, xii. 96.
Margaret, widow of King Henry VI. her history, xix. 43.
Mordake, Earl of Fife, xvi. 187.
Mortimer, mistakes with regard to two persons of that name, pointed out and explained, xvi. 213, 219.
Mortimer, Edmund, his genealogy, xvi. 220.
........ his history discussed, xviii. 68, 216.
........ Lord, confounded with Lord March, xvi. 335.
Morton, Bishop of Ely, xix. 120.
N.
Nennius, xii. 94.
Norfolk, the Duke of, temp. Richard II. died in exile of grief, xvi. 36.
....... Dukes of, in Henry VIII. distinguished, xix. 418.
O.
Oldcastle, the question discussed whether that was originally the name of Falstaff, xvi. 193, 410.
............................................ xvii. 31.
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P.
Pace (Dr.), xix. 372.
Pannonians and Dalmatians, their revolt against the Romans, xii. 97, 143.
Paracelsus, x. 375.
Patay, the battle of, xviii. 105.
Pendragon, xviii. 93.
Peter the hermit, xv. 323.
Percy, the name, said, by Boetius, to have been derived from piercing the king's eye, xvi. 398.
Plantagenet, date and origin of that name, xv. 210.
........... Richard, his genealogy, xviii. 64.
Polydore, xii. 112.
Pompey, erroneous account of his death, xviii. 292.
Puttenham, his Art of Poetry, when published, ix. 303.
R.
Rhodope, xviii. 47.
Richard Cœur de Lion, his combat with a lion, xv. 220.
.................... killed by the Duke of Austria, xv. 220.
.................... who afterwards wore his lion's hide, xv. 220.
Richard II. remarkable for his extravagance in dress, xvi. 112.
.......... entertained at meat, every day, ten thousand men, xvi. 136.
.......... the manner of his murder discussed, xvi. 168.
Richmond, Countess of, mother to Henry VII. her marriages, xix. 35.
......... Henry Earl of, afterwards Henry VII. xviii. 501.
...................... his family, and title to the crown, xix. 200.
Rivers, Earl, his death, xix. 118.
Roscius, a comedian, not a tragedian, xviii. 537.
Rutland, young Earl of, his melancholy fate, xviii. 388.
S.
Salisbury, Earl of, temp. Henry V. his death, xviii. 426, 475.
Shaw, Dr. xix. 134.
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Shaw, Edmund, Dr. Shaw's brother, Lord Mayor, xix. 141.
Shirley, Sir Robert, ambassador from Persia, xi. 427.
Simpcox, an impostor, xviii. 208.
Sinchlo, an actor, v. 367.
Sly, William, an actor, v. 358.
Solyman, the magnificent, his ostentatious letter to the Emperor Ferdinand, xviii. 133.
Somerset, Duke of, temp. Henry VI. prophecies concerning his death fulfilled, xviii. 353.
Stanley, Lord, xix. 216.
Suffolk, Duke of, temp. Henry VI. the manner of his death, xviii. 280, 291.
................ prophecies relating to it, xviii. 283.
Sweno, King of Norway, xi. 27.
Sylvester Pope, a prophecy that he should die in Jerusalem, xvii. 197.
T.
Talbot, Lord, the terror of the French, xviii. 39, 53.
........... list of his titles, xviii. 132.
Tarleton, sign of his eating-house, xi. 429.
Temple garden, contest there, between the two houses of York and Lancaster, xviii. 60.
Tenantius, father to Cymbeline, xii. 9.
Turk Gregory, Pope Gregory the Seventh, so called, xvi. 396.
W.
Warwick, Richard Beauchamp Earl of, distinguished from Richard Nevil Earl of, xviii. 7.
Warwick, Richard Nevil Earl of, doubts with regard to some part of his history, xviii. 467.
.............................. marriages of his daughters explained, xviii. 478, 486.
Westminster Hall first used for the deposition of Richard II. after he had finished rebuilding it, in 1399, xvi. 121.
Wincot, v. 374.
Wolsey, the cause of his fall mis-stated; what suggested the mis-statement, xix. 412.
....... his establishment exaggerated, xix. 431.
....... distinguished for his eloquence, xix. 449.
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Y.
York and Lancaster, account of the battles fought during their contests, and the numbers killed on both sides, xviii. 546.
York, Edward Duke of, son to Edward III. his character, xvi. 47.
..... Richard Duke of, father of Richard III. his marriages and connections, xviii. 173.
.................... son of the Earl of Cambridge, mistakingly called son of the Duke of York, xviii. 371.
.................... whether he was guilty of perjury, discussed, xviii. 387.
.................... treated with insult before his death, xviii. 395.
.................... his death, occasioned by his own imprudence, xviii. 401.
.................... ages of his children ascertained, xviii. 409.
..... Richard Duke of, afterwards Richard III. the time of his birth, xviii. 366.
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i. 8, 7 from bottom, for laid, read lain.
i. 563, 11, for till, read that in which.
i. 108, add Malone to the last note.
iv. 118, 10 from bottom, for This be, read Thisbe.
iv. 225, 11 of notes, for T. Weston, read T. Warton.
v. 79, 3 of notes, for Glanvilli, read Glanvil.
v. 104, 16 of notes, for Hermann, read Heumann* note.
v. 128, 16, put an asterisk after the word one.
vi. 161, 10 of notes, for
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