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[Aug. 1, 1593.]

My good sweet mouse2 note


, I comend me hartely to you And to my father, my mother, & my sister bess; hopinge in god, though the sicknes3note be round about you, yett by his mercy itt may escape yor. house, wch. by ye grace of god it shall, therefor use this corse: kepe yor. house fayr and clean, wch. I

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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
E. Alleyn
.

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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,

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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, Samuell Rowlye.

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. Will. Birde.

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 John Daye.

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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 Robt. Shaa.
[Nov. 1599.]

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 Robt. Shaa.

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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 Johan Middleton.

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].
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ADDENDA.

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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.

Edward Alleyn to his wife1 note. Emanuel. Superscription.
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

Sum Total. . . . iis. xid. ob

Inn all 1s.d. 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 Mathewe Woodwarde.

I pray you, Mr Hinchlow, deliver unto the

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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
Robt. Shaa
.

Mr Hinchlow:
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

Yor Loving and obedient Son:
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.

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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,
Richard Jones
.

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

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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 Rob: Daborne.

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
Rom: Daborne
.

28 Aprill 1613.

Lente Mr Daborne this money

wittness Hugh Attwell.

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

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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
Rob: Daborne
.

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
Rob: Daborne
.

10 June 1613.

Mr Hinchlow, I am inforced to make bold with yu for one 20s. more of ye xl, & one fryday

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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
Robt. Daborne
.

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 Robt. Daborne.

8 May, 1613.


R the some of xxs. of Mr Hinchlow to the use of Mr Daborne 8o May Pd xxs. Thos. More.

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

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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
Robt. Daborne
.

16 May, 1613.

Receved by me, Garret Leniage, xxs.

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.

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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
Robt. Daborne
.


pd unto your Daughter the 11th of March 1613 [1614] xs.

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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
Robt. Daborne
.

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
Rob: Darborne
.

16th July 1613.

pd this xxs. the 16th of July, 1613.

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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
Rob: Daborne
.

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.

witnes Moyses Bawler.

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.

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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
Rob: Daborne
.

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
Rob: Daborne
.

I pray, Sr, if yu resolv to do this curtesy for ye company, let me hav 40s. more tell we seatel,

25 June 1613.

pade to Mr Daborne xxs.

Father Hinchlow,
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

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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,
Nat. Field
.

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
Rob. Daborne
.

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
Sr I hope you mistak not or remooval from the bank's side. wee stood the intemperate weather,

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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
frends to their best powers
Rob: Paltant

William Rowley
Joseph Taylor
John Newton
Robt. Hanten
Hugh Attwell
Anthony Smyth

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

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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
Rob: Daborne

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,

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which crowns ye rest of yr curtesies, to which I will now giv speedy requitall, resting. ever at yr comaund
Rob Daborne

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
Rob: Daborne

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

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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
Rob: Daborne
.

Witnes Moyses Bowler.
october xiiij 1613

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
Rob: Daborne
.

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

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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
Rob: Daborne
.

27 Nov. 1613.

Wittnes Moyses Bowler, xxs.

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
Rob: Daborne
.

7 Nov. 1613.

Witnes Moyses Bowler.

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

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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.

yrs at comaund
Rob: Daborne
.

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,
Rob: Daborne
.

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

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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
Rob: Daborne
.

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.

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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
Rob: Daborne

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

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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

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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
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

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of ffortie pounds of lawfull [money of England]
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.]

Robert Dawes.
Articles of Grievance against Mr. Henchlowe.

Imprimis in march 1612, uppon Mr Hinchlowes joyning companes with Mr Rossiter, the companie

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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
80li.

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
50li.

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
10li.

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
14li.

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
23li.

Item, he agrees with the same companie that

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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.
xli.

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

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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.
30li.

Item, having 9 gatherers more than his due, itt comes to this yeare from the Companie.
10li.

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
300li.

Which with the juste and conscionable allowances before named made to the Companie which comes to 267li. makes
567li.

Articles of Oppression against Mr. Hinchlowe.

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.

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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.

Dissertation on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare. By Francis Douce, Esq.

[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

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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

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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:


“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.”

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.”

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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
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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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 national troubles that produced the downfall of regal power, and the puritanical manners that ensued, at once determined the existence of an office that had so long maintained its ground at court; and when Charles the Second resumed the throne, it was probably deemed a matter of no moment to restore it. The common stories that relate to Killigrew as jester to Charles, rest on no sufficient authority; and although he might have contributed to amuse the witty monarch with his jokes, it is certain that he had no regular appointment to such an office. Mr. Granger has justly observed, that the wit of the buffoons became the highest recommendation of a courtier in the time of Charles the Second6 note.

The discontinuance of the court fool had a considerable

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

“First Cheater.
“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.”

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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:


“Thy sicknesse mocks thy pride, that's seldom seene
“But in foole's yellow, and the lover's greene.”

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,


“By my trouth the thing that I desire most
“Is in my cappe to have a goodly feather.”

The head was frequently shaved in imitation or

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.”

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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.


“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

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“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.

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.]

The Gentlemen of Verona.

The Clowns.—The character of Speed is that of a shrewd witty servant. Launce is something

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

ANCIENT EDITIONS OF SHAKSPEARE.

[It is not easy to ascertain whether seemingly different copies printed in the same year, are any thing more than one edition corrected in its passage through the press. I have been favoured by Mr. Amyot with the following collation of several first folios. Boswell.]

List of Variations in two Copies of Shakspeare, folio 1623, belonging to T. Amyot.

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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

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.

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I have partly informed the reader, in my Advertisement, of the plan upon which I have constructed the following Index. I have subjoined an explanation of the words and phrases wherever the commentators have all agreed; but while, by such an addition, and by the insertion of many terms which have hitherto been omitted, I have added to this part of the work, I have diminished its bulk upon the whole. Where the difficulty has arisen, not from any particular word, but from the general construction of the sentence, it appeared to me that it would answer no purpose to insert a common expression, used in its ordinary sense, in a glossarial index; because it occurred in a passage which might require explanation. I have not set down the various instances where a word occurs, as the reader is generally referred to some one page where its meaning is elucidated; but when, as sometimes is the case, this information is partially conveyed in one note, and additional light is thrown upon it in another, I have directed the attention to both. To have done more, is unnecessary; for the very valuable work of Mr. Twiss, to whom I feel a pleasure in expressing my gratitude, will point out, to any one who is willing to make the inquiry, how often any word occurs in our author's plays. Metaphors, compounded words, and all that comes under the head of poetical embellishment, I have also excluded. As there are some who take little interest in discussions which are merely verbal, I have divided the Index into three distinct branches. The first contains only

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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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INDEX OF MANNERS, CUSTOMS, SUPERSTITIONS, &c. EXPLAINED IN THE NOTES.
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. PROVERBS QUOTED OR ALLUDED TO.
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. SONGS QUOTED, OR ALLUDED TO.
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.

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HISTORICAL INDEX.
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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ERRATA.
vol. page line 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 &grL;&gra;&grm;&grp;&grh;&grt;&grh;&grr;&gre;&grst;, read &grL;&gra;&grm;&grp;&grt;&grh;&grr;&gre;&grst;. vi. 220, add Malone to note 1. vi. 265, 14 from bottom, for upon the subject, read upon it. vi. 266, 5 from bottom, for find, read discover. vii. 306, 10 of the quotation from Marlowe, for wound, read wind. vii. 401, 4 from bottom, for of habit's devil, read of habits devil. vii. 540, 8, for absolute, read obsolete. viii. 303, 2 from bottom, for fetter, read tetter. ix. 68, 8 of notes, for so, read no. ix. 226, 1, for daws, read doves. ix. 434, 7 of notes, dele Steevens. x. 275, 15 from bottom, for term, read tense. xi. 200, 12 from bottom, for the spirit by the witch, read the spirit raised by the witch. xi. 501, 13 from bottom, for Anglicamus, read Anglicanus. xi. 501, 20 from bottom, for reflection, read rejection. xi. 501, 22 from bottom, for much more, read more. xiv. 275, 4 from bottom, for cacoethis, read cacoethes. xv. 17, 9 from bottom, for that he must have happened, read that Shakspeare must have happened. xv. 143, 9 of notes, for see p. 66, read see p. 80. xvi. 235, 6 from bottom, my reference belongs to note 1, and not note 2. xvi. 304, 10 from bottom, for vol. iv. read, vol. xiv. xvi. 329, 14 from bottom, insert Malone. xxi. 9, 8 from bottom, after 1773, insert Steevens, and make what follows a new note.
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