Academic playwrights
Accomodate
Addition
Adorning
Adson's new ayres
Agamemnon in the play
Agrippina
Alablaster ( = alabaster)
Alchemist, allusion to the play of the
A life ( = as my life)
Almarado (?)
Ambergreece
Andirons ("The andirons were the ornamental irons on each side of the
hearth in old houses, which were accompanied with small rests for
the ends of the logs."—Halliwell.)
Anotomye (For the spelling compare Dekker's Satiromastix—
"because
Mine enemies with sharpe and searching eyes
Looke through and through me, carving my poore labours
Like an Anatomy."—Dramatic Works, ed. Pearson, i. 197.)
Anything for a quiett lyfe
Aphorisme
Aporn
Apple-squier
Arch-pillers
Argentum potabile
Artillery Garden
Artire
Ascapart
Assoyle
Bables
Babyes
Back side
Bacon, Roger
Baffeld ( = treated ignominiously)
Bainardes Castle
Bale of dice
Bandogs
Banks' horse
Bantam
Barleybreak
Basolas manos
Basses
Bastard
Bavyn
Bayting
Beare a braine
Beetle
Bermudas
Berwick, pacification of
Besognio
Best hand, buy at the
Bezoar
Bilbo mettle
Biron, MarÉchal de
Bisseling
Blacke and blewe
Blacke gard
Black Jacks
Bob'd
Bombards
Bonos nocthus
Booke ("Williams craves his booke")
Borachos
Bossed
Bottom,
Brass, coinage of
Braule
Braunched
Braves
Bree
Broad cloth, exportation of
Brond
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted
Browne-bastard
Build a sconce.—See Sconce
Bull (the executioner)
Bullets wrapt in fire
Bullyes
Bumbarrels
Bu'oy
Burnt
Buskes
Busse, the (Hertogenbosch taken in 1629, after a memorable siege, by
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange)
Cage (prison)
Cales
Calisto, MS. play composed of scenes from Heywood's Golden Age and
Silver Age
Canaries
Cap-case
Carack
Carbonado
Cardeq
Cardicue
Caroach
Carrackes
Carry coals
Case
Cast-of Merlins
Castrell
Catamountaine
Cater-trey
Caull
Cautelous
Censure
Champion
Chapman, George
Choake-peare
Chrisome
Cinque pace
Citie of new Ninivie
Clapdish
Closse contryvances
Coate
Cockerell
Coll
Comparisons are odorous
Consort
Convertite
Cooling carde
Coranta
Cornutus
Covent
Crak't
Crase
Cricket
Cupboard of plate ( = movable side-board)
Cut-beaten-sattyn (Cf. Marlowe's Faustus—"beaten silk.")
Cutt-boy
Daborne, Robert
Dametas
Day, John
Dead paies
Debosht ( = debauched)
Deneere
Depart
Detest
Devide
Dewse ace
Diamonds softened by goat's blood
Dicker
Diet-bread
Diety (For the spelling cf. Rowley's All's Lost by Lust, 1633,
sig. C. 4:
"Can lust be cal'd love? then let man seeke hell,
For there that fiery diety doth dwell."
Again in the same play, sig. D. 2, we have—
"Descend thy spheare, thou burning Diety."
John Stephens in his Character of a Page [Essayes and Characters,
1615] speaks of "Cupid's diety.")
Dion Cassius, quoted
Diophoratick
Disgestion
Disguest
Division
Doggshead
Door ("Keep the door" = act as a pander)
Doorkeeper
Dorsers
Dowland, John
Draw drie foote
Ducke
Duns the mouse
Dydoppers (dabchicks)
Eare picker ( = barber)
Edmond Ironside, MS. chronicle-play
Empresas
Eringoes
Estridge
Exclaimes
Family of Love
Fang
Fatal Maryage, MS. play
Father-in-law
Feare no colours
Feeres
Felt locks
Feltham's Resolves
Fend ( = make shift with)
Fins (a very doubtful correction for sins)
Fisguigge
Flat cap
Flea ( = flay)
Fletcher, John, MS. copy of his Elder Brother; his share in the
authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
Flewd
Fly boat (see Addenda to vol. i.)
Fool (play on the words fool and fowl)
Fooles paradysse
For I did but kisse her (See Appendix)
Fortune my foe
Fox
Foxd
Free
Fry(?)
Futra
Galleyfoist
German fencer
Getes
Ghosts crying Vindicta
Gibb ("A male-cat, now generally applied to one that has been
castrated."—Halliwell.)
Giglot
Ginges
Glapthorne, quoted; the play of The Lady Mother identical with
Glapthorne's Noble Trial
Glass, patent for making
Gleeke
Gods dynes
Goll
Gondarino
Gossips
Grandoes
Groaning cake
Guarded ( = trimmed)
Gumd taffety that will not fret (See Nares' Glossary, s.,
gumm'd velvet.)
Gundelet
Gyges
Haberdine
Hadiwist
Hanging Tune
Hatto, Bishop
Head ("how fell ye out all a head?")
Hell
Hell, another couple in
Hemming
Hesperides ( = the garden of the Hesperides)
Heywood, Thomas, his play of The Captives; lines at the end of his
Royal King and Loyal Subject identical with the Address To the
Reader at the end of H. Shirley's Martyd Souldier; the play of
Dick of Devonshire tentatively assigned to him; the MS. play
Calisto composed of scenes from his Golden Age and Silver Age
Hocas pocas
Holland's Leaguer
Horace, quoted (In the lines
"Now die your pleasures, and the dayes you pray
Your rimes and loves and jests will take away"
are imitated from Horace's Ars Poetica, ll. 55-6,—
"Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
Eripuere jocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum.")
Hott shotts
Hounslow Heath, Sword-blade manufactory at
Huckle bone
Huffing
Hunts up
Hypostacies
Imbrocados (thrusts over the arm in fencing)
Incontinent
Iron mills
It ( = its)
Jacke
Jiggs
Julius Caesar (puppet-show of)
Juvenal quoted
Keepe
Knight a the post
Knowes me no more then the begger knowes his dish know him as well as
the begger, &c.
Kramis time
Lacrymae Ladies Downfall Lady Mother, comedy by Glapthorne (identical with The Noble Trial, entered in Stationers' Registers in 1660) Lanch (unnecessarily altered to lance in the text) Lancheinge of the May, MS. play by W.M. Gent. Lapwing Larroones Lather ( = ladder) (In Women beware Women Middleton plays on the word:— "Fab. When she was invited to an early wedding, She'd dress her head o'ernight, sponge up herself, And give her neck three lathers. Gaar. Ne'er a halter.") Laugh and lye downe Launcepresado Law, the spider's cobweb Legerity Letters of mart Leveret Limbo Line of life Linstock Long haire, treatise against (An allusion to William Prynne's tract The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes.) Loves Changelings Changed, MS. play founded on Sidney's Arcadia Low Country Leaguer Lustique
Machlaean
Macrios
Magical weed
Makarell
Make ready
March beere
Marlins
Marlowe's Hero and Leander quoted
Marriage, restrained by law at certain seasons
Martial quoted
Mary muffe
Masque (MS.) containing a long passage that is found in Chapman's
Byron's Tragedie
Massinger, his share in the authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
Mawmets ( = puppets)
Mawmett ( = Mahomet)
Meath (A curious corruption of Mentz. Old printers distorted foreign
names in an extraordinary manner.)
Mechall
Mention ( = dimension)
Mew
Middleton, quotation from his Family of Love
Minikin ( = fiddle)
Mistris
Moe
Monthes mind
Mooncalf
More hayre than wit
Morglay
Mosch
Mother
Motion ( = suggestion, proposal)
Mouse
Much (ironical)
Mumchance
Muscadine
Muschatoes ( = moustaches)
Mushrumps ( = mushrooms)
Music played between the acts
Muskadine with an egg
My Love can sing no other song (See Appendix)
Mynsatives
Nephewes
Nero, his poems
Newmarket
Nifle
Night rail
Ninivie, motion of
Noddy
Old
Orphant
Outcryes
Outface with a card of ten
Overseene
Owe
Pantables ( = slippers)
Paris Garden ditch
Pavine
Pedlars' French
Peele's Hunting of Cupid
Peeterman
Persius quoted
Pharo, by the life of (This oath occurs in first edition, 1601, of
Every Man in his Humour: in the revised edition it was altered to
"by the foot of Pharaoh.")
Picardo
Pick-hatch
Pilchers
Pimblico
Pinks
Pioner
Plancher
Planet ("Some Planet striketh him")
Plashd
Platform
Plautus' Rudens, plot of Heywood's play The Captives drawn from:
quotations from
Pomander
Poore Jhon
Poore Man's Comfort (play by Robert Daborne), MS. copy of
Portage (Undoubtedly we should read partage.)
Pot-gun
Pricke-song
Prick and prayse ( = praise of excellence)
Princkocke
Proclamation that the gentry should reside at their mansions in the
country
Proculus
Prologue spoken by a woman
Protest, affected use of the word (See Dyce's Shakespeare Glossary.)
Puckfist
Puerelis
Puisne
Puisnes of the Inne
Pumpion
Pun[to] reversos ( = back-handed strokes in fencing)
Push
Putt a girdle round about the world
Puttock
Quale
Rabbit-suckers
Rabby Roses (The reference is, probably, to the Arabian physician
Rhazes.)
Racke
Rape, punishment for
Rascal
Rats rhymed to death
Refuse me
Regalias
Rest ("our rest we set")
Rest for every slave to pull at
Reverent ( = reverend)
Richard II., MS. play
Ride the wild mare (a rustic sport)
Rincht ( = rinsed)
Road
Roaring boys ( = roisterers)
Rochet
Rope-ripes
Rosemary
Rotten hares
Rudelesse vaile
Russeting
Sackerson (In the footnote read H_u_nkes for H_a_nkes.)
Salt, sit beneath the
Sarreverence
Scandalum magnatum
Sconce, build a (I supposed that the expression meant "fix a candle in a
candlestick," but I am indebted to Mr. George L. Apperson for the true
explanation. He writes:—"In Dyche's Dictionary (I quote from ed.
1748) is the verb sconce, one of the definitions being—'a cant term
for running up a score at an alehouse or tavern'—with which cf.
Goldsmith's Essays (1765), viii, 'He ran into debt with everybody that
would trust him, and none could build a sconce better than he.' This
explanation seems to me to make Thomas's remark a very characteristic
one." See Grose's Classical Dictionary of the vulgar tongue.)
Scottish witch
Scythians
Sentronell ( = centinel)
Seven deadly sinnes, pageant of
Shakespeare imitated; his use of the word road ("This Doll Tearsheet
should be some road") illustrated; mentioned in Captain Underwit
Sharpe, play at. (Cf. Swetnam the Woman Hater, 1620, sig. G. 3:—
"But cunning Cupid forecast me to recoile:
For when he plaid at sharpe I had the foyle.")
Shellain
Sherryes
Ship, the great
Shipwreck by land
Shirley, James, author of Captain Underwit; quoted
Shoulder pack't
Shrovetide, hens thrashed at
Shrove Tuesday, riotous conduct of apprentices on
Sib
Signeor No
Sister awake! close not your eyes!
Sister's thread
Sleep, wayward thoughts (See Appendix)
Slug
Smell-feast
Snaphance
Sowse
Spanish fig
Sparabiles
Spend
Spenser, imitated
Spurne-point
Stafford's lawe
Stand on poynts
Standage
Stavesucre ( = staves-acre)
Steccadoes ( = stoccadoes, thrusts in fencing)
Stewd prunes
Stigmaticke
Stoope
Striker
Strive curtesies ( = stand upon ceremony)
Suds, in the
Suetonius, quoted
Sure
Surreverence
Tacitus, quoted
Take me with you
Take in
Tarleton
Tarriers
Tell Tale, the, (MS. play)
Tent
Termagant
The Fryer was in the—(See Appendix)
Three Cranes
Thumb, to bite the
Ticktacks
Tickle minikin ( = play on the fiddle)
Timeless ( = untimely)
Tobacco (price of)
Toot
Totter
Totter'd
Traind band
Transportation of ordnance
Trevants. (Trevant is a corruption of Germ. Traban = guard.)
Trewe ( = honest)
Tripennies
Trondling
Trouses
True man
Trundle bed
Trunk-hose
Tub-hunter ( = parasite)
Turnops
Two Noble Ladyes. (The plot is partly founded on Calderon's
Magico Prodigioso.)
Uncouth
Unicorn's horn
Unreadie
Upper stage
Ure
Varlet
Vaunt-currying
Venetian
Verjuice made by stamping crab-apples
Vie
Vild
Virgil, quoted
Virginal
Virginall Jacks
Warning-peece
Wax, limbes mad[e] out of
Webster's White Devil, allusion to
Welshmen proud of their gentility
Wet finger
What make you here?
What thing is Love?
Whifflers
Whisht
White sonne
Whytinge mopp
Widgeing
Wildfowl ("Cut up wildfowl"—a slang expression)
Wilding
Windmills at Finsbury (See Stow's Survey, b. iii, p. 70, ed. 1720.)
Wit without money
Woad, patents for planting of ("Woad is an herbe brought from the
parts of Tolouse in France, and from Spaine, much used and very
necessary in the dying of wollen cloath."—Cowell's Interpreter.)
Woman Hater, the
Wonning
Woodcock ( = simpleton)
Zygne ("Untill the zygne be gone below the hart")
