Part 1

, p. 77) says: ‘They haue korked shooes, pinsnets, pantoffles, and slippers, ... some of spanish leather, and some of English lether.’ Marston (_Dutch Courtezan_, _Wks._ 2. 7) speaks of a ‘Spanish leather jerkin,’ and Middleton (_Father Hubburd’s Tales_, _Wks._ 8. 70) of ‘a curious pair of boots of King Philip’s leather,’ and a little farther on (_Wks._ 8. 108) of Spanish leather shoes. Fastidious Brisk’s boots are made of the same material (_Ev. Man out_, _Wks._ 2. 147). Cf. also Dekker, _Wks._ 2. 305.

Perfumes were much in fashion, and Stubbes’ _Anatomy_ has a great deal to say on the subject. We hear of perfumed jerkins in Marston’s _Malcontent_ (_Wks._ 1. 314) and in _Cynthia’s Revels_ (_Wks._ 2. 325). Spanish perfume for gloves is spoken of in the latter play (p. 328) and in the _Alchemist_ (_Wks._ 4. 131) ‘your Spanish titillation in a glove’ is declared to be the best perfume.

=4. 4. 77, 8 The Guardo-duennas, such a little old man,= =As this.= Minsheu gives the definition: ‘Escudero, m. An Esquire, a Seruingman that waits on a Ladie or Gentlewoman, in Spaine neuer but old men and gray beards.’

=4. 4. 81 flat spred, as an Vmbrella.= The umbrella of the seventeenth century seems to have been used exclusively to protect the face from the sun. Blount, _Glossographia_, 1670, gives: ‘_Umbrello_ (Ital. Ombrella), a fashion of round and broad Fans, wherewith the Indians (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of the sun or fire; and hence any little shadow, Fan, or other thing wherewith women guard their faces from the sun.’

It was apparently not in use in England when Coryat published his _Crudities_, which contains the following description (1. 135): ‘Also many of them doe carry other fine things of a far greater price, that will cost at the least a duckat, which they commonly call in the Italian tongue _vmbrellaes_, that is, things that minister shadow unto them for shelter against the scorching heate of the sunne. These are made of leather something answerable to the forme of a little cannopy, & hooped in the inside with diuers little wooden hoopes that extend the _vmbrella_ in a pretty large compasse.’

‘As a defense from rain or snow it was not used in western Europe till early in the eighteenth century.’--_CD._

=4. 4. 82 Her hoope.= A form of the farthingale (fr. Sp. _Verdugal_) was worn in France, Spain, and Italy, and in England as early as 1545. It gradually increased in size, and Elizabeth’s farthingale was enormous. The aptness of the comparison can be appreciated by reading Coryat’s description of the umbrella above.

=4. 4. 87 An Escudero.= See note 4. 4. 77, 8.

=4. 4. 97 If no body should loue mee, but my poore husband.= Cf. _Poetaster_, _Wks._ 2. 444: ‘Methinks a body’s husband does not so well at court; a body’s friend, or so--but, husband! ’tis like your clog to your marmoset,’ etc.

=4. 4. 134 your Gentleman-vsher.= ‘Gentleman-Usher. Originally a state-officer, attendant upon queens, and other persons of high rank, as, in Henry VIII, Griffith is gentleman-usher to Queen Catherine; afterwards a private affectation of state, assumed by persons of distinction, or those who pretended to be so, and particularly ladies. He was then only a sort of upper servant, out of livery, whose office was to hand his lady to her coach, and to walk before her bare-headed, though in later times she leaned upon his arm.’--Nares.

Cf. Dekker, _West-ward Hoe_, _Wks._ 2. 324: ‘Weare furnisht for attendants as Ladies are, We have our fooles, and our Vshers.’

The sources for a study of the gentleman-usher are the present play, _The Tale of a Tub_, and Chapman’s _Gentleman Usher_. In the _Staple of News_ the Lady Pecunia is provided with a gentleman-usher. The principal duties of this office seem to have consisted in being sent on errands, handing the lady to her coach, and preceding her on any occasion where ceremony was demanded. In Chapman’s play Lasso says that the disposition of his house for the reception of guests was placed in the hands of this servant (cf. Chapman, _Wks._ 1. 263 f.). Innumerable allusions occur in which the requirement of going bare-headed is mentioned (see note on 4. 4. 202). Another necessary quality was a fine pace, which is alluded to in the present character’s name (see also note 4. 4. 201). An excellent description of the gentleman-usher will be found in Nares’ _Glossary,_ quoting from Lenton’s _Leasures_, a book published in 1631, and now very rare.

=4. 4. 142 the Dutchesse of Braganza.= Braganza is the ruling house of Portugal. Dom John, Duke of Braganza, became king of Portugal in 1640.

=4. 4. 143 Almoiauna.= The _Stanford Dictionary_ gives: ‘Almojabana, Sp. fr. Arab. _Al-mojabbana_: cheese-and-flour cake. Xeres was famed for this dainty, which is named from Arabic _jobn_ = “cheese.”’

=4. 4. 147 Marquesse Muja.= Apparently a Spanish marquise, occupying a position in society similar to that of Madame Récamier.

=4. 4. 156 A Lady of spirit.= With this line and lines 165 f. cf. _U._ 32, _Wks._ 8. 356:

To be abroad chanting some bawdy song, And laugh, and measure thighs, then squeak, spring, itch, Do all the tricks of a salt lady bitch! --For these with her young company she’ll enter, Where Pitts, or Wright, or Modet would not venture; (Fol. reads ‘venter’) And come by these degrees the style t’inherit Of woman of fashion, and a lady of spirit.

=4. 4. 164 Pimlico.= See note 3. 3. 170.

=4. 4. 164 daunce the Saraband.= The origin of the saraband is in doubt, being variously attributed to Spain and to the Moors. It is found in Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and its immoral character is constantly referred to. Grove (_Dict. of Music_ 3. 226) quotes from chapter 12, ‘Del baile y cantar llamado Zarabanda,’ of the _Tratado contra los Juegos Publicos_ (‘Treatise against Public Amusements’) of Mariana (1536-1623): ‘Entre las otras invenciones ha salido estos años un baile y cantar tan lacivo en las palabras, tan feo en las meneos, que basta para pegar fuego aun á las personas muy honestas’ (‘amongst other inventions there has appeared during late years a dance and song, so lascivious in its words, so ugly in its movements, that it is enough to inflame even very modest people’). ‘This reputation was not confined to Spain, for Marini in his poem “L’Adone” (1623) says:

Chiama questo suo gioco empio e profano Saravanda, e Ciaccona, il nuova Ispano.

Padre Mariana, who believed in its Spanish origin, says that its invention was one of the disgraces of the nation, and other authors attribute its invention directly to the devil. The dance was attacked by Cervantes and Guevara, and defended by Lope de Vega, but it seems to have been so bad that at the end of the reign of Philip II. it was for a time suppressed. It was soon, however, revived in a purer form and was introduced at the French court in 1588’ (Grove 3. 226-7).

In England the saraband was soon transformed into an ordinary country-dance. Two examples are to be found in the first edition of Playford’s _Dancing Master_, and Sir John Hawkins (_Hist. of the Science and Practice of Music_, 1776) speaks of it several times. ‘Within the memory of persons now living,’ he says, a Saraband danced by a Moor was constantly a part of the entertainment at a puppet-show’ (4. 388). In another place (2. 135), in speaking of the use of castanets at a puppet-show, he says: ‘That particular dance called the Saraband is supposed to require as a thing of necessity, the music, if it may be called so, of this artless instrument.’

In the _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 256, Jonson speaks of ‘a light air! the bawdy Saraband!’

=4. 4. 165 Heare, and talke bawdy; laugh as loud, as a larum.= Jonson satirizes these vices again in _U. 67_ (see note 4. 4. 156) and _Epigrams_ 48 and _115_. Dekker (_Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 238) advises the young gallant to ‘discourse as lowd as you can, no matter to what purpose, ... and laugh in fashion, ... you shall be much obserued.’

=4. 4. 172 Shee must not lose a looke on stuffes, or cloth.= It being the fashion to ‘swim in choice of silks and tissues,’ plain woolen cloth was despised. =4. 4. 187 Blesse vs from him!= Preserve us. A precaution against any evil that might result from pronouncing the devil’s name. Cf. _Knight of the Burning Pestle_ 2. 1: Sure the devil (God bless us!) is in this springald!’ and Wilson, _The Cheats_, Prologue:

No little pug nor devil,--bless us all!

=4. 4. 191, 2 What things they are? That nature should be at leasure= =Euer to make ’hem!= Cf. _Ev. Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 119: ‘O manners that this age should bring forth such creatures! that nature should be at leisure to make them!’

=4. 4. 197 Hee makes a wicked leg.= Gifford thinks that _wicked_ here means ‘awkward or clownish.’ It seems rather to mean ‘roguish,’ a common colloquial use.

=4. 4. 201 A setled discreet pase.= Cf. 3. 5. 22; 2. 7. 33; and Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 238: ‘Walke vp and downe by the rest as scornfully and as carelesly as a Gentleman-Usher.’

=4. 4. 202 a barren head, Sir.= Cf. 2. 3. 36, 7 and 4. 2. 12. Here again we have a punning allusion to the uncovered head of the gentleman-usher. ‘It was a piece of state, that the servants of the nobility, particularly the gentleman-usher, should attend bare-headed.’ Nares, _Gloss._ For numerous passages illustrating the practice both in regard to the gentleman-usher and to the coachman, see the quotations in Nares, and Ford, _Lover’s Melancholy_, _Wks._ 1. 19; Chapman, _Gentleman-Usher_, _Wks._ 1. 263; and the following passage, _ibid._ 1. 273:

_Vin._ I thanke you sir. Nay pray be couerd; O I crie you mercie, You must be bare. _Bas._ Euer to you my Lord. _Vin._ Nay, not to me sir, But to the faire right of your worshipfull place.

A passage from Lenton (see note 4. 4. 134) may also be quoted: ‘He is forced to stand bare, which would urge him to impatience, but for the hope of being covered, or rather the delight hee takes in shewing his new-crisp’t hayre, which his barber hath caused to stand like a print hedge, in equal proportion.’

The dramatists ridiculed it by insisting that the coachman should be not only bare-headed, but bald. Cf. 2. 3. 36 and Massinger, _City Madam_, _Wks._ p. 331: ‘Thou shalt have thy proper and bald-headed coachman.’ Jonson often refers to this custom. Cf. _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 232:

Such as are bald and barren beyond hope, Are to be separated and set by For ushers to old countesses: and coachmen To mount their boxes reverently, etc.

_New Inn_, _Wks._ 5. 374:

_Jor._ Where’s thy hat?... _Bar._ The wind blew’t off at Highgate, and my lady Would not endure me light to take it up; But made me drive bareheaded in the rain. _Jor._ That she might be mistaken for a countess?

Cf. also _Mag. La._, _Wks._ 6. 36, and _Tale Tub_, _Wks._ 6. 217 and 222.

=4. 4. 204 his Valley is beneath the waste.= ‘Waist’ and ‘waste’ were both spelled _waste_ or _wast_. Here, of course, is a pun on the two meanings.

=4. 4. 206 Dulnesse vpon you! Could not you hit this?= Cf. _Bart. Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 358: ‘Now dullness upon me, that I had not that before him.’

=4. 4. 209 the French sticke.= Walking-sticks of various sorts are mentioned during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ‘In Chas. II.’s time the French walking-stick, with a ribbon and tassels to hold it when passed over the wrist, was fashionable, and continued so to the reign of George II.’ (Planché).

=4. 4. 215, 6 report the working, Of any Ladies physicke.= In Lenton’s _Leasures_ (see note 4.4.134) we find: ‘His greatest vexation is going upon sleevelesse arrands, to know whether some lady slept well last night, or how her physick work’d i’ th’ morning, things that savour not well with him; the reason that ofttimes he goes but to the next taverne, and then very discreetly brings her home a tale of a tubbe.’

Cf. also B. & Fl., _Fair Maid of the Inn_ 2. 2: ‘_Host._ And have you been in England?... But they say ladies there take physic for fashion.’

Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 255, speaks of ‘a country gentleman that brings his wife vp to learne the fashion, see the Tombs at Westminster, the Lyons in the Tower, or to take physicke.’ In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson’s time ‘fanciful or artful wives would often persuade their husbands to take them up to town for the advantage of _physick_, when the principal object was dissipation.’

=4. 4. 219 Corne-cutter.= This vulgar suggestion renders hopeless Pug’s pretensions to gentility. Corncutters carried on a regular trade (see _Bart. Fair_ 2. 1.), and were held in the greatest contempt, as we learn from Nash (_Four Letters Confuted_, _Wks._ 2. 211).

=4. 4. 232 The Moone.= I. e., see that the moon and zodiacal sign are propitious.

=4. 4. 235 Get their natiuities cast!= Astrology was a favorite subject of satire. Cf. Massinger, _City Madam_ 2. 2; B. & Fl., _Rollo Duke of Normandy_ 4. 2, etc.

=4. 5. 31, 2 his valour has At the tall board bin question’d.= _Tall board_ is, I think, the same as _table-board_, a gaming-table. In Dyce’s edition of Webster’s _Devil’s Law Case_ (_Wks._ 2. 38) we read: ‘shaking your elbow at the table-board.’ Dyce says in a note that the old folio reads _Taule-board_. _Tables_ is derived from Lat. _Tabularum lusus_ › Fr. _Tables_. The derivation, _table_ › _tavl_ › _taul_ › _tall_, presents no etymological difficulties. A note from Professor Joseph Wright of Oxford confirms me in my theory.

The passage seems to mean that Merecraft was accused of cheating, and, his valor not rising to the occasion, his reputation for honesty was left somewhat in doubt.

=4. 6. 38-41 intitle Your vertue, to the power, vpon a life ... Euen to forfeit.= Wittipol is ‘wooing in language of the pleas and bench.’ Cf. 4. 7. 62.

=4. 6. 42 We haue another leg-strain’d, for this Dottrel.= See variants, and note 2. 2. 49, 50.

=4. 6. 49 A Phrentick.= See note 5. 8. 91-2.

=4. 7. 37-40.= See variants. Gifford silently follows Whalley’s changes, which are utterly unwarrantable. Cunningham points out the wrong division in 37, 8. The scansion is thus indicated by Wilke (_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p. 3):

Of a/ most wor/thy gen/tleman./ Would one Of worth/ had spoke/ it: whence/ it comes,/ it is Rather/ a shame/ to me,/ ͝ then/ a praise.

The missing syllable in the third verse is compensated for by the pause after the comma. This is quite in accordance with Jonson’s custom (see Wilke, p. 1 f.).

=4. 7. 45 Publication.= See 3. 3. 137.

=4. 7. 54 I sou’t him.= See variants. Gifford says that he can make nothing of _sou’t_ but _sought_ and _sous’d_, and that he prefers the latter. Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the same as _shue_, ‘to frighten away poultry,’ and Cunningham accepts this without question. There seems, however, to be no confirmation for the theory that the preterit was ever spelt _sou’t_. Wright’s _Dialect Dictionary_ gives: ‘_Sough._ 19. to strike; to beat severely,’ but the pronunciation here seems usually to be _souff_. Professor Wright assures me that _sous’d_ is the correct reading, and that the others are ‘mere stupid guesses.’

=4. 7. 62 in possibility.= A legal phrase used of contingent interests. See note 4. 6. 38, 9.

=4. 7. 65 Duke O’ Shore-ditch.= ‘A mock title of honour, conferred on the most successful of the London archers, of which this account is given:

When Henry VIII became king, he gave a prize at Windsor to those who should excel at this exercise, (archery) when Barlo, one of his guards, an inhabitant of Shoreditch, acquired such honor as an archer, that the king created him _duke of Shoreditch_, on the spot. This title, together with that of marquis of Islington, earl of Pancridge, etc., was taken from these villages, in the neighborhood of Finsbury fields, and continued so late as 1683. Ellis’s _History of Shoreditch_, p. 170.

The latest account is this: In 1682 there was a most magnificent entertainment given by the Finsbury archers, when they bestowed the title of _duke of Shoreditch_, etc., upon the most deserving. The king was present. _Ibid._ 173.’--Nares, _Gloss_.

Entick (_Survey_ 2. 65) gives an interesting account of a match which took place in 1583. The Duke of Shoreditch was accompanied on this occasion by the ‘marquises of _Barlow_, _Clerkenwell_, _Islington_, _Hoxton_, and _Shaklewell_, the earl of _Pancras_, etc. These, to the number of 3000, assembled at the place appointed, sumptuously apparelled, and 942 of them had gold chains about their necks. They marched from merchant-taylors-hall, preceded by whifflers and bellmen, that made up the number 4000, besides pages and footmen; performing several exercises and evolutions in _Moorfields_, and at last shot at the target for glory in _Smithfield_.’

=4. 7. 69 Ha’.= See variants. The original seems to me the more characteristic reading.

=4. 7. 84 after-game.= Jonson uses the expression again in the _New Inn, Wks._ 5. 402:

And play no after-games of love hereafter.

## ACT V.

=5. 1. 28 Tyborne.= This celebrated gallows stood, it is believed, on the site of Connaught Place. It derived the name from a brook in the neighborhood (see Minsheu, Stow, etc.).

=5. 1. 29 My L. Majors Banqueting-house.= This was in Stratford Place, Oxford Street. It was ‘erected for the Mayor and Corporation to dine in after their periodical visits to the Bayswater and Paddington Conduits, and the Conduit-head adjacent to the Banqueting-House, which supplied the city with water. It was taken down in 1737, and the cisterns arched over at the same time.’--Wh-C.

Stow (ed. 1633, pp. 475-6) speaks of ‘many faire Summer houses’ in the London suburbs, built ‘not so much for use and profit, as for shew and pleasure.’

The spelling _Major_ seems to be a Latin form. Mr. Charles Jackson (_N. & Q._ 4. 7. 176) mentions it as frequently used by the mayors of Doncaster in former days. Cf. also Glapthorne (_Wks._ 1. 231) and _Ev. Man in_ (Folio 1616, 5. 5. 41).

=5. 1. 41 my tooth-picks.= See note 4. 2. 26.

=5. 1. 47 Saint Giles’es.= ‘Now, without the postern of Cripplesgate, first is the parish church of Saint Giles, a very fair and large church, lately repaired, after that the same was burnt in the year 1545.’--Stow, _Survey_, ed. Thoms, p. 112.

=5. 1. 48 A kind of Irish penance!= ‘There is the same allusion to the _rug gowns_ of the wild Irish, in the _Night Walker_ of Fletcher:

We have divided the sexton’s household stuff Among us; one has the _rug_, and he’s turn’d _Irish_.’--G.

Cf. also Holinshed, _Chron._ (quoted _CD._):‘As they distill the best aqua-vitæ, so they spin the choicest _rug_ in Ireland.’ Fynes Moryson (_Itinerary_, fol. 1617, p. 160) says that the Irish merchants were forbidden to export their wool, in order that the peasants might ‘be nourished by working it into cloth, namely, Rugs ... & mantles generally worn by men and women, and exported in great quantity.’

Jonson mentions rug as an article of apparel several times. In _Alch._, _Wks._ 4. 14, it is spoken of as the dress of a poor man and _ibid._ 4. 83 as that of an astrologer. In _Ev. Man out_ (_Wks._ 2. 110) a similar reference is made, and here Gifford explains that rug was ‘the usual dress of mathematicians, astrologers, &c., when engaged in their sublime speculations.’ Marston also speaks of rug gowns as the symbol of a strict life (_What You Will_, _Wks._ 2. 395):

Lamp-oil, watch-candles, rug-gowns, and small juice, Thin commons, four o’clock rising,--I renounce you all.

=5. 2. 1 ff. put me To yoaking foxes,= etc. Several at least of the following employments are derived from proverbial expressions familiar at the time. Jonson speaks of ‘milking he-goats’ in _Timber,_ ed. Schelling, p. 34, which the editor explains as ‘a proverbial expression for a fruitless task.’ The occupation of lines 5-6 is adapted from a popular proverb given by Cotgrave: ‘J’aymeroy autant tirer vn pet d’un Asne mort, que. I would as soone vndertake to get a fart of a dead man, as &c.’ Under _Asne_ he explains the same proverb as meaning ‘to worke impossibilities.’ This explains the passage in _Staple of News_ 3. 1., _Wks._ 5. 226. The proverb is quoted again in _Eastward Ho_, Marston, _Wks._ 3. 90, and in Wm. Lilly’s Observations,’ _Hist._, pp. 269-70. ‘Making ropes of sand’ was Iniquity’s occupation in 1. 1. 119. This familiar proverb first appears in Aristides 2. 309: ἑκ ψάμμου σχοινίον πλέκειν. In the _New Inn_, _Wks._ 5. 394, Lovel says: ‘I will go catch the wind first in a sieve.’ Whalley says that the occupation of ‘keeping fleas within a circle’ is taken from Socrates’ employment in the _Clouds_ of Aristophanes (ll. 144-5). Gifford, however, ridicules the notion. Jonson refers to the passage in the _Clouds_ in _Timber_ (ed. Schelling, 82. 33), where he thinks it would have made the Greeks merry to see Socrates ‘measure how many foot a flea could skip geometrically.’ But here again we seem to have a proverbial expression. It occurs in the morality-play of _Nature_, 642. II (quoted by Cushman, p. 116):

I had leiver keep as many flese, Or wyld hares in an opyn lese, As undertake that.

=5. 2. 32.= Scan:

And three/ pence. ͝/ Give me/ an an/swer. Sir.

Thos. Keightley, _N. & Q._ 4. 2. 603, suggests:

And your threepence, etc.

=5. 2. 35 Your best songs Thom. O’ Bet’lem.= ‘A song entitled “Mad Tom” is to be found in Percy’s _Reliques_; Ballad Soc. Roxb. Ball., 2. p. 259; and Chappell’s _Old Pop. Mus._ The exact date of the poem is not known.’--H. R. D. Anders, _Shakespeare’s Books_, p. 24-5.

Bethlehem Royal Hospital was originally founded ‘to have been a priory of canons,’ but was converted to a hospital for lunatics in 1547. In Jonson’s time it was one of the regular sights of London, and is so referred to in Dekker’s _Northward Hoe_, _Wks._ 3. 56 f.; _Sil. Wom._, _Wks._ 3. 421; _Alch._, _Wks._ 4. 132.

=5. 3. 6 little Darrels tricks.= John Darrel (fl. 1562-1602) was born, it is believed, at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, about 1562. He graduated at Cambridge, studied law, and then became a preacher at Mansfield. He began to figure as an exorcist in 1586, when he pretended to cast out an evil spirit from Catherine Wright of Ridgway Lane, Derbyshire. In 1596 he exorcised Thomas Darling, a boy of fourteen, of Burton-on-Trent, for bewitching whom Alice Goodrich was tried and convicted at Derby. A history of the case was written by Jesse Bee of Burton (Harsnet, _Discovery_, p. 2). The boy Darling went to Merton College, and in 1603 was sentenced by the Star-chamber to be whipped, and to lose his ears for libelling the vice-chancellor of Oxford. In March, 1596-7, Darrel was sent for to Clayworth Hall, Shakerly, in Leigh parish, Lancashire, where he exorcised seven persons of the household of Mr. Nicholas Starkie, who accused one Edmund Hartley of bewitching them, and succeeded in getting the latter condemned and executed in 1597. In November, 1597, Darrel was invited to Nottingham to dispossess William Somers, an apprentice, and shortly after his arrival was appointed preacher of St. Mary’s in that town, and his fame drew crowded congregations to listen to his tales of devils and possession. Darrel’s operations having been reported to the Archbishop of York, a commission of inquiry was issued (March 1597-8), and he was prohibited from preaching. Subsequently the case was investigated by Bancroft, bishop of London, and S. Harsnet, his chaplain, when Somers, Catherine Wright, and Mary Cooper confessed that they had been instructed in their simulations by Darrel. He was brought before the commissioners and examined at Lambeth on 26 May 1599, was pronounced an impostor, degraded from the ministry and committed to the Gatehouse. He remained in prison for at least a year, but it is not known what became of him. (Abridged from _DNB._)

Jonson refers to Darrel again in _U._ 67, _Wks._ 8. 422:

This age will lend no faith to Darrel’s deed.

=5. 3. 27 That could, pitty her selfe.= See variants.

=5. 3. 28 in Potentiâ.= Jonson uses the phrase again in the _Alchemist_, _Wks._ 4. 64: ‘The egg’s ... a chicken _in potentia_.’ It is a late Latin phrase. See Gloss.

=5. 4. 17 my proiect o’ the forkes.= Forks were just being introduced into England at this time, and were a common subject of satire. The first mention of a fork recorded in the _NED._ is: ‘1463 _Bury Wills_ (Camden) 40, I beqwethe to Davn John Kertelynge my silvir forke for grene gyngour.’

Cf. Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 211: ‘Oh golden world, the suspicious Venecian carued not his meate with a siluer pitch-forke.’ B. & Fl., _Queen of Corinth_ 4. 1 (quoted by Gifford):

It doth express th’ enamoured courtier, As full as your fork-carving traveler.

_Fox_, _Wks._ 3. 261:

--Then must you learn the use And handling of your silver fork at meals, The metal of your glass; (these are main matters With your Italian;)

Coryat has much to say on the subject (_Crudities_ 1. 106): ‘I obserued a custome in all those Italian Cities and Townes through the which I passed, that is not vsed in any other country that I saw in my trauels, neither doe I thinke that any other nation of Christendome doth vse it, but only Italy. The Italian and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, doe alwaies in their meales vse a little forke when they cut their meate. For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke which they hold in their other hand vpon the same dish, so that whatsoeuer he be that sitting in the company of any others at meale, should vnadvisedly touch the dish of meate with his fingers from which all at the table doe cut, he will giue occasion of offence vnto the company, as hauing transgressed the lawes of good manners.... This forme of feeding I vnderstand is generally vsed in all places of Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of yron or steele, and some of siluer, but those are vsed only by Gentlemen.’ Coryat carried this custom home with him to England, for which a friend dubbed him _furcifer_. This passage is doubtless the source of Jonson’s lines. Compare the last sentence of the quotation with lines 30, 31 of this scene.

=5. 4. 23, 4 on my priuate, By cause.= See variants. There is no necessity for change. Cf. 1616 Sir R. Dudley in _Fortesc. Papers_ 17: ‘Nor am I so vaine ... bycause I am not worth so much.’ The same form occurs in _Sad Shepherd_ (Fol. 1631-40, p. 143):

But, beare yee Douce, bycause, yee may meet mee.

Gabriel Harvey uses both the forms _by cause_ and _bycause_. _Prose Wks_. 1. 101; 102; et frequenter.

=5. 4. 34 at mine owne ap-perill.= The word is of rare occurrence. Gifford quotes _Timon of Athens_ 1. 2: ‘Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon;’ and refers to _Mag. La._, _Wks._ 6. 109: ‘Faith, I will bail him at mine own apperil.’ It occurs again in _Tale Tub_, _Wks._ 6. 148: ‘As you will answer it at your apperil.’

=5. 5. 10, 11 I will leaue you To your God fathers in Law.= ‘This seems to have been a standing joke for a jury. It is used by Shakespeare and by writers prior to him. Thus Bulleyn, speaking of a knavish ostler, says, “I did see him ones aske blessyng to xii godfathers at ones.” _Dialogue_, 1564.’--G.

The passage from Shakespeare is _Merch. of Ven._ 4. 1. 398:

In christening, shalt thou have two godfathers: Had I been judge, thou should’st have had ten more, To bring thee to the gallows, not the font.

Cf. also _Muse’s Looking Glass_, _O. Pl._ 9. 214: ‘Boets! I had rather zee him remitted to the jail, and have his twelve godvathers, good men and true contemn him to the gallows.’

=5. 5. 50, 51 A Boy O’ thirteene yeere old made him an Asse= =But t’toher day.= Whalley believed this to be an allusion to the ‘boy of Bilson,’ but, as Gifford points out, this case did not occur until 1620, four years after the production of the present play. Gifford believes Thomas Harrison, the ‘boy of Norwich,’ to be alluded to. A short account of his case is given in Hutchinson’s _Impostures Detected_, pp. 262 f. The affair took place in 1603 or 1604, and it was thought necessary to ‘require the Parents of the said Child, that they suffer not any to repair to their House to visit him, save such as are in Authority and other Persons of special Regard, and known Discretion.’ Hutchinson says that Harrison was twelve years old. It is quite possible, though not probable, that Jonson is referring again to the Boy of Burton, who was only two years older. See note 5. 3. 6.

=5. 5. 58, 59 You had some straine ‘Boue E-la?= Cf. 1593 Nash, _Christ’s Tears_, _Wks._ 4. 188: ‘You must straine your wits an Ela aboue theyrs.’ Cf. also Nash, _Wks._ 5. 98 and 253; Lyly, _Euphues_, Aij; and Gloss.

=5. 6. 1 your garnish.= ‘This word _garnish_ has been made familiar to all time by the writings of John Howard. “A cruel custom,” says he, “obtains in most of our gaols, which is that of the prisoners demanding of a newcomer _garnish_, footing, or (as it is called in some London gaols) chummage. _Pay_ or _strip_ are the fatal words. I say fatal, for they are so to some, who, having no money, are obliged to give up part of their scanty apparel; and if they have no bedding or straw to sleep on, contract diseases which I have known to prove mortal.”’--C.

Cf. Dekker, _If this be not a good Play_, _Wks._ 3. 324:

Tis a strong charme gainst all the noisome smels Of Counters, Iaylors, garnishes, and such hels.

and Greene, _Upstart Courtier_, Dija: ‘Let a poore man be arrested ... he shal be almost at an angels charge, what with garnish, crossing and wiping out of the book ... extortions ... not allowed by any statute.’

The money here seems to have been intended for the jailer, rather than for Pug’s fellow-prisoners. The custom was abolished by 4 George IV. c. 43, § 12.

=5. 6. 10 I thinke Time be drunke, and sleepes.= Cf. 1. 4. 31. For the metaphor cf. _New Inn_, _Wks._ 5. 393:

If I but knew what drink the time now loved.

and _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 162:

--Now sleep, and rest; Would thou couldst make the time to do so too.

=5. 6. 18 confute.= ‘A pure Latinism. _Confutare_ is properly to pour cold water in a pot, to prevent it from boiling over; and hence metaphorically, the signification of _confuting_, reproving, or controuling.’--W.

For the present use cf. T. Adams in Spurgeon, _Treas. Dav._, 1614, Ps. lxxx. 20: ‘Goliath ... shall be confuted with a pebble.’ R. Coke, _Justice Vind._ (1660) 15: ‘to be confuted with clubs and hissing.’

=5. 6. 21 the Session.= The general or quarter sessions were held regularly four times a year on certain days prescribed by the statutes. The length of time for holding the sessions was fixed at three days, if necessity required it, but the rule was not strictly adhered to. See Beard, _The Office of the Justice of the Peace in England_, pp. 158 f.

=5. 6. 23 In a cart, to be hang’d.= ‘Theft and robbery in their coarsest form were for many centuries capital crimes.... The question when theft was first made a capital crime is obscure, but it is certain that at every period some thefts were punished with death, and that by Edward I.’s time, at least, the distinction between grand and petty larceny, which lasted till 1827, was fully established.’--Stephen, _Hist. Crim. Law_ 3. 128 f.

=5. 6. 24 The charriot of Triumph, which most of them are.= The procession from Newgate by Holbom and Tyburn road was in truth often a ‘triumphall egression,’ and a popular criminal like Jack Sheppard or Jonathan Wild frequently had a large attendance. Cf. Shirley, _Wedding_ 4. 3, _Wks._, ed. Gifford, 1. 425: ‘Now I’m in the cart, riding up Holborn in a two-wheeled chariot, with a guard of Halberdiers. _There goes a proper fellow_, says one; good people pray for me: now I am at the three wooden stilts,’ etc.

=5. 6. 48 a body intire.= Jonson uses the word in its strict etymological sense.

=5. 6. 54 cheated on.= Dyce (_Remarks_) points out that this phrase is used in Mrs. Centlivre’s _Wonder_, Act 2. Sc. 1. Jonson uses it again in _Mercury vindicated_: ‘and cheat upon your under-officers;’ and Marston in _What You Will_, _Wks._ 2. 387.

=5. 6. 64 Prouinciall o’ the Cheaters!= _Provincial_ is a term borrowed from the church. See Gloss. Of the _cheaters_ Dekker gives an interesting account in the _Bel-man of London_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 3. 116 f.: ‘Of all which _Lawes_, the _Highest_ in place, and the _Highest_ in perdition is the _Cheating_ Law or the Art of winning money by false dyce: Those that practise this studie call themselues _Cheators_, / the dyce _Cheaters_, and the money which they purchase [see note 3.4.31, 2.] _Cheates_ [see 1.7.4 and Gloss.]: borrowing the tearme from our common Lawyers, with whome all such casuals as fall to the Lord at the holding of his _Leetes_, as _Waifes_, _Strayes_, & such like, are sayd to be _Escheated to the Lords vse_ and are called _Cheates_.’

=5. 6. 64 Bawd-ledger.= Jonson speaks of a similar official in _Every Man out_, _Wks._ 2. 132: ‘He’s a leiger at Horn’s ordinary (cant name for a bawdy-house) yonder.’ See Gloss.

=5. 6. 68 to sindge your nayles off.= In the fool’s song in _Twelfth Night_ we have the exclamation to the devil: ‘paire thy nayles dad’ (Furness’s ed., p. 273). The editor quotes Malone: ‘The Devil was supposed from choice to keep his nails unpared, and therefore to pare them was an affront. So, in Camden’s _Remaines_, 1615: “I will follow mine owne minde, and mine old trade; who shall let me? the divel’s nailes are unparde.”’

Compare also _Henry V._ 4. 4. 76: ‘Bardolph and Nym had ten times more valor than this roaring devil i’ the old play, that every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger.’

=5. 6. 76 The Diuell was wont to carry away the euill.= Eckhardt, p. 100, points out that Jonson’s etymology of the word _Vice_, which has been a matter of dispute, was the generally accepted one, that is, from _vice_ = evil.

=5. 7. 1 Iustice Hall.= ‘The name of the Sessions-house in the Old Bailey.’--G. Strype, B. 3. p. 281 says that it was ‘a fair and stately building, very commodious for that affair.’ ‘It standeth backwards, so that it hath no front towards the street, only the gateway leading into the yard before the House, which is spacious. It cost above £6000 the building. And in this place the Lord Mayor, Recorder, the Aldermen and Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex do sit, and keep his Majesty’s Sessions of Oyer and Terminer.’ It was destroyed in the Gordon Riots of 1780.--Wh-C.

=5. 7. 9 This strange!= See variants. The change seriously injures the metre, and the original reading should be preserved. Such absorptions (_this_ for _this is_ or _this’s_) are not uncommon. Cf. _Macbeth_ 3. 4. 17, ed. Furness, p. 165: ‘yet he’s good’ for ‘yet he is as good.’

=5. 8. 2 They had giu’n him potions.= Jonson perhaps had in mind the trial of Anne Turner and her accomplices in the Overbury Case of the previous year. See Introduction, p. lxxii. For a discussion of love-philtres see Burton, _Anat. of Mel._ (ed. Bullen), 3. 145 f.

=5. 8. 33 with a Wanion.= This word is found only in the phrases ‘with a wanion,’ ‘in a wanion,’ and ‘wanions on you.’ It is a kind of petty imprecation, and occurs rather frequently in the dramatists, but its precise signification and etymology are still in doubt. Boswell, _Malone_, 21. 61, proposed a derivation from _winnowing_,‘a beating;’ Nares from _wanung_, Saxon, ‘detriment;’ Dyce (Ford’s _Wks._ 2. 291) from wan (vaande, Dutch, ‘a rod or wand’), ‘of which _wannie_ and _wannion_ are familiar diminutives.’ The _CD._ makes it a later form of ME. _waniand_, ‘a waning,’ spec. of the moon, regarded as implying ill luck.

=5. 8. 34 If his hornes be forth, the Diuells companion!= The jest is too obvious not to be a common one. Thus in _Eastward Ho_ Slitgut, who is impersonating the cuckold at Horn-fair, says: ‘Slight! I think the devil be abroad. in likeness of a storm, to rob me of my horns!’,--Marston’s _Wks._ 3. 72. Cf. also _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 186: ‘And why would you so fain see the devil? would I say. Because he has horns, wife, and may be a cuckold as well as a devil.’

=5. 8. 35 How he foames!= For the stock indications of witchcraft see Introduction, p. xlix.

=5. 8. 40 The Cockscomb, and the Couerlet.= Wittipol is evidently selecting an appropriate name for Fitzdottrel’s buffoonery after the manner of the puppet-shows. It is quite possible that some actual _motion_ of the day was styled ‘the Coxcomb and the Coverlet.’

=5. 8. 50 shee puts in a pinne.= Pricking with pins and needles was one of the devil’s regular ways of tormenting bewitched persons. They were often supposed to vomit these articles. So when Voltore feigns possession, Volpone cries out: ‘See! He vomits crooked pins’ (_The Fox_, _Wks._ 3. 312).

=5. 8. 61 the Kings Constable.= ‘From the earliest times to our own days, there were two bodies of police in England, namely, the parish and high constables, and the watchmen in cities and boroughs. Nothing could exceed their inefficiency in the 17th century. Of the constables, Dalton (in the reign of James I.) observes that they “are often absent from their houses, being for the most part husbandmen.” The charge of Dogberry shows probably with no great caricature what sort of watchmen Shakespeare was familiar with. As late as 1796, Colquhoun observes that the watchmen “were aged and often superannuated men.” ’--Sir J. Stephen, _Hist. Crim. Law_ 1. 194 f.

=5. 8. 71 The taking of Tabacco, with which the Diuell=

=Is so delighted.= This was an old joke of the time. In Middleton’s _Black Book_, _Wks._ 8. 42 f. the devil makes his will, a part of which reads as follows: ‘But turning my legacy to you-ward, Barnaby Burning-glass, arch-tobacco-taker of England, in ordinaries, upon stages both common and private, and lastly, in the lodging of your drab and mistress; I am not a little proud, I can tell you, Barnaby, that you dance after my pipe so long, and for all counter-blasts and tobacco-Nashes (which some call railers), you are not blown away, nor your fiery thirst quenched with the small penny-ale of their contradictions, but still suck that dug of damnation with a long nipple, still burning that rare Phoenix of Phlegethon, tobacco, that from her ashes, burned and knocked out, may arise another pipeful.’

Middleton here refers to Nash’s _Pierce Pennilesse_ and King James I.’s _Counterblast to Tobacco_. The former in his supplication to the devil says: ‘It is suspected you have been a great _tobacco_-taker in your youth.’ King James describes it as ‘a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrid stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.’

The dramatists seem never to grow tired of this joking allusion to the devil and his pipe of tobacco. Cf. Dekker, _If this be not a good Play_, _Wks._ 3. 293: ‘I think the Diuell is sucking Tabaccho, heeres such a Mist.’ _Ibid._ 327: ‘Are there gentleman diuels too? this is one of those, who studies the black Art, thats to say, drinkes Tobacco.’ Massinger, _Guardian_, _Wks._, p. 344:

--You shall fry first For a rotten piece of touchwood, and give fire To the great fiend’s nostrils, when he smokes tobacco!

Dekker (_Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 89) speaks of ‘that great _Tobacconist_ the Prince of Smoake & darknes, _Don Pluto_.’

The art of _taking_ or _drinking_ tobacco was much cultivated and had its regular professors. The _whiff_, the _ring_, etc., are often spoken of. For the general subject see Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_; Barnaby Riche, _Honestie of this Age_, 1613; Harrison, _Chronology_, 1573; _Every Man in_, etc. An excellent description of a tobacconist’s shop is given in _Alchemist_, _Wks._ 4. 37. For a historical account of its introduction see Wheatley. _Ev. Man in_, p. xlvii.

Jonson’s form _tabacco_ is the same as the Italian and Portuguese. See Alden, _Bart. Fair_, p. 169.

=5. 8. 74, 5 yellow=, etc. =That’s Starch! the Diuell’s Idoll of that colour.= For the general subject of yellow starch see note 1. 1. 112, 3. Compare also Stubbes, _Anat. of Abuses_, p. 52: ‘The deuil, as he in the fulness of his malice, first inuented these great ruffes, so hath hee now found out also two great stayes to beare vp and maintaine this his kingdome of great ruffes.... The one arch or piller whereby his kingdome of great ruffes is vnderpropped, is a certaine kinde of liquide matter which they call _starch_, wherein the devil hath willed them to wash and diue his ruffes wel.’

‘Starch hound’ and ‘Tobacco spawling (spitting)’ are the names of two devils in Dekker’s _If this be not a good Play_, _Wks._ 3. 270. Jonson speaks of ‘that idol starch’ again in the _Alchemist_, _Wks._ 4. 92.

=5. 8. 78 He is the Master of Players.= An evident allusion to the Puritan attacks on the stage. This was the period of the renewed literary contest. George Wither had lately published his _Abuses stript and whipt_, 1613. For the whole subject see Thompson, E. N. S., _The Controversy between the Puritans and the Stage_, New York, 1903.

=5. 8. 81 Figgum.= ‘In some of our old dictionaries, _fid_ is explained to caulk with oakum: figgum, or fig’em, may therefore be a vulgar derivative from this term, and signify the lighted flax or tow with which jugglers stuff their mouths when they prepare to amuse the rustics by breathing out smoke and flames:

--a nut-shell With tow, and touch-wood in it, to spite fire (5. 3. 4. 5).’ --G.

=5. 8. 86, 7 to such a foole, He makes himselfe.= For the omission of the relative adverb cf. 1. 3. 34, 35.

=5. 8. 89 To come to dinner, in mee the sinner.= The conception of this couplet and the lines which Fitzdottrel speaks below was later elaborated in Cocklorrel’s song in the _Gipsies Metamorphosed_. Pluto in Dekker’s _If this be not a good Play_, _Wks._ 3. 268, says that every devil should have ‘a brace of whores to his breakfast.’ Such ideas seem to be descended from the mediæval allegories of men like Raoul de Houdanc, Ruteboeuf, etc.

=5. 8. 91, 2 Are you phrenticke, Sir, Or what graue dotage moues you.= ‘Dotage, fatuity, or folly, is a common name to all the following species, as some will have it.... _Phrenitis_, which the Greeks derive from the word φρήν, is a disease of the mind, with a continual madness or dotage, which hath an acute fever annexed, or else an inflammation of the brain, or the membranes or kells of it, with an acute fever, which causeth madness and dotage.’--Burton, _Anat. of Mel._, ed. Shilleto, 1. 159-60.

=5. 8. 112 f. Οὶ μοὶ κακοδαίμων=, etc. See variants. ‘This Greek is from the Plutus of Aristophanes, Act 4, Sc. 3.’--W.

Accordingly to Blaydes’s edition, 1886, 11. 850-2. He reads Οἴμοι κακοδαίμων, etc. (Ah! me miserable, and thrice miserable, and four times, and five times, and twelve times, and ten thousand times.)

=5. 8. 116 Quebrémos=, etc. Let’s break his eye in jest.

=5. 8. 118 Di grátia=, etc. If you please, sir, if you have money, give me some of it.

=5. 8. 119 f. Ouy, Ouy Monsieur=, etc. Yes, yes, sir, a poor devil! a poor little devil!

=5. 8. 121 by his seuerall languages.= Cf. Marston, _Malcontent_, _Wks._ 1. 212: ‘_Mal._ Phew! the devil: let him possess thee; he’ll teach thee to speak all languages most readily and strangely.’

=5. 8. 132 Such an infernall stincke=, etc. Dr. Henry More says that the devil’s ‘leaving an ill smell behind him seems to imply the reality of the business’, and that it is due to ‘those adscititious

## particles he held together in his visible vehicle being loosened at

his vanishing’ (see Lowell, _Lit. Essays_ 2. 347).

=5. 8. 133 St. Pulchars Steeple.= St. Sepulchre in the Bailey (occasionally written St. ’Pulcher’s) is a church at the western end of Newgate Street and in the ward of Farringdon Without. A church existed here in the twelfth century. The church which Jonson knew was built in the middle of the fifteenth century. The body of the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.

It was the custom formerly for the clerk or bellman of St. Sepulchre’s to go under Newgate on the night preceding the execution of a criminal, and, ringing his bell, to repeat certain verses, calling the prisoner to repentance. Another curious custom observed at this church was that of presenting a nosegay to every criminal on his way to Tyburn (see Wh-C.). The executed criminals were buried in the churchyard (d. Middleton, _Black Book_, _Wks._ 8. 25).

Cunningham says that ‘the word _steeple_ was not used in the restricted sense to which we now confine it. The _tower_ of St. Sepulchre’s in Jonson’s time, must have been very much like what we now see it as most carefully and tastefully restored.’

=5. 8. 134 as farre as Ware.= This is a distance of about 22 miles. Ware is an ancient market-town of Herts, situated in a valley on the north side of the river Lea. The ‘great bed of Ware’ is mentioned in _Twelfth Night_ 3. 2. 51, and the town is characterized as ‘durty Ware’ in Dekker’s _North-ward Hoe_, _Wks._ 3. 53.

=5. 8. 142, 3 I will tell truth=, etc. Jonson uses this proverb again in _Tale Tub_, _Wks._ 6. 150: ‘tell troth and shame the devil.’

GLOSSARY

This glossary is designed to include obsolete, archaic, dialectal, and rare words; current words used in obsolete, archaic, or exceptional senses; and, so far as practicable, obsolete and archaic phrases. Current words in current uses have occasionally been included to avoid confusion, as well as technical words unfamiliar to the ordinary reader. Favorite words have been treated, for the sake of illustration, with especial fullness.

For most words treated in its volumes published up to March, 1905, Murray’s _New English Dictionary_ is the chief authority. For words not reached by that work the _Century Dictionary_ has been preferred. The _Stanford Dictionary_ has been found especially useful for anglicized words. It has often been necessary to resort to contemporary foreign dictionaries in the case of words of Romance origin.

It has been thought best to refer to all or nearly all important passages. Etymologies are given only in cases of especial interest.

A dagger [ † ] before a word or definition indicates that the word or the particular meaning is obsolete; parallel lines [ || ] before a word, that it has never become naturalized in English; an interrogation point [ ? ], that the case is doubtful.

=A=, _prep._ [Worn down from OE. preposition _an_, _on_.] With _be_: engaged in. _Arch._ or _dial._ 5. 1. 4.

†=A’=, _prep._ Worn down from _of_. 5. 2. 38.

=Aboue=, _adv._ Surpassing in degree; exceedingly. 3. 6. 33.

=Abuse=, _v._ †To impose upon, deceive. 5. 8. 140; 4. 2. 41; 4. 7. 80.

=Academy=, _n._? A school of deportment. 2. 8. 20; 3. 5. 33.

=Access=, _n._ †Approach; advance. 2. 6. 68.

=Accompt=, _n._ [Form of _account_.] A report. 2. 7. 28.

=Accomptant=, †_a._ [Form of _accountant_.] Liable to give an account; accountable. 5. 2. 11.

=Account=, _n._ †Reckoning, consideration. Phr. _make account_: To reckon, consider. 4. 1. 10.

=Acknowledge=, _v._ To recognize a service as (from a person). 4. 3. 19.

=Admire=, _v. †intr._ To feel or express surprise; to wonder. 1. 1. 77.

=Aduise=, _v._ To warn, dissuade †(from a course). 5. 4. 43.

=Aërie=, _a._ [Form of _airy_.] Lively, vivacious. 4. 4. 157. aëry. 3. 5. 13.

=Affection=, _n._ †Mental tendency; disposition. 4. 4. 126.

=Afore=, _prep._ In the presence of. _Arch._ or _dial._ 4. 4. 167; 5. 5. 7.

=Aforehand=, _adv._ _Arch._ In advance. 1. 3. 41.

=After-game=, _n._ ‘_Prop._, a second game played in order to reverse or improve the issues of the first; hence, “The scheme which may be laid or the expedients which are practised after the original game has miscarried; methods taken after the first turn of affairs” (Johnson).’ _NED._ 4. 7. 84.

|| =Alcorça=, _n._ Sp. ‘A conserue.’ Minsheu.

=Alcorea=, _n._ pr. for _Alcorça_, _q. v._ 4. 4. 144.

||=Allum Scagliola=, _n._ It.? Rock alum. 4. 4. 30.

†=Almaine-leape=, _n._ A dancing-leap. 1. 1. 97.

=Almanack-Man=, _n._ †A fortune-teller, foreteller. 1. 7. 25.

||=Almoiauana=, _n._ Sp. ‘A kinde of cheese-cake.’ Minsheu. 4. 4. 143.

=Almond milke=, _n._ ‘CHAMBERS _Cycl. Supp._, _Almond-milk_ is a preparation made of sweet blanched almonds and water, of some use in medicine, as an emollient.’ _NED._ 1. 6. 222.

||=Aluagada=, _n. pr._ same as _Alvayálde_, _q. v._ 4. 4. 27.

||=Aluayalde= or =Albayalde=, _n._ Sp. ‘A white colour to paint womens faces called ceruse.’ Minsheu.

=Ancient=, _a._? Belonging to an old family. 1. 2. 17.

=And=, _conj._ †If. 3. 5. 39. and’. 1. 3. 23. an’. 1. 2. 31.

=Angel=, _n._ ‘An old English gold coin, called more fully at first the ANGEL-NOBLE, being originally a new issue of the Noble, having as its device the archangel Michael standing upon, and piercing the dragon.’ _NED._ Pr. about 10 s. 2. 1. 138.

=Anone=, _adv._ Now again. P. 10.

†=Ap-perill=, _n._ Risk. 5. 4. 34.

||=Aqua nanfa=, _n._ Sp. [Corruption of _acqua nanfa_.] ‘Sweet water smelling of muske and Orenge-leaves.’ Florio. 4. 4. 146.

||=Aqua-vitæ=, _n._ Any form of ardent spirits. 2. 1. 5.

=Arbitrary=, _a._ _Law._ Discretionary; not fixed. 3. 3. 75.

||=Arcana=, _n._ [_Pl._ of L. _a. arcanum_, used _subst._] Secrets, mysteries. 4. 4. 151.

||=Argentata=, _n._ It. ‘A painting for women’s faces.’ Florio. 4. 4. 28.

=Argument=, _n._ Subject-matter of discussion or discourse; theme, subject. _Obs._ or _arch._ 1. 6. 10.

=Arras=, _n._ [Arras, name of a town in Artois, famed for its manufacture of the fabric.] A hanging screen of a rich tapestry fabric formerly placed around the walls of household apartments. 1. 2. 46.

=Art=, _n._ 1. A contrivance. 1. 7. 24. †2. Magic art. 1. 5. 21.

=Artist=, _n._ †A professor of magic arts; an astrologer. 1. 2. 22.

=As=, _conj._ †With finite verb: That. 1. 4. 30; 1. 6. 61; 3. 2. 23.

=As=, _adv._ Phr. _as that_: Even as (in parallel clause, introducing a known circumstance with which a hypothesis is contrasted). 5. 1. 20.

=Assure=, _v._ †To secure. 3. 5. 68.

=At=, _prep._ Upon. 1. 6. 114.

=Atchieue=, _v._ [Form of _achieve_.] †To gain, win (a material acquisition). 3. 5. 67.

=Attemp=, _n._ [Form of _attempt_.] Endeavor to win over. 2. 2. 30.

=Attempt=, _v._ To try to win over, or seduce. _Arch._ 4. 5. 7.

=Audit=, _n._ A statement of account. _Fig._, _arch._ 3. 3. 229.

=Aye=, _adv._ At all times, on all occasions. (Now only _Sc._ and north _dial._) 1. 6. 220.

=Ayre=, _n._ [Form of _air_.] Manner; sort. 2. 7. 21.

=Baffle=, _v._ †To treat with contempt. 4. 7. 73 SN.

=Bag=, _n._ The sac (of the bee) containing honey. 2. 6. 112.

=Bailie=, _n._ [Form of _bailiff_.] An officer of justice under a sheriff; a warrant officer. 3. 3. 38.

=Bane=, _n._ 1. Poison. 2. 7. 18. †2. As _exclam._ ‘Plague.’ 5. 6. 66.

=Banke=, _n._ †An artificial earthwork, an embankment. 2. 1. 56.

=Bare=, _a._ Bare-headed. _Arch._ 2. 3. 37.

=Bate=, _v._ †1. To deprive (_of_). 4. 1. 56. †2. To make a reduction (_of_); to deduct. 2. 1. 83; 2. 1. 104.

=Baudy=, 2. 8. 73. See _Bawdy_.

=Bawd-ledger=, _n._ Resident minister to the bawds (a mock title coined by Jonson). 5. 6. 64.

=Bawdry=, _n._ _Arch._ Lewd talk; obscenity. 4. 1. 176.

=Bawdy=, _a._ 1. Lewd. 2. 1. 167. 2. _absol. quasi-sb._ Lewd language, obscenity. 4. 4. 165. baudy. 2. 8. 73.

=Be=, _v. pl._ Are. _Obs._ or _dial._ 2. 8. 63.

=Bed-fellow=, _n._ †Intimate companion. 2. 8. 9.

=Behaue=, _v. †trans._ To manage. 2. 8. 71.

=Benefit=, _n._ Advantage. †Phr. _make benefit of_: To take advantage of. ?_Obs._ 2. 2. 98.

=Beniamin=, _n._ Gum benzoin, an aromatic resin obtained from the _Styrax benzoin_, a tree of Sumatra, Java, and the neighboring islands, used in medicine, perfumery, and chemistry.

||=Beniamin di gotta=, _n._ ?Gum benzoin in drops. See _Beniamin_. 4. 4. 33.

=Bespeake=, _v. trans._ w. _refl._ To engage. 1. 6. 214.

=Bestow=, _v._ To deposit. _Arch._ 3. 2. 9.

=Black-water=, _n._ 3. 3. 179. See_-water_.

=Blanck manger=, _n._ [Form of _blancmange_.] †‘A dish composed usually of fowl, but also of other meat, minced with cream, rice, almonds, sugar, eggs, etc.’ _NED._ 1. 6. 240.

=Blank=, _n._ ‘A small French coin, originally of silver, but afterwards of copper; also a silver coin of Henry V. current in the parts of France then held by the English. According to Littré, the French _blanc_ was worth 5 deniers. The application of the name in the 17th Cen. is uncertain.’ _NED._ 3. 3. 33.

=Blesse=, _v._ †To protect, save (from). 4. 4. 187.

=Blocke=, _n._ A mould. _Spec._ _Brokers blocke_: A mould for clothes in a pawnbroker’s shop. 2. 7. 15.

=Blocke-head=, _n._ †A wooden block for hats or wigs; hence, a blockish or stupid head. 3. 5. 65.

=Board=, _n._ Phr. _tall board_: ?A gaming table. 4. 5. 32. See note.

=Booke=, _n._ †A charter or deed; a written grant of privileges. 3. 3. 67; 3. 3. 79.

||=Borachio=, _n._ _Obs._ ‘A large leather bottle or bag used in Spain for wine or other liquors.’ _NED._ 2. 1. 71.

=Bound=, _ppl. a._ Under obligations of gratitude. 4. 1. 11.

=Bouzy=, _a._ [Form of _bousy_.] Sotted. 5. 6. 25.

=Brach=, _n._ _Arch._ A bitch-hound. 4. 4. 229.

=Braue=, _a._ 1. Finely-dressed. _Arch._ 1. 4. 16; 2. 5. 11. 2. A general epithet of admiration or praise. _Arch._ 1. 2. 52; 2. 6. 75; 3. 4. 12; 4. 6. 29.

†_interj._ 3. Capital! 1. 1. 67.

=Brauery=, _n._ †A fine thing; a matter to boast or be proud of. 3. 6. 47.

=Breake=, _v._ †To speak confidentially (_with_ a person _of_ a thing). 3. 4. 62.

=Bring=, _v._ Phr. _bring up_: ?Augment, increase. 1. 4. 96.

=Bristo-stone=, _n._ ‘A kind of transparent rock-crystal found in the Clifton limestone near Bristol, resembling the diamond in brilliancy.’ _NED._ 3. 3. 173.

=Broker=, _n._ 1. A pawnbroker. 1. 1. 143; 1. 4. 19. 2. With added function of agent or intermediary. 1. 4. 4.

=Brooke=, _v._ †To endure; not to discredit; to be sufficiently appropriate for. 2. 8. 63.

=Buckram=, _a._ A kind of coarse linen or cloth stiffened with gum or paste. 2. 1. 63.

=Bullion=, _n._ †More fully, _bullion-hose_: Trunk-hose, puffed out at the upper part, in several folds. 3. 3. 217.

=Bush=, _n._ A branch of ivy used as vintner’s sign; hence, the sign-board of a tavern. 3. 3. 170.

=Businesse=, _n._ †1. Affectedly used for an ‘affair of honor,’ a duel. 3. 3. 106. †2. A misunderstanding, quarrel. 4. 1. 18.

=Busse=, _v._ _Arch._ and _dial._ To kiss. 3. 6. 1.

=Buzz=, _v._ Phr. _buzz at_: 1. To hum about, as an insect. †2. To whisper to; incite by suggestions. Used quibblingly in both senses. 2. 7. 4.

†=By cause=, phr. used as _conj._ Because. 5. 4. 24.

=Cabbin=, _n._ †A small room, a boudoir. 1. 6. 238.

=Cabinet=, _n._ A small chamber or room; a boudoir. _Arch._ or _obs._ 4. 4. 152.

=Campheere=, _n._ [Form of _camphor_.] 4. 4. 22.

=Can=, _v. †tr._ To have at one’s command; to be able to supply, devise or suggest (a pregnant use). 3. 6. 39.

=Caract=, _n._ [Form of _carat_. Confused with _caract_ = Character.] †Value, estimate. Phr. _at all caracts_: ‘To the minutest circumstance.’ Gifford. 1. 6. 88.

†=Caravance=, _n._ ‘Name of sundry kinds of peas and small beans.’ _Stanford_.

†=Carrauicins=, _n._ perh.=_caravance_, _q. v._ 4. 4. 45.

=Care=, _v._ To take care. Now only _dial_. 1. 1. 29.

=Carefull=, _a._ Anxious, solicitous. _Arch._ 1. 6. 10.

†=Caroch=, _n._ A coach or chariot of a stately or luxurious kind. 1. 6. 214. Carroch. 4. 2. 11.

=Carry=, _v._ 1. _tr._ To conduct, manage. _Arch._ 3. 5. 53.

?†2. _intr._ To be arranged. 3. 3. 126.

=Case=, _n._ 1. The body (as enclosing the soul, etc.). 5. 6. 39.

2. Condition, supposition. Phr. _in case to_: In a condition or position to; prepared, ready. _Arch._ 4. 7. 85. _Put case_: Suppose. ?_Arch._ 4. 4. 228.

=Cast=, _v._ †1. To estimate. 2. 1. 81. †2. To devise. 2. 8. 42.

=Castle-soape=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _Castile soap_. 5. 3. 3.

||=Cataputia=, _n._ [In Med. L. and It.] ‘The hearbe spurge.’ Florio. 4. 4. 55.

†=Cater=, _n._ ‘A buyer of provisions or “cates”; in large households the officer who made the necessary purchases of provisions.’ _NED._ 1. 3. 13.

=Catholike=, _a._ †Universally efficient. 1. 4. 35.

†=Cause=, _conj._ _Obs._ exc. _dial._ [An elliptic use of the noun for _because_.] Because. 2. 8. 28; 4. 6. 34. Phr. _by cause_. See _By cause_.

†=Cautelous=, _a._ Crafty. 1. 6. 142.

=Caution=, _n._ 1. Security; guarantee. 3. 4. 30; 58. 2. A word of warning. 4. 5. 28.

=Ceruse=, _n._ [White lead.] A paint or cosmetic for the skin; used vaguely. 4. 4. 53.

=Challengee=, _n._ _Rare_ (perh. coined by Jonson). One who is challenged. 3. 3. 141.

=Character=, _n._ A cabalistic or magical sign. 1. 2. 9.

=Charge=, _n._ Expenses; outlay. _Arch._ 2. 1. 49; 1. 6. 172.

=Chartell=, _n._ [Form of _cartel_.] A written challenge. 3. 3. 140.

=Chaw=, _v._ A common by-form of _chew_ in the 16-17th c. 4. 2. 53.

=Cheat=, _n._ †Any product of conquest or robbery; booty, spoil. 1. 7. 4.

=Cheat=, _v._ Phr. _cheat on_: To cheat. 5. 6. 54.

=Cheater=, _n._ †A dishonest gamester; a sharper. 5. 6. 64.

=Check=, _n._ †Reproof, censure. 3. 6. 44.

=Cheese-trencher=, _n._ A wooden plate for holding or cutting cheese. P. 8.

=Christall=, _n._ [Form of _crystal_.] A piece of rock-crystal or similar mineral used in magic art. 1. 2. 6.

†=Cioppino=, _n._ [Italianated form of _chopine_.] A kind of shoe raised above the ground by means of a cork sole or the like; worn about 1600 in Spain and Italy, esp. at Venice, where they were monstrously exaggerated. 3. 4. 13 (see note); 4. 4. 69.

=Cipher=, _n._ A means of conveying secret intelligence: used vaguely. 2. 1. 167·

=Circle=, _n._ 1. An embrace. 1. 4. 94. 2. Sphere (of influence, etc.). 1. 6. 96. 3. A circular figure (of magic). 1. 2. 26.

=Cloake-charge=, _n._ The expense of a cloak (coined by Jonson). 2. 2. 42.

=Cockscomb=, _n._ †A simpleton. 5. 8. 40.

=Cock-stone=, _n._ †A name of the kidney-bean. 1. 1. 53.

=Cog=, _v._ To cheat, esp. at dice or cards. 1. 1. 48.

†=Cokes=, _n._ A simpleton, one easily ‘taken in.’ 2. 2. 104.

=Collect=, _v._ To infer, deduce. _Rare_. 1. 6. 234.

=Come=, _v._ Phr. _come off_: (in imperative as a call of encouragement to action) Come! come along! 3. 5. 27.

=Comming=, _ppl._ _a._ Inclined to make or meet advances. 4. 4. 180.

=Commoner=, _n._ †A member of the general body of a town-council. 2. 1. 42.

=Complement=, _n._ †1. Anything which goes to make up or fully equip. 3. 4. 33. †2. Polite or ceremonious greetings. 3. 5. 15.

=Complexion=, _n._ †1. The combination of the four ‘humors’ of the body in a certain proportion; ‘temperament.’ 2. 2. 122. †2. Bodily habit or constitution. 5. 1. 18. ?3. Appearance of the skin. 1. 4. 63 (or perh. as 2). †4. A coloring preparation, cosmetic. 4. 4. 12. 5. Appearance, aspect (_fig._). 2. 6. 50.

=Comport=, _v._ Phr. _comport with_: †To act in accordance with. 2. 8. 17.

||=Compos mentis=, _a. phr._ [L. f. _com-potis_.] Of sound mind. 5. 3. 12.

=Compter=, _n._ Old spelling of _Counter_. The name of certain city prisons for debtors; esp. the two London Compters. 3. 1. 20 (see note).

=Conceit=, _n._ †1. Idea, device. 2. 8. 23. conceipt. †2. Personal opinion. 4. 4. 200. 3. Phr. _Out of conceipt_: Out of patience, dissatisfied. 2. 8. 18.

Concerne, _v. †intr._ To be of importance. 3. 3. 113.

Concurrence, _n._ A juncture: a condition: used vaguely. 2. 6. 54.

Conduit-head, _n._ †A structure from which water is distributed or made to issue: a reservoir. 5. 1. 27.

Confine, _v._ Imprison. Const. †_to_. 5. 6. 34.

=Confute=, _v._ To put to silence (by physical means). 5. 6. 18.

=Content=, _a._ †Willing. 1. 1. 133.

=Conuenient=, _a._ †1. Due, proper. 1. 4. 79. †2. Suitable. 4. 4. 230.

=Conuey=, _v._ To carry from one place to another (†used of small objects and with connotation of secrecy). 2. 1. 164.

=Coozen=, _v._ [Form of _cozen_.] To cheat. 3. 1. 22. cossen. 5. 2. 29.

=Coozener=, _n._ [Form of _cozener_.] Impostor. 5. 8. 148.

||=Coquetta=, _n._ Sp. A small loaf. 4. 4. 143.

=Corn-ground=, _n._ _Arch._ A piece of land used for growing corn; corn-land. 3. 1. 17.

=Cornish=, _a._ Phr. _C. counterfeit_: referring to the ‘Cornish stone’ or ‘diamond.’ a variety of quartz found in Cornwall. 3. 3. 173.

=Cossen=, _v._ 5. 2. 29. See _Coozen_.

=Councell=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _council_. 3. 1. 34; 5. 2. 20.

=Court=, _v._ Phr. _court it_: To play or act the courtier. 3. 4. 56.

=Court-ship=, _n._ †An act of courtesy (used in _pl._) 1. 6. 201.

=Coyle=, _n._ [Form of _coil_.] ?An embarrassing situation; a ‘mess.’ 5. 5. 54.

=Crack=, _v. intr._ To break the musical quality of the voice (used _fig._) 5. 5. 59.

=Cracke=, _n._ †A lively lad; a ‘rogue’ (playfully), a wag. 2. 8. 58.

†=Crambe=, _n._ [Form of _crambo_.] ‘A game in which one player gives a word or line of verse to which each of the others has to find a rime.’ _NED._ 5. 8. 110.

=Creak=, _v._ To exhibit the characteristics of; to betray (a _fig._ use of the _lit._ meaning). 2. 2. 87.

=Credit=, _n._ †1. Authority. 1. 4. 29. †2. Repute. 5. 6. 49.

=Crisped=, _ppl. a._ Closely curled; as applied to trees of uncertain significance. 2. 6. 78 (see note).

=Cunning=, _a._ †Learned; versed in. 2. 4. 12.

=Custard=, _n._ †‘Formerly, a kind of open pie containing pieces of meat or fruit covered with a preparation of broth or milk, thickened with eggs, sweetened, and seasoned with spices, etc.’ _NED._ 1. 1. 97.

=Cutpurse=, _n._ One who steals by cutting purses; hence, a thief. 1. 1. 140.

=Cut-work=, _n._ †1. ‘A kind of openwork embroidery or lace worn in the latter part of the 16th and in the 17th c.’ _NED._ 2. 1. 163; 3. 3. 23. †2. _attrib._ 1. 1. 128. cut-worke.

=Danger=, _n._ †Mischief, harm. 2. 6. 30.

†=Daw=, _v._ _Rare._ To frighten, torment. 4. 4. 208.

=Dearling=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _darling_. 5. 6. 74.

=Decimo sexto.= ?_Obs._ ‘A term denoting the size of a book, or of the page of a book, in which each leaf is one-sixteenth of a full sheet; properly SEXTO-DECIMO (usually abbreviated 16mo.).’ _NED._ Also applied _fig._ to a diminutive person or thing: hence, ?An exquisite or perfect condition. 4. 4. 50.

=Deed of Feoffment=, _phr._ 4. 6. 44. See _Feoffment_.

=Defeate=, _n._ †Undoing, ruin. Phr. _do defeate upon_: To do injury to; to bring about the ruin of. 2. 6. 21.

=Defend=, _v._ †To prohibit, forbid. _Obs._ exc. _dial._ 1. 4. 97.

=Degree=, _n._ 1. A high degree or quality. 2. 1. 89. 2. Any degree. 4. 3. 26.

=Delicate=, _a._ †1. Charming †2. Voluptuous. 2. 2. 103; 2. 2. 126. Both meanings seem to be present.

=Delude=, _v._ †To frustrate the aim or purpose of. 1. 6. 54.

†=Deneer=, _n._ [Form of _Denier_, _obs._ or _arch._] A French coin, the twelfth of a sou; originally of silver, but from the 16th c. of copper. Hence (esp. in negative phrases) used as the type of a very small sum. 3. 3. 188.

=Deny=, _v._ ?Prove false to. 1. 4. 91.

=Depart=, _v._ †Phr. _depart with_: To part with; give up. 1. 4. 58; 1. 4. 83.

=Dependance=, _n._ †A quarrel or affair ‘depending,’ or awaiting settlement. 3. 3. 130.

=Devil=, _n._ Jonson uses the following forms: Deuill. 5. 5. 49, etc.; Diuel. 5. 5. 20; Diuell. Titlepage, etc.

=Diligence=, _n. †pl._ Labors, exertions. 2. 2. 106.

=Discourse=, _n._ †Conversational power. 4. 4. 225.

=Discourse=, _v._ To discuss. _Arch._ 4. 2. 40.

=Dishonesty=, _n._ †Unchastity. 4. 4. 158.

†=Displeasant=, _a._ Displeasing; disagreeable. Epilogue 6.

=Distast=, _n._ †Quarrel. 3. 3. 77.

=Diuident=, _n._ [Erron. spelling of _dividend_.] †The share (of anything divided among a number of persons) that falls to each to receive. 2. 1. 123; 3. 3. 201.

=Dotage=, _n._ Infatuation. 5. 8. 92 (see note).

=Dottrel=, _n._ 1. A species of plover (Eudromias morinellus). 2. A silly person; one easily ‘taken in.’ 2. 8. 59. See note 2. 2. 49-50.

=Doublet=, _n._ A close-fitting body-garment, with or without sleeves, worn by men from the 14th to the 18th centuries. _Obs._ exc. _Hist._ 1. 1. 52. Phr. _hose and doublet_: as the typical male attire. 1. 6. 151.

=Doubt=, _n._ †Apprehension; fear. 5. 1. 8.

=Doubt=, _v._ †To suspect; have suspicions about. 2. 6. 47.

=Dough-bak’d=, _ppl. a._ Now _dial._ Imperfectly baked, so as to remain doughy. 4. 4. 20.

=Doxey=, _n._ ‘Originally the term in Vagabonds’ Cant for the unmarried mistress of a beggar or rogue: hence. _slang_, a mistress, prostitute.’ _NED._ 2. 8. 38.

=Draw=, _v._ †1. To pass through a strainer; to bring to proper consistence. 1. 6. 222. 2. To frame, draw up (a document). 3. 3. 67. †3. _intr._ To withdraw. 2. 1. 127. 4. Phr. _draw to_: To come upon; to catch up with. 2. 6. 24.

=Dwindle=, _v._ †‘To shrink (with fear.) _Obs._, _rare_. (Prob. a misuse owing to two senses of shrink.)’ _NED._ 4. 4. 63.

=Effectuall=, _a._ ?Earnest. 2. 2. 107.

†=E-la=, _n._ _Mus._ _Obs._ exc. _Hist._ [f. E+La; denoting the

## particular note E which occurred only in the seventh Hexachord, in

which it was sung to the syllable _la_.] ‘The highest note in the Gamut, or the highest note of the 7th Hexachord of Guido, answering to the upper E in the treble.’ _NED._ _Fig._ of something very ambitious. 5. 5. 59.

=Employ=, _v._ †Phr. _employ out_: To send out (a person) with a commission. 5. 5. 46.

=Engag’d=, _ppl. a._ 1. Morally bound. 4. 6. 9. †2. Involved, hampered. 1. 2. 41. †3. Made security for a payment; rendered liable for a debt. 3. 3. 90.

=Enlarge=, _v._ †Phr. _enlarge upon_, _refl. absol._: To expand (oneself) in words, give free vent to one’s thoughts. 2. 1. 128.

=Ensigne=, _n._ †Token; signal displayed. ?_Obs._ 1. 6. 210.

=Enter=, _v._ Phrases. †1. _Enter a bond_: To enter into a bond; to sign a bond. 1. 7. 17. †2. _Enter trust with_: To repose confidence in. 3. 4. 36.

=Entertaine=, _v._ †1. To give reception to; receive (a person). 1. 2. 44. †2. To take into one’s service; hire. 3. 5. 19.

=Enter-view=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _interview_. 2. 6. 23.

=Enuious=, _a._ †Hateful. 1. 6. 196.

=Enuy=, _n._ †Ill-will, enmity. 2. 6. 20.

=Enuy=, _v. trans._ †To begrudge (a thing). 1. 6. 13.

=Equiuock=, _n._ [_Obs._ form (or misspelling) of _equivoke_.] The use of words in a double meaning with intent to deceive:=Equivocation. _Rare._ 3. 3. 184.

=Erect=, _v._ †To set up, establish, found (an office). _Obs._ or _arch._ exc. in _Law_. 3. 3. 67.

||=Escudero=, _n._ Sp. An attendant; a lady’s page. 4. 4. 87.

=Euill=, _n._ The Vice, _q. v._ 5. 6. 76.

=Exchequer=, _n._ The office of the Exchequer; used hyperbol. for the source of wealth. 3. 3. 81.

=Extraordinary=, †_adv._ Extraordinarily. 1. 1. 116.

=Extreme=, †_adv._ Extremely. 1. 7. 27.

=Extremity=, _n._ ?An extreme instance. 1. 5. 15.

=Face=, _n._ Attitude (towards); reception (of). P. 21.

=Fact=, _n._ †1. The making, manufacture. 3. 4. 49. 2. Phr. _with one’s fact_: as an actual experience. 5. 6. 13.

=Faine=, _v._ _Obs._ form of _feign_. 5. 5. 28.

=Fauour=, _n._ †1. Leave, permission. Phr. _under_ (your) _fauour_: with all submission, subject to correction. _Obs._ or _arch._ 1. 3. 27. 2. ?Comeliness; ?face. 4. 6. 49.

=Feate=, _n._ A business transaction. 3. 3. 227.

=Fellow=, _n._ Phr. _good fellow_: Of a woman. A term of familiar address. 5. 1. 5.

=Feoffee=, _n._ The person to whom a freehold estate in land is conveyed by a feoffment. 3. 5. 60.

=Feoffment=, _n._ ‘The action of investing a person with a fief or fee. In technical language applied esp. to the particular mode of conveyance (originally the only one used, but now almost obsolete) in which a person is invested in a freehold estate in lands by livery of seisin (at common law generally, but not necessarily, evidenced by a deed, which, however, is not required by statute).’ _NED._ 4. 5. 15; 4. 7. 7.

Phr. _Deed of Feoffment_: ‘The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.’ _NED._ 4. 6. 44.

=Fetch=, _v._ 1. To earn; get (money). 2. 1. 72.

†2. To perform, take (a leap). 1. 1. 55. †3. Phr. _Fetch again_: To revive, restore to consciousness. 2. 1. 4.

†=Figgum=, _n._ ?Juggler’s tricks (not found elsewhere). 5. 8. 82.

=Finenesse=, _n._ †‘Overstrained and factitious scrupulousness.’ Gifford. 3. 3. 104.

=Firke=, _v._ †To frisk about; ?to hitch oneself (Cunningham). 5. 6. 15.

=Fixed=, _ppl. a._ Made rigid or immobile (by emotion). 1. 5. 2.

=Fizzling=, _vbl. sb._ †Breaking wind without noise. 5. 3. 2.

=Flower=, _n._ †_Anc._ _Chem._ (_pl._): ‘The pulverulent form of any substance, esp. as the result of condensation after sublimation.’ _NED._ 4. 4. 19.

=Fly=, _v._ Of a hawk: To pursue by flying: used _fig._ 4. 7. 53.

=Flye-blowne=, _a._ Tainted. With a quibble on the literal meaning. 2. 7. 7.

=Fool=, _v._ Phr. _fool off_: To delude, baffle. 2. 6. 25.

=Forbeare=, _v. trans._ †To keep away from or from interfering with; to leave alone. 1. 3. 22.

=Forked=, _a._ ‘Horned,’ cuckolded. 2. 2. 90.

=Foyle=, _n._ [Form of _foil_.] A thin leaf of some metal placed under a precious stone to increase its brilliancy. 3. 3. 180.

=French-masque=, _n._ pr. the ‘Loo,’ or ‘Loup,’ a half-mask of velvet, worn by females to protect the complexion. 2. 1. 162.

=French-time=, _n._ ?Formal and rhythmic measure (as characteristic of the French, in contrast to Italian, music). 3. 5. 30.

=Frolick=, _n._ †?Humorous verses circulated at a feast. 2. 8. 73.

||=Fucus=, _n._ †Paint or cosmetic for beautifying the skin; a wash or coloring for the face. 3. 4. 50; 4. 2. 63.

=Fustian=, _n._ †A kind of coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. 3. 3. 30.

=’Gainst=, _prep._ [Form of _against_.] In anticipation of. _Arch._ 1. 1. 19.

=’Gainst=, _conj._ In anticipation that; in case that. _Arch._ or _dial._ 1. 1. 73; 3. 2. 39.

=Gallant=, _n._ 1. A man of fashion and pleasure; a fine gentleman. _Arch._ 1. 7. 27; 4. 4. 167. †2. Of a woman: A fashionably attired beauty. 3. 4. 8.

=Gallant=, _a._ Loosely, as a general epithet of admiration or praise: Splendid. Cf. _Brave_. Now _rare_. 2. 1. 58.

=Gallery=, _n._ 1. A long narrow platform or balcony on the outside of a building. 2. 2. 54. 2. A room for pictures. 2. 5. 13.

=Galley-pot=, _n._ [Form of _gallipot_.] ‘A small earthen glazed pot, esp. one used by apothecaries for ointments and medicines.’ _NED._ 4. 4. 47.

=Garnish=, _n._ _slang_. ‘Money extorted from a new prisoner, either as drink money for the other prisoners, or as a jailer’s fee. _Obs._ exc. _Hist._’ _NED._ 5. 6. 1 (see note).

=Geere=, _n._ [Form of _gear_.] ?Discourse, talk; esp. in depreciatory sense, ‘stuff.’ Or possibly _obs._ form of _jeer_. 1. 6. 99 (see note).

=Gentleman=, _n._ ‘A man of gentle birth, or having the same heraldic status as those of gentle birth; properly, one who is entitled to bear arms, though not ranking among the nobility. Now chiefly _Hist._’ _NED._ 3. 1. 1.

=Gentleman huisher=, _n._ 3. 4. 43. Same as _Gentleman-vsher_, _q. v._

=Gentleman-vsher=, _n._ A gentleman acting as usher to a person of superior rank. 4. 4. 134. Gentleman huisher. 3. 4. 43. See note 4. 4. 134.

=Gentlewoman=, _n._ 1. A woman of gentle birth. 3. 3. 164. 2. A female attendant upon a lady of rank. Now chiefly _Hist._ 5. 1. 26.

=Gleeke=, _n._ ‘A game at cards, played by three persons: forty-four cards were used, twelve being dealt to each player, while the remaining eight formed a common “stock.”’ _NED._ Phr. _three peny Gleeke_. 5. 2. 31.

=Glidder=, _v._ _Obs._ exc. _dial._ To glaze over. 4. 4. 47.

=Globe=, _n._ The name of a play-house; hence, used as a generic term for a play-house. 3. 3. 26.

=Go=, _v._ Phrases. 1. _Goe on_: as an expression of encouragement, Come along! advance! 3. 5. 27. 2. _Goe with_: Agree with. 4. 4. 133.

=God b’w’you= [God be with you], _Phr._ Good-bye. 1. 6. 223.

=Godwit=, _n._ A marsh-bird of the genus Limosa. Formerly in great repute, when fattened, for the table. 3. 3. 25.

†=Gogs-nownes=, _n._ A corrupt form of ‘God’s wounds’ employed in oaths. 1. 1. 50.

=Gold-smith=, _n._ A worker in gold, who (down to the 18th c.) acted as banker. 2. 8. 84.

=Googe=, _v._ [Form of _gouge_.] To cut out. 2. 1. 94.

=Gossip=, _n._ A familiar acquaintance, chum (applied to women). Somewhat _arch._ 1. 6. 219; 2. 8. 69.

=Grandee=, _n._ A Spanish or Portuguese nobleman of the highest rank; hence, †A term of polite address. P. 3.

†=Grant-paroll= [Fr. _grande parole_], _n._ Full permission (?not found elsewhere). 5. 6. 19.

||=Grasso di serpe=, _n._ It. ?‘Snake’s †fat.’ _Stanford._ 4. 4. 34.

=Gratulate=, _v._ Now _arch._ and _poet._ †1. To rejoice. Phr. _gratulate with_: rejoice with, felicitate. 4. 1. 14. 2. _tr._ To rejoice at. 5. 1. 51.

=Groat=, _n._ A denomination of coin which was recognized from the 13th c. in various countries of Europe. The English groat was coined 1351(2)-1662, and was originally equal to four pence. †The type of a very small sum (cf. _Deneer_). 5. 4. 6.

=Groome=, _n._ 1. A serving man. _Obs._ or _arch._ 2. 2. 65. †2. With added connotation of contempt. 2. 2. 87.

||=Guarda-duenna=, _n._ Sp. A lady’s attendant. 4. 4. 83.

||=Guardo-duenna=, _n._ 4. 4. 77. See _Guarda-duenna_.

=Gueld=, _v._ [Form of _Geld_.] †_transf._ and _fig._ To mutilate: impair. 1. 1. 65.

=Guilt=, _ppl. a._ [Form of _gilt_.] Gilded. 1. 6. 214.

=Hand-gout=, _n._ Gout in the hand; used _fig._ of an unwillingness to grant favors without a recompense; hard-fistedness. 3. 3. 79.

=Hand-kercher=, _n._ Form of _handkerchief_. _Obs._ exc. _dial._ and vulgar. Common in literary use in 16-17th c. 4. 4. 89.

=Handsomenesse=, _n._ †Decency. 4. 3. 26.

=Hang=, _v._ Phr. _hang out_: †To put to death by hanging. 5. 6. 8.

=Hap’=, _v._ Shortened form of _happen_. Phr. _may hap’ see_: May chance to see (in process of transition to an adverb). 3. 2. 8.

†=Hard-wax=, _n._ ?Sealing-wax. 5. 1. 39.

=Harness=, _v._ †To dress, apparel. 2. 5. 6.

†=Harrington=, _n._ _Obs._ exc. _Hist._ ‘A brass farthing token, coined by John, Lord Harrington, under a patent granted him by James I. in 1613.’ _NED._ 2. 1. 83.

=Ha’s=, _v._ Has. (Prob. a recollection of earlier forms, _hafs_, _haves_. Mallory.) 5. 3. 9; 4. 6. 43.

=Heare=, _v._ Phr. _heare ill of_ (it): To be censured for. ?_Obs._ or ?_colloq._ 2. 7. 28.

=Heauy=, _a._ †Dull, stupid. 5. 6. 39.

=Hedge=, _v._ †Phr. _hedge in_: To secure (a debt) by including it in a larger one for which better security is obtained; to include a smaller debt in a larger. 2. 8. 104; 3. 2. 6.

=Height=, _n._ 1. A superior quality; a high degree. 2. 1. 70. 2. The highest point; the most important particular. 4. 4. 212. 3. Excellence; perfection of accomplishment. 2. 8. 59. 4. Phr. _at height_: In the highest degree; to one’s utmost satisfaction. 5. 3. 22.

=Here by=, _adv._ †Close by; in this neighborhood. 3. 4. 41.

=His=, _poss. pron. 3d sing. †neut._ Its. 2. 1. 103.

=Hold=, _v._ Phr. _hold in with_: To keep (one) on good terms with. ?_Obs._ 3. 3. 221.

=Honest=, _a._ Chaste, virtuous. _Arch._ 4. 4. 161.

=Honour=, _n._ †An obeisance; a bow or curtsy. 3. 5. 27.

=Hood=, _n._ ‘French hood, a form of hood worn by women in the 16th and 17th centuries, having the front band depressed over the forehead, and raised in folds or loops over the temples.’ _NED._ 1. 1. 99.

=Hooke=, _v._ 1. _intr._ To get all one can; to display a grasping nature. 3. 3. 156. 2. Phr. _hooke in_: To secure by hook or by crook. 3. 3. 150.

=Hope=, _v._ Phr. _hope †o’_: To have hope of; hope for. 1. 5. 1.

=Horne=, _n._ In _pl._, the supposed insignia of a cuckold. 5. 8. 34.

=Hose=, _n._ †Breeches. Phr. _hose and doublet_. 1. 6. 151.

†=Huisher=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _usher_. 2. 7. 33. See _Gentleman-vsher_.

=Hum=, _n._ †A kind of liquor; strong or double ale. 1. 1. 114; 5. 8. 72.

=Humour=, _v._ To take a fancy to. ?_Obs._ 1. 7. 13.

=I=, _Obs._ form of _ay_. 1. 2. 1: _passim_.

=I=, _prep._ In. 2. 4. 41.

||=Incubus=, _n._ ‘A feigned evil spirit or demon (originating in personified representations of the nightmare) supposed to descend upon persons in their sleep, and especially to seek carnal intercourse with women. In the middle ages, their existence was recognized by the ecclesiasical and civil law.’ _NED._ 2. 3. 26.

||=In decimo sexto=, _phr._ 4. 4. 50. See _Decimo sexto_.

||=Infanta=, _n._ 1. A daughter of the King and queen of Spain or Portugal; _spec._ the eldest daughter who is not heir to the throne.

2. †_transf._ Applied analogously or fancifully to other young ladies. 4. 2. 71.

=Ingag’d=, _ppl. a._ _Obs._ form of Engag’d. 4. 4. 168. See _Engag’d_ 1.

=Ingenious=, _a._ †Able; talented; clever. 2. 8. 75.

=Ingine=, _n._ †1. Skill in contriving, ingenuity. 2. 3. 46. †2. Plot; snare, wile. 2. 2. 87. With play on 3. 3. Mechanical contrivance, machine; †trap.

=Ingrate=, _a._ Ungrateful. _Arch._ 1. 6. 174.

=Iniquity=, _n._ The name of a comic character or buffoon in the old moralities; a name of the Vice, _q. v._ 1. 1. 43; 1. 1. 118.

=Inquire=, _v._ †To seek information concerning, investigate. 3. 1. 11.

=Innes of Court=, _sb. phr._ The four sets of buildings belonging to the four legal societies which have the exclusive right of admitting persons to practise at the bar, and hold a course of instruction and examination for that purpose. 3. 1. 8. (see note).

=Intend=, _v._ †To pay heed to; apprehend. 4. 4. 127.

=Intire=, _a._ _Obs._ form of _entire_. [Fr. _entier_ ‹ L. _integer_, untouched.] Untouched, uninjured. 2. 6. 32; 5. 6. 48.

=Intitle=, _v._ [Form of _entitle_.] To give (a person) a rightful claim (to a thing). 4. 6. 38.

=Intreat=, _v._ [Form of _entreat_.] †To prevail on by supplication; to persuade. 3. 6. 44.

=Iacke=, _n._ 1. The name of various mechanical contrivances. 1. 4. 50. †2. A term of familiarity; pet. 2. 2. 128.

=Iewes-trumpe=, _n._ Now _rare_. Jews’ harp (an earlier name, and formerly equally common in England). 1. 1. 92.

=Joynt-stoole=, _v._ A stool made of parts joined or fitted together; a stool made by a joiner as distinguished from one of more clumsy workmanship. _Obs._ exc. _Hist._ 1. 1. 92.

=Iump=, _v._ †1. _intr._ Act hurriedly or rashly. 4. 1. 5. †2. _trans._ To effect or do as with a jump; to dispatch. 4. 1. 6.

=Iust=, _a._ †1. Complete in character. 1. 5. 10. 2. Proper, correct. 2. 2. 122.

=Iuuentus=, _n._ 1. 1. 50. See _Lusty_.

†=Kell=, _n._ The web or cocoon of a spinning caterpillar. _Obs._ exc. _dial._ 2. 6. 79.

=Kinde=, _n._ (One’s) nature. Now _rare_. Phr. _man and kinde_: ?Human nature. 2. 1. 151.

=Know=, _v._ 1. To know how. ?_Obs._ 1. 2. 44. ?2. _pass. be known_: Disclose. 2. 1. 145.

=Knowledge=, _n._ †1. Cognizance, notice. Phr. _Take knowledge_ (with clause): To become aware. 4. 4. 61. 2. A matter of knowledge; a known fact (a licentious use). 1. 6. 82.

=Lade=, _v._ To load with obloquy or ridicule (as an ass with a burden; the consciousness of the metaphor being always present in the mind of the speaker). 1. 4. 72.

=Lading=, _vbl. sb._ A burden of obloquy or ridicule. 1. 6. 161. See _Lade_.

=Lady-President=, _n._ 4. 4. 9. See _President_.

=Larum=, _n._ †An apparatus attached to a clock or watch, to produce a ringing sound at any fixed hour. 4. 4. 165.

=Lasse=, _int._ Aphetic form of _Alas_. 5. 8. 46.

=Lay=, _v._ †To expound, set forth. 2. 8. 72.

=Leaguer=, _n._ A military camp. 3. 3. 33.

=Leaue=, _v._ To cease. Now only _arch._ 2. 2. 79; 4. 4. 125.

=Leg=, _n._ An obeisance made by drawing back one leg and bending the other; a bow, scrape. Esp. in phr. _to make a leg_. Now _arch._ or jocular. 4. 4. 97. legge. 2. 8. 22.

||=Lentisco=, _n._ Sp. and It. Prick-wood or Foule-rice, some call it Lentiske or Mastike-tree.’ Florio. (Pistacia lentiscus.) 4. 4. 35.

=Letter of Atturney=, _sb. phr._ A formal document empowering another person to perform certain acts on one’s behalf (now more usually ‘power of attorney’). 4. 5. 15.

=Lewd=, _a._ †Ignorant (implying a reproach). 5. 6. 37.

=Liberall=, _a._ Ample, large. Somewhat _rare_. 1. 6. 179.

=Lift=, _v._ To raise (as by a crane). Used _fig._ (a metaphor borrowed from Ingine’s name). 1. 4. 1.

=Like=, _v._ †To be pleasing, be liked or approved. P. 26.

=Limb=, _n._ 1. A leg (a part of the body). ?2. A leg (curtsy. See _Leg_). A quibble on the two meanings. 1. 6. 218.

=Limon=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _lemon_. 4. 4. 25.

=Liuery and seisen=, _sb. phr._ erron. for _Livery of seisin_ (AF. _livery de seisin_): ‘The delivery of property into the corporal possession of a person; in the case of a house, by giving him the ring, latch or key of the door; in case of land, by delivering him a twig, a piece of turf, or the like.’ _NED._ 4. 5. 16.

=Loose=, _v._ _Obs._ form of _lose_. 4. 7. 79.

=Lords-man=, _n._ A lord’s man; an attendant on a lord. ?_Obs._ 3. 3. 166.

=Lose=, _v._ †To be deprived of the opportunity (to do something). 3. 4. 26.

=Lusty=, _a._ Merry; healthy, vigorous. Phr. _lusty Iuuentus_: the title of a morality play produced c 1550; often used allusively in the 16-17th c. 1. 1. 50.

=Light=, _int._ A shortened form of the asseveration _by this light_, or _by God’s light_. 2. 6. 15.

=Mad-dame=, _n._ A whimsical spelling of _Madame_. †A courtesan, prostitute. 4. 3. 39.

=Make=, _v._ Phr. _make away_: To make away with; to kill. 2. 4. 9.

=Manage=, _v. intr._ ?To administer the affairs of a household. 4. 4. 193.

=Manager=, _n._ ?One capable of administering the affairs of a household. 4. 4. 138.

||=Mantecada= (for _Mantecado_), _n._ Sp. ‘A cake made of honey, meal, and oil; a wafer.’ Pineda, 1740. 4. 4. 143.

=Mary=, _int._ [‹ME. _Mary_, the name of the Virgin, invoked in oaths.] Form of _Marry_. Indeed! 1. 4. 28.

=Masque=, _n._ A masquerade. 2. 2. 110.

=Masticke=, _n._ ‘A resinous substance obtained from the common mastic-tree, _Pistacia Lentiseus_, a small tree about twelve feet high, native in the countries about the Mediterranean. In the East mastic is chewed by the women.’ _CD._ 4. 2. 54.

=Match=, _n._ †An agreement; a bargain. 1. 4. 67.

=Mathematicall=, _a._ ?Mathematically accurate; skillful to the point of precision. 1. 4. 4.

=Meath=, _n._ [Form of _Mead_.] A strong liquor. 1. 1. 115 (see note).

=Med’cine=, _v._ To treat or affect by a chemical process. 2. 1. 70.

=Mercat=, _n._ [Form of _market_.] 1. 1. 10.

=Mere=, _a._ †Absolute, unqualified. 2. 3. 12. meere. 1. 4. 54.

=Mermaide=, _n._ The name of a tavern; hence, used as a generic term for a tavern. 3. 3. 26.

=Mettall=, _n._ 1. Metal. 2. Mettle. A quibble on the two meanings. 2. 8. 105.

=Middling=, _a._ †One performing the function of a go-between. Phr. _middling Gossip_: A go-between. 1. 6. 219.

=Mill=, _n._ A lapidary wheel. 3. 3. 176.

†=Migniard=, _a._ Delicate, dainty, pretty. 1. 4. 96.

=Missiue=, _a._ Sent or proceeding, as from some authoritative or official source. 3. 3. 35.

=Moiety=, _n._ A half share. 2. 1. 46. moyety. 2. 1. 48.

=Monkey=, _n._ A term of endearment; pet. ?_Obs._ 2. 2. 127.

†=Moon-ling=, _n._ A simpleton, fool. 1. 6. 158.

=Motion=, _n._ †A puppet-show. 1. 6. 230.

=Much about=, _prep. phr._ Not far from; very near. ?_Obs._ 4. 4. 153.

=Mungril=, _a._ _Obs._ form of _mongrel_. 3. 1. 39.

=Mure=, _v._ Phr. _mure up_: To inclose in walls; immure. 2. 2. 91.

=Muscatell=, _a._ [Form of _muscadel_.] Of the muscadel rape. 2. 1. 102.

=Muscatell=, _n._ A sweet wine. 2. 1. 102; 2. 2. 95. See above.

=Muscouy glasse=, _n._ Muscovite; common or potash mica; the light colored mica of granite and similar rocks. P. 17.

||=Mustaccioli=, _n._ It. [For _Mostaciuolli_.] ‘A kind of sugar or ginger bread.’ Florio. 4. 4. 144.

=Muta=, _n._ [?L. _mutare_, to change.] ?A dye (?coined by Jonson). 4. 4. 56.

†=Neale=, _n._ To temper by heat; anneal. 2. 1. 88.

=Neare=, _adv._ In _fig._ sense, Nigh. Phr. _go neare_ (to). 5. 1. 7.

=Need=, _v. intr._ Be necessary. ?_Arch._ 2. 8. 106.

=Neither=, _adv._ Also not; no again. ?_Obs._ 4. 7. 68.

†=Niaise=, _n._ 1. A young hawk; an eyas. 2. A simpleton. pr. with quibble. 1. 6. 18.

=Note=, _n._ Mark, token, sign. ?_Arch._ 3. 3. 101.

=Noted=, _a._ Notable; worthy of attention. ?_Obs._ 5. 6. 7.

†=Nupson=, _n._ A fool; a simpleton. 2. 2. 77.

=O’=, _prep._ Shortened form of _of_. 1. Of. 1. 1. 108. etc. Phr. _hope o’_ 1. 5. 1. See _Hope_. †2. With. 1. 3. 21.

=O’=, _prep._ Shortened form of _on_. 1. On; upon. 4. 2. 61. †2. Into. 1. 4. 88.

||=Obarni=, _n._ _Obs._ [Russ. _obvarnyi_, scalded, prepared by scalding.] ‘In full, _mead obarni_, i. e. “scalded mead,” a drink used in Russia, and known in England c 1600.’ _NED._ 1. 1. 115.

=Obserue=, _v._ †To be attentive to; look out for. 1. 2. 45.

=Obtaine=, _v._ To obtain a request; with obj. cl. expressing what is granted. Now _rare_ or _obs._ 3. 3. 86.

=Occasion=, _n._ †A particular, esp. a personal need, want or requirement. Chiefly in _pl._=needs, requirements. 3. 3. 57; 3. 3. 85.

=Of=, _prep._ †From (after the _vb._ _Fetch_). 2. 1. 73. =Off=, _adv._ [Used with ellipsis of _go_, etc., so as itself to function as a verb.] Phr. _to off on_ (one’s bargain): To depart from the terms of; to break. 1. 5. 25.

=Offer=, _v._ †1. To make the proposal; suggest. 2. 8. 46. †2. _intr._ Phr. _offer at_: To make an attempt at; to attempt. 3. 6. 30.

||=Oglio reale=, _n._ It. ?Royal oil. 4. 4. 52.

=On=, _prep._ In senses now expressed by _of_. ‘In _on’t_ and the like, common in literary use to c 1750; now _dial._ or vulgar.’ _NED._ 2. 8. 55; 2. 8. 61; 3. 3. 7; 3. 3. 144. etc.

=On=, _pron._ _Obs._ form of _One_. 5. 2. 40.

=Order=, _n._ Disposition of measures for the accomplishment of a purpose. Phr. _take order_: To take measures, make arrangements. _Obs._ or _arch._ 1. 6. 209.

||=Ore-tenus=, _adv._ [Med. L.] _Law._ By word of mouth. 3. 3. 140.

=Paint=, _v. intr._ †To change color; to blush. 2. 6. 35.

=Pan=, _n._ 1. [Form of _pane_.] †A cloth; a skirt. 2. A hollow, or depression in the ground, esp. one in which water stands. With quibble on 1. 2. 1. 53.

=Paragon=, _n._ A perfect diamond; now applied to those weighing more than a hundred carats. (‘In quot. 1616 _fig._ of a person.’ _NED._ This statement is entirely incorrect.) 3. 3. 177.

=Parcel-=, _qualifying sb._ Partially, in part. _Obs._ since 17th c. until revived by Scott. 2. 3. 15.

=Part=, _n._ Share of action; allotted duty. In _pl._ ?_Obs._ 4. 4. 116.

||=Pastillo=, _n._ It. ‘Little pasties, chewets.’ Florio. 4. 4. 142.

=Pattent=, _n._ Letters patent; an open letter under the seal of the state or nation, granting some right or privilege; spec. such letters granting the exclusive right to use an invention. 2. 1. 41; 4. 2. 38.

=Peace=, _n._ Leave; permission. Phr. _with his peace_: With his good leave; respectfully. (A translation of L. _cum eius pace_ or _eius pace_; ?not found elsewhere.) 2. 2. 78.

||=Pecunia=, _n._ L. Money. 2. 1. 3.

||=Peladore=, _n._ Sp. A depilatory; preparation to remove hair. 4. 4. 145.

=Pentacle=, _n._ A mathematical figure used in magical ceremonies, and considered a defense against demons. 1. 2. 8 (see note).

†=Perse’line=, _n._ _Obs._ form of ?_parsley_, or of ?_purslane_. 4. 4. 24.

=Perspectiue=, _n._ †A reflecting glass or combination of glasses producing some kind of optical delusion when viewed in one way, but presenting objects in their true forms when viewed in another; used _fig._ 2. 6. 63.

=Phantasy=, _n._ Whimsical or deluded notion. ?_Obs._ 2. 3. 60.

=Phantsie=, _n._ [Form of _fancy_.] Imagination. 1. 4. 88.

†=Phrentick=, _n._ A frantic or frenzied person; one whose mind is disordered. 4. 6. 49.

=Phrenticke=, _a._ [Form of _frantic_.] Insane. Now rare. 5. 8. 91.

=Physicke=, _n._ †Natural philosophy; physics. 2. 2. 122.

†=Picardill=, _n._ [Form of _Piccadill_.] A large stiff collar in fashion about the beginning of the reign of James I. 2. 2. 123 (see note).

=Piece=, _n._ †1. A gold piece, pr. 22 shillings (Gifford). 1. 4. 5; 3. 3. 83.

2. Phr. _at all pieces_: At all points; in perfect form. 2. 7. 37.

=Piece=, _v._ To reunite, to rejoin (a broken friendship). ?_Arch._ 4. 1. 37.

=Pinnace=, _n._ 1. A small sailing vessel. †2. Applied _fig._ to a woman, usually to a prostitute (sometimes, but not often, with complete loss of the metaphor). 1. 6. 58.

||=Pipita= [?For _pepita_], _n._ Sp. or It. ‘A seed of a fruit, a pip, a kernel.’ _Stanford._ 4. 4. 45.

||=Piueti=, _n._ Sp. ‘A kinde of perfume.’ Minsheu. 4. 4. 150.

=Plaine=, _a._ Unqualified, downright. ?_Arch._ 4. 4. 158.

=Plume=, _v._ To strip off the plumage of; to pluck. ?_Arch._ 4. 4. 43.

||=Pol-dipedra= [?_Polvo di pietra_], n. It. ?Rock-alum. 4. 4. 30.

=Politique=, _a._ [Form of _politic_.] Crafty, artful. 2. 2. 76.

||=Porcelletto marino=, _n._ It.?‘The fine Cockle or Muscle shels which painters put their colours in.’ Florio. 4. 4. 34.

=Possesse=, _v._ †To acquaint. Phr. _possesse with_: To inform of. 5. 5. 44.

=Posterne=, _n._ ?A back door or gate. Phr. _at one’s posternes_: Behind one. 5. 6. 15.

†=Posture booke=, _n._ ?A book treating of military tactics, describing the ‘postures’ of the musket, etc. 3. 2. 38 (see note).

||=Potentia=, _n._ L. ‘Power;’ potentiality. 5. 3. 28.

=Power=, _n._ _Law._ Legal authority conferred. 4. 6. 39.

=Pownce.= [Form of _pounce_.] A claw or talon of a bird of prey. 4. 7. 55.

=Pox=, _n._ Irreg. spelling of _pocks_, _pl._ of _pock_. †Phr. _pox vpon_: A mild imprecation. 3. 3. 38. _pox o’._ 4. 2. 61.

=Practice=, _n._ 1. A plot. ?_Arch._ 5. 8. 57. 2. Treachery. ?_Arch._ 4. 7. 80.

=Practice=, _v._ †1. To tamper with; corrupt. 1. 1. 38. 2. _intr._ To plot; conspire. 5. 3. 10; 5. 51.

=Pragmaticke=, _a._ Pragmatical. 1. 6. 56.

=Pregnant=, _a._ †Convincing; clear. 5. 8. 77.

=Present=, _a._ Immediate (fr. L. _praesens_). 3. 6. 40.

=Present=, _n._ †1. The money or other property one has on hand. 1. 5. 20. 2. The existing emergency; the temporary condition. 2. 6. 70.

=President=, _n._ †A ruling spirit. 3. 5. 38.

=Presume=, _v._ To rely (upon). 2. 2. 30.

=Pretend=, _v._ 1. To lay claim (to). 2. 4. 16; 3. 3. 102. †2. To aspire to. 1. 6. 36.

=Price=, _n._ Estimated or reputed worth; valuation. 2. 8. 105.

=Priuate=, _n._ †Priuate account. 5. 4. 23.

=Processe=, _n._ _Law._ Summons; mandate. 3. 3. 72; 3. 3. 139.

=Prodigious=, _a._ †Portentous; disastrous. 2. 7. 19.

=Profer=, _n._ †An essay, attempt. 5. 6. 43.

=Proiect=, _v._ 1. _tr._ To devise. 1. 8. 10. †2. _intr._ To form projects or schemes. 3. 3. 42.

=Proiector=, _n._ One who forms schemes or projects for enriching men. 1. 7. 9. See the passage.

=Pronenesse=, _n._ Inclination, _spec._ to sexual intercourse. 4. 4. 233.

=Proper=, _a._ Well-formed. Now only prov. Eng. 1. 6. 218.

=Proportion=, _n._ 1. Allotment; share. 2. 3. 36. 2. Calculation; estimate. 2. 1. 90; 3. 3. 127.

=Prostitute=, _a._ Debased; worthless. 3. 2. 19.

||=Pro’uedor=, _n._ [Sp. _proveedor_=Pg. _provedor_.] A purveyor. 3. 4. 35.

=Prouinciall=, _n._ “In some religious orders, a monastic superior who has the general superintendence of his fraternity in a given district called a province.” _CD._ 5. 6. 64.

||=Prouocado=, _n._ [‹Sp. _provocar_, to challenge.] Challengee; one challenged. 3. 3. 143.

||=Prouocador=, _n._ [‹Sp. _provocador_, _provoker_.] Challenger. 3. 3. 142.

=Pr’y thee=. [A weakened form of _I pray thee_.] Jonson uses the following forms: Pray thee. 1. 2. 30. Pr’y thee. 2. 1. 78. ’Pr’y the. 1. 3. 22.

=Publication=, _n._ Notification; announcement: _spec._ the notification of a ‘depending’ quarrel by a preliminary settlement of one’s estate. 3. 3. 137.

=Pug=, _n._ †1. An elf; a spirit; a harmless devil. The Persons of the Play. 2. A term of familiarity or endearment. ?_Obs._ 2. 2. 128.

=Pui’nee=, _a._ [For _puisne_, _arch._ form of _puny_, retained in legal use.] 1. _Law._ Inferior in rank. 2. Small and weak; insignificant; pr. with a quibble on 1. 1. 1. 5.

†=Punto=, _n._ ?_Obs._ Eng. fr. Sp. or It. _punto_. A delicate point of form, ceremony, or etiquette; the ‘pink’ of style. 4. 4. 69.

=Purchase=, _n._ †Plunder; ill-gotten gain. 3. 4. 32.

=Purt’nance=, _n._ The inwards or intestines. ?_Arch._ 5. 8. 107.

=Put=, _v._ 1. _intr._ To move; to venture. 1. 1. 24.

Phrases. 1. _Put downe_: To put to rout, vanquish (in a contest). 1. 1. 93. 2. _Put off_: To dismiss (care, hope, etc.). 2. 2. 48; 3. 4. 25. To turn aside, turn back; divert (one from a course of action). 1. 4. 68. 3. _Put out_: To invest; place at interest. 3. 4. 23. 4. _Put vpon_: To instigate; incite. 5. 8. 141. To foist upon; palm off on. 3. 3. 174.

=Quality=, _n_. 1. Character, nature. Now _rare_. 3. 4. 37. 2. High birth or rank. Now _arch._ 1. 1. 111.

=Quarrell=, _v._ To find fault with (a person); to reprove angrily. _Obs._ exc. Sc. (Freq. in 17th c.). 4. 7. 12.

=Quit=, _v._ †To free, rid (of). 3. 6. 61.

=Read=, _v._ †To discourse. 4. 4. 248.

=Repaire=, _v._ To right; to win reparation or amends for (a person). ?_Obs._ 2. 2. 59.

||=Rerum natura=, _phr._ L. The nature of things; the physical universe. 3. 1. 35.

=Resolu’d=, _ppl. a._ 1. Determined. 2. 7. 13. With quibble on 2. 2. Convinced.

=Retchlesse=, _a._ [Form of _reckless_.] †Careless; negligent. 3. 6. 34.

=Reuersion=, _n._ A right or hope of future possession or enjoyment; hence, phr. in _reuersion_: In prospect; in expectation. 5. 4. 44.

=Rhetorique=, _n._ Rhetorician. ?_Obs._ 1. 4. 102.

†=Ribibe=, _n._ A shrill-voiced old woman. 1. 1. 16.

=Right=, _a._ True; real; genuine. _Obs._ or _arch._ 2. 2. 103.

=Roaring=, _a._ †Roistering, quarreling. Phr. _roaring manner_: The fashion of picking a quarrel in a boisterous, disorderly manner. 3. 3. 69.

=Rose=, _n._ A knot of ribbon in the form of a rose used as ornamental tie of a shoe. 1. 3. 8.

†=Rose-marine=, _n._ [The older and more correct form of _rosemary_ ‹OF. _rosmarin_ L. _rosmarinus_, lit. ‘sea-dew.’] Rosemary. 4. 4. 19.

||=Rouistico= [Same as _ligustro_], _n._ It. ‘Priuet or prime-print ... also a kind of white flower.’ Florio. ‘Pianta salvatico.’ Bassano. 4. 4. 55.

=Royster=, _n._ A rioter; a ‘roaring boy’. _Obs._ or _arch._ 1. 1. 68.

=Rug=, _n._ †A kind of coarse, nappy frieze, used especially for the garments of the poorer classes; a blanket or garment of this material. 5. 1. 47.

†=Salt=, _n._ [L. _Saltus_.] A leap. 2. 6. 75.

=Sample=, _v._ †To place side by side for comparison; compare. 5. 1. 3.

=Saraband=, _n._ A slow and stately dance of Spanish or oriental origin, primarily for a single dancer, but later used as a contra-dance. It was originally accompanied by singing and at one time severely censured for its immoral character 4. 4. 164 (see note).

=Sauour=, _v. tr._ To exhibit the characteristics of. ?_Arch._ 4. 1. 49.

†=’Say=, _v._ [By apheresis from _essay_.] Phr. _’say on_: To try on. 1. 4. 37 SN.

†=Scape=, _v._ [Aphetic form of escape, common in England from 13-17th c.] 1. To escape. 1. 6. 161. 2. To miss. ?_Obs._ 1. 4. 33. 3. To avoid. 5. 5. 52.

=Sciptick=, _n._ [A humorous misspelling of _sceptic_.] ?One who doubts as to the truth of reality; applied humorously to one made doubtful of the reality of his own perceptions. 5. 2. 40.

=Scratching=, _vbl. sb._ Eager striving; used contemptuously. ?_Colloq._ 5. 6. 67.

=’Sdeath=, _int._ [An abbr. of _God’s death_.] An exclamation, generally of impatience. 1. 2. 25.

=Seaming=, _a._ _Phr._ _seaming lace_: ‘A narrow openwork braiding, gimp, or insertion, with parallel sides, used for uniting two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other; used for garments in the 17th c.’ _CD._ 2. 5. 9.

=Seisen=, 4. 5. 16. See _Liuerie and seisen_.

†=Sent=, _v._ An old, and historically more correct, spelling of _scent_. 2. 6. 26.

=Seruant=, _n._ †A professed lover. 4. 3. 45.

=Session=, _n._ _Law._ A sitting of justices in court. 5. 6. 21.

=Shame=, _v._ To feel ashamed. ?_Obs._ or _arch._ 5. 6. 37.

=Shape=, _n._ Guise; dress; disguise. _?Arch._ 5. 3. 18.

†=Shop-shift=, _n._ A shift or trick of a shop-keeper. 3. 5. 4.

=Shrug=, _v. refl._ Phr. _shrug up_: To hitch (oneself) up (into one’s clothes). 1. 4. 80 SN.

=Signe=, _n._ One of the twelve divisions of the zodiac. 4. 4. 233. Used _fig._ 1. 6. 127.

=Signet=, _n._ A seal. Formerly one of the seals for the authentication of royal grants in England, and affixed to documents before passing the privy seal. 5. 4. 22.

=Sirah=, _n._ A word of address, generally equivalent to ‘fellow’ or ‘sir.’ _Obs._ or _arch._ 1. 4. 45; 3. 5. 25. sirrah (addressed to a woman). 4. 2. 66.

†=’Slid=, _int._ An exclamation, app. an abbreviation of _God’s lid_. 1. 3. 33.

†=’Slight=, _int._ A contraction of _by this light_ or _God’s light_. 1. 2. 15. S’light. 2. 7. 16; 2. 8. 81.

=Smock=, _n._ 1. A woman’s shirt. 1. 1. 128. ?2. A woman. 4. 4. 190.

||=Soda di leuante=, _n._ It. ?Soda from the East. 4. 4. 32 (see note).

=Soone=, _a._ Early. Phr. _soone at night_: Early in the evening. 1. 1. 148.

†=Sope of Cyprus=, _n._ ?Soap made from the ‘cyprus’ or hennashrub. 4. 4. 45.

=Sou’t=, _v. pret._ Pr. for _sous’d_, pret. of _souse_, to swoop upon (like a hawk). 4. 7. 54 (see note).

†=Spanish-cole=, _n._ A perfume; fumigator. 4. 4. 150.

=Spic’d=, _ppl. a._ †Scrupulous; squeamish. 2. 2. 81.

=Spring-head=, _n._ A fountain head; a source. 3. 3. 124.

†=Spruntly=, _adv._ Neatly; gaily; finely. 4. 2. 61.

=Spurne=, _v._ To jostle, thrust. P. 11.

=Squire=, _n._ 1. A servant. 2. 2. 131. 2. A gallant; a beau. 2. 2. 116. 3. A gentleman who attends upon a lady; an escort. ?_Arch._ 5. 3. 19.

=Stalking=, _n._ In _sporting_, the method of approaching game stealthily or under cover. 2. 2. 51.

=Stand=, _v._ Phrases. 1. _Stand for’t_: To enter into competition; to make a claim for recognition. 1. 6. 36. 2. _Stand on_: To insist upon. 3. 3. 83. 3. _Stand vpon_: To concern; to be a question of. 3. 3. 60.

=Standard=, _n._ †A water-standard or conduit; _spec._ the Standard in Cheap. 1. 1. 56.

=State=, _n._ †Estate. 4. 5. 30; 5. 3. 13.

=Stay=, _v. tr._ 1. To delay; detain. 2. 2. 20. 2. To maintain. ?_Arch._ 3. 1. 7. 3. To retain. ?_Arch._ 2. 4. 26.

=Still=, _adv._ 1. Ever; habitually. 1. 5. 23. 2. Continually. 3. 3. 27.

=Stoter=, _n._ ?A small coin. Cunningham. (Considered by W. and G. a misprint for _Storer_.) 3. 3. 32.

=Straine=, _n._ A musical note. Used _fig._ 5. 5. 58.

=Strange=, _a._ Immodest; unchaste. 2. 6. 53 (see note).

=Strength=, _n._ In _pl._: abilities; resources. 1. 1. 24; 1. 4. 35.

=Strong-water=, _n._ 1. 1. 114. See _Water_.

=Subtill=, _a._ 1. Tenuous; dainty; airy. P. 5. 2. Cunningly devised; ingenious. 1. 1. 116.

=Subtilty=, _n._ 1. Fineness; fine quality; delicacy. 2. 1. 86. 2. An artifice; a stratagem. 2. 2. 4. 3. Cunning; craftiness. 1. 1. 144; 2. 2. 12.

=Subtle=, _a._ Intricate. 2. 1. 114; 2. 2. 12.

=Sufficiency=, _n._ Efficiency. ?_Arch._ 3. 5. 56.

=Tabacco=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _tobacco_. (Cf. Sp. _Tabaco_; Port. and It. _Tabacco_). 1. 1. 114; 5. 8. 73.

=Table-booke=, _n._ †A memorandum-book. 5. 1. 39.

=Taile=, _n._ Phr. _in taile of_: At the conclusion of. 1. 1. 95.

=Take=, _v._ 1. To catch (in a trap). 2. To captivate. With quibble on 1. 3. 6. 13. 3. To catch; surprise. 2. 1. 147; 4. 1. 27. 4. To take effect. 1. 4. 36. Phrases. 5. _take forth_: ?To learn. _Dial._ 1. 1. 62. †6. _take in_: To capture. 3. 3. 170. 7. _take vp_: To borrow. 3. 6. 15.

=Taking=, _n._ †Consumption; smoking (the regular phrase). 5. 8. 71.

=Talke=, _n._ Phr. _be in talke_: To be discussing or proposing. 3. 5. 52.

=Tall=, _a._ 4. 5. 32. See _Board_, and note.

=Tasque= [‹OF. _tasque_], _n._ _Obs._ form of _task_. Business. 5. 1. 14.

=Taste=, _v._ 1. To perceive; recognize. 1. 6. 138. 2. To partake of; enjoy (tast). 4. 4. 93.

†=Tentiginous=, _a._ Excited to lust. 2. 3. 25.

=Terme=, _n._ 1. A period of time; time. 3. 3. 88. 2. An appointed or set time. _Obs._ in general sense. 1. 1. 6.

=Then=, _conj._ _Obs._ form of than. P. 10; etc.

=Thorow=, _prep._ _Obs._ form of _through_. 1. 1. 145.

=Thorowout=, _prep._ _Obs._ form of _throughout_. 2. 1. 50.

=Thought=, _n._ ?Device. 2. 2. 30.

=Thumbe-ring=, _n._ A ring designed to be worn upon the thumb; often a seal-ring. P. 6.

=Ticket=, _n._ †A card; a brief note. 2. 8. 90.

=Time=, _n._ Phr. _good time!_: Very good; very well. 1. 4. 60.

=Time=, _v._ ?To regulate at the proper time; to bring timely aid to. 3. 3. 97.

=Tissue=, _n._ ‘A woven or textile fabric; specifically, in former times, a fine stuff, richly colored or ornamented, and often shot with gold or silver threads, a variety of cloth of gold.’ _CD._ Used _attrib._ 1. 1. 126.

=To night=, _adv._ †During the preceding night; last night. 4. 1. 18.

†=Too-too-=, _adv._ Quite too; altogether too: noting great excess or intensity, and formerly so much affected as to be regarded as one word, and so often written with a hyphen. 3. 3. 231.

=Top=, _n._ 1. Summit; used _fig._ 2. 2. 89. 2. The highest example or type. _ ?Arch._ or _obs._ 4. 4. 244.

=Torn’d=, _ppl. a._ Fashioned, shaped (by the wheel, etc.). _Transf._ and _fig._ 2. 6. 85.

=Tother=, _indef. pron._ [A form arising from a misdivision of _that other_, ME. also _thet other_, as _the tother_.] Other; usually preceded by _the_. 1. 3. 37.

=Toy=, _n._ 1. A trifle. 2. 8. 2; 2. 8. 50. 2. A trifling fellow. 4. 7. 24; 4. 7. 57. ?3. Thing; trouble; used vaguely. 3. 3. 222.

=Tract=, _n._ 1. A level space; _spec._ of the stage. P. 8. †2. Attractive influence, attraction. 2. 2. 10.

=Trauell=, _v._ To labor; toil. 3. 4. 52.

=Trauell=, _n._ †Toil; anxious striving. 1. 6. 119.

=Treachery=, _n._ An act of treachery. ?_Obs._ 3. 6. 49.

=Troth=, _int._ In troth; in truth. 4. 1. 21.

=Trow=, _v._ To think, suppose. As a phrase added to questions, and expressions of indignant or contemptuous surprise; nearly equivalent to ‘I wonder.’ 5. 2. 36.

=Turn=, _v._ To sour; _fig._ to estrange. 2. 7. 38.

=Turne=, _n._ 1. Humor; mood; whim. 2. 2. 37. 2. Act of service. 2. 2. 125. 3. Present need; requirement. 3. 3. 192.

=Vmbrella=, _n._ †A portable shade, probably a sort of fan, used to protect the face from the sun. 4. 4. 81.

=Vndertaker=, _n._ One who engages in any project or business. ?_Arch._ 2. 1. 36.

=Vnder-write=, _v._ To subscribe; to put (one) down (for a subscription). 3. 3. 145.

†=Vnquiet=, _v._ To disquiet. 4. 1. 20.

=Vntoward=, _a._ Perverse, refractory. ?_Arch._ 2. 8. 16.

=Vp=, _adv._ Set up: established. 3. 5. 54.

=Vpon=, _prep._ 1. Directed towards or against; with reference to. 1. 1. 13; 1. 6. 112. 2. Immediately after. 3. 3. 123. 3. After and in consequence of. 1. 1. 39.

=Vrge=, _v._ To charge. Phr. _vrge with_: To charge with; accuse of. ?_Arch._ 4. 1. 44.

=Vse=, _v._ To practise habitually. 1. 3. 42.

=Vtmost=, _n._ The extreme limit (of one’s fate or disaster). 5. 6. 10.

=Valor=, _n._ Courage; used in _pl._ 4. 1. 32.

=Vapours=, _n. pl._ †A hectoring or bullying style of language or conduct, adopted by ranters and swaggerers with the purpose of bringing about a real or mock quarrel. 3. 3. 71 (see note).

=Veer=, _v._ _Naut._ To let out; pay out; let run. 5. 5. 46.

=Venery=, _n._ Gratification of the sexual desire. 3. 6. 7.

†=Vent=, _v._ To sell. 3. 4. 61.

=Vent=, _v._ 1. To publish; promulgate. 2. 3. 24. 2. To give expression to. 2. 3. 5; 2. 1. 166; 5. 8. 153.

=Venter=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _venture_. 1. 6. 175.

†=Venting=, _vbl. sb._ Selling; sale. 3. 4. 49.

=Vernish=, _n._ Older and _obs._ form of _varnish_. ?A wash to add freshness and lustre to the face; a cosmetic. 4. 4. 36.

||=Vetus Iniquitas=, _n._ L. ‘Old Iniquity,’ a name of the ‘Vice’ in the morality plays. 1. 1. 47.

||=Via=, _int._ It. Away! off! 2. 1. 3 (see note).

=Vice=, _n._ 1. Fault. †2. The favorite character in the English morality-plays, in the earlier period representing the principle of evil, but later degenerating into a mere buffoon. 1. 1. 44; 1. 1. 84; etc. With quibble on 1. P. 9. See also Introduction.

=Vierger=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _verger_. 4. 4. 209.

=Vindicate=, _v._ †To avenge; retaliate for. 5. 6. 49.

=Virgins milke=, _n._ A wash for the face; a cosmetic. 4. 4. 52.

†=Wanion=, _n._ ‘A plague;’ ‘a vengeance.’ Phr. _with a wanion_: A plague on him; bad luck on him. 5. 8. 33.

=Wanton=, _a._ Playful; sportive. 2. 6. 75.

=Ward-robe man=, _n._ A valet. 1. 3. 13.

=Ware=, _v._ Beware of; take heed to. _Arch._ 5. 5. 5.

=Wast=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _waist_. 1. 4. 95. waste (with quibble on _waste_, a barren place). 4. 4. 204.

=Water=, _n._ 1. Essence; extract. 4. 4. 39. 2. _-water_: The property of a precious stone in which its beauty chiefly consists, involving its transparency, refracting power and color. 3. 3. 179: 181. 3. _strong-water_: A distilled liquor. 1. 1. 14.

=Wedlocke=, _n._ †A wife. 1. 6. 10; 2. 3. 18.

=Well-caparison’d=, _ppl. a._ Well furnished with trappings; also _fig._, well decked out. Involving a quibble. 2. 5. 7.

=Wench=, _n._ 1. A mistress; strumpet. _Obsolescent._ 5. 2. 21. †2. A term of familiar address; friend. 4. 1. 60.

=While=, _conj._ Till; until. Now prov. Eng. and U. S. 1. 3. 5.

=Wicked=, _a._ ?Roguish. 4. 4. 197.

=Widgin=, _n._ [Form of _widgeon_.] A variety of wild duck. 5. 2. 39.

=Wis=, _adv._ [‹ME. wis.] 5. 8. 31. See _Wusse_.

=Wish=, _v._ To desire (one to do something); to pray, request. ?_Arch._ 2. 2. 52.

=Wit=, _n._ 1. Intellect. 1. 4. 29; 1. 4. 64. 2. Intelligence. 3. 2. 13. 3. Ingenuity; ingenious device. 2. 2. 86.

=Withall=, _adv._ Besides; in addition; at the same time. 2. 2. 27; 3. 5. 16. with-all. 2. 2. 73.

=Wiue-hood=, _n._ _Obs._ form of _wifehood_. 1. 6. 50.

=Worshipfull=, _a._ Worthy of honor or respect. 4. 7. 75. Used in sarcasm. 2. 2. 89; 3. 3. 8.

=Wrought=, _ppl. a._ Embroidered. ?_Arch._ 1. 2. 47.

†=Wusse=, _adv._ [Corruption of _wis_ ‹ME. _wis_, by apheresis from _iwis_; sure, certain.] Certainly; truly; indeed. 1. 6. 40.

=Yellow-water=, _n._ 3. 3. 181. See_-water_.

||=Zuccarina=, _n._ It. ‘A kind of bright Roche-allum.’ Florio.

||=Zuccarino=, _n._ 4. 4. 31. ?For _Zuccarina_, _q. v._

||=Zucche Mugia=, _n._ It. ?A perfume. 4. 4. 35.

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