Part 38
“Afterward Sir Philipp Stanhop was brought in his surcote of scarlett, the Lord Denny carying his Roabe, the Lord Compton and the Lord Norris assisting him, and was created Lord Stanhop of Shelford. Then they retourned that way they came to the Counsell-chamber, first, Viscount Brackley, then Viscount Wallingford and the Lord Stanhop, in such order as they went, the trumpetts and drummes sounding.”
# 330:
_wherein Art_, &c.] Alluding to the pageants of Munday: see note, p. 219.
# 331:
_beholding_] See note, p. 36.
# 332:
_coronel_] Frequently used for (and the Spanish of) colonel.
# 333:
_appear_] Old ed. “appeares.”
# 334:
_Allhollontide_] A corruption of All-hallows-tide.
# 335:
_states_] See note, p. 177.
# 336:
_Artillery-garden_] See note, vol. iv. p. 424.
# 337:
_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.
# 338:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 339:
_luzerns_] Generally said to be Russian animals valued for their fur; but, I apprehend, Middleton used the word in the sense of lynxes. “A Luzarne. _Loup cervier_,” says Cotgrave, who explains the French term, “a kind of white Wolfe,” or “the spotted Linx, or Ounce, or a kind therof.” See, too, Minsheu in vv. _Luzarne_ and _Furre_.
# 340:
_bitter_, _estridge_] i. e. bittern, ostrich.
# 341:
_Crismas_] Or _Christmas_.—“At the end of this [pageant,—Heywood’s _Londini Artium et Scientiarum Scaturigo_, &c. 1632] is a panegyric on Maister Gerard Christmas, for bringing the pageants and figures to such great perfection both in symmetry and substance, being before but unshapen monsters, made only of slight wicker and paper. This man designed Aldersgate, and carved the equestrian statue of James I. there, and the old piece of Northumberland house.” _Biog. Dram._, vol. iii. p. 118.
# 342:
_Hight_] i. e. called.
# 343:
_feel_] Old ed. “feels.”
# 344:
_word_] i. e. motto.
# 345:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 346:
_To raise_, &c.] “The rhymster[!] here seems to allude to a repair the New Standard had undergone, and perhaps also to the repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral.” NICHOLS. Compare vol. iv. p. 421.
# 347:
_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.
# 348:
_property_] i.e. article for the pageant—a theatrical term: see note, vol. ii. p. 308.
# 349:
_pegmes_] i. e. machines, erections: see Facciolati, Lex. in v. _pegma_.
# 350:
_rise_] i. e. rose.
# 351:
_prince of prophets_] “David.” Marg. note in old ed.
# 352:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 353:
_approves_] i. e. proves.
# 354:
_state_] See note, p. 182.
# 355:
_tralucent_] i. e. translucent.
# 356:
_enginous_] i. e. inventive: see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 281.
# 357:
_which_] Old ed. “with.”
# 358:
_afford_] Old ed. “affords.”
# 359:
_strike_] Old ed. “strikes.”
# 360:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.—An allusion to the return of Charles from Spain.
# 361:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 362:
_bring_] Old ed. “brings.”
# 363:
_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.
# 364:
_showers_] Old ed. “flowers.”
# 365:
_unvalued_] i. e. invaluable. Old ed. “vnvaleed.”
# 366:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 367:
_Death’s pageants_, &c.] King James having died in 1625.
# 368:
_agen_] See note p. 192.
# 369:
_Crismas_] See note, p. 290.
# 370:
_sit_] Old ed. “sits.”
# 371:
_meritorious_] i. e. merited.
# 372:
_murmuring_] Old ed. “murmurings.”
# 373:
_sith_] i.e. since.
# 374:
_need_] Old ed. “needs.”
# 375:
_grow_] Old ed. “growes.”
# 376:
_fond_] i. e. silly, idle.
# 377:
_Vild_] See note, p. 139.
# 378:
_An_] Old ed. “And.”
# 379:
_Give_] Old ed. “Giues.”
# 380:
_gain_] Old ed. “gaines.”
# 381:
_live_] Old ed. “liues.”
# 382:
_do_] Old ed. “doth.”
# 383:
_sith_] i. e. since.
# 384:
_see ... hear_] Old ed. “sees ... heares.”
# 385:
_differ_] Old ed. “differeth.”
# 386:
_core_] Old ed. “crue.”
# 387:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 388:
_Begin_] Old ed. “Begins.”
# 389:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 390:
_sith_] i. e. since.
# 391:
_do_] Old ed. “doth.”
# 392:
_tune_] Old ed. “tunes.”
# 393:
_plot_] i. e. scheme, form,—pattern.
# 394:
_Sith_] i. e. Since.
# 395:
_Where_] i. e. Whether.
# 396:
_covet_] Old ed. “covets.”
# 397:
_flow_] Old ed. “flowes.”
# 398:
_Three_] Old ed. “Their.”
# 399:
_corrupt_] Old ed. “corrupts.”
# 400:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 401:
_spring_] Old ed. “springs.”
# 402:
_live_] Old ed. “liues.”
# 403:
_rife_] i. e. common, prevalent.
# 404:
_are_] Old ed. “is.”
# 405:
_fair_] i. e. fairness, beauty. The word was formerly in common use as a substantive.
# 406:
_think_] Old ed. “thinkes.”
# 407:
_have_] Old ed. “hath.”
# 408:
_bring_] Old ed. “brings.”
# 409:
_say_] Old ed. “sayes.”
# 410:
_die_] Old ed. “dies.”
# 411:
_see_] Old ed. “sees.”
# 412:
_ne’er the near_] i. e. never the nearer.
# 413:
_stand_] Old ed. “stands.”
# 414:
_come_] Old ed. “comes.”
# 415:
_risse_] i. e. risen.
# 416:
_Plough_] Old ed. “Plowes.”
# 417:
_jesses_] i. e. the short leather straps round the hawk’s legs, having little rings to which the falconer’s leash was fastened.
# 418:
_shew_] Old ed. “shewes.”
# 419:
_bound_] Old ed. “bounds.”
# 420:
_wave_] Old ed. “waves.”
# 421:
_again_] i. e. against.
# 422:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 423:
_steven_] i. e. voice, sound.
# 424:
_chambers_] i. e. ordnance: compare p. 190.
# 425:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 426:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 427:
_scorn_] Old ed. “skorns.”
# 428:
_flow ... ebb_] Old ed. “flowes” ... “ebbes.”
# 429:
_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetch’d.
# 430:
_bonner_] So written for the rhyme.
# 431:
_shadow_] Old ed. “shadowes.”
# 432:
_soul_] Old ed. “soules.”
# 433:
_swaddled_] To be pronounced as a trisyllable.
# 434:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 435:
_Are_] Old ed. “Is.”
# 436:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 437:
_Disgesting_] i. e. Digesting—a form common in our old writers.
# 438:
_sith_] i. e. since.
# 439:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 440:
_steven_] See note, p. 371.
# 441:
_table-book_] i. e. memorandum-book.
# 442:
_seely_] i. e. silly, simple—harmless.
# 443:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 444:
_alline_] i. e. ally.
# 445:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 446:
_cognizance_] i. e. badge.
# 447:
_hope_] Old ed. “hopes.”
# 448:
_clifts_] i. e. cliffs.
# 449:
_prompt_] Old ed. “prompts.”
# 450:
_wrath-_] Old ed. “wraths-.”
# 451:
_nigrum_] This word, the meaning of which is obvious, occurs in the “Defiance to Envy” prefixed to the next poem in this vol.;
“My _nigrum_ true-born ink,” &c.
# 452:
_burst_] i. e. broken.
# 453:
_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetched.
# 454:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 455:
_think_] Old ed. “thinkes.”
# 456:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 457:
_rife_] See note, p. 358: but in what sense it is used here, I cannot pretend to determine.
# 458:
_Eschip_] A familiar corruption of _East-cheap_, where, as Stow says, was a “flesh-market of butchers.”
# 459:
_seely_] See note, p. 392.
# 460:
_Sith_] i. e. since.
# 461:
_moul_] i. e. mould.
# 462:
_fire-durst_] Qy. “fire-dust”?
# 463:
_bin_] i. e. been.
# 464:
_team_] Old ed. “teene”—a word of common occurrence in our earliest poetry, but doubtless a misprint here: compare p. 369, l. 4, and p. 430, l. 19; and be it observed, that in the passage last referred to the old ed. has “teeme.”
# 465:
_rife_] See note, p. 358.
# 466:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 467:
_plough_] Old ed. “plows.”
# 468:
_wrench’d_] i. e. perhaps, rinsed.
# 469:
_seely_] See note, p. 392.
# 470:
_It is a world to see_] Equivalent to—It is a wonder to see.
# 471:
_fond_] See note, p. 343.
# 472:
_vild_] See note, p. 139.
# 473:
_breath_] i. e. breadth—for the rhyme.
# 474:
_world, hope_] Qy. “world’s hope”?
# 475:
_Cut ... vail_] Old ed. “Cuts ... vails:” (_vail_, i. e. lower, make to fall.)
# 476:
_fair_] See note, p. 360.
# 477:
_Alastor’s_] In chapter xvii. of this interminable poem, we find
“Troubled with visions from _Alastor’s_ park;”
and
“A night more ugly than _Alastor’s_ pack, Mounting all nights upon his night-made back.” P. 457.
_Alastor_ meant frequently an evil genius, an avenging fury; it is also the name of one of Pluto’s horses (see Claudian, _De Rap. Pros._ i. 284): our author seems to have confounded these two significations.
# 478:
_alline_] i. e. ally.
# 479:
_spill’d_] i. e. destroyed.
# 480:
_sort_] i. e. set, band.
# 481:
_spill’d_] i. e. destroyed.
# 482:
_Make_] Old ed. “Makes.”
# 483:
_hear ... read_] Old ed. “heares ... reades:” and in the next line but one, “speeds.”
# 484:
_take_] Old ed. “takes.”
# 485:
_wood_] A wretched play on words—furious, mad.
# 486:
_bud_] Old ed. “buds.”
# 487:
_incolants_] i. e. inhabitants.
# 488:
_want_] Old ed. “wants.”
# 489:
_know_] Old ed. “knowes.”
# 490:
_rife_] See note, p. 358.
# 491:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 492:
_fair_] See note, p. 360.
# 493:
_allines_] i. e. allies.
# 494:
_make_] Old ed. “makes.”
# 495:
_Alastor’s_] See note, p. 432.
# 496:
_risse_] i. e. risen.
# 497:
_cought_] So written for the rhyme.
# 498:
_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.
# 499:
_connizance_] Or _cognizance_, i. e. badge.
# 500:
_bind_] Old ed. “binds.”
# 501:
_rowl_] i. e. roll.
# 502:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 503:
_sancited_] i. e. ordained, ratified.
# 504:
_Vail’d_] i. e. lowered.
# 505:
_steven_] See note, p. 371.
# 506:
_Have_] Old ed. “Hath.”
# 507:
_remorse_] i. e. pity.
# 508:
_know_] Old ed. “knowes.”
# 509:
_do_] Old ed. “doth.”
# 510:
_spill_] i. e. destroy.
# 511:
_thaw_] Old ed. “thaws.”
# 512:
_seely_] See note, p. 392.
# 513:
_her_] Is frequently used for _their_ by our early writers; but most probably in the present passage the author changed the number through carelessness.
# 514:
_Do_] Old ed. “Doth.”
# 515:
_melt_] Old ed. “melts.”
# 516:
_His defiance_, &c.] In imitation of Hall, who had ushered in his Satires with _A Defiance to Envy_.
# 517:
_smazky_] i. e., perhaps, smitchy or smeechy (reechy, black.)
# 518:
_satire-days_] “Does he intend to pun upon the last day of the week—_Saturday_? It may be a misprint for _Satyr-dogs_, in allusion to his title, ‘Sixe _Snarling_ Satyres.’” Collier’s _Poet. Decam._ vol. i. p. 286.
# 519:
_nigrum_] Old ed. “Negrum:” compare p. 411.
# 520:
_hast_] Frequently thus written for the sake of the rhyme—even long after the date of the present poem (as by Butler in _Hudibras_, &c.).
# 521:
_beforne_] i. e. before.
# 522:
_Cur eget_, &c.] Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 103.
# 523:
_push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.
# 524:
_Burse_] i. e. the Royal Exchange,—for the New Exchange in the Strand (which our early writers generally mean when they mention “_the Burse_”) was not yet built.
# 525:
_mere compact_] i. e. wholly composed.
# 526:
_I, mortal_] Qy. “immortal”?
# 527:
_compt_] Qy. “complaint”?
# 528:
_bankerouts_] i. e. bankrupts.
# 529:
_Burse_] See note, p. 485.
# 530:
_goodly_] Qy. “godly”?
# 531:
_he_] Old ed. “ye.”
# 532:
_he_] Old ed. “she.”
# 533:
_Vail_] i. e. lower.
# 534:
_Troynovant_] i. e. London (founded, according to the fabulous account, by the Trojan Brutus).
# 535:
_bravery_] i. e. finery of apparel, &c.
# 536:
_salts_] i. e. salt-cellars.
# 537:
_manchets_] i. e. small loaves or rolls of fine white bread.
# 538:
_cupboard_] See note, vol. ii. p. 91.
# 539:
_fair_] See note, p. 360.
# 540:
_quotes_] i. e. notes.
# 541:
_Burse-gate_] See note, p. 485.
# 542:
_match_] i. e. pattern.
# 543:
_princocks_] Or _princox_,—i. e. pert, conceited person: but perhaps the author uses the word here as the plural of _princock_.
# 544:
_jets_] i. e. struts.
# 545:
_Paul’s_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.
# 546:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 547:
_far-fet_] i. e. far-fetched.
# 548:
_cony_] i. e. dupe: see note, vol. i. p. 290.
# 549:
_chates_] i. e. chats, talks.
# 550:
_brave_] i. e. fine, smart.
# 551:
_tester_] i. e. sixpence: see note, vol. i. p. 258.
# 552:
_And_] i. e. if.
# 553:
_the other_] Old ed. “_the_ tother.”
# 554:
_agen_] See note, p. 192.
# 555:
_whist_] i. e. still.
# 556:
_Ingling_] See note, vol. i. p. 301.
# 557:
_mantian_] So written for the rhyme.
# 558:
_jets_] i. e. struts.
# 559:
_Troynovant_] See note, p. 489.
# 560:
_counterfeits_] i. e. portraits, likenesses.
# 561:
_juggling_] Qy. “ingling”? (Old ed. “jugling.”)
# 562:
_counterfeits_] See note, p. 498.
# 563:
_Innocent_] i. e. fool, idiot.
# 564:
_Way_] To this word (which is doubtless the right reading), the “Why” of old ed. has been altered with a pen in the Bodleian copy.
# 565:
_fond_] See note, p. 343.
# 566:
_scopious_] i. e. spacious, ample.
# 567:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 568:
_the first book_] No second Book is known to have appeared.
# 569:
_must have_] The first word is deleted, and the second altered with a pen to “had,” in the Bodleian copy of this poem,—a probable correction.
# 570:
_Qui color_, &c.] Ovid, _Metam._ ii. 541.
# 571:
_On the death_, &c.] These lines (the meaning of which is sufficiently obscure) were first printed in Collier’s _New Facts regarding the Life of Shakespeare_, p. 26, from a MS. miscellany of poetry belonging to the late Mr. Heber. The celebrated actor, Burbage (who also handled the pencil, and is supposed to have painted the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare), died in March 1618-19.
# 572:
_In the just worth_, &c.] Prefixed to Webster’s _Duchess of Malfi_, 1623.
# 573:
_luxury_] i. e. lust, lewdness.
# 574:
_Woolners_] Our old writers occasionally mention a person named Woolner, or Wolner, as a notorious gormandiser: Dekker calls him “that cannon of gluttony,” _The Owles Almanacke_, 1618, p. 53; and in _The Life of Long Meg of Westminster_, 1635, the seventh chapter relates “how she used Woolner the singing man of Windsor, that was the great eater, and how she made him pay for his breakefast.”
# 575:
_bulks_] i. e. bodies.
# 576:
_luxurious_] i.e. lustful.
# 577:
_throw_] Old ed. “sowe.”
# 578:
_the Hole_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.
# 579:
_the Mid-walk_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.
# 580:
_the Supplication_, &c.] i. e. _Pierce Pennilesse his Supplication to the Diuell_, one of the most celebrated and popular productions of that admirable prose-satirist, Thomas Nash. It first appeared in 1592, during which year (see Collier’s _Bridgewater-House Catalogue_, p. 209) it reached a third edition.
# 581:
_Gave me my titles freely_] “To the high and mightie Prince of darknesse, Donsell dell Lucifer, King of Acheron, Stix and Phlegeton, Duke of Tartary, Marquesse of Cocytus, and Lord high Regent of Lymbo,” &c. _Pierce Pennilesse_, &c., sig. B 2. ed. 1595.
# 582:
_Knight of the Post_]—Or, as the term is afterwards varied in the present piece, “Knight of Perjury”—means a hireling evidence, &c.: see note, vol. i. p. 308. Nash makes Pierce commit his Supplication to the care of a knight of the post, who describes himself to be “a fellow that wil sweare you any thing for twelue pence, but indeed I am a spirit in nature and essence, that take vpon me this humane shape, onely to set men together by the eares, and send soules by millions to hell.” _Pierce Pennilesse_, &c., sig. B. ed. 1595.
In “A priuate Epistle to the Printer,” originally prefixed to the second ed. of the tract just quoted, the author tells him that “if my leysure were such as I could wish, I might haps (halfe a yeare hence) write the returne of the Knight of the Post from hell, with the Diuels answere to the Supplication.” Sig. A 2. ed. 1595. What Nash wanted time or inclination to do, was attempted by others after his decease: a writer, who professes to have been his “intimate and near companion,” put forth _The Returne of the Knight of the Post from Hell_, 1606; and Dekker published a pamphlet, of the same date, called _Newes from Hell, Brought by the Diuells Carrier_, the running title of which is _The Diuels Answere to Pierce Pennylesse_.
# 583:
_Pict-hatch_] Was a notorious haunt of prostitutes and the worst characters of both sexes,—“the very skirts of all brothel-houses,” as it is presently termed by our author. It is said to have been in Turnmill, commonly called Turnbull, Street, near Clerkenwell.
# 584:
_bill-men_] i. e. watchmen,—who carried _bills_ (a kind of pikes with hooked points), which in more ancient times were the weapons of the English foot-soldiers.
# 585:
_risse_] i. e. rose.
# 586:
_fat-sagg chin_] i. e. chin that sagged (hung down) with fat. Compare our author’s _Chaste Maid in Cheapside_;
“The bawds will be so fat with what they earn, Their chins will hang like udders by Easter-eve.” Vol. iv. p. 32.
When it is recollected that _The Black Book_ and _Father Hubburd’s Tales_ were published without the writer’s name, having merely the initials T. M. subscribed to a prefatory address, my object in citing parallel passages from Middleton’s dramas will be sufficiently apparent.
# 587:
_Limbo_] i. e. hell,—properly, the borders of hell. Compare quotation from Nash, note, p. 512.
# 588:
_busk-points_] i. e. the tagged laces by which the busks (pieces of wood or whalebone worn down the front of the stays) were fastened.
# 589:
_cruel garters_] We have the same pun in Shakespeare’s _King Lear_, act ii. sc. 4, in Ben Jonson’s _Alchemist_, act i. sc. 1, and elsewhere. _Crewel_ means a finer kind of yarn.
# 590:
_Derrick’s necklaces_] i. e. the hangman’s ropes: Derrick, who is often mentioned by our old writers, was the common hangman.
# 591:
_Doctor Faustus_] The well-known drama by Marlowe.
# 592:
_muchatoes_] i. e. mustachios. So S. Rowley;
“Had my Barbour Perfum’d my louzy thatch here, and poak’d out My Tuskes more stiffe than are a Cats _muschatoes_, These pide-wing’d Butterflyes had knowne me then.” _The Noble Spanish Soldier_, 1634, sig. C.
The lines just quoted seem to shew, that, when Ursula says to Knockem, “never tusk nor twirl your _dibble_” (B. Jonson’s _Bartholomew Fair_—_Works_, vol. iv. p. 414), she means _mustachio_, and not (as Gifford conjectured) _beard_. Mustachios, by being starched or gummed, were made to project from the corners of the mouth.
# 593:
_vaulting-house_] i. e. brothel.
# 594:
_Cole-harbour_] i. e. sanctuary: see note, vol. ii. p. 58.
# 595:
_glory-fat Audrey_] “Heres fine Backon Sister its _glore Fat_.” _Yorkshire Dialogue_, p. 44 (appended to _The Praise of Yorkshire Ale_, 1697), the _Clavis_ to which has “_Glore fat_ is very fat.”—The compiler of the Fourth Part of _Bibliotheca Heberiana_, in some remarks on _The Black Book_, says (p. 181), with reference to the present passage, that “nobody has noticed the allusion to Shakespeare’s _As you like it_, and the marriage of Touchstone and Audrey”!!!
# 596:
_bill-men_] See note, p. 513.
# 597:
_house_] Qy. “hose”?
# 598:
_take our ease in our inn_] See note, p. 195.
# 599:
_Naud_] A contraction of Audrey.
# 600:
_conveyances_] i. e. dishonest tricks, juggling artifices.
# 601:
_bandileer_] i. e. broad leathern belt, worn by a musqueteer over the left shoulder, to which were appended small powder-boxes, &c.
# 602:
_Pict-hatch_] See note, p. 512.
# 603:
_Limbo_] See note, p. 514.
# 604:
_plaguy summer_] i. e. summer during which the plague prevailed.
# 605:
_days of Monsieur_] See note, vol. ii. p. 389.
# 606:
_conceit_] See note, p. 42.
# 607:
_former_] “But force against force, skill against skill, so enterchangeably encountered, that it was not easy to determine, whether enterprising or preventing came _former_.” Sir P. Sidney’s _Arcadia_, lib. iii. p. 292. ed. 1633.
# 608:
_conclusions_] i. e. experiments.
# 609:
_suckets of luxury_] i. e. sweetmeats of lust.
# 610:
_the merciless antimony of the Common Law_] So (see note, p. 514), in our author’s _World tost at Tennis_, the Lawyer says of his pills,
“I grant there’s bitter egrimony in ’em And antimony.” P. 196 of this vol.
# 611:
_Grantham steeple_] “A little fall will make a salt [salt-cellar] looke like Grantham Steeple with his cap to the Ale-house.” Dekker’s _Owles Almanacke_, 1618, p. 39.
# 612:
_ingle_] See note, vol. i. p. 301.
# 613:
_lin_] i. e. cease.
# 614:
_hose_] i. e. pair of breeches.
# 615:
_infer_] i. e. bring in.
# 616:
_Tartary_] i. e. Tartarus, hell. Compare quotation from Nash, note, p. 512.
# 617:
_angels_] See note, p. 20.
# 618:
_wings_] “Lateral prominencies extending from each shoulder.” Whalley’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 103, ed. Giff.
# 619:
_shark-gull_] i. e. one who preys on simpletons.
# 620:
_leiger_] i. e. resident: see note, vol. ii. p. 316.
# 621:
_door-keeper_] i. e. bawd.
# 622:
_aqua-vitæ_] See note, vol. iii. p. 239.
# 623:
_slops_] i. e. breeches.]
# 624:
_loose-bodied_] See note, vol. i. p. 431.
# 625:
_bill-men_] See note, p. 513.
# 626:
_risse_] i. e. rose.
# 627:
_tiring-house_] i. e. dressing-room,—in theatrical language.
# 628:
_descried_] i. e. discovered.
# 629:
_painted cloth_] See note, vol. iii. p. 97.
# 630:
_tottered_] i. e. tattered.
# 631:
_as if they had been conning of Tamburlaine_] From this passage Malone conjectured that the play of Tamburlaine, generally ascribed to Marlowe, was written either wholly or in part by Nash,— _Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), vol. iii. p. 357: but Mr. J. P. Collier has most satisfactorily shewn that it was the work of the former; see _Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 113, sqq.—The present tract, and the one which follows it (_Father Hubburd’s Tales_), both published in 1604, prove that Nash died during that year: he is here described (I fear too truly) as living in a state of squalid poverty; in the next piece he is spoken of as deceased.
# 632:
_hose_] i. e. breeches.
# 633:
_Saint Pulcher’s_] A corruption of _Saint Sepulchre’s_.
# 634:
_wool-ward_] i. e. in wool,—without linen (a word generally applied to persons who went so clothed for penance or humiliation: see notes of the commentators on Shakespeare’s _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, act. v. sc. 2, and Nares’s _Gloss_, in v.)
# 635:
_Pict-hatch_] See note, p. 512.
# 636:
_the walk in Paul’s_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.
# 637:
_Tartary_] See note, p. 524.
# 638:
_particular_] Old ed. “particulars.”
# 639:
_wapper-eyed_] “Wapper-eyed, sore-eyed.” Grose’s _Class. Dict. of Vulg. Tongue_.—“_Wapper-eyed_, goggle-eyed, having full rolling eyes; or looking like one scared; or squinting like a person overtaken with liquor.” Vocab. to _An Exmoor Scolding_, ed. 1839.
# 640:
_the Mayor’s bench at Oxford_] There was a public seat at Oxford “adjoining to the east end of Carfax Church” (Warton’s _Companion to the Guide_, p. 15, sec. ed.), which bore the name of Pennyless-Bench.
# 641:
_noise_] i. e. band, company—properly, of musicians: see note, vol. ii. p. 498.
# 642:
_hose_] i. e. breeches.
# 643:
_bill-men_] See note, p. 513.
# 644:
_the Burse_] Means here the Royal Exchange: see note, p. 485.
# 645:
_villains_] Old ed. “Villainies.”
# 646:
_luxurs_] i. e. lechers.
# 647:
_banqrout_] i. e. bankrupt.
# 648: