P.335. "For I did but kisse her."—Mr. Ebsworth kindly informs me that these words are from a song (No. 19) in The First Booke of Songs and Ayres (1601?) composed by Robert Jones. The song runs:—
"My Mistris sings no other song
But stil complains I did her wrong.
Beleeue her not, it was not so,
I did but kiss her and let her go.
And now she sweares I did, but what,
Nay, nay, I must not tell you that:
And yet I will, it is so sweete,
As teehee tahha when louers meet.
But womens words they are heedlesse,
To tell you more it is needlesse:
I ranne and caught her by the arme
And then I kist her, this was no harme.
But she alas is angrie still,
Which sheweth but a womans will:
She bites the lippe and cries fie, fie,
And kissing sweetly away she doth flie.
Yet sure her lookes bewraies content
And cunningly her bra[w]les are meant:
As louers use to play and sport,
When time and leisure is too short."
On p. 373 Philautus gives another quotation from the same song.
P. 340. "The fryer was in the—." Mr. Ebsworth writes:—"This song is extant among the Pepysian Ballads (the missing word is equivalent to 'Jakes'): original of 'The Friar in the Well.'"
INDEX.
Academic playwrights
Accomodate
Addition
Adorning
Adson's new ayres
Agamemnon in the play
Agrippina
Alablaster ( = alabaster)
Alchemist, allusion to the play of the
A life ( = as my life)
Almarado (?)
Ambergreece
Andirons ("The andirons were the ornamental irons on each side of the
hearth in old houses, which were accompanied with small rests for
the ends of the logs."—Halliwell.)
Anotomye (For the spelling compare Dekker's Satiromastix—
"because
Mine enemies with sharpe and searching eyes
Looke through and through me, carving my poore labours
Like an Anatomy."—Dramatic Works, ed. Pearson, i. 197.)
Anything for a quiett lyfe
Aphorisme
Aporn
Apple-squier
Arch-pillers
Argentum potabile
Artillery Garden
Artire
Ascapart
Assoyle