Bables
Babyes
Back side
Bacon, Roger
Baffeld ( = treated ignominiously)
Bainardes Castle
Bale of dice
Bandogs
Banks' horse
Bantam
Barleybreak
Basolas manos
Basses
Bastard
Bavyn
Bayting
Beare a braine
Beetle
Bermudas
Berwick, pacification of
Besognio
Best hand, buy at the
Bezoar
Bilbo mettle
Biron, Maréchal de
Bisseling
Blacke and blewe
Blacke gard
Black Jacks
Bob'd
Bombards
Bonos nocthus
Booke ("Williams craves his booke")
Borachos
Bossed
Bottom,
Brass, coinage of
Braule
Braunched
Braves
Bree
Broad cloth, exportation of
Brond
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted
Browne-bastard
Build a sconce.—See Sconce
Bull (the executioner)
Bullets wrapt in fire
Bullyes
Bumbarrels
Bu'oy
Burnt
Buskes
Busse, the (Hertogenbosch taken in 1629, after a memorable siege, by
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange)
Cage (prison)
Cales
Calisto, MS. play composed of scenes from Heywood's Golden Age and
Silver Age
Canaries
Cap-case
Carack
Carbonado
Cardeq
Cardicue
Caroach
Carrackes
Carry coals
Case
Cast-of Merlins
Castrell
Catamountaine
Cater-trey
Caull
Cautelous
Censure
Champion
Chapman, George
Choake-peare
Chrisome
Cinque pace
Citie of new Ninivie
Clapdish
Closse contryvances
Coate
Cockerell
Coll
Comparisons are odorous
Consort
Convertite
Cooling carde
Coranta
Cornutus
Covent
Crak't
Crase
Cricket
Cupboard of plate ( = movable side-board)
Cut-beaten-sattyn (Cf. Marlowe's Faustus—"beaten silk.")
Cutt-boy
Daborne, Robert
Dametas
Day, John
Dead paies
Debosht ( = debauched)
Deneere
Depart
Detest
Devide
Dewse ace
Diamonds softened by goat's blood
Dicker
Diet-bread
Diety (For the spelling cf. Rowley's All's Lost by Lust, 1633,
sig. C. 4:
"Can lust be cal'd love? then let man seeke hell,
For there that fiery diety doth dwell."
Again in the same play, sig. D. 2, we have—
"Descend thy spheare, thou burning Diety."
John Stephens in his Character of a Page [Essayes and Characters,
1615] speaks of "Cupid's diety.")
Dion Cassius, quoted
Diophoratick
Disgestion
Disguest
Division
Doggshead
Door ("Keep the door" = act as a pander)
Doorkeeper
Dorsers
Dowland, John
Draw drie foote
Ducke
Duns the mouse
Dydoppers (dabchicks)
Eare picker ( = barber)
Edmond Ironside, MS. chronicle-play
Empresas
Eringoes
Estridge
Exclaimes
Family of Love
Fang
Fatal Maryage, MS. play
Father-in-law
Feare no colours
Feeres
Felt locks
Feltham's Resolves
Fend ( = make shift with)
Fins (a very doubtful correction for sins)
Fisguigge
Flat cap
Flea ( = flay)
Fletcher, John, MS. copy of his Elder Brother; his share in the
authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
Flewd
Fly boat (see Addenda to vol. i.)
Fool (play on the words fool and fowl)
Fooles paradysse
For I did but kisse her (See Appendix)
Fortune my foe
Fox
Foxd
Free
Fry(?)
Futra
Galleyfoist
German fencer
Getes
Ghosts crying Vindicta
Gibb ("A male-cat, now generally applied to one that has been
castrated."—Halliwell.)
Giglot
Ginges
Glapthorne, quoted; the play of The Lady Mother identical with
Glapthorne's Noble Trial
Glass, patent for making
Gleeke
Gods dynes
Goll
Gondarino
Gossips
Grandoes
Groaning cake
Guarded ( = trimmed)
Gumd taffety that will not fret (See Nares' Glossary, s.,
gumm'd velvet.)
Gundelet
Gyges
Haberdine
Hadiwist
Hanging Tune
Hatto, Bishop
Head ("how fell ye out all a head?")
Hell
Hell, another couple in
Hemming
Hesperides ( = the garden of the Hesperides)
Heywood, Thomas, his play of The Captives; lines at the end of his
Royal King and Loyal Subject identical with the Address To the
Reader at the end of H. Shirley's Martyd Souldier; the play of
Dick of Devonshire tentatively assigned to him; the MS. play
Calisto composed of scenes from his Golden Age and Silver Age
Hocas pocas
Holland's Leaguer
Horace, quoted (In the lines
"Now die your pleasures, and the dayes you pray
Your rimes and loves and jests will take away"
are imitated from Horace's Ars Poetica, ll. 55-6,—
"Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
Eripuere jocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum.")
Hott shotts
Hounslow Heath, Sword-blade manufactory at
Huckle bone
Huffing
Hunts up
Hypostacies
Imbrocados (thrusts over the arm in fencing)
Incontinent
Iron mills
It ( = its)
Jacke
Jiggs
Julius Caesar (puppet-show of)
Juvenal quoted
Keepe
Knight a the post
Knowes me no more then the begger knowes his dish know him as well as
the begger, &c.
Kramis time