Lacrymae Ladies Downfall Lady Mother, comedy by Glapthorne (identical with The Noble Trial, entered in Stationers' Registers in 1660) Lanch (unnecessarily altered to lance in the text) Lancheinge of the May, MS. play by W.M. Gent. Lapwing Larroones Lather ( = ladder) (In Women beware Women Middleton plays on the word:— "Fab. When she was invited to an early wedding, She'd dress her head o'ernight, sponge up herself, And give her neck three lathers. Gaar. Ne'er a halter.") Laugh and lye downe Launcepresado Law, the spider's cobweb Legerity Letters of mart Leveret Limbo Line of life Linstock Long haire, treatise against (An allusion to William Prynne's tract The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes.) Loves Changelings Changed, MS. play founded on Sidney's Arcadia Low Country Leaguer Lustique
Machlaean
Macrios
Magical weed
Makarell
Make ready
March beere
Marlins
Marlowe's Hero and Leander quoted
Marriage, restrained by law at certain seasons
Martial quoted
Mary muffe
Masque (MS.) containing a long passage that is found in Chapman's
Byron's Tragedie
Massinger, his share in the authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
Mawmets ( = puppets)
Mawmett ( = Mahomet)
Meath (A curious corruption of Mentz. Old printers distorted foreign
names in an extraordinary manner.)
Mechall
Mention ( = dimension)
Mew
Middleton, quotation from his Family of Love
Minikin ( = fiddle)
Mistris
Moe
Monthes mind
Mooncalf
More hayre than wit
Morglay
Mosch
Mother
Motion ( = suggestion, proposal)
Mouse
Much (ironical)
Mumchance
Muscadine
Muschatoes ( = moustaches)
Mushrumps ( = mushrooms)
Music played between the acts
Muskadine with an egg
My Love can sing no other song (See Appendix)
Mynsatives
Nephewes
Nero, his poems
Newmarket
Nifle
Night rail
Ninivie, motion of
Noddy
Old
Orphant
Outcryes
Outface with a card of ten
Overseene
Owe
Pantables ( = slippers)
Paris Garden ditch
Pavine
Pedlars' French
Peele's Hunting of Cupid
Peeterman
Persius quoted
Pharo, by the life of (This oath occurs in first edition, 1601, of
Every Man in his Humour: in the revised edition it was altered to
"by the foot of Pharaoh.")
Picardo
Pick-hatch
Pilchers
Pimblico
Pinks
Pioner
Plancher
Planet ("Some Planet striketh him")
Plashd
Platform
Plautus' Rudens, plot of Heywood's play The Captives drawn from:
quotations from
Pomander
Poore Jhon
Poore Man's Comfort (play by Robert Daborne), MS. copy of
Portage (Undoubtedly we should read partage.)
Pot-gun
Pricke-song
Prick and prayse ( = praise of excellence)
Princkocke
Proclamation that the gentry should reside at their mansions in the
country
Proculus
Prologue spoken by a woman
Protest, affected use of the word (See Dyce's Shakespeare Glossary.)
Puckfist
Puerelis
Puisne
Puisnes of the Inne
Pumpion
Pun[to] reversos ( = back-handed strokes in fencing)
Push
Putt a girdle round about the world
Puttock
Quale
Rabbit-suckers
Rabby Roses (The reference is, probably, to the Arabian physician
Rhazes.)
Racke
Rape, punishment for
Rascal
Rats rhymed to death
Refuse me
Regalias
Rest ("our rest we set")
Rest for every slave to pull at
Reverent ( = reverend)
Richard II., MS. play
Ride the wild mare (a rustic sport)
Rincht ( = rinsed)
Road
Roaring boys ( = roisterers)
Rochet
Rope-ripes
Rosemary
Rotten hares
Rudelesse vaile
Russeting
Sackerson (In the footnote read H_u_nkes for H_a_nkes.)
Salt, sit beneath the
Sarreverence
Scandalum magnatum
Sconce, build a (I supposed that the expression meant "fix a candle in a
candlestick," but I am indebted to Mr. George L. Apperson for the true
explanation. He writes:—"In Dyche's Dictionary (I quote from ed.
1748) is the verb sconce, one of the definitions being—'a cant term
for running up a score at an alehouse or tavern'—with which cf.
Goldsmith's Essays (1765), viii, 'He ran into debt with everybody that
would trust him, and none could build a sconce better than he.' This
explanation seems to me to make Thomas's remark a very characteristic
one." See Grose's Classical Dictionary of the vulgar tongue.)
Scottish witch
Scythians
Sentronell ( = centinel)
Seven deadly sinnes, pageant of
Shakespeare imitated; his use of the word road ("This Doll Tearsheet
should be some road") illustrated; mentioned in Captain Underwit
Sharpe, play at. (Cf. Swetnam the Woman Hater, 1620, sig. G. 3:—
"But cunning Cupid forecast me to recoile:
For when he plaid at sharpe I had the foyle.")
Shellain
Sherryes
Ship, the great
Shipwreck by land
Shirley, James, author of Captain Underwit; quoted
Shoulder pack't
Shrovetide, hens thrashed at
Shrove Tuesday, riotous conduct of apprentices on
Sib
Signeor No
Sister awake! close not your eyes!
Sister's thread
Sleep, wayward thoughts (See Appendix)
Slug
Smell-feast
Snaphance
Sowse
Spanish fig
Sparabiles
Spend
Spenser, imitated
Spurne-point
Stafford's lawe
Stand on poynts
Standage
Stavesucre ( = staves-acre)
Steccadoes ( = stoccadoes, thrusts in fencing)
Stewd prunes
Stigmaticke
Stoope
Striker
Strive curtesies ( = stand upon ceremony)
Suds, in the
Suetonius, quoted
Sure
Surreverence
Tacitus, quoted
Take me with you
Take in
Tarleton
Tarriers
Tell Tale, the, (MS. play)
Tent
Termagant
The Fryer was in the—(See Appendix)
Three Cranes
Thumb, to bite the
Ticktacks
Tickle minikin ( = play on the fiddle)
Timeless ( = untimely)
Tobacco (price of)
Toot
Totter
Totter'd
Traind band
Transportation of ordnance
Trevants. (Trevant is a corruption of Germ. Traban = guard.)
Trewe ( = honest)
Tripennies
Trondling
Trouses
True man
Trundle bed
Trunk-hose
Tub-hunter ( = parasite)
Turnops
Two Noble Ladyes. (The plot is partly founded on Calderon's
Magico Prodigioso.)
Uncouth
Unicorn's horn
Unreadie
Upper stage
Ure