| M. | Mankind. |
| N. | Nature. |
| WS. | Wit and Science. |
| R. | Respublica. |
| WH. | Wealth and Health. |
| IP. | Impatient Poverty. |
| JE. | John the Evangelist. |
[NOTE-BOOK AND WORD-LIST TO RECENTLY RECOVERED "LOST" TUDOR PLAYS]
With Some Others, viz.:
Mankind—Nature—Wit and Science—Respublica—Wealth and Health—Impatient Poverty—John the Evangelist
A, (a) (passim), of varying usages: e.g. (1) I: "to God a vow"; (2) "a be" (R[213],d)—"He tumbleth whom a lust" (R[212],c) = he; (3) = one; (4) "a potful a worts" (M[13],c) = of; (5) = on; (6) = have; (7) sometimes used to lengthen a line, to accent a syllable, or to make a rhyme-ending: also merely pleonastic. For examples see other volumes of this series.
(b) "azee" (R[257],b)—"A, zee!" (R[267],a), look! see!
Aband, "if thou aband thee" (N[48],c), forsake, abandon. "And Vortiger enforst the Kingdome to aband."—Spenser, Fairy Queen (1590), ii. v. 63.
Able, "zo chwas able" (R[229],b), fit, proper, "fettled": in original hable—cf. habile. "Noye, to me thou arte full able, And to my sacrifice acceptable."—Chester Plays (c. 1400), i. 55.