Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

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[403] E. has comma.

[404] Murray's earliest quotation for 'here away,' etc., is from 1564.

[405] Sherwood: Bon mesnagier.

[406] bring to an end.

[407] yield it you = reward.

[408] I had; I wot. The dialect (generally southern, but occasionally also northern) used by rustic characters in the earlier plays; e.g. in G. G. N., Trial of Treasure, Like will to Like, etc.

[409] Cf. G. G. N. v. 211; Heywood, Prov. 2, ch. 7; Camden, Prov. 268.

[410] mincing, coy.

[411] Cf. the whispering scene in the Trial of Treasure.

[412] Cf. the slave of Polymachæroplagides in Plaut. Pseudolus.