A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Ii Part 73

[112] _Wylt_, Vele's edition.

[113] _Dogs_, Copland's edition.

[114] This mode of expression occurs in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," A. 3, S. 3, needlessly altered by some to, I shall desire of you more acquaintance.--_Hawkins_.

[115] Original, _wyl_.

[116] Query, _defines_.

[117] _Wer ysought_, Copland's edition.

[118] _To_ omitted. Copland's edition.

[119] _A_, Copland's edition.

[120] _A_ omitted, Copland's edition.

[121] _For us_ omitted, Copland's edition.

[122] _She thinketh danger_, Copland's edition.

[123] These two lines I have given to Juventus against the authority of the copies.--_Hawkins_.

[124] The entrance of Abhominable Living is not marked in the copies.-- _Hawkins_.

[125] _Opned_, Copland's edition.

[126] [This is not marked in the copies.]

[127] _Thyng_, Copland's edition.

[128] _Iou_, Copland's edition.

[129] Both the copies concur in this reading.--_Hawkins_. [A common corruption of the Divine name.]

[130] _Horson_, Copland's edition.

[131] _Lile_, Vele's edition.

[132] _Take_, Copland's edition.

[133] _Thou_, Copland's edition.

[134] _Afsleight_, Copland's edition.

[135] This and the following line is given to Juventus in Copland's edition.--_Hawkins_.

[136] _It were no daly_, Copland's edition.

[137] _Badi_, Copland's edition.

[138] _Mouth_, Copland's edition.

[139] _Of_ omitted, Copland's edition.

[140] _Thys_, Copland's edition.

[141] _And testament_ omitted, Copland's edition.

[142] _Profession_, Copland's edition.

[143] _Now_ omitted, Copland's edition.

[144] Both the copies read _professour.--Hawkins_.

[145] _Congregation_ omitted, Copland's edition.

[146] _Abhord utterly_, Copland's edition.

[147] _Wicked_, Copland's edition.

[148] Juventus, coming in and hearing imperfectly the words _sin_ and _vice_, very naturally mistakes them for terms used at dice: we may presume, therefore, that the genuine reading should be _cinque and sice.--Hawkins_.

[149] _Cyce_, Copland's edition.

[150] _Not_ omitted, Copland's edition.

[151] [An indelicate figure, which occurs in jest-books and other early literature.]

[152] _Shyfe_, Copland's edition.

[153] _Trape_, Copland's edition.

[154] Thus.

[155] _Complaye_, Copland's edition.

[156] _Our_, Copland's edition.

[157] _Veter_, Copland's edition.

[158] _Plasphemyng_, Copland's edition.

[159] _Trrible_, Copland's edition.

[160] _His_, Vele's edition.

[161] _Fair_, Copland's ed.