The Works of John Marston. Volume 3

INDEX. THE CALL, OR SONG OF OBSCURITY. Appear, Appear, you happy Knights! Here are several sorts of Lights: Fire and beauty shine together, Your slow steps inviting hither. Come away; and from your eyes Th’ old shades remove, For now the Destinies Release you at the suit of Love. So, so: ’tis well marched, march apace; Two by two fill up the place, And then with voice and measure Greet the King of Love and Pleasure. Now, Music, change thy notes, and meet Aptly with the Dancers’ feet; For ’tis the pleasure of Delight That they shall triumph all this night. THE SONG AND DANCE TOGETHER. Frolic measures now become you, Overlong obscured Knights: What if Lethe did benumb you, Love now wakes you to delights. Love is like a golden flower, Your comely youth adorning: Pleasure is a gentle shower Shed in some April morning. Lightly rise, and lightly fall you In the motion of your feet: Move not till our notes do call you; Music makes the action sweet. Music breathing blows the fire Which Cupids feeds with fuel, Kindling honour and desire, And taming hearts most cruel. Quickly, quickly, mend your paces, Nimbly changing measured graces: Lively mounted high aspire, For joy is only found in fire. Music is the soul of measure, Mixing both in equal grace; Twins are they, begot of Pleasure, When she wisely numbered space. Nothing is more old or newer Then number, all advancing; And no number can be truer Than music joined with dancing. Every Knight elect a Beauty, Such as may thy heart inflame: Think that her bright eye doth view thee, And to her thy action frame. So shall none be faint or weary, Though treading endless paces; For they all are light and merry Whose hopes are fed with graces. Sprightly, sprightly, end your paces, Nimbly changing measured graces: Lively mounted high aspire, For joy is only found in fire. Obscurity. Servants of Love, for so it fits you be, Since he alone hath wrought your liberty, His ceremonies now and courtly rites Perform with care, and free resolved sprites. To sullen darkness my dull steps reflect; All covet that which Nature doth affect. The Second Measure; which danc’d, SONG TO TAKE OUT THE LADIES. On, on, brave Knights, you have well showed Each his due part in nimble dances: These Beauties to whose hands are owed Yours, wonder why You spare to try. Mark how inviting are their glances. Such, such a charm, such faces, such a call, Would make old Æson skip about the Hall. See, see fair choice, a starry sphere Might dim bright day: choose here at pleasure. Please your own eye: approve you here, Right gentle Knights: To these soft wights View, talk and touch, but all in measure. Far far from hence be roughness, far a frown; Your fair deportment this fair night shall crown. After they have danced with the Ladies, and set them in their places, fall to their last Dance. Enter Paradox , and to him his Disciples . Silence, Lordings, Ladies, and fiddles! Let my tongue twang awhile. I have seen what hath been showed; and now give me leave to show what hath not been seen, for the honour of Athens. By virtue of this musical Whistle I will summon my disciples. See obedience: here they are all ready. Put forward, my paradoxical Pupils, methodically and arithmetically, one by one. 1. Behold this principal Artist that swift encounters me, whose head is honoured by his heels for dancing in a Chorus of a Tragedy presented at Athens, where he produced such learned variety of footing, and digested it so orderly and close to the ground, that he was rewarded with this relic, the cothurne or buskin of Sophocles, which for more eminence he wears on his head. The paradoxical virtue thereof is, that being dipped into River or Spring, it alters the nature of the liquor, and returneth full of wine of Chios, Palermo, or Zante. 2. This second Master of the science of footmanship (for he never came on horseback in his life) was famed at the Feast of Pallas, where in dancing he came off with such lofty tricks, turns above ground, capers, cross-capers, horse-capers, so high and so lofty performed, that he for prize bore away the Helmet of Pallas. The paradoxical virtue of the Cask is, that in our travels if we fall among enemies, show but this, and they suddenly vanish all like fearful shadows. 3. Now, view this third piece of Excellence: this is he that put down all the Bakers, at the feast of Ceres, and so danced there, as if he had kneaded dough with his feet: wherewith the Goddess was so tickled, that she in reward set this goodly loaf on his head, and endued it with this paradoxical influence, that cut off it and eat as often as you please, it straight fills up again, and is in the instant healed of any wound our hunger can inflict on it. 4. Approach now thou that comest in the rear of my disciples, but mayest march in the vanguard of thy validity; for at the celebration of the feast of Venus Cytherea, this Amoroso did express such passion with his eyes, such casts, such winks, such glances, and with his whole body such delightful gestures, such cringes, such pretty wanton mimics, that he won the applause of all; and, as it was necessary at the Feast of that Goddess, he had then a most ample and inflaming codpiece, which, with his other graces, purchased him this prize, the Smock of Venus, wrapped turbanlike on his head, the same she had on when she went to bed to Mars, and was taken napping by Vulcan. The Paradox of it is, that if it be hanged on the top of our Maypole, it draws to us all the young lads and lasses near adjoining, without power to part till we strike sail ourselves. And now I have named our Maypole, go bring it forth, though it be more cumbersome than the Trojan horse: bring it by force of arms, and see you fix it fast in the midst of this place, lest, when you encircle it with your capricious dances, it falls from the foundation, lights upon some lady’s head, and cuffs off her perriwig. But now for the glory of Athens! Music plays the Antimasque. The disciples dance one Strain. We have give you a taste of the excellency of our Athenial Revels, which I will now dignify with mine own person. Lie here, impediment, whereof being freed, I will descend. O, you Authors of Greek wonders! what ostent is this? What supernatural Paradox? a wooden Maypole find the use of voluntary motion! Assuredly this tree was formerly the habitation of some wood nymph, for the Dryads (as the Poets say) live in trees; and perhaps, to honour my dancing, the nymph hath crept into this tree again: so I apprehend it, and will entertain her courtesy. Paradox , his Disciples, and the Maypole, all dance . Did ever eye see the like footing of a tree, or could any tree but an Athenian tree do this? or could any nymph move it but an Athenian nymph? Fair Nymph, though I cannot arrive at thy lips, yet will I kiss the wooden mask that hides thy no doubt most amiable face. Paradox offers to kiss and a Nymph’s head meets him out of the Maypole . Wonder of wonders! Sweet Nymph, forbear: my whole structure trembles: mortality cannot stand the brightness of thy countenance. Pursue me not, I beseech thee: put up thy face, for love’s sake. Help, help! Disciples, take away this dismal peal from me. Rescue me, with all your violence.—So, the Devil is gone, and I will not stay long after. Lordings and Ladies: if there be any here desirous to be instructed in the mystery of Paradoxing, you shall have me at my lodging in the black and white Court, at the sign of the Naked Boy. And so to you all the best wishes of the night. Enter Mountebank , like a Swiss . Stay, you presumptuous Paradox! I have viewed thy antics and thy Puppet, which have kindled in me the fire of Emulation. Look; am I not in habit as fantastic as thyself? Dost thou hope for grace with Ladies, by thy novel doctrine? I am a man of art: witness this, my Charming Rod, wherewith I work Miracles; and whereas thou like a fabulous Greek, hast made monsters of thy Disciples, lo! I will oppose squadron against squadron, and plain truth against painted fiction. Now for [thy] moving Ale-sign: but for frighting the Devil out of it, I could encounter thee with Tottenham High Cross, or Cheap Cross (though it be new guilt), but I scorn odds, and therefore will I affront thee pole to pole. Go, Disciples: usher in our lofty enchanted motion; and, Paradox, now betake you to your tackling, for you deal with men that have got air and fire in them. Paradox. Assist me, thou active nymph, and you, my glorious associates. Victory! Victory for Athens! [ Dance. Mountebank. Accomplished Greek! now, as we are true Mountebanks, this was bravely performed on both parts, and nothing now remains but to make these two Maypoles better acquainted. But we must give place: the Knights appear. Obscurity Enter . Enough of these night-sports! part fairly, Knights, And leave an edge on pleasure, lest these lights I suddenly dim all; and pray, how then Will these gay Ladies shift among you men, In such confusion? Some their homes may miss: Obscurity knows tricks as mad as this. But make your parting innocent for me; I will no author now of Error be. Myself shall pass with you, a friend of light, Giving to all this round a kind good night. LAST SONG. [631] We must away: yet our slack pace may show ’Tis by constraint we this fair Orb forego. Our longer stay may forfeit what but now Love hath obtained for us: to him we bow, And to this gentler Power, who so contriv’d That we from sullen shades are now depriv’d, And hither brought, where Favour, Love, and Light, So gloriously shine, they banish Night. More would we say, but Fate forbids us more.— Our Cue is out—Good night is gone before. [632] [623] “Fever-lurdens”—a jocular term for slothfulness. [624] “Pin and the web” was the name of a disorder of the eye. [625] The words “ et fiet ” are omitted in Add. MS. —Nichols gives “at first.”—It may be remarked that Nichols’ transcript is made throughout in a slovenly manner. [626] “But” is omitted by Collier, but found in Add. MS. and Nichols. [627] So Add. MS. and Nichols.—Collier gives “strued.” [628] In Add. MS. and Nichols are some additional “paradoxes.” [629] “Epicæne” in the MS. is struck out and “Newter” written as a correction. [630] Concert. [631] In Nichols’ Progresses the Masque concludes with the following song:— “The hour of sweety night decays a-pace, And now warm beds are better than this place. All time is long that is unwillingly spent, But hours are minutes when they yield content: The gathered flowers we love that breathe sweet scent, But loathe them, their sweet odours being spent. It is a life is never ill To lie and sleep in roses still. The rarer pleasure is it is more sweet, And friends are kindest when they seldom meet. Who would not hear the nightingale still sing, Or who grew ever weary of the spring? The day must have her night, the spring her fall, All is divided, none is lord of all: It were a most delightful thing To live in a perpetual spring.” In the third line we should doubtless read “unwilling” for “unwillingly.” [632] In Add. MS. follow some “paradoxes” which “were read at Gray’s Inn but left out at Court to avoid tediousness.” Most of these are found in pp. 428 - 432 . Amicis, [633] amici nostri dignissimi dignissimis, EPIGRAMMA D. Johannes Marstonius . Ye ready friends, spare your unneedful bays: This work despairful Envy must even praise. Phœbus hath voiced it loud through echoing skies: “Sejanus’ Fall shall force thy merit rise:” For never English shall, or hath before Spoke fuller graced. He could say much, not more. [633] Prefixed to the 1605 4to. of Ben Jonson’s Sejanus . INDEX. Abhominable, ii. 219 Accourt, i. 52 Accoustrements, iii. 261 Accustrements, i. 24 Achelous, ii. 144 Actors (two or more parts taken by one actor), i. 8 Adamant softened by goat’s blood, iii. 151 Aderliver, ii. 18 Admiral, iii. 84 Adore and adorn (confusion between), iii. 362 Ægina, iii. 290 Affects (= affections), i. 119, 160 A-jax, ii. 368; iii. 377 Allay, ii. 73 All-canning, iii. 263 , 335 Aloune ( Fr. allons), ii. 355 Ambages, iii. 173 Anatomy, iii. 139 , 236 Ancome, iii. 51 And ever she cried Shoot home , iii. 15 Anechou e apechou , ii. 176 An-end, iii. 164 Aphrodisiacs, i. 239 Apple-squire, ii. 383 Aporn, ii. 65 Apostata, iii. 220 Approvement, i. 189 Apricock, ii. 130 Aquinian, iii. 327 Aretine, Puttana Errante falsely ascribed to, iii. 377 ; Aretine’s Pictures , iii. 275 Aristotle quoted, iii. 329 ; Aristotle’s Problems , i. 152 Armed Epilogue, i. 93 Assay (“give me assay”), i. 64 Assured, i. 109 At all, iii. 318 Aunt, ii. 14 Babies, iii. 362 Babion, iii. 364 Bable, i. 85, 158; ii. 69 Bacchis, iii. 356 Backside, iii. 101 Bacon, Friar, ii. 125 Badged coach, iii. 350 Baffle, ii. 401 Baldessar Castiglione, i. 222; iii. 264 Bale of dice, ii. 382 Balloon, iii. 17 Bankrout, i. 138 Banks, i. 21 Barbary sugar, ii. 360 Barksteed, William, iii. 243 Barmy froth, iii. 339 Barnes, Barnabe, iii. 358 Bases, iii. 153 Basilisco, ii. 348 Basilus manus, iii. 192 Basket (for collecting food for poor prisoners), iii. 111 Bastard, Thomas, quoted by Marston, Addenda , vol. i. Battle fate, ii. 350 Bawbees, i. 204 Bayard (“bold as blind Bayard”), ii. 324 Beaking, i. 133 Bear a brain, ii. 60, 124 Bear no coals, i. 168 Beat, i. 146 Beaver, iii. 350 Becco, i. 214, 287 Beg for a fool, i. 233; ii. 347; iii. 217 Beggar-wench, jest about, iii. 302 Bel and the Dragon, ii. 131 Belly-cheer, iii. 366 Bescumber, iii. 363 Bessicler’s armour, i. 30 Bewray and beray , i. 114; ii. 359 Bezel, i. 240; iii. 275 , 349 Black ox trod o’ my foot, iii. 119 Blackfriars, feather-makers reside at, i. 202; Blackfriars’ Theatre, i. 199 Black-guard, ii. 182 Blacks, ii. 339 Blacksaunt, iii. 347 Blind Gew, i. 13 Blue coat, iii. 50 , 301 Books called in, ii. 48 Boot-carouse, iii. 275 Borage in wine, iii. 394 Bottle-ale (term of reproach), iii. 339 Brack, i. 9, 140 Bragot, ii. 101 Braided, iii. 325 , 337 Brakes, i. 320 Brasil, iii. 272 Brides serenaded on the morning after their wedding, ii. 389 Brill, iii. 348 Brittany, i. 26 Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, ii. 197; iii. 151, 241 Budge, iii. 346, 368 Buffin, iii. 14 Bully, i. 79; ii. 353 Burbage, Richard, i. 201 Burbolt, ii. 323 Burgonian’s ward, iii. 373 Buried treasure, iii. 219 Burn, iii. 241 Busk, i. 9 Busk-point, i. 274; iii. 255 Buss, ii. 90 But a little higher , &c., Addenda , vol. i. Cable-hatband, i. 31 Cables (used as a protection from the fire of the enemy), i. 30 Camomile (“mount like camomile”), ii. 144 Campion, Thomas, Addenda , vol. i. Cant, i. 132 Carpet-boy, i. 20 Carry coals, i. 288 Carver (“you’re a cunning carver”), iii. 141 Case (kaze), ii. 11 Case (= covering), iii. 109 Case of rapiers, i. 30 Cast o’ ladies, i. 238 Castilio, i. 222; iii. 264 Casting-bottle, i. 13 Catso, i. 216, 304, &c. Censure, i. 202; ii. 255, 323 Chamlet, ii. 345 Chaun, i. 46 Cheat-bread, iii. 103 Cheator, ii. 406 Cherries at an angel a pound, iii. 15 Chittizen, iii. 19 Chopines, ii. 50 Christ-Church Parish, iii. 12 Chuck (term of endearment), iii. 104 Cinædian, iii. 310 Cinquepace, iii. 268 Cipres, i. 258 Cittern-heads, iii. 301 Claw, i. 105 Clerkenwell, ii. 16 Close fight, i. 24 Clove-stuck face, iii. 348 Clumsy, i. 99 Clutch, i. 144 Cluttered, i. 120; iii. 356 Coast, i. 312 Cockatrice, i. 301; ii. 18; iii. 224 Codpis, iii. 273 Cog a die, i. 48 Coistered, i. 293 Collogue, i. 302 Colour de roy, i. 111 Come aloft Jack-an-apes, i. 214 Come on five, iii. 318 Commodities (“take up commodities”), i. 305, &c. Common-place book out of plays, iii. 372 Complements, i. 233 Consort, iii. 432 Convey, ii. 387 Copy, ii. 408 Coranto, i. 32 Corbed, i. 130 Cork shoe, i. 81 Cornish daws, iii. 332 Coronel, iii. 212 Corsive, iii. 151 Cote, i. 167 Crab’s baked guts, i. 239; iii. 320 Crack (pert boy), ii. 383 Creak’s noise, ii. 45 Cressit light, i. 41 Cross-bite, ii. 381, 387 Crowds, ii. 373 Crudled, i. 26 Cuckold’s haven, iii. 68 Cuckquean, ii. 377 Cullion, i. 206; iii. 89 Cullisses, ii. 141 Culvering, iii. 365 Curson’d, i. 55 Curtain Theatre, Romeo and Juliet performed at, iii. 373 Custard (“let custards quake”), iii. 312 Cut (“in the old cut”), i. 11 Cut and long tail, iii. 10 Cutter, ii. 401 Cutting, ii. 45 Cyllenian, iii. 274 Dametas, iii. 268 Daniel the Prophet, ii. 150; iii. 341 Daniel, Samuel, iii. 283 Day (“let him have day”), ii. 8 Day, John, his Humour out of Breath dedicated to Signior Nobody , i. 5; quotation from his Isle of Gulls , i. 289 Death o’ sense, ii. 158 Death’s head on rings, ii. 16 Decimo sexto, i. 203 Defend (“God defend!”), i. 204 Demosthenes paid for his silence, ii. 152 Denier, iii. 315 Depaint, i. 90; iii. 271 Deprave, ii. 126 Diet, ii. 370; diet-drink, ii. 15 Diety, ii. 24 Digby, Sir Everard, ii. 193 Dilling, ii. 344; iii. 10 Ding, i. 11, 166; iii. 282 Diogenes the Cynic, scandalous story about, iii. 319 Dipsas, i. 238 Discreet number, iii. 314 Disgest, i. 140, 146, 161; ii. 179 Divines and dying men may talk of hell , &c., iii. 225 Division, i. 48, 81 Do me right and dub me knight , i. 81 Donne’s verses On a Flea on his Mistress’ Bosom , iii. 359 Donzel del Phebo, i. 300 Dowland, John, his First Book of Songs quoted, iii. 14 , 55 Drake’s ship at Deptford, iii. 59 Drayton, Michael, iii. 283 , 363 Drink drunk, iii. 84 Dropsy-noul, iii. 340 Dun cow with a kettle on her head, i. 72 Durance, iii. 15 Dutch ancients, iii. 351 Eager, ii. 73 Eastward Ho! iii. 5 ; satirical reflections on the Scots, iii. 65 Ela (“I have strained a note above Ela”), i. 86 Enagonian, iii. 336 Enginer, iii. 97 Enhanceress, ii. 15 Epictetus, saying of, ii. 176 Erasmus, resemblance between a passage of his Colloquies and passage of First Part of Antonio and Mellida , i. 62 Ercole, Duke of Ferrara, ii. 117 Estro, ii. 156 Euphues, ii. 69 Fact, ii. 95; iii. 224 Fage, iii. 308 Fair, iii. 350 Falls, iii. 267 False lights, iii. 337 Family of Love, ii. 13 Far fet and dear bought is good for ladies, i. 306 Fart (“get a fart from a dead man”), iii. 90 Fawn, ii. 115 Feak, iii. 265 Fear (= frighten), ii. 158 Fear no colours, iii. 153 Featherbeds used in naval engagements as a protection against the fire of the enemy, i. 30 Feature, iii. 251 Feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis , ii. 404 Fencing, terms in, iii. 373 Fere, iii. 225 Fetch, i. 127 Fever-lurdens, iii. 420 Fico, ii. 133; iii. 320 Figent, iii. 60 Fin (“the fin of his eyes”), i. 214 Fist, ii. 42, 73, 82; iii. 90 Flap-dragon, ii. 70 Flat-cap, ii. 32; iii. 11 Fleam, i. 230 Fleamy, i. 133 Flushing, i. 234 Flyboat, i. 87 Foisting-hound, iii. 41 Foot-cloth, i. 213; ii. 153 Foutra, ii. 32 Fowl (fool), i. 260 Frail commodities, iii. 40 French brawl, ii. 377 Froe, ii. 13 Froterer, ii. 384 Fumatho, ii. 184 Galleasse, i. 87, 162 Gallemawfrey, iii. 139 Gamashes, ii. 344 Garboil, iii. 356 Geason, ii. 331, 339 Gelded vicary, iii. 324 , 337 Gelid and jellied , ii. 291 Gern, i. 55, 111; ii. 203, 403 Get-penny, iii. 87 Gew, the actor, i. 13; Addenda , vol. i. Ghosts of misers, iii. 219 Giants at the Lord Mayor’s pageant, ii. 50 Gib-cat, ii. 203 Giglet, ii. 340, 400 Gilt, iii. 323 Give arms, iii. 11 Give further day, ii. 328 Glaired, iii. 277 Glassy Priapus, iii. 309 Glaver, iii. 263 , 339 Glibbery, i. 22 Glory, ii. 225 Gnatho, iii. 291 Goat’s blood, iii. 151 God you good even, iii. 5 ; God ye good morrow, ii. 393 God’s neaks, i. 54 Gold ends, iii. 28 Gold-end man, iii. 103 Goldsmiths’ Row, i. 205 Good man (= wealthy man), ii. 57 Goose-turd-green, ii. 47 Gorget, ii. 260 Gormand, iii. 327 Granado netherstocks, iii. 301 Grand grincome, ii. 31 Great man’s head, iii. 348 Gresco, iii. 93 Griffith, Margaret, i. 233 Griffon, i. 297 Grillus, iii. 281 Ground, i. 37; iii. 142 Guarded, i. 232; iii. 346 Guards, ii. 387; iii. 14 Guilpin, Edward, iii. 287 , 367 Gundolet, i. 57 Gurnet’s head, iii. 341 Guzzel dogs, iii. 308 Half-clam’d, i. 150 Half-crown ordinary, ii. 406 Hall, Joseph, iii. 281 -6; Marston’s imitations of, iii. 310 , 320 , 323 Hall (“A hall! a hall!”), iii. 372 Hamlet , quoted in The Malcontent , i. 201, 264; early popularity of, iii. 49 , 52 ; imitation of passages from, i. 224; iii. 133 , 134 , 137 , 230 Hangers, i. 36; ii. 406 Harvey, John, i. 205 Hatch short sword, ii. 406 Hazard, iii. 100 Head-men, iii. 37 Healths in urine, ii. 70 Heathy, i. 15; Addenda , vol. i. Hem, ii. 14 Henry IV. , Part I. , imitation of passage from, iii. 219 Herring-bones, iii. 344 Hey-pass re-pass, ii. 381 Heywood, Thomas, popularity of his If you know not me you know nobody , iii. 87 High-lone, i. 172 High-noll’d, i. 165 Hipponax, iii. 359 Hiren (“Hast thou not Hiren here?”), iii. 26 Hogson, iii. 319 Hole (part of a prison), iii. 106 Honorificabilitudinitatibus, ii. 92 Horn-fair, iii. 72 Hout, i. 65 Huddle, i. 213 Hull, i. 87; ii. 250 Hyena, iii. 115 ; confused by Marston with the panther, ii. 347 Hymen represented in a saffron robe, i. 261 Imagines Deorum , iii. 270 Imbraid, i. 117, 283 Incubus, i. 107, 172 Inductions to plays, i. 7 Ingenious, ii. 109, 397 Injury (verb), iii. 381 Instaur’d, ii. 333 Intellectual, iii. 372 Inward, i. 282 Io! i. 183 Irishmen, commendable bashfulness of, i. 265 Italy, vices brought to England from, iii. 275 Jakes of Lincoln’s Inn, ii. 368 James I , his Poetical Exercises , iii. 281 ; James’ knights, sneer at, iii. 79 Jawn, i. 129 Jellied, i. 114, 126; ii. 291 Jingling spurs, i. 233 Jobbernole, iii. 301 , 341 Jones, Robert, quotation from his First Book of Songs and Airs , ii. 33 Jonson, Ben, compliment to, i. 320; allusion to a passage in his Volpone , ii. 190; sneer at his Sejanus , ii. 235; ridiculed, iii. 305 Jove (influence of the planet Jupiter), ii. 292 Judas’ red beard, iii. 166 Julia (daughter of Augustus), witty saying of, ii. 12 Julius Cæsar , quoted, iii. 215 Juvenal imitated, iii. 308 - 9 Ka me, ka thee, iii. 30 Keel, i. 77; ii. 321 Kempe’s Jig, iii. 372 King of flames, ii. 292 King John , quoted, ii. 354 Kinsing, iii. 369 Kinsayder, ii. 350 Knight’s ward, iii. 106 Knighthood purchased from King James, iii. 79 Knights of the mew, ii. 322 Knock, i. 31 Knurly, i. 166 Lady-bird, iii. 104 Lælius Balbus, ii. 130 Lamb, Charles, his criticisms on Marston, i. 49, 100; his remarks on the Decay of Symbols, ii. 338 Lanch (= lance), ii. 193 Lanthorn and candle-light, i. 35; iii. 202 Laver-lip, iii. 291 Lavolta, i. 183 Lay, iii. 88 Lay in lavender, iii. 100 Leese, iii. 346 Leg of a lark is better than the body of a kite, iii. 104 Legend of Lies , ii. 69 Legs (= bows), iii. 264 Lemon’s juice, iii. 350 Lent, consumption of flesh forbidden during, iii. 203 Leopards, their fondness for wine, iii. 238 Lettuce, iii. 320 Lie, ii. 16 Lindabrides, ii. 55 Linstock, i. 30 Lion, curious belief concerning, iii. 237 London licket, iii. 14 Long stock, ii. 337 Loose (“at the loose”), ii. 387 Los guantes, i. 276 Lovery, iii. 337 Lozenges of Sanctified Sincerity , i. 255 Lugg’d boot, iii. 378 Lusk, iii. 335 , 358 Luskish, iii. 324 Lusty Laurence, iii. 289 Luxuriousness, iii. 349 M. under your girdle, iii. 92 Mace, iii. 277 Main, ii. 406 Make (“What should we make here?”), iii. 131 Male lie, iii. 308 Malice (verb), ii. 40, 91, 109 Mandragora, iii. 114 Mandrake, iii. 219 Mannington, George, his woeful ballad, iii. 118 March-panes, ii. 373 Marry faugh, iii. 11 Marry muff, i. 169 Martial quoted, ii. 28, 110 Mary Ambree, i. 22 Mason’s Mulleasses , allusion to passage of, iii. 31 ; quoted, Addenda , vol. i. Maypole (term of abuse), i. 23 Measure, i. 184, 276; ii. 43 Measuring, iii. 311 Merchant of Venice quoted, iii. 34 Mere, merely, i. 236, 320; ii. 297 Methodist Musus, iii. 308 Metreza, i. 213 Mincing capreal, iii. 372 Minikin, i. 51, 80 Minikin-tickler, ii. 401 Minioning, i. 279 Mirror of Knighthood , i. 300; ii. 69 Mirror for Magistrates , iii. 283 Modern, i. 11; iii. 364 Monmouth caps, iii. 84 Month’s mind, iii. 135 Moorfields (favourite spot for beggars), iii. 13 More hair than wit, iii. 199 Mortimer’s numbers, iii. 363 Motion (= proposal), i. 159; ii. 51, 96; iii. 123 Motion (= puppet-show), ii. 51 Mott, iii. 332 Much (ironical), i. 243, 251, &c. Muckender, ii. 359 Mumchance, ii. 382 Murr, i. 153; ii. 140 Muscovy glass, i. 234 Music-houses, i. 185 Mycerinus, iii. 243 Naples’ canker, iii. 309 ; Naples’ pestilence, ii. 349 Nashe, Thomas, quoted, iii. 48 , 225 , 273 Natalis Comes, iii. 270 Neast (nest) of goblets, ii. 7 Nectar-skink, ii. 307 Ne’er-crazed, iii. 355 Nemis, iii. 289 Nile, dogs drinking on the bank of, ii. 281 Nitty, iii. 276 , 370 No point, ii. 77 Noddy, iii. 189 Noise, ii. 43 Nuzzel, ii. 372 O God, i. 32 O hone, hone , iii. 98 O Lord, sir, ii. 30 Obligation, ii. 57 Occupant, iii. 300 , 349 Occupation, ii. 219 O’er-peise, i. 310 Old cut (= old fashion), i. 11 One and thirty, iii. 329 Ophelia, iii. 52 Ophiogeni, iii. 310 Outrecuidance, iii. 95 Owe, ii. 259 Ox-pith, i. 239 Packstaff epithets, iii. 338 ; packstaff rhymes, iii. 310 Pages, their fondness for dicing, ii. 382 Paize, i. 100, 121; ii. 327 Palæphatus, iii. 311 Pale, ii. 287 Palladium, ii. 252 Palmerin de Oliva, ii. 69 Pane, ii. 337; iii. 349 Pantable, pantofle, i. 29; ii. 382 Parcel-gilt, ii. 57 Parkets, ii. 141 Parmeno (“nothing ad Parmenonis suem ”), i. 204 Parted, iii. 20 Parthenophil, iii. 358 Party per pale, ii. 345 Passion, i. 90 Pavin, iii. 340 Peat, ii. 339; iii. 100 Peele, Gronge, Merry Jests of, i. 40 Peevish, iii. 254 Peggy’s complaint for the death of her Willy , ii. 29 Pepper in the nose, ii. 321 Peregal, i. 55 Perfumed jerkin, i. 314 Perpetuana, ii. 343 Persius quoted, ii. 111 Peterman, iii. 38 Petronel, i. 19 Physic against Fortune , i. 255 Pickhatch, iii. 319 , 376 Pill (= peel), i. 99 Pillowbear, iii. 253 Pin and the web, iii. 423 Pirates hanged at Wapping, iii. 91 Pistol, Ancient (scraps of his rant), iii. 11 Placket, ii. 383 Plastic, i. 234 Plat, i. 54 Play-bills stuck on posts, iii. 302 Plunge, i. 105 Plutarch quoted, ii. 152, 266 Pole-head, ii. 348 Pomander, i. 294 Pommado reversa, iii. 375 Pompey the huge, i. 214 Ponado, iii. 42 Poor John, i. 89 Popeling, iii. 262 Porcpisce, iii. 69 Port Esquiline, iii. 351 , 361 Possessed persons able to speak in various tongues, i. 212 Poting-stick, i. 308 Prest, ii. 250; iii. 312 Priapus’ gardens, iii. 302 Proface, iii. 303 Prostitution (= whore), ii. 13 Protest (use of the word considered affected), ii. 345 Pudding tobacco, ii. 344 Pug, i. 29, 152 Puisne, iii. 300 Purchase, i. 303; ii. 410 Purfled, i. 110 Puritan (cant term for a whore), ii. 383 Puritans’ ruffs, i. 13 Put-pin, iii. 362 Putry, i. 150 Quelquechose, i. 216 Quiblin, iii. 60 Quote, ii. 364 Ramp, i. 99 Ramsey, Lady, iii. 87 Rariety, iii. 213 Rats of Nilus, iii. 342 , 344 Real (= regal), i. 34 Reason (raisin), iii. 154 Rebato, i. 31; iii. 351 Red lattice, i. 86 Reez’d bacon, iii. 322 Remora, iii. 84 Remorse, i. 21, 90 Renowmed, ii. 165 Respective (= respectful), i. 152 Reverent (= reverend), ii. 292; iii. 29 , &c. Rhinoceros’ horn, iii. 139 Ribanded ears, ii. 391; iii. 301 Richard II. , quoted, i. 28; imitation of passage from, iii. 146 Richard III. , quoted, i. 47, 48; ii. 349; iii. 344 Ride at the ring, i. 214 Riding-wand, iii. 38 Rings with death’s head, ii. 16 Ringo-root, iii. 348 Rivels (= wrinkles), i. 243; rivell’d, i. 108; iii. 234 Rivo, ii. 349, 355 Roast beef (a “commodity”), iii. 40 Rochelle churchman, i. 252 Rodio, iii. 267 Room, i. 202, 206 Romeo and Juliet performed at the Curtain Theatre, iii. 373 ; early popularity of, iii. 140 Rope-maker’s son, ii. 153 Rosa solis, ii. 45 Rosemary, iii. 53 , 138 Rosicleer, i. 30, 300 Ruff, iii. 182 Ruffled boot, i. 83 Rug-gowns, ii. 395 Rutter, ii. 386 Sacramental wine poisoned, iii. 241 Sad, sadly, sadness, i. 71; iii. 258 , 339 St. Agnes’ Eve, iii. 141 Salaminian, iii. 261 Say (“take say”), ii. 11 Sconce, i. 236; iii. 84 Scotch barnacle, i. 256; Scotch boot, i. 257; Scotch farthingale, iii. 16 Scots, satirised in Eastward Ho! iii. 64 Seneca quoted, i. 20, 49, 122, 127, 130, 133, 141, 144-5, 149, 174, 237, 265, 304; ii. 109 Servant (= suitor, lover), i. 33; ii. 388 Sest, ii. 374, 402 Sewer, ii. 135 Shakespeare, imitated, i. 28, 47, 48, 224; ii. 23, 143, 218; iii. 133 , 134 , 137 , 146 , 215 , 219 , 230 ; burlesqued, i. 206; ii. 349; iii. 344 Shaking of the sheets, iii. 165 Shale, ii. 185 Ship of Fools, ii. 122 Shirley, James, iii. 344 Shot-clog, iii. 13 Si quis, ii. 304 Sick Man’s Salve , iii. 107 Siddow, i. 162 Silver piss-pots, iii. 316 Sink a-pace (cinquepace), iii. 156 Sinking thought, i. 106 Sinklo, the actor, i. 200 Sip a kiss, i. 91 Slatted, i. 281 Sliftred, i. 27 Slip, i. 81, 111 Slop, i. 83 Sluice (“sluiced out his life-blood”), i. 189; iii. 224 Slur, iii. 371 Sly, William, i. 199 Small, ii. 361 Snaphance, iii. 269 , 330 Snib, i. 264; ii. 353; iii. 379 Snout-fair, iii. 320 Snurling, i. 186 Soil (“take soil”), i. 254 Soldado, iii. 261 , 357 Sometimes, iii. 282 Sophocles’ Antigone quoted, i. 128 Souse, i. 279 Southwell, Robert, iii. 281 Spanish blocks, iii. 301 Spanish leather, ii. 7 Spanish Tragedy , i. 121, 168; iii. 12 , 26 , 28 Speak pure fool, i. 85 Speeding-place, ii. 333 Spiders eaten by monkeys, i. 213 Spur-royals, i. 109 Spurs (jingling spurs affected by gallants), i. 233 Squibs running on lines, ii. 121 Stabb’d arms, ii. 70 Stage, custom of gallants to sit (and smoke) on the, i. 199, 200, 206 Stalking-horse, i. 283 Stammel, ii. 387; iii. 14 State (= throne), i. 36; ii. 215 States (= nobles), i. 109, 159, 162 Statist, ii. 262 Statute-staple, iii. 322 Stigmatic, iii. 359 Stock (= stoccata), i. 111, 239 Stockado, iii. 268 Stone-bows, ii. 8 Streak, iii. 323 , 355 Stut, ii. 342 Suburbs (bawdy-houses in), i. 317 Suffenus, iii. 306 Surphule, i. 245; iii. 275 , 310 Surquedry, i. 50, 147; iii. 267 Switzer, iii. 348 Swound, ii. 93 Sylvester, Joshua, iii. 281 Tacitus, his remarks on prohibited books, ii. 48 Take say, ii. 11 Take the whiff, ii. 353 Take up commodities, ii. 340; iii. 365 Tamburlaine , iii. 25 Tanakin, ii. 13 Taw, ii. 376 Tereus, iii. 266 Termagant, iii. 240 There goes but a pair of shears betwixt, i. 290 Thou’st (= thou must), i. 283 Thristing, ii. 413 Thunder, eels roused from the mud by, iii. 347 Thus while she sleeps I sorrow for her sake , iii. 14 Thwack a jerkin, ii. 405 Toderers, i. 210 Too too, ii. 328; iii. 313 Totter’d, ii. 373 Touch (= perception), i. 105 Toy to mock an ape withal, iii. 362 Tradesmen’s wives used as lures to attract customers, ii. 60; iii. 266 , 325 Tragœdia cothurnata, i. 140 Travellers, affected solemnity of, i. 12; iii. 274 Traverse, iii. 394 Trenchmore, iii. 272 Tretably, ii. 358 Trick of twenty, i. 276; ii. 54 Trot the ring, i. 111, 142; iii. 378 Trow (= think you?), iii. 74 Trunk, iii. 31 Trunk-sleeves, ii. 184 Truss my hose, i. 10 Tubrio, iii. 273 Tumbrel, iii. 262 , 346 Turnmill Street, ii. 16 Turn-spit dog bound to his wheel, iii. 41 Tweer, i. 71 Twelve-penny room, i. 202 Twinest (= embraces), i. 117 Twopenny ward, iii. 106 Ulysses, his counterfeited madness, iii. 15 Unheal, i. 243 Unnookt simplicity, i. 163 Unpaiz’d, i. 144 Unperegall, ii. 85 Unshale, i. 215 Upbraid, iii. 379 Ure, iii. 312 , 329 Vaunt-guard, iii. 261 Vaut, ii. 288 Velure, i. 79 Via, ii. 20, 43, 133 Vie, iii. 84 Vin de monte, ii. 140 Vincentio Saviolo, iii. 373 Violets, bridal-beds strewn with, ii. 373 Virgil imitated, i. 113 Virginia, early settlers in, iii. 63 Virgins, popularly supposed to have the right to save the lives of criminals, iii. 190 Virtue, ii. 247 Vively, ii. 293 Voluntaries, iii. 261 Wall-eyed, iii. 133 Wandering whore, iii. 377 Wards, treatment of, iii. 314 Wedlock (= wife), ii. 143; iii. 47 Weeping Cross, iii. 85 Welshmen’s pride in their gentility, i. 258 Westward Ho! comedy of, iii. 5 Westward Ho! ( i.e. , to Tyburn), iii. 27 Wet finger (“with a wet finger”), ii. 189 What could I do withal? ii. 214 When (exclamation of impatience) i. 241; ii. 348, &c. When Arthur first in Court began , i. 240 When Sampson was a tall young man , iii. 32 Whiblin, iii. 168 Whiff, take the, ii. 353 Who calls Jeronimo? iii. 12 Who cries out murther? Lady, was it you? iii. 26 Wighy, i. 56 Will (= command), i. 125, ii. 305 Willow garland, ii. 336 Wimble, i. 58 Wisards (wise men), i. 159; iii. 335 With a wanion, iii. 53 Witches turned into cats, ii. 203 Without a man ( i.e. , outside of man’s sense), ii. 294 Wolt, i. 27 Wood, ii. 253 Woodstock’s work, iii. 276 Woollen caps, ii. 60 Word (= motto), i. 77, 84; iii. 155 Wounds of a murdered man supposed to bleed in the presence of the murderer, iii. 224 Wrapt up in the tail of his mother’s smock, ii. 407 Wrinkles, vulgar belief concerning, iii. 135 Writhled, iii. 326 Wrought shirt, i. 79 Xylinum, iii. 288 , 342 Yellow, iii. 123 You’st (= you must), i. 310 Zabarella, Giacomo, ii. 363

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