A Select Collection of Old English Plays
Chapter 536 : [477] Old copy, _you_. [478] Old copy, _Richards_. [479] [Old copy, _us_.] [480] Succe

[477] Old copy, _you_.

[478] Old copy, _Richard's_.

[479] [Old copy, _us_.]

[480] Succeed.

[481] Perhaps the dance so called is meant.

[482] [Old copy, _them_.]

[483] [Old. copy, _ye spoke_.]

[484] Old copy, _rove_.

[485] i.e., From the time of the Confessor.

[486] i.e., Spain; old copy, _Gads_.

[487] A word or words left blank in the old copy.

[488] His gown.

[489] Old copy, _Levarnian_.

[490] Old copy, _It_.

[491] Old copy, _ane_.

[492] The word _search_ is here, and again a little further on used in the sense of _searchers_.

[493] Old copy, _another_; but Redcap is evidently accompanied by two a.s.sistants.

[494] This appears to stand for officers of the peace, as the _watch_ and the _search_.

[495] Old copy, _King_.

[496] A brothel.

[497] [Old copy, _age_.]

[498] [Old copy, _Fau_, for _Fauconbridge_.]

[499] [This might appear to be a corruption of _go out_, or of _G.o.d's gut (G.o.d's guts_ is an e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.i.o.n found elsewhere); but from a subsequent pa.s.sage we can but conclude that the disease so called is intended.]

[500] Old copy, _fill'd_, the compositor's eye, perhaps, having strayed to the next line.

[501] Strong. See a long note in Nares, edit. 1859, p. 606.

[502] Old copy; _here_.

[503] A room in the Salutation so called.

[504] Guests.

[505] Old copy, _at_.

[506] Old copy, _Raynald_.

[507] [Old copy, _me of_.]

[508] i.e., Terms, as mentioned before. Old copy, _then_.

[509] To _meet with_ is a very common phrase for to _serve_ out, _requite_.

[510] Skink issues from the hermit's house in the disguise of the man whom he is supposed to have cured, and as he leaves, addresses parting words to the hermit within.

[511] Breviary.

[512] Old copy, _them_.

[513] Brand.

[514] Old copy, _of_.

[515] Old copy, _Glo_.

[516] [Old copy, _last_.]

[517] [Old copy, _this_.]

[518] Old copy, _salutes he_.

[519] Old copy, _you for_.

[520] Old copy, _in_.

[521] [Old copy, _we_.]

[522] [Old copy, _we'll_.]

[523] [Old copy, _sighs and songs_.]

[524] In this pa.s.sage the phrase, _to wear the yellow_, seems hardly to bear the ordinary construction of, _to be jealous_.

[525] Old copy, _pining_.

[526] Old copy gives this line to the lady, i.e., the merchant's wife.