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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15

Chapter 70: FOOTNOTES:
By Robert Dodsley
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An edited anthology gathers seventeenth-century and earlier English plays, presented chronologically with introductions, dramatis personae, stage directions, and explanatory notes by various commentators with added annotations. The selection includes comedies of intrigue and Restoration-era dramas that explore mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, honour, and social satire; several pieces derive from or adapt Spanish originals and feature complex plots, servants' subplots, and courtroom or domestic scenes. Scholarly apparatus includes a prefatory history of the theatre, glossarial and errata indices, and editorial commentary that contextualizes authorship, editions, and performance history for readers seeking both dramatic texts and critical notes.

ERRATA

VOL. I. Page 62, for goodness read goddess.
VOL. II. ... 135, ... knotted ... notted.[98]
... ... 216, ... noboby ... nobody.
VOL. III. ... 58,[99] ... oppose ... appose.
... ... 59, ... maketh ... keepeth.
... ... 71, ... fault ... faults.
... ... 82, ... so sore ... to fore.
... ... ib. ... be fed ... to be fed.
... ... 83, l. 17. The correspondent thinks this line belongs to Omnes Famulæ.
... ... 88, for had chid read chid.
... ... 95, ... I ever ... ever I.
... ... 97, ... wage-pasty ... way-pasty.[100]
... ... 99, ... he ... ye.
... ... ib. ... ield ... yelde.
... ... 105, ... to please ... it please.
... ... 108, ... a master ... an M.
... ... 117, ... as much ... so much.
... ... 118, ... make a ... make me a.
... ... 121, ... another than ... another but.
... ... ib. ... readiness ... a readiness.
... ... 122, ... other's ... others'.
... ... ib. ... point whereof ... point wherefore.
... ... 125, ... draw ye ... draw we.
... ... 128, ... thou goose ... you goose.
... ... 139, ... Not if all the ... Nor if all the.
... ... 140, ... where or how ... where nor how.
... ... 158, ... all men ... of all men.
... ... 178, ... halse-aker ... half-acre.[101]
VOL. V. ... 115, ... Alvearic ... Alvearie.
... ... 285, ... Got ... Get.
VoL. IX. ... 98, ... collection ... collation.
... ... ib. ... moldash ... molash.
... ... 332,
... ... 205, ... Amoretta ... Amoretto.
VOL. X. ... 274, ... Foresaw ... Foreseen.
VOL. XI. ... 436, ... Sir Thomas ... St. Thomas.

FOOTNOTES:

[98] See Nares. ed. 1859, v. Nott. We still have the vulgarism nut for the head; but it more properly means a head with the hair cut close.

[99] These errors in "Ralph Roister Doister" have been pointed out by a correspondent, who states that he has detected them on a personal collation of the original copy at Eton College. But many of the variations noticed by this gentleman have been intentional corrections of the old copy.

[100] Yet in "Jack Juggler" (ii. 141), wage-pasty occurs.

[101] So in "Appius and Virginia" (iv. 136)—

"Hard by Hodge's half-acre, at Gaffer Miller's stile."