The Works of John Marston. Volume 2

Ran. Cease! the duke approacheth: ’tis almost night,
For the duke’s up: now begins his day.
Come, grace his entrance. Lights! lights! Now ’gins our play.

Duke. Still these same bawling pipes: sound softer strains!
Slumber our sense: tut! these are vulgar strains.
Cannot your trembling wires throw a chain
Of powerful rapture ’bout our mazèd sense?
Why is our chair thus cushion’d tapestry,    200
Why is our bed tirèd with wanton sports,
Why are we clothed in glistering attires,
If common bloods can hear, can feel,
Can sit as soft, lie as lascivious,
Strut[555] all as rich as the greatest potentate:—
Soul! and you cannot feast my thristing[556] ears
With aught but what the lip of common birth can taste,
Take all away; your labour’s idly waste.
What sport for night?

Lam. A comedy, entitled Temperance.    210

Duke. What sot elects that subject for the court?
What should dame Temperance do here? Away!
The itch on Temperance, your moral play!

Qua. Duke, prince, royal blood!—thou that hast the best means to be damn’d of any lord in Venice;—thou great man! let me kiss thy flesh. I am fat,[557] and therefore faithful; I will do that which few of thy subjects do,—love thee: but I will never do that which all thy subjects do,—flatter thee thy humour’s real, good. A comedy!    220

No, and thy sense would banquet in delights
Appropriate to the blood of emperors,
Peculiar to the state of majesty,
That none can relish but dilated greatness,
Vouchsafe to view the structure of a scene
That stands on tragic solid passion.
O that’s fit traffic to commerce with births,
Strain’d from the mud of base unable brains!
Give them a scene may force their struggling blood
Rise up on tiptoe in attention,    230
And fill their intellect with pure elixed wit;
O that’s for greatness apt, for princes fit!

Duke. Darest thou then undertake to suit our ears
With such rich vestment?

And run away from ’s body in swift thoughts,
To melt in contemplation’s luscious sweets!    260
Now, O my voluptuous duke, I’ll feed thy sense
Worth his creation: give me audience.

Jaco. My worthy liege, the jest comes only thus.
Now to stop and cross it with mere like deceit:
All being known, the French knight hath disguised
A fiddler, like Albano too, to fright the perfumer:—this is all.    291

Lav. Worthy sir, pardon; and permit me first to confess [to] yourself,—your deputation[558] dead, hath made my love live, to offend you.    301

Alb. Ay, mock on,—scoff on,—flout on,—do, do, do.

Lav. Troth, sir, in serious.

Alb. Ay, good, good; come hither, Celia.
Burst, breast! rive, heart, asunder! Celia,
Why startest thou back? Seest thou this, Celia?
O me!
How often, with lascivious touch, thy lip
Hath kissed this mark? How oft this much-wrong’d breast
Hath borne the gentle weight of thy soft cheek?    310

Cel. O me, my dearest lord,—my sweet, sweet love!

Alb. What, a fiddler,—a fiddler? now thy love?
I am sure thou scorn’st it; nay, Celia, I could tell
What, on the night before I went to sea,
And took my leave, with hymeneal rites,
What thou lisped
Into my ear, a fiddler and perfumer now!

And.[559] And——

Ran. Dear brother.

Jaco. Most respected signior;
Believe it, by the sacred end of love,    320
What much, much wrong hath forced your patience,
Proceeded from most dear affièd love,
Devoted to your house.

And.[559] Believe it, brother.

Jaco. Nay, yourself, when you shall hear the occurrences, will say ’tis happy, comical.

Ran. Assure thee, brother.

Alb. Shall I be brave? Shall I be myself now? Love, give me thy love; brothers, give me your breasts; French knight, reach me thy hand; perfumer, thy fist. Duke, I invite thee; love, I forgive thee; Frenchman, I hug thee. I’ll know all,—I’ll pardon all,—and I’ll laugh at all!

[Albano and his brothers talk apart.

Qua. And I’ll curse you all!—O ye ha’ interrupt a scene!    334

Duke. Quadratus, we will hear these points discuss’d,
With apter and more calm affected hours.

Qua. Well, good, good.

Alb. Was’t even so? I’faith, why then, capricious mirth,
Skip light moriscoes in our frolic blood,[560]
Flagg’d veins, sweat,[561] plump with fresh-infusèd joys!
Laughter, pucker our cheeks, make shoulders shog
With chucking lightness! Love, once more thy lips!
For ever clasp our hands, our hearts, our crests!    343
Thus front, thus eyes, thus cheek, thus all shall meet!
Shall clip, shall hug, shall kiss, my dear, dear sweet!
Duke, wilt thou see me revel? Come, love, dance
Court, gallants, court; suck amorous dalliance!

Lam. Beauty, your heart!

Mel. First, sir, accept my hands:
She leaps too rash that falls in sudden bands.

Lam. Shall I despair? Never will I love more!    350

Mel. No sea so boundless vast but hath a shore.

Qua. Why, marry me;
Thou canst have but soft flesh, good blood, sound bones;
And that which fills up all your bracks,—good stones.

Lyz. Stones, trees, and beasts, in love still firmer prove
Than man; I’ll none; no hold-fasts in your loves.

Lav. Since not the mistress,—come on, faith, the maid!

Alb. Ten thousand duckets, too, to boot, are laid.

Lav. Why, then, wind cornets, lead on, jolly lad.

Alb. Excuse me, gallants, though my legs lead wrong,
’Tis my first footing; wind out nimble tongue.    361

Duke. ’Tis well, ’tis well:—how shall we spend this night?

Qua. Gulp Rhenish wine, my liege; let our paunch rent;
Suck merry jellies; preview, but not prevent,
No mortal can, the miseries of life.

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