A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 342 pages of information about A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4.

A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 342 pages of information about A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4.
Cater-trey
Caull
Cautelous
Censure
Champion
Chapman, George
Choake-peare
Chrisome
Cinque pace
Citie of new Ninivie
Clapdish
Closse contryvances
Coate
Cockerell
Coll
Comparisons are odorous
Consort
Convertite
Cooling carde
Coranta
Cornutus
Covent
Crak’t
Crase
Cricket
Cupboard of plate ( = movable side-board)
Cut-beaten-sattyn (Cf.  Marlowe’s Faustus—­“beaten silk.”)
Cutt-boy

Daborne, Robert
Dametas
Day, John
Dead paies
Debosht ( = debauched)
Deneere
Depart
Detest
Devide
Dewse ace
Diamonds softened by goat’s blood
Dicker
Diet-bread
Diety (For the spelling cf.  Rowley’s All’s Lost by Lust, 1633,
  sig.  C. 4: 
    “Can lust be cal’d love? then let man seeke hell,
    For there that fiery diety doth dwell.” 
  Again in the same play, sig.  D. 2, we have—­
    “Descend thy spheare, thou burning Diety.” 
  John Stephens in his Character of a Page [Essayes and Characters,
  1615] speaks of “Cupid’s diety.”)
Dion Cassius, quoted
Diophoratick
Disgestion
Disguest
Division
Doggshead
Door ("Keep the door” = act as a pander)
Doorkeeper
Dorsers
Dowland, John
Draw drie foote
Ducke
Duns the mouse
Dydoppers (dabchicks)

Eare picker ( = barber)
Edmond Ironside, MS. chronicle-play
Empresas
Eringoes
Estridge
Exclaimes

Family of Love
Fang
Fatal Maryage, MS. play
Father-in-law
Feare no colours
Feeres
Felt locks
Feltham’s Resolves
Fend ( = make shift with)
Fins (a very doubtful correction for sins)
Fisguigge
Flat cap
Flea ( = flay)
Fletcher, John, MS. copy of his Elder Brother; his share in the
  authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
Flewd
Fly boat (see Addenda to vol. i.)
Fool (play on the words fool and fowl)
Fooles paradysse
For I did but kisse her (See Appendix)
Fortune my foe
Fox
Foxd
Free
Fry(?)
Futra

Galleyfoist
German fencer
Getes
Ghosts crying Vindicta
Gibb ("A male-cat, now generally applied to one that has been
  castrated.”—­Halliwell.)
Giglot
Ginges
Glapthorne, quoted; the play of The Lady Mother identical with
  Glapthorne’s Noble Trial
Glass, patent for making
Gleeke
Gods dynes
Goll
Gondarino
Gossips
Grandoes
Groaning cake
Guarded ( = trimmed)
Gumd taffety that will not fret (See Nares’ Glossary, s.,
  gumm’d velvet.)
Gundelet
Gyges

Haberdine
Hadiwist
Hanging Tune
Hatto, Bishop
Head ("how fell ye out all a head?”)
Hell
Hell, another couple in
Hemming

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