330: : 141. all a case. It is all the same. 151. Like Phobus... boy. A further line from the same poem by Waller. 331: 173. in things of common application. In the affairs of everyday life. - 187. douceurs, ye sommeils du matin. Sweetnesses, ye morning naps. 333: 252. hogs' bones, hares' gall . . . cat. A playful exaggeration of some of the popular nostrums of the day. 334: 275. Barbadoes waters. A cordial flavoured with orange-peel. 335:331. an unsized camlet. Camlet was a light stuff of wool and linen, formerly from the East. Unsized, that is, un332. noli prosequi. To be unwilling to prosecute. An acknowledgment by the plaintiff that he will not press a suit further. stiffened, not sized. 66 336: 345. my dear Lacedemonian. Applied to Petulant on account of his power as an epitomizer of words" as Witwoud says. 353. and Baldwin yonder. The name of the fox in the beast-epic Reynard the Fox, also applied to the ass by Chaucer. 354. A Gemini you. Gemini, the name for the twin stars Castor and Pollux was often used of pairs of things. 337 6. Borachio. A villain, follower of Don John, in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Borachio is the Spanish term for a leather wine bottle, hence used for a drunkard. 339 79. bastinadoed with broomsticks. That is, beaten on the soles of the feet. 340 90. Salopian. An inhabitant of Salop or Shropshire. 346 14. a ballad-monger. A seller of ballads. In eighteenth-century London these were sold upon the streets by itinerant pedlars. 14. Frisoneer gorget. A piece of apparel for the neck, a kerchief, made of Frisoneer, perhaps the same word as Frison or frieze, a woollen stuff originally made in Friesland. The word Frisoneer does not apparently occur elsewhere. 347: 36. a cast servingman. A servingman that has been discharged. - 46. and been put upon his clergy. Forced to plead the benefit of the clergy, or privilege of exemption from capital punishment because of an ability to read and write. 47. meddle or make. Have anything to do with the affair. 54. Abigails and Andrews. Abigail was a common name for a lady's maid; Andrew for a valet. 55. Philander. A lover in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso ruined by the lustful Gabrina. Here merely a lover with an uncomplimentary allusion to Foible. - 56. I'll Duke's-place you. Marry you in a hurry as they do at 351:55. a brass counter. A small piece of metal used as a 35293. in a quoif like a man-midwife. The legal costume 354: 151. exceeding the barbarity of a Muscovite husband. 357: 259. By'r Lady. By Our Lady. — 272. o'the quorum. 358 13. an old fox. A colloquial name for a sword. - 15. 359 29. bear-garden flourish. A flourish suitable for a bear- 360: 79. Messalina's poems. Messalina was the wife of the 364: 212. paid in kind. In order to realize the full sense of THE MOURNING BRIDE 367. Neque enim . . . sua. For no law is more just than that contrivers of death should perish by their own act. For de Arte Armandi we should read Ars Amatoria. 378: 102. If for my swelling heart. If my swelling heart permits. 380: 169. Through . . . fire. One is forcibly reminded by this passage of the concentric rings of Dante's hell. The idea is taken from the tenth book of Plato's Republic. 381: 222. and every limb . . . admiration. power it had in looking on with wonder. Exercise all the 383 10. sad weeds. Mourning garments. -12. daughters of affliction. So were called the wailing women in ancient Jeru salem. 384: 51. I wo' not. I would not. 387157. to pay devotion here. That is, to Zara. The speech was accompanied by some appropriate gesture. 389: 19. As to some object frightful. This is to be taken with the phrase, "Then forward shot their fires," that is, the fires of his eyes. 396: 144. on my father's lead. The lead in which the dead body was encased. 402: 150. Divinity. Here used for a divine being. 405:34. that winks and wakes by turns. asleep and awake. 419: 61. the cry. The full pack. That by turns is 421 128. I have discovered . . . practice. This method of expressing the relation which would now be expressed by the possessive case was common before the present usage in regard to the possessive case had gained full sanction. 427: 326. Ye winds . . . witness. From the next speech of Manuel it appears that Almeria faints or seems to faint after making this speech. 428: 377. amuse. Here used in the sense of divert the atten tion of, deceive, beguile. - 379. One to my wish. clamation of Gonsalez as he catches sight of Alonzo. The ex 381. i' 433 82. like the raging dog-star, scorch the earth. Sirius, the dog-star, was supposed by classical tradition to exercise great control over the weather. 444 10. like parish searchers . . . expired. Parish searchers were people whose duty it was to find out and report the causes of death in a parish. GLOSSARY Terms readily found in an unabridged dictionary, an encyclopædia, or a gazetteer are for the most part not included in this list. Abuse, deceive. Anan, anon. Earnest, money paid to bind a bargain. Antegoa, probably Antigua, one Ephemeris, a calendar of predic Colour, a trick, a piece of decep- Hardly, with difficulty. tion. Composition, agreement. Cowage, a sharp, nettle-like plant. Diacodian, preferably diacodium, a syrup prepared from poppyheads and used as an opiate. Disease, to deprive of ease. Double, possible of being misunderstood, ambiguous. Doubt, suspect. Honest, virtuous. Horn-book, an old-fashioned A B C card. Ignorant, ignoramus. Informed, furnished with certain qualities. Intercessor, one who pleads for another. Jealous, suspicious. Journey-work, day labour, work as an apprentice. |