NOTES.
Page 9, line 28.induments]frominduo, Latin, to put on; cover over. The word, as a noun, does not occur in Todd’s Johnson nor in Nares.
“Diana’s shape and habit themindued.”—Sandys’ Ovid, b. ii.
“Diana’s shape and habit themindued.”—Sandys’ Ovid, b. ii.
“Diana’s shape and habit themindued.”—Sandys’ Ovid, b. ii.
“Diana’s shape and habit themindued.”—Sandys’ Ovid, b. ii.
“One first matter allIndu’dwith various forms.”—Milton, Par. Lost.
“One first matter allIndu’dwith various forms.”—Milton, Par. Lost.
“One first matter allIndu’dwith various forms.”—Milton, Par. Lost.
“One first matter all
Indu’dwith various forms.”—Milton, Par. Lost.
P. 11, l. 6.unuenidall sinnes]Unvenial? it seems used in contradistinction to venial.
P. 11, l. 8.despairing protestations]This is an allusion to “The Protestatyon of Martin Mar-Prelat, wherein notwithstanding the surprizing of the printer, he maketh it known vnto the world that he feareth, neither proud priest, Antichristian pope, tiranous prellate, nor godlesse catercap.”
P. 12, l. 28.burlibond]Todd, in his edition of Johnson, has adduced one illustration of the wordburly, which approximates to the meaning here, that of loud, boisterous; derived, as he supposes fromborlen, Teut., to make a noise. Though neither in Nares nor Todd, it will be found in Nash’s Pierce Penniless [Reprint, Shaksp. Soc., p. 25]: “The most grosse and senseless proud dolts are the Danes, who stand so much vpon their vnweldieburliboundsouldiery, that they account of no man thathath not a battle-axe at his girdle to hough dogs with, or weares not a cock’s fether in a thrumb hat like a caualier: briefly, he is thebest foole bragartunder heaven.”
P. 13, l. 25.hodie-peeles]Nash, in hisAnatomie of Absurdities, uses the wordhoddy-peke, there implying cuckold, which is the meaning it bears in this place.
“Who under her husband’s thathoddy-peke’snose must have all the distilling dew of his delicate rose.”
P. 14, l. 2.true-pennie]See the Notes to the Reprint of “Hay any Worke for Cooper,” p. 79.
P. 14, l. 7.Buls slicing.]Bull was the name of the common hangman; he is quoted some two or three times in “Pap with a Hatchet,” and in many of the Dramas of the time.
P. 15, l. 21.Old Martin of England.]An allusion to the “Iust censure and reproofe of Martin Iunior, by his reuerend and elder brother Martin Senior.”
P. 16, l. 14.dudgen distinction.]I am unable to explain this.
P. 16, last line.bibble-babble.]Idle talk.
“Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heaven restore! endeavour thyself to sleep, leave thy vainbibble babble.”—Shakspeare, Twelfth Night.
P. 17, l. 1.gibbrige]Gibberish.
P. 17, l. 19.Cli. the Cobler, &c.]Cliffe, Newman, Lawson.
P. 22, l. 25.Will Tong.]I cannot give any account of this worthy, unless Will. Kempe, who succeeded the celebrated Tarlton, is meant. Elderton’s name is well known, his rimes and ballets are the subject of frequent allusion in the dramas and pamphlets of the time. See “Pap with a Hatchet,” [Reprint, p. 14]. Harvey’s “Pierce’s Supererogation.” [Reprint, p. 181.]
P. 23, l. 25.his Welchnes.]An allusion to Penry.
P. 24, l. 4.Hodgkins, Tomlins and Sims.]Hodgkins, and histwo men, Tomlyn and Symms, who were employed to print the Mar-Prelate Tracts after Waldegrave’s press had been broken up, were seized at Manchester in printing “More work for the Cooper.” Their examination will be found in Strype’s Annals, vii. 602-5.—See also much information in Sutcliffe’s Answer to Job Throckmorton, p. 72, 4to, 1595.
P. 25, l. 8.Bumfeging.]i. e.belabouring. The word does not occur in Nares. In “Hay any Worke for Cooper,” Martin says, “For ise so bumfeg the Cooper,” &c. [Reprint, p. 24.]
P. 26, l. 5.the aged champion of Warwicke.]i. e.Thomas Cartwright.
P. 26, l. 8.Phi. Stu.]Philip Stubbes, the brother-in-law of Cartwright. His “Anatomy of Abuses,” was printed in 1589.
P. 31, l. 24.ribrost.]To belabour, to beat soundly.
“I have been pinched in flesh, and wellribroastedunder my former masters; but I’m in now for skin and all.”—L’Estrange.
P. 35, l. 26.anie more bones.]i. e.without scruple.
“Perjury will easily donne with him that hath madeno bonesof murther.”—Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience.
P. 39, l. 6.Pen. &c.]Nash is evidently mistaken in attributing all the Mar-Prelate Tracts to him. The description which follows powerfully reminds us of Nash’s characteristic portrait of Gabriel Harvey.
P. 44, l. 2.Capcase.]A small travelling case, according to Nares, 72.
P. 50, l. 8.sheepe byter.]A petty thief.
“There are politicalsheepbitersas well as pastoral, betrayers of publick trusts as of private.”—L’Estrange.
“May it please Gentle Pierce in the divine fury of his ravished spirit, to be graciously good unto his poor friends, who would be somewhat loth to be silly sheep for the wolf, or othersheepbiter.”—G. Harvey’s Pierce’s Supererogation.
P. 51, l. 26.patch.]i. e.a fool.
P. 51, l. 21.Maw.]An old game at cards; the pun is not a bad one.
P. 52, l. 26.Beware Anthony Munday.]A well known writer and translator of various works. I have not met with the passage alluded to.
THE END.
LONDON:HUGH WILLIAMS, PRINTER, ASHBY-STREET.