When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Arm The words of Mercury are harsh after the 940 songs of Apollo. You that way, we this way. [Exeunt. 935. The crab-apple, which used to be roasted and put hissing hot into a bowl of ale, previously enriched with toast, and spice, and sugar. How much this was relished in old times, may be guessed by those who appreciate the virtues of apple-toddy. Warner thus speaks of a shepherd: IX-9 "And with the sun doth folde againe; He turns a crab, or tunes a round, A,' he; V. ii. 13. GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A. AN IF, if (emphatic); I. i. 50. ANNOTHANIZE (so Folio 1 and Quartos; the other Folios "anatomize"), probably Armado's rendering of "anatomize"; IV. i. 69. ANTIQUE, antic; V. i. 127. ART, science; "living art," i. e. "immortal science"; I. i. 14. ATES, mischiefs, instigations; (Até the goddess of mischief that incited to bloodshed); V. ii, 694. BANDIED; vide SET. BARGAIN, "to sell a bargain" seems to have consisted in BASE, mean, mere; I. i. 87. BEG; "you cannot beg us,” i. e. you cannot prove us to be idiots and apply to be our guardians; you cannot beg the wardship of our persons and property; V. ii. 490. BEN VENUTO, welcome (Italian); IV. ii. 172. BESHREW, a mild form of imprecation; V. ii. 46. BETIME, betide, chance; IV. iii. 385. BIAS, preponderant tendency (originally a term in bowling); IV. ii. 119. BIRD-BOLT, a short thick arrow with a broad flat end, used to kill birds without piercing; IV. iii. 27. BLOOD, "in blood," used technic ally in the sense of "in full vigor"; IV. ii. 4. BOLD OF, confident in; II. i. 28. BOMBAST, padding (cotton used to stuff out garments); V. ii. 791. BRAWL, a kind of dance, "wherein many (men and women) holding by the hands some times in a ring, and otherwhiles at length, move all together"; III. i. 9. BREATHED, endowed with breath, vigorous; V. ii. 659. BUTTON-HOLE; "let me take you a b. lower," i. e. "let me speak without ceremony"; V. ii. 706. BUTT-SHAFT, a kind of arrow used for shooting at butts, or targets; I. ii. 186. CAN, did; an old corruption of "gan" (cp. the version printed in the Passionate Pilgrim), with which word it was frequently confused; IV. iii. 109. CANARY, to dance the canary, a fantastic savage dance, said to have been brought from the Canary Islands; III. i. 12. CAPON, used like poulet in French for a love-letter; "break up this capon," i. e. open this letter; IV. i. 56. CAREER, encounter of knights at full gallop; V. ii. 482. CARVE, to show amorous courtesy; V. ii. 323. CAUDLE, a warm drink of gruel with wine and spice added, often given to the sick; IV. iii. 177. CAUSE, used in the technical sense of "cause of quarrel"; I. ii. 189. CHAPMEN, sellers; II. i. 16. CHARGE-HOUSE, a school-house, not found elsewhere; printed "charg-house" in Fol. 1. and Q. 1.; perhaps="church-house" as pronounced by Armado: "charter-house," "large-house," etc., have been suggested; V. i. 91. CHOSE, choice, well-chosen; V. i. 104. CHUCK, a term of endearment; V. i. 125. CIRCUM CIRCA (Quartos and Folios "unum cita," emended by Theobald), round and round; V. i. 76. CITTERN-HEAD, "the cittern had usually a head grotesquely carved at the extremity of the neck and finger-board"; V. ii. 614. CLAWS, Scratches in a pleasing manner, humors, flatters; IV. ii. 66. CLEAN TIMBERED, well-made, faultlessly shaped; V. ii. 642. CLOUT, the white mark at which archers took their aim; IV. i. 140. COCKLED, enclosed in a shell; IV. iii. 341. CODPIECE, part of the male dress of the period; III. i. 196. COG, deceive; V. ii. 235. COLORABLE COLORS, specious pretexts; IV. ii. 164. COMMON SENSE, ordinary sight, or perception; I. i. 57, 64. COMPETITORS, associates; II. i. 82. COMPLEMENTS, accomplishments, probably with the idea of "formal accomplishments," "external shows"; I. i. 169. COMPLEXION, temperament, disposition (used quibblingly); I. ii. 85. COMPLIMENT, formality; IV. ii. 155. CONCEIT'S, thought's; II. i. 72. CONCOLINEL, probably the beginning or burden of a song; III. i. 3. CONSENT, Compact; V. ii. 460. CONTEMPTS contents; I. i. 191. CONVERSE OF BREATH, conversa tion; V. ii. 745. CONVINCE, Overcome; V. ii. 756. the misanthrope par excellence; CROSSES, Used quibblingly in the sense of money; many old coins were marked with a cross on one side; I. ii. 37. CUCKOO-BUDS, probably the buttercup, or the bud of the cowslip, the name is now given to the meadow cress; V. ii. 906. CURIOUS-KNOTTED, elaborately laid out in knots, intricatelydevised beds in which flowers were planted; I. i. 253. CURST, Shrewish; IV. i. 36. DANCING-HORSE; an allusion to a famous performing horse often alluded to by contemporary writers as "Bankes' horse"; he is said to have gone up to the top of St. Paul's in 1600; (cp. DAY-WOMAN, dairy-woman; I. ii. 139. DAZZLING, being dazzled; "who dazzling so," i. e. "that when he has his eye made weak" (by fixing it upon a fairer eye); I. i. 82. DEAR, used intensitively ("dear groans"); V. ii. 874. DEAREST, best; II. i. 1. DEBATE, contest; I. i. 174. DEPART, to part; II. i. 147. DICTYNNA (Dictisima, Dictissima, Dictima, in Folios and Quartos), one of the names of Diana; IV. ii. 39, 40. DIGRESSION, transgression; I. ti. 123. DISGRACE, disfigurement; I. i. 3. DISPOSED, inclined to be somewhat wantonly merry; II. i. 250. DOMINICAL, the red letter which in old almanacs denotes the Lord's day; "red d. my golden letter" referring to the fashionable color of Katharine's hair; V. ii. 44. DOUBT; "made a d."-"expressed a fear"; V. ii. 101. DRY-BEATEN, cudgeled; V. ii. 263. EPITHETON, epithet (used by Armado); I. ii. 15. EXTEMPORAL, unpremeditated; I. ii. 189. FADGE, turn out well; V. i. 154. ii. 2. FAMILIAR, familiar spirit, demon; I. ii. 181. FASTING, hungry; IV. iii. 125. FAVOR, leave, pardon; III. i. 72. FAVOR, a present, token of love; V. ii. 30; with a quibble on "favor"="face"; V. ii. 33. FESTINATELY, quickly; III. i. 6. FIERCE, ardent; V. ii. 863. FILED, polished; V. i. 13. FIRE-NEW, brand-new; I. i. 179. FITTED, equipped; II. i. 45. FLAP-DRAGON, a small substance set on fire and put afloat in a glass of liquor, to be swallowed flaming; V. i. 48. FLASK, a powder-flask; V. ii. 619. FLEER'D, laughed; V. ii. 109. FORCE, to care; V. ii. 440. FORM, bench, used quibblingly; I. i. 209. FORTUNA DE LA GUERRA (Spanish), fortune of war (used by Armado); V. ii. 533. FRAME, order; III. i. 203. GALLOWS, used playfully for a mischievous knave (cp. wag= wag-halter); V. ii. 12. GELDED, maimed; II. i. 149. GENTILITY, good manners (Theobald conjectured "garrulity"); I. i. 129. GET THE SUN; in the days of archery it was an advantage to get the sun at the back of the bowmen, and in the face of the enemy; IV. iii. 372. GIG, a kind of top; IV. iii. 170. GLOZES, Sophistries; IV. iii. 370. GOD DIG-YOU-DEN, i. e. "God give you good evening"; IV. i. 42. GREASILY, grossly; IV. i. 143. GUARDS, trimmings, ornaments; IV. iii. 60. HALF-CHEEK, profile; V. ii. 620. HANDS; "of all hands" "in any case"; IV. iii. 222. HAY, an old country-dance; V. i. 161. HEAD, "a buck of the first head" "a buck of the fifth year"; IV. ii. 12. HEED, protection, lodestar; I. i. 82. HEREBY, used by Jaquenetta in the sense of "as it may happen"; Armado takes it to mean "close by"; I. ii. 143. HID, vide "ALL HID." HIGHT, is called; I. i. 171. HIND, boor, peasant (with a quibble on "hind," the beast; hence "rational hind"); I. ii. 126. HOBBY-HORSE, one of the principal characters in the old Morris-dance, but growing out of use after the Reformation; "The hobby-horse is forgot" was a well-known quotation from some popular ballad ("But O," or "For O," preceded); III. i. 32. |