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When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit;

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;
Then, jogging home betime,

He turns a crab, or tunes a round,
Or sings some merrie ryme."-H. N. H.

A,' he; V. ii. 13.

GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

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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.
APPLE OF HER EYE, "upon the a."
="in obedience to her glance";
V. ii. 475.

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
drawing a person in by some
stratagem to proclaim himself
a fool; III. i. 108.

BASE, mean, mere; I. i. 87.
BATE, blunt; I. i. 6.

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.
CORMORANT, ravenous; I. i. 4.
CORNER-CAP, the beretta, or
three-cornered cap of a Roman
Catholic priest; IV. iii. 55,
CORPORAL OF THE FIELD, an officer
similar to our aide-de-camp;
III. 1. 199.
COUPLEMENT, couple (used by
Armado); V. ii. 535.
COURSING, chasing; IV. iii. 1.
COURTESY, Curtsy; I. ii. 68.
CRABS, crab-apples; V. ii. 935.
CRACK, boast; IV. iii. 271.
CREST, badge; "beauty's crest be-
comes the heavens well" (i. e.
the brightness which is the
badge of beauty); IV. iii. 259.
CRITIC, carper; III. i. 188.
CRITIC, cynical; "critic Timon,"

the misanthrope par excellence;
IV. iii. 173.

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.

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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.
FAIR, beauty; IV. i. 17.
FAIRINGS, presents (originally the
nicknacks bought at fairs); V.

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.

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