Endnotes
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The twelfth Lord Berkeley. “My good lord,” says Massinger, inscribing The Renegado to him, “to be honoured for old nobility or hereditary titles, is not alone proper to yourself, but to some few of your rank, who may challenge the like privilege with you: but in our age to vouchsafe (as you have often done) a ready hand to raise the dejected spirits of the contemned sons of the Muses, such as would not suffer the glorious fire of poesy to be wholly extinguished, is so remarkable and peculiar to your lordship, that, with a full vote and suffrage, it is acknowledged that the patronage and protection of the dramatic poem is yours and almost without a rival.” ↩
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Prevent. ↩
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The reference is to the knightly sport of riding at the ring. ↩
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At the expense of. ↩
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Rolls of lint used to dress wounds. ↩
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Surgeons. ↩
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A small horse. ↩
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Ballasted. ↩
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A lively dance. ↩
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Throws into the shade. ↩
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At the point of. ↩
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Coaches. ↩
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Spy. ↩
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Cheats. ↩
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Spy. ↩
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Lustful. ↩
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Genesis 31:31–42. ↩
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The net in which he caught Venus and Mars. ↩
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Housekeepers. ↩
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Produced. ↩
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Qq. read strange. ↩
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Guess. ↩
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The phrase used to indicate that accounts had been examined and found correct. ↩
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Using words of present time; i.e., “I take,” not “I will take.” ↩
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Knot. ↩
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More firmly. ↩
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Of difficult disposition. ↩
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Chief part. ↩
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Bullies (Hazlitt); lawyers (Vaughan). ↩
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Royal journey. ↩
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Turning a boat on its side for repairs. ↩
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Scabbed. ↩
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Empty. ↩
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Face-modeling (Sampson). “There’s a plain statement of your practises.” ↩
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Blue like those of a woman with child. ↩
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Scurf. ↩
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Person of highest influence. ↩
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Hysteria. ↩
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This year. ↩
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Clearly. ↩
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Youngster. ↩
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Crossness. ↩
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Always. ↩
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The meaner servants. ↩
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At once. ↩
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Cast his horoscope. ↩
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Making an astrological calculation. ↩
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Going to the root of the matter. ↩
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Write. ↩
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I.e., on his handkerchief. ↩
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Addressing the lantern. ↩
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“The rest not considered.” ↩
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A piece of news. ↩
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Cleverly contrived. ↩
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Religious recluse. ↩
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Experienced. ↩
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Sick. ↩
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Medicinal. ↩
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Strong broth. ↩
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The mandrake was supposed to give forth shrieks when uprooted, which drove the hearer mad. ↩
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Unchaste. ↩
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Supposed to be a sign of folly. ↩
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Throw the hammer. ↩
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Boil to shreds. (Dyce.) Qq, to boil. ↩
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Wealth. ↩
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Lampoons. ↩
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Plowshares. ↩
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Spying. ↩
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Deceptions. ↩
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Soothing. ↩
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Qq. read slight. ↩
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Powder of orris-root. ↩
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Wheels of craft. ↩
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Certificate that the books were found correct. ↩
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The badge of a steward. ↩
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Spies. ↩
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Lot. ↩
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For Plutus. ↩
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Quick steps. ↩
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Miss. ↩
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Remains. ↩
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Profession. ↩
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A decorated horse-cloth, used only when the court is traveling. ↩
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The first quarto has in the margin: “The Author disclaims this Ditty to be his.” ↩
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Small birds. ↩
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His vizard. ↩
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Curtain. ↩
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The wife of Brutus, who died by swallowing fire. ↩
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By artificial means. ↩
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Profession. ↩
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Spying. ↩
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Band. ↩
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Bands. ↩
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Boil. ↩
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Punning on the two senses of “dye” and “corn.” ↩
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From exporting his grain. ↩
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Optical glass. ↩
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The Geneva Bible. ↩
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Petticoat. ↩
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Coach. ↩
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A warm drink containing milk, wine, etc. ↩
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Receptacle. ↩
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A drug supposed to ooze from embalmed bodies. ↩
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Curdled. ↩
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Trial. ↩
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An exclamation of impatience. ↩
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In escheat; here, in fee. ↩
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Disbeliever. ↩
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Fraught. ↩
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A dog which worries sheep. ↩
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A fabulous serpent that killed by its glance. ↩
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Cut a caper. ↩
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Broth. ↩
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Skeletons. ↩
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So Dyce. Qq. brought. ↩
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Perfumed sweetmeats for the breath. ↩
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Smoke. ↩
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Reality. ↩
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Mistake. ↩
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I.e., the dead body. ↩