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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

"A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4"


But she alas is angrie still,
Which sheweth but a womans will:
She bites the lippe and cries fie, fie,
And kissing sweetly away she doth flie.
Yet sure her lookes bewraies content
And cunningly her bra[w]les are meant:
As louers use to play and sport,
When time and leisure is too short."
On p. 373 Philautus gives another quotation from the same song.
P. 340. "_The fryer was in the_--." Mr. Ebsworth writes:--"This song is
extant among the Pepysian Ballads (the missing word is equivalent to
'Jakes'): original of 'The Friar in the Well.'"


INDEX.

Academic playwrights
Accomodate
Addition
Adorning
Adson's new ayres
Agamemnon in the play
Agrippina
Alablaster ( = alabaster)
_Alchemist_, allusion to the play of the
A life ( = as my life)
Almarado (?)
Ambergreece
Andirons ("The andirons were the ornamental irons on each side of the
hearth in old houses, which were accompanied with small rests for
the ends of the logs."--_Halliwell_.)
Anotomye (For the spelling compare Dekker's Satiromastix--
"because
Mine enemies with sharpe and searching eyes
Looke through and through me, carving my poore labours
Like an _Anatomy_.


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