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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

"A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4"

Marlowe's _Faustus_--"_beaten_ silk.")
Cutt-boy
Daborne, Robert
Dametas
Day, John
Dead paies
Debosht ( = debauched)
Deneere
Depart
Detest
Devide
Dewse ace
Diamonds softened by goat's blood
Dicker
Diet-bread
Diety (For the spelling cf. Rowley's _All's Lost by Lust_, 1633,
sig. C. 4:
"Can lust be cal'd love? then let man seeke hell,
For there that fiery _diety_ doth dwell."
Again in the same play, sig. D. 2, we have--
"Descend thy spheare, thou burning _Diety_."
John Stephens in his _Character of a Page_ [_Essayes and Characters_,
1615] speaks of "Cupid's _diety_.")
Dion Cassius, quoted
Diophoratick
Disgestion
Disguest
Division
Doggshead
Door ("Keep the door" = act as a pander)
Doorkeeper
Dorsers
Dowland, John
Draw drie foote
Ducke
Duns the mouse
Dydoppers (dabchicks)
Eare picker ( = barber)
_Edmond Ironside_, MS. chronicle-play
Empresas
Eringoes
Estridge
Exclaimes
Family of Love
Fang
_Fatal Maryage_, MS. play
Father-in-law
Feare no colours
Feeres
Felt locks
Feltham's _Resolves_
Fend ( = make shift with)
Fins (a very doubtful correction for _sins_)
Fisguigge
Flat cap
Flea ( = flay)
Fletcher, John, MS.


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