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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

"A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4"

play by W.M. Gent.
Lapwing
Larroones
Lather ( = ladder) (In _Women beware Women_ Middleton plays on the word:--
"_Fab_. When she was invited to an early wedding,
She'd dress her head o'ernight, sponge up herself,
And give her neck three _lathers_.
_Gaar_. Ne'er a halter.")
Laugh and lye downe
Launcepresado
Law, the spider's cobweb
Legerity
Letters of mart
Leveret
Limbo
Line of life
Linstock
Long haire, treatise against (An allusion to William Prynne's tract
_The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes_.)
_Loves Changelings Changed_, MS. play founded on Sidney's Arcadia
Low Country Leaguer
Lustique
Machlaean
Macrios
Magical weed
Makarell
Make ready
March beere
Marlins
Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_ quoted
Marriage, restrained by law at certain seasons
Martial quoted
Mary muffe
Masque (MS.) containing a long passage that is found in Chapman's
_Byron's Tragedie_
Massinger, his share in the authorship of _Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt_
Mawmets ( = puppets)
Mawmett ( = Mahomet)
Meath (A curious corruption of _Mentz_.


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