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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

"A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4"

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Portage (Undoubtedly we should read _partage_.)
Pot-gun
Pricke-song
Prick and prayse ( = praise of excellence)
Princkocke
Proclamation that the gentry should reside at their mansions in the
country
Proculus
Prologue spoken by a woman
Protest, affected use of the word (See Dyce's _Shakespeare Glossary_.)
Puckfist
Puerelis
Puisne
Puisnes of the Inne
Pumpion
Pun[to] reversos ( = back-handed strokes in fencing)
Push
Putt a girdle round about the world
Puttock
Quale
Rabbit-suckers
Rabby Roses (The reference is, probably, to the Arabian physician
Rhazes.)
Racke
Rape, punishment for
Rascal
Rats rhymed to death
Refuse me
Regalias
Rest ("our rest we set")
Rest for every slave to pull at
Reverent ( = reverend)
_Richard II_., MS. play
Ride the wild mare (a rustic sport)
Rincht ( = rinsed)
Road
Roaring boys ( = roisterers)
Rochet
Rope-ripes
Rosemary
Rotten hares
Rudelesse vaile
Russeting
Sackerson (In the footnote read H_u_nkes for H_a_nkes.)
Salt, sit beneath the
Sarreverence
Scandalum magnatum
Sconce, build a (I supposed that the expression meant "fix a candle in a
candlestick," but I am indebted to Mr.


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