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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

"A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4"

cap. xi.). See the article _Clergie_ in
Cowell's _Interpreter_ (1637).
[43] Brand.
[44] Therefore acted by the Queen of Bohemia's Company who at that time
occupied the Cockpit.--F.G. Fleay.
[45] Some seven or eight years ago I pointed out in _Notes and Queries_
that the idea of this droll incident was taken from a passage of Timaeus
of Tauromenium (see Athenaeus, _Deipnosoph_., ii. 5); but others--as I
afterwards learned--had anticipated my discovery.
[46] This and the following speech are marked for omission in the MS.
[47] The words "Not so, frend," are scored through.
[48] The words "_Frenshe_ monster" are scored through.
[49] "Makarel" = maquerelle (a bawd).
[50] This passage illustrates 2 _Henry IV_., iv. 2:--"This Doll
Tearsheet should be some _road_." See my note on Middleton's _Your Five
Gallants_ (Works, vol. iii. p. 220).
[51] Small boats with narrow sterns (Fr. pinque). Cf. Heywood's _I
Edward IV_.:--"Commend me to blacke _Luce_, bouncing _Bess_, and lusty
_Kate_, and the other pretty morsels of man's flesh. Farewell, _pink_
and pinnace, flibote and carvel, _Turnbull_ and _Spittal_"
(Works, i.


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