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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2"

The same remark applies
to _aums-ace_.]
[25] [Halliwell, in his "Dict." v. Pink, says:--"A game, the same as
post and pair." Surely this is not so. It seems rather to be used, here
at least, in the sense of _gamble_. But _pink_, after all, may signify
something very different, viz., _lechery_.]
[26] The target or butts.
[27] [Copland's ed. _books_.]
[28] [This line is omitted in Waley's ed.]
[29] [The colophon of Waley's ed. is: Imprinted at London by John Waley,
dwellyng in foster lane.]
[30] [The colophon of Vele's ed. is at the end _infra_.]
[31] [Afterwards parted with to Dr Dibdin. A second copy is in the
Bodleian.]
[32] [An error. No edition by Pinson is known, or is likely to have ever
existed. The impression referred to is Copland's. _See_ Hazlitt's
"Handbook," p. 649-50.]
[33] Gen. viii.; Jer. xvii.; Eccles. xxx.
[34] _And_, Copland's edition.
[35] _Forsakyn_, Copland's edition.
[36] _Consolaion_, Vele's edition.
[37] _Arbour_, Copland's edition.
[38] _Aslope_, Copland's edition.
[39] _Surel i-pight_, Copland's edition.
[40] Care.
[41] _Brake_, Copland's edition.
[42] Touch.
[43] _Ye_, Copland's edition.
[44] _Appetyte_, Vele's edition.
[45] The word _fitte_ sometimes signified a part or division of a
song; but in its original acceptation a poetic strain, verse, or poem:
from being applied to music, the word was easily transferred to
dancing, as in the above passages.


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