[283] Run.
[284] i.e., Old witch. But compare Halliwell, _v. Mab_.
[285] Old copy, _Rebecca_.
[286] A word of contempt often used in our old comedies, as we now
employ _chap_.
[287] _In the old copy this line is improperly given to Isaac_.
[288] The _new guise_ is a term often met with in old plays, but the
application of it here is not very clear, although the meaning of the
writer--in a way that he (Jacob) little expected--is sufficiently
intelligible.
[289] In the old copy this word is improperly placed opposite the line,
_That all quarrel, &c_.
[290] Understanding.
[291] [The interlude of "The Disobedient Child," edited by J.O.
Halliwell. Percy Society, 1848.]
[292] [But see Cooper's "Cambridge Athenae," i., 554.]
[293] [The Bridgewater copy of the original edition was most obligingly
collated for the present writer by Mr Alexander Smith, of Glasgow. It
affords numerous corrections of the Percy Society's text.]
[294] [The full title is: _A pretie and mery new Enterlude, called The
Disobedient Child, compiled by Thomas Ingelend, late Student in
Cambridge. Imprinted at London, in Flete strete, beneath the Conduit,
by Thomas Colwell_. 4 deg..]
[295] These first eight lines are also found in the interlude
introduced into the play of _Sir Thomas More_, printed by the
Shakespeare Society, p. 60.--_Halliwell_.
[296] Without shame--shameless.
[297] Immediately.
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