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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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


[421] Old copy, _is my tryer_. He has indistinct misgivings that his
clothes are not all right.
[422] Old copy, _scot_.
[423] Old copy, fish-hosts.
[424] A colloquialism, of which the exact import must be matter of
guess. Old copy, _Hope haliday_. Perhaps a corruption of _upon my
haliday_.
[425] Old copy, _It is_.
[426] Old copy, _These marks_.
[427] Old copy, _will_.
[428] Old copy, _troble_.
[429] Old copy, _die_. The same appears to be, "That are not driven to
behold those wretched cares, which I _am driven_, &c."
[430] Old copy, _your_.
[431] Fellow. The word is frequently used, as we now use the word
_chap_, which is in fact the same, being an abbreviation of _chapman_.
[432] _Fet_ (or _feat_) seeing to be here employed in the sense of
_play_ or _perform_. _Friscols_ has occurred before in this play.
[433] So old copy; but perhaps we ought to read _this hap_ in the line
preceding.
[434] See Halliwell's _Dict_, in _v_.
[435] _Squich_, a word of most uncommon occurrence and of dubious
meaning. From the immediate context we should infer that it signified
_skip, move lightly and quickly_.
[436] Old copy, _labores_.
[437] Query, _examples_.
[438] _Push_, i.e., do not close.
[439] Old copy, _durte_ (dirt); We still say, _to make a dust_.
[440] A direction to _Tediousness_, that he is to be tripped up by
_Will_.
[441] Old copy, _blest_.
[442] Old copy, _O_.


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