GLOSSARY ABUSED, deceived; 1. i. 325; III. i. | CARDUUs, thistle; 11. ii. 43. CARRIAGE, behaviour; 11. iv. 113; baggage, iv. i. 38. CIRCUMSTANCES, circumstantial de. tails; III. i. 134. CLOUDY, gloomy; IV. i. 3. CHURCH-ALE, festival to commemorate the dedication of a church; v. iv. 55. COG, cheat; 1. i. 59. CONSTER, Construe; II. i. 8. CROSSLY, unsuitably, inauspi. ciously; II. iv. 53. CURIOUS, Scrupulous; III. i. 29. HECTORS, martial fellows; v. iv. 32. HONEST, chaste; 11. ii. 5; IV. ii. 23. JAG, cut or slash; v. iv. 43. LEG, a bow; 1. i. 80. LODGED, entrapped, brought to covert; IV. ii. 1. SARCENET, a fine, thin, silk fabricliterally Saracen-stuff'; v. iv. 56. SCONCE, head; v. iii. 177. SERVANTS, lovers; 1. i. 119. SEVERAL, separate, different; 1. ii. 116. SLIP, a leash or noose for holding a dog; IV. i. 15. STONE-BOW, a cross-bow which shoots stones; iv. ii. 9. SURCINGLE, a band for pinioning a hawk; v. iv. 129. TAINTED, affected in mind; 1. i. 212. TENDER'ST, carest for; III. i. 279. TILLER, a cross-bow; II. ii. 45. TOWSABEL, a jeering alteration of Dowsabel (the reading of Q. 1), a common name of pastoral heroines, derived from Fr. donce et belle. Cf. Drayton, Ecl., tv. :— 'He had, as antique stories tell, A daughter cleaped Dowsabel.' Toy, whim; v. iii. 136. Cf. Hamlet, 1. iii. 6: 'For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood.' TRAVELS, labours; 1. i. 153. TROUL, to Shout tumultuously; IV. iii. 134. TURTLE, a dove; I. i. 209. VENERY, hunting; iv. ii. 16. WHAT-YE-LACKS, shopmen, so called from their customary cry to the passers-by; v. iii. 123. WATER-CAMLETS, rich fabrics, made of silk, wool, or other materials, with a wavy or watered appearance; v. iv. 9. Cf. Hol. land's Pliny, I. 228 The waved water Chamelot was from the beginning esteemed the richest and bravest wearing.' WIPER, a steel instrument for cleaning the bore of a musket; v. iv. 37. In the old texts, from 1628 onwards, the scene of the play is simply given as 'Cicilie.' Dyce substituted 'Messina and its neighbourhood. His stage-directions have been adopted throughout. I. i. 42. Pleased: this (with the variant spelling, pleasde), is the reading of all the texts. Dyce asks, 'Can the true reading be released?' but the original text gives a sufficiently satisfactory meaning. Stage-direction, Enter Galatea, a Lady, and Megra. In the old texts the order is Galatea, Megra, and a Lady, but the alteration is necessary, as there can be no doubt that Dion's speech, ll. 57-66, applies to Megra. The old texts further, in the lines that follow, mistakenly assign to the Lady the words of Megra, and vice versa ; hence Q. 3, and following early editions, add to the list of dramatis persona, 'An old wanton Lady or Croane.' I. i. 112. To speak: Q. 2 reads To talk of. 1. i. 145. By more than all the gods: This is the reading of Q.'s I, 2, 3, and 8. Q.'s 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and F. read By more than all my hopes.' I. i. 150. Opine: this is the reading of F. been generally adopted by modern editors. and Q. 9, and has But it does not give an entirely satisfactory sense. The other Q.'s read open, which is unintelligible. I. i. 186-190. In the old texts the passage is printed : 'This earth you tread upon (A dowry as you hope with this fair Princess By my dead father (oh, I had a father) I. i. 205. Looks like a tooth-drawer. Ray in his Proverbs interprets this as looking 'very thin and meagre.' 1. i. 218-219. To him, That made the world his: Alexander the Great. I. i. 242. A pattern of succession: a pattern to succeeding kings. I. i. 247. A prince of wax: well made, as if modelled in wax. Cf. the Nurse's description of Paris as 'a man of wax' (Romeo and Juliet, 1. iii.). Galatea's retort, a dog it is, refers to the cant phrase of the day, 'a dog of wax,' the meaning of which is obscure. 1. i. 253. Nothing hopes and fears: this is the reading of Q.'s 1, 2, 3, and 8. The other texts have nought but hopes and fears. either case there seems some corruption. In 1. i. 255. And right me: this, the reading of Q.'s 1 and 2, is preferable on metrical grounds to and right me not, the reading of the later texts. I. i. 265. A true tenant: this is the reading of all the texts except Q. I, which has a true truant. This, in spite of the jingle, gives a more satisfactory meaning. Milford conjectured recreant. 1. i. 313. If I could: the old texts read If you could. I. i. 322. Injuries: Q. I alone reads virtues. I. ii. 116. Flowers bred in the vale: this is the reading of Q. I, and it gives an intelligible sense, though no mention has been made |