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NOTES AND QUERIES. m a. x. OCT. 3. wu.
NOTES ON WORDS FOR THE ' N.E.D.'
(See 11 S. ix. 105, 227.)
IN the following list the quotations are arranged chronologically : 1592. ' Euphues Golden Legacie ' (Tho. Lodge). Heady money, Cheape you may haue them for ready money. E 4.
1592. ' Euphues Shadow ' (the same). Bruter, compar. of brute. Herein we shew our selues bruter tha beasts. Sig. I.
1594. ' The Coblers Prophesie ' (Robert Wilson). JSpout, v. Hold thy peace, and let vs hear these
Gentlemen dispute. Raph. Will they spout ?
whereon ?
1595. ' A Fig for Momus ' (Tho. Lodge).
moult = melted.
[They] Conclude that by a double sort of heate Our fat is made, and moult, and so concreate. G4.
1595. ' Locrine.'
^Bridewell. I think you were broght vp in the vniuersitie of Bridewell, you haue your rhetorick so ready at your toongs end. F 2.
Fox, smell a. O what hath he don, his nose bleeds ? but oh I srnel a foxe. E 2.
Map. Locrine the map of magnanimitie. K 2.
lPasteboard=a ticket or card. You sir.... draw your pastebourd, or else.... He giue you a canuasado with a bastinano ouer your shoulders. Sig. D.
1596. ' The Divel Coniured ' (Tho Lodge). JFa(=ate. They consented to [the feind], and
eat of the apple. Sig. H. JFirm = confirm. They ftx their wits, firm their
studies, and plant their faith. . . .on the stars.
Sig. H. Halo. The Halo likewise about the Moone [is]
a token of wind, but no cause. H 2. Irregard. These conceits .... are corrupted by
irregard. ' To the Reader.'
1599. c Angrie Women of Abington ' (H. Porter). -Carry one's drink. A plague on it, when a man
cannot carrie his drink well. E 2. Consequent = consequence. Tis no consequent to
me. E 3. Cork shoes. 1M aides that weres [sic] Corke
shooes, may step awrie. D 2. Feather, cut a (meaning is obscure). What
though [he] haue cut his finger heere ? or as
some say cut a feather. E 3. 'Owl-light. Hee purses vp angelles by owlight.
12. Puzzle, n. Swounds what a pussell am I in this
night. Sig. I.
1600. ' Hospitall of Incviable Fooles.' .Arch-dolt. Miltiades was one of these archdolts
P. 49. Beak, v. (to gasp ?). Their standing still is like
to a swollen toad, when she lies still beaking
vpon the earth. P. 66. 'Crackropery horse-play. [He played] the knaue
sometimes out of all crie with those that had
crossed and plucked him by the beard, with
answerable crackroperie. P. 114.
Dodman (a snail). [He thought! that he Avas
turned into a doade man, putting a couple of
teder homes vpon his owne head. P. 77.
Gog-fury. The onely example of this gog-iurie is read in Corius. P. 93.
Grut (apparently a variant of grit). [He said] that in time of dearth that grut or riffo-raffe would be good to make an Italian Torto withal. P. 62.
Niddicock. And niddicocke vpon cockscombe was that other. P. 105.
Three-elboiced. Of grosse and three elbowed fooles. P. 113, heading of a section.
1600. ' Sir John Old castle.' Cold charity. God blesse my soul from such cold
charitie. H 2. Take one napping. Weele take the King napping,
if he stand on their part. Sig. F.
1601. ' Declaration of Treasons.' Shop =imprison. Others were crying, Nay, butl shoppe them vp, keepe them as pledges. F 2.
1603. ' The Wonderfull Yeare ' (Tho. Dekker). ] Bly-fox (meaning is obscure). No worse meat [
would downe this Bly-foxes stomach. D 2. Despervieic. Only a band of Desper-vewes, some
few Empiricall madcaps. D 3.
1604. ' The Honest Whore ' (the same). Cister (this is obscure). A Cisters thred y faith
had beene enough To lead me anywhere. H 2. French trick. And in the end you shew him a
french trick, And so you leaue him. D 4. Hares in March. Theres no ho with [women],
they are madder then March haires [sic]. I 3. TMne. You are to have sixpence a lane. So many
lanes, so many sixpences. (This is obscure,
and probably malodorous.) No ho. See Hares in March. Or so. A capten's wife, or so. (See ' The Al- chemist,' " A peck of coals or so.") Put ttp=pay up. He be hangde if he ha not put
vp the money to cony-catch vs all. Sig. D. Tell tales out of school. Pray say nothing that I
tel tales out of the schoole. I 3.
1606. ' Faultes, Faults ' (Barnaby Rich). Bo to a goose. They durst say, Bo to a Goose.
Fo. 50. Busk. A Buske to streighten a lasciuious bodie.
Fo. 21. Correctress. A good conscience is the Corree-
tresse of our affections. Fo. 19. Item. There is not a better Item, whereby to
discern a Bastard, then to see a brat vnnaturall.
Fo. 28. Mump. The Baselos manos, the Dwke, the!
Mump, and the Shrugge. Fo. 8.
1606. ' The He of Gulls ' (John Day). Dargison (this is obscure). The girls are ours we
haue won em away to dargison . . . . Wo have
borne her away to dargison. H 3. Ell. [His] pocket is like a Taylors hell [sic], itfc
eates vp part of euery mans due. Sig. B. Far as, &c. Wil you trust him ? Yes, as farre
as I see him. C 2. Larks, we shall hare. You know the prouerbe
when the skie fals we shall baue larks. Last
page. Quech of lashes (very obscure). Now is the web
of my hopes vpon the looinbe of perfection,
and in this quech of lashes Aminfer and Julio.
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