Act III: Scene iii+
p. 57 _disguis'd._ A common phrase for drunk.
+Act IV: Scene ii+
p. 75 _cogging._ To cog = to trick, wheedle or cajole.
+Act V: Scene i+
p. 99 _Tramontana._ Foreign; Italian and Spanish _tramontano_ = from
beyond the mountains.
p. 101 _upse._ Op zijn = in the fashion or manner of. _Upse Gipsy_ =
like a gipsy, cf. _The Alchemist_, iv, vi:
I do not like the dulness of your eye:
It hath a heavy cast, 'tis upsee Dutch.
p. 101 _Incle._ Linen thread or yarn which was woven into a tape
once very much in use.
+Epilogue+
p. 106 _Nokes, or Tony Lee._ James Nokes and Antony Leigh, the two
famous actors, were the leading low comedians of the day.
p. 107 _Play of the Novella._ _Novella_ is a good, though intricate,
comedy by Brome. 8vo, 1653, but acted 1632.
p. 107 _The famous Virgil._ There is a tale, reported by Donatus,
that Vergil once anonymously wrote up on the palace gates a distich
in praise of Augustus, which, when nobody was found to own it, was
claimed by a certain versifier Bathyllus, whom Caesar duly rewarded,
A few days later, however, Virgil again set in the same place a
quatrain each line of which commenced 'sic vos non vobis...' but was
unfinished, and preceeded these by the one hexameter
Hos ego versiculos feci; tulit alter honores.
All were unable to complete the lines satisfactorily save the great
poet himself, and by this means the true author of the eulogy was
revealed.
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Errors and Irregularities: The Rover, Part I
justling him to one side
_standard spelling for text_
that damn'd virtuous Woman, whom on my Conscience
_text reads "Consicience"_
Read here this Postscript.
_text reads "Postcript"_
_Will._ Ha! where?
_Fred._ Ay where!
_printed on a single line_
_Belv._ Ha, ha, ha!
_Will._ Death Man, where is she?
_printed on a single line_
_Enter _Don Pedro_ in Masquerade, follow'd by _Stephano_._
_printed "follow'd _by Stephano_" with "by" in emphatic type_
_Ang._ No matter, I'm not displeas'd ...
_the left edge of this and the following paragraph is damaged,
and has been reconstructed as shown in {braces}:_
_Ang._ No matter, I'm not displeas'd with their rallying;
th{eir} Wonder feeds my Vanity, and he that wishes to buy,
{giv}es me more Pride, than he that gives my Price can
{m}ake
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