ct V, i. 'Marry him, sweet Lady, to answere his
bitter Bob,' and Buckingham's _The Rehearsal_ (1671), Act III, i,
where Bayes cries: 'There's a bob for the Court.' A dry bob (literally
= a blow or fillip that does not break the skin) is an intensely
bitter taunt, cf. _Cotgrave_ (1611), _Ruade seiche_, a drie bob, jeast
or nip. _Bailey_ (1731) has '_Dry Bob_. a Taunt or Scoff'.

p. 302 _Starters._ .... cf. also _The Lucky Chance_, I, i: 'I am no
Starter.' (Vol. III, p. 193), and note on that passage, p. 485.

_Lucky Chance_ note:

_Starter._ This slang word usually means a milksop, but here it
is equivalent to 'a butterfly', 'a weathercock'--a man of changeable
disposition. A rare use.

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Errors and Irregularities: The Widow Ranter

In the Notes, alternation between .' and '. at paragraph-end is as
printed. The abbreviation "cf." is always lower-case.

Editor's Introduction

and she sinks into his arms to die [his ams]

The Widow Ranter

[Points to _Dull._ _Whim._ _Whiff_, and _Tim._ [_Dull,_ _Whim,_]
[_correction based on ordinary punctuation of this text_]
thy Friend that kept thee Company all the while [taht]
[Goes in. / [All exeunt.
[_bracket before "All exeunt" added for consistency in e-text_]

Critical Notes

p. 261 _a Bob._ [p 261]

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THE YOUNGER BROTHER;

OR, THE AMOROUS JILT.

ARGUMENT.

Mirtilla, the Amorous Jilt, who had once been attached to George
Marteen, the Younger Brother, married for a convenience the clownish Sir
Morgan Blunder. Prince Frederick, who had seen and fallen in love with
her during a religious ceremony in a Ghent convent, follows her to
England. They meet accidentally and she promises him a private
interview. George Marteen had recommended a page to Mirtilla, and the
lad is his sister Olivia in disguise. Mirtilla, although she falls in
love with her 'smooth-chin'd boy', receives Prince Frederick, but the
house wherein she lodges catches fire that night, and it is George
Marteen who, in spite of the fact that he knows his friend the Prince is
with her, procures a ladder and rescues the lady at some danger to
himself. The Prince is able to escape by the same way, and he then
carries Mirtilla to his own lodgings, where feigni