Act Iii: Scene Iia

p. 54 bow’d Gold. Bowed for bent is still used in the North of England: ‘A bowed pin.’

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 Cæsar 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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THE ROVER; OR, THE BANISH’D CAVALIERS.