EPILOGUE Ros. It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue If it be true on label that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue: yet to good wine they do use good bushes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good 10 play! I am not furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me: my way is to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women,as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them, that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a 20 woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, 20. "If I were a woman"; the part of Rosalind was of course originally taken by a boy-actor: women's parts were not taken by women till after the Restoration.-I. G. I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. [Exeunt As, to wit, namely; II. i. 6. ASSAY'D, attempted; I. iii. 140. ATALANTA'S BETTER PART; variously interpreted as referring to Atalanta's "swiftness," "beauty," "spiritual part"; probably the reference is to her beautiful form; III. ii. 160. ATOMIES, motes in a sunbeam; III. ii. 254. ATONE TOGETHER, are at one; V. iv. 122. BANDY, contend; V. i. 63. BANQUET, dessert, including wine; II. v. 65. BAR, forbid; V. iv. 137; "bars me," i. e. excludes me from; I. i. 22. BATLET little bat, used by laundresses; II. iv. 52. BEHOLDING, beholden; IV. i. 66. BESTOWS HIMSELF, carries himself; IV. iii. 89. BETTER, greater; III. i. %. sion; V. iv. 59. Вов, rap, slap; II. vii. 55. BONNET, hat; III. ii. 411. BOTTOM, "neighbor b.," the neighboring dell; IV. iii. 81. BOUNDS, boundaries, range of pasture; II. iv. 90. Bow, yoke; III. iii. 84. BRAVERY, finery; II. vii. 80. BREATHED; "well breathed,” in full display of my strength; I. ii. 242. BREATHER, living being; III. ii. 306. BREED, train up, educate; I. i. 4. BRIEF, in brief; IV. iii. 157. BROKE, broken; II. iv. 41. BROKEN MUSIC; "Some instru ments such as viols, violins, etc., were formerly made in sets of four, which, when played together, formed a 'consort.' If one or more of the instruments of one set were substituted for the corresponding ones of another set, the Iresult is no longer a 'consort,' but 'broken music"" (Chappell); I. ii. 158. BRUTISH, animal nature; II. vii. 66. BUCKLES IN, surrounds; III. ii. 145. BUGLE, a tube-shaped bead of black glass; III. v. 47. BURDEN; the "burden" of a song was the base, foot, or undersong; III. ii. 271. BUTCHERY, slaughter-house; II. iii. 27. CALLING, appellation; I. ii. 258. CAPABLE, sensible, receivable; III. v. 23. CAPON LINED, alluding to the customary gifts expected by Elizabethan magistrates, "capon justices," as they were occasionally called; II. vii. 154. CAPRICIOUS, used with a play upon its original sense; Ital. capriccioso, fantastical, goatish; capra, a goat; III. iii. 8. CARLOT, little churl, rustic; III. v. 108. CAST, cast off; III. iv. 15. CENSURE, criticism; IV. i. 7. CHANGE, reversal of fortune; I. iii. 112. CHANTICLEER, the cock; II. vii. 30. CHARACTER, write; III. ii. 6. CHEERLY, cheerily; II. vi. 15. CHOPт, chapped; II. iv. 53. CHRONICLERS (Folio 1 "chronoclers") perhaps used for the "jurymen," but the spelling of Folio 1 suggests "coroners" for "chroniclers"; IV. i. 113. CHURLISH, miserly; II. iv. 87. CICATRICE, a mere mark (not the scar of a wound); III. iv. 23. CITY-WOMAN, citizen's wife; II. vii. 75. CIVIL; "c. sayings," sober, grave maxims, perhaps "polite"; III. ii. 141. CIVILITY, politeness; II. vii. 96. CLAP INTO 'T, to begin a song briskly; V. iii. 11. CLUBS, the weapon used by the London prentices, for the preservation of the public peace, or for the purposes of riot; V. ii. 47. Cons, strictly the husks containing the peas; perhaps here used for "peas"; II. iv. 55. COLOR, nature, kind; I. ii. 113–14. COMBINE, bind; V. iv. 162. COME OFF, get off; I. ii. 34. COMFORT, take comfort; II. vi. 5. COMMANDMENT, command; II. vii. 109. COMPACT, made up, composed; II. vii. 5. COMPLEXION; "good my c.," per haps little more than the similar exclamation "goodness me!" or "good heart!" possibly, however, Rosalind appeals to her complexion not to betray her; III. ii. 209. CONCEIT, imagination; II. vi. 8; mental capacity; V. ii. 62. CONDITION, Mood; I. ii. 293. CONDUCT, leadership; V. iv. 169. CONNED, learnt by heart; III. ii. 298. CONSTANT, accustomed, ordinary; III. v. 123. CONTENTS; "if truth holds true c." i. e. "if there be truth in truth"; V. iv. 142. CONTRIVER, plotter; I. i. 161. CONVERTITES, converts; V. iv. 197. CONY, rabbit; III. ii. 368. COPE, engage with; II. i. 67. COPULATIVES, those desiring to be united in marriage; V. iv. 58. COTE; "cavenne de bergier; a shepherd's cote; a little cottage or cabin made of turfs, straw, boughs, or leaves" (Cotgrave); II. iv. 90. COULD, would gladly; I. ii. 274. COUNTENANCE; "his countenance" probably ="his entertainment of me, the style of living which he allows me"; I. i. 20. COUNTER, worthless wager; originally pieces of false money used as a means of reckoning; II. vii. 63. COURTSHIP, Court life; III. ii. 375. COUSIN, niece; I. iii. 48. COVER, Set the table; II. v. 32. CROSS, used equivocally in the sense of (1) misfortune, and (2) money; the ancient penny had a double cross with a crest stamped on, so that it might easily be broken into four pieces; II. iv. 13. CROW, laugh heartily; II. vii. 30. COURTLE-AXE, a short sword; I. iii. 128. DAMNABLE, worthy of condemnation; V. ii. 72. DEFIED, disliked; Epil. 23. DESPERATE, bold, daring, forbidden; V. iv. 32. DEVICE, aims, ambitions; I. i. 187. DIAL, an instrument for meas uring time in which the hours were marked; a small portable sun-dial; II. vii. 20. DISABLE, undervalue; IV. i. 37. DISABLED, disparaged; V. iv. 82. DISHONEST, immodest; V. iii. 4. DISLIKE express dislike of; V. iv. 74. DISPUTABLE, fond of disputing; DIVERTED, diverted from its nat- song, variously interpreted by editors, e. g. "duc ad me," "huc ad me," probably, however, the word is an ancient refrain, of Celtic origin; Halliwell notes that dus-adam-me-me occurs in a MS. of Piers Plowman, where ordinary texts read How, trolly, lolly (C. ix. 123); it is probably a survival of some old British game like "Tom Tidler," and is said to mean in Gælic "this land is mine"; according to others it is a Welsh phrase equivalent to "come to me." Judging by all the evidence on the subject the Gælic interpretation seems to be most plausible; n. b. l. 61, "to call fools into a circle"; II. v. 56. DULCET DISEASES, [? an error for "dulcet discourses"] perhaps "sweet mortifications," alluding to such proverbial sayings as "fool's bolt is soon shot," &c.; V. iv. 69. EAST, eastern; III. ii. 98. ENGAGE, pledge; V. iv. 178. ENTAME, bring into a state of tameness; III. v. 48. ENTREATED, persuaded; I. ii. 167. ERRING, wandering; III. ii. 143. ESTATE, bequeath, settle; V. ii. 14. |