Spending. p. 17. Utterance.
Spent. p. 3. Consumed.
Spials. Spies.

Spoie. p. 92. If we read "spoil"
it would appear that Brown, a cut-
purse, intentionally provoked a
quarrel in order to collect a crowd
from which he and his accomplices
might reap a harvest.
Sprag. Active.
Squirting. Upstart.
Standard. The Standard in Cheap-
side was a conduit, upon which
were portraits of kings and queens.
Stauling-ken. A house that will
receive stolen goods.

Stave and tail. Bear-baiting term; to stave to beat back the bear; to tail to hold back the dog. Still. Always, ever.

Stoop. p. 116. This word seems to be used figuratively here=to alight as a bird. The cheaters are of course the fowlers.

Stoves. Houses for hot vapour baths. Strangate. ?Strand-gate.

Strangury. Difficulty in discharging the urine.

Strength of his horses. p. 8o. The number of his horses.

Suburb shadow. The suburbs were

the most disreputable quarters of London in which the houses of illfame stood.

Suckets. Sweetmeats or sugarplums. Summoner. One who summons to the ecclesiastical court. Swag-bellied. With a large overhanging belly.

Sword and buckler. Went out of fashion about 1580. Frequent contemptuous references of them occur in Elizabethan literature. Apparently associated with thieves. Cp. 1 Henry IV, I. iii. 230. Syrups, i.e. medicines (cp. Treacle). Systema. The point is, I suppose, that the "6. 'mere scholar" takes systema (i.e. Systema Logicum=a system of logic) to be the name of the author of the book.

Tables. p. 64. Backgammon.

Take it of merit. Take as their due. Talbot. Great English general of the time of Henry VI. cp. I Henry VI.

Tarlton (Richard). Died 1588. A famous Elizabethan comic actor, said to be the original of Yorick in Hamlet.

Tawe out. Extort.

Tax idle circumstance. Censure trivial matters.

Telephus. The wound of Telephus could only be cured by rust from the spear of Achilles, which had inflicted it.

Term. p. 146. "Attend the end of every term"; the end of the law terms was the busiest season for publishers. Termagant. An imaginary god of the Mahomedans, who figured in the old miracles and morality plays as a violent character. Terminate.

Determine.

Testor or teston. Sixpence. Thales Milesius. He fell into a ditch while looking at the stars. Tick-tack. A game like back

gammon.

Toucher. The bowl lying nearest the "Jack."

Trade. Manner, custom, practice.
Travel for a stomach. Walk to
get an appetite.
Traverses. Crosses, misfortunes.
Treacle. Medicine.

Treads. Steps, measures.
Treen. Wooden.

Trenchmore. A popular dance tune.
Troll. To move round.

Trump. A card game very much like whist.

Try. p. 2. Refine.

Truss. Breeches. Verb= tie up the "points."

Watshod. ?Some kind of silk. Weasel-beaked. With a sharp thin face like a weasel. Welt. Strip, border: (verb) to patch.

We three. A well-known inn-sign representing two fools and inscribed "We three." The third fool of course is the man who looks at the picture. Cp. Twelfth Night, II.

iii. 17. Wheel and reel. i.e. for spinning. Whetstone. p. 270. Given as a prize for the biggest liar. Whirligig-jacks. Spinning jacks. Wings. Shoulder knots or epaulettes.

Wool-packs. p. 13. cp. p. 87.

Yerk. Jerk (q.v.).

Zany. A clown whose business on the stage was to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.

Actors Remonstrance, The 1643. p.
185
ASCHAM, ROGER The Scholemaster

1570. pp. 71, 195

AWDELEY, JOHN Fraternitye of Va-
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