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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. * * * * * * * * * 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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