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S.) containing a long passage that is found in Chapman's _Byron's Tragedie_ Massinger, his share in the authorship of _Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt_ Mawmets ( = puppets) Mawmett ( = Mahomet) Meath (A curious corruption of _Mentz_. Old printers distorted foreign names in an extraordinary manner.) Mechall Mention ( = dimension) Mew Middleton, quotation from his _Family of Love_ Minikin ( = fiddle) Mistris Moe Monthes mind Mooncalf More hayre than wit Morglay Mosch Mother Motion ( = suggestion, proposal) Mouse Much (ironical) Mumchance Muscadine Muschatoes ( = moustaches) Mushrumps ( = mushrooms) Music played between the acts Muskadine with an egg _My Love can sing no other song_ (See _Appendix_) Mynsatives Nephewes Nero, his poems Newmarket Nifle Night rail Ninivie, motion of Noddy Old Orphant Outcryes Outface with a card of ten Overseene Owe Pantables ( = slippers) Paris Garden ditch Pavine Pedlars' French Peele's _Hunting of Cupid_ Peeterman Persius quoted Pharo, by the life of (This oath occurs in _first_ edition, 1601, of _Every Man in his Humour_: in the revised edition it was altered to "by the _foot_ of Pharaoh.") Picardo Pick-hatch Pilchers Pimblico Pinks Pioner Plancher Planet ("Some Planet striketh him") Plashd Platform Plautus' _Rudens_, plot of Heywood's play _The Captives_ drawn from: quotations from Pomander Poore Jhon _Poore Man's Comfort_ (play by Robert Daborne), MS. copy of Portage (Undoubtedly we should read _partage_.) Pot-gun Pricke-song Prick and prayse ( = praise of excellence) Princkocke Proclamation that the gentry should reside at their mansions in the country Proculus Prologue spoken by a woman Protest, affected use of the word (See Dyce's _Shakespeare Glossary_.) Puckfist Puerelis Puisne Puisnes of the Inne Pumpion Pun[to] reversos ( = back-handed strokes in fencing) Push Putt a girdle round about the world Puttock Quale Rabbit-suckers Rabby Roses (The reference is, probably, to the Arabian physician Rhazes.) Racke Rape, punishment for Rascal Rats rhymed to death Refuse me Regalias Rest ("our rest we set") Rest for every slave to pull at Reverent ( = reverend) _Richard II_., MS. play Ride the wild mare (a rustic sport) Rincht ( = rinsed) Road Roaring boys ( = roisterers) Rochet Rope-ripes Rosemary Rotten hares Rudelesse vaile Russeting Sackerson (In the footnote read H_u_nkes for H_a_nkes.) Sal
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