Kemps nine daies wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich / With an introduction and notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce.

  • Kemp, William, active 1600.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Kemps nine daies wonder: performed in a daunce from London to Norwich / With an introduction and notes by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page 1, line 2, Mistris Anne Fitton, Mayde of Honour to.... Queene Elizabeth.|—A Mary Fitton, daughter to Sir Edward Fitton, of Gaws- worth, and maid ef honour to Queen Elizabeth, is mentioned by Ormerod, Hist. of Cheshire, iii. 293; and ‘‘ Mrs. Fitton” is noticed as holding that office in several letters of Rowland Whyte, printed among the Sydney Papers. It seems unlikely that the Queen should have had two maids of honour called Fitton; and yet we can hardly suppose that Kemp mistook the Christian name of his patroness. I may add, that an examination of Sir E. Fitton’s will in the Prerogative Court has proved to me that his daughter was named Mary. l. 6, sort.|—set, band. /.11, Kery, mery, Buffe.|—Compare Nash’s Haue with you to Saffron-walden, 1596, ** Yea, without kerry merry buffe be it spoken,” &c. Sig. F.4; and Middleton’s Blurt Master Constable, ‘‘ Tricks, tricks; kerry merry buff’? Acti. sc.1; Works, i. 235, ed. Dyce. 1. 14. Trenchmore. |—a boisterous sort of dance to a lively tune in triple time. P. 2, 1. 2, Jigges.|—See Introduction. l. 8, Icould flye to Rome (at least hop to Rome, as the olde Proverb is) with a morter on my head.|—So in Fletcher’s Fair Maid of the Inn, “« He did measure the stars with a false yard, and may now travel to Rome with a mortar on’s head, to see if he can recover his money that way,” Act v.sc. 2, Works, ix. 498, ed. Weber ; and in Middleton and Rowley’s Spanish Gipsy, ‘< A cousin of mine in Rome, I[ll] go to him with a mortar,’ Act ii. sc. 2, Middleton’s Works, iv. 135, ed. Dyce. 1.11, huntsup.j—a tune played to rouse the sportsmen in a morning. CAMD. soc. ll. E