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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    P. 3, 1.10, Thomas Slye.|—A relation, probably, of William Slye, the actor. 1.15, bel-shangles.|—A cant term, which is also used by Nash: “‘ Canonizing euerie Bel-shangles the water-bearer for a Saint.” —Haue with you to Saffron-walden, 1596, Sig. I. P. 4, 1. 18, Bauines.]—small faggots. 1. 30, hey-de-gaies.|—-a kind of rural dance: the word is va- riously written. P. 6, 1. 9, dy-doppers.\—didappers, dabchicks. 1.13, a noted Cutpurse, such a one as we tye to a poust on our stage, for all people to wonder at, when at a play they are taken pil- fring.|—Mr. Collier, who has cited the present passage, observes, that this method of treating cutpurses, when detected at theatres, is no where else adverted to by any writer.—Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet. lil. 413. 1. 18, Trenchmore. |—See note, p. 25. 1. 22, companions.|—scurvy fellows—a play on the word. P.7, 1.7, Sir Thomas Mildmay, standing at his Parke pale.\—Sir Thomas Mildmay, Knt., of Moulsham-hall. He married the Lady Frances, only daughter, by his second wife, of Henry Ratcliffe, Lord Fitzwalter and Earl of Sussex; from which marriage his descen- dants derived their title and claim to the Barony of Fitzwalter. He died in 1608.—Morant’s Hist. of Essex, ii.2; Dugdale’s Baron. ii. 288. l. 9, points. }—tagged laces. Ll. 9, being my ordinary marchandize, that I put out to venter for performance of my merry voyage.|—This “* marchandize” was in- stead of a deposit in money: but we learn from a passage towards the end of the tract (p. 19), that our Morrice-dancer had also ‘* put out some money to have threefold gain at his return,’—it being then a common custom for those who undertook expeditions to put out sums of money on condition of receiving them back trebled, quadrupled, or quintupled, at the completion of the voyages or journies. Kemp (did) complains that the greater number of those with whom he had deposited money would not ‘ willingly be found :” compare 4 Kicksey