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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    P. 14,1. 3, Muscleborough fray.|\—The battle of Pinkey, in which the Protector Somerset defeated the Scots with great slaughter, Sep- tember 10th, 1547. 1,10, poating sticke.|\—Or poking-stick, an instrument for setting the plaits of ruffs. Poting-sticks were originally made of wood or bone; afterwards of steel, that they might be used hot. 1. 11, Cutting Dicke.]|—Is thus mentioned by Wither : ‘* Yet this is nothing; if they looke for fame, And meane to haue an everlasting name Amongst the Vulgar, let them seeke for gaine With Ward the Pirat on the boisterous maine ; Or else well mounted keepe themselues on land, And bid our wealthy trauellers to stand, Emptying their full-cram’d bags; for that’s a tricke Which sometimes wan renoune to Cutting Dicke.”’ Abvses Stript and Whipt, Lib. II. Sat. 2. Sig. P. ed. 1613. From the following entry by Henslowe we learn that this worthy figured in a play: ‘‘ Pd. unto Thomas Hewode, the 20th of septem- ber [1602], for the new adycions of Cutting Dick, the some of xxs.” Malone’s Shakespeare, (by Boswell,) III. 333. l, 12, “tis a world.|—Equivalent to—it is a wonder. ——— 1, 27, Lack ye? what do you lack, Gentlemen ?|—The usual address of the London tradesmen to those who passed by their shops, which were formerly open like booths or stalls at a fair. P. 15, l. 2, sort.|—set, band. l. 15, let.|—hindrance. 1. 23, Master Roger Wiler the Maior.]}—An error, it would seem, not of the author, but of the printer, for afterwards (p. 18), the name is given more correctly, Weild. In the list of Mayors of Nor- wich during Elizabeth’s reign, drawn up by Blomefield, we find— * 1598, Francis Rugg, 2. 1599, Roger Weld. 1600, Alex. Thurston.” Hist. of Norf. ii. 252. P. 17,1. 1, Wifflers.}—Persons who clear the way for a proces-