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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    sion: see Douce’s Ill. of Shakespeare, I. 506. I may just notice that when Grose compiled his Prov. Gloss., the word whifflers had not become obsolete in the city of which Kemp is now speaking. P.17, 1. 4, preaze.|—press. l. 17, points.]—tagged laces. P. 18, 1. 2, my Jump, the measure of which is to be seene in the Guild- hall at Norwich, &c.|—It is hardly necessary to inform the reader that no memorial of Kemp is now extant in that building. 1, 10, angels.|—Gold coins, worth about 10s. each. Z. 11, 7s a man,|—Old ed. ‘as a man.” l, 22, commodities.|—goods, in which needy prodigals took either part or whole of the sum they wanted to borrow, and for which they gave a bond: these commodities (sometimes consisting of brown paper!) they were to turn into ready money. Our early writers have innumerable allusions to the custom. J. 22. wit, whither wilt thou?}—A kind of proverbial expres- sion, by no means unfrequent: see, for instance, Shakespeare’s As you like it, Act iv. sc. 1. 1, 26, tottered. | —tattered. —_—— 1, 30, M. Weild the mayor.|—See note, p. 29. P.19, 1.8, I put owt some money to haue threefold gaine at my returne. | See note, p. 26. — 1.19, Bench-whistlers.|—perhaps, sottish idlers on ale-house benches ; see Gifford’s note in B. Jonson’s Works, i. 103. 1.19, ketlers and keistrels.|—The first of these terms I am unable to explain; but it occurs in Middleton’s Black Book, ‘So, drawing in amongst bunglers and ketlers under the plain frieze of simplicity, thou mayest finely couch the wrought velvet of knavery ;” and in his Father Hubburd’s Tales, we find “ like an old cunning bowler to fetch in a young ketling gamester :”’ see Middleton’s Works, v. 543, 589, ed. Dyce. Keistrels are hawks of a worthless and dege- nerate breed. P. 20, 1. 3, pretends.|—intends. lL. 9, sort. |—set, band. -——-~ 1, 24, Jigmonger.]—ballad maker.