Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others

_Now._ We shall bargain with you; and nother mock nor scorn-- Take a good cart in harvest, and load it with your corn, And what shall we give you for the leaving?

_Wealth._ Thou speakest with a slanderous tongue, All of evil will; and yet, it is wrong: Wealth in this realm hath been long; Of me cometh great honour. Because that I, Wealth,...

The last of all is our great enemy; Which ever hath us in continual hatred Of old encankered malice and envy That he oweth to us, and all the kindred Of all the ancestors of who...

_Man._ Yes, for a while ye well enow; But go not out of the way, I charge you; For hither will come, anon, All my company, as I suppose: Keep them together! for I purpose To com...

_Peace._ Forsooth! that may full well be: Thou art so full of wrath and envy In thee can grow no grace; But if thou wilt forsake sensuality, And be governed by reason, as I shal...

_Rea._ For certain yet, according to mine office, I must advertise and counsel him, at the least, To haunt virtue and 'schew all vice; And therein assist him to the uttermost; A...

_Pride._ Sir! I shall tell thee how when I am in To thy master's service; I will first begin To set his heart on a merry pin, And bid him make good cheer. I will bid him think h...

_Health._ What do ye say? then ye are to blame, And we put you in trust for the same; To keep such rule, it is a shame; It is not for our honour.

_New G._ Queck, queck, queck! alas, my throat! I beshrew you, marry! A, Mercy! Christ's copped curse go with you, and saint Davy! Alas, my weasand! ye were somewhat too near!

Unquestionably the chief interest of this volume will centre in the three recently recovered "lost" Tudor Plays: _Wealth and_ _Health_, _Impatient Poverty_, and _John the_ _Evan...

For, hear ye, sirrah! our great, grand lady mother, Noble Dame Respublica, she and none other-- Of the offals, the refuse, the rags, the parings; The baggage, the trash, the fra...

_Avar._ Yea! now hardely stand there still, And the names of my bags to you declare I will. First and foremost, this bag is my very clear gain Of leases encroached, and forthwit...

_Avar._ Then must ye needs be most heartily welcome: We had ne'er more need of you, by my halidom! There be in this country which, but ye comfort [send], Are full like to make b...

_Peace._ Call ye it peace, sirrah! when brother and brother Cannot be content to live one by another? When one for his house, for his land, yea, for his groat, Is ready to striv...

_Peace._ A little while give me respite, And take heed what I do say: Remember in what condition thou was When I first met thee in this place-- Full simple, in poor array. B1,_r...

Also, that sin is to man unnatural; More than any other, in mine opinion. For all other sins--mark therein well-- A man committeth with some delectation; But Envy is ever full o...

_Iris._ Down to the dungeon where the devil dwelleth, Lucifer, that loathly lord, that is in bale blisses. There is woe upon woe, as Christ us telleth; All that may disease and...

_Avar._ Well! I thank you once again. But, now that you may think my dealing true and plain, And, because one cannot do so well as many, Ye must associate me with mo company: An...

RECUMBENTIBUS, "a shrewd _recumbentibus_" (M20,_b_)--"speak to Mankind for the _recumbentibus_ of my jewels" (M22,_c_), "a knock-down blow" (_O.E.D._), but the second example do...

_Sci._ I take ye for no natural fool, Brought up among the innocents' school; But for a naughty, vicious fool, Brought up with Idleness in her school: Of all arrogant fools thou...

_Upon his feet, would God he were!_ _To raise him now we need not fear._ _Stay you his hands, while we him bear;_ _Now, all at once, upright him rear!_ _O Wit, give place to Hon...

ALLOW, "these words be greatly to _allow_" (N59,_a_), approve, sanction: American by survival. "First, whether ye _allow_ my whole device--And if ye like it, and _allow_ it well...

CHAMPION, "now is a _champion_ field" (R200,_d_), _i.e._ champagne = flat open country. "Fra the thine thay went fourty dayes, and come intille a _champayne_ cuntree that was al...

NATURE. The text will be found on pages 41-133, together with a reduced facsimile of the title-page of the unique copy now in the British Museum (C34,_e_54). Bound up with it, a...

MANKIND. The text is given on pp. 1-40. This curious picture of real life and ne'er-do-weels in late Plantagenet and early Tudor times is one of the unique Macro plays, and exis...

FIERCE, "a likely man and a _fierce_" (M27,_d_)--"how valiant ... and _fierce_" (WH293,_d_), strong, full of fire and ardour. "Yet have I _fierce_ affections."--Shakespeare, _An...

SUPERSEDEAS (R261,_d_), a writ having in general the effect of a command, to stay or forbear, on good cause shown, my ordinary proceedings which might otherwise be proceeded wit...

Greg, in his "notes" to _Early Play Lists_ (App. II. lxxix), says: "Neither Langbaine nor any of his followers had seen the piece. The _Biographica_ _Dramatica_ gives the date 1...

The copy now happily recovered shows the play to have been "newly" printed in 1560 by John King, who was in business at the Sign of the Swan in St. Paul's Churchyard from 1555 t...

MACRO PLAYS AND MANUSCRIPTS (THE). These derive their name from a former owner, Cox Macro, an eighteenth century antiquary, physician, and cleric. From the _Dictionary of Nation...