Volume Iv Part 65 (2/2)

_Mustapha._ I bring the morning pictur'd in a cloud.

And in Sir William Barclay's _The Lost Lady_ (folio, 1639), Act II:--

Enter _Phillida_ veiled who talks to _Ergasto_ aside and then goes out.

_Cleon._ From what part of the town comes this fair day In a cloud that makes you look so cheerfully?

are burlesqued in _The Rehearsal_, III, v:--

_Vols._ Can vulgar vestments high-born beauty shroud?

Thou bring'st the Morning pictur'd in a Cloud.

+ACT III: Scene ii+

p. 164 _... is welcome._ Buckingham parodies this in _The Rehearsal_, IV, iii:--

_Cordelia._ My lieges, news from _Volscius_ the prince.

_Usher._ His news is welcome, whatso'er it be.

_Smith._ How, sir, do you mean that? Whether it be good or bad?

+ACT III: Scene iii+

p. 172 _tabering._ Beating on; tapping; drumming. This rare word occurs in _Nahum_, II, vii: 'Her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves tabering upon their b.r.e.a.s.t.s.'

+ACT IV: Scene ii+

p. 180 _Hansel'd._ To handsel is to inaugurate with some ceremony of an auspicious kind, e.g. to begin the New Year by presenting a new comer with a gift.

p. 183 _She leapt into the River._ _The Rehearsal_, Act V, burlesques this:-- '_The Argument of the Fifth Act_ ... _Cloris_ in despair, drowns herself: and Prince _Pretty-man_, discontentedly, walks by the River side.'

+ACT IV: Scene iv+

p. 188 _foutering._ Fouter (Fr. foutre; Lat. futuere), _verb.u.m obscaenum_. cf. the noun in phrase 'to care not a fouter' (footra, footre, foutre), _2 Henry IV_, V, iii. To 'fouter' is also used (a vulgarism and a provincialism) in a much mitigated sense = to meddle about aimlessly, to waste time and tongue doing nothing, as of a busybody.

p. 189 _Niperkin._ This would seem to be a slang expression, as Grose gives it meaning 'a small measure'. It was also used for the actual stone jug. cf. D'Urfey, _Pills to Purge Melancholy_ (1719): 'Quart-pot, Pint-pot, nipperkin.' _N.E.D._, quoting this pa.s.sage, explains as 'a small quant.i.ty of wine, ale, or spirits.'

p. 190 _Camphire Posset._ Camphor had a high reputation as an antaphrodisiac. cf. Dryden, _The Spanish Friar_ (1681), Act I, where Gomez says of his wife: 'I'll get a physician that shall prescribe her an ounce of camphire every morning, for her breakfast, to abate incontinency'; also Congreve, _The Way of the World_ (1700), IV, xii: 'You are all camphire and frankincense, all chast.i.ty and odour.'

Cross-References from Critical Notes: _The Amorous Prince_

p. 121 _The Jig and Dance._ cf. note (on p. 43), Vol. III, p. 477: _A Jigg (The Town Fop)_.

_Town Fop_ note:

p. 43 _A Jigg._ There were, in Post-Restoration times, two interpretations of the word Jig. Commonly speaking it was taken to mean exactly what it would now, a simple dance. Nell Gwynne and Moll Davis were noted for the dancing of Jigs. cf. Epilogue to Buckingham's _The Chances_ (1682):--

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