Lean's collectanea Volume 2, pt. 2

by Vincent Stuckey Lean

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 ...This seems quite modern. I have found no earlier use. Said to refer to the Friendship of Amis and Amile. Translated by W. Morris, Kelmscott Press, 1894.--Ed. Well's a fret, He that dies for love, will not be hang'd for debt. N., I. viii. 197, 258 and 33o. i.i. The point at which a string of a guitar is stopt. A cankerous hole in wood.--Ascham, Toxophilus Arber, 12o. The first line seems to be a quiz on the habit (very prevalent in East Anglia) of answering any observation, or even question, by provokingly commencing, " Well!" It is considered as a dullard's habit, to gain time for consideration. Cf. "Well, well" is a word of malice.--Cheshire R., 167o. In other places if you say "Well, well!" they will ask whom you ireaten.--R., 167o. A till man, A will man.--Cl. Tame, gentle.--(Kent) Hll. Pertinacia.--Cl. i.e. a quiet, gentle man is an obstinate man. Give a child till he crave,, And a dog till his tail wave, And you shall have a fair dog and a foul knave.--Cl. Cf. I 'le fight for you till I can stand.--Cl., p. 33. Till, while, as long as.--P. Plow., VII. 181, 185. The ground is a good scaffold or stage to act upon.--Cl. This petulant fool shall be my scaffold to erect my plots.--S. S., Honest Lawyer, i. 1616. On stage who stands to play his part ech frown may not him daunt, Some play to please, some laugh, some wepe, some flatter, some do taunt, But bee whose part tends to this end fond fansies to toyes to school, Best welcome is when he resines the scaffold to the fool. Ulpian Fulwell, Ars. Adulandi, G. 4. 1579. He ravishes the gazing scaffolders.--Hall, Sat., I. iii. The ground was the pit of the Elizabethan play-house (Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, I. i.), and the occupants were called "the groundlings."--Lady ...

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Published January 1, 2012