“Like quills upon the fretful _porcupine_”,
he having written, and in his first folio and quarto the words standing,
“Like quills upon the fretful _porpentine_”,
this being the earlier, and in Shakespeare’s time the more common form of the word [e.g. “the _purpentines_ nature” (Puttenham, _Eng. Poesie_, 1589, p. 118, ed. Arber)], they must be considered as taking a very unwarrantable liberty with his text; and no less, when they substitute ‘Kenilworth’ for ‘Killingworth’, which he wrote, and which was his, Marlowe’s, and generally the earlier form of the name.
{ 284} [Compare Latin _amita_, yielding old French _ante_, our ‘aunt’.]
{ 285} “The Carthaginians shall restore and deliver back all the _renegates_ [perfugas] and fugitives that have fled to their side from us”.--p. 751.
{ 286} [See further in _The Folk and their Word-Lore_, p. 80.]
{ 287} Halbertsma quoted by Bosworth, _Origin of the English and Germanic Languages_, p. 39.
PAGE Abenteuer 240 Abnormal 72 Abominable 245 Academy 70 Accommodate 107 Acre 193 Adamant 230 Admiralty 107 Advocate 82 Æon 72 Æsthetic 72 Afeard 126 Affluent 104 Afraid 127 Afterthink 120 Alcimus 237 Alcove 16 Amphibious 107 Analogie 56 Ant 253 Antecedents 210 Anthem 245 Antipodes 68 Apotheosis 67 -ard 141 Armbrust 240 Arride 58 Ascertain 186 Ask 126 Astarte 237 Attercop 123 Aurantium 241 Aurichalcum 237 Avunculize 91 Axe 126
Baffle 181 Baker, bakester 157 Banter 106 Barrier 70 Battalion 61 Bawn 123 Benefice, benefit 97 Bitesheep 144 Black art 243 Blackguard 189 Blasphemous 128 Bless 231 Bombast 199 Book 21 Boor 202 Bozra 237 Brangle 177 Bran-new 231 Brat 205 Brazen 164 Breaden 163 Bruin 89 Buffalo 16 Butter 237 Buxom 139
Chagrin 95 Chance-medley 243 Chanticleer 89 Chemist, chemistry 248 Chicken 158 Chouse 91 Chymist, chymistry 248 Clawback 144 Comissatio 237 Commérage 204 Confluent 104 Congregational 79 Contrary 128 Corpse 191 Country dance 242 Court card 239 Coxcomb 229 Cozen 231 Crawfish 252 Creansur 45 Criterion 67 Crone, crony 93 Crucible 245 Crusade 62 Cuirass 246 Currant 239 Cynarctomachy 91
Dahlia 88 Dame 192 Dandylion 243 Dearworth 120 Dedal 86 Dehort 137 Demagogue 55 Denominationalism 79 Depot 69 Diamond 230 Dirge 250 Dissimilation 103 Divest 229 Donat 86 Dorter 20 Dosones 90 Doughty 146 Drachm 193 Dragoman 12 Dub 146 Duke 191 Dumps 147 Dutch 177