Chapter XVIII

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

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From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

higher than, or over, something

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

prior to a specified or implied time

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “author” — writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

From this reading The remaining seventeen said to be "published from the Authors' Original Copies," are printed from the quartos.

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From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853)

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

next to; at the side of

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a male with the same parents as someone else

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

the act of burning something

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “chance” — a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

go after with the intent to catch

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

plural of “comedy” — light and humorous drama with a happy ending

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

gotten under control

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

third-person singular of “contain” — include or contain; have as a component

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

plural of “copy” — a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

the modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the ceremony of installing a new monarch

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “cupid” — (Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

a person authorized to conduct religious worship

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

provide a cure for, make healthy again

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a line that indicates a boundary

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

increase twofold

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

being one more than seventeen

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

a person who is older than you are

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

qualified for by right according to law

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the system of numbering pages

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

a man of refinement

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “gentleman” — a man of refinement

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

full of or characterized by humor

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

located inward

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a commissioned military officer

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a person who loves someone or is loved by someone

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “lover” — a person who loves someone or is loved by someone

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “love” — a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

roused to anger

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

a republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “man” — an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

past form of “mention” — make reference to

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

move about in a confused manner

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English “Mr”

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

not any; not one

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

impressive in appearance

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

and nothing more

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

From this reading The remaining seventeen said to be "published from the Authors' Original Copies," are printed from the quartos.

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From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

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From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

any of various important officials in ancient Rome

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

someone who journeys in foreign lands

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a journey to a sacred place

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “play” — a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

past form of “print” — put into print

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

prepared and printed for distribution and sale

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

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From this reading The remaining seventeen said to be "published from the Authors' Original Copies," are printed from the quartos.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

not used up

From this reading The remaining seventeen said to be "published from the Authors' Original Copies," are printed from the quartos.

plural of “representation” — a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

action taken in return for an injury or offense

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

Norse chieftain who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931)

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

expressing extreme contempt

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

apart from others

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

being one more than sixteen

From this reading The remaining seventeen said to be "published from the Authors' Original Copies," are printed from the quartos.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

brought from wildness into a domesticated state

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

an animal trainer who tames wild animals

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

being five more than thirty

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

plural of “tragedy” — an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

an act of traveling by water

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “weapon” — any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Of these thirty-five, which purport to be printed from "the authours originall copies," only one, as I have already said, _The Maske_, had been published before.

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

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From this reading The second folio, entitled _Fifty Comedies and Tragedies_, 1679, contains, beside those above mentioned, eighteen others, one of which, _The Wild-Goose Chase_, had been published separately and in folio, 1652.

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading They are _The Maides Tragedy_, _Philaster_, _A King and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, _The Elder Brother_, _Wit Without Money_, _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_, _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, _Monsieur Thomas_, _Rollo_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, _The Night-Walker_, _The Coronation_, _Cupids Revenge_, _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, _Thierry and Theodoret_, and _The Woman-Hater_.

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From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.

set down in writing in any of various ways

From this reading THE DELIMITATION OF THE FIELD The plays contained in the first folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Comedies and Tragedies_, 1647, are _The Mad Lover_, _The Spanish Curate_, _The Little French Lawyer_, _The Custome of the Countrey_, _The Noble Gentleman_, _The Captaine_, _The Beggers Bush_, _The Coxcombe_, _The False One_, _The Chances_, _The Loyall Subject_, _The Lawes of Candy_, _The Lovers Progresse_, _The Island Princesse_, _The Humorous Lieutenant_, _The Nice Valour_, _The Maide in the Mill_, _The Prophetesse_, _The Tragedy of Bonduca_, _The Sea Voyage_, _The Double Marriage_, _The Pilgrim_, _The Knight of Malta_, _The Womans Prize_ or _The Tamer Tamed_, _Loves Cure_, _The Honest Mans Fortune_, _The Queene of Corinth_, _Women Pleas'd_, _A Wife for a Moneth_, _Wit at Severall Weapons_, _The Tragedy of Valentinian_, _The Faire Maide of the Inne_, _Loves Pilgrimage_, _The Maske of the Gentlemen of Grayes Inne, and the Inner Temple, at the Marriage of the Prince and Princesse Palatine of Rhene_ written by Francis Beaumont, Gentleman, _Foure Playes_ (or _Moralle Representations_) _in One_.