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VOL. VI.

P. 246.-that have WRECK'D for Rome.] In "King Lear," the last scene, we find a passage in opposition to the statement that rack of old was not usually spelt wrack: it stands thus in the folio, 1623 :

"he hates him

That would upon the wracke of this tough world

Stretch him out longer."

It is wracke also in the three quarto impressions of the same tragedy. This, however, is an exception, and there may of course be others, to the general practice.

P. 361.-GIVE ME AIM awhile.] So in "Tarlton's Jests," 1611, Bankes's horse, Maroccus, was supposed to direct his master in the following passage :— "The people had much ado to keep peace, but Bankes and Tarlton had like to have squared, and the horse by to give aim."

P. 412.-To lure this TERCEL-GENTLE back again.] Steevens probably assigns a wrong reason for calling the male of the goss-hawk "a tercel," when he tells us, that it is because it is a tierce, or third, less than the female. Turberville, in his Book of Falconry, 1611, explains the true cause in these words: -"He is termed a tyercelet, for that there are most commonly disclosed three birds in one self eyry, two hawks and one tiercel," p. 60.

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P. 478.-In note 5, for "Enter Scoringman," read "Enter Sercingman.” P. 453.-Hunting thee hence with HUNTS-UP to the day.] A song of "The hunt is up' was known as early as 28 Henry VIII., when information was sent to the council against one John Hogon, who," with a crowd or a fyddyll,” sung a song to the tune, which certainly had a political allusion. Some of the words are given in the information :—

"The hunt is up, the hunt is up, &c.

The Masters of Arte and Doctours of dyvynyte

Have brought this realme ought of good unyte.

Thre nobyll men have take this to stay

My Lord of Norff. Lorde of Surrey

And my Lorde of Shrewsbyrry;

The Duke of Suff. myght have made Inglond mery."

Neither much meaning nor much measure is to be made out of the song: the words were taken down from recitation, and are not given as verse. The original document, under the hands and seals of four witnesses, is preserved in the Rolls-chapel, where Mr. W. H. Black was kind enough to show it to us.

P. 559.-the ROTHER'S sides.] In one of the original records of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the hands of the Shakespeare Society, we read as follows:

"Item, that the beast market, at every feyr hearafter, be holden in the Roder stret, and in no other place."

VOL. VII.

P. 5.-Robert Greene, a graduate of both Universities, makes the same statement.] He has the following passage in his "Orlando Furioso;" not according to the play as printed by the Rev. A. Dyce, from the editions of 1594 and 1599, but according to the fragment of the part of the hero, preserved at Dulwich College, which was not discovered when Mr. Dyce published the collection of Greene's Works in 1831.

"So, sirs; what says Cassius? why stabb'd he Cæsar

In the senate-house ?"

See the "Memoirs of Edward Alleyn," published by the Shakespeare Society,

p. 206.

There was a play upon the historical subject of the fall of Cæsar, anterior to the time when Greene wrote his "Orlando Furioso," and to that representation he probably refers.

P. 99.-HURLY BURLY's done.] The word also occurs in the unique poem, recently discovered, called "The pityfull Historie of ij loving Italians," by John Drout, printed in 1570, 8vo.

"Then hurly burly did begin,

great rumours straight were raysde."

This is the poem which was entered on the Stationers' registers in 1570, but of which nothing more was known. Malone, from the title, conjectured erroneously that the story related to "Romeo and Juliet."

P. 104.—The WEIRD sisters hand in hand.] Shakespeare as usual obtained his information from Holinshed :-" But afterwards the common opinion was that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye wold say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphes or feiries."

P. 193.—and we heard him broach them some years before the Lectures Ueber Dramatische Kunst und Litteratur were published] It is fit to add, that Goethe, in his "Wilhelm Meister," had promulgated the leading notions of Schlegel, on the character of Hamlet, many years earlier.

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P. 211.-he wore his beaver up.] The Rev. Mr. Goodchild refers us to a passage in the Diary of Archbishop Laud, (quoted in Wood's Athenæ by Bliss, vol. ii. p. 433) by which it seems that he meant by wearing the beaver up," that the face was covered by it. This is not quite clear, but the fact may be, that the beaver was sometimes made to rise from below, and sometimes to fall from above, for the protection of the face; and hence "he wore his beaver up" might mean that his countenance was not exposed. Such, however, is clearly not the meaning of Shakespeare here.

P. 457.-Diminish'd to her cock.] As is stated in the note, "cock" was often used in old writers for cock-boat one of the earliest of these is John Drout, in his “Pityfull Historie of ij loving Italians,” 1570, 8vo,

"Bicause that surging seas did rise,

and tooke them to their cock."

P. 460.-To say "ay" and "no" to everything I said! "Ay" and "no" too was no good divinity.] Mr. F. A. Twiss has favoured us with a MS. note by his father upon this passage, which did not reach us in time to be noticed in the proper place, but which we insert here, principally on account of the close parallel it supplies.

"Both the syntax and the sense are here vicious. A slight change in the punctuation, by joining the two sentences, will restore both. I read thus: To say 'ay' and 'no' to everything I said ‘ay' and 'no' to was no good divinity." So Terence, Eun. Act ii. sc. 2. 1. 20, Quidquid dicunt laudo; id rursum si negant, laudo id quoque: negat quis, nego; ait, aio."

We do not adopt this ingenious reading, merely because it seems to us that the mark of admiration cures the defect, and still keeps the sentences divided, as in the old copies: the word "too" is also there spelt as we spell it.

P. 518.-Correct note 3 by omitting the marks of quotation between which the word "we" is erroneously included.

VOL. VIII.

P. 127.—Sirrah, Iras, go] It is not to be supposed that this practice of applying "sirrah" and "sir" to women, was at all peculiar to Shakespeare as a dramatist. Beaumont and Fletcher not unfrequently do the same. See Dyce's Edit. vol. iii. p. 183, &c.

P. 242.-Note 6 requires qualification, for in “Skialetheia,” 1598, (and perhaps elsewhere) we meet with "fangled" without new before it :

"It is Cornelius, that brave gallant youth,

Who is new printed to this fangled age."

Sign. B 4.

P. 253.-yea, and she herself] The full-point has accidentally dropped out at the end of this line.

P. 266. the original title-page, stating it to have been "written by William Shakespeare," was cancelled, no doubt, at the instance of the author to whom it was falsely imputed.] See additional note to Vol. i. p. clxxxix., where the editor has seen reason to correct this opinion.

P. 322. Even on my YEARNING time] The reading of the folio, "eaning time," seems right, from the Angl. Sax. eanian, parturire. See Way's Promptorium, printed for the Camden Society, p. 140.

P. 344.-Come now, your one thing?] The mark of interrogation has accidentally dropped out at the end of this question.

P. 370.-The date of 1604 is erroneously given to "Salmasis and Hermaphroditus," imputed, probably falsely, to Beaumont : it was first printed in 1602. The error is also corrected in Vol. i. p. cxvi.

P. 462.-And when the judge is ROB'D the prisoner dies] In this line for "rob'd" read robb'd.

P. 473.—Still at the early age of eighteen or nineteen, which the earl reached in 1609] There is an evident error here, inasmuch as the Earl of Southampton was thirty-six in 1609: having been born in 1573, he was twenty-five when Meres published his Palladis Tamia in 1598.

P. 487.-in TABLE of my heart] So in "Skialetheia," by Edward Guilpin, 1598.

"Consider what a rough worme-eaten table

By well-mix'd colours is made saleable." Sign. C. 6.

P. 514. Or me, to whom gav'st it, else mistaking] The pronoun thou has accidentally dropped out after "whom" in this line.

P. 553.-All vows and consecrations giving place] The conjunction and has by an error been repeated in this line.

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GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ABY and abide, ii. 432. 438. 441

Ache and H, ii. 238

Accost, to approach, iii. 332
Acture, action, viii. 550

Adam, calling a man, ii. 195

Addressed, ready, prepared, ii 456.512;
iv. 425; vii. 44

Affection, affectation, ii. 345. 365

Affectioned, affected, iii. 358
Affeer'd, confirmed, vii. 163
Affined, related, vi. 28

Affront, to front, to face, vii. 259
Affy, to trust, vi. 276

Aglet-baby, a point for fastening dress,
iii. 130

Aim, to cry, to encourage, i. 224; iv. 24
Aim, to give, to direct, i. 167; vi. 361
Alderliefest, dearest of all, i. cclxxxvii ;
v. 110.

Ales, church, viii. 271

Alms basket, ii. 346

Ames ace, both aces, ii. 241

Aroint thee, vii. 103. 429
Articulate, iv. 319; vi. 169
Ascaunt, aslant, vii. 320
Aspersion, sprinkling, i. 64
Assinego, ass, vi. 42

Astringer, falconer, iii. 298

Atone, to agree, iii. 96; iv. 118; v

364; vi. 240. 589; viii. 32. 151
Attask'd, tax'd, taken to task, vii. 388
Away with, I cannot, iv. 404
Aweful, i. 145; iv. 414

Backare, an exclamation, iii. 139
Bajazet's mule, iii. 276
Bale, sorrow, vi. 146

Balk'd, ridged, iv. 227

Ban, to curse, v. 90. 148; vi. 556
Banbury cheese, i. 182

Bankes's horse, ii. 295

Banquet, dessert, iii. 194; viii. 50

Amort, dead, dispirited, iii. 176 ; v. 60. Barbazon, iv. 484

Anchor, hermit, vii. 274

Barber's forfeits, ii. 99

Ancient, ensign, iv. 309

Anheires, i. 205

Antick, death so called, iv. 167; v. 82
Apperil, peril, vi. 517

Apple-John, a withered apple, iv. 379

Approbation, proof, iii. 458; iv. 471;

viii. 154

Baring, sharing, iii. 276

Barm, yeast, ii. 405.

Base, a game, i. 100; viii. 235. 382
Basilisco-like, iv. 16.

Basta, enough, iii. 125

Bastard, a kind of wine, ii. 57; iv. 262
Bate, beat, iv. 306. 522; vi. 439

Approof, approbation, iii. 216. See also Batler, washing bat, iii. 34

"Proof."

Approv'd, proved, i. 165

Arch, chief, leader, vii. 393

Batten, to feed, vii. 288

Bauble, a fool's, iii. 235; vi. 346. 421
Bavin, brush-faggot, iv. 291

Argosies, large merchant vessels, ii. 475; Bawcock, iii. 436

v. 273

Bay of building, ii. 30

Bay-windows, iii. 402

Braid, crafty, iii. 281

Bear in hand, to lead to believe, ii. 21; Brawl, French, a dance, ii. 310

Bread, holy, iii. 64

viii. 246

Bearward, ii. 202; iii. 114

Bedfellow, iv. 487

Bedlam-beggars, vii. 403

Beef, eating, iii. 333
Beetle, three-man, iv. 359
Begging fools, ii. 124. 368

Beholding, or beholden, ii. 83. 489; iii.

136. 140; v. 574

Besmirch'd, besmeared, soiled, iv. 542 ;

vii. 213. See also "Smirched." Besort, to become, to beseem, vii. 384 Bestraught, distraught, distracted, iii.

114

Beteem, to pour out, i. cclxxxv ; ii. 395 to permit, vii. 207

Bewray, to betray, vii. 395
Bezonian, iv. 451; v. 185

Bid, to invite, vi. 519
endured, v. 462

Bills, iii. 16; vii. 460
Bilbo, sword, i. 183
Bilboes, fetters, vii. 333

Bird singing in the ear, iv. 457
Bisson, blind, vi. 173; vii. 254
Black and Yellow, a tune, iii. 385
Blank, in shooting, vii. 361

Blench, to start off, ii. 86; iii. 446; vi.

14. 47; viii. 524

Blent, blended, ii. 525; iii. 346 Blood, disposition, vi. 558 Blood-bolter'd, vii. 157

Blue-coats, servants, v. 21

Bob, blow, iii. 41

Bodg'd, botch'd, v. 244

Bodkin, dagger, vii. 261

Bollen, swollen, viii. 455

Bolted, sifted, iii. 506
Bolting-hutch, iv. 276

Bombard, drinking vessel, i. 44; iv. 276; v. 605

Bombast, stuffing, ii. 378 ; iv. 272
Book, paper-writing, iv. 287
Boot, something given in, v. 452
Boots, to give the, i. 92

Bought and sold, over-reached, ii. 138
Bosky, woody, i. 66

Bow-strings, hold or cut, ii. 403

Brach, dog, hound, iii. 108; iv. 288; vi. 44; vii. 379. 435

Break up, to carre, ii. 320

Breast, voice, iii. 353

Brief, abstract, iv. 21

Bribe-buck, stolen venison, i. 267

Brize, gad-fly, vi. 29; viii. 74
Brock, badger, iii. 368

Brogues, heavy shoes, viii. 220
Broken mouth, iii. 240
Brown bills, vii. 460
Brownist, iii. 380

Brown paper and ginger, ii. 78

Bruit, to noise, to report, v. 38. 314; vi. 584; vii. 183

Buckle, to bend, iv. 348

Bucklers, to give the, ii. 267
Bucklersbury, i. 228

Bugs, bugbears, iii. 134; v. 323; vii. 334; viii. 236

Burgonet, helmet, viii. 23

Burgher, citizen, iii. 27

Burst, to break, iii. 107; iv. 408
Bush, for good wine, iii. 100
Buttery-bar, iii. 332

By 'r lakin, by our ladykin, ii. 419

Caddis-garter, iv. 262
Caddisses, iii. 500

Cake is dough, iii. 193

Caliver, hand-gun, iv. 406

Callat, a drab, iii. 466; v. 124. 262

Canary, a dance, ii. 310

Cantons, songs, iii. 347

Cantle, piece, portion, iv. 283; viii. 74

Canvass, to sift, v. 21

Capitulate, to draw up heads, iv. 293
Capocchio, dolt, vi. 89

Captious, capable of receiving, iii. 225
Carbonado, meat cut and broiled, iv. 327
Carded, mixed, iv. 291
Card of ten, iii. 151

Carduus benedictus, blessed thistle, ii. 238
Carkanet, necklace, ii. 134
Carl, churl, clown, viii. 233
Carlot, peasant, iii. 70
Carpet-knights, iii. 392
Carping, prating, iv. 292

Carry out a side, to win the game, vii. 474

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