through a red lattice, and I could see no part "of his face from the window." Ben Johnson feems to hint at phrases as low in their kind, (Every Man in his humour, act 1. fc. 5.) Bob." He was born for the manger, "Pannier, or pack-saddle, he has not "So much as a good phrase in his "Belly, but all old iron, and rusty "Proverbs; a good commodity for "Some Smith to make hobnails of." Sc. 9. p. 285. Ford. They say if money go before, all ways do lie open.] Butler expreffes it in the following manner, Hudibras part 3. canto 2. 1327-28. [See Note.] "'Tis true, w'have money, the only pow'r "That all mankind fall down before. Philip of Macedon, Alexander's father, was reported to fay, " That he did not doubt to take 66 any castle, or cittadel, let the ascent be never "fo fteep and difficult, if he could but drive up an afs laden with gold to the gate. Ray's Proverbs 2d. edit. p. 147. Act 2. fc. 9. p. 287. Falft. Of What quality was your love then? Ford. Like a fair bouse, built on another man's ground; fo that I have loft my edifice, by mistaking the place where I erected it.] "By the law of England (as Dr. Wood ob"ferves, Inftitute of the Imperial or Civil Law, 4th edit. p. 159.) "If a man ignorantly, or "by by mistake of his title, build upon the foil of another, he cannot claim allowance for his "materials or workmanship. By the civil law (a) the owner of the ground was to be mafter of the house fo built, " but "muft pay for the materials and workmanship, "otherwife the builder was not bound to quit "the poffeffion: unless the builder certainly "knew that he built upon another's foil, (b) for "then he shall be prefumed to have given away "his materials and workmanship." John Taylor the water poet, in his 7th epigram, intitled The Skuller, banters the Welf on this account. "The way to make a Welchman thirst for blifs, "And fay his prayers daily on his knees; "Is to perfuade him that most certain 'tis, "The moon is made of nothing but green cheese: "And he'll defire of God no greater boon, "But place in heaven to feed upon the moon. Id. ib. —— Than my wife by herself, then she plots, then he ruminates, then he devises; and what they think in their heart they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect.] Mafter (a) Cum in fuo folo aliquis ex alienâ materiâ ædificaverit, ipfe intelligitur dominus ædificii, quia omne quod folo inædificatur folo cedit, &c. Inftitut. Imperial. lib. 2. (a) Cod. Juftinian. 3. 32. Ford tit. 1. 29. Ford in his fit of jealoufy, feems to have had as bad an opinion of his wife, as the friend to whom a jealous husband had committed the care of his. [See L'Eftrange's Fables, vol. 1. p. 212.) She had not been long with him before he defired to be releafed in the following manner. "If (fays he) it were to turn a bag of fleas into "a meadow every morning, and fetch them "home at night, I durft be answerable with my "life for the doing of it to a flea, but t'other " is a commiffion I dare not meddle with." Sc. 11. p. 290. Caius. Take your raper Jack, I will tell you, how I will kill him.] How I vill kill him. Folio 1632. So in Sir Tho. Hanmer. Act 3. fc. 1. 294. Evans's fong. And a thousand vragrant pofies.] Fragrant. Folio 1632. Give me thy band, Give me thy hand terrestrial, fo. celeftial, fo.] So in Mr. Theobald. Give me thy hand celeftial fo. Edit. 1632. And Sir Tho. Hanmer. Give me thy band terreftrial so, added in Mr. Theobald's and Mr. Warburton's editions, without any reafon affign'd for the addition. Act. 3. fc. 6. p. 300. Hoft. What fay you to young. Mr. Fenton? He will carry't, he will carry't, 'Tis in his buttons, be will carry't.] Alluding to an antient cuftom amongst the country fellows, of trying whether whether they shall fucceed with their mistreffes, by carrying the batchellour's buttons (a plant of the lychnis kind, whofe flowers resemble a coat button in form ;) in their pockets. And they judged of their good, or bad fuccefs, by their growing, or not growing there. Mr. Smith. A&t 3. fc. 8. p. 103. Falft. Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? why now let me die, for I have lived long enougb.] So Charea in Terence, Eunuch, 3. 5. Jam ne erumpere hoc licet mihi gaudium poffum Ne hoc gaudium vita contaminet ægritudine aliquâ. Dr. T. Id. ib. Falstaff to Mrs. Ford. Thou art a traytor to fay fo.] Mr. Warburton's emendation, I believe it is without authority: and if any other perfon had taken the fame liberty of faying what he does of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Note act 3. fc. 11. p. 301. "That he "did it out of pure love to an emendation,” he would have taken it amifs, I am apt to believe. "Thou art a tyrant to fay fo." Folio 1632. Tyrant likewife in Mr. Theobald's and Sir Thomas Hanmer's editions. Sc. 11. Caius. If there be one two, I fhall make a de turd. Evans. In your teeth, for fhame.] This additional wit of Evans's is likewife in Mr. Theobald's edition, but wanting in folio 1632, and in Sir Thomas Hanmer. Sc. 12 Sc. 12. Slender. I'll make a shaft or a bolt ont: d'flid, 'tis but venturing.] Alluding to the proverb, the fool's bolt is foon fhot. Ib. fc. 13. Slender. Truly for my own part, I would little or nothing with you; your father and my uncle bave made motions; if it be my luck, fo; if not, happy man be's dole! they can tell you bow things go better than I can; you may ask your father, bere he comes.] Honeft Ben in Congreve's Love for Love, act 3. fc. 7. courts Mifs Prue in the fame Laconic (but more humorous) way. "Look Ben. you forfooth, "I am as it were bound for the land of matri 66 mony, 'tis a voyage d'ye fee that was none "of my seeking; I was commanded by fa"ther; and if you like of it, perhaps I may ❝fteer into your harbour. How say you, mif"trefs? the fhort of the thing is, that if you "like me, and I like you, we may chance to "fwing in a Hammock together." Ib. fc. 14. p. 313. Anne. Alas! I had rather be fet quick i'th' earth.] Alluding to what is practifed now and then in the Mogol's country. Sir Tho. Roe in his Voyage to the Eaft Indies. Published with the Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, p. 461. tells us, "That the Mogol upon a time found one "of his fuperannuated women and one of his "eunuchs kiffing one another; and for this very "thing the king presently gave command that. "a round |