is an Italian one, Tre donne & un occa fan un mercato. See Ray's Proverbial obfervations relating to love, p. 59. Sc. 3. p. 219. This whimpled, whining, purblind, waywardboy.] "This whimpering, &c." Sir. Tho. Hanmer. Wimpled. Folio 1632, and more proper intimating that Cupid's eyes were veil'd, or blindfolded, fuch is the fignification of the word in Chaucer. Upon an ambler easily fhe fat "All wimpled well, and on her hed an hatte "As brode as is a bokeler of a targe." Prologue of the Canterbury Tales, 471. &c. See likewife Legende of Thibe of Babylon. Id. ib. This Signior Junio's giant-dwarf Dan Cupid.] Dan fignifies mafter, like the Spanish Don, and is used in this fenfe by Chaucer, in near fifty places. In three of which he, mentions Dan Cupid, and Dan Cupido. "For Venus' fon Dan Cupido." Romaunt of the Rofe, 1615. Dan Cupid. Troilus and Crefeide, lib. 3. 1813. Dan Cupido. Book of Fame, first book 137. And in Spenfer. "To fhew Dan Cupid's power, and great "efforts. Fairy Queen, book 3. canto 11. 46. i "But life was like a fair, young lufty boy, "Such as they fain Dan Cupid to have been. Book 7. canto 7. p. 46; L and in many other places. A& A&t 3. fc. 3. p. 220. And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop.] Love's colours were thofe of the willow garland. To which Shakespeare alludes, Twelfth Night, act 1. fc. 9. And in King Henry the Sixth, act 3. fc. 6. p. 171. And in this very play, act 1. fc. 3d p. 202. Armado obferves, "That green is indeed the "colour of lovers.” And the wearing of them was either about. his head, or neck, as tumblers were wont to do, when they went with a drum before them, to gather company together; to fee their feats of activity their hoops might likewife be adorned with ribbons. But what is chiefly meant here, is the manner, or fashion of wearing them. : To fupport the opinion above, fee Shakefpeare's Much ado about Nothing, act 2. sc. 3. p. 22. Benedick. "Even to the next willow, about 66 your own business Count: What fashion will you wear the garland of? about your neck "like an ufurer's chain? or under your arm, "like a lieutenant's scarf? &c." Here we are presented with the fame thought, or image; only the ufurer's chain, and lieutenant's fcarf, are turn'd into a more ridiculous thing, a tumbler's hoop. Mr. Smith. Id. ib. Biron. Well 1 will love, write, figh, pray, fue and groan, Some men must love my Lady, and some Joan.] Alluding Alluding to the proverb, See Ray's Joan's as good as my Lady in the dark." Λύχνε αρθένος γύνη Πάσα ή αυλή. Proverbs, p. 162. Erafmi Adag. Act 4. fc. 1. p. 225. Rof. Shall I come upon thee with an old faying that was a man, when king Pippin of France was a little boy, as touching the hit it. Boyet. So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a woman, when queen Guinever of Britain was a little wench, as touching the hit it.] Here is an anachronism of near 200 years. King Arthur husband to Queen Guinever, died in the middle of the fixth century; and King Pepin began his reign about the middle of the eighth. Sc. ib. p. 227. And his page o' t'other fide, that handful of wit; ab, heav'ns! it is a most pathetical wit.] Sowla, fowla follows. Folio 1632, and Sir The. Hanmer. Sc. 2. p. 227. Enter Dull, Holofernes, and Sir Nathaniel.] "Enter Dull, Holofernes, the Pedant, and Nathaniel. Folio 1632. ،، Id. ib. p. 230. — Nourish'd in the womb of pia mater. Primater, Folio. 1632. And the blunder is pur in Nathaniel's, and not Holofernes's mouth. Sc. 3. p. 231. Hol. Mafter parfon, quafi perfon.] See the word parfon [perfona] explain'd, in Dr. Godolphin's Repertorium Canonicum, chap. 17. L 2 Sc. 4. Sc. 4. p. 236. Why he comes in like a perjure wearing papers.] Like a perjur'd? Folio 1632. Might it not be better, like one perjur'd? Sc. 4. p. 238. Biron. Stoop 1 fay, her fhoulder is with child.] 'Tis reported of Dr. S-th, that when a lady of this make by way of fneer upon the clergy, told him," that she would rather marry a "tinker, than a parfon." He replied, "dam, you would make a proper wife for a tinker, for you have his brass in your face, " and his budget upon your back." 66 ma See description of Therfites in Mr. Pope's Homer, and of Hudibras, part 1. canto 1. 291, &c. Ibid. p. 240. Byron. Your eyes do make no coaches in your tears.} See before fc. 4. King. "Thou fhin'ft in ev'ry tear that I do 86 weep; "No drop, but as a coach doth carry thee "So rideft thou triumphing in my woe." I should imagine rather in the former paffage, that Shakespeare writ loaches, the Northern word for lakes. So he uses the word, First Part of King Henry IV, act 2. fc. 1. "Your chamber-ly breeds fleas like a loach.” "This faid, fhe held her peace "For forrow tied her tongue, "And inftead of more words "Seem'd Seem'd that her eyes a lake "Of tears had been, they flow'd "So plenteously there fro. Shakespeare ufes trenches in the fame fenfe. Titus Andronicus, act 5. fc. 3. p. 315. Witness these trenches made by grief and care. Id. ib. You found his mote, the King your mote did fee, But I a beam do find in each of three.] Alluding to thofe paffages, Matt, vii. 5. and Luke vi. 42. Id. ib. Ob me, with what strict patience have I fat. To fee a King transformed to a knot.] So Mr. Theobald. To a gnat. Folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Hanmer. Sc. 4. p. 242. Biron. Did they quoth you? who fees the beavenly Rofaline, That (like a rude and favage man of Inde, Timur Bee (or Tamerlane) was so great an enemy to them, that when his Emirs defeated the Gouris, or fire worshippers in Perfia, they flew so great a number of them, that they built a very high tower with their heads, as an example for the future to feditious perfons. |