The history of Timur Bee, tranflated into French from the life written in the Perfian, by Cherefedin Ali his contemporary, and into English in two volumes 8vo, p. 133.

Upon the taking of Myrthe: All the Guebres, or fire worshippers in the place were flead alive. Vol. 2. chap. 22. p. 71.

Id. ib. p. 243.

Biron. Devils fooneft tempt, resembling Spirits of light.] An allufion to that paffage, 2 Corinth.

xi. 14.

"And no marvel, for Satan himself is trans"form'd into an angel of light."

Id. ib. p. 245.

Damain. Some falve for perjury.] Sir Roger L'Etrange (Fables, vol. 2. fab. 237, intitled, A Notable fcruple) makes mention of "a man, "that made a confcience both of an oath, and

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a law fuit, had the wit yet to make a greater "confcience of losing an estate for want of fuing, and fwearing to defend it; fo that

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upon confulting the chapter of difpenfations; ❝he compounded the matter with certain falvos "and referves. Thou talk'ft (fays he to a "friend of his) of fuing and fwearing. Why "for one, it is my attorney fueth, and for "the other, what fignifies the kiffing the book ❝ with a calve's fkin cover, and a paft-board

ftiffning betwixt a man's lips and the text." Act. 5. fc. 1. p. 249.

Holofernes. Satis quod fufficit.] To which anfwers our English Proverb; Enough is as good as a feast.

The

The French

Affer y a,

fi trop

n' y a.

Ray's Proverbial Sentences, p. 132.

Sc. 2. p. 251.

Coftard. I marvel thy mafter has not eaten thee for a word, for thou art not fo long by the bead as bonorificabilitudinitatibus.] The word is lengthened one fyllable by J. Taylor the Water Poet; in his addrefs prefix'd to his works. Moft bonorificicabilitudinitatibus, &c.

Rabelais has in the title of a book, given us one word much longer. [Works book 2. ch. 7.] Antipericatametaparheugedamphicribrationes mendi

cantium.

Sc. 6.

Princefs. Biron did fwear himself out of all fuit.] Qu all footh, or all truth. In which fenfe the word is used by Shakespeare.

Ben Johnson, Cynthias Revels, act 2. fc. 2. p. 174, has fomething like this.

Cupid. "He will blafpheme in his fhirt, "the oathes that he vomits at one fupper, "would maintain a towne of garrifon in good fwearing twelve months."

Id. ib. p. 264.

Rof.Well,better wits have worn plain statute caps.] Woollen caps were enjoined by act of parliament, in the year 1571, 13th of Queen Elizabeth. "Befides the bills paffed into acts this parliament, there was one which I judge not "amifs to be taken notice of it concern'd "the Queen's care for employment for her poor

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fort of fubjects. It was for continuance of making, and wearing woollen caps; in behalf of the trade of cappers; providing, that all "above the age of fix years, (except the nobility and fome others) fhould on Sabbath days, and boly-days, wear caps of wool, "knit, thicked, and dreft in England, upon "penalty of ten groats." But notwithstanding this ftatute, these caps went very much out of fashion, and the wearing of hats prevailed. Which caufed the Queen two or three years after, to take fuch notice of it, as to fet forth a strict proclamation, for the enforcing the wearing of caps: the benefit thereof being of more publick good than was at prefent perceived; namely the employment of fuch vaft numbers of idle, poor and impotent people, throughout the whole nation, that otherwife muft either have ftarved, begged, or robbed. Strype's Annals of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 2. p. 74.

Act 5. fc. 7. P.

Biron.

266.

Why, this is he

That kifs'd away his hand in courtefie;

This is the ape of form.]

Ben Johnson has a fimilar expreffion, Cynthias

Revels, act 3. fc. 4.

Sc. 9. p. 274.

Biron. A bare throw at novum; and the whole world again cannot prick out five fuch, take each one in's vein.] Qu. pick out? as he uses the expreffion elsewhere. First Part of King Henry IVth, act 2. fc. 11. p. 143.

Falstaff.

"But tell me.

"Hal, art not thou horribly afeard, thou be "ing heir apparent? could the world pick thee 66 out three fuch enemies again, as that fiend Douglafs, that fpirit Percy, and that Devil "Glendower."

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A&t 5. fc. 3. p. 277.

Biron. Saint George's half cheek in a brooch.] Brooch, a gold pyramid. Sk. a jewel fet with precious ftones, perhaps of a pyramidal form; it was worn fometimes on the arm.

"Full fetife was her cloke, as I was ware; "Of fmall corall about her arm fhe bare, "A pair of bedis gaudid all with grene, "And thereon hong a broch of gold full shene." Chaucer's Prologues of the Canterbury Tales. 157, &c.

Worn fometimes on the collar.

"As he that on the coler founde within "A broche which his Crefeide yave at morrow." Troilus and Crefeide, b. 5. 1599, 1600,

Id. ib. p. 279:

Moth. Let me take you a button-hole lower.] The utual phrase, a peg lower: thus explained Ray's Proverbs

Id. ib. Armado. The truth on't is, I have no pirt; I go woolward for penance.]

Boyet. True, and it was enjoyn'd him in Rome for want of linnen, &c.] This is a plain reference to the following story in Stow's Annals, p. 98. [in the time of Edward the Confeffor.] "Next after this [King Edward's first cure of the king's evil]" Mine authors affirm, that a "certain man named Vifunius Spileorne, the fon "of Ulmore of Nutgarfball; who, when he "hewed timber in the wood of Brutbeullena, "laying him down to fleep after his fore la"bour, the blood and humours of his head "fo congeal'd about his eyes, that he was "thereof blind, for the fpace of nineteen years; "but then (as he had been moved in his fleep) "he went woolward, and bare footed to many “churches, in every of them to pray to God, "for help in his blindnefs. And laft of all he "came to the court, (King Edward's) where "a long time he ftood at the entry of the King's "chamber an earnest fuiter, till at length the "King hearing of the blind man's dream, he

faid: By our Lady Saint Mary, I would do "much with a good will, if it would please "God through me to have mercie of the poor "wretch and thus being driven by his fer"vants, he laid his hand, and the water upon "the blind man's eyes, and ftreight way the "blood dropped plentifully from him, and being healed, he cryed with a cheerfull voice,

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I fee thee, O King, I fee thee, O King. Thus