Falstaff, after a blow or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them.] "As they are fbaring, the Prince and Poyns fet upon them: they all run away, leaving their booty behind "them." Folios 1623, and 1632. A&t 2. fc. 6. p. 129.

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Lady. O my good Lord, why are you thus alone? For what offence have I this fortnight been A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed? Tell me, fweet Lord, what is't that takes from thee Thy ftomach, &c.]

He has an image not much unlike this in Julius Cæfar, Act 2. fc. 3.

Portia. Brutus, my Lord!

Brutus. Portia, what mean you? wherefore
rife you now?

It is not for your health thus to commit
Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.
Por. Nor for your's neither. You've ungently,
Brutus,

Stole from my bed: and yefternight at fupper
You fuddenly arofe, and walk'd about,
Mufing and fighing, with your arms across :
And when 1 afk'd you what the matter was,
You ftared upon me with ungentle looks.

I urg'd you further, then you scratch'd your head,
And too impatiently ftamp'd with your foot,
Yet I infifted, yet you anfwer'd not,
But with an angry wafture of your band,
Made figns for me to leave you, &c.

Id. ib. Thy Spirit within thee hath been fo at

war,

And

And thus bath fo bestirr'd thee in thy fleep,
That beads of Sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles, &c.] "Beds of fweat," Folio
1632, but not so proper.

Sc. 6. p. 130. Hotspur to Lady Percy. Hotf. Away, away, you trifler: Love! I love thee not,

I care not for thee, Kate; this is no world
To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips.]

Ben Johnson feems to be of a different opini-on, in his Masques, p. 211. firft volume. The tilting after the fecond Cupid.

Enter Hymen to them.

Hymen. "Come, you must yield both; this "is neither contention for you, nor time fit "to contend: There is another kind of tilting "would become love better than this; to meet

lips for lances, and crack kiffes instead of "staves: which, there is no beauty here I "prefume, fo young, but can fancy; nor fo 66 tender, but would venture.”

Id. ib.

Do you not love me? Nay tell me, if you speak in jeft or no?]

?]" If "thou fpeakeft in jeft or no?" Folio 1632.

Id. ib.

Conftant you are,

But yet you are a woman, and for fecrecy
No lady clofer, for I well believe,

Thou wilt not utter what thou do'st not know.]

Alluding to the proverb, "A woman "conceals what he knows not." Ray's Proverbs, P. 59.

Sc. 8. p. 133.

Prince Henry. your only drink.]

Prince Henry to Francis

the Drawer.

Why then your brown bastard is What liquor this was, I am at lofs a to guefs; but both brown and white baftard are mentioned by other writers. The first, in the Virgin Widow, by Francis Quarles, act 4. fc. 1. p. 45.

Madge. "This very day two months, Anthony at the George, would needs have me "down into his wine cellar, and gave me a

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pint of brown baftard." See Baftard Wine, Minfhieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 63.

Id. ib. In Barbary, Sir, it cannot come to fo much.] The scene was Eaftcheap, so that inftead of Barbary, fhould be read, I think, Barbican: which is a street that comes out of the upper part of Alderfgate-Street, and runs up to Red-Cross-Street.

Sc. 10. p. 141. Hoft. O Jefu! my Lord the Prince.] O Jefu! not in Folio 1632.

Sc. 11. p. 142.

And be of

Falft. Wales, that gave (a) Amamon the baftinado, made Lucifer cuckold, and fwore the Devil bis

(a) Facit ad amorem, odium invifibilitatem et confecrationem eorum quæ funt de Dominatione Amaymonis, et de poteftate alterius exorciftae. Wieri pfeudomonarchia dæmonum. Col. 924. Scilicet obferva horas in quibus quatuor Reges, Amaymon Rex orientalis, &c. poffunt conftringi a tertiâ horâ ufque ad meridiem, a nonâ horâ ufque ad vefperas. Id. ib. col. 931. Z

true

true liege man upon the cross of a Welsh book: what a plague call you him- Poins, Owen Glendour.] Owen Glendour's Welf book, is mentioned by Ben Johnson, in his fecond volume, in The Mafque, for the Honour of Wales,

P. 33.

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Evans.

"What need of Ercules, when

Cadwallader,

Jen. "Or Lluellin, or Reefe ap Griphin, "or Cradock, or Owen Glendour with a Welfe book, and a goat's-fkinne on his back; had "done very better, and twice as well.”

..

Id. ib. p. 143. Falstaff to Prince Henry. Falft. Thy father's beard is turn'd white with the news.] Alluding to the vulgar notion, that mens hair will fometimes turn grey upon a fudden, and violent fright. Mr. Moll in his geography, fpeaking of Buman's Hole, in Hanover, fays.

"There goes a report of a young fellow, "who feeking after his cattle in this cave, "loft his way, and wandering eight days to"gether in it, at his return his hair was chang'd grey; and he told strange stories of fpirits. "and apparitions, that he faid he had, met "with in it."

This whimfical opinion was humourously bantered by a wag in a coffee-house; who upon hearing a young gentleman, giving the fame reafon for the change of his hair, from black to grey, obferved, that there was no great matter in it; and told the company, that he had a

friend who wore a cole-black wig, which was turn'd grey by a fright, in an instant. ·

Id. ib.
Falft.

If then thou be son to

me, bere lyeth the point; why being fon to me, art thou fo pointed at? fhall the blessed Sun of beaven prove a micher, and eat black-berries.]

Micher, fignifies a lazy, loitering vagabond, a truant, in which fenfe it is used in Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rofe, 6539, &c.

“And Him that beggith wol aïe greve, "How should I by his worde him leve, "Unneth that he n'is a micher,

"Forfworne, elfe Goddis lier

See Hamlet, act 3. fc. 7.

Mr. Philip Maflenger, in his tragi-comedy, intitled, A very Woman, &c. act 5. p. 80.. uses the word.

Cuento. O you micher,

"Have you a hand in this?

See Micher, and Truant, Minfhieu's Guide in

to the Tongues.

Act 3. fc. 1. p. 151.

Glendour. Come here's the map, fhall we divide

our right,

According to our three-fold order ta'en?

Mortimer. The Archdeacon bath divided it,

Into three limits very equally:

England from Trent and Severn hitherto

By fouth and east, is to my part affigned,
All weftward, Wales, beyond the Severn shore