Now, ye familiar fpirits, that are call'd Out of the powerful regions under earth, Help me this once, that France may get the field.] The fame Wierus speaks of a (a) Pucel, (whether the fame or not I cannot affirm), who had forty eight legions of fpirits under direction. Sc. v. p. 516.

Suf. Thanks, Regnier, happy is fo fweet a child, Fit to be made companion of a king.]

"Fit to be made companion with a king." Folio 1632.

Sc. viii. p. 525.

For what is wedlock forc'd, but a hell,

An age of difcord, and continual ftrife.]

Butler expreffes it (The Lady's Anfwer to the Knight, v. 123, &c.) in the following manner. "This is the way all parents prove, "In managing their childrens love, "That force 'em t'inter-marry, and wed, "As if th' were burying of the dead; "Caft earth to earth, as in the grave, "To join in wedlock all they have;

(a) Pucel, dux magnus, et fortis, apparet in fpecie angelicâ, fed obfcura valde: loquatur de occultis: docet geometriam, et omnes artes liberales: fonitus facit ingentes, et fonare aquas ubi non funt, eafdem et calefacit, et harum balnea recuperanda fanctitati fervientia certis temporibus, distemperat, juffa exorciftæ; fuit de ordine poteftatum, habetque in fuâ poteftate legiones quadraginta o&to. Pfeudomonachia Dæmonum. Wier. de Præftig. Dæmonum, f. 924.

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« And,

"And, when the fettlement's in force,
"Take all the reft for better or worse:
"For money has a power above
"The ftars and fate to manage love;
"Whofe arrows, learned poets hold,

"That never mifs, are tipp'd with gold."

Second Part of KING HENRY VI.

ACT I.

2. Marg G

SCENE I.

Reat King of England, and my gra-
cious Lord,

The mutual conference that my mind bath had
By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams,
With you mine alder-liefeft fovereign.]

Alder-liefeft, most dear.
Aldirlevift in Chaucer.

"Mine aldirleuift lorde, and brothir dere." Troilus and Crefeide, lib. iii. 240.

Sc. iii. p. 11.

York. Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose, With whofe fweet smell the air fhall be perfum'd, And in my standard bear the arms of York, &c.]

The smell of the red rofe is by naturalists reckoned to be much the more fragrant of the two; fo that this thought of Shakespeare's is not exactly juft.

Spenfer

Spenfer (Fairy Queen, book iii. canto vi. where fpeaking of Chryfogene's bearing Belphabe and Amoret), fays,

"But wondroufly they were begot and bred,
"Thro' influence of th' heaven's fruitful ray,
"As it in antique books is mentioned.
"It was upon a fhiny fummer's day,

(When Titan fair his hot beams did display), "In a fresh fountain, far from all men's view, "She bath'd her breaft, the boiling heat t'allay: "She bath'd with roses red, and violets blue, "And all the sweetest flowers that in the foreft grew."

Sc. iv. p. 13. Eleanor Duchefs of Gloucester, to Hume.

Elean. What fay'ft thou, man? haft thou as yet
conferr'd

With Margery Jordan the cunning witch,
And Roger Bolinbrook the conjurer?
And will they undertake to do me good?]

"There were arrested as ayders and coun"faylers to the faid Duchefs, Thomas Southwell, priest, and canon of Saint Stephens in Westmin"fter, John Hume prieft, (a) Roger Bolinbrook a "cunning

(a) Et quidam clericus famofiffimus, unus illorum in aftronomiâ et arte nigromantica, magifter Rogerus Bolynbroke arreftatus fuit, et in cæmiterio Sancti Pauli publice cum indumentis fuis nigromanticis, et imaginibus cereis, et quam plurimis aliis inftrumentis nigromanticis fedebat in quodam alto folio,

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"cunning necromancer, and Margery Jordane "the cunning witch of Eye. To whofe charge "it was layde, That they, at the request of the "Duchefs, had devyfed an image of wax, re

prefenting the King, which, by their forcery, "a little and a little confumed; intending there"by, in conclufion, to waft and destroy the "King's perfon, and to bring him to death; for "which they were adjudged to dye. And fo "Margery Jordane was brent in Smithfielde, and "Roger Bolinbroke was drawn and quartered at "Tyborne, taking upon his death, that there was "never any fuch thing by them imagined. John "Hume had his pardon, and Southwell died in "the Tower before execution." Grafton's Chronicle, p. 587. Higden's Polychronicon, tranflated by Treviza, lib. ult. cap. 27.

King James I. in his second book of Dæmonology, chap. v. obferves, "That the devil teach"eth how to make pictures of wax or clay, that, "by roafting thereof, the perfons that they bear

folio, ut ab omnibus viderentur opera ejus; poftea tractus fufpenfus et quartarizatus erat, et caput ejus fuper pontem Londoniæ pofitum. Wilhelmi Wyrcester, Annal. Rer. Anglican. edit. a T. Hearne. p. 461.

It is obferved in a note upon Elinor Cobham to Duke Humphrey, (England's Heroical Epifiles, by Michael Drayton, p. 55-), "That the inftruments which Bolinbrook used in his conjura"tions, according to the devilish customs and ceremonies of "these unlawful arts, were dedicated at a mass in the lodge "in Harnfey park, by Southwell, prieft of Weftminster.

"the

the name of, may be continually melted, or dried away by continual fickness."

Sc. iv.

Hume.

They fay, a crafty knave does need no broker.]
See Ray's Proverbial Sentences, K, p. 164.

Sc. viii. p. 23.

York. Lay hands upon thefe traitors, and their trafb:

Beldame, I think we watch'd you at an inch.]

Beldame fignified, and was a term of refpect before Shakespeare's time.

"Beldame, your words do work me little ease: "For though my love be not fo leudly bent, "As thofe ye blame, yet may it not appease "My raging fmart, &c."

Spenfer's Fairy Queen, book iii. canto ii. 43. Beldame, by that you tell, "More need of leachcraft hath your damozel, "Than of my skill."

Book iii. canto iii. 17.

Shakespeare probably ufes it as a term of difrefpect.

So the word is ufed in Elinor Cobbam's letter to Duke Humphrey, England's Heroical Epistles, publifhed in Michael Drayton's Poems.

Speaking of the Queen.

"And the muft recapitulate my fhame,

"And give a thousand by-words to my name, "And call me beldam, gib, witch, night-mare,

"trot.

"With all defpight that may a woman spot.

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