the son of a butcher; though Dr. Fiddes, in his Jife of the Cardinal, p. 3. from the will of his father, seems to think that he sprung from a person of a better rank. Dr. Fuller, in his Church biftcry, obferves, That, to humble the Cardinal's pride, fome perfon or other fet up, upon a window belonging to his college (Chrift-Church), a painted maftiff-dog, gnawing the fpade-bone of a shoulder of mutton, to remind him of his extraction, as being the fon of a butcher. But Anthony a Wood, in his Athena Oxon. though he allows, that there is the figure of a dog gnawing a bone, yet not a spade-bone of a fhoulder of mutton; and that the figure feems to be placed there by mere accident. Upon his taking off Stafford Duke of Buckingbam, it was reported that the Emperor Charles V. fhould fay, "The first Buck of England was wor ried to death by a butcher's dog." See Lives of the Lord Chancellors, &c. vol. 1. p. 63. And Skelton, poet-laureat to King Henry VIII. reflects upon his pride and extraction in the following lines, in his poem, intitled, Why come ye not to court? Works, p. 150. [But Dr. Fiddes, in the life of the Cardinal, p. 531. feems to think Skelton's poem a libel.] "The Erle of Northumberland "Dare take nothing on hand, " Our "Our barons be fo bolde, "Into a moufe-hole they wolde "Runne away, and creep, "Like a manie of sheep, "They must stande all a far, "To holde up their hand at the bar.” Sc. ii. p. 349. Norf. Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe fo bot, That it do finge yourself.] Might he not allude to Daniel iii. 22. ? "Therefore, because the King's command"ment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of fire flew thofe men that "took up Shadrach, Mefbac, and Abednego." Id. ib. p. 352. And Gilbert Peck his chancellour.] "His councellour." Folios 1623, 1632. Sc. iv. p. 355. Queen. Queen complaining of Wolfey. The fubjects grief, Comes through commiffions, which compel from each The fixth part of his fubftance, to be levy'd Without delay, and the pretence, Is nam'd your wars in France.] In “In the year 1523, the Cardinal sent out "commiffions in the month of October, through "the realm, that every man that was worth "401. fhould pay the whole fubfidy before . granted out of hand, and before the days of payment. This payment was call'd an anticipation." Grafton's Chronicle, p. 1102. "And, in the beginning of the year 1525, "the commiffioners in all fhires fate for the levy "of the fixth part of every layman's goods, and "the fourth of the clergy. In which the peo ple in general were fo disturb'd, that they "were ready to break out into rebellion, al ledging not only their own poverty, but that "the commiffions were againft law. The King "upon this refolved to difavow the whole proceeding; and, by letters to all parts, decla"red, that he expected nothing from them, but ર by way of benevolence." Grafton's Chro nicle, p. 1129. vol. 1. p. 650. Sc. vi. p. 362. Ecbard's Hiftory of England, Chamb. What news, Sir Thomas Lovell? Lov. Faith, my Lord, I know of none, but the new proclamation That's clapp'd upon the Court-gate. Chamb. What is't for? Lov. The reformation of our travell'd gallants, That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors] Mr. Mr. Philip Maffenger, in The Gurdian, a comical history, p. 34. thus defcribes the travelling gallant Calypfo. Why, Sir, do gallants travel? "anfwer that queftion; but, at their return, "with wonder to the hearers, to difcourfe of the "garb, and difference in foreign females; as the lufty girl of France, the fober German, the "plump Dutch fro, the ftately dame of Spain, "the Roman libertine, and fpiteful Tuscan, the merry Greek, Venetian courtefan, the English "fair companion, that learns fomething of every "nation." Tom Coriat, (Crudities, p. 160.), speaking of the Venetian drefs, fays, "All of them but use "one and the fame form of habit, even the "flender doublet, made clofe to the body, "without much guilting or bombase, and long "hose plain, without those new-fangled curiofities, and ridiculous fuperfluities, of paines, 66 plaites, and other light toyes used with us Englishmen; yet they make it of costly stuff, "well befeeming gentlemen, and eminent per"fons of their place, as of the best taffatas and fattins that Christendom doth yield, which are 66 fairly garnished alfo with lace of the best fort. "In both these things, they much differ from "us Englishmen. For whereas they have but one "colour, we use many more than are in the "rain-bow, all the moft light, garish, and unfeemly colours that are in the world. Alfo " for "for fashion, we are much inferiour to them "for we weare more fantaftick fashions than any nation under the funne doth, the French "only excepted; which hath given occafion, both << to the Venetian, and other Italians, to brand "the Englishman with a notable mark of levity, by painting him ftark naked, with a pair of "fheers in his hand, making the fashion of his "attire, according to the vain invention of his "brain-fick head, not to comeliness and decorum." Sc. vii. p. 364- In all this noble bevy, One care abroad.] None here, he hopes, bath brought with ber A bevy of quails, is a brood, or flock; whence the figure is taken for a knot or company of perfons. In this fenfe Skelton ufes the word, in the Crowne of Lawrel, Works, p. 34. "Thus talking, we went forth in at a postern "gate, "Turning on the right-hande by a wynding ftayre, "She brought me to a goodly chambre of state, "Where the noble Countes of Surrey, in a "Sate honorably; to whom dyd repayre, dili Spenfer |