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THE WIDOW.

Vol. iii. p. 354, 1. 3.

improv`d] Is right; meaning, as it frequently does, proved.

Vol. iii. p. 373, 1. 22.

And they're both well provided for, they're i' th' hospital] 'Hospital" ought to have been printed with a capital letter: for though the scene of the play is laid in Italy, yet the allusion (as Gifford observes, note on B. Jonson's Works, vol. i. p 41), is to Christ's Hospital, whither, when it was first established, the foundlings taken up in the city were sent for maintenance and education.

Vol. iii. p. 383, 1. 19.

Come, my dainty doxies?] I neglected to notice that this song is found entire in our author's More Dissemblers besides Women: see p. 606 of the same volume.

A FAIR QUARREL.

Vol. iii. p. 510, 1. 11.

from the six windmills to Islington]

"The third great

Stow's

Field from Moorgate, next to the six Windmills."

Survey, b. iii. p. 70, ed. 1720.

Vol. iii. p. 514, 1. 17.

a quadrangular plumation] Compare Vigon s Workes of Chirurgerie, &c., 1571, where, treating of "tentes, lyntes, and bolsters" for wounds, he tells us that "some [bolsters] bene quadrate;" and a little after, "some moreouer vse bolsters made of fethers," fol. cxii.

A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE.

Vol. iv. p. 5, last line.

board] The spelling of the old ed. is right—" bord," i. e. size. So in Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle;

"underneath his chin

He plants a brazen piece of mighty bord."

Act iii. sc. 2-Works, vol. i. p. 214, ed. Weber.

where, says M. Mason, " bord means rim or circumference."

Vol. iv. p. 32, 1. 4.

corps] So the word is used as a plural in Epigrams and Satyres, by Richard Middleton, 1608;

"the Tyrants brazen bull

Of Agrigentine, which being crammed full

Of humane corps, did roare with such a maine," &c.

Vol. iv. p. 66, note, read

p. 34.

"y Rider's Dictionary] A Dict. Engl. and Lat. and Lat. and Engl., by John Rider, first printed at Oxford, 1589, was a work once in great repute."

Read

THE SPANISH GIPSY.

Vol. iv. p. 145, last line but one.

"this she, trow ;"

"this she, trow?"

A GAME AT CHESS.

Vol. iv. p. 310, 1. 1.

Roch, Main, and Petronill, itch and ague curers] Compare Taylor the water-poet: "he must be content with his office,

as...

.. Saint Roch with scabbes and scurfes ... Saint Petronella the Ague or any Feuer." A Bawd, p. 93-Workes, 1630.

Vol. iv. p. 407, 1. 6.

Epistle to Nicholas the first, &c.] Since writing the note on these words, I have found in the Keunλia Literaria of Colomesius what he calls a confirmation of the absurd story of the six thousand infants' heads. "Simile quid narratur a Joscelino, in Episcoporum Cantuariensium Vitis, p. 210. editionis Hanovianæ. Anno 1309, inquit, Radulphus Bourn Augustinensis Ecclesiæ Abbas electus, cum ad Papam Avinioni agentem confirmandus accessisset, reversus domum, testatur se vidisse in itinere piscinam in quadam Monialium Abbatia, quæ PROVINES dicebatur; in qua, cum educta aqua luto purgaretur, multa parvulorum ossa, ipsaque corpora adhuc integra reperiebantur. Unde ad criminalia judicia subeunda viginti septem Moniales Parisios ductæ et carceribus mancipatæ fuerunt, de quibus quid actum fuerit, nescivit." Col. Opera, p. 301, ed. Fabr.

ANY THING FOR A QUIET LIFE.

Vol. iv. p. 489, 1. 25.

the new prophet, the astrological tailor] Perhaps Ball, who is thus mentioned by Osborn: "And, if common Fame did not outstrip Truth, King James was by Fear led into this extreme; finding his Son Henry not only averse to any Popish Match, but saluted by the Puritans as one prefigured in the Apocalyps for Rome's destruction. And to parallel this, one Ball, a Taylor, was inspired with a like Lunacy, tho' something more chargeable; for not only he, but Ramsay his Majesty's Watch-maker, put out Money and Clocks, to be paid (but with small Advantage, considering the Improbability) when King James should be crowned in the Pope's chair." Trad. Memor. on the Reign of K. James- Works, vol. ii. p. 153, ed. 1722; see also B. Jonson's Works by Gifford, vol. v. p. 242.

WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN.

Vol. iv. p. 520, 1. 20.

To take out] i. e. to copy-a not uncommon expression in our old writers.

NO WIT, NO HELP LIKE A WOMAN'S.

Vol. v. p. 23, 1. 30.

the widow's notch shall lie open to you] This passage is, I think, explained by the following line in our author's Triumphs of Truth;

"The very nooks where beldams hide their gold."

p. 229 of the same vol.

Vol. v. p. 77, last line.

"To bid a slander welcome than a truth."

I did quite right in substituting "slander" for "slave." These words were frequently confounded by the old printers.

"Revenge and Death

Like slander [read slaves] attend the sword of Calymath." The Travailes of The Three English Brothers (by Day, W. Rowley, and Wilkins), 1607, sig. c 4.

Vol. v. p. 131, 1. 3.

I from the baker's ditch] So in Brome's Sparagus Garden, 1640, "Sheart, Coulter, we be vallen into the Bakers ditch." Sig. K 3. The ancient way of punishing bakers, who did not give full weight, was by the cucking-stool (see Grey's note on Hudibras, P. iii. C. iii. v. 609); qy. is that punishment alluded to in the above passages?

THE INNER-TEMPLE MASQUE.

Vol. v. p. 148, 1. 5.

Ill May-Day] i. e. Evil May-day-so called from the rising of the London apprentices against the foreigners, on the first of May, 1517: see The Story of Ill May-Day, &c., and the editor's illustrations, in Evans's Old Ballads, vol. iii. p. 76, ed. 1810.

Vol. v. p. 148, 1. 9.

Midsummer-Eve, that watches warmest] Perhaps this is an allusion to the setting out of the Midsummer watch: see Herbert's Hist of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London, vol. i. p. 196, sqq.

ketlers] This word occurs in Kemp's Nine daies wonder, 1600; "Those that haue shewne themselues honest men, I wil set before them this Caracter, H. for honesty; before the other Bench-whistlers shal stand K. for ketlers and keistrels, that wil driue a good companion without need in them to contend for his owne."