Act 2. fc. 3. p. 275. Pift. He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor. &c.] See Pfalm, 49.2... Sc. 6. p. 279. Tell him My name is Brook; only for a jeft.] "Tell "him my name is Broome. Folio 1632; and quite through the play. Id. ib. 8 Will you on, beris?] Will you go myn-heers? Sir J. Hanmer. Will you go? an Heires. Folio 1632. Will you go to fee the duel between Sir Hugh and Dr. Caius? an heiress is the occafion of their quarrel: I have taken the liberty of pointing it in a different manner; which I hope clears up the paffage. Sc. 7. p. 280. Pift. Why then the world's mine after; which I with fword will open.] Alluding probably to the Northamptonfire Proverb. "The Mayor of Northampton opens oysters with his dagger." "To keep them (fays Dr. Fuller) at a fufficient diftance from his nofe. "For this town being eighty miles from the fea, fifh may be prefumed to be very ftale "therein." See Rey's Proverbs, 2d edition P. 328. Id. ib. Falft. Your red lettice phrafes.] Qu, red-lattice? or ale houfe phrafes. There they had lattice windows painted red, as appears from the fecond part of King Henry the Fourth, Act 2. fc. 5. p. 233. Page." He call'd me even now, my lord, through "through a red lattice, and I could fee no part of his face from the window." Ben Johnjon feems to hint at phrafes as low in their kind, (Every Man in his humour, aðt 1. c. 5.) Bob." He was born for the manger, "Pannier, or pack-faddle, he has not **So much as a good phrafe in his Belly, but all old iron, and rufty *Proverbs; a good commodity for **Some Smith to make hobnails of." Sc. 9. p. 285. Ford. They fay if money go before, all ways do lie open.] Butler expreffes it in the following manner, Hudibras part 3. canto 2. 1327-28. [See Note.] "Tis true, w'have money, the only pow'r "That all mankind fall down before. Philip of Macedon, Alexander's father, was reported to fay, "That he did not doubt to take any caftle, or cittadel, let the ascent be never fo fteep and difficult, if he could but drive up "an afs laden with gold to the gate. Ray's Proverbs 2d. edit. p. 147. A&t 2. fc. 9. p. 287. Falft. Of What quality was your love then? Ford. Like a fair boufe, built on another man's ground; fo that I have loft my edifice, by mistaking the place where I erected it.] "By the law of England (as Dr. Wood ob"ferves, Inftitute of the Imperial or Civil Law, 4th edit. p. 159.) "If a man ignorantly, or "by by mistake of his title, build upon the foil of another, he cannot claim allowance for his "materials or workmanship. By the civil law (a) the owner of the ground was to be mafter of the houfe fo built, but << muft pay for the materials and workmanship, "otherwife the builder was not bound to quit "the poffeffion: unless the builder certainly "knew that he built upon another's foil, (b) for "then he fhall be prefumed to have given away "his materials and workmanship." Sc. 10. rather trust the Welchman with my cheefe.] I will Parfon Hugh John Taylor the water poet, in his 7th epigram, intitled The Skuller, banters the Welsh on this account. "The way to make a Welchman thirst for blifs, And fay his prayers daily on his knees; "Is to perfuade him that most certain 'tis, "The moon is made of nothing but green cheese: "And he'll defire of God no greater boon, "But place in heaven to feed upon the moon. Id. ib. Than my wife by herself, then she plots, then fhe ruminates, then he devises; and what they think in their heart they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect.] Master (a), Cum in fuo folo aliquis ex alienâ materiâ ædificaverit, ipfe intelligitur dominus ædificii, quia omne quod folo inædificatur folo cedit, &c. Inftitut. Imperial. lib. 2. (a) Cod. Juftinian. 3. 32. tit. 1. 29. Ford whether they fhall fucceed with their mistreffes, by carrying the batchellour's buttons (a plant of the lychnis kind, whofe flowers resemble a coat button in form;) in their pockets. And they. judged of their good, or bad fuccefs, by their growing, or not growing there. Mr. Smith. • Act 3. fc. 8. p. 103. Falft. Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? why now let me die, for I have lived long enougb.] So Charea in Terence, Eunuch, 3. 5. Jam ne erumpere hoc licet mihi gaudium poffum Ne hoc gaudium vita contaminet ægritudine aliquâ. Id. ib. Falstaff to Mrs. Ford. Dr. T. & Thou art a traytor to fay fo.] Mr. Warburton's emendation, I believe it is without authority: and if any other person had taken the fame. liberty of faying what he does of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Note act 3. fc. 11. p. 301. "That he "did it out of pure love to an emendation," he would have taken it amifs, I am apt to ber lieve. "Thou art a tyrant to fay fo." Folio 1632. Tyrant likewife in Mr. Theobald's and Sir Thomas Hanmer's editions. Sc. II. Caius. If there be one two, I fhall make a de turd. Evans. In your teeth, for fhame.] This addi tional wit of Evans's is likewife in Mr. Theobald's edition, but wanting in folio 1632, and in Sir Thomas Hanmer, Sc. 12, |