Love's Labours loft. ACT I. SCENE I. p. 192. AND every godfather can give a name.] Alluding to the practice in baptifm, in his own time, when probably the godfather might give the name, as the rubrick then gave no direction who should do it. "Then the priest shall take the child in his "hands and afk the name. And naming the “child shall dip it in the water, so it be dif"creetly and warily done." See rubrick, in King Edward the fixth's first book, review in 1552. Queen Elizabeth's review, and King James's. In the last review of 1662, the rubrick was altered in the following manner. "Then the priest fhall take the child into his "hands, and fhall fay to the godfathers and "godmothers, Name this Child." And then naming it after them, &c. Id. ib. p. 193. Biron. At Chriftmass 1 no more defire a rofe, Than wifh a fnow in May's new-fangled fhows.] Qu. new-fpangled ? ... Sc. 2. p. 197. But fo fo.] Mr. Warburton fays this is a quibble restored by the Oxford Editor, but from whence? 'tis but fo. Folio 1632. : Sc. 3. p. 200. Enter Armado and Moth.] "Enter Armado a Braggart and Moth his page. Folio 1632. And how Sc. 3. p. 201. Moth. eafie it is to put years to the word three, and study three years in two words, the dancing horse will tell you.] Banks's borfe which plaid many remarkable pranks. Sir Walter Raleigh (Hif tory of the World, first part, 178.) fays, "if Banks had lived in elder times, he would "have fhamed all the inchanters in the world: "for whofoever was most famous among them, "could never master, or instruct any beaft, as "he did his horfe." And Sir Kenelm Digby. (A Treatife of bodies, chap. 38. p. 393.) observes, "That this horfe would reftore a glove to "the due owner, after his mafter had whisper'd "the man's name in his ear; would tell the "juft number of pence in any piece of filver "coin, newly fhew'd him by his mafter; and even obey presently his command, in dif charging himself of his excrements, whenfo"ever he bade him." And in the fame chapter, he says, "That he "has been told that at the duke of Florence's marriage, there was a dance of horses, by "which they kept exact time to mufick. The means used of bringing them to it, is faid to "have been, by tying, and hampering their legs in fuch a fort, that they could lift them ་ up but in a determinate way, and then setting them upon a pavement that was heated "underneath fo hot, that they could not en"dure to stand ftill, while fuch mufical airs 66 were "were plaid to them as fitted their motion ! "all which being often repeated, the horses took an habit, that in hearing thofe airs they would " lift up their legs in that fashion; and so danc'd "to the tune they had been taught." Act 3. fc. 1. p. 214. Math. Mafter will you win your love with a French brawl?] Mafter, not in folio 1632. A brawle a kind of dance. Dict. de G. Branfle. See Minfhien's Guide into Tongues, col. 93. See Brawls mentioned with other dances, note, All's well that ends well, act 2. fc. 2. Id. ib. p. 215. Moth. A meffage well fympathiz'd; a borse to be ambassadour for an ass.] Ben Johnson in his Explorata, or Difcoveries, in banter of Hear fay News, fays, "That an elephant 1630, 66 came hither ambaffadour from the Great Mo"gull, who could both write and read, and was every day allowed twelve caft of bread, twen 66 ty quarts of Canary fack, befides nuts and "almonds the citizens wives fent him: that he "had a Spanish boy to his interpreter; and his "chief negotiation was to conferr, or practice "with Archy, the principal fool of ftate, about "stealing hence Windfor-Caftle, and carrying it away upon his back if he can,' Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goofe that you bought, and he ended the market.] The English Proverb," three women and a goofe make a market. This I is an Italian one, Tre donne & un occa fan un mercato. See Ray's Proverbial obfervations relating to love, p. 59. Sc. 3. p. 219. This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy.] "This whimpering, &c." Sir, Tho. Hanmer. Wimpled. Folio 1632, and more proper intimating that Cupid's eyes were veil'd, or blind. · folded, fuch is the fignification of the word in Chaucer. 66 Upon an ambler easily she fat "All wimpled well, and on her hed an hatte "As brode as is a bokeler of a targe.' Prologue of the Canterbury Tales, 471. &c. See likewife Legende of Thibe of Babylon. Id. ib. This Signior Junio's giant-dwarf Dan Cupid.] Dan fignifies master, like the Spanish Don, and is used in this fenfe by Chaucer, in near fifty places. In three of which he, mentions Dan Cupid, and Dan Cupido. "For Venus' fon Dan Cupido." Romaunt of the Rofe, 1615. Dan Cupid. Troilus and Crefeide, lib, 3. 1813. "To fhew Dan Cupid's power, and great Fairy Queen, book 3. canto 11. 46. “ "But life was like a fair, young lufty boy, "Such as they fain Dan Cupid to have been. Book 7. canto 7. p. 46; L and in many other places. A&t A& 3. fc. 3. p. 220. ·And wear his colours like a tumbler's boop.] Love's colours were those of the willow gerland. To which Shakespeare alludes, Twelfth Night, act 1. fc. 9. And in King Henry the Sixth, act 3. fc. 6. p. 171. And in this very play, aft 1. fc. 3d p. 202.1 Armado obferves, “That green is indeed the * colour of lovers.” And the wearing of them was either about his head, or neck, as tumblers were wont to do, when they went with a drum before them, to gather company together; to fee their feats of activity: their hoops might likewife be adorned with ribbons. But what is chiefly meant here, is the manner, or fashion of wearing them. To fupport the opinion above, fee Shakefpeare's Much ads about Nothing, act 2. fc. 3P. 22. Benedick. "Even to the next willow, about your own bufinefs Count: What fashion will you wear the garland of? about your neck “like an usurer's chain? or under your arm, "like a lieutenant's scarf? &c." Here we are presented with the fame thought, or image; only the ufurer's chain, and lieute ́nant's scarf, are turn'd into a more ridiculous thing, a tumbler's boop. Mr. Smith. Id. ib. Biron. Well I will love, write, figh, pray, fue and groan,→ Some men must love my Lady, and feme Joan.] Alluding |