Alluding to the proverb, BA the dark.” "Joan's as good as my Lady in Rof. Shall I come upon thee with an old faying that was a man, when king Pippin of France was a little boy, as touching the bit it. Boyet. So I may anfwer thee with one as old, that was a woman, when queen Guinever of Britain was a little wench, as touching the bit it. Here is an anachronism of near 200 years. King Arthur husband to Queen Guinever, died in the middle of the fixth century, and King Pepin began his reign about the middle of the eighth. Sc. ib. p. 227... And his page o' t'other fide, that bandful of wit; ab, beav'ns! it is a most pathetical wit.] Sowla, fowla follows. Folio 1632, and Sir Tho: Hanmer. 227! !! Sc. 2. p. 227... Enter Dull, Holofernes, and Sir Nathaniel.] Enter Dull, Holofernes, the Pedant, and "Nathaniel Folio 1632. Id. ib. p. 230. - Nourish'd in the womb of pia mater.] Primater. Folio, 1632. And the blunder is put in Nathaniel's, and not Holoferanes's mouth. & MAN Sc. 3. P. 231. Hol. Mafter parson, quafi person.] See the word parfon [perfona] explain'd, in Dr. Godolphin's Repertorium Canonicum, chap. 17. L 2 Sc. 4. Sc. 4. p. 236. Why he comes in like a perjure wearing papers.] Like a perjur'd? Folio 1632. Might it not be better, like one perjur'd? Sc. 4. p. 238.. Biron. Stoop 1 fay, her fhoulder is with child.] 'Tis reported of Dr. S-tb, that when a lady of this make by way of fneer upon the clergy, told him," that he would rather marry a "tinker, than a parfon." He replied, "ma dam, you would make a proper wife for a "tinker, for you have his brass in your face, " and his budget upon your back." See description of Therfites in Mr. Pope's Homer, and of Hudibras, part 1. canto 1. 291, &c. Ibid. p. 240. Byron. Your eyes do make no coaches in your tears.] See before fc. 4. King. "Thou shin'ft in ev'ry tear that I do 66 weep; "No drop, but as a coach doth carry thee "So rideft thou triumphing in my woe." I should imagine rather in the former paffage, that Shakespeare writ loaches, the Northern word for lakes. So he uses the word, First Part of King Henry IV, act 2. fc. 1. "Your chamber-ly breeds fleas like a loach." "This faid, fhe held her peace "For forrow tied her tongue, "And instead of more words "Seem'd Seem'd that her eyes a lake "Of tears had been, they flow'd "So plenteously there fro. Shakespeare uses trenches in the fame fenfe Titus Andronicus, act 5. fc. 3. p. 315!? [ Witness these trenches made by grief and care. Id. ib. You found his mote, the King your mote did fee, But I a beam do find in each of three.] bios Alluding to thofe paffages, Matt. vii. 5. and Lukevi, 42.coq s Id. ib. Ob me, with what strict patience have I fat. To fee a King transformed to a knot.] So Mr. Theobald. To asgnat, Folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Hanmer. Sc. 4. p. 242 cpos nakon ob zaya mud Biron. Did they quoth you? who fees the bea venly Rofaline, That (like a rude and favage man of Inde, Timur Bee (or Tamerlane) was fo great an enemy to them, that when his Emirs defeated the Gouris, or fire worshippers in Perfia, they flew fo great a number of them, that they built a very high tower with their heads, as an example for the future to feditious perfons: word. 70% dove riem to Listen On A L 3 The The hiftory of Timur Bee, tranflated into French from the life written in the Perfian, by Cherefedin Ali his contemporary, and into Englife in two volumes 8vo, p. 133.. Upon the taking of Myrthe: All the Guèbres, or fire worshippers in the place were flead alive. Vol. 2. chap. 22. p. 71. Id. ib. p. 243. Biron. Devils foonest tempt, resembling Spirits of light.] An allufion to that paffage, 2 Corinth. xi. 14. "And no marvel, for Satan himself is tranfform'd into an angel of light." Id. ib. p. 245. . Damain. Some falve for perjury.] Sir Roger L'Eftrange (Fables, vol. 2. fab. 237, intitled, A Notable fcruple) makes mention of "a man, "that made a confcience both of an oath, and έσ a law fuit, had the wit yet to make a greater cr confcience of lofing an eftate for want of "fuing, and fwearing to defend it; fo that દ upon confulting the chapter of difpensations ; he compounded the matter with certain falvos "and referves. Thou talk'ft (fays he to a "friend of his) of fuing and fwearing. Why "for one, it is my attorney fueth, and for "the other, what fignifies the kiffing the book with a calve's fkin cover, and a paft-board ftiffning betwixt a man's lips and the text." A&t. 5. fc. 1. p. 249. Holofernes. Satis quod fufficit.] To which anfwers our Englife Proverb; Enough is as good as a feast. The Sc. 2. p. 2511 Coftard. I marvel thy master has not eaten thee for a word, for thou art not fo long by the bead as honorificabilitudinitatibus.] The word is lengthened one fyllable by J. Taylor the Water Poet in his addrefs prefix'd to his works, Molt honorificicabilitudinitatibus, &c. Rabelais has in the title of a book, given us one word much longer. [Works book 2. ch. 7.] Antipericatametaparheugedamphicribrationes mendi cantium. Sc. 6. Princefs. Biron did fwear himself out of all fuit.] Qu, all footh, or all truth, In which fenfe the word is ufed by Shakespeare, 1 Ben Johnson, Cynthias Revels, act 2. fc. 2. p. 474, has fomething like this. Cupid." He will blafpheme in his fhirt, "the oathes that he vomits at one fupper, "would maintain a towne of garrifon in good fwearing twelve months." 66 Id. ib. p. 264. Rof.Well,better wits have worn plain ftatute caps.] Woollen caps were enjoined by act of parliament, in the year 1571, 13th of Queen Elizabeth. "Befides the bills paffed into acts this "parliament, there was one which I judge not "amifs to be taken notice of it concern'd "the Queen's care for employment for her poor L 4 “fort |