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fort of fubjects. It was for continuance of making, and wearing woollen caps; in behalf of the trade of cappers; providing, that all above the age of fix years, (except the nobility and fome others) fhould on fabbath "days, and boly-days, wear caps of wool, knit, thicked, and drest in England, upon

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penalty of ten groats." But notwithstanding this ftatute, thefe caps went very much out of fashion, and the wearing of hats prevailed. Which caufed the Queen two or three years after, to take fuch notice of it, as to fet forth a ftrict proclamation, for the enforcing the wearing of caps: the benefit thereof being of more publick good than was at prefent perceived; namely the employment of fuch vaft numbers of idle, poor and impotent people, throughout the whole nation, that otherwise muft either have ftarved, begged, or robbed. Strype's Annals of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 2. p. 74.

Act 5. fc. 7. p. 266.

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That kifs'd away his hand in courtefie;

This is the ape of form.]

Ben Johnson has a fimilar expreffion, Cynthias

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Biron. A bare throw at novum, and the whole world again cannot prick out five fuch, take each one in's vein.] Qu. pick out? as he ufes the expreffion elsewhere. First Part of King Henry Vth, act 2. fc. 11. p. 143.

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76 Act15. fc. 3. P. 277•

Biron. Saint George's half cheek in a brooch.] Brooch, a gold pyramid. Sk. a jewel fet with precious ftones, perhaps of a pyramidal form: it was worn fometimes on the arm.

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"Full fetife was her cloke, as I was ware; "Of fmall corall about her arm fhe bare,

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"A pair of bedis gaudid all with grene, "And thereon hong a brach of gold full fhene." Chaucer's Prologues of the Canterbury Tales. 157, &c.

Worn fometimes on the collar.

<< As he that on the coler founde within "A broche which his Crefeide yave at morrow. Troilus and Crefeide, b. 5. 1599, 1600,

.. Id. ib. p. 279;

mast Moth. Let me take you a button-hole lower.]

The utual phrafe, a peg lower thus explained Ray's Proverbs

The hiftory of Timur Bee, tranflated into French from the life written in the Perfian, by Cherefedin Ali his contemporary, and into Englifb in two volumes 8vo, p. 133.

Upon the taking of Myrthe: All the Guebres, or fire worshippers in the place were flead alive. Vol. 2. chap. 22. p. 71.

Id. ib. p. 243.

Biron. Devils fooneft tempt, resembling Spirits of light.] An allufion to that paffage, 2 Corinth. xi. 14.

"And no marvel, for Satan himself is tranf"form'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 ૬૮ a law fuit, had the wit yet to make a greater "confcience of lofing an estate for want of fuing, and fwearing to defend it; so that upon confulting the chapter of difpenfations; 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." Act. 5. fc. 1. p. 249.

Holofernes. Satis quod fufficit.] To which anfwers our English Proverb; Enough is as good 15 a feast.

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Id. ib. Armado. The truth on't is, I have ne fairt; I go woelward for penance."

Boyet. True, and it was enjoyn'd bim in Rome for want of linnen, &c.] This is a plain réfe rence to the following story in Stow's Annals, p. 98. [in the time of Edward the Confeffer.] "Next after this [King Edward's firft cure of the king's evil" Mine authors affirm, that a "certain man named Vifunius Spileorne, the fon "of Ulmore of Nutgarfball; who, when he "hewed timber in the wood of Brutbeullena,

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laying him down to fleep after his fore la"bour, the blood and humours of his head "fo congeal'd about his eyes, that he was "thereof blind, for the space of nineteen years; "but then (as he had been moved in his fleep) "he went woolward, and bare footed to many "churches, in every of them to pray to God, “for help in his blindness. And last of all he "came to the court, (King Edward's) where "a long time he ftood at the entry of the King's "chamber an earneft fuiter, till at length the

King hearing of the blind man's dream, he "faid: By our Lady Saint Mary, I would do "much with a good will, if it would please "God through me to have mercie of the poor "wretch and thus being driven by his fer

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vants, he laid his hand, and the water upon

the blind man's eyes, and ftreight way the "blood dropped plentifully from him; and "being healed, he cryed with a cheerfull voice, * I fee thee, O King, I fee thee, O King. Thus having

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