"than country people do." See Hicks's Gr AS. p. 231. in margi bro. 1 ad. mi

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But cockney here fignifies a filly fellow, as it does in Chaucer, Reve's Prologue 1100. I fhall be held a daff or a cockney Bot

Sc. ibid.

Sir Andrew.

I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria, tho' I ftruck him first, yet there is no matter for that.] Sir Andrew might probably have met with the fame fuccefs, with a celebrated lawyer in days of yore; who told the Judge in aggravation of the defendant's crime, "that he beat his client, with a certain wooden instrument, call'd "an iron pestle."

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1. Sc. 3. p. 187.000

Clown. Bonos dies, Sir Toby, for, as the old bermit of Prague that never faw pen and ink, very wittily faid to a niece of King Gorboduck, that that is, is, &c. He may allude to the tragedy of Gorboduc, by Tho. Saville, Lord Buckburst, afterwards Earl of Dorfet: and Thomas Norton, Efq; faid to be the first tragedy in English, and firft acted, before Queen Elizabeth, by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple, at Whitehall, 1561, An incorrect edition of it, publifh'd 1565. See collection of old plays, publish'd by R. DodЛley, 1744, vol. 2. for the argument of the tragedy. And Jeffry of Monmouth's Brittish History, book 2. chap. 16. Act 4. fc. 3. p. 189.

Clown, Nay I am for all waters.] i. e. A cloak

cloak for all kinds of knavery: taken from the Italian proverb, Tu hai mantillo da ogni Mr. Smith.

acqua.

Sc. ib. p. 191.

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Adieu good man drivel] Good man divell. Folio 1632.

A& 5. fc. 4. p. 199.

Sir To. Then he's a rogue, and a past-measure painim.]

Then be's a rogue after a passy-measure pavin Folio 1632, and probably right, being an al lufion to the quick measure of the pavin, (a) a dance in Shakespeare's time. See Note, All's well, that ends well, act 2. fc. 2.

(a) Pavin, a dance fo call'd. G. Pavine, J. H. "Pavana, forte a paviendâ terrâ: of paving the ground. "Quod in hoc choreæ genere frequentior fit pedum "pulfatio. Minfieu's Guide into Tongues, col. 531,

moil

VISTAUX C been the

The Comedy of Errors.

ACT L SCENE I. p. 211.

To Epidamnum, 'till my factor's death.]
A port town, a colony either of Dalmatia or
Macedonia, according to (a) Ortelius.

Sc. 3. p. 216.1

E. Dromio. But we, that know, what 'tis to fast and pray,

Are penitent for your default to day.]

i. e. By the good housewifery, and ill nature of our mistress, we are forced to keep a faft extraordinary.

Act 2. fc. 3. 221.

If voluble, and sharp discourse be marr'd, Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.] Blots it. Folio 1632.

Act 2. fc. 4. p. 223.

When the fun fhines, let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies, when he hides his beams.]

(a) Epidamnus, widάuvos, Thucydidi Dalmatie aut Macedonia colonia, et oppidum propter inaufpicatum nomen à Romanis Dyrrachium Appianus aity Epidamnum paullum remotum a mari: Dyraechium vero propè ipfum mare-Epidamnique navale effe dicit: Vide plura, Ortelii Thefaur. Geographic. fub voce Epidamnus.

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Mr.

Mr. Pope in his first letter, p. 10. edit quarto 1737, fpeaking of Mr. Dryden, has an image fomething like this.

f

"Thofe fcriblers who attack'd him in his "later times, were only like gnats in ali fum"mer's evening, which are never very trouble"fome but in the finest, and most glorious "feafon."

Sc. 4. p. 224,

Sir, I pray you eat none of it.] "Eat not of it. Folio 1632.:

Act. 3. fc. 1. p. 230.

E. Ant. I think thou art an ass,

E. Drom. Marry fo it does appear,

LAA

By the wrongs I fuffer, and the blows I bear.].
Alluding to the proverbial expreffion.

Nux, afinus, mulier fimili funt lege ligata 1 Hæc tria nil recte faciunt fi verbera ceffant. Add. a cognato, eft tamen novum. Ray's Proverbial Ofervations referring to love. The English proverb. "A fpaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, "The more they're beaten, the better still they be."

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A& 3. fc. 3. P. 238.

S. Ant. How doft thou mean, a fat marriage? S. Dro. Marry Sir, fhe's the kitchin wench, and all greafe, and I know not what ufe to put ber to, but to make a lamp of her, and run from ber by her own light: I warrant her rags, and the tallow in them, will burn a Poland winter: if she lives till doom's day, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.]

Ben

Ben Johnson's defcription of Urfula, (in feveral parts of his Bartholomew Fair) in fome meafure resembles this. And Gayton (in his notes upon Don Quixotes book chap. 2. p. 72.) thus defcribes Maritornes.

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She was a fow of the largest breed, the " was an elephant in head and ears, her belly of a capacity for a cellar, two stands of "ale might find room therein, and two cen* turys of fpickets."

And Butler's defcription of Mother Nab. [Hudibras, part 3. canto 2. 873

"To bawds as fat as Mother Nab, "All guts and belly like a crab." ** Sc. 3. p. 238.

Her rags, and the tallow in them, will burn a Lapland winter.] The folio of 1632, reads a Poland winter, fo does Sir Tho. Hanmer, and Mr. Theobald, and all the editions that I have met with.

- Act 4. fc. 4. p. 247. Dromio speaking of a catchpole, fays.

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S. Dromio. A back friend a boulder clapper, one that commands the paffage of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.] It fhould be written, I think, narrow lanes, as he has the fame expreffion, Richard 2d, act 5. fc. 6. p. 82. ས་ Bolingbroke of his fon Prince Henry, d

"Enquire at London, 'mong the taverns there, "For there they fay, he daily doth frequent With unreftrained, loofe companions, "Even fuch they fay, as ftand in narrow "lanes, &c."

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