Falstaff, after a blow or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them.]“ As they are haring, the Prince and Poyns fet upon them "they all run away, leaving their booty bebind "them." Folios 1623, and 1632 A& 2. fc. 6, p. 129 and blur Lady. O my good Lord, why are you thus alone? For what offence have I this fortnight been A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed? Tell me, fweet Lord, what is't that takes from thee Thy Stomach, ons sy stort as. He has an image not much unlike this in Julius Cæfar, Act 2. fc. 3. Portia. Brutus, my Lord! Brutus, Portia, what mean you? wherefore -rife you now? ·It is not for your health thus to commit Kour weak condition to the raw cold morning. Por. Nor for your's neither. You've ungently, 300 Brutus, V Stale from my bed and yefternight at fupper Mufing and fighing, with your arms across : I urg'd you further, then you fcratch'd your bead, Id, ib. Thy Spirit within thee hath been fo at. bro war, war, w And And thus bath so bestirr'd thee in thy fleep, Sc. 6. p. 130. Hotspur to Lady Percy. ⠀ Hotf. Away, away, you trifler: Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate; this is no world Ben Johnson feems to be of a different opinion, in his Mafques, p. 211. first volume. The tilting after the fecond Cupid.! Enter Hymen to them. Hymen.“Come, you must yield both; this "is neither contention for you, nor time fit "to contend: There is another kind of tilting "would become love better than this; to meet "lips for lances, and crack kiffes inftead of "staves: which, there is no beauty here I "prefume, so young, but can fancy; nor fo "tender, but would venture." Id. ib. Do you not love me? Nay tell me, if you speak in jeft or no?]" If "thou fpeakeft in jeft or no?" Folio 1632. Conftant you are, Id. ib. But yet you are a woman, and for secrecy No lady clofer, for I well believe, Thou wilt not utter what thou do'ft not know.] "A woman Ray's Pro Alluding to the proverb, "conceals what fhe knows not." verbs, P. 59. Sc. 8. p. 133. Prince Henry to Francis the Drawer.... 14 Prince Henry. Why then your brown baftard is your only drink.] What liquor this was, I am at lofs a to guefs; but both brown and white baftard are mentioned by other writers. The first, in the Virgin Widow, by Francis Quarles, act 4. fc. I. p. 45. Madge." This very day two months, Anthony at the George, would needs have me "down into his wine cellar, and gave me a "pint of brown bastard." See: Baftard Wine, Minfbieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 63. Id. ib. In Barbary, Sir, it cannot come to fo much.] The fcene was Eaftcheap, so that inftead of Barbary, fhould be read, I think, Barbican which is a street that comes out of the upper part of Aldersgate-Street, and runs up to Red-Cross-Street. Sc. 10. p. 141. Hoft. O Jesu! my Lord the Prince.] O Jefu not in Folio 1632. Sc. 11, P. 142:1 → And be of Wales, that gave (a) Amamon the bastinado, made Lucifer cuckold, and fwore the Devil his (a) Facit ad amorem, odium invifibilitatem et confecrationem eorum quæ funt de Dominatione Amaymonis, et de poteftate alterius exorciftae. Wieri pfeudomonarchia demonum. Col. 924. Scilicet obferva horas in quibus quatuor Reges, Amaymon Rex orientalis, &c. poffunt conftringi a tertiâ horâ ufque ad meridiem, a nonâ horâ ufque ad vefperas. Id. ib. col. 931. Ꮓ true true liege man upon the cross of a Welth book:} what a plague call you bim Poins, Owens Glendour.] Owen Glendour's Welsh book, is mentioned by Ben Johnson, in his fecond volume, in The Masque, for the Honour of Wales, P. 33. "What need of Ercules, when "Cadwallader, Jen. "Or Lluellin, or Reefe ap Griphin, or Cradock, or Owen Glendour with a Welfe book, and a goat's-fkinne on his back; had "done very better, and twice as well." Id. ib. p. 143. Falstaff to Prince Henry, Falft. Thy father's beard is Alluding to the vulgar notion, that mens hair will sometimes turn grey upon a sudden, and violent fright Mr. Moll in his geography, fpeaking of Buman's Hole, in Hanover, fays. turn'd white with the news.] "There goes a report of a young fellow, "who feeking after his cattle in this cave, loft his way, and wandering eight days to"gether in it, at his return his hair was chang'd grey; and he told ftrange ftories of fpirits "and apparitions, that he faid he had met "with in it." This whimfical opinion was humourously bantered by a wag in a coffee-house; who upon hearing a young gentleman, giving the fame reafon for the change of his hair, from black to grey, obferved, that there was no great matter in it; and told the company, that he had a friend who wore a cole-black wig, which was turn'd grey by a fright, in an inftant. 2.Id. ib. Falft. If then thou be fon to me, bere lyeth the point; why being fon to me, art thou fo pointed at? fhall the blessed Sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat black-berries.] Micher, fignifies a lazy, loitering vagabond, a truant, in which fenfe it is ufed in Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rofe, 6539, &c. ! "And Him that beggith wol aïe greve, "How fhould I by his worde him leve, "Unneth that he n'is a micher, "Forfworne, elfe Goddis lier→→→ See Hamlet, act 3. fc. 7. Mr. Philip Maffenger, in his tragi-comedy, intitled, A very Woman, &c. act 5. p. 80. ufes the word. "Have you a hand in this? See Micher, and Truant, Minfieu's Guide into the Tongues. Un petala. Act 3. fc. 1. p. 151. Glendour. Come here's the map, fhall we divide our right, According to our three-fold order ta'en? Mortimer. The Archdeacon bath divided it, Into three limits very equally: England from Trent and Severn hitherto By fouth and east, is to my part affigned, |