And they came to Ophir, and fet from thence gold. 1 Kings ix. 28. And the feventh year Jeboiada fent, and fet the rulers over hundreds, &c. 2 Kings

xi. 4.

"And when the King entered into the house of the Lord, the guard came, and fet them, and brought them again into the guard chamber. 2 Chron. xii. 11.

"And they fet forth Uriah out of Egypt, and "brought him unto Jehoiakim Jerem. xxvi.

23.

"And from thence we fet a compafs and came to Rhegium." Alts xxviii. 13.

All these paffages are alter'd in a very late edition of the bible, by what authority I can not tell.

So Ben Jonfon ufes the word, Cynthia's Revels, act 4. fc. 1.

""Tis far fet by their stay.'

And in the Prologue to his Silent Woman. દ Though there be none far fet, there will "dear-bought fit for ladies:"

Follow your fpirit, and upon this charge

Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George.] A conftitution was made by Henry [Chichele,] Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, that a great ** feftival should be kept (a) (fub officio duplici, C c

ėt

(a) Santi Georgii feftum, ad inftantiam Regis decre

tum

" et ad modum majoris duplicis fefti) to the mer, mory of Saint George, as to the fpecial Pan

tron, and Protector of the Engle nation. English. "And it was juft at the time when King Hen ry the Fifth begun his wars in France, undoubtedly believing, that by his interceffione the arms of the nation would fare better “the time of war; and the clergie it's spiritual "militia in the time of peace." Refeilione upon the Devotions of the Romish Church, p. 96. From Labbe, Concil, tom. 12, p. 295motq Id. ib. p. 369. od 16 has bad waxað bas

Boy, anatbado smani boup fla Nim and Bardolph are fworn brothers in filching

Probably Shakespeare took the name of Nim from the Saxon Niman, or the Dutch Nemen which fignifies to take by ftealth, or to filchi

Sc. 7. P. 370. Piftol to Fluelin, ByA Pift. Bardolph, a foldier, firm and found of beart, and buxom valour.] By buxom is not here meant brifk, lively, and active, as in the modern fenfe, but obedient to the command of fuperiors. Thus it was used by Chaucer, Remaunt of the Rofe, 4419 0 0.57 T "Ah Bialocol full well I feed, bedding Hos jug, That they hem shape to deceive thee,, brow

(781) 1697 cult ad ** tum fuit in concilio cleri Londonut festivitas Sandi Georgii Martyris, ficut feftum duplex in ecclefia de plero honoretur. The. Otterbourne, Chronic. Reg. Anglia, edit. à Tho. Hearne, p. 273. See Holinfhed's Chronicle, it edit. 1166.

10

" To

avaiou, mubom ka is «To to To make thee buxom to the law,

Tick to vrem And with that cord thee to drawe. Chaucer ufes it in the fame fenfe, Merchant's Ai papi nedy sami shi va ding Ɛ&W 3. DNA

Tale, 803.

- For who can be as buxom as a wife? 849. See Clerke's Tale, 1218. 2038. Shipman's Tale, 26821253

2750.

bluew no.EM SAJ 10 ms enz

Tis used in the fame fense in the Salisbury Misfal, and Manud: where, in the Ordo Sponfalium: or, Office of Matrimony. The woman promises her husband to be bonour [debonair] and buxum, at bed, and at bord. Buxom idem eft quod latine obediens: id colligitur ex manufcripto quodam antiquo Anglicano. In quo inobediens mandatis, dicitur, Unbuxom

God and his hefts. Item in manufcripto codice cui titulus___eft, Curfor of the world. Auctor ita metricè alloquitur.

Shew thy felf to us,

We to thee have been unbus.

Staniburst in Defcriptione Hyberniæ, fays, such was his unbuxomness. Alibi equus indomitus, dicitur an unbuxom horfe."

The tranflator of Ralph Higden's Polychroni con, published by Treveris, folio 301, ufes the word in the fame fenfe.

"In this year (1214,15) the Pope's Legate, Pandulphus came into Englonde, and spake to Kynge John, and charged highly that he should be buxom and obedient to the chyrch of Rome."

See likewife Spenfer's Fairy Queen, book 1.. canto 11. 37. book 3, canto, 2. 23. canto 4. 32. book 6. canto 8.12.

Sc. ib. p. 371.

Pift. Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him,

For be bath ftolen a pax, and bang'd must be.] 'Tis pax in folios 1623, 1632, but alter'd to pix by Mr. Theobald, and Sir Thomas Hanmer. But they fignified the fame thing.

See Pax at Mafs, Minfbieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 532.

(4) Pix, or pax, was a little box in which, were kept the confecrated wafers.

Rabelais [fee works, books 4. chap. 18.] makes mention of two catchpoles, "Who were "choak'd with a hempen fallad, because they "had only borrowed, alias ftolen the tools of "the mafs, (the ornaments, inftruments, or implements belonging to it), and hid them in the bandle of the parish." [the belfry] Act 3. fc. 8. p. 374. King Henry to Montjoy. King For to fay the footh, (Though 'tis not wisdom to confefs fo much Unto an enemy of craft and vantage) 2002, My people are with fickness much enfeebled]、com

(a) The conftitution of Archbishop Peccham, Title, Euchariftia in tabernaculo claufo, idque in Pyxide decenti ne atteratur, cuftodiatur, et fingulis dominicis innovétur.

See more, Bishop Gibson's Codex, tit. 21. cap. 10

At

1 At the battle of Agincourt, the English "were so afflicted with the dyfentery, or bloody "flux, that most of them chose to fight naked "from the girdle downwards." Mednos

* See Rapin's Hiftory of England, folio edit. vol. 1. p. 513. And an old balad, intitled, The Battle of Agincourt. Old balads republifh'd 1723. vol. 2. p. 83.

Sc. 10. p. 379

Ram. The island of England breeds very valiant creatures, their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

1. Orl. Foolifb curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Ruffian bear, and have their heads crubed like rotten apples, you may as well fay, that's a valiant flea, that dares eat his breakfaßt upon the lip of a lion,]

Spenfer has two images of this kind, Vifions of the world's vanity. The first, of an ant's attacking an elephant, ftanz. 8. And the other of the great courage of the wafp, in attacking the lion, stanz. 10.

Act 4. fc. 4. p. 387.

K. Hen. So if a fon, that is fent by his father about merchandize do fall into fome lewd altion, and mifcarry.] "Do finfully mifcarry at 'fea." Folios 1623, 1632.

Act 4. fc. 6. p. 391.

K. Hen. O God of battles! feel my foldiers

bearts,

Poffefs them not with fear

Not to day, O Lord,

O not

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