(P. 386.) this fmall packet of Greek and Latin books. In queen Elizabeth's time the young ladies of quality were ufually inftructed in the learned languages, if any pains were bestowed on their minds at all. Lady Jane Gray andher fifters, Q. Elizabeth, &c. are trite inftances. PERCY.

(P. 391.) Go fool, and whom thou keep's commend. This is exactly the Пarcάuevos mirasσe of Theocritus, Eid. xv. v. 9o. and yet I would not be pofitive that Shakespeare had ever read even a translation of Theocritus.

T. T.

SOPS (p. 408.)- -"quaff'd off the mufcadel,

And threw the fops all in the fexton's face." This was in the church, immediately after the marriage-ceremony was concluded between Catharine and Petruchio. The fashion of introducing a bowl of wine into the church at a wedding to be drank by the bride and bridegroom and perfons prefent, was very anciently a conftant ceremony; and, as appears from this paffage, not abolished in our author's age. We find it practifed at the magnificent marriage of queen Mary and Philip, in Winchefter cathedral, 1554. "The trumpetts founded, and they both returned to their "traverses in the quire, and there remayned untill masse was "done: at which tyme, wyne and fopes were hallowed and delyvered to them booth." Collect. Append. Vol. IV. p.400. edit. 1770. Mr. WARTON.

(P. 445.) While counterfeit fuppefes blear'd thine eyne. The modern editors read fuppofers, but wrongly. This is a plain allufion to Gascoigne's comedy entitled SUPPOSES, from which feveral of the incidents in this play are borrow'd. T. T.

VOL. IV.

PALMERS (p. 80.) pilgrims that vifited holy places; fo called from a ftaff, or bough of palm they were wont to carry, especially fuch as had vifited the holy places at Jerufalem. "A pilgrim and a palmer differed thus: a pilgrim had fome "dwelling-place, a palmer had none; the pilgrim travelled

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to fome certain place, the palmer to all, and not to any "one in particular; the pilgrim muft go at his own charge, "the palmer muft profefs wilful poverty; the pilgrim might give over his profeffion, the palmer must be conftant."

their caflocks.

(P. 104.) So in The Hollander, a comedy by Glapthorne, 1640.

BLO.

"Here

"Here Sir, receive this military caflock, it has feen fervice." "This military caffuck has, I fear, fome military "hangbys." STEEVENS.

SAFFRON (p. 113.) Sir T. H. obferves upon the word Saffron, that "Shakespeare alludes to two fafhions then in "vogue; one of ufing yellow ftarch for their ruffs and bands,

the other of colouring pafte with faffron." The fashion grew into difufe, and became a mark of obloquy, after the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury; Mrs. Turner, who was principally concerned in that atrocious act, having been executed in a yellow ruff. This incident afforded a fund of entertainment to the wits of that age. In The Widow (a play written by Jonfon, Fletcher, and Middleton jointly) the circumftance is thus hinted at:

Phil. There's nothing mifs'd I can affure you, Sir,
But that fuit of your master's.

Mar. I'm right glad on't,

That fuit would hang him,

Yet I would not have hang'd him in that fuit though;
It will difgrace my master's fashion for ever,

And make it as hateful as yellow bands.

DoDs. Old Plays, Vol. VI. p. 64. And again in Beaumont and Fletcher's Queen of Corinth, Act IV. Sc. I.

-Has he familiarly

Difliked your yellow ftarch, or faid your doublet
Was not exactly frenchify'd, &c.

Mr. Howell tells us, that Mrs. Turner was the inventor of yellow ftarch, and that he was hanged in a cobweb lawn ruff of that colour at Tyburn. "And with her, I believe," fays he," that yellow ftarch which disfigured our nation, and "rendered them fo ridiculous and fantaftick, will receive "its funeral."

BREAST (p. 173) Voice. Breath has been here proposed: but many inftances may be brought to justify the reading beyond a doubt. In the ftatutes of Stoke-college founded by archbishop Parker, 1535. Strype's Parker, p. 9. " which "faid queri 'ers, after their breasts are changed, &c." That is," after their voices are broke." In Fiddes' Life of Wolfey, Append. p. 128. "Singingmen well-breafted." In Tufser's Hufbandrie, p. 155. edit. P. SHORT.

The better breft, the leffer reft,

Toferve the queer now there now heere.

Tuffer

Tuffer in this piece, called The Author's Life, tells us that he was a choir-boy in the collegiate chapel of Wallingford castle; and that, on account of the excellence of his voice, he was fucceffively removed to various choirs. I remember breast in this fenfe, in Beaumont and Fletcher. Mr. WARTON.

(P. 177) [Here they fing a catch.] A catch is a fpecies of vocal harmony to be fung by three or more perfons; and is fo contrived that though each fings precisely the fame notes as his fellows, yet by beginning at itated periods of time from each other, there refults from the performance a harmony of as many parts as there are fingers. Compofitions of this kind are, in ftrictnefs, called Canons in the unifon; and as properly, Gatches, when the words in the different parts are made to catch or answer each other. One of the most remarkable examples of a true Catch is that of Purcel, Let's live good honeft lives, in which, immediately after one perfon has uttered these words, "What need we fear "the Pope?" another in the courfe of his finging fills up a reft which the first makes, with the words, "The Devil."

The Catch above mentioned to be fung by Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and the Clown, from the hints given of it, appears to be so contrived as that each of the fingers calls the other Knave in turn; and for this the clown means to apologize to the knight, when he fays, that he fhall be constrained to call him knave. I have here fubjoined the very catch, with musical notes to which it was fung in the time of Shakespeare, and at the original performance of this Comedy.

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thou knave, thou knave: hold thy peace thou knave. The evidence of its authenticity is as follows: There is extant a book entitled "PAMMELIA, Mufickes Mifcellanie or mixed Varietie of pleafant Roundelays and delightful Catches of 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. parts in one." Of this book there are at least two editions, the fecond printed in 1618. In 1609, a fecond part of this book was published with the title V L. X. M m

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of DEUTEROMELIA, and in this book is contained the catch above given. Sir. J. HAWKINS. (P. 178.) There dwelt a man in Babylon-Lady, Lady. This fong, or at least, one with the fame burthen, is alluded to in B. Jonfon's Magnetic Lady, Vol. IV. p. 449.

"Com. As true it is, Lady, Lady i'the fong." T.T. TRAY-TRIP, (p. 197.) a game much in vogue in our author's days it is ftill retained among the lower clafs of young people in the Weft of England; and was, I apprehend, the fame as now goes under the name of Scotch-hop, which was play'd either upon level ground marked out with chalk in the form of fquares or diamonds, or upon a chequered pavement. Jafper Maine in the City-Match evidently alludes

to the latter:

Aur. Marry a fool, in hope to be a lady-mayorefs?
Plot. Why, fifter, I

Could name good ladies that are fain to find
Wit for themselves, and knights too.

Aur. I have heard

Of one whofe hufband was fo meek, to be
For need her gentleman-ufher, and while she
Made vifits above ftairs, would patiently
Find himself business at tre trip i'th' hall.

See Dodfley's Old Plays, Vol. X. p. 28. Mr. Steevens ingeniously conjectures, tray trip fhould be trytrip, the fame as wrestling; and he tells us," he has fome"where read among the commendations of a young noble"man, that he was good at the game of try-trip, or tray"trip." Now, it is not improbable, that, in the fimplicity of Shakespeare's time, even a young nobleman might pique himself upon his activity at Scotch-hop, or tray-trip. And from the paffage cited from Maine it is clear the game might be play'd by one only.

(P. 229.) I am not tall enough to become the function well. This cannot be right. The word wanted fhould be part of the defcription of a careful man. I should have no objection to read-pale.

T. T.

(P. 245.) Then he's a rogue, and a paffy measure Pavin. [ hate a drunken rogue.

B. Jonfon alfo mentions the Pavin, and calls it a Spanish dance, Alchemift, p. 97. but it feems to come originally from Padua, and should rather be written Pavane, as a corruption of Paduana. A dance of that name (Saltatio Paduana) occurs in an old writer, quoted by the annotator on Rabelais. Book V. C. 30.

Paffey

T. T.

Paffy measures is undoubtedly a corruption, but I know not how it should be rectified. (P. 251.) Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts We had conceiv'd against him. Surely we fhould rather read-conceiv'd in him. lower messes

Perchance are purblind

T. T.

(P. 271.) This, I believe alludes to the ancient manner of eating in royal and noble houfes by meffes. The attendants on great perfonages were ranked according to the higher and lower meffes which they fat down to in the great hall. The lower meffes therefore are the inferior attendants, the courtiers of lower rank and lefs confideration. Concerning the different mees in the great families of our antient nobility. See the Houfhold Book of the 5th Earl of Northumberland. 8vo, 1770. PERCY. (P. 283.) a fad Tale's best for Winter. Hence, I fuppofe, the title of the play.

T.T.

A CROAN (p. 297.) an old toothless sheep: thence an old woman.

(P. 309.) I have got ftrength of limit.

From the following paffage in the black letter history of Titana and Thefeus (of which I have no earlier edition than that in 1636) it appears that limit was antiently used for limb.

thought it very ftrange that nature fhould endow "fo fair a face with fo hard a heart, fuch comely limits with "fuch perverse conditions." STEEVENS. (P. 340.) Fadings. An Irish dance of this name is mentioned by B. Jonfon in The Irish Masque at Court. Vol. V. P. 421, 2.

"and daunfh a fading at te wedding." Again, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Peftle, p. 416.

"I will have him dance Fading; Fading is a fine jigg.'

T. T.

GLOVES, fweet (p. 343.) In the computus of the burfars of Trinity college, Oxford, for the year 1631, the following article occurs, "Solut. pro fumigandis chirothecis." Gloves make a conftant and confiderable article of expence in the earlier accompt-books of the college here mentioned; and without doubt in those of many other focieties. They were annually given (a custom still fubfifting) to the college-tenants, and often prefented to guests of distinction. But it appears (at least, from accompts of the faid college in preceding years) that

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