the king's majestie, at the nuptialls of Lord Hay kissing-comfits were sugar-plums, perfumed u and his lady, Twelfth-day, 1607.-REED. “And smell like Bucklersbury, in simple time." Act III. Sc. 3. Bucklersbury, in the time of Shakspeare, was chiefly inhabited by druggists, who sold all kinds of herbs, green as well as dry.-STEEVENS. "Let the sky rain potatoes; hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes; let there come a tempest of pro vocation."-Act V. Sc. 5. Potatoes, when they were first introduced in England, were supposed to be strong provocatives. make the breath sweet. Eringoes, like potatoes were esteemed to be stimulatives. But Shakspeare probably, had the following artificial tempest bis thoughts, when he wrote the above pasa Holinshed informs us, that in the year 1553, for the entertainment of Prince Alasco, was performed": verie statelie tragedie, named Dido. wherein de destruction of Troie,) was lively described in 1 queen's banket (with Æneas's description of the marchpane patterne; the tempest wherein it bein small confects, rained rose-water, and snew an ertycial kind of snow, all strange, marvellous, as abundant."-STEEVENS, TWELFTH NIGHT. "Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him.” Act I. Sc. 2. When the practise of castration was adopted first, solely to improve the voice, is uncertain. The first regular opera was performed at Florence, in 1600. Till about 1653, musical dramas were only occasionally performed in the palaces of princes, and consequently before that period eunuchs could not abound. The first eunuch that was suffered to sing in the Pope's chapel was in 1600. So early, however, as 1601, eunuchs are mentioned by Marston in the Malcontent,as excelling in sing ing. "Yes, I can sing, fool, if you'll bear the burden; and I can play upon instruments scurvily, as gentlemen do. O that I had been gelded! I should then have been a fat fool for a chamber, a squeaking fool for a tavern, and a private fool for all the ladies."-MALONE. "Like a parish top."-Act I. Sc. 3. A large top was formerly kept in every village, to be whipped in frosty weather, that the peasants might be kept warm by exercise, and out of mischief when they could not work.-STEEVENS. "Mistress Mall's picture."-Act I. Sc. 3. The real name of the woman here alluded to was Mary Frith. The title she was commonly known by was Mall Cutpurse. She was at once an hermaphrodite, a prostitute, a bawd, a bully, a thief, a receiver of stolen goods, &c. On the books of the Stationer's Company, August, 1610, is entered, "A Booke called the Madde Prancks of Merry Mall of the Bankside, with her walkes in Men's Apparel, and to what purpose. Written by John Day." Middleton and Decker wrote a play called the Roaring Girl, of which she is the heroine, and the frontispiece of this drama, published in 1611, contains a full length portrait of her in man's clothes, smoking tobacco. There is a MS. in the British Museum, in which an account is given of Mall's doing penance at St. Paul's Cross. Her extravagant conduct and shameless vices seem to have rendered her infamously public. "A most weak pia-mater."—Act I. Sc. 5. The pia-mater is the membrane which immediately covers the substance of the brain. STEEVENS. "Stand at your door like a sheriffs' post." Act I. Sc. 5. It was the custom for that officer to have large posts set up at his door as an indication of his office, the original of which was, that the king's proclamations and other public acts might be affixed thereto.-WARBURTON. "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"-Act II. Se. 3. It was the custom on saint's days and days. to make cakes in honour of the day. The Puritas thought this a superstition, and Maria says, infi "Malvolio is sometimes a kind of Puritan.” LETHERLAND -“ Rub your chain with crums.”—Act II. Sc. 1. Stewards in great families were formerly distin guished by wearing a gold chain. The usual mode of cleaning this ornament was by rubbing it with bread crumbs. See Webster's Duchess of Malt "So was that chamber clad in goodly wire, STEETENS "Clown with a tabor."-Act III. Se. 1. Tarleton, the celebrated fool or clown of the stage before Shakspeare's time, is exhibited in a print prefixed to his jests, 1611, with a tabor. Perhaps, in imitation of him, the subsequent dramatic clowns usually appeared with one. MALOSE "If thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss. Act III. Sc. 2 Alluding to a passage in the speech of the afterney general Coke, at the trial of Sir Walter Rsleigh. "All that he did was by thy instigation, then viper; for I thou thee, thou traytor."-THEOBALD. "He does smile his face into more lines, than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies."-Act III. Sc. 3. A clear allusion to a map engraved for Linscheten's Voyages, an English translation of which was published in 1598. This map is multilineal in the extreme, and is the first in which the Eastern Islands are included. STEEVENS. Why dost thou smile so, and kiss thy hand so oft?" Act III. Sc. 4. This fantastical custom is taken notice of by Barnaby Rice, in Faults, and Nothing but Faults, 1606-"And these Flowers of Courtesie, as they are full of affectation, so are they no less formal in their speeches, full of fustian phrases, many times delivering such sentences as do betray and lay open their masters' ignorance: and they are so frequent with the kisse on the hand, that word shall not passe their mouthes, till they have clapt their fingers over their lippes."-REED. "He is a knight, dubb'd with unhatch'd rapier, and on carpet consideration."-Act III. Sc. 4. That is, he is no soldier by profession, not a knight-banneret, dubbed on the field of battle, but on carpet consideration, at a festivity, or on some peaceable occasion, when knights receive their dignity kneeling; not in war, but on a carpet. This is, I believe, the original of the contemptuous term, a carpet knight, who was naturally held in scorn by the men of war.-JOHNSON. "Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil." Act III. Sc. 4. In the time of Shakspeare, trunks, which are now deposited in lumber-rooms, were part of the furniture in apartments where company was received. They were richly ornamented on the top and sides with scroll work and emblematical devices, and were elevated on feet.-STEEVENS, This Egyptian thief was Thyamis, who was a native of Memphis, and at the head of a band of their hands, Thyamis fell desperately in love with robbers. Theagenes and Chariclea falling into the lady, and would have married her. Soon after, Thyamis's forty, he was in such fears for his misa stronger body of robbers coming down upon tress, that he had her shut into a cave with his treasure. It was customary with those barbarians, "when they despaired of their own safety, first to desired for companions in the next life: Thyamis, make away with those whom they held dear," and therefore, benetted round with his enemies, raging with love, jealousy, and anger, went to the cave, and calling aloud in the Egyptian tongue, as soon as he heard himself answered towards the cave's mouth by a Grecian, making to the person by the direction of the voice, he caught her by the hair with his left hand, and (supposing her to be Chariclea,) with the right hand plunged his sword into her breast. This story is taken from Heliodorus's Ethiopics, of which a translation by Thomas Underdowne appeared in 1587.—THEOBALD. "After a passy measure, or a pavin."-Act V. Sc. 1. The pavan, from pavo a peacock, is a grave and majestic dance. The method of dancing it was by gentlemen dressed with cap and sword, by those of the long robe in their gowns, by princes in their mantles, and by ladies in gowns with long trains, the motion whereof, in the dance, resembled that of a peacock's tail.-SIR J, HAWKINS, MEASURE FOR MEASURE. "Some run from brakes of vice."-Act II. Sc. 1. The brake was an engine of torture; we find the following passage in Holinshed :-"The said Hawkins was cast into the Tower, and at length brought to the brake, called in derision the Duke of Exeter's daughter;" that nobleman having invented it. A part of this horrid engine still remains in the Tower. It consists of a strong iron frame about six feet long, with three rollers of wood within it; the middle one of these, which has iron teeth at each end, is governed by two stops of iron, and was, probably, that part of the machine which suspended the powers of the rest, when the unhappy sufferer was sufficiently strained by the cords, &c. to begin confession.-STEEVENS. "Greatest thing about you.”—Act II. Sc. 1. Harrison, in his description of Britain, condemns the excess of apparel among his countrymen, and thus proceeds:- "Neither can we be more justly burdened with any reproche than inordinate behaviour in apparell, for which most nations deride us; as also for that we men doe seeme to bestowe most cost upon our arses, and much more than upon all the rest of our bodies, as women do likewise upon their heades and shoulders." Wide breeches were extremely fashionable in Shakespeare's days, as we may learn from this stanza in an old ballad: "As now, of late, in lesser thinges, To make theare bryches wyde." DOUCE. -merely, thou art death's fool; For him thou labourest by thy flight to shun, And yet run'st toward him still.' -Act III. Sc. 1. In the old Moralities, the fool of the piece, in rder to shew the inevitable approaches of death, = made to employ all his stratagems to avoid him; hich, as the matter is ordered, bring the fool at very turn into his very jaws.-WARBURTON. The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their wants by a wooden dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked, to shew that their vessel was empty.-STEEVENS. "And tie the beard."—Act IV. Sc, 2. The Revisal recommends Simpson's emendation, die the beard, but the present reading may stand. Perhaps it was usual to tie up the beard before deIt should, however, be remembered, that it was usual to die heards. So in the old comedy of Ram Alley, 1611; collation. "What colour'd beard comes next by the window? I think, a red; for that is most in fashion." And in the Silent Woman: "I have fitted my divine and canonist, dyed their beards and all." STEEVENS. You know the course is common."-Act IV. Sc. 2. P. Mathieu, in his Heroyke Life and Deplorable Ravaillac, in the midst of bis tortures, lifted up his Death of Henry the Fourthe of France, says, that head and shook a spark of fire from his beard. "This unprofitable care (he adds) to save it, being noted, afforded matter to divers to praise the custome in Germany, Switzerland, and divers other places, to shave off, and then to burn all the haire from all parts of the bodies of those who are convicted for any notorious crimes."-REED. "First, here's young master Rash; he's in for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, ninescore and seventeen pounds."-Act IV. Sc. 3. He An allusion is here made to the abominable practices of money-leaders in our poet's age, of which an account is given by Nashe in a pamphlet called Christ's Tears over Jerusalem, 1594. (a usurer) falls acquainted with gentlemen, frequents ordinaries and dancing houses dayly, where when some of them at play have lost all their money, he is very diligent at hand, on their chaines, bracelets, or jewels, to lend them half the value. Now this is the nature of young gentlemen, that where they have broke the ice, and borrowed once, they will come againe the second time; and that these young foxes know as well as the beggar knows his dish. But at the second time of their coming, it is doubtful to say whether they shall have money or no. The world goes hard, and wee all are mortal; let him make any assurance before a judge, and they shall have some hundred pound per consequence, in silks and velvets. The third time if they come, they shall have baser commodities; the fourth time, lute-strings and grey paper.” MALONE. “Shew your sheep-biting face, and be hang'd an hour." Act V. Sc. 1. The poet evidently refers to the ancient mode of MUCH ADO punishing by collistrigium, or the original pr made like that part of the pillory at present, which receives the neck, only it was placed horizontal, so that the culprit hung suspended in it by hi chin, and the back of his head. HENLEY. "Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, As much in mock as mark.”—Act V. Sc. L. Barbers' shops were at all times the resort of idle people: formerly with us the better sart e folks went to the barber's to be trimmed, whe then practised the under parts of surgery, so the he had occasion for numerous instruments, whi lay there ready for use; and the idle persons, wit whom his shop was crowded, would be perpetoly handling and misusing them. To remedy whi there was placed up against the wall a table of farfeitures, adapted to every offence of this sert which it is not likely would long preserve its a thority.-WARBURTON. ABOUT NOTHING. "At the bird-bolt.”—Act I. Sc.1. The bird-bolt is a short thick arrow without a point, and spreading at the extremity so much as to leave a flat surface about the breadth of a shilling. STEEVENS. "And he that hits_me, let him be clapped on the shoulder, and called Adam."-Act I. Sc. 1. Why should he be called Adam? A quotation or two may explain: In Law Tricks, or, Who Would Have Thought It? we find this speech: "Adam Bell, a substantial outlaw, and a passing good archer, yet no tobacconist." Adam Bell, Clyme of the Cloughe, and Wyllyam of Cloudesle, were, says Dr. Percy, three noted outlaws, whose skill in archery rendered them as famous in the north of England, as Robin Hood and his fellows were in the midland counties. STEEVENS, and THEOBALD. "If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat.” Act I. Sc. 1. In some counties of England, a cat was formerly closed up with a quantity of soot in a wooden bottle, (such as that in which shepherds carry their liquor) and was suspended on a line. He who beat out the bottom as he ran under it, and was nimble enough to escape its contents, was regarded as the hero of this inhuman diversion.-STEEVENS. -“ Smoking a musty room."-Act I. Sc. 3. The neglect of cleanliness among our ancestors rendered such precautions too often necessary. In a paper of directions drawn up by Sir John Pickering's steward relative to Suffolk Place, before Elizabeth's visits to it in 1594, the fifteenth article is, "The swetynynge of the house in all places by any meanes." Again, in Burton's Anatomie of Melancholie, 1632: The smoake of juniper is in great request with us at Oxford, to sweeten our chambers." STEEVENS. "Hundred merry tales.”—Act 2. Sc. 1. In the London Chaunticleres, 1659, this work, among others, is cried for sale by a ballad man,"The Seven wise Men of Gotham; a Hundred Merry Tales; Scoggin's Jests, &c." Of this collection there are frequent entries in the register of the Stationers' Company-STEEVENS. Carving the fashion of a new doublet.” Act II. Sc.3. "We are almost as fantastic as the English gentleman, that is painted naked, with a paire of sheares in his hand, as not being resolved after what fashion to have his coat cut."-GREENE's FAREWELL TO FOLLY, 1617 “Her hair shall be of what colour it please God." Act II. 8, 3. The practice of dying the hair was so common i fashion in Elizabeth's reign, as to be thought a fit subject of animadversion from the pulpit. I breaks out into the following invective: "Whe homily against gaudy apparel, 1547, the preacher can paynt her face, and curle her heere, and change i into an unnatural colour, but therein doth work reprofe to her Maker who made her? as thought she could make herselfe more comelye than God hati appointed the measure of her beautie. What de these women, but go about to reforme that which God hath made? not knowinge that all things turall is the worke of God; and thynges disguised and unnatural be the workes of the devyll.”—RIED. "Press me to death."—Act III. Sc. I. The allusion is to an ancient punishment of on law, called peine-fort et dure, which was formerly inflicted on those persons, who, being indicted, rethey were pressed to death by a heavy weight laid fused to plead. In consequence of their silence, on the stomach.-MALONE. "Or in the shape of two countries at once. "For an Englishman's suit is like a traitor's bodie that hath been hanged, drawne, and quartered, and is set up in several places; his codpiece is in Denmarke, the collor of his dublet and the belly in France, the wing and narrow sleeve in Italy, the short waste hangs o'er a Dutch botcher's stall in Utrich, his huge sloppes speaks Spanish: Polonia gives him the bootes; and thus we mocke eurie nation for keeping one fashion, yet steale patches from eurie one of them, to peece out our pride, and are now laughing-stocks to them, be cause their cut so scurvily becomes us."-SEVEN DEADLIE SINNES OF LONDON, 1606. "Have a care that your bills be not stolen." A bill is still carried by the watchmen at Lichfield. It was the old weapon of the English infantry, which, says Temple, gave the most ghastly and deplorable wounds. JOHNSON. "Side-sleeves."—Act III. Sc. 4. "This time was used exceeding pride in gar-{ ments, gowns with deepe and broad sleeves, comonly called poke sleeves; the servants ware them as well as their masters, which might well have been called the receptacles of the devil, for what they stole they hid in their sleeves, whereof some hung downe to the feete, and at least to the knees, 11 of cuts and jagges, whereupon were made these ously long, which was called a love-lock. Fynes erses (by Tho. Hoccleve): "Now hath this lande little neede of broomes, STOW'S CHRONICLE. Moryson, in his account of Lord Montjoy's dress, "That his haire was thinne on the beade, says, where he wore it short, except a locke under his left ear, which he nourished the time of the warre, and being woven up, hid it in his necke under his ruffe." When he was not on service, he probably wore it in a different fashion. The portrait of Sir Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset, painted by Vandyke, exhibits this lock, with a large knotted ribband at In Shakspeare's age, fashionable persons of the the end of it; it hangs under the ear on the left ale sex wore ear-rings; there was also a silly side, and reaches as low as where the star is now ustom of wearing a single lock of hair preposter-worn by knights of the garter.-MALONE. He wears a key in his ear, , and a lock hanging by it." MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. "Your eyes are lode-stars."-Act I. Sc. 1. This was a compliment not unfrequent among the old poets. The lode-star is the leading or guiding tar, that is, the pole-star. The magnet is for the same reason called the lode-stone, either because it eads iron, or because it guides the sailor. "Gawds."-Act I. Sc. 1. JOHNSON. In the north, a gawd is a child's plaything, and a baby-house is called a gawdy-house. "Or to her death; according to our law." Act I. Sc. 1. By a law of Solon's, parents had an absolute power of life and death over their children. "Robin Goodfellow."-Act II. Sc. 1. "Your grandame's maids were wont to set a bowl of milk for him, for his pains in grinding malt and mustard, and sweeping the house at midnight; this white bread and bread and milk was his standing fee."-Discoverie of WITCHCRAFT, 1584. "Puck."-Act II. Sc. 1. In the Fairy Mythology, Puck, or Hobgoblin, was = the trusty servant of Oberon, and always em=ployed to watch or detect the intrigues of queen Mab. Mab has an amour with Pigwiggen: Obe=*ron being jealous, sends Puck to catch them, and one of Mab's nymphs opposes him by a spell. In Drayton's Nymphidia, we find a close resemblance to much of the fairy machinery employed by Shakspeare in this play. JOHNSON. “ In maiden meditation fancy free.”—Act II. Sc. 2. Thus in Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment in Suffolke and Norfolke, written by Churchyard, Chastity deprives Cupid of his bow, and presents it to her majesty and bycause that the queene had chosen the best life, she gave the queene Cupid's bow, to learne to shoote at whome she pleased; since none could wound her highnesse hart, it was meete (said Chastitie,) that she should do with Cupid's bowe and arrowes what she pleased." STEEVENS. "God shield us! a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing."-Act III. Sc. I. 66 a There is an odd coincidence between what our author has here written for Bottom, and a real occurrence at the Scottish court, in 1594.-Prince Henry, the eldest son of James I., was christened in August in that year. While the king and queen were at dinner, a triumphal chariot, with several allegorical personages on it, was drawne in by black-moore. This chariot should have been drawne in by a lyon, but because his presence might have brought some feare to the nearest, or that the sight of the lighted torches might have commoved his tameness, it was thought meete that the Moore should supply that room."-A true Account of the most triumphal and royal Accom plishment of the Baptism of the most excellent right high, and mighty Prince, Henry Frederick &c. as it was solemnized, the 30th of August, 1594. 8vo. 1603.-MALONE. "Of hind'ring knot-grass made.”—Act III. Sc. 2. It appears that knot-grass was anciently supposed to prevent the growth of any animal or child. Beaumont and Fletcher mention this property of it in the Knight of the Burning Pestle:"Should they put him into a straight pair of gaskins, 'twere worse than knot-grass; he would never grow after it."-STEEVENS. "Thou painted may-pole.”—Act III. Sc. 2. "Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, In heraldry, every branch of a family is called a house, and none but the first of the first house can bear the arms of the family without some distinction. Two of the first, therefore, means two coats of the first house, which are properly due but to one.-MASON. "The rite of May."-Act IV. Sc. 1. The rite of this month was once so universally observed, that even authors thought their works would obtain a more favourable reception, if published on May-day. The following is the title-page to a metrical performance by a once celebrated poet, Thomas Churchyard : "Come bring in Maye with me, A subiect's haste, an humble mind, "A Discourse of Rebellion, drawne forthe for to warne the wanton wittes how to kepe their heads on their shoulders. Imprinted at London, in Fletestreet, by William Griffith, Anno Domini 1570. The first of Maye."-STEEVENS. "The tongs."-Act IV. Sc. 1. The old rustic music of the tongs and key. The folio has this stage direction:-" Musicke tongs, Rurall Musicke."-STEEVENS. "Dian's bud, o'er Cupid's flower."-Act IV. Sc. 1. "Good strings to your beards."—Act IV. Sc. 2. As no false beard could be worn without a ligature to fasten it on, Bottom's caution must mean more than the mere security of his comrade's beards. The good strings he recommends, were probably ornamental, and employed to give an air of novelty to the countenances of the performers. Thus, in Measure for Measure, (where the natural beard is spoken of,) the Duke, intent on disfiguring the head of Ragozine, says, "O, death's a great disguiser; and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard."-STEEVENS. "To the best bride-bed will we, Which by us shall blessed be."-Act V. Sc. 2. We learn from articles ordained by Henry VIII. for the regulation of his household, that the ceremony of blessing the bridal bed was thus observed at the marriage of a princess: "All men at her LOVE'S coming in to bee voided, except woemen, till she bee brought to her bedd; and the man both, le sitting in his bedd in his shirte, with a gown chi about him. Then the bishoppe, with the chaplaas. to come in and bless the bedd; then everie man v avoide without any drinke, save the twoe estates if they liste, privilie." A similar ceremony was performed at all marriages in that age.—STEEVES. "Hare-lip."-Act V. Sc.2. This defect in children seems to have been s much dreaded, that numerous were the charms plied for its prevention. The following might as efficacious as any of the rest: "If a woman with chylde have her smocke slyt at the neather ende or skyrt thereof, &c. the same chylde that she the goeth withall, shall be safe from having a cove or hare lippe." Thomas Lupton's Fourth Book Notable Things. STEEVENS. LABOUR'S LOST. "The dancing horse."-Act I. Sc. 2. A horse taught by one Bankes, to play many singular tricks. Sir Walter Raleigh, in his History of the World, says: "If Bankes had lived in older times, he would have shamed all the enchanters in the world; for whosoever was most famous amongst them could never master or instruct any beast as he did his horse." And Sir Kenelm Digby, observes, "That his horse would restore a glove to the due owner, after the master had whispered the man's name in his ear; would tell the just number of pence in any piece of silver coin newly showed him by his master; and even obey presently his command, in discharging himself of his excrements, whensoever he had bade him." Among other exploits of this celebrated beast, it is said, that he went up to the top of St. Paul's. His end and his master's was tragical : Travelling in France, Bankes excited the anger of the priests, and only escaped its effects, in the manner following: Bankes came into suspition of magicke, because of the strange feates which his horse Morocco plaied at Orleance; where he, to redeem his credit, promised to manifest to the world that his horse was nothing lesse than a devill. To this end, he commanded his horse to seeke out one in the preasse of the people who had a crucifix in his hat; which done, he bade him kneele down unto it; and not this only, but also to rise up againe, and kisse it. And now, gentlemen (quoth he), I thinke my horse hath acquitted both me and himselfe; and so his adversaries rested satisfied; conceiving (as it might seeme,) that the divell had no power to come neare the crosse." In Italy, however, they were less fortunate, since at Rome, to the disgrace of the age, of the country, and of humanity, they were burnt by order of the Pope, for magicians. "Here, good my glass.”—Aet IV. Sc. 1. To understand how the princess has her glass so ready at hand in a common conversation, it must be remembered, that in those days it was the fashist among the French ladies to wear a looking glass, Bayle coarsely represents it, on their bellies; that is, to have a small mirror set in gold hanging at their girdle, by which they occasionally viewed their faces, or adjusted their hair.-JOHNSON. "But, sir, I assure ye, it was a buck of the first head, ·’twas a pricket.—Act IV. St. 2 In the Return from Parnassus, 1606, we ind the following account of the different appellations of deer, at their different ages:-"I caused the keeper to sever the rascal deer from the backs of "The hobby-horse is forgot."-Act III. Sc. 1. the first head. Now, sir, a buck is, the first year, a In the celebration of May-day, besides the sports fawn; the second year, a pricket; the third year, 4 now used of hanging a pole with garlands, and sorrell; the fourth year, a soare; the fifth, a back dancing round it, formerly a boy was dressed up, of the first head; the sixth year, a compleate buck. representing Maid Marian; another like a friar; Likewise your hart is, the first year, a calf; the and another rode on a hobby-horse, with bells jing-second year, a brochet; the third year, a spade; the ling and painted streamers. After the Reformation took place, and precisians multiplied, these latter rites were looked upon to savour of paganism, and Maid Marian, the friar, and the poor hobby-horse, were turned out of the games.-THEOBALD. "A woman that is like a German clock.” Act III. Sc. 1. In a book called The Artificial Clockmaker, 1714, we find the following remarks:-" Clock-making was supposed to have had its beginning in Germany within less than these two hundred years. fourth year, a stag; the sixth year, a hart. A re buck is, the first year, a kid; the second year, a girl; the third year, a hemuse; and these are your special beasts for chase."-STEEVENS. "He comes in like a perjure.”—Act IV. Sc. 3. Perjury was punished by affixing a paper to the breast, expressing the crime. Holinshed says of Wolsey, he so punished a perjurie with open punishment, and open papers wearing, that in his time it was less used." Again, in Leicester's Commonwealth : "The gentlemen were all taken |