WOR. Nay, if you have not, to't again; We'll stay your leisure. Hor. I have done, i'faith. Which I fhall fend you written,—be affur'd, [TO NORTHUMBERLAND. Of that fame noble prelate, well belov'd, Hor. Of York, is't not? WOR. True; who bears hard His brother's death at Briftol, the lord Scroop. As what I think might be, but what I know Hor. I smell it; upon my life, it will do well. Hor. Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot :And then the power of Scotland, and of York,To join with Mortimer, ha? 7 I fpeak not this in eftimation,] Eftimation for conjecture. WARBURTON. "let'ft flip.] To let flip, is to loofe the greyhound. So, in The Taming of a Shrew: JOHNSON. "Lucentio flipp'd me, like his greyhound." STEEVENS. WOR. And fo they fhall. 8 Hor. In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd. To make us ftrangers to his looks of love. 2 WOR. Coufin, farewell:-No further go in this, Than I by letters fhall direct your course. When time is ripe, (which will be fuddenly,) I'll fteal to Glendower, and lord Mortimer; Where you and Douglas, and our powers at once, (As I will fashion it,) fhall happily meet, To bear our fortunes in our own ftrong arms, Which now we hold at much uncertainty. NORTH. Farewell, good brother: We shall thrive, I trust. Hor. Uncle, adieu :-O, let the hours be short, Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport! [Exeunt. by raifing of a head:] A head is a body of forces. So, in King Henry VI, P. III: JOHNSON, Making another head, to fight again." STEEVENS. 9 The king will always &c.] This is a natural description of the ftate of mind between thofe that have conferred, and those that have received obligations too great to be fatisfied. That this would be the event of Northumberland's disloyalty, was predicted by King Richard in the former play. JOHNSON. 2 Coufin,] This was a common address in our author's time to nephews, nieces, and grandchildren. See Holinfhed's Chronicle, paffim. Hotspur was Worcester's nephew. MALONE. Enter a Carrier, with a lantern in his hand. I CAR. Heigh ho! An't be not four by the day, I'll be hang'd: Charles' wain' is over the new chimney, and yet our horse not pack'd. What, oftler! Osr. [Within.] Anon, anon. I CAR. I pry'thee, Tom, beat Cut's faddle, put a few flocks in the point; the poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cefs." Enter another Carrier. 6 2 CAR. Peafe and beans are as dank here as a 3 Charles' wain-] Charles's wain is the vulgar name given to the conftellation called the Bear. It is a corruption of the Chorles or Churls wain (Sax. ceonl, a countryman.) RITSON. See alfo Thorefby's Leeds, p. 268. REED. Chorl is frequently ufed for a countryman in old books. "Here begynneth the chorle and the byrde," printed for Wynkyn de Worde. See also the Gloffaries of Skinner and Junius, v. Churl. DOUCE -Cut's faddle,] Cut is the name of a horse in The Witches of Lancashire, 1634, and, I fuppofe, was a common one. See Vol. IV. p. 67, n. 3. MALONE. STEEVENS. out of all cefs.] i. e. out of all measure: the phrafe being taken from a cefs, tax, or fubfidy; which being by regular and moderate rates, when any thing was exorbitant, or out of measure, it was faid to be, out of all cefs. WARBURTON. 6 ——as dank-] i. e. wet, rotten. POPE. In the directions given by Sir Thomas Bodley, for the prefervation of his library, he orders that the cleanfer thereof fhould, dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this houfe is turn'd upfide down, fince Robin oftler died. I CAR. Poor fellow! never joy'd fince the price of oats rofe; it was the death of him. 2 CAR. I think, this be the most villainous houfe in all London road for fleas : I am ftung like a tench.8 I CAR. Like a tench? by the mass, there is ne'er a king in Chriftendom could be better bit than I have been fince the first cock. "at least twice a quarter, with clean cloths, ftrike away the duft and moulding of the books, which will not then continue long with it; now it proceedeth chiefly of the newness of the forrels, which in time will be lefs and lefs dankish." Reliquiæ Bodleianæ, p. 111. 7 bots:] Are worms in the ftomach of a horse. REED. JOHNSON. "The bottes is an yll disease, and they lye in a horse mawe; and they be an inche long, white coloured, and a reed heed, and as moche as a fyngers ende; and they be quycke and stycke fafte in the mawe fyde: it apperethe by ftampynge of the horse or tomblynge; and in the beginninge there is remedy ynoughe; and if they be not cured betyme, they wyll eate thorough his mawe and kvil hvm. Fits her Reen 2 CAR. Why, they will allow us ne'er a jorden, and then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach. CAR. What, oftler! come away, and be hang’d, come away. 2 CAR. I have a gammon of bacon, and two razes of ginger,2 to be delivered as far as Charingcrofs. 9 -breeds fleas like a loach.] The loach is a very small In As you like it, Jaques fays that he "can fuck melancholy out "A flave whofe gall coins flanders like a mint," he means, that his gall coined flanders as fait as a mint coins A paffage in Coriolanus likewife may be produced in fupport of I entirely agree with Mr. M. Mafon in his explanation of this THEOBALD. and two razes of ginger,] So, in the old anonymous play of Henry V: he hath taken the great raze of ginger, that bouncing Befs, &c. was to have had." A dainty race of ginger хх XX I fear the foregoing ingenious explanation we must give way to a circumstance recorded in the ninth book of Pring's Nalmol History (47 to on this XX referred bed by myth by mesireens are given to breed fleas and live; among f hind of Tingot is one " wch The Chaless A Reed |