thereof, (namely, of the riot) "which certification fhould be of "the like force as the prefent"ment of twelve: upon which "certificate, the trefpaffers and "offenders, fhall be put to anfwer, and they, which be "found guilty, fhall be punish"ed according to the difcretion "of the king and counselle.” Dr. GRAY. P. 454. Slender. How does your fallow greyhound? I heard Jay he was outrun on Cotfale.] Cotswold, a village in Worcesterfhire, or Warwickshire, was famous for rural exercises and fports of all forts. Falstaff, or Shallow, in another place, talks of a flout fellow, "Coifwold man, "i. e. one who was a native of this very place, fa famous for tryals "of ftrength, activity, &c. and confequently, a robaft athletic "perfon." I have feen a poem, or rather a collection of poems, which, I think, is called, The Cotfwold mufe, containing a defcription of these games. 66 ibid. Piftol. How now Mephistophilus] This is the name of a fpirit, or familiar, in the old story book of Sir John Fauftus, or John Fauft. Mr. WARTON. P. 463. Let me fee thee froth and live.] This paffage has paffed through all the editions without fufpicion of being corrupted; but the reading of the old quartos of 1602, and 1619, Let me fee the froth and lyme, I take to be the true one. The hot calls for an immediate specimen of Bardolph's abilities, as a tapfter; and frothing beer and lim ing fack were tricks in practice in Shakespeare's time; the one was done by putting foap into the bot tom of the tankard, when they drew the beer; the other, by mixing lime with the fack (i. e. fherry) to make it fparkle in the glass. Froth and live is fenfe; but a little forced; and to make it so, we must suppose the hoft could guess, by his skill in doing the former, how he would fucceed in the world. Falstaff himself complains of limed fack. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 464. The anchor is deep.] Nym, in this place, does not mean that Mrs. Ford refembles a fhip's anchor, but a cafk called an anchor, which fmugglers make use of to this day, for the convenience of carrying their brandy on horfes; and fays, the anchor is deep, in answer to Falftaff's expreffion, that he Spies entertainment in ber; for what greater entertainment could Nym have an idea of, than was to be found in a deep anchor, provided the liquor it contained was to his tafte. The word is generally spelt anchor. Chambers fays it is a meature chiefly used at Amfterdam, and spells it from the Dutch word anker. The remarks the two characters make on Falstaff's report, are the most proper that could be put into their mouths. Piftol, who affects to borrow phrases from literature, fays, he hath ftudied her will, and tranflated her out of bonefly into English. Nym, whofe turn it is to speak next, and who loved hard drinking better better than any thing elfe, borrows an allufion from it, and fays, the anchor is deep. Mr. STEEVENS. I do not think this right. P. 467.-Revolt of mien.] This quaint expreffion, in the mouth of Nym, feems to imply no more than one of the effects he has juft afcribed to jealoufy. He fays, he will poffefs him with yef lowness, and furely revolt of mien, or change of countenance, is one of the firft fymptoms of being affected by that paffion. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 468. Simple. He hath but a little wee face.] Wee in the Northern dialect, fignifies very little. "The quene aftonyft ane little e "At the first ficht, behalding "his bewte." Gavin Douglass's Virgil, p. 32. edit. 1710. Dr. GRAY. P. 468. And vetch me in my clefet un boitier verd.] Boitier, in French, fignifies a cafe of furgeon's inftruments. Dr. GRAY. P. 484. Falstaff. (To Nym and Piftol.) Go, go, a short knife and a thong to your manor of Picthatch.] Part of the employment given by Drayton, in the Mooncalf, to the Baboon, feems the fame with this recommended by Falstaff. He like a giffy oftentimes would And with a flick, a fhort firing, and a loofe, thong. Would fbew the people tricks at faft and loose. Theobald has throng instead of The latter feems right. Mr. LANGTON P. 504. We bave finger'd, &c.] The expreffion of having ger'd, in this place, feems to mean no more than that Slender has been backward in his own addreffes, as indeed he may be allowed to have been, as he never ventured further in his first interview, than to recommend himself obliquely to his mistress; and he had declared before, that if he married her, it would be at the request of Shallow, not promifing himself any great degree of happiness, from the part his own love would have in the affair. Shallow fays, We have, fpeaking in his own perfon, as well as for his friend. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 526. In the note for lanes read lunes. P. 547. Falstaff. Divide me like a bribe-buck, each a haunch, I will keep my fides for myself, my fhoulders for the fellow of this walk.] To the keeper the shoulders and humbles belonging as a perquifite. Dr. GRAY. Mr. Reynolds is of opinion that by the fellow of this walk is meant Herne the hunter. P. 554. In the note, for intelligible, read unintelligible. NOTES P. NOTES to the THIRD VOLUME. 5. BRACH Merriman, the poor cur is embost, And couple Clouder with the deep mouth'd BRACH.] Here, fays Pope, brach fignifies a de generate hound: But Edwards explains it a hound in general That the latter of thefe criticks is right, will appear from the ufe of the word brach in Sir J. More's Comfort against Tribulation, book iii, ch. 24. "Here it "must be known of fome men "that can skill of hunting, whe"ther that we mistake not our "terms, for then we are utterly afhamed, as ye wott well."And I am fo cunning, that I "cannot tell, whether among "them a bitche be a bitche or no; "but as I remember the is no "bitche but a brache." The meaning of the latter part of the paragraph feems to be, "I am fo "little fkilled in hunting, that "I can hardly tell whether a "bitch be a bitch or not: my judgment goes no further "than just to direct me to call "either dog or bitch by their general name Hound." I am aware that Spelman acquaints his reader, that brache was used in his days for a lurcher, and that Shakespeare himself has made it a dog of a particular fpecies Mafiff greyhound, mungrill grim, Hound or Spaniel, brache or bym. K. LEAR, at iii. fc. v. But it is manifeft from the paffage of More just cited, that it was fometimes applied in a ge neral fenfe, and may therefore be fo understood in the paffage before us; and it may be added, that brache appears to be used in the fame fenfe, by Beaumont and Fletcher." A. Is that your Bro"ther? E, Yes: have you loft your memory? A, As I live he " is a pretty fellow: 7, Othis is "afweet brache!" Scornful Lady, act i. fc. i. Inftead of brache, Hanmer reads, leech Merriman. Mr. WARTON. The old reading may ftand. Loud larums, neighing feeds, and trumpets clang?] Probably the word clang is here ufed adjec tively, as in the Paradife Loft, b. xi. v. 829, and not as a verb. An ifland falt and bare, much inall.] The old reading was right, his land amounted but to fo much, but he supplied the deficiency with an Argofie, or ship of great value. REVISAL P. 52. Paft cure of the fives.] So called in the Western part of England. Vives elsewhere, and avives by the French, A diftemper in horfes, little differing from the ftrangles. Id. ib. Infected with the fashions,] So called in the Weft Weft of England, but by the beft writers on farriery, farcins, or farcy. Dr. GRAY. P. 61. Be the Jacks fair within, the Jills fair without.] Dr. Warburton feems to have made one blunder here, while he is cenfuring Sir T. H. for another. Warburton explains it thus, Are the drinking veffels clean, and the maids dreft? Hanmer alters the text thus, Are the Jacks fair without, the Jills fair within? This feems to mean, Are the men, who are waiting without the houfe, for my mafter, drefs'd, and the maids, who are waiting within, drefs'd too? The joke here intended is only a play upon the words of Jack and Jill, which fignify two drinking meafures, as well as men and maids; the diftinction made in the question concerning thèm was owing to this; the jacks being made of leather, could not be made to appear beautiful on the outfide, but were very apt to contract foulnefs within; whereas the jills, being of pewter, were to be kept bright on the outfide, and, as they were of metal, were not liable to dirt on the infide, like the leather. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 64. In the note, dele good. P. 99. For nevel narrative, read real narrative. P. 116. I fee the jewel beft enamel'd, &c.] The ReviSal reads thus, -Yet the gold 'bides ftill That-others touch, though often touching will To draw dry-foot, is when the dog purfues the game by the fcent of their foot; for which the blood-hound is famed. Dr. GRAY. P. 175. -challeng'd Cupid at the bird boit.] To challenge at the bird bolt, does not feem to mean the fame as to challenge at children's archery with small arrows, fuch as are discharged at birds, but means, as Benedi& had dared Cupid to the ufe of his own arrows, which we fuppofe to be the most pointed and mischievous of any in the world, the fool, to laugh at him, accepts the challenge for Cupid, but proposes the ufe of bird bolts in their room, which are fhort thick arrows of about a foot long, and have no points, but spread near the end, fo as to leave a flat furface of about the fize of a fhilling, and are to this day in ufe to kill rooks with, and are hot from a crofs bow. Tho' lady Olivia oppofes a bird bolt to a cannon, fhe does not furely mean to compare the lighteft with the heaviest of weapons, becaufe a bird bolt is not light enough to allow of the comparifon. There are figns in London where the shape of the bolt is preferved. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 190. In the note, for trifling, read trying. P. 192. Speak low if you speak love.] This fpeech, which is given to Pedro, fhould be given to Margaret. REVISAL. P. 206. Pedro. See where you Benedick bath hid hinflf? Claudio. Very well my Lord, the mufick ended, we'll fit the kidfox with a penni-worth.] i. e. we will be even with the fox, now difcovered. So the word. kid, or kidde, fignifies in Chaucer, "The fothfaftnefs that now is hid, "Without coverture fhall be "kid. "When I undoen have this dreming." Romaunt of the Rofe, 2171, &c. "Perceiv'd or thew'd. "Out of the place where he was hidde, 66 "His malice in his cheere 86 was kidde." Romaunt of the Rose, 2130. Dr. GRAY: · P. 267. Those that flew thy virgin knight.] In the old books of chivalry a virgin knight fignifies one who had yet atchieved no adventure. Hero had certainly atchieved no matrimonial one. Mr. STEEVENS, P. 283.fome ftain of foldier.] Stain, for colour. Parolles was in red, as appears from his being afterwards called, red-tailed humble bee. WARBURTON. It does not appear from either of thefe expreffions, that Parolles was entirely dreft in red. Shakespeare writes only some stain of foldier, meaning he had only red breeches on, which is fufficiently evident, from calling him afterwards red-tailed humble bee. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 297. For Surplus, read fur- plice. P. 309. medicine That's able to breath life into a fione, Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary.] Mr. Richard Broome, in his comedy, intitled, The City Wit, or The Woman wears the Breeches, act iv. fc. i. mentions this among other dances. "As for corantoes, voltos, "jigs, measures, pavins, brawls, galliards, or canaries; I speak |