Chapter VIII: Part 8

Those bylles moued the people (whan the daye came) to come thyther thycke and threfolde. Now he had hyred two men to stande at the gate with a boxe (as the facion is), who toke of euery persone that came in a peny, or an halfe peny at the least. So whan he thought the market was at the best, he came to the gate, and toke from the men[327] the boxe with money, and geuynge theym their duitie, bade them go into the hall, and see the rome kepte: for hee shoulde gooe and fetche in the plaiers. They went in, and he went out, and lockt the gate faste, and toke the key with hym: and gat hym on hys geldynge, whiche stode ready saddilled without Aldryshegate[328] at an In,[329] and towarde Barnet he roade apace. The people taryed from twoo a clocke tyll three, from three to foure, styll askyng and criyng: Whan shall the plaie begyn? How long shall we tarye? Whan the clocke stroke foure, all the people murmured and sayed: Wherefore tarye we any longer? Here shall be no playe. Where is the knaue, that hath beguyled vs hyther? It were almes to[330] thruste a dagger throughe hys chekes, sayeth one. It were well done to cutte of hys eares, sayeth an other. Haue hym to Newgat! sayeth one: nay, haue hym to Tyburne! sayed an other. Shall wee loose our money thus, saieth he? Shall wee bee thus beguiled, sayeth this man? shulde this be suffered, saieth that man? And so muttrynge and chydyng, they came to the gate to goe oute; but they coulde not. For it was faste lockt, and Qualitees had the key away with him. Now begynne they a freshe to fret and fume: nowe they swere and stare: now they stampe and threaten: for the locking in greeued them more than all the losse and mockery before: but all auayle not. For there muste they abide, till wayes may be founde to open the gate, that they maye goe out. The maidens that shoulde haue dressed theyr maisters suppers, they wepe and crye; boyes and prentises sorow and lament; they wote not what to say, whan thei come home.

For al this foule araye,
For al this great frai,
Qualites is mery ridyng on his waie.[331]

FOOTNOTES:

[324] Perhaps this, like Makeshift, was merely intended as a phrase to disguise the real name of the person intended.

[325] Northumberland _Alley_ was in Fenchurch Street, and was notorious for bowling-greens, gaming-houses, &c. Probably this is the locality intended. See Cunningham's _Handbook to London_. 596 edit. 1848.

[326] _i.e._ a burlesque play.

[327] Orig. and Singer read _man_.

[328] Aldersgate. In the _Ordinary_, by W. Cartwright, Moth the Antiquary says:--

"Yclose by _Aldersgate_ there dwelleth one Wights clypen _Robert Moth_; now _Aldersgate_ Is hotten so from one that _Aldrich_ hight; Or else of Elders, that is, ancient men; Or else of Aldern trees which growden there; Or else, as Heralds say, from _Aluredus_."

[329] Inns were not so plentiful at this time as they afterward became. Perhaps the establishment here referred to was the celebrated _Bell_ Inn, which was still standing in the time of James the First, and which is mentioned by Taylor the Water-Poet in his _Penniless Pilgrimage_, 1618 (_Works_, 1630, i. 122):--

"At last I took my latest leave, thus late At the Bell Inn, that's _extra_ Aldersgate."

[330] _i.e._ it were a charity to thruste, &c. The original and Singer have, "it were almes _it_ thruste."

[331] In the original this is printed as prose, perhaps to economize space. _Array_, or _araye_, as it is here spelled, signifies obviously disturbance or clamour. So in the _History of King Arthur_, 1634, Part iii. cap. 134:--"So in this rumour came in Sir Launcelot, and found them all at a great aray;" and the next chapter commences with, "Aha! what aray is this? said Sir Launcelot."

¶ _How the image of the dyuell was lost and sought._ cxxxiiii.

¶ In the Goldesmithes hall, amonge theyr other plate, they had a fair standyng cuppe, with an image of S. Dunstane on the couer, whiche image hadde an image of the dyuell at his foote.[332] So it chaunced at a banket that the sayed image of the dyuell was lost and gone. On the morow after, the bedyll of the company was sent about to serche amonge the goldesmythes, if any suche came to be sold. And lyke as of other[333] he enquired of one, if any man had brought to hym to be solde the foole that sate at sainct Dunstanes foote vpon the couer of the cuppe? What foole meane you? quoth he. Mary, the diuell, sayde the bedill. Why, quoth the other, call ye the diuell a foole; ye shal find him a shrewd foole, if ye haue ought to do with hym? And why seke you for him here amonge vs? Where shoulde I els seke for hym? (sayde the bedill). Mary in hell, quoth he, for there ye shall be sure to fynde the dyuell.

FOOTNOTES:

[332] Probably the cup bequeathed by Sir Martin Bowes to the Goldsmiths' Company, and still preserved, is here meant. See Cunningham's _Handbook of London_, art. _Goldsmiths' Hall_, and for some account of the Bowes family, which intermarried with that of D'Ewes, see _Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes_, ii. 17, 18. It seems to have been a rather common practice formerly to engrave figures of Saints, representations of the Passion, &c. on the bottom of drinking cups.--See Rowlands' _Knave of Clubbs_, 1600. (Percy Soc. repr. p. 64.)

[333] In the same manner that he inquired of others, &c.

¶ _Of Tachas, kyng of Aegypt, and Agesilaus._ cxxxv.

¶ What tyme Agesilaus, king of the Lacedemonians, was come to Tachas the kyng of Egipt, to aide him in his wars: Tachas beholdyng Agesilaus to bee a man of so litel stature and smal personage tauntyng hym with this scoffe, sayde: The mountayne hath trauayled, Iupiter forbode, but yet hee hathe broughte forth a mouse.[334] Agesilaus beynge offended wyth hys saying, answered: and yet the tyme wyl come, that I shall seeme to the a Lyon. And not longe after, it chaunced through a sedycion that arose amonge the Aegypcyans, whan Agesilaus was gone from him, the king was constreyned to flee to the Persians.

FOOTNOTES:

[334] This is related differently in Plutarch. "Now _Agesilaus_ being arrived in ÆGYPT, all the chiefe Captaines and Governors of King _Tachos_ came to the seashore, and honourably received him: and not they onely, but infinite numbers of Ægyptians of all sorts ... came thither from all parts to see what manner of man he was. But when they saw no stately traine about him, but an olde gray-beard layed on the grasse by the sea side, a litle man that looked simply of the matter, and but meanely apparelled in an ill-favored thread-bare gowne: they fell a-laughing at him, remembring the merry tale, that a mountaine," &c.--North's _Plutarch_, edit 1603, fol. 629-30.

¶ _Of Corar the Rhetorician, and Tisias hys scoler._ cxxxvi.

¶ A certayne man called Corar, determyned hym selfe for mede[335] to teache the arte of Rhetorycke, with whom a yong man, named Tisias, couenanted on this wyse, that he wold pay him his wages, whan he had perfectly learned the scyence. So whan he had lerned the art, he made no haste to paye his teacher, wherfore hys mayster sued hym. Whan they came before the iudges, the yonge man demaunded of hys mayster, what was the effecte of the scyence? He aunswered: In reasonyng to perswade.[336] Than go to, if I perswade these honourable iudges that I owe you nothing, I wil pay you nothyng: for you are cast in your action. And yf I can not perswade them, than wil I pay you nothing, because I haue not yet perfectly learned the art. Corar wrestyng[337] the yonge mans owne argumente agaynst hym selfe, said: If thou perswade them, that thou oughteste[338] me nothynge, than (accordynge to the couenaunt) thou must nedes pay mee my wages: for thou haste the art perfectly. Now yf thou canst not perswade them: yet shalt thou pay mee my wages, because thou arte condemned by the Iudges' sentence to be my detour.

FOOTNOTES:

[335] Remuneration.

[336] To persuade by reasoning.

[337] Turning by force of ingenuity.

[338] Owed.

¶ _Of Augustus and Athenodorus the Phylosopher._ cxxxvii.

¶ What tyme Athenodorus the Phylosopher had (by reason of hys greate age) obteyned lycence of Auguste to depart home, he admonysshed him, that beyng angry, he should neyth saye nor dooe any thyng, before he had by hym selfe rehearsed ouer the xxiiii Greeke letters. Whych saying whan the prince heard, he sayed: he had yet nede of him to teache hym the arte to keepe sylence, by coloure whereof he retayned the olde man about hym a whole yere longer.

By this tale we maie perceyue, that of al things a prince, a ruler, a iudge ought specyally to eschewe wrathe. For the morall booke sayeth: Anger troubleth the mynde, that it can not discerne the truth. And Seneca wryteth, that slowe tarryinge doeth profite in nothyng but in wrathe.

¶ _Of the frenche kyng and the brome seller._[339] cxxxviii.

¶ As a Frenche kyng on a tyme was in huntyng, he hapned to lose his companie, and comyng through a brome heath, he herde a poore man and his wife piteously complayne on fortune. The kyng, after he had wel heard the long lamentacion of theyr poore and miserable state, came vnto them, and after a few words he questioned with them howe they liued. They shewed him, how they came daily to that heath, and all the brome, that thei and their asse coud cary home, was lyttell enough to finde theim and their poor children meat. Well (quoth the kyng), loke that you bryng to morow early to the court gate as many bromes as you and your asse can carye, and see that you sell them well. For I warrant you thei shalbe bought apase. They thanked hym, and so he departed from them. Anon came the lordes, knightes, and gentilmen to the kinge, and home they rode. After supper the kyng called them all before hym, and gaue them in commaundement that neither lord, knyght, nor gentilman, should on the morow come into the courte wythout a new brome in his hande. For he had a thyng to doe, whiche they shoulde know afterwarde. So on the morowe, whan they come to the court gate, there found they the poore man, his wife and the asse, loded with bromes, whiche hee solde to the galauntes of the court, euen as he wolde him selfe. Wherby the sayd poore man was made riche for euer and they lyttell the woorse. Thus whan the kynge sawe the states and gentilmen of his court come in so wel furnished with grene bromes, and consydring the cause wherfore it was, he laughed merilye.

FOOTNOTES:

[339] See Lane's _Arabian Tales and Anecdotes_, 1845, p. 73, for a story similar to this.

¶ _An other tale of the same frenche kyng._[340] cxxxix.

¶ There chaunced, in a certaine part of the realme, an offyce to fal into the kings handes by the deth of a man which was worth a cccc crounes by the yere. An honest witty gentilman, dwelling therby, trustyng to obteyne the sayde offyce, made as good speede to the courte as hee could, and as soone as he might come to the kynges presence, he kneled downe, and in most humble wise desired his grace to geue vnto hym that offyce, declaring what it was. The king perceiuing how good an office it was, and thinking therwith to rewarde some suche one of hys seruauntes, that had well deserued it, answered quickely, and sayd: My frend, be content; you get it not. The gentilman, heryng those wordes, sayd: I most hertely thancke your grace; both I and myne are mooste bounden to praye for your hyghnesse;--and so, makynge lowe obeysaunce, wente his waye. Whan he had gone a lyttell waye, the kyng commaunded to call hym againe. Whan he was come backe, the kyng asked him if he dyd well vnderstand, what answere he gaue hym. Yes, truely, sayd the gentilman. What sayd I, quoth the kynge? Marye, your grace bad me bee contente, for I shoulde not haue the offyce. Why dyd you than (quoth the kyng) geue me so great thankes? Because, sayde the gentylman, your grace gaue me so sone an answere without longer suite and losse of tyme, whiche would haue bene to me a very muche hyndraunce. For I haue at home a great householde, vnto the which it behoueth me to loke dylygently, or els it wyl be wrong wyth me. The kynge, markynge well the wysedom and dexterytee of the gentylman, and conceyuyng a fauoure towarde hym, sayd: Wel, nowe shal you thanke me twyse: for you shall haue the offyce that you sewe for: and than, castynge hys eyes vpon hys Chauncelloure, commaunded hym, that all suche wrytynges as concerned [t]hys sayd offyce, shoulde wyth al speede bee made oute, that he were at home agayne to ouerloke hys famyly.

FOOTNOTES:

[340] This story is applied by Richard Johnson, editor of the _Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson the Merry Londoner_, 1607, 4to, to his own purposes. Johnson was an unscrupulous appropriator.

¶ _What an Italyan fryer dyd in his preachyng._ cxl.

¶ Robert Lyciense, a fryer of Italye (of whome we spake before), preachyng on a tyme with great vehemencye of wordes and gesture, exhorted the prynces and people to make warre agaynste the Turkes and other the enemies of chrystendome: and whan he came to the very effect, and [was] moste hotte and earnest in his tale, he began to wepe, that there were none, that wold to so godly a purpose offer them selfe to be capitains. If this be the let[341] of the mattier, beholde me here, whiche will be nothynge abasshed to cast aside this grey friers coate, and to take vpon mee to be a souldiour, or your capitaine. And euen with that woorde he caste of his vpper coate; and vnderneth he was a playne souldiour, arraied in a skarlet cloke, and a long rapier hangeyng by his side. And in this warlyke apparell, in the personage of a Capitan, he stode and preached halfe an houre. Being sente for of the Cardinals with whom he was familiar, hee was asked what was the pretence of that new example. He answered, that he did it for his wenches pleasure, who familiarly confessed that nothynge in the sayd Robert displeased hir, saue his friers coate. Then saide he to hir:

In what apparell shal I best plese you? In a
man of warres, quoth shee? Than se
that you be at my sermon to
morow, quoth he.[342]

FOOTNOTES:

[341] The obstacle to the matter.

[342] This tale is followed by the colophon, which is: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, by Henry Wykes. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

MERY TALES AND QUICK ANSWERES.

P. 16. _Of him that preched on Saynt Christophers day._

In _A Booke of Meery Riddles_, 1617 (repr. of ed. 1629, p. 73 of Mr. Halliwell's _Literature of the xvith and xviith centuries Illustrated, &c._ 1851), we have the following:--

The xvii Riddle.

"Who bare the best burthen that ever was borne
At any time since, or at any time befor[n]e.

_Solution._--It was the asse that bare both Our Lady and her Sonne out of Egypt."

P. 21. _Of the yonge woman that sorowed so greatly her husbondes deth._

"There was a poor young Woman who had brought herself even to Death's Door with grief for her sick Husband, but the good Man her Father did all he could to comfort her. _Come, Child_, said he, _we are all mortal. Pluck up a good heart, my Child: for let the worst come to the worst, I have a better Husband in store for thee. Alas, Sir_, says she, _what d'ye talk of another Husband for? Why, you had as good have stuck a Dagger to my Heart. No, no; if ever I think of another Husband, may--!_ Without any more ado, the Man dies, and the Woman, immediately breaks into such Transports of tearing her Hair, and beating her Breast, that everybody thought she'd have run stark-mad upon it. But, upon second Thoughts, she wipes her Eyes, lifts them up, and cries, _Heaven's will be done!_ and turning to her Father, _Pray Sir_, says she, _about t' other Husband you were speaking of, is he here in the House_?"--_Complete London Jester_, 1771, p. 49.

This story was appropriated by the editor of _Pasquil's Jests, mixed with Mother Bunch's Merriments_, of which there were several editions, the first appearing in 1604. In Pasquil's Jests, the tale is told of a "young woman of Barnet."

_She rowned her father in the eare._

Gower (_Confessio Amantis_, ed. Pauli, Vol. 1. p. 161) has a precisely similar expression:--

"But whan they rounenin her ere,
Than groweth all my moste fere."

P. 21. _Of him that kissed the mayde with the longe nose._

"'Good Sir William, let it rest' quoth shee, 'I know you will not beleeue it when I haue reuealed it, neither is it a thing that you can helpe: and yet such is my foolishnesse, had it not beene for that, I thinke, verily I had granted your suite ere now. But seeing you vrge me so much to know what it is, I will tell you: it is, sir, your ill-fauoured great nose, that hangs sagging so lothsomely to your lips, _that I cannot finde in my heart so much as to kisse you_.'"--_Pleasant History of Thomas of Reading_, by T. D. circa 1597, p. 73 (ed. Thoms).

P. 26. _Of the Marchaunt that lost his bodgetie betwene Ware and Lon[don]._

In _Pasquil's Jests_, 1604 occurs an account substantially similar to the present, of "how a merchant lost his purse between _Waltam_ and London."

P. 28. _Of the fatte woman that solde frute._

"Being thus dispatcht he layes downe Jacke
A peny for the shot:
'Sir, what shall this doe?' said the boy.
'Why, rogue, discharge my pot!
So much I cald for, but the rest
By me shall nere be paid:
For victualls thou didst offer me;
_Doe and thou woot_, I said.'"

_The Knave of Clubbs_, by S. Rowlands, 1600 (Percy Soc. ed. p. 20).

P. 31.--Wilson introduces the "notable historie" of Papirius Pretextatus into his _Rule of Reason_, 1551, 80, and it had previously been related in Caxton's _Game and Playe of the Chesse_, 1474.

P. 33. _Of the corrupte man of law._

"An arch Barber at a certain Borough in the West, where there are but few Electors, had Art enough to suspend his Promise till the Voters, by means of _Bribery_, the _old Balsam_, were so divided, that the casting vote lay in himself. One of the Candidates, who was sensible of it, cameinto his little dirty Shop to be shaved, and when the operation was finish'd, threw into the Bason _Twenty Guineas_. The next Day came the other Candidate, who was shaved also, and left _Thirty_. Some Days after this, the first return'd to solicit the Barber's Vote, who told him very coldly, _That he could not promise. Not promise!_ says the Gentleman; why I thought I had been shaved here! 'Tis true, says the Barber, _you was, but another Gentleman has been trimm'd_ since that; however, if you please, I'll trim you again, and then tell you my mind."--_Complete London Jester_, ed. 1771, p. 99.

P. 35. _Conon peaked into the court._--So in Skelton's _Colin Clout_ (Works by Dyce, I. 312), we have:--

"He cryeth and he creketh,
He pryeth and he peketh,
He chides and he chatters," &c.

In the _Posthums Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq._ 1659, 80, p. 60, the word is employed in a different sense:--

"Have you not marked their C[oe]lestial play,
And no more peek'd the gayties of day?"

_To peak_, however, in the sense in which it is used by Skelton, and in the _Merie Tales_, &c. is of rather frequent occurrence in _Scoggin's Jests_, 1626 (but first printed before 1565); and Gascoigne employs the word in the same manner in the _Steel Glas_, n. d. (1576) 40. The passage in Gascoigne, which I perused long ago, was brought back to my recollection by a note by the Rev. A. Dyce to Skelton's _Colin Clout_.

P. 38.--See Diogenes Laertius, transl. by Yonge, p. 226. Diogenes the Cynic evidently had Thales in his mind when he said "that mathematicians kept their eyes fixed on the sun and moon, and overlooked what was under their feet."

P. 40. _Of him that dreamed he fonde golde._

In _Pasquil's Jests_, we are told "how drunken Mullins of Stratford dreamed he found golde." It is the same story.

P. 52. _Gelidus facet anguis in herba._--Whoever edited this collection of stories seems to have had a great fancy for quotations. Throughout the _C. Mery Talys_, on the contrary, there is not a single instance of this passion for extracts. Sir Thomas Overbury, in his _Characters_ (if at least they were written by him), ed. 1632, sign. K4, describes "An Innes of Court man" as taking "_ends of Latine_, though it be false, with as great confidence as ever _Cicero_ could pronounce an oration." I suspect that the _Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres_ were collected by some person more or less versed in the classics and in foreign authors, which was probably not the case with the _C. Mery Talys_, which do not smell so much of the inkhorn, as Gascoigne would have said.

P. 54. _Breble-brable._

In _Twelfth Night_, act iv. sc. 2, Shakespeare makes the Clown use _bibble-babble_ in a similar sense; but afterwards in the same drama, act v. sc.1, _brabble_ is put for "a brawl."

This word is no doubt the same as the "pribbles and prabbles" which Sir Hugh uses more than once in the _Merry Wives of Windsor_. See act v. sc. 5.

P. 60. _Of hym that payde his dette with crienge bea._--Compare the story of "the subtility of Kindlewall the lawyer repayed with the like craft," printed in _Pasquil's Jests_, ed. Gilbertson, n. d. 40.

P. 65. _All to._--I fear that I too hastily adopted the self-suggested notion that the former words might be read more properly as one word, and in the sense which I indicated. Perhaps as _all to_ or _al to_ is not uncommonly used by early writers in this way, though the meaning in the present case is not particularly clear, it may be better to restore the original reading.

P. 67. _Of the Inholders wyfe and her ii lovers._--See Rowlands' _Knave of Clubbs_, 1600, ed. Rimbault, p. 25.

P. 67. _Daungerous of her tayle._ So in the _Schole-house of Women_, 1542, the author says:--

"Plant them round with many a pin,
Ringed for routing of pure golde,
Faire without, and foule within,
And of their tailes have slipper holde."

P. 70. _Of Mayster Vavasour and Turpin his man._

"A Lawyer and his Clerk riding on the Road, the Clerk desired to know what was the chief Point of the Law. His Master said, if he would promise to pay for their Suppers that Night, he would tell him; which was agreed to. Why then, said the Master, good Witnesses are the chief Point in the Law. When they came to the Inn, the Master bespoke a couple of Fowls for Supper; and when they had Supped, told the Clerk to pay for them according to Agreement. O _Sir_, says he, where's your witness."--_Complete London Jester_, ed. 1771, p. 102.

P. 72. One of _Pasquil's Jests_ is "how mad Coomes, when his wife was drowned, sought her against the stream." It is merely a new application of the present anecdote.

P. 75. _Of the foole that thought hym selfe deed._--A story of a similar character occurs in _The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or, the Walkes in Powles_, 1604, (repr. 1841, p. 19), where "mine Host" gives an account of "how a yong fellow was even bespoke and jested to death by harlots."

P. 93. _He fell to a nyce laughyng._

_Nice_, in the sense of _foolish_, is also used by Gower, who likewise employs the substantive _nicete_ in a similar way:--

"But than it were a _nicete_
To telle you, how that I fare!"

_Confessio Amantis_, lib. vi.

Chaucer employs the word in a similar sense very frequently. In the _Cuckoo and the Nightingale_, is the following passage:--

"To telle his might my wit may not suffice,
For he can make of wise folks ful nice."

P. 103. Crakers.--See the last edition of Nares, voce _Crake and Craker_. But an earlier example of the use of the word than any given in the Glossary occurs in Lupset's _Works_, 1546, 12mo (_A Compendious Treatise teachying the waie of dying well_, fol. 34 _verso_; this treatise was first printed separately in 1541). In a reprint of the _C. Mery Talys_, which appeared in 1845, the Editor, not knowing what to make of _crake_ and _craker_, altered them, wherever they occurred, to _crack_ and _cracker_ respectively!

P. 113. Ch' adde.--In _Wits Interpreter, The English Parnassus_, by J. Cotgrave. 1655, ed. 1662, p. 247, is "the Devonshire Ditty," from which the following is an extract:--

"Cockbodikins, chil work no more,
Dost think chi labour to be poor?
No, no, ich chave a do--" &c.

But this phraseology is not peculiar to Devonshire.

P. 113, note 2.--Some additional particulars of interest, relative to ancient wines, may be found in _Morte Arthure_, ed. 1847, pp. 18, 20; and in the _Squyer of Low Degre_ (Ritson's _Ancient Engl. Met. Renancees_, iii).

P. 121. _Of the Courtear that ete the hot costerde._

"An arch Boy being at Table where there was a piping hot Applepye, putting a Bit into his Mouth, burnt it so that the Tears ran down his Cheeks. A Gentleman that sate by, ask'd him, Why he wept? Only said he, because it is just come into my Remembrance that my poor Grandmother died this Day Twelvemonth. Phoo! says the other, is that all? So whipping a large Piece into his Mouth, he quickly sympathized with the Boy; who seeing his Eyes brim-full, with a malicious Sneer Ask'd him, Why he wept? A Pox on you, said he, because you were not hanged, you young Dog, the same Day your Grandmother died."--_Complete London Jester_, ed. 1771, p. 53.

P. 140.--_Of the Canon and his man. Note._

"When King James came into England, coming to Boughton, hee was feasted by Sir Edward Montague, and his six sonnes brought upp the six first dishes; three of them after were lords, and three more knights, Sir Walter Montague, Sir Sydney, and Sir Charles, whose daughter Lady Hatton is."--_Ward's Diary_, ed. Severn, p. 170-1.

P. 143. _For at this foul araye._--So, in the _Child of Bristow_, an early metrical legend, we read:--

"When the burges the child gan se,
He seid then, benedicite,
Sone, what _araye_ is this?"

Some later writers thought it necessary to use this word with a qualifying adjective, as _shrewd array_, &c. thus, in fact, reducing it to something like its ordinary and modern signification.

P. 148, _note_. 1. See Pepys' _Diary_, 6th ed. I. 29. "They brought me a draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver, which I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the Virgin with the child in her arms, done in silver."--27th Feb. 1659-60. See also Brydges' _British Bibliographer_, vol. ii. p. 109.

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