No plots upon generation; we two 4 [They step aside, whilst he calls between the hangings. Pert. We shall obey; but do not tempt us now With sweetmeats for the nether palate; do not. Y. Pal. What Lucy! Luce! now is the old beldam Misleading her to a cushion, where she A bushel of beads to her rosary. Lucy! my April love! my mistress, speak !— To pieces, numberless as sand, or as Lucy. Thou dost out-drink the youth of Nor- Their marriage feasts, out-swear a puny gamester, When his first misfortune rages out in quarrel; Than their lanthorns; and here's your surgeon's bill, Your kind thrift (I thank you) hath sent it me Pert. I say, Meager, there is a small parcel That hath no more care of a gentleman's Y. Pal. He writes down here for a tool of injection, 2 Colm-The colon is the greatest and widest of the human intestines. S. 3 Morions--or murrions. See note 11 on The 2d Part of the Honest Whore, Dodsley's edit Than a weaver of Banbury-See note 50 to The Ordinary, ditto. Luce, a small water-engine, which I bought That knows not how t'excuse what he hath done : Y. Pal. I'd as lieve keep our marriage-supper Luce, thou art drunk, Luce; far gone in almond- grow To get it; justice sits for the same end; Ere she hath time to make an inventory. Pert. A cunning pioneer; he works to the bottom. Lucy. Hast thou no taste of heaven? wert thou begot In a prison, and bred up in a galley? Y. Pal. Luce, I speak like one that hath seen the book 5 Debosh'd.-The 4to and folio read debash'd; debosh'd has the same meaning as debauch'd, and the word occurs in The Wandering Jew, 1640, p. 27. "The more I strive to love my husband, the more his deboish'd courses begets my hate." Again in Fennor's Compters Commonwealth, 1617, p. 27. :-For most commonly some knave or deboisht fellow, lurch the fooles their sons," &c. See also Mr Steevens's note on The Tempest, A. 3. S. 2. 6 Whinyard,—a sword. So in Edward the Third, A. 1. S. 2: 7 Adam Bell, "Nor from their button'd, tawny, leathern belts, -an outlaw, celebrated for his skill in archery. See Dr Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry, vol. 1. p. 143. & Carcanets," A carcanet seems to have been a necklace set with stones, or strung with pearls." It is derived from the old French word carcan, whose diminutive was carcanet. See Cotgrave voce carcan. Carcanets are frequently mentioned by our ancient dramatic writers as in Cynthia's Revels, Induction :-"Makes her dote upon him, give him jewels, bracelets, carkenets," &c. Ibid. A. 4. S. 3. : "If your ladyships want embroidered gowns, tires of any fashion, rebatues, jewels, or carkanets, any thing whatsoever," &c. Marston's Antonio and Mellida, p. 2. A. 1. S. 2. :— "No, Lucio, my deare lord's wise, and knowes Massinger's City Madam, A. 4. S. 4. : 66 -your carkanets, "That did adorn your neck of equal value." See also the notes of Dr Johnson, Mr Steevens, and Mr Warton on The Comedy of Errors, A. 3. §. 1. 9 Spoons." It was the custom formerly for the sponsors at christenings, to offer gilt spoons as a piesent to the child. These spoons were called apostle spoons, because the figures of the apostles were Thy mother write thee illegitimate. [Exit. Y. Pal. Temptations will not thrive. This baggage sleeps Cross-legg'd, and the devil has no more power I must marry her, and spend my revenue all Enter Sir MORGLAY THWACK, Elder PALLATINE, Are grown too old to overtake them: the town Thwack. At which serjeants and their yeomen That 'scape a deep river and a tall bough. Mea. Pallatine, how much? Pert. Honourable Pall! Y. Pal. Gentlemen, you must accept without Your corporal oaths to repay in three days. not. Y. Pal. Nor shall you charge me with loud (Thrice before company) to wait you in Y. Pal. Go then-shift, and brush your skins Meet me at the new play, fair and perfumed: mour. Pert. Language of joy, dear Pall. To town, the minion of the womb, my lads, me? E. Pal. As one old women shall no more avoid, Than they can warm furs or muskadel. Thwack. Palatine, to have a volatile ache, E. Pal. I cannot boast those noble maladies As yet; but time, dear knight, as I have beard, carved on the tops of the handles. Such as were at once opulent and generous gave the whole twelve; those who were either more moderately rich, or liberal, escaped at the expence of the four Evangelists; or even sometimes contented themselves with presenting one spoon only, which exhibited the figure of any saint, in honour of whom the child received its name." Mr Steevens's note to King Henry VIII, A. 5. S. 2. where several instances of the mention of these spoons are exhibited. 1o Iụ cradles, pins, and sope.—So in The Lover's Progress, A. 4. :— "Must I now Have sour sauce after sweet meats? and be driven To levy half a crown a week, besides Clouts, sope, and candles, for my heir apparent." Again in The Bashful Lover, by Massinger, A. 3. §. 1. :-. Should you put it too for sope and candles, though he sell his flock for it, the baby must have his dug.' A Chast Mayd in Cheape-side, p. 25. : "Halfe our gettings must run in sugar sops, And nurses wages now, besides many a pound of sope The archer Cimbeline, or old king Lud For their orphans, and record in their annals. Y. Pal. Not your debts? Thwack. No, sir, though to a poor Brownist's widow; Though she sigh all night, and have the next morning Nothing to drink but her own tears. E. Pal. Nor shalt thou lend money to a sick friend, Though the sad worm lie mortgaged in his bed For the hire of his sheets. Y. Pal. These are resolves That give me newer wonder than your clothes; Why in such shining trim, like men that come From rifled tents, loaden with victory? E. Pal. Yes, brother, or like eager heirs new dipp'd In ink, that seal'd the day before in haste, we come To be the business of all eyes, to take The like to St Dennis: all this, young sir, That says, Pay nothing. Y. Pal. Why, where have I lived? I deny the major. E. Pal. Good faith, though you should send me more epistles Than young factors in their first voyage write Unto their short-haired friends; than absent lovers Pen near their marriage week, to excuse the slow Arrival of the licence and the ring; Not one clipp'd penny should depart my reach. Y. Pal. This doctrine will not pass; how shall I live? E. Pal. As we intend to do by our good wits. Y. Pal. How, brother, how? E. Pal. Truth is a pleasant knowledge; Yet you shall have her cheap; Sir Morglay here, My kind disciple, and myself, have leased, Out all our rents and lands for pious uses. Y. Pal. What, co-founders! give legacies ere Pallatine the pious, and Saint Morglay! wit, Then we'll renounce the town, and patiently Thwack. But, cre we go, we may, The decays of Fleet-Ditch; from whence I hear The roaring vestals late are fled, through heat Of persecution. Y. Pal. What a small star have I, E. Pal. Brother, be calm, and edify; but That never yet could light me to this way! first Receive a principle: Never hereafter, sigh, Live by our wits! E. Pal. So live, that usurers From this warm breathing, till your last cold Shall call their monies in, remove their bank Will I disburse for you again; never. Y. Pal. Brother mine, if that be your argument, "A poor Brownist's widow.—The Brownists at this time seem to have been the constant objects of popular satire. The founder of the sect was Robert Browne, a knight's son of Rutlandshire, and educated at Cambridge. He was afterwards pastor of Aychurch in Northamptonshire, and spent great part of his life in several prisons, to which he was committed for his steady adherence to the opinions which be entertained. He died in jail at Northampton, in the year 1630, or, according to others, 1634, when he was not less than 80 years of age. See also the notes of Dr Grey and Mr Steevens, to Twelfth Night, A. 3. S. 2. (") At hazard, sir: a hundred, and all made at sent.-Folio edit. 12 At sent.Query cent, a game mentioned in The Dumb Knight, A. 4. S. 1. and corruptedly written saint. S. This game is frequently mentioned in ancient writers, and is usually spelt saunt, probably the manner in which the French word cent was then pronounced. In Gervas Markham's Famous Whore; or, Noble I' the town? 'tis long since we did traffick here For looks; or if we marry make a jointure. E. Pal. I could keep thee, Thy future pride, thy surfeits, and thy lust, (I mean, in such a garb as may become A Christian gentleman) with the sole tithe Of tribute I shall now receive from ladies. Thwack. Your brother and myself have seal'd to covenants; The female youth of the town are his; but all Of all their testaments; in one month, sir, Y. Pal. Your rents exposed at home for pious uses, Must expiate your behaviour here tell me, As big as a conger; but a good eye Y. Pal. Amazement knows no ease, but in demands: Pray tell me, gentlemen, to all this vast 'Gainst our arrival here, together with Thwack. No relief, but wit and good counsel, care Had purposed so discreet a course, might well Have set you up i'the trade; but we spend light, Our coach is yet unwheeled.-Sir Morglay, come, Let's suit those Friesland horse with our own strain. Y. Pal. Why, gentlemen, will the design keep horses? Thwack. May be, sir, they shall live by their wits too. Y. Pal. Their masters are bad tutors else: well, how You'll work the ladies, and weak gentry here, Thwack. Not gulled! they dare not be E. Pul. Yes, sir, at yourself. Y. Pal. Two that have tasted Nature's kind Courte: an, 1609, 4to, Sign. D 4, it is called mont cent. "Were it mont cent, primero, or at chesse, I wan with most, and lost still with the lesse." 13 Beggibrigge.-The fol. reads peggibrige. Perhaps the name of some famous borse, 14 Hench-boys.-See note 13 to The Muse's Looking-Glass. |