Prin. Was not that Hector? Dum. The worthy knight of Troy. King. Call them forth quickly; we will do so. 890 900 Re-enter Holofernes, Nathaniel, Moth, Costard, and others. This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the The Song. SPRING. When daisies pied and violets blue Mocks married men; for thus sings he, 910 906. Gerarde in his Herbal, 1597, says, that the flos cuculi cardamine, &c., are called "in English cuckoo flowers, in Norfolk Canterbury bells, and at Namptwich, in Cheshire, Ladie-smocks." In Lyte's Herbal, 1578, it is remarked, that cowslips are, in French, of some called coquu prime vere, and brayes de coquu. Herbe a coqu was one of the old French names for the cowslip, which it seems probable is the flower here meant.-H. N. H. Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo, cuckoo; O word of fear, WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, 920 And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And milk comes frozen home in pail, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. 930 When all aloud the wind doth blow, saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Arm The words of Mercury are harsh after the 940 songs of Apollo. You that way, we this way. [Exeunt. 935. The crab-apple, which used to be roasted and put hissing hot into a bowl of ale, previously enriched with toast, and spice, and sugar. How much this was relished in old times, may be guessed by those who appreciate the virtues of apple-toddy. Warner thus speaks of a shepherd: A,' he; V. ii. 13. GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOLLancz, M.A. ABATE, deduct, leave out, except; vide Novum; V. ii. 547. ACADEME, Academy; I. 1. 13. ADDRESS D, prepared; II. 1. 83. AFFECTION, affectation; V. i. 5. AFFECT, adore; I. ii. 175. AFFECT THE LETTER, use alliteration; IV. ii. 56. AFFECTS, affections, inclinations; I. i. 152. Ajax, probably used with a play upon a jakes, a well-known coarse joke of the time; V. i. 581. ALL HID, the children's cry in the game of "hide and seek"; IV. iii. 80. ALLOW'D, privileged (as a fool); V. ii. 478. AN IF, if (emphatic); I. i. 50. ANNOTHANIZE (so Folio 1 and Quartos; the other Folios "anatomize"), probably Armado's rendering of "anatomize"; IV. i. 69. ANTIQUE, antic; V. i. 127. ART, science; "living art," i. e. "immortal science"; I. i. 14. ATES, mischiefs, instigations; (Até the goddess of mischief that incited to bloodshed); V. ii. 694. BANDIED; vide SET. BARGAIN, "to sell a bargain" seems to have consisted in drawing a person in by some stratagem to proclaim himself a fool; III. i. 108. BASE, mean, mere; I. i. 87. BATE, blunt; I. i. 6. BEG; "you cannot beg us," i. e. you cannot prove us to be idiots and apply to be our guardians; you cannot beg the wardship of our persons and property; V. ii. 490. BEN VENUTO, welcome (Italian); IV. ii. 172. BESHREW, a mild form of imprecation; V. ii. 46. BETIME, betide, chance; IV. iii. 385. BIAS, preponderant tendency (originally a term in bowling); IV. ii. 119. BIRD-BOLT, a short thick arrow with a broad flat end, used to kill birds without piercing; IV. iii. 27. BLOOD, "in blood," used technic ally in the sense of "in full vigor"; IV. ii. 4. BOLD OF, confident in; II. i. 28. BOMBAST, padding (cotton used to stuff out garments); V. ii. 791. BRAWL, a kind of dance, "wherein many (men and women) holding by the hands some times in a ring, and otherwhiles at length, move all together"; III. i. 9. BREATHED, endowed with breath, vigorous; V. ii. 659. BUTTON-HOLE; "let me take you a b. lower," i. e. "let me speak without ceremony"; V. ii. 706. BUTT-SHAFT, a kind of arrow used for shooting at butts, or targets; I. ii. 186. CAN, did; an old corruption of "gan" (cp. the version printed in the Passionate Pilgrim), with which word it was frequently confused; IV. iii. 109. CANARY, to dance the canary, a fantastic savage dance, said to have been brought from the Canary Islands; III. i. 12. CAPON, used like poulet in French for a love-letter; "break up CAREER, encounter of knights at CAUDLE, a warm drink of gruel with wine and spice added, often given to the sick; IV. iii. 177. CAUSE, used in the technical sense of "cause of quarrel"; I. ii. 189. CHAPMEN, sellers; II. i. 16. CHARGE-HOUSE, a school-house, not found elsewhere; printed "charg-house" in Fol. 1. and Q. 1.; perhaps="church-house" as pronounced by Armado: "charter-house," "large-house," etc., have been suggested; V. i. 91. CHOSE, choice, well-chosen; V. i. CHUCK, a term of endearment; CIRCUM CIRCA (Quartos and Folios CLAWS, Scratches in a pleasing COCKLED, enclosed in a shell; IV. CODPIECE, part of the male dress \COMMON SENSE, ordinary sight, 181 COMPLIMENT, formality; IV. ii. 155. CONCEIT'S, thought's; II. i. 72. CONCOLINEL, probably the beginning or burden of a song; III. i. 3. CONSENT, compact; V. ii. 460. |