hild, a form of held, used for the sake of the rhyme, viii. 323

("But now (made free from them) next her, before,
Peacefull and young, Herculean silence bore

His craggie club; which vp aloft hee hild;

With which and his forefingers charme he stild

All sounds in ayre," &c.

Chapman's Euthymia Raptus, or the Teares of Peace, &c. 1609, sig. E 4 verso.

"and towres and temples byld.

And now welneare our ships vp set, drie lond our nauy hyld."

Phaer's Virgil's Æneidos, Book iii. sig E, ed. 1584.

"And in the black and gloomy arts so skild,

That he euen Hell in his subiection hild."

Drayton's Moone-Calfe, p. 174, ed. 1627.

But we not unfrequently find "hild" employed when no rhyme is in question;

"I hild such valiantnes but vaine."

Warner's Albions England, p. 83, ed. 1596.

"Some hild with Phoebus, some with her," &c. Id. p. 151).

hilding, a low, degenerate wretch (a term applied to both sexes, and sometimes used adjectively), iii. 129, 252; iv. 316, 478; vi. 447; vii. 664; viii. 164; hildings, vi. 419.

hilts, applied (as it often was formerly) to a single weapon, iv. 237, 433, 436; v. 376; vi. 681; sword-hilts, vi. 685.

him, himself: To one that can my part in him advértise, i. 446; Who for this seven years hath esteemed him, iii. 109.

himself To die by, To die by his own hands, vi. 224.

Hinckley fair, iv. 387: Hinckley is a parish and market-town in Leicestershire.

hint, suggestion: it is a hint That wrings mine eyes to't, i. 181; Our hint of woe Is common, i. 193 (where Johnson remarks, “Hint is that which recals to the memory. The cause that fills our minds with grief is common"); Upon this hint I spake, vii. 388.

hip-Catch upon the, or Have on the hip, to have the complete advantage, the upper hand of one (a phrase derived from wrestling), ii. 354; vii. 403

("And Michaels Terme, lawes haruest, now begins,

Where many losers are, and few that wins;

For law may well be cal'd contentions whip,

When for a scratch, a cuffe, for pointes or pins,

Will Witlesse gets his neighbour on the hip."

Anagrams and Sonnets, p. 256,-Taylor's Workes, 1630.

"I have her a' th' hip for some causes.'

Dekker's Satiromastix, 1602, sig. F verso.

"He had got me o' the hip once; it shall go hard, friends,
But he shall find his own coin."

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca, act v. sc. 2).

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hipped, iii. 144: The context seems to show that here hipped means "lamed or hurt in the hips :" "Hipped, Delumbatus." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict. (though, from the words which immediately follow it, we might suppose it to mean "covered on the hips").

Hiren, iv. 344; where see foot-note.

hit, to agree: let us hit together, vii. 257.

hitherto, to this spot: from Trent and Severn hitherto, iv. 248 (Here Mortimer is pointing to the map).

ho, stop, hold, desist: 'Ware pencils, ho! ii. 212; Ho, there, doctor! viii. 197; and Steevens supposes (wrongly, I apprehend) that such is the meaning of the exclamation in Ho, ho, ho! Now the witch take me, &c. vii. 565.

hoar, to make white, to infect with leprosy: hoar the flamen, vi.

554.

hoar, to become mouldy: When it hoars ere it be spent, vi. 421. Hobbididance, vii. 314: A slight variation of Hoberdidance, a

fiend mentioned in Harsnet's Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, 1603, p. 49; a work which seems to have been consulted by Shakespeare for several names of fiends in King Lear. hobby-horse is forgot - The, ii. 183; the hobby - horse, whose epitaph is," For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot," vii. 156; that will founder the best hobby-horse, viii. 199: "Hobby-horse..... A personage belonging to the ancient morris-dance, when complete, and made, as Mr. Bayes's troops are on the stage, by the figure of a horse fastened round the waist of a man, his own legs going through the body of the horse, and enabling him to walk, but concealed by a long foot-cloth; while false legs appeared where those of the man should be, at the sides of the horse. . . . . Latterly the hobby-horse was frequently omitted, which appears to have occasioned a popular ballad, in which was this line or burden,

'For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot.""

Nares's Gloss. Many readers will probably recollect the spirited description of the Hobby-horse in Sir W. Scott's Monastery: but, since Mr. Bayes's troops have been long banished from the stage, it may be necessary to mention here that they are part of the dramatis persona in the Duke of Buckingham's once-celebrated satirical play called The Rehearsal.

hobby-horse, a silly fellow: which these hobby-horses must not hear, ii. 108.

hobby-horse, a loose woman: My wife's a hobby-horse, iii. 428; give it your hobby-horse, vii. 440.

hob-nob, iii. 373: Explained by some "Hob, nob, or hab, nab, that is, habbe or nabbe, have or have not, hit or miss;" by others (less probably), "hap ne hap, happen or not happen."

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hodge-pudding, i. 414: Does this mean something akin to haggis? see note 134, i. 439.

hoist with his own petar, vii. 172: Here hoist is for hoised or hoisted (not, as Caldecott explains it, “¿.e. mount. Hoist is used as a verb neuter").

hold hook and line, a sort of cant proverbial expression which sometimes occurs in our early writers, iv. 344.

hold in-Such as can, iv. 225: "May mean such as can curb old father antick the law, or such as will not blab" (STEEVENS): "May mean, such companions as will hold in, or keep and stick close to one another, and such as are men of deeds, and not of words" (TOLLET): "To hold in, I believe, meant to 'keep their fellows' counsel and their own;' not to discover their rogueries by talking about them" (Malone).

hold taking, bear handling, vi. 520.

hold, or hold thee, take thou, have thou, receive thou (a common formula) Hold, therefore, Angelo, i. 446; hold thee, there's some boot, iii. 484; Hold, my hand, vi. 629; But, hold thee, vi. 682; Hold, sir, vii. 340: and see note 4, i. 523.

hold, or cut bow-strings, ii. 274: A proverbial phrase: "When a

party was made at butts, assurance of meeting was given in the words of that phrase; the sense of the person using them being, that he would hold' or keep promise, or they might cut his bowstrings,' demolish him for an archer" (CAPELL): Whether or not this be the true explanation of the phrase, I am unable to determine.

hold-fast is the only dog, iv. 444: "Alluding to the proverbial saying,— Brag is a good dog, but hold-fast is a better'" (DOUCE). holding, the burden of a song: The holding every man shall bear,

vii. 536.

holding, consistency, fitness: this has no holding, iii. 260.

holland of eight shillings an ell, iv. 260: Shakespeare, of course, was thinking of the price of shirts in his own time: according to Stubbes, in the second edition of his Anatomy of Abuses, 1583, some shirts cost five pounds, or even ten pounds each.

holp, the old past tense and participle of help, i. 179; ii. 31, 76, 108; iv. 11, 179, 215; v. 196, 358; vi. 188, 215, 226, 234, 396; vii. 17, 310, 734.

holy, pure, just, righteous: Holy Gonzalo, i. 228; Holy, fair, and wise is she, i. 307; You have a holy father, iii. 495: and see note 118, i. 255.

holy-ales, rural festivals, viii. 5.

home, to the utmost: I will pay thy graces Home, i. 228; Accuse him home and home, i. 503; the sense to know Her estimation home, iii. 276; I cannot speak him home, vi. 169; That, trusted home, vii. 11; he charges home My unprovided body, vii. 276; will be revenged home, vii. 297; satisfy me home, vii. 688; That confirms it home, vii. 704. honest, chaste: she is pretty, and honest, i. 359; If I find her honest, i. 365; though she appear honest, i. 370; Wives may be merry, and yet honest too, i. 397; honest woman, i. 398, 459; ii. 360, 393; she scarce makes honest, iii. 10; you say she's honest, iii. 254; are you honest? vii. 150; if you be honest, ibid.; I do not think but Desdemona's honest, vii. 423 ; I think my wife be honest, vii. 427; She may be honest yet, vii. 428; wager she is honest, vii. 444; if she be not honest, ibid.; Swear thou art honest, vii. 445; esteems me honest, vii. 446; of life as honest, vii. 458; if she'll be honest, viii. 198; do you think she is not honest, sir? ibid.

honest as the skin between his brows, a not uncommon proverbial expression, ii. 116.

honesty, chastity: out of honesty, i. 354; wrangle with mine own honesty, i. 361; the chariness of our honesty, i. 362; the honesty of this Ford's wife, i. 371; honesty coupled to beauty, iii. 47; to cast away honesty upon a foul slut, ibid.; think my honesty ranker than my wit, iii. 57; no legacy is so rich as honesty, iii. 249; your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty, vii. 150; better commerce than with honesty, ibid.; transform honesty, ibid.; the force of honesty, ibid.; I the way of honesty, viii. 197, 199; Ne'er cast your child away for honesty, viii. 197; her honesty! viii. 198.

honesty, decency: You have as little honesty as honour, v. 539. honesty, liberality, generosity: Every man has his fault, and honesty is his, vi. 532.

honey-seed, the Hostess's blunder for homicide, iv. 331; honeyseed (homicidal) rogue, ibid.

honey-stalks, according to Johnson, “clover flowers, which contain a sweet juice," vi. 337.

honey-suckle villain, the Hostess's blunder for homicidal villain, iv. 330.

honorificabilitudinitatibus, ii. 208: "Is of some antiquity.

I have seen it on an Exchequer record, apparently in a hand of the reign of Henry the Sixth; and it may be seen, with some additional syllables, scribbled on one of the leaves of a manuscript in the Harleian Library, No. 6,113." Hunter's New Illust. of Shakespeare, vol. i. p. 264.

hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks, vi. 433: Metaphors derived from falconry: the hawk was hooded till let fly at the game; an ummanned hawk was one not yet made tame and tractable (see

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man my haggard-To); and bating means fluttering with the wings (see bate).

hoodman-blind, the game which we now call blind-man's-buff,

vii. 169.

hoodman comes, iii. 264: An allusion to the game mentioned in the preceding article.

hoods make not monks-All, v. 526: "Cucullus non facit monachum" (STEEVENS).

hoops-The three-hooped pot shall have ten, v. 171: "The old drinking-pots, being of wood, were bound together, as barrels are, with hoops; whence they were called hoops. Cade promises that every can which now had three hoops shall be increased in size so as to require ten. What follows in the notes [to the Var. Shakespeare] about 'burning of cans,' does not appear to relate to the subject” (DOUCE).

Hopdance, vii. 306: Perhaps a variation of Hobbididance, q. v. hope, to expect: Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope, iv. 466; I hope he is much grown, v. 390; I cannot hope Cæsar and Antony shall well greet together, vii. 514.

hope-I died for, v. 448: see note 106, v. 473.

hopes, expectations: shall I falsify men's hopes, iv. 215.

horn is a foot-Thy, An allusion to Curtis being a cuckold, iii. 150. horn is dry-Poor Tom, thy, vii. 307: see the quotation from Aubrey under Tom o' Bedlam, &c.

horn-No staff more reverend than one tipped with: see staff more reverend, &c.

horologe, a clock (Lat. horologium), vii. 407.

horse-The dancing, ii. 172: An allusion to a horse mentioned by numerous contemporary writers, and even noticed by Sir Walter Raleigh in The History of the World (B. i. ch. 2). This celebrated animal was called Marocco, and belonged to a Scotchman named Bankes, who, it appears, taught him to perform such feats as neither Astley nor Ducrow in our own time have been able to teach their horses :-the most remarkable exploit of Marocco was his ascending to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1600. Bankes exhibited his wonderful horse in various parts of Europe; and we are told that at last they were both brought to the stake at Rome as magicians (according to Ben Jonson in his cxxxiiid Epigram, they were "beyond sea, burned for one witch ;" and according to a note in the mock-romance Don Zara del Fogo, "they were both burned by the commandment of the Pope"). But, in opposition to all this, Mr. Halliwell has adduced an extract from one of the Ashmolean Mss. to show that Banks was alive in 1637.