Volume I Part 92 (1/2)

484. _Unto_, edit. 1569.

485. _And_, 1st edit.

486. _You are_, edit. 1569.

487. Your _masters.h.i.+p_.--_S_.

488. _True_, 1st edit.

489. _Ere_, edit. 1569; _or_, 1st 4to.

490. _For no lie_, edit 1569.

491. _Our_, 1st edit.

492. _One_, edit. 1569.

493. _Your_, 1st edit.

494. First edition reads--

”And that we both my lye so witnes, That twayne of us thre in one agree.”

495. Neither.

496. _Unlike_, 1st edit.

497. _From_, 1st edit.

498. _So_, edit. 1569.

499. _Should_, 1st edit.

500. _Payne_, 1st edit.

501. The allusion is to gunnery. _Thampion (tampon_, Fr., a bung, cork, or plug of wood) is now written _tampion_, and signifies the stopper with which the mouths of cannon are closed up, to prevent the admission of rain, or sea water, whereby their charges might be rendered incapable of service. A _tewel (tuyau, or tuyal_, Fr.) is a _pipe_; and is here used (for the sake of continuing the metaphor) for _bore_ or _calibre_. Moxon, in his ”Mechanick Exercises,” defines the _tewel_ to be that _pipe_ in a smith's forge into which the nose of the bellows is introduced; and in a MS. fragment, said to be written by Sir Francis Drake, concerning the stores of one of the s.h.i.+ps under his command, the word _tewel_ is applied to a gun.--_S_.

In Lambarde's ”Dictionarium,” p. 129, it is said: ”It happened in the Reigne of Quene Marye, that the master of a s.h.i.+ppe pa.s.singe by while the Court lay theare, and meaninge (as the maner is) with Sayle and Shot to honor the Place, unadvisedly gave Fyre to a Piece charged with a Stone instede of a _Tampion_, which lightinge on the Quenes house ranne throughe a Chamber, and did no further Harme.”

Our antiquary writes like one unacquainted with his subject; no man, I believe, ever talked _of charging_ a gun with a _tampion_; neither would the said _tampion_ (consisting of a piece of hard oak) have done much less mischief than a stone, if pointed from the Thames at the Queen's Palace at Greenwich.--_S_.

502. Addition in the 2d edit.

503. A piece of ordnance.--_S_.

504. _The Regent_ was one of the largest s.h.i.+ps of war in the time of King Henry the Eighth. In the fourth year of his reign, Sir Thomas Knevet, master of the horse, and Sir John Carew, of Devons.h.i.+re, were appointed captains of her, and in company with several others she was sent to fight the French fleet near Brest haven. An action accordingly ensued, and the Regent grappled with a French carrick, which would have been taken, had not a gunner on board the vessel, to prevent her falling into the hands of the English, set fire to the powder-room. This communicating the flames to both s.h.i.+ps, they shared the same fate together, being both burnt. On the part of the French 900 men were lost; and on that of the English more than 700 (See Hall's ”Chronicle,” 1548, fol. 21).

505. _On thys castell lyght_, 1st edit.

506. _This_, edit. 1569.