Volume Ix Part 125 (1/2)

[195] Auditus is here called _Ears_, as Tactus is before called _Deed_.--_Pegge_. [But see note at p. 349.]

[196] Circles. So in Milton--

”Throws his steep flight in many an airy wheel.”

--_Steevens_.

[197] [It is _Mendacio_ who speaks.]

[198] Old copies, _Egyptian knights_. Dr Pegge's correction.

[199] [Edits., _I_.]

[200] [Edits., _safe_.]

[201] A pun; for he means _Male aeger_.--_Pegge_.

[202] The [first edit.] gives the pa.s.sage thus: _brandish no swords but sweards of bacon_, which is intended for a pun, and though bad enough, need not be lost.--_Collier_.

[203] _Glaves_ are swords, and sometimes partisans.--_Steevens_.

[204] Lat. for phalanxes.--_Steevens_.

[205] [Edits., _dept_.]

[206] Mars.

[207] See Note 2 to the ”First Part of Jeronimo,” [v. 349].

[208] [Edits., _kist_. The word _hist_ may be supposed to represent the whistling sound produced by a sword pa.s.sing rapidly through the air.]

[209] i.e., Exceeds bounds or belief. See a note on ”The Merry Wives of Windsor,” act iv. sc. 2.--_Steevens_.

[210] ”_Graecia mendax_ Audet in historia.”--_Steevens_.

[211] [His ”History,” which is divided into nine books, under the names of the nine Muses.]

[212] i.e., Whispered him. See note to ”The Spanish Tragedy,” [vi. 10.]

[213] [Peter Martyr's ”Decades.”]

[214] A luncheon before dinner. The farmers in Ess.e.x still use the word.--_Steevens_.

So in the ”Woman-hater,” by Beaumont and Fletcher, act i. sc. 3, Count Valore, describing Lazarillo, says--

”He is none of these Same Ordinary Eaters, that'll devour Three breakfasts, as many dinners, and without any Prejudice to their _Beavers_, drinkings, suppers; But he hath a more courtly kind of hunger.

And doth hunt more after novelty than plenty.”

Baret, in his ”Alvearic,” 1580, explains _a boever_, a drinking betweene dinner and supper; and _a boer_, meate eaten after noone, a collation, a noone meale.

[215] See Note 19 to ”The Ordinary.”