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Page 343 - maxumus Atlas. Hie canit errantem lunam, solisque labores; Unde hominum genus, et pecudes; unde imber, et ignes; Arcturum, pluviasque Hyadas, geminosque Triones; Quid tantum Oceano properent se tinguere soles Hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet." auaunce] ie advance. v. 694. spere] ie sphere.
Page 378 - XAIPE. From Persius, Prol. 8. v. 81. Dowse French of Parryse] Dowse, ie sweet, soft. Chaucer's Prioress spoke French " After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe." Prol. to Cant. Tales, v. 125. ed. Tyr. v.
Page 178 - A chase at tennis is that spot where a ball falls, beyond which the adversary must strike his ball to gain a point or chace. At long tennis, it is the spot where the ball leaves off rolling." Douce's Illust. of Shakespeare, i. 485. Compare our author's Why come ye
Page 114 - Itt hath been alwayes true to the weare, But now it is not worth a groat; I have had it four and forty yeere" 'Take thy old cloak about thee,—Percy's Rel. of AEP i. 206. ed. 1794. Page 111. v. 63. wall] ie wool. v. 68.
Page 34 - forth into that hauen brood, Her takelynge ryche and of hye apparayle~\ Of this passage Mr. Wordsworth has a recollection in one of his noble Sonnets; " A goodly Vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad; And lustily along the bay she strode, Her tackling rich, and of apparel high." Works, iii. 34. ed. 1836. v. 39. kyste] i.
Page 176 - another, thrugh the Hal as she yede," &c. Sig. fiii. ed. 1573. " A chase at tennis is that spot where a ball falls, beyond which the adversary must strike, his ball to gain a point or chace. At long tennis, it is the spot where the ball leaves off rolling.
Page 246 - Skelton means —a hawk that towers aloft, takes a station high in the air, and thence swoops upon her prey. Juliana Berners mentions certain hawks which " ben hawkes of the toure." Book of St. Albans, sig. cv: and Turbervile says; " Shee [the hobby] is of the number of those Hawkes that are hie flying and
Page 360 - or Badakhshan] are found the precious stones called balass rubies, of fine quality and great value " Travels, p. 129, translated by Marsden, who in his learned note on the passage (p. 132) observes that in the Latin version it is said expressly that these stones have their name from the country. See too Sir F.
Page 77 - Edward the Fourth by syr Thomas Maleore, knyght" . . . . " Whiche booke was reduced in to Englysshe by Syr Thomas Malory knyght as afore is sayd and by me [Caxton] deuyded in to xxi bookes chaptyred and emprynted and fynysshed in thabbey
Page 13 - sings, among other fragments of songs, " Martin swart and his man, sodledum, sodledum, Martin swart and his man, sodledum bell." Sig. A 3. and in a comparatively recent drama we find; " The Beare, the Boare, and Talbot with his tuskish white, Oh so sore that he would bite, The