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Duke.Who is this? Signor Veterano?Ant.The same, sir: I was not so when you left me. Do you know who has thus abused me?Duke.Not I, sir.Ant.You promised to do me a courtesy.Duke.Anything lies in my power.Ant.Then, pray, will you bring me immediately to the duke?Duke.Not as you are, I hope.Ant.Yes, as I am: he shall see how I am wronged amongst them. I know he loves me, and will right me. Pray, sir, forbear persuasion to the contrary, and lead on.[Exeunt.

Duke.Who is this? Signor Veterano?

Ant.The same, sir: I was not so when you left me. Do you know who has thus abused me?

Duke.Not I, sir.

Ant.You promised to do me a courtesy.

Duke.Anything lies in my power.

Ant.Then, pray, will you bring me immediately to the duke?

Duke.Not as you are, I hope.

Ant.Yes, as I am: he shall see how I am wronged amongst them. I know he loves me, and will right me. Pray, sir, forbear persuasion to the contrary, and lead on.[Exeunt.

FOOTNOTES:[345]See Milton's "Comus," l. 739, &c.[346]So in "King Henry IV., Part I."—"And on thine eye-lidscrownthe god of sleep."—Steevens.[The whole passage seems to be imitated from one in "Venus and Adonis."][347]So Seneca—"Curæ leves loquuntur: ingentes stupent."—Pegge.[348]Famous for all the arts of fraud and thievery—"Non fuit Autolyci tam piccata manus."—Martial.See Mr Steevens's note on "The Winter's Tale," act iv. sc. 2.[349][Dressing himself.][350]Ambergrease was formerly an ingredient used in heightening sauces. So in Milton's "Paradise Regained," book ii. l. 344—"In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd,Gris ambersteam'd."—Steevens.On this passage Dr Newton observes, that "ambergris, or grey amber, is esteemed the best, and used in perfumes and cordials." A curious lady communicated the following remarks upon this passage to Mr Peck, which we will here transcribe: "Grey amberis the amber our author here speaks of, and melts like butter. It was formerly a main ingredient in every concert for a banquet—viz., to fume the meat with, and that whether boiled, roasted, or baked; laid often on the top of a baked pudding; which last I have eat of at an old courtier's table. And I remember, in our old chronicle there is much complaint of the nobilities being made sick, at Cardinal Wolsey's banquets, with rich scented cates and dishes most costly dressed withambergris. I also recollect I once saw a little book writ by a gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's Court, where ambergris is mentioned as thehaut-goutof that age." So far this curious lady; and Beaumont and Fletcher, in the "Custom of the Country," act iii. sc. 2—"Be sureThe wines be lusty, high, and full of spirit,Andamber'dall."It appears also to have been esteemed a restorative, being mentioned, with other things used for that purpose, in Marston's "Fawne," act ii. sc. 1. See also Surflet's Translation of Laurentius's "Discourse of Old Age, &c.," 1599, p. 194.[351][Or Sellenger'sRound. See Chappell's "Popular Music," pp. 69, 70.][352]See Homer's "Iliad," viii:—Σειρὴν χρυσείην ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμασάντες, &c.—Steevens.[353][Mr. Collier's addition.][354]Lemanis the old word for aloverof either sex; and in a note to "The Merry Wives of Windsor," act iv. sc. 2, Mr Steevens derives it fromlief, which is Dutch for beloved. In this opinion he only follows Junius, while others consider it to have its origin inl'aimant."Judge Apius, prickt forth with filthy desire,Thy person asLemmondoth greatly require."—Apius and Virginia, 1575, sign. D 3.In "The Contention between Liberalitie and Prodigalitie," 1602, it is made the subject of a pun:"He shall have aLemmonto moysten his mouth:ALymon, I meane, noLemman, I trow;Take hede, my faire maides, you take me not so."—Sign. C 4.—Collier.[355][Drab.][356]This was one of the names by which women of ill-fame were usually distinguished.So in Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour" "His chief exercises are taking the whiff, squiring acockatrice, and making privy searches for imparters."In "Cynthia's Revels," act ii. sc. 4: "—Marry, tohis cockatrice, or punquetto, half a dozen taffata gowns, or sattin kirtles, in a pair or two of months; why, they are nothing."And in his "Poetaster," act iii. sc. 4: "—I would fain come with mycockatrice, one day, and see a play, if I knew when there were a good bawdy one."Again in Massinger's "City Madam," act ii. sc. 1:"——My fidlers playing all nightThe shaking of the sheets, which I have dancedAgain and again withmy cockatrice."And in Dekker's "Belman of London," sign. B.: "Shee feedes uppon gold as the estredge doth upon iron, and drinks silver faster downe her crane-like throat, than anEnglish cockatricedoth Hiphocras."See also an extract from the "Gull's Horn Book," 1609, in Shakespeare, p. 83, edit. 1778.[357]Rustic meetings of festivity, at particular seasons, were formerly calledales; as Church-ale, Whitsun-ale, Bride-ale, Midsummer-ale, &c. Carew, in his "Survey of Cornwall," edition 1769, p. 68, gives the following account of the Church-ale; with which, it is most likely, the others agreed:—"For the church-ale, two young men of the parish are yerely chosen by their last foregoers, to be wardens; who, dividing the task, make collection among the parishioners, of whatsoever provision it pleaseth them voluntarily to bestow. This they imploy in brewing, baking, and other acates, against Whitsontide; upon which holydayes the neighbours meet at the church-house, and there merily feede on their owne victuals, contributing some petty portion to the stock; which by many smalls, groweth to a meetly greatnes; for there is entertayned a kinde of emulation betweene these wardens, who by his graciousnes in gathering, and good husbandry in expending, can best advance the churches profit. Besides, the neighbour parishes at those times lovingly visit one another, and this way frankely spend their money together. The afternoones are consumed in such exercises as olde and yong folke (having leysure) doe accustomably weare out the time withall."——In the subsequent pages, Carew enters into a defence of these meetings, which in his time had become productive of riot and disorder, and were among the subjects of complaint by the more rigid puritans. For an account ofMaid Marian, see Mr Tollet's Dissertation at the end of the "First Part of Henry IV." [But see both subjects copiously illustrated in "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," i. 156,et seq.]

[345]See Milton's "Comus," l. 739, &c.

[346]So in "King Henry IV., Part I."—"And on thine eye-lidscrownthe god of sleep."—Steevens.[The whole passage seems to be imitated from one in "Venus and Adonis."]

[346]So in "King Henry IV., Part I."—

"And on thine eye-lidscrownthe god of sleep."

—Steevens.[The whole passage seems to be imitated from one in "Venus and Adonis."]

[347]So Seneca—"Curæ leves loquuntur: ingentes stupent."—Pegge.

[347]So Seneca—

"Curæ leves loquuntur: ingentes stupent."

—Pegge.

[348]Famous for all the arts of fraud and thievery—"Non fuit Autolyci tam piccata manus."—Martial.See Mr Steevens's note on "The Winter's Tale," act iv. sc. 2.

[348]Famous for all the arts of fraud and thievery—

"Non fuit Autolyci tam piccata manus."

—Martial.

See Mr Steevens's note on "The Winter's Tale," act iv. sc. 2.

[349][Dressing himself.]

[350]Ambergrease was formerly an ingredient used in heightening sauces. So in Milton's "Paradise Regained," book ii. l. 344—"In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd,Gris ambersteam'd."—Steevens.On this passage Dr Newton observes, that "ambergris, or grey amber, is esteemed the best, and used in perfumes and cordials." A curious lady communicated the following remarks upon this passage to Mr Peck, which we will here transcribe: "Grey amberis the amber our author here speaks of, and melts like butter. It was formerly a main ingredient in every concert for a banquet—viz., to fume the meat with, and that whether boiled, roasted, or baked; laid often on the top of a baked pudding; which last I have eat of at an old courtier's table. And I remember, in our old chronicle there is much complaint of the nobilities being made sick, at Cardinal Wolsey's banquets, with rich scented cates and dishes most costly dressed withambergris. I also recollect I once saw a little book writ by a gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's Court, where ambergris is mentioned as thehaut-goutof that age." So far this curious lady; and Beaumont and Fletcher, in the "Custom of the Country," act iii. sc. 2—"Be sureThe wines be lusty, high, and full of spirit,Andamber'dall."It appears also to have been esteemed a restorative, being mentioned, with other things used for that purpose, in Marston's "Fawne," act ii. sc. 1. See also Surflet's Translation of Laurentius's "Discourse of Old Age, &c.," 1599, p. 194.

[350]Ambergrease was formerly an ingredient used in heightening sauces. So in Milton's "Paradise Regained," book ii. l. 344—

"In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd,Gris ambersteam'd."—Steevens.

On this passage Dr Newton observes, that "ambergris, or grey amber, is esteemed the best, and used in perfumes and cordials." A curious lady communicated the following remarks upon this passage to Mr Peck, which we will here transcribe: "Grey amberis the amber our author here speaks of, and melts like butter. It was formerly a main ingredient in every concert for a banquet—viz., to fume the meat with, and that whether boiled, roasted, or baked; laid often on the top of a baked pudding; which last I have eat of at an old courtier's table. And I remember, in our old chronicle there is much complaint of the nobilities being made sick, at Cardinal Wolsey's banquets, with rich scented cates and dishes most costly dressed withambergris. I also recollect I once saw a little book writ by a gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's Court, where ambergris is mentioned as thehaut-goutof that age." So far this curious lady; and Beaumont and Fletcher, in the "Custom of the Country," act iii. sc. 2—

"Be sureThe wines be lusty, high, and full of spirit,Andamber'dall."

It appears also to have been esteemed a restorative, being mentioned, with other things used for that purpose, in Marston's "Fawne," act ii. sc. 1. See also Surflet's Translation of Laurentius's "Discourse of Old Age, &c.," 1599, p. 194.

[351][Or Sellenger'sRound. See Chappell's "Popular Music," pp. 69, 70.]

[352]See Homer's "Iliad," viii:—Σειρὴν χρυσείην ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμασάντες, &c.—Steevens.

[352]See Homer's "Iliad," viii:—

Σειρὴν χρυσείην ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμασάντες, &c.

—Steevens.

[353][Mr. Collier's addition.]

[354]Lemanis the old word for aloverof either sex; and in a note to "The Merry Wives of Windsor," act iv. sc. 2, Mr Steevens derives it fromlief, which is Dutch for beloved. In this opinion he only follows Junius, while others consider it to have its origin inl'aimant."Judge Apius, prickt forth with filthy desire,Thy person asLemmondoth greatly require."—Apius and Virginia, 1575, sign. D 3.In "The Contention between Liberalitie and Prodigalitie," 1602, it is made the subject of a pun:"He shall have aLemmonto moysten his mouth:ALymon, I meane, noLemman, I trow;Take hede, my faire maides, you take me not so."—Sign. C 4.—Collier.

"Judge Apius, prickt forth with filthy desire,Thy person asLemmondoth greatly require."

—Apius and Virginia, 1575, sign. D 3.

In "The Contention between Liberalitie and Prodigalitie," 1602, it is made the subject of a pun:

"He shall have aLemmonto moysten his mouth:ALymon, I meane, noLemman, I trow;Take hede, my faire maides, you take me not so."

—Sign. C 4.—Collier.

[355][Drab.]

[356]This was one of the names by which women of ill-fame were usually distinguished.So in Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour" "His chief exercises are taking the whiff, squiring acockatrice, and making privy searches for imparters."In "Cynthia's Revels," act ii. sc. 4: "—Marry, tohis cockatrice, or punquetto, half a dozen taffata gowns, or sattin kirtles, in a pair or two of months; why, they are nothing."And in his "Poetaster," act iii. sc. 4: "—I would fain come with mycockatrice, one day, and see a play, if I knew when there were a good bawdy one."Again in Massinger's "City Madam," act ii. sc. 1:"——My fidlers playing all nightThe shaking of the sheets, which I have dancedAgain and again withmy cockatrice."And in Dekker's "Belman of London," sign. B.: "Shee feedes uppon gold as the estredge doth upon iron, and drinks silver faster downe her crane-like throat, than anEnglish cockatricedoth Hiphocras."See also an extract from the "Gull's Horn Book," 1609, in Shakespeare, p. 83, edit. 1778.

[356]This was one of the names by which women of ill-fame were usually distinguished.

So in Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour" "His chief exercises are taking the whiff, squiring acockatrice, and making privy searches for imparters."

In "Cynthia's Revels," act ii. sc. 4: "—Marry, tohis cockatrice, or punquetto, half a dozen taffata gowns, or sattin kirtles, in a pair or two of months; why, they are nothing."

And in his "Poetaster," act iii. sc. 4: "—I would fain come with mycockatrice, one day, and see a play, if I knew when there were a good bawdy one."

Again in Massinger's "City Madam," act ii. sc. 1:

"——My fidlers playing all nightThe shaking of the sheets, which I have dancedAgain and again withmy cockatrice."

And in Dekker's "Belman of London," sign. B.: "Shee feedes uppon gold as the estredge doth upon iron, and drinks silver faster downe her crane-like throat, than anEnglish cockatricedoth Hiphocras."

See also an extract from the "Gull's Horn Book," 1609, in Shakespeare, p. 83, edit. 1778.

[357]Rustic meetings of festivity, at particular seasons, were formerly calledales; as Church-ale, Whitsun-ale, Bride-ale, Midsummer-ale, &c. Carew, in his "Survey of Cornwall," edition 1769, p. 68, gives the following account of the Church-ale; with which, it is most likely, the others agreed:—"For the church-ale, two young men of the parish are yerely chosen by their last foregoers, to be wardens; who, dividing the task, make collection among the parishioners, of whatsoever provision it pleaseth them voluntarily to bestow. This they imploy in brewing, baking, and other acates, against Whitsontide; upon which holydayes the neighbours meet at the church-house, and there merily feede on their owne victuals, contributing some petty portion to the stock; which by many smalls, groweth to a meetly greatnes; for there is entertayned a kinde of emulation betweene these wardens, who by his graciousnes in gathering, and good husbandry in expending, can best advance the churches profit. Besides, the neighbour parishes at those times lovingly visit one another, and this way frankely spend their money together. The afternoones are consumed in such exercises as olde and yong folke (having leysure) doe accustomably weare out the time withall."——In the subsequent pages, Carew enters into a defence of these meetings, which in his time had become productive of riot and disorder, and were among the subjects of complaint by the more rigid puritans. For an account ofMaid Marian, see Mr Tollet's Dissertation at the end of the "First Part of Henry IV." [But see both subjects copiously illustrated in "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," i. 156,et seq.]

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