For our fields 'tis time to stand, We our sheep-walks sold for nought. Best of all the Western breed, Which, though whelps, shall lug their hogs Till they make their ears to bleed : Therefore, shepherd, come away." With this, Dorilus arose, Whistles Cut-tail from his play, A FEW NOTES. NOTE the not unfrequent use (especially in the "Barons' Wars") of when where we should now write then, in passing from one incident of a story to the next. Also the use of and where we should now write also; the word and being in such cases placed where we should place the word also. P. 23. Lope-staves, leaping-poles; currers, runners. P. 39. Morrians, morions, helmets without visors, from Spanish, morra, the crown of the head. Pouldron, or pauldron, a piece of armour covering the shoulder. Spanish, espaldaron from espalda; French, épaule; the shoulder. Saltoir, saltire, in heraldry two bends forming a St. Andrew's cross, from sautoir a stirrup, which is from sauter, Latin saltare, to leap (on horseback). Verry or vair, Old French for weasel-skin, a grey and white fur, from Latin varius, was used in heraldry for ground on a shield formed into a pattern with rows of silver and blue bells, arranged so that the spaces between blue bells form the silver bells inverted. Confusion between this word vair for fur and verre for glass, caused Cinderella's fur slipper in the French fairy story to become a glass slipper in English. P. 45. Segges, sedges; swound, swoon; prease, press. P. 65. Guyne, Guienne. P. 89. Corsives, corrosives. P. 147. Cauples, horses; Latin, caballus; Spanish, caballo; French, cheval. P. 157. Bet, beat; bourgonet (French, bourguignotte), a form of helmet first used by the Burgundians. It was so fitted to the gorget that the head moved freely without producing a chink through which an enemy might pierce the neck. P. 168. Imp'd, from old English impen, to graft. In days of hawking, sound feathers were fitted in the place of broken or bruised ones in the hawk's wing or tail to maintain power of flight. So Shakespeare in Richard II., "Imp out our drooping country's broken wing." Imp also was used in gardening for a graft on a stock, and so applied to those who are now called scions (cuttings grafted) of a noble house. Thence children, thence mischievous little creatures, thence the imps of Satan. P. 176. The kerne and Irish galliglass. Kerne, from Irish cearn, a man, was the light-armed Irish foot-soldier, as distinguished from the gallowglass (Irish galloglach) who was heavy-armed. P. 249. Dive the brack; dip into the sea. Brack, the word from which we get brackish, used for briny, is often used by Drayton for the water of the sea; "scorned that the brack should kiss her following keel ;" and when the chariots of the Egyptians are overturned in the Red Sea, Drayton makes them drag, as they float, the horses 66 'Drag their fat carcase through the foamy brack In one place, Drayton applies the word to river water- The silver Naïads bathe them in the brack." P. 255. The bi-cliff hill. Two-peaked Parnassus. P. 268. Like sleave was matted; sleave was floss silk, unspun, in knots or loops. Compare Shakespeare's "Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care." P. 273. Dray, an old word for a squirrel's nest, used as late as by Cowper, "Climbed like a squirrel to his dray." 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