Fran. O lord, Sir, I'll be fworn upon all the books in England, I could find in my heartheart be Poins. Francis! Fran. Anon, anon, Sir. P. Henry. How old art thou, Francis? Fran. Let me fee-about Michaelmas next I fhall Poins. Francis! Fran. Anon, Sir.-Pray you stay a little, my lord. P. Henry. Nay, but hark you, Francis, for the fugar thou gavest me; 'twas a pennyworth, was't not? Fran. O lord, Sir! I would, it had been two. P. Henry. I will give thee for it a thoufand pound: afk me when thou wilt, and thou fhalt have it. Poins. Francis! Fran. Anon, anon. P. Henry. Anon, Francis? no, Francis ; but to-morrow, Francis; or, Francis, on Thursday; or, indeed, Francis, when thou wilt. But, Francis Fran. My lord? 8 P. Henry. Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin, cry- · ftal-button, knot-pated, agat-ring, 9 puke-stocking, caddice knot-pated,-] It fhould be printed as in the old folio's, nott-pated. So in Chaucer's Cant. Tales the reman is thus described, "A nott head had he with a brown vifage." A perfon is faid to be nott-pated, when the hair was cut fhort and round. Ray fays, the word is ftill used in Effex, for polled or fhorn. Vid. Ray. Coll. p. 108. Morell's Chaucer, 8vo, p. 11. vid. Jun. Etym. ad verb. PERCY. So in The Widow's Tears, by Chapman, 1612, 66 your nott-headed country gentleman." STEEVENS. 9 puke-stocking,-] The prince intends to ask the drawer whether he will rob his mafter, whom he denotes by many contemptuous diftinitons, of which all are eafily intelligible but puke-ftocking, which I cannot explain. JOHNSON. In a small book entitled, The Order of my Lorde Maior, &c. for their Meetinges and Wearing of theyr Apparel throughout the Yeere, printed in 1586, "the maior, &c. are commanded to VOL. V. $ 66 appeare caddice-garter, fmooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch- P. Henry. Why then your brown 2 bastard is your only drink: for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet appeare on Good Fryday in their pewke gowns, and without "their chaynes and typetes." Shelton, in his tranflation of Don Quixote, p. 2, fays, "the "reft and remnant of his eftate was ipent on a jerkin of fine puke." Edit. 1612. In Salmon's Chymift's Shop laid open there is a receipt to make a puke colour. The ingredients are the vegetable gall and a large proportion of water; from which it should appear that the colour was grey. In Barret's Alvearie, an old Latin and English dictionary, printed 1580, I find a puke colour explained as being a colour between ruffet and black, and is rendered in Latin pullus. In the time of Shakespeare the most expenfive filk-stockings were worn; and in King Lear, by way of reproach, an attendant is called a worfted-flocking knave. So that after all, perhaps the word puke refers to the quality of the stuff rather than the colour. STEEVENS. I caddice-garter,] Caddis was, I believe, a kind of coarfe ferret. The garters of Shakespeare's time were worn in fight, and confequently were expenfive. He who would submit to wear a coarfer fort, was probably called by this contemptuous diftinction, which I meet with again in Glapthorne's Wit in a Conftable, 1639, doft hear, "My honeft caddis-garters." This is an addrefs to a fervant. STEEVENS. 2 brown bastard-] Batard was a kind of fweet wine. The prince finding the waiter not able, or not willing to understand his inftigation, puzzles him with unconnected prattle, and drives him away. JOHNSON. In an old dramatic piece, entitled, Wine, Beer, Ale, and Tobacco, the fecond edition, 1630, Beer fays to Wine, "Wine well-born? Did not every man call you baftard "but t'other day?” So in Match me in London, an old comedy, "Love you baftard? "No wines at all." So in Every Woman in her Humour, com. 1609, "Canary is a jewel, and a fig for brown baftard." Se doublet will fully. In Barbary, Sir, it cannot come to fo much. Fran. What, Sir? Poins. Francis! P. Henry. Away, you rogue; dost thou not hear them call? [Here they both call; the drawer ftands amazed, not knowing which way to go. Enter Vintner. Vint. What! ftand'st thou ftill, and hear'st such a calling? Look to the guefts within. [Exit drawer.] My lord, old Sir John with half a dozen more are at the door; fhall I let them in? P. Henry. Let them alone a while, and then open the door. [Exit Vintner.] Poins! Enter Poins. Poins. Anon, anon, Sir. P. Henry. Sirrah, Falftaff and the reft of the thieves are at the door; fhall we be merry? Poins. As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; what cunning match have you made with this jeft of the drawer? come, what's the iffue? P. Henry. I am now of all humours, that have fhew'd themselves humours, fince the old days of goodman Adam, to the pupil age of this prefent twelve o'clock at midnight. What's o'clock, Francis? Fran. Anon, anon, Sir. P. Henry. That ever this fellow fhould have fewer So again in The Honeft Whore, a comedy, by Decker, 1635, What wine fent they for? 66 "Ro. Baftard wine, for it had been truely begotten, it "would not have been afham'd to come in. Here's fix 66 pence to pay for nurfing the baftard." Again in The Fair Maid of the West, 1631, "I'll furnish you with baftard white or brown," &c. S 2 STEEVENS. words words than a parrot, and yet the fon of a woman!His industry is up ftairs and down ftairs; his eloquence the parcel of a reckoning.-3 I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hot-fpur of the north; he that kills me fome fix or feven dozen of Scots at a breakfaft, washes his hands, and fays to his wife, Fie upon this quiet life! I want work. O my fweet Harry, fays fhe, how many haft thou kill'd to-day? Give my roan horfe a drench, fays he, and answers, fome fourteen, an hour after; a trifle, a trifle. I pr'ythee, call in Falftaff; I'll play Percy, and that damn'd brawn fhall play dame Mortimer his wife. 4 Rivo, fays the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow. Enter Falstaff, Gads-bill, Bardolph, and Peto. Poins. Welcome, Jack; where haft thou been? Fal. A plague on all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! marry and Amen!-Give me a cup of 3 I am not yet of Percy's mind,-] The drawer's anfwer had interrupted the prince's train of difcourfe. He was proceeding thus, I am now of all humours that have shewed themJelves bumours I am not yet of Percy's mind,—that is, I am willing to indulge myfelf in gaiety and frolick, and try all the varieties of human life. I am not yet of Percy's mind,-who thinks all the time loft that is not fpent in bloodshed, forgets decency and civility, and has nothing but the barren talk of a brutal foldier. JOHNSON. 4 Ribi,- That is, drink. HANMER. All the former editions have rivo, which certainly had no meaning, but yet was perhaps the cant of English taverns. JOHNSON. This conjecture Mr. Farmer has fupported by a quotation from Marflon, "If thou art fad at others fate, "Rivo, drink deep, give care the mate." I find the fame word ufed in the comedy of Blurt Mafter Conftable, 66 66 -Yet to endear ourfelves to thy lean acquaintance, cry Rivo ho! laugh and be fat," &c. So in Marlton's What you will, 1607, "Sing, fing, or itay, we'll quaffe or any thing, fack, fack, boy.-Ere I lead this life long, I'll fow nether stocks, and mend them, and foot them too. A plague on all cowards!-Give me a cup of fack, rogue.--Is there no virtue extant? [He drinks. P. Henry. Didit thou never see Titan kils a difh of ·· butter? 5 pitiful-hearted Titan! that melted at the fweet tale of the fun? if thou didft, then behold that compound. Fal. pitiful-hearted Titan! that melted at the fweet tale of the fun? This abfurd reading poffeffes all the copies in general; and though it has paffed through fuch a number of impreffions, is nonfenfe; which we may pronounce to have arisen at first from the inadvertence, either of transcribers, or the compofitors at prefs. 'Tis well known, Titan is one of the poetical names of the fun; but we have no authority from fable for Titan's melting away at his own fweet tale, as Narciffus did at the reflection of his own form. The poet's meaning was certainly this: Falftaff enters in a great heat, after having been robbed by the prince and Poins in difguife: and the prince feeing him in such a sweat, makes the following fimile upon him: "Do but look upon that compound of greafe ;-his fat drips "away with the violence of his motion, juft as butter does with "the heat of the fun-beams darting full upon it." THEOBALD. Didft thou never fee Titan kifs a difh of butter? pitiful-hearted Titan! that melted at the fweet tale of the fun?] This perplexes Mr. Theobald; he calls it nonfenfe, and, indeed, having made nonsense of it, changes it to pitiful-hearted butter. But the common reading is right: and all that wants reftoring is a parenthefis, into which (pitiful-hearted Titan!) should be put. Pitiful-hearted means only amorous, which was Titan's character: the pronoun that refers to butter. But the Oxford Editor goes ftill further, and not only takes, without ceremony, Mr. Theobald's bread and butter, but turns tale into face; not perceiving that the heat of the fun is figuratively reprefented as a love tale, the poet having before called him pitiful-hearted, or amorous. WARBURTON. I have left this paffage as I found it, defiring only that the reader, who inclines to follow Dr. Warburton's opinion, will furnish himself with fome proof that pitiful-hearted was ever used to fignify amorous, before he pronounces this emendation to be juft. I own I am unable to do it for him; and though I ought not to decide in favour of any violent proceedings against the text, must own, that the reader who looks for fenfe as the words ftand at prefent, must be indebted for it to Mr. Theobald. S 3 Shall |