At Saynt Savyour's; 36 at our Lady of Southwele;37 By whose prayers and my dayly payne, I truste the sooner to obtain 43 Pard. And when ye have gone as far as ye47can, 36 Saynt Savyour's-" In September, the same yeare, (says Weever, p. 111.) viz. an. 30. Hen. VIII. by the special motion of great Cromwell, all the notable images, unto the which were made any especiall pilgrimages and offerings, as the images of our Lady of Walsingham, Ipswich, Worcester, the Lady of Wilsdon, the rood of grace of our Lady of Boxley, and the image of the rood of Saint Saviour at Bermondsey, with all the rest, were brought up to London, and burnt at Chelsey; at the commandment of the foresaid Cromwell, all the jewels, and other rich offerings to these, and to the shrines (which were all likewise taken away, or beaten to pieces) of other saints, throughout both England and Wales, were brought into the king's treasure." 37 At our Lady of Southwele-The church dedicated to Saint Mary at Southwel, in Nottinghamshire. 38 Crome-In the county of Kent, near Greenwich. 39 Wylsdome-In Finsbury hundred, Middlesex, the chapel dedicated to St Mary. See above, note 36. 4° At Muswel—“ Muswell-hill, called also Pinsenall-hill; there was a chapple sometime bearing the name of our Ladie of Muswell, where now Alderman Roe hath erected a proper house, the place taketh name of the well and of the hill, Mousewell-hill; for there is on the hill a spring of faire water, which is now within the compass of the house. There was some time an image of the Ladie of Muswell, whereunto was a continuall resort in the way of pylgrimage, growing, as is (though, as I take it, fabulouslie) reported, in regard of a great cure which was performed by this water upon a king of Scots, who being strangely diseased, was, by some devine intelligence, advised to take the water of a well in England, called Muswell; which, after long scrutation and inquisition, this well was found, and performed the cure."NORDEN'S Speculum Britanniæ, p. 36. edit. 1723. I am informed, that the mosaic pavement, and other ruins of this well and its chapel, were to be seen about twenty-five years ago. 41 Saynt Rycharde-This was probably Richard Fitznige, bishop of London, and treasurer of England, in the time of Henry the Second. His shrine was, as Weever observes, p. 714. in St Paul's church; and, as he contributed largely to the building of the church, he conjectures it to have been erected there on that account. Drayton, however, in his Poly Olbion, song xxiv. speaks of others of that name; as, Again, Again, "Richard, the dear son to Lothar, king of Kent, Into thy country come, at Lucca left his life; Whose miracles there done, yet to this day are rife." "So countries more remote with ours we did acquaint; And for the wondrous things that through his prayers were done; From this his native home into Calabria call'd, And of St Andrew's there the bishop was install'd; For whom she hath profess'd much reverence to this land.” "So other southern sees, here either less or more, we have of Chichester Saint Richard, and with him Saint Gilbert, which do stand 42 Saynt Roke-Saint Roke, or Roch, was born at Montpelier, in France; and died in prison at Anglerye, in the province of Lombardy, where a large church was built in honour of him. See Legenda Aurea, p. 238. 43 Obtain-obtaye, 1st edit. 44 Assuredly-surely, 1st edit. 45 Their-thy, 1st edit. 46 Pardoner-"Pardoners were certain fellows that carried about the Pope's Indulgences, and sold them to such as would buy them; against whom Luther, by Sleydan's report, incensed the people of Germany in his time, exhorting them ne merces tam viles tanti emerent."-COWEL. 47 Ye-you, edit. 1569. I pray you shew what the cause is, Palm. Forsoth, this lyfe I did begyn, To rydde the bondage of my syn: For whiche these sayntes rehersed or this: Upon myne si humble submyssion, I trust to have in very dede, Purd, Nowe is your owne confessyon lykely No other 54 thynge for all your payne, Palm. If this be true that you have moved, Pard. Truly I am a Pardoner. Palm. Truly a Pardoner! that may be true; That trueth and Pardoners dwell together. With suche lyes, that oft tymes, Cryste wot, Pard. By the 58 fyrste parte of this laste tale, For you And in one paynte ye are beyonde me, 67 I wold brynge them all to heven, as good chepeCheap, as Dr Johnson observes, is market, and good cheap, therefore, is bon marche. The expression is very frequent in ancient writers, as in Churchyard's Worthyness of Wales. Evans's edition, 1776, p. 3. "Victuals good cheape in most part of Wales." "Seeing thou wilt not buie counsayle at the first hande good cheape, thou shalt buy repentance at second hand, at such an unreasonable rate, that thou wilt curse thy hard penyworth, and ban thy hard heart."Euphues, 1581, p. 8. "He bueys other men's cunning good cheape in London, and sels it deare in the Countrey."-DEKKAR's Belman's Night-walks, H. 4. See other instances in Mr Steevens's Note on First Part of King Henry IV. A. 3. S. 3. As ye have brought yourselfe on pylgrymage, Pot. Send ye any souls to heaven by water? I pray you let our soules go to heven togyther; No soule, ye knowe, entreth heven gate, 77 If 78 ye shulde chaunce to begyle me so. were tevd; When come they to heven, yf they never dyed? 81 may perceyve even at the fyrst chop Pot. Brother, ye have gone wrong no wyt, Ped. And I a Pedler. 68 Last-leste, 1st edit. least, edit. 1569. Doo-dyd, 1st edit. 74 Let-i. e. hindrance. 69 Isas, 1st edit. 72 Iwyl-we will, ed. 1569. 70 Bring-bryngeth, Ist edit. 73 Ere-or, Ist edit. 76 Honestly-hostely, Ist edit. 77 I wolde be wo-To be woe, is often used by old writers to signify to be sorry. So Shakspeare's Tempest, A. 5. S. I. Loke were yourself can lyke to be chooser, 89 90 86 87 Where lovers be, no suche thynges lacks; Pot. Do women bye their pyncaces of you? Pard. Syr, ye seme wel sene in women's causes; I pray you tell me what causeth this: That women after theyr arysynge,92 Be so longe in theyr appareleng? Ped. Forsoth, women have many lettes, And they be masked in many nettes: As frontlettes,93 fyllettes, partlettes,94 and bracelettes; And then theyr bonettes and theyr poynettes 95 By these lettes and nettes, the lette is suche, That spede is small, whan haste is muche. Pot. Another cause why they come nat forwarde, Whiche maketh them dayly to drawe backwarde; And yet 96 is a thynge they cannat forbere; The trymmynge and pynnynge up of theyr gere; Specyally theyr fydling with the tayle pyn; And when they wolde have it prickt 97 in, If it chaunce to double in the clothe, 98 Then be they 99 wode, and swere an othe. Tyl it stande reght they wyll nat forsake it, Thus though it may not, yet wyll they make it. But be ye sure they do but defarre it; 101 100 For when they wolde make it, ofte times they marre it. But prycke them, and pynne them, as nyche as ye wyll, And yet wyll they loke for pynnynge styll. $5 Here-there, edit. 1569. 87 Knotted-unknotted, edit. 1569. 86 Wherein-where, 1st edit. 98 Laces-lace, 1st edit. $9 Nedles, thred, thimbles, and such other knacks-Edition, 1569. 90 Sypers-i. e. Cyprus; thin stuff of which women's veils were made. So, in Shakspeare's Winter's Tale, A. 4. S. 3. Again, in Twelfth Night: "Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as any crow." 91 Swathbonds-i. e. rollers in which infants were swath'd. So, in Tymon of Athens: "Had thou, like us, from thy first swath," &c. S. 92 Arysynge-uprising, edit. 1569. 93 Frontlettes-Frontal, Fr. A frontlet, or forehead-band. COTGRAVE. A frontlet is mentioned as part of a woman's dress, in Lyly's Midas, 1592: "Hoods, frontlets, wires, cauls, curling irons, periwigs, bodkins, fillets, hair laces, ribbons, rolls, knotstrings, glasses," &c. See also Mr Steevens's Note on King Lear, A. 1. S. 4. 94 Partlettes-Ruffs or bands for women. 95 Poynettes-Little bodkins or puncheons. 96 Yet-it, edit. 1569. See Glossary to Douglas's Translation of Virgil. 97 Prickt-prycke, 1st edit. 98 Then be they wode-Wode signifies mad, furious, or violent. So, in Ascham's Toxophilus, Bennet's edition, 4to. p. 86. "How will you thincke that suche furiousnesse, with woode countenance, and brenninge eyes, with staringe and bragginge, with hart redye to leape out of the bellye for swellinge, can be expressed the tenthe-part to the uttermost." Churchyard's Worthiness of Wales, p. 103. Evans's edition, 1776. "It flowes with winde, although no rayne there bee, With winde alone, to waxe so wyld and wood, And shewe such life, as though some spreete it had." 99 They they be, edit. 1569. 101 Wyll-wil, edit. 1569. 100 Swere-swereth, 1st edit. 102 Ful-fall, 1st edit. Ped. Let women's maters passe, and marke | What I can do, then shall you se. myne; 103 Palm. Nay, by my trouth, we be lyke fryers We are but beggars, we be no byers. Pard. Syr, ye may showe your ware for your mynde, But I thynke ye shall no profyte fynde. Ped. Well, though this journey acquyte no coste, Yet thynke I nat my labour loste: For, by the fayth of my body, I lyke ful well thys company. Up shall this packe; for, it is playne, I came not hyther al for gayne. Who may nat play one day in a weke, May thynke bys thryfte is farre to seyke. Devyse what pastyme that ye thynke beste, And make ye sure to fynde me prest. Pot. Why, be ye so unyversall That ye can do what so ever ye shall ? Ped. Syr, yf ye lyste for to appose me; 103 Come off—i. e. pay down. 104 Pot. Then tell me thys; are you perfyt in drynkynge? Ped. Perfyt in drynkynge, as may be wysht by thynkynge. Pot. Then, after your drynkynge, how fall ye to wynking? Ped. Syr, after drynkynge, whyle the shot 105 is tynkynge, Some hedes be swymmyng, 106 but myne wyll be synkyng; And, upon drynkynge, my eyse wil be pynkynge; For wynkynge to drynkynge is alway lynkynge. Pot. Then drynke and slepe you can well do; But, yf ye were desyred therto, I pray you tell me, can you synge? Ped. Syr, I have some syght in syngynge. Pot. But is 107 brest your any thynge swete? Ped. What ever my breste be, my voyce is mete. Pot. That answere showeth you a ryght syng ynge man. Now what is your wyll, good father, than? Palm. What helpeth wyll, where is no skyll? 104 Prest-i. e. ready; pret, Fr. So, in Cæsar and Pompey, 1607: See a note on The Merchant of Venice, act i. scene 1. S. "Then shall my mouth, my muse, my pen, and all, Cynthia's Revels. act v. scene 4 : "I am prest for the encounter." 105 Shot-i. e. the reckoning. See Mr Steevens's note to The First Part of King Henry IV. act v. sc. 3. Again, in Churchyard's Worthyness of Wales: "Behold besides, a further thing to note, The best cheap cheare they have that may be found; If all alike the reckoning runneth round." 106 Swymmyng-The second edition reads, swynking. 107 But is your brest any thynge swete-In Sir John Hawkins's History of Music, Vol. III. p. 466. a passage, in Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Husbandry, 1580, is cited, in which this line occurs: "The better brest, the lesser rest :" upon which he makes this observation: “In singing, the sound is originally produced by the action of the lungs; which are so essential an organ in this respect, that to have a good breast was formerly a common periphrasis to denote a good singer. The Italians make use of the terms, voce de petto, and voce di testa, to signify two kinds of voice, of which the first is the best. In Shakespeare's comedy of Twelfth Night, after the clown is asked to sing, Sir Andrew Aguecheek says, "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast." "And in the statutes of Stoke college, in Suffolk, founded by Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, is a provision in these words: Of which said queristers, after their breasts are changed, (i. e. their voices broke,) we will the most apt of wit and capacity be helpen with exhibitions of forty shillings," &c. See also the notes of Mr Warton and Mr Steevens to Twelfth Night, act ii. scene 3. Again, in Middleton's More Dissemblers besides Women, act i. scene 1. Dondolo, after a song by his page, says, "Oh rich, ravishing, rare, and enticing! Well, go thy ways, for as sweet a brested page as ever lay at his master's feet, in a truckle-bed." Women beware of Women, act iii. scene 2. "Duke. Yea, the voice too, sir? Fab. I, and a sweet brest too, my lord, I hope; Or I have cast away my money wisely." |