The Jacks being of leather, could not be made to appear beautiful on the outside, but were very apt to contract foulness within; whereas, the Jills, being of metal, were expected to be kept bright externally, and were not liable to dirt on the inside like the lea ther. The quibble on the former of these words I find in the Atheist's Tragedy, by C. Turner, 1611: ❝have you drunk yourselves mad? "1 Ser. My lord, the Jacks abus'd me. "I owe money to several hostesses, and you know such jills will quickly be upon a man's jack." Puritan Widow, 1607. In this last instance, the allusion to drinking measures is evident. STEEVENS. 73. -bemoil'd;] i. e. be-draggled, bemired. 76. -- -how he swore, STEEVENS. And how she pray'd-that never pray'd before ;] These lines, with little variation, are found in the old copy of K. Leir, published before that of Shakspere. STEEVENS. 87. their blue coats be brush'd,] The dress of servants at the time. So, in Decker's Belman's Night Walkes, sig. E 3: "the other act their parts in blew coates, as they were their serving-men, though in. deed they be all fellowes." REED. 88. ―garters of an indifferent knit :] What is the sense of this I know not, unless it means, that their garters should be fellows: indifferent, or not different, one from the other. JOHNSON.' This is rightly explained. So, in Hamlet: "As the indifferent children of the earth." Again, in King Richard II. "Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye, i. e. STEEVENS. an impartial one.” In Shakspere's time indifferent was used for different. Thus Speed, in his History of Great-Britaine, 1614, p. 779, describing the French and English armies at the battle of Agincourt, says,-" The face of these hoasts were diverse and indifferent; the French gallant, fresh, and through vaine hope of honour already mounted above men of mean rank;-the English weake, weary, and sore-starved." So, in Aretine's History of the Goths, translated by Golding, 1563. In a place of advantage and easie to the Goths, but very untoward and un-indifferent for the souldiers of Belisarius." That garters of a different knit were formely worn, appears from TEXNOTAMIA, or the Marriages of the Arts, by Barton Holyday, 1630, where the following stage direction occurs. "Phantastes in a branched velvet jerkin-red silk stockings, and particoloured garters. MALONE. 116. Enter Petruchio, &c.] Thus the original play. "Enter Ferando and Kate. "Feran. Now welcome, Kate. Where's these villaines, "Heere what, not supper yet upon the boord! "Nor "Nor table spread, nor nothing done at all! "Where's that villaine that I sent before? "San. Now, adsum, sir. "Feran. Come hither, you villaine; Ile cut your nose, "You rogue: help me off with my boots: wilt please "You to lay the cloth? Sowns the villaine "Hurts my foote: pull easily I say: yet againe ? He beates them all. They cover the board, and fetch in the meate. "Sowns, burnt and scorch't! who drest this meate? "Will. Forsooth, John Cooke. He throwes down the table and meate, and all, and beates them all. "Feran. Goe, you villaines; bring me such meate ? "Out of my sight, I say, and bear it hence. "Come, Kate, wee'l have other meate provided: "Is there a fire in my chamber, sir? "San. I, forsooth. [Exeunt Ferando and Kate. "Manent serving-men, and eate up all the meatc. "Tom. Sownes, I thinke of my conscience my master's madde since he was married, "Will. I laft what a box he gave Sander "For pulling off his bootes. "Enter Ferando again. "San. I hurt his foot for the nonce man. "This humour must I hold me to a while, "To bridle and holde back my head-strong wife, "With curbes of hunger, ease, and want of sleepe: "Nor sleep nor meate shall she enjoy to night; "Ile mew her up as men do mew their hawkes, "And make her gently come unto the lewre: "Where she as stubborne and as full of strength "As was the Thracian horse Alcides tamde, "That king Egeus fed with flesh of men, "Yet would I pull her downe and make her come, "As hungry hawkes do flie unto their lewre. [Exit. STEEVENS. 130. -no link to colour Peter's hat,] A link is a torch of pitch. Greene, in his Mihil Mumchance, says "This cozenage is used likewise in selling old hats found upon dung-hills, instead of newe, blackt over with the smoake of an old linke." STEEVENS. 136. Where, &c.] A scrap of some old ballad. Ancient Pistol elsewhere quotes the same line. In an old black letter book, entitled, "A gorgious Gallery of gallant Inventions, London, 1578, 4to. is a song to the tune of Where is the life that late I led ?" REMARKS. 138. -Soud, soud, &c.] That is, sweet, sweet. Soot, and sometimes sooth, is sweet. So, in Milton, to sing soothly, is to sing sweetly. JOHNSON. So, in Promos and Cassandra, 1578: "He'll hang handsome young men for the soote sinne of love." STEEVENS. 141. It was the friar of orders grey,] Dispersed through Shakspere's plays are many little fragments of ancient ballads, the entire copies of which cannot now be re covered, covered. Many of these being of the most beautiful and pathetick simplicity, Dr. Percy has selected some of them, and connected them together with a few supplemental stanzas; a work, which at once shews his own poetical abilities, as well as his respect to the truly venerable remains of our most ancient bards. STEEVENS. 147. And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither:] This cousin Ferdinand, who does not make his personal appearance on the scene, is mentioned, I suppose, for no other reason than to give Katharine a hint, that he could keep even his own relations in order, and make them obedient as his spaniel Troilus. STEEVENS. 190. -full-gorg'd, &c.] A hawk too much fed was never tractable. So, in the Tragedie of Cræsus, 1604: "And like a hooded hawk, gorg'd with vain pleasures, "At random flies, and wots not where he is." Again, in the Book of Haukyng, bl. let. no date: shall say your hauke is full-gorg'd and not cropped." -ye The lure was only a thing stuff'd like that kind of bird which the hawk was designed to pursue. The use of the lure was to tempt him back after he had flown. STEEVENS. 192. -to man my haggard,] A haggard is a wild hawk; to man a hawk is to tame her. JOHNSON. 194. -watch her as we watch these kites,] Thus in the same book of Haukyng, &c. bl. let. commonly |