[118] Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton, is among the Proverbs published by Mr Ray. That gentleman adds, “Who this _Bolton_ was I know not, neither is it worth enquiring. One of this name might happen to say, _Bate me an ace_, and, for the coincidence of the first letters of the two words _Bate_ and _Bolton_, it grew to be a proverb. We have many of the like original; as _v.g._ Sup, Simon, &c., Stay, quoth Stringer, &c. There goes a story of Queen Elizabeth, that being presented with a Collection of English Proverbs, and told by the author that it contained all the English Proverbs, nay, replied she, _Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton_: which Proverb being instantly looked for, happened to be wanting in his Collection.” [See Hazlitt’s] “Proverbs,” p. [80.] This story of Queen Elizabeth forms the point of an epigram by H.P. (probably Henry Parrot) in a collection called “The Mastive,” 1615-- “A pamphlet was of proverbs penn’d by Polton Wherein he thought all sorts included were; Until one told him, _Bate m’ an ace, quoth Bolton_: Indeed (said he) that proverb is not there.” [119] [Sacks of coal, more properly, _benters_, as just above.] [120] In the former edition, Mr Dodsley had altered this to _pay mee wel_. [121] [Urine.] [122] _Aloue_, French is to allow, to approve, to praise. I know of no other word that resembles that in the text. _Alosed_, in Chaucer, is _praised_.--_S._ [Possibly, _Hallo, hallo!_ may be the true reading.] [123] From the manner in which this expression is used by Sir John Harington, in “The Anatomie of the Metamorphosis of Ajax,” 1596, sig. L, 7, it seems as though it was intended for a sallow hue. “Both of a complexion inclining to the oriental colour of a _Croyden sanguine_.” [124] The 4tos read _Pallarrime_. The razors of Palermo were anciently famous. They are mentioned in more than one of our old plays, and particularly in “The Wounds of Civill War,” by Thomas Lodge, 1594, “Neighbour sharpen the edge tole of your wits upon the whetstone of indiscretion, that your wordes may shine like _the rasers of Palermo_.”--_S_. [125] He means a _pestilence_ quean.--_S._ [126] _A pestle of porke_--_i.e._, gammon of bacon.--_Minsheu._ [127] _Trimly_, second edition. [128] [_i.e._, Dionysius, to which Dodsley changed it.] [129] _Bonns_, both 4tos. [130] Sometimes called New Queen Street, where there seems to have been the sign of _the three Cranes_. Ben Jonson mentions this place in “The Devil is an Ass,” act. i. sc. 1. “From thence shoot the bridge child, to _the Cranes of the Vintry_, And see there the gimblets how they make their entry!”