[7] Fox, in the third volume of his "Acts and Monuments," p. 131, says: "Over and besides divers other things touching M. Rogers, this is not to be forgotten, how, in the daies of King Edward the Sixth, there was a controversie among the Bishops and Clergie _for wearing of priests caps_, and other attyre belonging to that order. Master Rogers, being one of that number which never went otherwise than in _a round cap_ during all the time of King Edward, affirmed that he would not agree to that decreement of uniformitie, but upon this condition, that if they would needs have such an uniformitie of wearing the cap, tippet, &c., then it should be decreed withall, that the papists, for a difference betwixt them and others, should be constrained to weare upon their sleeves a chalice with an host upon it. Whereunto if they would consent, he would agree to the other, otherwise he would not, he said, consent to the setting forth of the same, nor ever weare _the cap_; nor indeed he never did." [8] I suppose the "Legenda Aurea," the "Golden Legend" of Jacobus de Voragine.--_Steevens._ [9] [Intended.] [10] _i.e._, Umpires. So Spenser-- "For what art thou That makst thyself his _daysman_, to prolong The vengeance past?"--_Faerie Queene._--_S._ A _days-man_, says Ray, in his "Collection of North Country Words," p. 25, is "an arbitrator, an umpire or judge. For, as Dr Hammond observes in his Annotation on Heb. x. 25, p. 752, the word _day_, in all languages and idioms, signifies judgment. So _man's day_, 1 Cor. iii. 13, is the judgment of men. So _diem dicere_ in Latin is to implead." [11] Well content. In Psalm lxxxiii. ver. 8, we have-- "And Assur eke is well _apaid_, With them in league to be." [12] _i.e._, in the theological writings of _Duns Scotus_, who obtained the title of _Doctor Subtilis_.--_S._ See also note 25 to "The Revenger's Tragedy." [13] [Serious.] [14] The original copy reads-- "With strange guises invented _now_ long agoe." But the sense seems to require the negative, which former editors substituted for _now_.--_C._ [15] So in _Hamlet_: "The king is _a thing of nothing_." See the Notes of Dr Johnson, Dr Farmer, and Mr Steevens on that passage, edition of Shakspeare, 1778, vol. 10, p. 336. This play on the words was very common. Again, in "The Humorous Lieutenant," A. iv. S. 6-- "Shall, then, that thing that honours thee How miserable a thing soever, yet a thing still, And, tho' _a thing of nothing_, thy thing ever." [Dyce's edit. vi. 516.]