[295] [Original, _Dylde_; the compositor having repeated the _d_ of _God_ at the beginning of the following word. This is not an uncommon misprint.] [296] _Hals_, in the Glossary to Douglas's _Æneid_, is thus explained: "The hawse, the throat, or neck. A-S. and Isl. _Hals_, collum, thence, _to hals_ or _hawse_, to embrace, _collo dare brachia circum_." [297] The word _shrew_ at present is wholly confined to the female sex. It here appears to have been equally applied to the male, and signifies _naught_ or _wicked_. See Baret's "Alvearie," _v. Shrewd_. [298] [Crushed.] [299] The head. So, in "Hickscorner"-- "I will rap you on the _costard_ with my horn." --Mr Steevens's Note on _Love's Labour's Lost_, act iii., sc. 1. Again, in Ben Jonson's "Tale of a Tub," act ii., sc. 2-- "Do you mutter! sir, snorle this way, That I may hear and answer what you say, With my school dagger 'bout your _costard_, sir." [300] See Note on "King Henry VI.," Part I. Shakspeare, 1778, vol. vi., p. 192.--_S._ [301] Bliss. [302] A corruption of _what do you call it_.--_S._ [303] A proverbial phrase, used also by Dogberry in "Much ado about Nothing." Shakspeare, 1778, vol. ii., p. 326.--_S._ [304] _Jape_ is generally used in an obscene sense, as in the Prologue to "Grim the Collier of Croydon," and in Skelton's Song in Sir John Hawkins's "History of Music," vol. iii., p. 6. It here signifies a _jest_ or _joke_. So in the Prologue to Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," l. 705-- "Upon a day he gat him more moneie Than that the persone gat in monthes tweie. And thus with fained flattering and _japes_, He made the persone and the peple his apes." And in "Batman upon Bartholome," 1535, as quoted by Sir John Hawkins, in his "History of Music," vol. ii., p. 125: "They kepe no counseyll, but they telle all that they here: sodeinly they laugh, and sodenly they wepe: alwaye they crye, jangle, and _jape_, uneth they ben stylle whyle they slepe." "Nay, _iape_ not with hym, he is no smal fole. It is a solemnpne syre and solayne." --Skelton's Works, [1843, vol. i., p. 17.] [305] _i.e._, To meddle.--_S._ [306] Old copy, _Scole_. [307] [Parties.] [308] Minsheu, in his Dictionary, 1627 (as quoted by Mr Tollet, in his "Notes on Shakspeare," vol. v. p. 433, says: "Natural ideots and fools have and still do accustome themselves to weare in their cappes cockes feathers, or a hat with a necke and head of a cock on the top," &c. From this circumstance Diccon probably calls Dr Rat _a cox_; that is, _a coxcomb_, _an idiot_.) [309] See the "History of Reynard the Fox," chap, vii., edit. 1701.--_S._ [310] [Wicked.] _Lither_ is used sometimes for _weak_ or _limber_, at other times _lean_ or _pale_. Several examples of the former are collected by Mr Steevens ("Notes on Shakspeare," vol. vi., p. 263).