[16] "_Similes habent labra lactucas._ A thistle is a sallet fit for an ass's mouth. We use when we would signify that things happen to people which are suitable to them, or which they deserve; as when a dull scholar happens to a stupid or ignorant master, a froward wife to a peevish husband, &c. _Dignum patella operculum._ Like priest, like people, and on the contrary. These proverbs are always taken in the worst sense. _Tal carne, tal cultello_, Ital. Like flesh, like knife." [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," &c., 1869, pp. 33, 263.] [17] [_i.e._, _Quodest thou_, or saidest thou.] [18] [Old copy and Dodsley, _mowle_. A hairy nowl is a member of the reformed faith, as distinguished from the shaven crowns of the priests.] [19] Sometimes written _portas_, or _portos_, _i.e._, _breviary_--Du Cange, in _Portiforium_. "_Portuasses_, Mr Tyrwhitt observes (Notes on Chaucer, ver. 13061), are mentioned among other prohibited books in the Stat. 3 and 4 Edw. VI. c. 10. And in the Parliament Roll of 7, Edw. IV. n. 40, there is a petition, that the robbing of Porteous, Grayell, Manuell, &c., should be made felonie without clergy; to which the King answered, _La Roy s'avisera_." The _portuse_ is mentioned in Greene's "History of Fryer Bacon and Fryer Bungay." [Works by Dyce, 1861, p. 162--] "I'll hamper up the match, I'll take my _portace_ forth, and wed you here." [20] _Make_ is used for _mate_ throughout the works of Gower. Shakspeare likewise, if I am not mistaken, employs it in one of his sonnets.--_S._ ACTUS II., SCENA 1. LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL _and_ NEW CUSTOM _enter._ L. OF GOSPEL. Doubt you nothing at all, for God will so provide, Who leaveth not his elect to defend and to guide; That wherever I come, such grace you may find, As shall in each point content well your mind, And admit that they call you New Custom, what then? Attribute that folly to the ignorance of men, That follow their fancies, and know not the right Well, you know where I come once, the Light Of the Gospel, whose beams do glister so clear, Then, Primitive Constitution, in each place you appear; And as elsewhere you have been, so do not mistrust, But in this place hereafter be received you must. NEW CUS. According to your nature, so do you very well To put me in good hope, bright Light of the Gospel. And seeing you be true, I may in no wise Misdeem you the father or author of lies: For if trust to the gospel do purchase perpetuance Of life unto him, who therein hath confidence, What shall the light do, whose beams be so bright, That in each respect all things else of light Are but very darkness, and eke terrestrial? So the Light of the Gospel overshineth them all. Wherefore with great comfort I receive your counsel, With hearty thanks unto you, the Light of the Gospel.