In the last edition of Dodsley, a curious ballad on the subject was given as an illustration. It is entitled "The Spanish Tragedy, containing the Lamentable Murder of Horatio and Bellimperia: With the pitiful Death of Old Hieronimo. To the tune of _Queen Dido_. Printed at London for H. Gosson," with a woodcut. [4] First printed in the 4to of 1602. [5] [Old copies, _Portingal_.] [6] [He is called Balthezar in the "First Part of Jeronimo."] [7] _Wonted_, edits. 1618, '23, '33. [8] _There in the pride and prime_, ditto. [9] _Summer's_, 1623, '33. [10] _Slackt_, 1618. [11] _Censurer_, 1618, '23, '33. [12] _Shapes of ever-blooming night_, 1618. _Shades of ever-blooming_ _night_, 1623, '33. [13] _Field_, 1618, '23, '33. [14] _Fall down_, ditto. [15] _Murderers greeve_, 1618. _Murderers greene_, 1623, '33. [16] _---- smile. I begg'd_, 1618, '23, '33. [17] Whispered. So in Gascoigne's "Fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi" (Works, by Hazlitt, i. 422): "After his due reverence, hee layde his hande on hir temples, and privily rounding hir in hir eare;" and in Lyly's "Euphues," 1579, we have, "_rounding_ Philautus in his eare." See also Steevens's note on King John, ii. 2. [18] Of _Hor_, second edit.; of _Horror_, 1618, '23, '33. For the gates of _horn_, see Virgil, B. vi., _Sunt geminæ somni portæ_, &c. [19] _Pretends_, 1618, '23, 33. [And perhaps rightly, as _pretend_ was frequently used in the sense of intend, purpose.] [20] _Will_, 1633. [21] _Bounds_, 1623, '33. [22] _Skies_, 1633. [23] _Valour_, 1618, '23, '33. [24] _Coronet_, ditto. [25] This play, though not mentioned in the "Key to the Rehearsal," seems to have been one of those ridiculed by the Duke of Buckingham in that witty performance. See act V.-- "The army, wrangling for the gold you gave, First fell to words, and then to _handy-blows_." [26] _When_, 1618, '23, '33. [27] _Dark'd_, ditto [28] _Dropt_, ditto. [29] _And soldiers lie maim'd_, ditto. [30] _Unbowed_, ditto. [31] _His_, 1618. [32] _Pickt_, 1618. [33] _Tribute may be paid_, 1618, '23, '33. [34] _Our_, ditto. [35] _That_, ditto. [36] _This_, ditto. [37] _The_, 1618, '23, '33. [38] _That_, 1618, '23. [39] _Trumpet_, 1618, '23, '33. [_A tucket_ is a flourish on a trumpet; but it is not perfectly clear that the word was not understood in the sense of a trumpet itself. See a note in the "First Part of Jeronimo," vol. iv., p. 380.] [40] _Gave them charge_, 1618, '23, '33. [41] _Meets_, 1618, '23, '33. [42] _The_, 1618, '23, '33. [43] _Observes_, ditto. [44] _As though_, 1618. [45] _Free_, omitted ditto. [46] _Lord_, 1618, '23, '33. [47] _The_, ditto. [48] _So_, ditto. [49] So in Shakespeare's "King John," iii. 1-- "You are the hare, of whom the proverb goes, Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard." [50] [Reward. It seemed idle to reprint the long note in the last edition of Dodsley, illustrating the meaning of a word with which every schoolboy is acquainted.]