[94] _Nipitaty_ seems to have been a cant term for a certain wine. Thus Gabriel Harvey, in "Pierce's Supererogation," 1593, speaks of "the _Nipitaty_ of the nappiest grape;" and afterwards he says, "_Nipitaty_ will not be tied to a post," in reference to the unconfined tongues of man who drink it.--_Collier_. [95] A passage quoted in Note 6 to "Gammer Gurton's Needle," from Nash's "Pierce Penniless," is precisely in point, both in explaining the word, and knocking the cup, can, or jack on the thumb-nail, previously performed by Bacchus. [96] Closely is secretly: a very common application of the word in our old writers. It is found in "Albumazar"-- "I'll entertain him here: meanwhile steal you Closely into the room;" and in many other places. [97] Old copy, _Hope_. [98] Old copy, _as this, like_. [99] Old copy, _Will_. [100] The "shepherd that now sleeps in skies" is Sir Philip Sidney, and the line, with a slight inversion for the sake of the rhyme, is taken from a sonnet in "Astrophel and Stella," appended to the "Arcadia"-- "Because I breathe not love to every one, Nor do I use set colours for to wear, Nor nourish special locks of vowed hair, Nor give each speech a full point of a groan, The courtly nymphs, acquainted with the moan Of them who in their lips love's standard bear, 'What he?' say they of me, 'now I dare swear He cannot love: no, no; let him alone.' And think so still, so Stella know my mind: Profess, indeed, I do not Cupid's art; But you, fair maids, at length this true shall find, That his right badge is but worn in the heart. Dumb swans, not chattering pies, do lovers prove: They love indeed who quake to say they love." --P. 537, edit. 1598. It may be worth a remark that the two last lines are quoted with a difference in "England's Parnassus," 1600, p. 191-- "Dumb swans, not chattering pies, do lovers prove; They love indeed who _dare not say_ they love." In the quarto copy of Nash's play the word _swains_ is misprinted for _swans_. The introduction to the passage would have afforded Mr Malone another instance, had he wanted one, that shepherd and poet were used almost as synonymes by Shakespeare's contemporaries. [101] Perhaps we ought to read _feign_ instead of _frame_; but _frame_ is very intelligible, and it has therefore not been altered. [102] The quarto gives this line thus-- "Of secrets more desirous _or_ than men," which is decidedly an error of the press. [103] [Old copy, every.] [104] [Old copy, true hell.] [105] See act i. sc. 3 of "Macbeth"-- 2D WITCH. I'll give thee a wind. 1ST WITCH. Thou art kind. 3D WITCH. And I another. From the passage in Nash's play, it seems that Irish and Danish witches could sell winds: Macbeth's witches were Scotish. [106] [Old copy, _party_.] [107] [Old copy, _Form'd_.]