[425] In the old copy it is printed _Tortass_, but it means _portass, portesse_, or _portace_, the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church. Thus, in Greene's "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay"-- "I'll take my _portace_ forth, and wed you here." Spenser uses the word, "Faerie Queene," b. i. c. iv.-- "And in his hand his _portesse_ still he bare That much was worne," &c. See also note to "New Custom" [iii. 24].--_Collier_. [426] [Old copy and former edits., _Dunston's_.] [427] See the story of Malbecco in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," b. iii. c. ix., &c. [428] The old copy has it _reap_, but probably we ought to read _heap_; to _reap an endless catalogue_ is hardly sense.--_Collier_. [429] _Cleped_ is _called, named_. So in Milton's "L'Allegro," i. 11-- "But come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven _yclep'd_ Euphrosyne." [430] _Colling_ is embracing round the neck. _Dare Brachia cervici_, as Baret explains it in his "Alvearie," voce _colle_. The word is frequently to be found in ancient writers. So in Erasmus' "Praise of Follie," 1549, sig. B 2: "For els, what is it in younge babes that we dooe kysse go, we doe _colle_ so; we do cheryshe so, that a very enemie is moved to spare and succour this age." In "Wily Beguiled," 1606: "I'll clasp thee, and clip thee; _coll thee_, and kiss thee, till I be better than nought, and worse than nothing." In "The Witch," by Middleton-- "When hundred leagues in aire we feast and sing, Daunce, kysse, and _coll_, use everything." And in Breton's "Woorkes of a Young Wit," 1577, p. 37-- "Then for God's sake, let young folkes _coll_ and kisse, When oldest folkes will thinke it not amisse." [431] Old copy, _upon_. [432] So in Ben Jonson's "Catiline," act iv. sc. 3-- "I have those eyes and ears shall still keep guard And _spial_ on thee, as they've ever done, And thou not feel it." And in Ascham's "Report and Discourse of the State of Germany," p. 31: "He went into France secretly, and was there with Shirtly as a common launce knight, and named hymselfe Captaine Paul, lest the Emperours _spials_ should get out hys doynges." [433] In the county of Essex, the mother-church of Harwich. "In the same yeare of our Lord 1582 there was an Idoll named _The Roode of Dovercourt_, whereunto was much and great resort of people. For at that time there was a great rumour blown abroad amongst the ignorant sort, that the power of _The Idoll of Dovercourt_ was so great that no man had power to shut the church doore where he stood, and therefore they let the church dore, both night and day, continually stand open, for the more credit unto the blinde rumour."--Fox's "Martyrs," ii. 302. This is the account given by Fox of this celebrated image; who adds that four men, determining to destroy it, travelled ten miles from Dedham, where they resided, took away the Rood and burnt it, for which act three of them afterwards suffered death. [434] Old copy, _way_.--_Pegge_.