[259] i.e., "Going. _Gate_, in the Northern Dialect, signifies a way; so that _agate_ is at or upon the way."--Hay's "Collection of Local Words," p. 13, edit. 1740. [260] Here again, as in the passage at p. 354, we have _arms_ for _harms_. In the old copies this speech of the Herald is printed as prose.--_Collier_. [261] A monster feigned to have the head of a lion, the belly of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. [262] "If at any time in Rolls and Alphabets of Arms you meet with this term, you must not apprehend it to be that fowl which in barbarous Latine they call _Bernicla_, and more properly (from the Greek) _Chenalopex_--a creature well known in Scotland, yet rarely used in arms; but an instrument used by farriers to curb and command an unruly horse, and termed Pastomides."--Gibbons's "Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam," 1682, p. 1. [The allusion here is to the barnacle of popular folk-lore and superstition, which, from a shell-fish, was transformed into a goose.--See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," iii. 309.] [263] [A reference to the belief in prodigies reported from Africa. "Africa semper aliquid oportet novi."--S. Gosson's "School of Abuse," 1579. See also Rich's "My Ladies Looking-glass," 1616, sig. B 3.] [264] [Edits. give this speech to the Herald.] [265] [The head.] [266] A celebrated puppet-show often mentioned by writers of the times by the name of the Motion of Nineveh. See Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair," act v. sc. 1; "Wit at Several Weapons," act i.; "Every Woman in her Humour," 1609, sig. H, and "The Cutter of Coleman Street," act v. sc. 9. [267] So in "Twelfth Night," act i. sc. 1. "That strain again; it had a dying _fall_."--_Steevens_. [268] [Edits., _bitter_.] [269] [See Dyce's "Beaumont and Fletcher," ii. 225, note.] Theobald observes in his edition of "Beaumont and Fletcher," that this ballad is mentioned again in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," and likewise in a comedy by John Tatham, 1660, called "The Rump, or Mirrour of the Times," wherein a Frenchman is introduced at the bonfires made for the burning of the Rump, and catching hold of Priscilla, will oblige her to dance, and orders the music to play _Fortune my foe_. Again, in "Tom Essence," 1677, p. 37. [270] A dance. Sir John Davies, in his poem called "Orchestra," 1596, stanza 70, thus describes it-- "Yet is there one, the most delightfull kind, A loftie jumping, or a leaping round, Where arme and arme two dauncers are entwind, And whirle themselues with strict embracements bound, And still their feet an _anapest_ do sound: An _anapest_ is all their musicks song, Whose first two feet are short, and third is long." 71.