"Hang, hair, like hemp, or like the _Isling cur's_." Again, in Massinger's "Picture," act v. sc. 1-- "Would I might lie Like a dog under her table, and serve for a footstool, So I might have my belly full of that Her _Iceland cur_ refuses." Abraham Fleming, in his tract "Of Englishe Dogges, the diversities, the names, the natures, and the properties," 1576, speaks of the introduction of _Iceland dogs_, and describes them. "Use and custome hath intertained other dogges of an outlandish kinde, but a few, and the same being of a pretty bygnesse, I meane _Iseland dogges_, curled and rough al over, which by reason of the length of their heare, make showe neither of face nor of body. And yet these curres, forsoothe, because they are so straunge, are greatly set by, esteemed, taken vp, and made of, many times in the roome of the Spaniell, gentle or comforter."--_Collier._ [Sig. F 4. Fleming's book is, however, only a translation from Caius, "De Canibus Britannicis."] [383] Heroes of romance. [By "Donzel del Phoebo" the lady intends, I conclude, the "Knight of the Sun," or the "Mirror of Knighthood."] [384] Tarmagant or Termagant was, as Dr Percy observes, a Saracen deity, very clamorous and violent in the old moralities. He is frequently mentioned and alluded to in our ancient dramas and poems. Bishop Hall's "Satires" begin thus-- "Not Ladies' wanton love, nor wand'ring knight, Legend I out in rhimes all richly dight; Nor fright the reader with the Pagan vaunt Of mightie _Mahound_ and great _Termagaunt_." Mr Tyrwhitt says, the character is to be met with in an old romance, MSS. Bod. 1624, where it is constantly spelt _Tervagan_. (See notes to Chaucer, v. 13,741.) See also "King and no King," act iv., and "Rule a Wife and have a Wife," act v. Again, Hamlet says, "I would have such a fellow whipt for o'erdoing _Termagant_." See notes on this passage, edit. 1778; also Warton's Observations on Spenser, ii. 226; [Bishop Percy's folio MS., ii. 467; and Nares, 1859, arts. Termagant and Trivigant.] [385] Embrace. [386] [A locality notorious for bad characters.] [387] [Pierce it with my sword. Edits., _slash_.] [388] See note to "The Spanish Tragedy," [v. 121.] [389] [Edits., _scarfs, counter-scarfs_.] [390] [Ramparts. A common form.] [391] Before printed _know_, adhering to the error of the edition of 1636.--_Collier._ [392] To Frances, who probably places herself out of view, or perhaps makes her _exit_, which, however, is not marked.--_Collier._ [393] The dress of the serjeants at that time. [394] [Edits., _riot_.] [395] [Edits., _Law_.] ACTUS IV., SCÆNA 1. _Enter_ SIR OLIVER, JUSTICE TUTCHIN, TAFFATA, _and_ ADRIANA. OLIVER. Good meat the belly fills, good wine the brain; Women please men, men pleasure them again: Ka me, ka thee: one thing must rub another: English love Scots, Welshmen love each other.