JUS. TUT. More knavery yet? Lay hands on him, pinion them both, And guard them hence towards Fleet Street: come away! BEARD. Must we be led like thieves, and pinion'd walk? Spent I my blood for this? is this my hire? Why then burn, rage: set Beard and Nose on fire. JUS. TUT. On, on, I say. THROAT. Justice, the law shall firk you. FOOTNOTES: [396] These are cant phrases for being intoxicated. [397] The statute here referred to is the 4th of James the First, 1606, which directs that any persons convicted of being drunk shall pay five shillings, or be set in the stocks during the space of six hours for the first offence; and for the second be bound in a recognizance for his good behaviour. [398] The word _fees_ was till now accidentally omitted, though inserted in both the old copies.--_Collier._ [399] These names, which are generally considered as synonymous, appear from this passage to signify different kinds of vehicles, or different sizes of the same. About this time they were come into general use. Dr Percy, in his Notes to the "Northumberland Household Book," p. 448, says, from Anderson's "Origin of Commerce," that coaches were introduced into England by Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, A.D. 1580; but from the following passage in the works of Taylor the Water-Poet, 1630, p. 240, they appear to have been used some years earlier:--"For in the yeere 1564, one William Boonen, a Dutchman, brought first the use of coaches hither, and the said Boonen was Queene Elizabeth's coachman; for indeede a coach was a strange monster in those days, and the sight of them put both horse and man into amazement: some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagin'd it to be one of the pagan temples, in which the cannibals adored the divell: but at last those doubts were cleared, and coach-making became a substantial trade: so that now all the world may see they are as common as whores, and may be hired as easie as knights of the post." Dr Percy observes, they were first drawn with two horses, and that it was the favourite Buckingham who, about 1619, began to draw with six horses which, Wilson tells us ("Life of King James," 1653, fol. p. 130), "was wondered at then as a novelty, and imputed to him as a mastering pride." About the same time, he introduced sedan chairs. [400] [Edits., _ladies 'gin_.] [401] The 4to of 1611 reads-- "Why their gross _souring_ husbands stink;" which is perhaps right.--_Collier._ [402] _Bridal bowl_ is the reading of 1611, and not _bride alebowl_, as Mr Reed gave it.--_Collier._ [403] [Edits., _by_.] [404] [_Lie_ is strictly a mixture of water and alkaline salt; see the "Merie Tales of Skelton," No. 2 (Old English Jest-Books ii. 6). But here it signifies the water of the _pot de chambre_.] [405] St Paul's Cathedral, which at this period was open all day, and the resort of all the idle, profligate, or necessitous people in town.