[211] [Old copy, _paynant_.] [212] _Morglay_ was the sword of Bevis of Southampton. It afterwards became a cant word for a sword in general. See "Every Man in his Humour," Act iii. so. 1; also "Every Woman in her Humour," 1609, sig. D 4-- "Had I been accompanied with my toledo or _morglay_." [213] Pity. [214] _Now_ complete. The passage requires this explanation, or poor Moth's argument seems to want force, his present hopes being founded on a supposition that all possible discoveries to be made by beating have been already made. [215] Moth here seems to allude to the following circumstance in the English History: "But uppon the morne followynge, both hostes joyned agayne, and fought egerly: contynuyng whych fyghte, Edrycus espying Edmunde to be at advauntage of wynnyng of the feld, sodaynly pyght a dead mannes hed upon a speare head, and cryed to the host of Englyshmen, _fle, fle, ye Englyshmen, and save youre selfes, lo here is the heade of Edmunde your kinge_."--Fabyan's "Chronicle." [216] Verstegan, in his "Restitution of Decayed Intelligence," 1634, p. 130, gives the following account of this transaction:--"King Hingistus prepared them a feast; and after the Brittains were well whitled with wine, he fell to taunting and girning at them; whereupon blowes ensued; and the Brittish nobility there present, being in all three hundreth, were all of them slaine; as William of Malmesbury reporteth: though others make the number more, and say that the Saxons had each of them a _seax_ (a kind of crooked knife) closely in his pocket, and that at the watch-word, _Nem cowr seaxes_, which is, _take your seaxes_, they suddainely, and at unwares, slew the Brittaines." [217] Care not. [218] Gift. [219] In spite of. [220] Always. [221] A lively spark. [222] [Old copy, _syren_.] So in "Timon of Athens," act iv. sc. 3-- "The _tub_-fast and the diet." See a note on that passage, Shakespeare, viii. 409, edit. 1778.--_Steevens._ [223] [Old copy repeats _taking_ after _of_, as it appears, erroneously, since it spoils the sense, and is not essential to the metre, such metre as it is! _By my swear_, by my oath: it is an unusual phrase, but occurs again just below.] [224] John Dod, a learned and pious divine, born in Cheshire, educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and afterwards successively minister of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, Canons Ashby and Fawsley in Northamptonshire, though for a time silenced in each of them. He is commonly called the _Decalogist_, having with Robert Cleaver, another Puritan, written "An Exposition on the Ten Commandments." He died at Fawsley in 1645, aged about ninety years. [For whatever the preceding account may be worth it is retained; but _Dod's blessing_ seems to be merely a whimsical corruption of _God's blessing_.] [225] This was John Knox, the celebrated reformer in Scotland. See his character in Robertson's "History of Scotland," i. 130. ACT V., SCENE I.