+Sale.+ We'll send for 'em. +Ban.+ And for Master Timothy, I have a project Shall make his father everlastingly Admire his wit, and ask him blessing. +Quart.+ Come, Let's in and drink a health to our success. +Tim.+ I'm for no healths, unless the glass be less. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [221] Mr Steevens observes (note to "The Tempest," act ii. sc. 2) that it was formerly very common to exhibit fishes, either real or imaginary, in this manner, and that it appears from the books of Stationers' Hall, that in 1604 was published, "A strange reporte of a monstrous _fish_, that appeared in the form of a woman from her waist upward, seene in the sea." The Italians use _Nuovo Pesce_ in much the same manner as we employ the phrase "a strange fish." "Nuovo pesce era questo ru-Marco"--Domenichi's "Facetie," 1565, p. 268. [222] Made him drunk, or intoxicated him. [223] Probably the same mentioned by Sir Kenelm Digby. See note to "The Ordinary" [xii., 245.] [224] Meaning that the trumpet has been sounded twice, in imitation of the theatres, where, before the play begins by the entrance of the prologue, there were what were called three soundings. See Malone's "Shakespeare," by Boswell, iii. 114.--_Collier._ [225] [See Mr Huth's "Ancient Ballads and Broadsides," 1867, p. 213.] [226] _The country has been laid_, means that the country has been _way-laid_ for the purpose of catching him. This was the common mode of expression at the time, as appears from Middleton's "Chaste Maid in Cheapside," 1630, and other authorities-- "_Lay_ the water-side--she's gone for ever else!" Again, in the same play-- "My mother's gone to _lay_ the common staires." --_Collier._ [227] "Mare Liberum," was the title of a book written by the celebrated Grotius, to prove that the sea was free to every nation, in opposition to those who wished to circumscribe the Dutch trade. It was printed in 1609, and among other answers which appeared to it, was one by Selden, which he entitled "Mare Clausum." [228] The _echineis_, a fish which by adhering to the bottoms of ships, was supposed to retard their course. So Lucan, lib. vi. v. 674-- "Puppim retinens, Euro tendente rudentes, In mediis _echineis_ aquis." --_Steevens._ [229] Sir Francis Drake. [230] There were two of that name, father and son, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, both eminent navigators. See their lives in "Biographia Britannica." [231] There is an incident of this kind, where a man is shown for a fish against his will, and thrust under water whenever he attempts to speak, in the "Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes."--_Collier._ [232] [This word was applied formerly to both sexes. See "Gesta Romanorum," edit. Madden, p. 456.] [233] Prynne and his "Histriomastix," so often noticed in this play.