[101] [Equivalent to our modern phrase, tag, rag, and bobtail. The original signification seems to have been descriptive of the different kinds of horses, cuts, curtails, and longtails, and hence it came to mean generally _all sorts and kinds_, like the modern term. Compare Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," 1868, in _v._] This phrase occurs in "The Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii. sc. 4. Steevens says the origin of it was from Forest Laws, by which the dog of a man who had no right to the privilege of chase, was obliged to be cut or lawed; and amongst other modes of disabling him, one was by depriving him of his tail. _Cut_ and _long tail_ therefore signified the dog of a clown and the dog of a gentleman. [Reed (more correctly) remarks:] "_Cut and long tail_, I apprehend referred originally to horses, when their tails were either docked, or left to grow their full length; and this distinction might formerly be made according to their qualities and values. A horse therefore used for drudgery might have his tail cut, while the tails of those which served for pomp or show, might be allowed their utmost growth. A _cut_ appears to have been the term used for a bad horse in many contemporary writers, and from thence to call a person _cut_ became a common opprobrious word employed by the vulgar, when they abused each other. See note to 'Gammer Gurton's Needle' [iii. 211.] In confirmation of this idea, it may be added, that Sim says in the text, _Some horse taught him that_, which naturally introduces the phrase _cut and long tail_ into the Constable's answer. The words _cut and long tail_ occur also in 'The Return from Parnassus,' act iv. sc. 1: 'As long as it lasts, come _cut and long tail_, we'll spend it as liberally for his sake.' There seems no doubt that _cut and long tail_ has reference to horses. Sir J. Vanbrugh, in his 'Æsop,' so employs the phrase: the groom says, 'Your worship has six coach horses, _cut and long tail_, two runners, half a dozen hunters,' &c."--_Collier._ [102] Their entrance is not mentioned in the 4º.--_Collier._ [103] _i.e._, Ideal ones, like the _Utopian_ schemes of government.--_Steevens._ [104] See note to "The Heir," [xi. 535.] [105] This elegant song was the production of our great poet Shakespeare. It is printed in his collection of sonnets, entitled "The Passionate Pilgrim." The reader may likewise see it in "Percy's Reliques of Antient Poetry," vol. i. p. 259. [106] The same phrase occurs in Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale," act i. sc. 2, where Leontes says to Mamillius-- "Mine honest friend, _Will you take eggs for money_?" Dr Johnson says that it seems to be a proverbial expression used when a man sees himself wronged and makes no resistance; and Mr Smith is of opinion that it means _Will you put up affronts?_ In the present instance it seems intended to express the speaker's fears that he shall receive nothing in return for his money.