1716. _Texpounden_, to expound. So also _tallege_ = to allege, Kn. Ta., A. 3000 (Harl. MS.); _tespye_ = to espy, Nonne Pr. Ta., B. 4478. See note to l. 1733. 1726. _can but smal_, know but little. Cf. 'the compiler is _smal_ learned'; Old Plays, ed. Hazlitt, i. 10.--M. Cf. _coude_ = knew, in l. 1735. 1733. _To honoure_; this must be read _tonóure_, like _texpounden_ in l. 1716. 1739. _To scholeward_; cf. _From Bordeaux ward_ in the Prologue, A. 397.--M. 1749. The feeling against Jews seems to have been very bitter, and there are numerous illustrations of this. In Gower's Conf. Amant. bk. vii, ed. Pauli, iii. 194, a Jew is represented as saying-- 'I am a Jewe, and by my lawe I shal to no man be felawe To kepe him trouth in word ne dede.' In Piers the Plowman, B. xviii. 104, Faith reproves the Jews, and says to them-- '[gh]e cherles, and [gh]owre children · chieue [_thrive_] shal [gh]e neure, Ne haue lordship in londe · ne no londe tylye [_till_], But al bareyne be · & vsurye vsen, Which is lyf þat owre lorde · in alle lawes acurseth.' See also P. Pl., C. v. 194. Usury was forbidden by the canon law, and those who practised it, chiefly Jews and Lombards, were held to [179] be grievous sinners. Hence the character of Shylock, and of Marlowe's Jew of Malta. Cf. note on the Jews in England in the Annals of England, p. 162. 1751. _honest_, honourable; as in the Bible, Rom. xii. 17, &c. 1752. _swich_, such. The sense here bears out the formation of the word from _so-like_.--M. 1753. _your_, of you. Shakespeare has 'in _your_ despite,' Cymb. i. 6. 135; 'in _thy_ despite,' 1 Hen. VI, iv. 7. 22. _Despite_ is used, like the Early and Middle English _maugre_, with a genitive; as _maugre þin_, in spite of thee, in Havelok, ll. 1128, 1789.--M. 1754. 'Which is against the respect due to your law.' Cf. 'spretaeque iniuria formae'; Æneid, i. 27. 1762. _Wardrobe_, privy. Godefroy's O. F. Dict. shews that _garderobe_ meant not only a wardrobe, or place for keeping robes, &c., but also any small chamber; hence the sense. See Cotgrave. 1764. 'O accursed folk (composed) of Herods wholly new.' 1766. 'Murder will out'; a proverb; see B. 4242. 1769. _Souded to_, confirmed in. From O. F. _souder_, Lat. _solidare_, whence E. _solder_. Wyclif's later version has--'hise leggis and hise feet weren _sowdid_ togidere'; Acts, iii. 7. The reference in ll. 1770-5 is to Rev. xiv. 3, 4.