This was the common language of Shakespeare’s time. “Lye in a water-bearer’s house!” says Master Mathew of Bobadil, “a Gentleman of his _Havings_!” Thus likewise John Davies in his _Pleasant Descant upon English Proverbs_, printed with his _Scourge of Folly_, about 1612: _Do well and have well!_—neyther so still: For some are good _Doers_, whose _Havings_ are ill; and Daniel the Historian uses it frequently. _Having_ seems to be synonymous with _Behaviour_ in Gawin Douglas and the elder Scotch writers. _Haver_, in the sense of _Possessor_, is every where met with: tho’ unfortunately the πρὸς τὸν Ἔχοντα of Sophocles, produced as an authority for it, is suspected by Kuster, as good a critick in these matters, to have absolutely a different meaning. But what shall we say to the learning of the Clown in _Hamlet_, “Ay, tell me that, and _unyoke_”? alluding to the Βουλυτὸς of the Greeks: and Homer and his Scholiast are quoted accordingly! If it be not sufficient to say, with Dr. Warburton, that the phrase might be taken from Husbandry, without much depth of reading; we may produce it from a _Dittie_ of the workmen of Dover, preserved in the additions to Holingshed, p. 1546. My bow is broke, I would _unyoke_, My foot is sore, I can worke no more. An expression of my Dame Quickly is next fastened upon, which you may look for in vain in the modern text; she calls some of the pretended Fairies in the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, ——_Orphan_ Heirs of fixed Destiny; “and how elegant is this!” quoth Mr. Upton, supposing the word to be used, as a Grecian would have used it, “ὀρφανὸς ab ὀρφνὸς—acting in darkness and obscurity.” Mr. Heath assures us that the bare mention of such an interpretation is a sufficient refutation of it: and his critical word will be rather taken in Greek than in English: in the same hands therefore I will venture to leave all our author’s knowledge of the _Old Comedy_, and his etymological learning in the word, _Desdemona_. Surely poor Mr. Upton was very little acquainted with _Fairies_, notwithstanding his laborious study of Spenser. The last authentick account of them is from our countryman William Lilly; and it by no means agrees with the _learned_ interpretation: for the _angelical Creatures_ appeared in his _Hurst_ wood in a _most illustrious Glory_,—“and indeed,” says the Sage, “it is not given to very many persons to endure their _glorious aspects_.”