{207} And Chaucer, more solemnly still: “Christ, which that is to every harm _triacle_”. The _antidotal_ character of treacle comes out yet more in these lines of Lydgate: “There is no _venom_ so parlious in sharpnes, As whan it hath of _treacle_ a likenes”. {208} “A slave that within these twenty years rode with the _black guard_ in the Duke’s carriage, ’mongst spits and dripping pans”. (Webster’s _White Devil_.) [First ed. 1612. “The Black Guard of the King’s Kitchen” is mentioned in a State Paper of 1535 (N.E.D.).] {209} Génin (_Lexique de la Langue de Molière_, p. 367) says well: “En augmentant le nombre des mots, il a fallu restreindre leur signification, et faire aux nouveaux un apanage aux dépens des anciens”. {210} [Accordingly there is nothing tautological in the “dead corpses” of 2 Kings xix, 35, in the A.V.] {211} [‘Weed’, vegetable growth, Anglo-Saxon _weód_, is here confounded with a perfectly distinct word ‘weed’, clothing, which is the Anglo-Saxon _waéd_, a garment.] {212} And no less so in French with ‘dame’, by which form not ‘domina’ only, but ‘dominus’, was represented. Thus in early French poetry, “_Dame_ Dieu” for “_Dominus_ Deus” continually occurs. We have here the key to the French exclamation, or oath, as we now perceive it to be, ‘Dame’! of which the dictionaries give no account. See Génin’s _Variations du Langage Français_, p. 347. {213} [‘Hoyden’ seems to be derived from the old Dutch _heyden_, a heathen, then a clownish, boorish fellow.] {214} [This “ancient Saxon phrase”, as Longfellow calls it, has not been found in any old English writer, but has been adopted from the Modern German. Neither is it known in the dialects, E.D.D.] {215} “A _furlong_, quasi _furrowlong_, being so much as a team in England plougheth going forward, before they return back again”. (Fuller, _Pisgah Sight of Palestine_, p. 42.) [‘Furlong’ in St. Luke xxiv, 13, already occurs in the Anglo-Saxon version of that passage as _furlanga_.] {216} [Recent etymologists cannot see any connexion between ‘peck’ and ‘poke’.] {217} [e. g. “One said thus _preposterously_: ‘when we had climbed the clifs and were a shore’” (Puttenham, _Arte of Eng. Poesie_, 1589, p. 181, ed. Arber). “It is a _preposterous_ order to teach first and to learn after” (_Preface to Bible_, 1611). “Place not the coming of the wise men, _preposterously_, before the appearance of the star” (Abp. Secker, _Sermons_, iii, 85, ed. 1825).] {218} Thus Barrow: “Which [courage and constancy] he that wanteth is no other than _equivocally_ a gentleman, as an image or a carcass is a man”.