in that a sufficienter man than he that is wiser. FOOTNOTES: [87] _Imputation_ here must be used for _consequence_; of which I am, however, unable to produce any other instance. [88] _Sturbridge fair_ was the great mart for business, and resort for pleasure, in bishop Earle's day. It is alluded to in Randolph's _Conceited Pedlar_, 4to. 1630. "I am a pedlar, and I sell my ware This braue Saint Barthol. or _Sturbridge faire_." Edward Ward, the facetious author of _The London Spy_, gives a whimsical account of a journey to _Sturbridge_, in the second volume of his works. [89] This silly term of endearment appears to be derived from _chick_, or _my chicken_. Shakspeare uses it in Macbeth, Act iii. Scene 2. "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest _chuck_." [90] The great cross in West Cheap, was originally erected in 1290, by Edward I. in commemoration of the death of queen Ellinor, whose body rested at that place, on its journey from Herdeby, in Lincolnshire, to Westminster, for interment. It was rebuilt in 1441, and again in 1484. In 1581, the images and ornaments were destroyed by the populace; and in 1599, the top of the cross was taken down, the timber being rotted within the lead, and fears being entertained as to its safety. By order of queen Elizabeth, and her privy council, it was repaired in 1600, when, says Stow, "a cross of timber was framed, set up, covered with lead, _and gilded_," &c. Stow's _Survey of London_, by Strype, book iii. p. 35. Edit, folio, Lond. 1720. [91] This must allude to the play written by Heywood with the following title: _The Foure Prentises of London. With the Conquest of Ierusalem. As it hath bene diuerse times acted at the Red Bull, by the Queene's Maiesties Seruants._ 4to. Lond. 1615. In this drama, the _four prentises_ are Godfrey, Grey, Charles, and Eustace, sons to the _old Earle of Bullen_, who, having lost his territories, by assisting William the Conqueror in his descent upon England, is compelled to live like a private citizen in London, and binds his sons to a mercer, a goldsmith, a haberdasher, and a grocer. The _four prentises_, however, prefer the life of a soldier to that of a tradesman, and, quitting the service of their masters, follow Robert of Normandy to the holy land, where they perform the most astonishing feats of valour, and finally accomplish the _conquest of Ierusalem_. The whole play abounds in bombast and impossibilities, and, as a composition, is unworthy of notice or remembrance.