"Within this hall neither rich nor yett poore Wold do for me ought although I shold dye. Which seeing, I gat me out of the doore, Where _Flemynges_ began on me for to cry, 'Master, what will you copen or by? Fyne felt hattes, or spectacles to reede? Lay down your silver, and here you may speede'" _Minor Poems_ of Lydgate [1420]. London, Lackpenny. Ed. Per. Soc. 1840, p. 105. This is curious, as indicating that the word "Fleming," in the fifteenth century, had become almost synonymous with "trader." II. "_Julia._ I have heard enough of England: have you nothing to return upon the Netherlands? "_Beamont._ Faith, very little to any purpose. He has been beforehand with us, _as his countrymen are in their Trade_, and taken up so many vices for the use of England, that he has left almost none for the Low Countries." Dryden's _Dutch at Amboyna_, Act II. Sc. 8. "_Towerson._ Tell 'em I seal that service with my blood; And, dying, wish to all their factories, And all the famous merchants of our isle, That wealth their generous industry deserves, But dare not hope it with _Dutch partnership_." _Ibid._ Act V. Sc. last. III. "Yet, Urswick, We'll not abate one penny, what in Parliament Hath freely been contributed; we must not: Money gives soul to action. Our competitor _The Flemish counterfeit_, with James of Scotland, Will prove what courage need and want can nourish, Without the food of fit supplies." Ford [1634], _Perkin Warbeck_, Act III. Sc. 1. "_Cuddy._ Yes, I was ten days together there the last Shrove-tide. "_2nd Clown._ How could that be, when there are but seven days in the week? "_Cuddy._ Prithee, peace! I reckon _stila nova_ as a traveller; thou understandest as a freshwater farmer, that never saw'st a week beyond sea. _Ask any soldier that ever received his pay but in the Low Countries, and he'll tell thee there are Eight days in the week there hard by._ How dost thou think they rise in High Germany, Italy, and those remoter places?"--Rowley, Decker, and Ford. _Witch of Edmonton_, Act III. Sc. 1. "This passage is explained by the following lines of Butler: 'The soldier does it every day, _Eight to the week_, for sixpence pay.'" Note by the Editor, Hartley Coleridge, in the Glossary. Ed. London: Moxon, 1839.