HOOK, "by _hook_ or by crook" (R187,_b_), by some means or other, by fair means or foul, at all hazards, probably of forestal origin. "Their work was by _hook or crook_ ... to bring all under the emperor's power."--Thomas the Rymer, _On Parliaments_ (_d._ 1298). HORSE, (_a_) "_horse_ with four ears" (JE364,_a_), apparently a reference to some form (or rather means) of punishment--the gallows (or mare with three legs), the pillory, or the timber-mare (or horse) for flogging purposes. Probably the latter, as its construction would justify the "four ears" of the text. (_b_) see Grass. HORSIBUS, see Breadibus. HOURS, see Prime. HUFFA GALLANT, see Rutter. HYNGHAM, see Macro Plays. I (_passim_) occurs in several connections now archaic. (_a_) It is frequently repeated in conversation for the sake of emphasis, "I am hight Mercy, _I_." (_b_) = Ay. (_c_) = An augment or prefix to represent the A.S. _ge_, the most frequent example being _i-wis_ = _gewiss_: see _i-fashion_ (JE365_b_) = fashioned. ICH (_passim_), I: see other volumes of this series. IGNORUM, "we _ignorum_ people" (R211,_a_)--"we _ignorams_ all would fain," etc. (R227,_c_), (_adj._ and _subs._: ignorant, ignoram[use]s.) IMPATIENT POVERTY. The text will be found on pages 311-348. Hitherto little indeed seems to have been known concerning this interlude. As far as I can learn no copy has been traceable, at all events in modern days, until "the Irish find" was put up at Sotheby's in July 1906. Part of this "recovery" (see Preface) was a copy of _Impatient Poverty_, which is now national property in the custody of the trustees of the British Museum, the price paid for the item being no less than £150. It is true that the title, together with one or two details of the baldest description, occur in most catalogues of early English plays, from that of Rogers and Ley in 1656 down to Mr. W. W. Greg's "hand-list" prepared for, and issued by, the Bibliographical Society in 1900. It is, however, an obvious fact that in each case all the authorities appear to quote from mention only. Further, though "known" to a similar extent to latter-day critics--to Collier, Halliwell, Hazlitt, Fleay, Ward, Gayley, Brandl, Greg, and Pollard--all these, likewise, quote either from an early mention, or from one another; none seem to have seen a copy of the play. Dyce alone was explicit. In a note to _Sir Thomas More_ (Shakes. Soc., p. 55) he records _Impatient Poverty_ as "non-extant." After an interval of more than sixty years since Dyce wrote, and 350 years or more after publication, the "lost" play has been recovered; and it is now my good fortune to make it generally accessible to scholars. The British Museum Catalogue entry is as follows: