[28] Sir Roger Williams, in his _Briefe discourse of warre_, 1590, has a chapter “To prooue bow-men the worst shot vsed in these daies.” Sir John Smythe, however, was of a different opinion. See his “Discourses concerning the formes and effects of divers sorts of weapons, &c. As also, of the great sufficiencie, excellencie, and wonderful effects of archers,” 1590, 4to. See also a different treatise by him upon the same subject in Num. 132 of the Harleian MSS. [29] “A prince who fills the throne with a disputed title dares not arm his subjects, the only method of securing a people fully both against domestic oppression and foreign conquest” (Hume’s _Essays_, “Of the Protestant Succession”). [30] Flemings. [31] Breeches. [32] Thus also in part ii. ballad 1: “She got on her holyday kirtle and gown They were of a light Lincolne green.” [33] In the sign of The green man and still, we perceive a huntsman in a green coat standing by the side of a still; in allusion, as it has been facetiously conjectured, to the partiality shown by that description of gentry to a morning dram. The genuine representation, however, should be the green-man (or man who deals in green herbs) with a bundle of peppermint or penny-royal under his arm, which he brings to have distilled. “And farewell all gaie garments now, With jewels riche of rare devise: Like Robin Hood, I wot not how, I must goe raunge in woodmen’s wyse, Cladde in a cote of greene or gray, And gladde to get it if i maye.” The workes of a young wyt, Done by N. B. Gent. 1577, 4to, b. l. [34] There appears, however, to be a town of this name in Flanders, which may be the place here meant. The above conjecture, therefore, will be received for no more than it is worth. [35] When Bulas, or Felix, the robber, was brought before Papinian, the latter asked him why he gave himself up to robbing and spoiling: “And why, sir,” was the answer, “are you ‘a governor’?” See Dio Cassius in Severus. “Because I do that,” said the pirate to Alexander, “with a single ship which thou dost with a great fleet, I am called a thief, and thou art called a king.” [36] See Pennant’s Tour in Scotland MDCCLXXII. part i. p. 404. The original reading, whether altered by mistake or design, is— “—pacisque imponere morem.” One might, to the same purpose, address our hero in the words of Plautus (Trinummus, act iv. scene x): “Atque hanc tuam gloriam jam ante auribus acceperam, et nobiles apud homines, Pauperibus te parcere solitum, divites damnare atque domare. Abi, laudo, scis ordine, ut æquom’st, Tractare homines, hoc dis dignum’st, semper mendicis modesti sint.”