But what ende thei made, I know not. For I thynke Makeshift came not againe to agree them. FOOTNOTES: [318] Tricks upon blind persons naturally form a feature in the jest books. The eighty-third adventure of Tyl Owlglass is a practical joke on a blind man, and in _Scoggin's Jests_, 1626, there are one or two examples. [319] A cheat or rogue. See Rowland's _Knave of Clubbs_, 1600 (Percy Soc. ed. p. 18). The word _Shifter_ is employed by Rowlands in the _Knave of Harts_, 1613, and by others of our elder writers in the same sense. In the following passage, shift is used to signify a piece of knavery:-- _"Ferd._ Brother, you lie; you got her with a _shift_. _Frank._ I was the first that lov'd her." Heywood's _Fair Maid of the Exchange_, 1607 (Shakesp. Soc. ed. p. 87). See also Taylor's _Works_, 1630, ii. 144. In his _Sculler_, 1612, the last mentioned writer introduces a sharper into one of his epigrams under the name _of Mounsieur Shift_, "cozen-german to Sir Cuthert _Theft_" (_Works_, iii. 25). [320] Antiently, no doubt, Long Lane ran between hedges into Smithfield; but it appears that even in the early part of Elizabeth's reign building had commenced in this locality. Stow (_Survey of London_, edit. 1720, lib. iii. p. 122) says:--"Long Lane, so called from its length, coming out of _Aldersgate Street_ against _Barbican_, and falleth into _West Smithfield_. A Place also of Note for the Sale of Apparel, Linnen, and Upholsters Goods, both Secondhand and New, but chiefly for old, for which it is of note." See also p. 284 of the same book, and Cunningham's _Hand Book of London_, edit. 1848, _in voce_, with the authorities and illustrations there given. Rowlands, in his _Letting of Humors Blood in the Head Vein_, 1611, Sign. C. 2 _verso_, celebrates this spot as one of the principal haunts of the pawnbrokers. In _Wits Recreations_, 1640 (edit. 1817, p. 109), there is the following epigram:-- "He which for 's wife a widow doth obtain, Doth like to those that buy clothes in _Long Lane_, One coat's not fit, another's too too old, Their faults I know not, but th' are manifold." Day, in the _Parliament of Bees_, 1641, 40, Sign. C, speaks very disrespectfully of the population of Long Lane in his time. See _Maroccus Extaticus_, 1595 (Percy Soc. ed. p. 16), Dekker's _Knights' Conjuring_, 1607, ed. Rimbault, p. 54. Webster's Works, by Hazlitt, i. 94. and Taylor's Works, 1630, Sign. Ggg4. The _Swan_ Inn has disappeared, but whether it has merged in the _Barley Mow_, or the _Old Red Cow_, I do not know. [321] Nearest. [322] The original reading is, _so while they were doying_. [323] Innkeeper. This form of the word continued to be used by English writers even in the later half of the seventeenth century. + _How a mery man deuised to cal people to a playe._ cxxxiii.