=5. 8. 133 St. Pulchars Steeple.= St. Sepulchre in the Bailey (occasionally written St. ’Pulcher’s) is a church at the western end of Newgate Street and in the ward of Farringdon Without. A church existed here in the twelfth century. The church which Jonson knew was built in the middle of the fifteenth century. The body of the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. It was the custom formerly for the clerk or bellman of St. Sepulchre’s to go under Newgate on the night preceding the execution of a criminal, and, ringing his bell, to repeat certain verses, calling the prisoner to repentance. Another curious custom observed at this church was that of presenting a nosegay to every criminal on his way to Tyburn (see Wh-C.). The executed criminals were buried in the churchyard (d. Middleton, _Black Book_, _Wks._ 8. 25). Cunningham says that ‘the word _steeple_ was not used in the restricted sense to which we now confine it. The _tower_ of St. Sepulchre’s in Jonson’s time, must have been very much like what we now see it as most carefully and tastefully restored.’ =5. 8. 134 as farre as Ware.= This is a distance of about 22 miles. Ware is an ancient market-town of Herts, situated in a valley on the north side of the river Lea. The ‘great bed of Ware’ is mentioned in _Twelfth Night_ 3. 2. 51, and the town is characterized as ‘durty Ware’ in Dekker’s _North-ward Hoe_, _Wks._ 3. 53. =5. 8. 142, 3 I will tell truth=, etc. Jonson uses this proverb again in _Tale Tub_, _Wks._ 6. 150: ‘tell troth and shame the devil.’ GLOSSARY This glossary is designed to include obsolete, archaic, dialectal, and rare words; current words used in obsolete, archaic, or exceptional senses; and, so far as practicable, obsolete and archaic phrases. Current words in current uses have occasionally been included to avoid confusion, as well as technical words unfamiliar to the ordinary reader. Favorite words have been treated, for the sake of illustration, with especial fullness. For most words treated in its volumes published up to March, 1905, Murray’s _New English Dictionary_ is the chief authority. For words not reached by that work the _Century Dictionary_ has been preferred. The _Stanford Dictionary_ has been found especially useful for anglicized words. It has often been necessary to resort to contemporary foreign dictionaries in the case of words of Romance origin. It has been thought best to refer to all or nearly all important passages. Etymologies are given only in cases of especial interest. A dagger [ † ] before a word or definition indicates that the word or the particular meaning is obsolete; parallel lines [ || ] before a word, that it has never become naturalized in English; an interrogation point [ ? ], that the case is doubtful. =A=, _prep._ [Worn down from OE. preposition _an_, _on_.] With _be_: engaged in. _Arch._ or _dial._ 5. 1. 4. †=A’=, _prep._ Worn down from _of_. 5. 2. 38.