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Come we to full points here; and are et cetera's nothing??
Fal. Piftol, I would be quiet.

Pift. Sweet knight, I kifs thy neifs: What! we have feen the feven stars.

Dol. Thruft him down ftairs; I cannot endure fuch a fuftian rafcal.

Pift. Thruft him down ftairs! know we not Galloway nags ??

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Fal. Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a fhove-groat fhilling nay, if he do nothing but speak nothing, he fhall be nothing here.

Bard. Come, get you down stairs.

Pift. What! fhall we have incifion? fhall we imbrew ? [fnatching up bis fword. Then death rock me afleep 2, abridge my doleful days! Why then, let grievous, ghaftly, gaping wounds Untwine the filters three! Come, Atropos *, I fay! Hoft. Here's goodly stuff toward! Fal. Give me my rapier, boy.

7 Come we to full points bere ; &c.] That is, fhall we stop here, shall we have no further entertainment? JOHNSON.

8 Sweet knight, I kifs tby neif :] i. e. I kifs thy fit. THEOBALD. Neif is ftill employed in this fenfe in the Northern counties, and by B. Jonfon in his Poetafter. STEEVENS.

So, in A Midfummer Night's Dream: "Give me thy neif, Monfieur Mustard-Seed. MALONE.

9-Galloway nags] That is, common hackneys. JOHNSON.

I like a shove-groat fbilling:] This expreffion occurs in Every Man in bis bumour: "made it run as fmooth off the tongue as a hove-great filling." I fuppofe it to have been a piece of polished metal made ufe of in the play of fhovel board. STEEVENS.

See Vol. I. p. 199, n. 5. MALONE.

Slide-thrift, or fbove-groat is one of the games prohibited by statute 33 Hen. VIII. BLACKSTONE.

2 Then death rock me afleep,] This is a fragment of an ancient fong, fuppofed to have been written by Anne Boleyn :

"O death rock me on flepe,

"Bring me on quiet reft, &c."

For the entire fong, fee fir John Hawkins's General Hift. of Mufick,
Vol. I. p 31. STEEVENS.

Come, Atropos,-] It has been fuggefted that this is a name which Piftol gives to his fword; but furely he means nothing more than to call on one of the fifters three to aid him in the fray. MALONE.

Dol.

Dol. I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not draw.
Fal. Get you down ftairs."

[Drawing, and driving Pistol out. Hoft. Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forfwear keeping houfe, afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights. So; murther, I warrant now.-Alas, alas! put up your naked weapons, put up your naked weapons.

[Exeunt PISTOL and BARDOLPH. Dol. I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rafcal is gone. Ah, you whorfon little valiant villain, you!

Hoft. Are you not hurt i'the groin? methought, he made a fhrewd thruft at your belly.

Re-enter BARDOLPH.

Fal. Have you turn'd him out of doors?

Bard. Yes, fir. The rafcal's drunk: you have hurt him, fir, in the shoulder.

Fal. A rafcal! to brave me!

Dol. Ah, you fweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, how thou fweat'ft? Come, let me wipe thy face ;-come on, you whorefon chops :-Ah, rogue! i'faith I love thee. Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy, worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than the nine worthies : Ah, villain 3!

Fal. A rafcally flave! I will tofs the rogue in a blanket. Dol. Do, if thou darest for thy heart: if thou doft, I'll canvass thee between a pair of fheets.

Enter Mufick.

Page. The mufick is come, fir.

Fal. Let them play;-Play, firs.-Sit on my knee, Doll. A rafcal bragging flave! the rogue fled from me like quickfilver.

Dol. I'faith, and thou follow'dft him like a church. Thou whorefon little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig, when

wilt

3-Ah, villain!] Thus the folio: the quarto reads—a villain; which may be right. She may mean Piftol. MALONE.

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little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig,] For tidy fir Thomas Hanmer reads tiny; but they are both words of endearment, and equally proper. Bartholomew boar pig is a little pig made of paste, fold at Bartholomew fair, and given to children for a fairing. JOHNSON. VOL. V.

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wilt thou leave fighting o'day's, and foining o'nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?

Enter, behind, Prince HENRY and POINS, difguifed like drawers.

Fal. Peace, good Doll! do not fpeak like a death's heads; do not bid me remember mine end.

Dol. Sirrah, what humour is the prince of?

Fal. A good shallow young fellow: he would have made a good pantler, he would have chipp'd bread well. Dol. They fay, Poins has a good wit.

Fal. He a good wit? hang him, baboon! his wit is as thick

Tidy has two fignifications, timely and neat. In the first of thefe fenfes, I believe, it is ufed in the Arraignment of Paris, 1584:

"I myself have given good, tidie lambs." STEEVENS. From Ben Jonfon's play of Bartholomew Fair, we learn, that it was the custom formerly to have booths in Bartholomew Fair, in which pigs were drest and fold, and to these it is probable the allufion is here, and not to the pigs of pafte mentioned by Dr. Johnson.

The practice of roasting pigs at Bartholomew Fair continued until the beginning of the prefent century, if not later. It is mentioned in Ned Ward's London Spy, 1697. When about the year 1708, fome attempts were made to limit the duration of the fair to three days, poem was published entitled, The Pigs' Petition againk Bartholomew Fair, &c. Tidy, I apprehend, means only fat, and in that fenfe it was certainly fometimes ufed. See an old translation of Galatea of Manners and Bebaviour, b. 1. 1578, p. 77: “and it is more proper and peculiar fpeech to say the shivering of an ague than to call it the colde; and flesh that is tidie to term it rather fat than fulfome." REED.

See also D'Avenant's burlesque Verfes on a long vacation, written about 1630:

"Now London's chief on faddle new

"Rides into fair of Bartbol'mew;

"He twirls his chain, and looking big
"As if to fright the head of pig,
"That gaping lies on greafy stall,

"Till female with great belly call," &c.

MALONE.

5 like a death's bead;] It appears from the following paffage in Marfton's Dutch Courtexan, 1605, that it was the custom for the bawds of that age to wear a death's head in a ring, very probably with the common motto, memento mori. Cocledemoy, speaking of fome of thefe, fays: as for their death, how can it he bad, fince their ( wicked

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thick as Tewksbury muftard"; there is no more conceit in him, than is in a mallet'.

Dol. Why does the prince love him so then?

Fal. Because their legs are both of a bignefs; and he plays at quoits well; and eats conger and fennel; and drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons ; and rides the wild mare with the boys; and jumps upon joint-stools;

"wickedness is always before their eyes, and a death's bead moft com-
"monly on their middle finger." Again, in Northward Hoe, 1607:
" as if I were a lawd, no ring pleases me but a death's head".
On the Stationer's books, Feb. 21, 1582, is enter'd a ballad, entitled
Remember thy end. STEEVENS.

6 — Tewksbury mustard;] Tewksbury is a market-town in the county of Gloucefter, formerly noted for mustard-balls made there, and fent into other parts.

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GREY.

in a mallet.] So, in Milton's Profe Works, 1738, Vol. I. p. 300: "though the fancy of this doubt be as obtuse and fad as any

mallet." TOLLET,

8-eats conger and fennel; and drinks off candles' ends for flap.dragons ;] Conger with fennel was formerly regarded as a provocative. It is mentioned by B. Jonfon in his Bartholomew-Fair :-"like a long laced 65 conger with green fennel in the joll of it." And in Philafter, one of the ladies advises the wanton Spanish prince to abstain from this article of luxury. Greene likewife in his Quip for an upftart Courtier, calls fennel women's weeds" "fit generally, for that fex, fith while they are maidens they wish wantonly."

The qualification that follows, viz. that of swallowing candles' ends by way of flap-dragons, feems to indicate no more than that the prince loved him because he was always ready to do any thing for his amusement, however abfurd or unnatural. Nah, in Pierce Pennylefs bis Supplication to the Devil, advises hard drinkers," to have some shoo"ing horne to pull on their wine, as a rather on the coals, or a red "herring; or to ftir it about with a candle's end to make it taste the "better," &c. And Ben Jonfon in his News from the Moon, &c. a mafque, fpeaks of those who eat candle ends, as an act of love and gallantry. Again, in Marston's Dutch Courtezan, 1605" have I not been drunk to your health, fwallow'd flap-dragons, eat glaffes, drank urine, ftabb'd arms, and done all the offices of protefted gallantry for your fake?" STEEVENS.

A flap-dragen is some small combustible body, fired at one end, and put afloat in a glafs of liquor. It is an act of a toper's dexterity to tofs off the glafs in fuch a manner as to prevent the flap-dragon from doing mifchief. JOHNSON. and rides the wild mare with the boys;] He probably means the two-legged mare mentioned by Mr. Steevens, in n. 6, p. 308. MALONE. Z 2

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and fwears with a good grace; and wears his boot very fmooth, like unto the fign of the leg; and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories 2: and fuch other gambol faculties he hath, that shew a weak mind and an able body, for the which the prince admits him: for the prince himself is fuch another; the weight of a hair will turn the fcales between their averdupois.

P. Hen. Would not this nave of a wheel 3 have his ears cut off?

Poins. Let's beat him before his whore.

P. Hen. Look, if the wither'd elder hath not his poll claw'd like a parrot.

Poins. Is it not ftrange, that defire should so many years out-live performance?

Fal. Kifs me, Doll.

P. Hen. Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction + ! what fays the almanack to that?

Poins. And, look, whether the fiery Trigon 5, his man,

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1 -wears bis boot very smooth, like unto the fign of the leg ;] The learned editor of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 1775, obferves that fuch is part of the description of a smart abbot, by an anonymous writer of the thirteenth century. "Ocreas habebat in cruribus, quafi innatæ essent, fine plica porretas." MS Bod. James. n. 6. p. 121. STEEVENS.

2-difcreet ftories:-] We fhould read indifcreet. WARBURTON. I fuppofe by difcreet ftories, is meant what fufpicious mafters and miftrefles of families would call prudential information; i. e. what ought to be known, and yet is difgraceful to the teller. Among the virtues of John Rugby, in the Merry Wives of Windsor, Mrs. Quickly adds, that he is no tell-tale, no breed-bate." STEEVENS.

3-nave of a wheel-] Nave and knave are easily reconciled, but why nave of a wheel? I fuppofe from his roundness. He was called round man in contempt before. JOHNSON.

So, in the play reprefented before the king and queen in Hamlet: "Break all the fpokes and fellies of her wheel, "And bowl the round nave down the fteep of heaven." STEEVENS. 4-Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction!] This was indeed a prodigy. The aftrologers, fays Ficinus, remark, that Saturn and Venus are never conjoined. JOHNSON.

Sthe fiery Trigon, &c.] Trigonum igneum is the aftronomical term when the upper planets meet in a fiery fign. The fiery Trigon, I think,

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