yellow worsted stockings. The book from which I gather this information was published by Henry Goldwell, Gent, in the same year. 577. STEEVENS cross-gartered :- -] So, in the Lover's Melancholy, 1639: "As rare an old youth as ever walked cross-gar. tered." Again, in a Woman's a Wethercock, 1612: "Yet let me say and swear in a cross garter, "Pauls never shew'd to eyes a lovelier quarter.” Very rich garters were anciently worn below the knee. So in Warner's Albion's England, b. ix. ch. 47. "Garters of listes; but now of silk, some edged deep with gold.” It appears, however, that the ancient puritans affected this fashion. Thus Barton Holyday, speaking of the ill success of his TEXNOTAMIA, says, "Had there appeared some sharp cross-garter'd man "Whom their loud-laugh might nick-name pus "Cas'd up in faction's breeches, and small ruffe, In a former scene Malvolio was said to be an affector of Puritanism STEEVENS. -] 585 I will be point-de- vice, the very man. This phrase is of French extraction-a points-devisez. Chaucer uses it in the Romaunt of the Rose: "Her nose was wrought at point-device.” ¿. e. with the utmost possible exactness. Again, in K. Edward I. 1599: "That we may have our garments point-device." Kastril, in the Alchemist, calls his sister Punk-device: and again, in the Tale of a Tub, act iii. sc. vii. "and if the dapper priest "Be but as cunning point in his devise 601. STEEVENS. -a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.] Alluding, as Dr. Farmer observes, to Sir Robert Shirley, who was just returned in the character of embassador to the Sophy. He boasted of the great rewards he had received, and lived in London with the utmost splendor. STEEVENS. 611. tray-trip,-] Tray-trip is mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady, 1616: "Reproving him at tray-trip, sir, for swearing." Again, in Glapthorne's Wit in a Constable, 1639: mean time, you may play at tray-trip or cockall, for black puddings." Again : "My watch are above, at trea-trip, for a black pudding," &c. Again : "With lanthorn on stall, at trea-trip we play, &c. The following passage might incline one to believe that tray-trip was the name of some game at tables, or draughts. "There is great danger of being taken sleepers at tray-trip, if the king sweep suddenly." Cecil's Cecil's Correspondence, let. x. p. 136. Ben Jonson joins tray-trip with mumn-chance. Alchemist, act v. sc. iv. "Nor play with costar-mongers at mum-chance, TYRWHITT. tray-trip." Mr. Reed confirms Mr. Tyrwhitt's conjecture by the following extract from Machiavel's Dogge, a satire, 4to. 1617: "But leaving cardes, lett's goe to dice awhile, "But subtill males will simple mindes beguile, "Oh, cogges and stoppes, and such like devilish trickes, "Full many a purse of golde and siver pickes. "And therefore first, for hazard, he that list, "And passeth not, puts many to a blancke: "And trippe without a treye makes had I wist "To sitte and mourne among the sleeper's ranke: "And for mumchance, how ere the chance doe fall, "You must be mum, for fear of marring all." -aqua vita] Is the old name of strong 618. waters. 622. JOHNSON. -] -cross-garter'd, a fashion she detests ;— Sir Thomas Overbury, in his character of a footman without gards on his coat, represents him as more upright than any cross-garter'd gentleman-usher. FARMER. ACT. ACT II, Line 2. BY the tabor?-Clown. No, sir, I live by the Church.] The Clown, I suppose, wilfully mistakes his meaning, and answers, as if he had been asked whether he lived by the sign of the tabor, the ancient designation of a musick shop. STEEVENS. -] i. e. a glove made 13. a cheveril glove of kid leather: chevreau, Fr. So in Romeo and Juliet: -a wit of cheveril—" Again, in a proverb in Ray's collection: He hath a conscience like a cheveril's Thou suffer shalt, and as a beggar dye." Chaucer's Testament of Creseyde. -the haggard, MALONE. 67. -] The hawk called the haggard, if not well trained and watched, will fly after every bird without distinction. STEEVENS. The meaning may be, that he must catch every opportunity, as the wild hawk strikes every bird. But perhaps it might be read more properly: Not like the haggard. He must chuse persons and times, and observe tem pers, pers, he must fly at proper game, like the trained hawk, and not fly at large like the unreclaimed haggard, to seize all that comes in his way. JOHNSON. 71. But wise men's folly fall'n,-] Sir Thomas Hanmer reads, folly shewn. JOHNSON. The first folio reads, Bat wisemen's folly falne, quite taint their wit. From whence I should conjecture, that Shakspere possibly wrote: But wise men, folly fallen, quite taint their wit. i. e. wise men, fallen into folly. TYRWHITT. The sense is: But wise men's folly, when it is once fallen into extravagance, overpowers their discretion. REVISAL. I explain it thus: The folly which he shews with proper adaptation to persons and times, is fit, has its propriety, and therefore produces no censure; but the folly of wise men when it falls or happens, taints their wit, destroys the reputation of their judgment. JOHNSON. 72. In former editions: Sir To. Save you, gentleman. Vio. And you, sir. Sir And. Dieu vous garde, monsieur. Vio. Et vous aussi; votre serviteur. Sir And. I hope, sir, you are; and I am yours.] I have ventured to make the two knights change speeches in this dialogue with Viola; and, I think, not without good reason. It were a preposterous forgetfulness in the poet, and out of all probability, |