Microcosmography Part 32

FOOTNOTES:

[DY] In the extracts made from the foregoing series of _Characters_, the original orthography has been most scrupulously attended to, in order to a.s.sist in shewing the progress and variation of the English language.

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.

Page 2, line 18, for _ports_ read _sports_.

4, line 9, "_table-book._" The custom of writing in table-books, or, as it was then expressed, "in tables,"

is noticed, and instances given in Reed's _Shakspeare_, vi, 13. xii, 170. xviii, 88. Dr. Farmer adduces a pa.s.sage very applicable to the text, from Hall's character of the _hypocrite_. "He will ever sit where he may be seene best, and in the midst of the sermon pulles out his _tables_ in haste, as if he feared to loose that note," &c. Decker, in his _Guls Hornebooke_, page 8, speaking to his readers, says, "out with your _tables_,"

&c.

6, note 6.--This is also mentioned in _Whimzies_, 8vo.

1631, p. 57. "Hee must now betake himself to prayer and devotion; _remember the founder, benefactors, head, and members of that famous foundation_: all which he performes with as much zeale as an actor after the end of a play, when hee prayes for his majestie, the lords of his most honourable privie councell, and all that love the king."

13, note 10.--From a subsequent edition, obligingly pointed out to me by the rev. Mr. arch-deacon Nares, I find that this also is a translation: _Regimen Sanitatis Salerni. This booke teachyng all people to gouerne the in health, is translated out of the Latine tongue into Englishe, by Thomas Paynell, whiche booke is amended, augmented, and diligently imprinted. 1575._ Colophon. -- _Jmprynted at London, by Wyllyam How, for Abraham Ueale._ The preface says, that it was compiled for the use "of the moste n.o.ble and victorious kynge of England, and of Fraunce, by all the doctours in Phisicke of the Uniuersitie of Salerne."

17, line 17, "_door-posts_."--It was usual for public officers to have painted or gilded posts at their doors, on which proclamations, and other doc.u.ments of that description, were placed, in order to be read by the populace. See various allusions to this custom, in Reed's _Shakspeare_, v. 267. _Old Plays_, iii. 303. The _reformation_ means that they were, in the language of our modern churchwardens, "repaired and beautified,"

during the reign of our alderman.

45, line 11, for _Gollobelgicus_ read _Gallobelgicus_.

47, line 15. "_post and pair_" was a game at cards, of which I can give no description. The author of the _Compleat Gamester_ notices it as "very much played in the West of England." See Dodsley's _Old Plays_, 1780.

vii. 296.

48, line 12--"_guarded with more gold lace_." The word _guarded_ is continually used by the writers of the sixteenth century for _fringed_ or _adorned_. See Reed's _Shakspeare_, vii. 272. _Old Plays_, iv. 36.

59, line 15, "_clout_." Shakspeare (Cymbeline, act iv.

scene 2.) uses the expression of _clouted brogues_, which Mr. Steevens explains to be "shoes strengthened with _clout_ or _hob-nails_."

63, line 9, "_dragon that pursued the woman._" Evidently an allusion to _Revelations_, xii. 15.

91, note 8, line 15, for _Styla_ read _Hyla_ in both instances.

92, note 10, line 5, for _Leiden_ read _Leyden_.

117, line 3, "Their humanity is a _leg to the residencer_." A _leg_ here signifies a _bow_. Decker says, "a jewe neuer weares his cap threedbare with putting it off; neuer bends i' th' hammes with _casting away a leg_, &c." _Guls Hornebooke._ p. 11.

182, note 1, for _spunge_ read _sponge_.

208, line 4, for _spera_ read _spero_.

ib. line 30, for _conjesta_ read _congesta_.

ib. line 31, for _susuperavit_ read _superavit_.

231, line 11, for _Jude_ read _Inde_: for _ferucat_ read _ferueat_.

245, line 7, for _whosc_ read _whose_.

Several errors and inaccuracies of less consequence than those here pointed out, will probably be discovered. These were occasioned by the editor's distance from the press, and he requests the gentle reader to pardon and correct them.

[Transcriber's note: Despite a valiant effort to the contrary some additional transcription errors may have slipped through during the preparation of this e-text.

We can't blame the distance between the editor and the press.

Please forward any corrections to Project Gutenberg errata.]

The _Inscription_, No. x. of the _Appendix_, should have been entirely omitted. The following extract from Guillim's _Heraldry_, shews that Bishop Earle could not have been connected with the Streglethorp family, since, if he had, there would have been no occasion for a new grant of armorial bearings.

"He beareth _ermine_, on a chief indented sable, three eastern crowns or, by the name of _Earles_. This coat was granted by _Sir Edward Walker_, garter, the 1st of August, 1660, to the Reverend Dr. _John Earles_, son of _Thomas Earles_, gent, sometime Register of the Archbishop's Court at York. He was Dean of _Westminster_, and Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty King _Charles_ the Second; and in the year 1663, made Bishop of _Salisbury_."

Guillim's _Heraldry_, folio. Lond. 1724. p. 282.

It is almost unnecessary to add that I was not aware of this grant, when I compiled the short account of Earle, at page 186, and spoke of my inability to give any information relative to his parents.

FOOTNOTES:

[DZ] It is curious to find this Character in the Durham MS. Bliss, in his account of the editions, speaks of the 6th edition (1633) as having two _additional_ Characters, one of them being "The Herald." The edition of 1630, also called "the 6th edition augmented," I possess. It contains seventy-six characters (numbered as seventy-seven by mistake), but neither of the two "additional ones." Bliss's knowledge of editions, as well as his acquisition of them was increased largely in the years that followed the publication of his book. When he had acquired the 1st edition he wrote pathetically in his annotated copy, "I have been more than fifty years looking for this book!" By that time too he knew that what he here calls the _2nd_ edition of 1629 was really the _fifth_. (See _Arber's Reprint_, where a table of the editions is given.)

[EA] "Fields."--_Bright MS._

[EB] "Prices."--_Bright MS._

[EC] This sentence by itself would make the Durham MS. a treasure.

[ED] "He is of great account with his mercer and in no man's books so much: who is so sure a friend to him that he will not lose him."--_Durham MS._

[EE] "He is a great derider of schollers and censures their steeple hats for not being set on so good a blocke as his."--_Durham MS._

[EF] "He will pull it out in the streets."--_Durham MS._

[EG] "Counter."--_Durham MS._

[EH] Bp. Gauden, of Worcester, died in the beg. of Sept., 1662.

[CLARENDON STATE PAPERS, No. 1465.]

MR. EARLES TO MR. HYDE.[EI]