Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...
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:466NOTES.that this disorder may have been excess of apparel, and that the bigof the court was resident in Birchin Lane about 1540. (Cf. Notes and(Queries, Second Ser. i. 254).'—Mayor. It may be observed that Aschamproceeds to reprove absurdities in dress in the next page.one^XXVI.GEORGE GASCOIGNE.Line 4:9. Rules the rost. To rule the roast is to preside at the board,to assign what shares one pleases to the guests ; hence it came to mean,to domineer, in which sense it is commonly used in our old authors.See Nares.447. It means, 'Or else would have caused serious annoyance tooffenders.'45S. Proynd. pruned. To preen is used of a bird setting its feathers inorder ; to proine is to trim, deck out, used by Chaucer. It is from theO.'is. prjcn, Sc. preen, a pin, used for neatness. Prune is the modemspelling of proine.464. Shew, appear.My glasse. my steel glass, my miiror, in which mankind are shewnas they are.Compare the title Mirror for Magistrates.753. Meane, method. We now always use the plural means.755. The vaine, the vein ; i.e. the humour, particular temper.757. 'Because they have not marriage-garments.' Cf. 'Amice, quomodohue intrasti, non habens vestem nuptialem ? '— St. Matt. xxii. 12.760. Rocks, distaffs. The 7th of January was called Rock-day or St.Distaff's Day, because, the Christmas festi\-ities ha\'ing terminated onTwelfth Night, women were then supposed to return to their spinning.763. By, with regard to, against, as in i Cor. iv. 4.768. Sericane. He must mean China. The Chinese are called Seresin Latin, whence Serica means silken garments, and Sericnm their fabric.From Sericum Mr. Wedgwood would derive the A. S. seolc, and themodem silk by the change of r into /. On the other hand, silk in Arabicand Persian means a thread ; see Webster's Dictionary'. Mr. Wedgwood'squotation from Holland's Pliny well illustrates the present passage'The first people of any knowledge and acquaintance be the Seres,famous for the fine silke tliat their woods doe peld.'770. Against this lii.e is printed the date, August q, which probablyhas reference to the time of composition. The • Emperour ' may beCharles V, who died a.d. 1558, eighteen years before the date of theSteel Glas.
XX F7. GEORGE GASCOIGNE. 467775. Carde, cared ; cf. rulde for ruledin 1, 771.777. Baiidhin, ' a very rich kind of stuff, the web being gold and thewoof silk, with embroidery.'—Nares. It is derived from the Low LatinBalderhtius, an adjective formed from Baldacca, which again is formedfrom Bagdad, the Persian city, whence it came. It was first introducedinto England in the thirteenth century.Outworks, fantastic patterns in lace, &c.783. Cento por Cento, cent per cent ; as much again. Gascoigne speaksironically here, in saying that merchants are not wont to do the thingswhich he enumerates.784. Browne paper. Mr. Hazlitt guesses this to mean accommodationbills.785. Morrice-hells, bells used for the morris-dance, in which mummersdisported themselves. The 1st of ]\Iay wag a favourite day for suchdiversions.Here the word probably means masquerades.Byllets, love-letters.787. Father Derbies bands, handcuffs. Why so called, I know not ;but ' darbies ' is still a slang term for the same.788. ' To restrain their steps by the staff of statute-staple.' A certainkind of bond was named astatute-merchant, or a statute-staple, because itwas sometimes acknowledged before one of the clerks of statutes-merchant,and the mayor of the staple; see the explanation in Blount's'NofxoXf^tfcov, which is quoted by Nares. Hence statute-staple meanssimply a bond ; but in this particular passage it is jocularly applied tothat particular bond which was exercised by fastening a prisoner by achain to a staple in a wall ; hence ' by statute-staples staffe 'meanshere, by the support of a prison-wall staple.789. ' To compel young roysterers, by a legal recognisance or obligation,to read arithmetic daily ; ' i. e. to learn accounts by beingfrequently dunned for payment of debts contracted.791. Wood Street and Bread Street, which turn out of Cheapside, andPoultry, which is a continuation of it, each contained a prison called acounter.793.See next line.Fell, skin. It is the A. S.fel, equivalent to La.t. pellis.817. Are not, said ironically; he means, they are proud, &c. Thelines beginning not ofie of these, are equally ironical.835. Lev. XXV. 36, 37. All usury was forbidden by the canon-law.839. A waspe. This well illustrates a passage in Pierce the Ploughman'sCrede, 1. 648, where it is said of a friar'There is no waspe in this werlde that will wilfulloker [more willingly']styngen.'
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:466NOTES.that this disorder may have been excess <strong>of</strong> apparel, and that <strong>the</strong> big<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> court was resident in Birchin Lane about 1540. (Cf. Notes and(Queries, Second Ser. i. 254).'—Mayor. It may be observed that Aschamproceeds <strong>to</strong> reprove absurdities in dress in <strong>the</strong> next page.one^XXVI.GEORGE GASCOIGNE.Line 4:9. Rules <strong>the</strong> rost. To rule <strong>the</strong> roast is <strong>to</strong> preside at <strong>the</strong> board,<strong>to</strong> assign what shares one pleases <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> guests ; hence it came <strong>to</strong> mean,<strong>to</strong> domineer, in which sense it is commonly used in our old authors.See Nares.447. It means, 'Or else would have caused serious annoyance <strong>to</strong><strong>of</strong>fenders.'45S. Proynd. pruned. To preen is used <strong>of</strong> a bird setting its fea<strong>the</strong>rs inorder ; <strong>to</strong> proine is <strong>to</strong> trim, deck out, used by Chaucer. It is <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong>O.'is. prjcn, Sc. preen, a pin, used for neatness. Prune is <strong>the</strong> modemspelling <strong>of</strong> proine.464. Shew, appear.My glasse. my steel glass, my miiror, in which mankind are shewnas <strong>the</strong>y are.Compare <strong>the</strong> title Mirror for Magistrates.753. Meane, method. We now always use <strong>the</strong> plural means.755. The vaine, <strong>the</strong> vein ; i.e. <strong>the</strong> humour, particular temper.757. 'Because <strong>the</strong>y have not marriage-garments.' Cf. 'Amice, quomodohue intrasti, non habens vestem nuptialem ? '— St. Matt. xxii. 12.760. Rocks, distaffs. The 7th <strong>of</strong> January was called Rock-day or St.Distaff's Day, because, <strong>the</strong> Christmas festi\-ities ha\'ing terminated onTwelfth Night, women were <strong>the</strong>n supposed <strong>to</strong> return <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir spinning.763. By, with regard <strong>to</strong>, against, as in i Cor. iv. 4.768. Sericane. He must mean China. The Chinese are called Seresin Latin, whence Serica means silken garments, and Sericnm <strong>the</strong>ir fabric.From Sericum Mr. Wedgwood would derive <strong>the</strong> A. S. seolc, and <strong>the</strong>modem silk by <strong>the</strong> change <strong>of</strong> r in<strong>to</strong> /. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, silk in Arabicand Persian means a thread ; see Webster's Dictionary'. Mr. Wedgwood'squotation <strong>from</strong> Holland's Pliny well illustrates <strong>the</strong> present passage'The first people <strong>of</strong> any knowledge and acquaintance be <strong>the</strong> Seres,famous for <strong>the</strong> fine silke tliat <strong>the</strong>ir woods doe peld.'770. Against this lii.e is printed <strong>the</strong> date, August q, which probablyhas reference <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> composition. The • Emperour ' may beCharles V, who died a.d. 1558, eighteen years before <strong>the</strong> date <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>Steel Glas.
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