"Nothing requires more patience than a good series of citations."

Preface to the First French Edition of Bayle's Dictionary.

NOTES.

NOTE 1. Page 6, line 28.
Their very badges will delight to mark ye.

It was usual for the servants of noblemen and others, to wear badge or cognizance of their masters. To In Green's Tu quoque, 1614, is the follow

upon their arm, the this the text alludes.

ing illustration :

"You think it does become you; faith it does not,

"A blue coat with a badge does better suit you."

In the year of our Lord 1889, and 13th of the reign of Richard II. there appears to have been a" Bill exhibited by the Commons, that the lords and great men of the realme should not give to their men badges to weare as their cognizances." "The lords would not consent altogether to laie downe their badges; but yet they agreed that none should weare any such cognizance except their seruants of houshold, and such as were in ordinarie wages by the yeare." Holinshed, vol. 2, p. 472, b. 60.

NOTE 2. Page 6, line 30.

Your chair of state, your awful wand and chain.

These were distinguishing appendages to the steward's office, and are very frequently alluded to by our old writers. Thus in Massenger's New way to pay old debts, A. 1, S. 2.

"Set all things right, or as my name is Order,
"And by this staff of office that commands you,
"This chain and double ruff, symbols of power, &c.

And again,

"How dost thou think I shall become the steward's chair? "ha! will not these slender haunches shew well with a chain " and a golden night-cap after supper when I take the accounts?" Fletcher," Love's Cure," A. 1. S. 2.

We might refer also to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, A. 2. S. 3, and Stevens's note thereon; to Webster's Duchess of Malfy ; and Middleton's Mud World my Masters, Act 2.

Phrases of this kind, appear peculiar to the styles of the elder dramatists: thus in Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy, “And ne'er be seen in't: ne'er be seen in't mark you." A. 2, S. 1.

In Fletcher's Woman's Prize.-"That's laid upon your bodies, "mark me well," A. 1, S. 3, and Act 2, S. 2, “ Mark me Livia, if thou be'st double?" In the Pilgrim, Act 4, S. 2, "As you have

a mistress that you honour-Mark me, a mistress," &c.

In Ford's Lady's Trial, Act 2, S. 1, "Your enemy in face—your mistress, mark it." And in Act 3, S. 1, of the same piece, "Her several inches as exactly mark it.”

So, too, Middleton, preface to The Roaring Girl, "You shall find enough for sixpence, but well couched, and you mark it."

NOTE 4. Page 9, line 4.

What splendid pageants and what braveries.

Braveries, i. e. pomp, finery: brave apparel, is gay, sumptuous apparel. The word is common among old authors:

"He must needs, living among wits and braveries.”

Ben Jonson, Epicane or the Silent Woman, Act 3, S. 3. So, likewise, in the Scornful Lady of Beaumont and Fletcher, A. 3, S. 1.

"I pray commend me

"To those few friends you have, that sent you hither,
“ And tell them, when you travel next, 'twere fit

"You brought less bravery with you, and more wit." And in the Comedy of Eastward Hoe by Jonson, Chapman, and Marston, the word is again met with :

"Well said, sweet Syn, bring forth my bravery."

In Holinshed's Chronicles, p. 172, a. 130. fol. 1574.

"To see the costlinesse, and the curiositie; the excesse and the vanitie; the pomp and the braverie.”

NOTE 5. Page 13, line 13.

Thoughts of suspect have risen in the earl.

Suspect" is used by the elder dramatists, as a substantive in the sense of suspicion: thus,

66 I wanted these old instruments of state,

"Dissemblance and suspect."

Marston, The Malcontent, A. 1, S. 2.

Again:

"What a fair way

"Had I made for my love to the general,

"And cut off all suspect, all reprehension."

Middleton, More dissemblers besides Women, A. 2, S. 1. and Sir W. Davenant, in the Wits, A. 2, S. 1.

"What ground had her suspect?"

It occurs likewise in Marlow's Edward II. and repeatedly in the Malcontent of Marston.

NOTE 6. Page 14, line 11.

There must be spirits presiding

Over the elements; and man may learn

The word of power that bends them to his will."

This was at one time a very favorite doctrine, and we find it

tenaciously maintained by many old writers.

"Cardan relates of his father, Facius Cardan, that after the accustomed solemnities An. 1491, 13 August, he conjured up seven spirits in Greek apparel, about forty years ago, some ruddy of complexion, and some pale as he thought: he asked them many questions; and they made ready answer that they were aërial devils, that they lived and died as men did, save that they were longer lived (seven hundred years) and that they did much excel men in dignity, as we do juments, and were as far excelled again of those that were above them our governors and keepers they are moreover (which Plato in Critias delivered of old) and subordinate to one another: ut enim homo homini, sic dæmon dæmoni dominatur; they rule themselves as well as us; and the spirits of the meaner sort had commonly such offices, as we make horse-keepers, neat-herds, and the basest of us, overseers of our cattle; and that we can no more comprehend their natures and functions than a horse a man's. They knew all things, but might not reveal them to men; and ruled and dominered over us, as we do over our horses; the best kings amongst us, and the most generous spirits, were not comparable to the basest of them. Sometimes they did instruct men and communicate their skill, reward and cherish, and sometimes again terrifie and punish, to keep them in awe as they thought fit-nihil magis cupientes (saith Lysius, Phys. Stoicorum) quam adorationem hominum.”

And again: "They (i. e. aërial spirits) cause whirlwinds on a sudden and tempestuous storms; which though our meteorologists, generally refer to natural causes, yet I am of Bodine's mind (Heat. Nat. 1. 2.) they are more often caused by those aërial devils in their several quarters." Burton, Anatomie of Melancholie, Vol. I, p. 59-66. Where see much more on the same subject.

NOTE 7. Page 14, line 29.

Herbs too abound

In sovereign virtues, if they be collected