FOOTNOTES:
[764] See Drake’s “Shakespeare and His Times,” vol. ii. pp. 178-181.
[765] Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1870, vol. ii. p. 290.
[766] “Glossary,” p. 84.
[767] “Glossary,” p. 210.
[768] From Gifford’s Note on Massinger’s Works, 1813, vol. i. p. 104.
[769] See Jamieson’s “Scottish Dictionary,” 1879, vol. i. p. 122.
[770] “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 57.
[771] Ibid. vol. i. p. 58.
[772] “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 143.
[773] “Glossary,” pp. 29, 30.
[774] See Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 156; Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 98. A simple mode of bat-fowling, by means of a large clap-net and a lantern, and called bird-batting, is alluded to in Fielding’s “Joseph Andrews” (bk. ii. chap. x.). Drake thinks that it is to a stratagem of this kind Shakespeare alludes when he paints Buckingham exclaiming (“Henry VIII.” i. 1):
“The net has fall’n upon me; I shall perish
Under device and practice.”
[775] Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 396.
[776] A pip is a spot upon a card.
[777] “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 436.
[778] “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 405.
[779] Rub is still a term at the game, expressive of the movement of the balls. Cf. “King Lear” (ii. 2), and “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (iv. 1), where Boyet, speaking of the game, says: “I fear too much rubbing.”
[780] Halliwell-Phillipps’ “Handbook Index to Shakespeare,” p. 43.
[781] Staunton’s “Shakespeare,” vol. iii. p. 592.
[782] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” vol. ii. p. 409.
[783] She means, “Do you intend to make a mockery of me among these companions?”
[784] “Illustrations of Shakspeare,” p. 20.
[785] Gifford’s note on Jonson’s Works, vol. ii. p. 3.
[786] Ibid., vol. vii. p. 283.
[787] See Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 35.
[788] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 919.
[789] A three-man beetle is a heavy implement, with three handles, used in driving piles, etc., which required three men to lift it.
[790] A correspondent of “Notes and Queries,” 2d series, vol. vii. p. 277, suggests as a derivation the German schnapps, spirit, and drache, dragon, and that it is equivalent to spirit-fire.
[791] Cf. “Winter’s Tale” (iii. 3): “But to make an end of the ship,—to see how the sea flap-dragoned it.”
[792] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 131.
[793] “Sports and Pastimes,” pp. 168, 169.
[794] See “British Popular Customs,” 1876, pp. 78, 83, 87, 401.
[795] “Shakespeare and his Times,” vol. ii. p. 170; see Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakspeare,” pp. 118, 435.
[796] Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 199.
[797] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. p. 420.
[798] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” pp. 499, 500; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 397, 398.
[799] “Anatomy of Melancholy;” Drake’s “Shakespeare and His Times,” vol. ii. p. 298.
[800] Clark and Wright’s “Notes to Hamlet,” 1876, pp. 212, 213.
[801] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” p. 365; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 522.
[802] Baker’s “Northamptonshire Glossary,” 1854, vol. i. p. 198.
[803] See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 134.
[804] Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 144.
[805] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 605.
[806] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, pp. 368, 369.
[807] See Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. pp. 429, 432.
[808] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 606.
[809] “Pictorial Shakespeare,” vol. ii. p. 145.
[810] “Sports and Pastimes.”
[811] Smith’s “Festivals, Games, and Amusements,” 1831, p. 320.
[812] “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 182.
[813] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 713.
[814] “Sports and Pastimes,” p. 141.
[815] See Milner’s “History of Winchester,” vol. ii. p. 155.
[816] According to Douce, “Illustrations of Shakespeare” (1839, p. 280), it was known as “slide-groat,” “slide-board,” “slide-thrift,” and “slip-thrift.” See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, pp. 16, 394, 398; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 791; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. p. 441.
[817] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 491.
[818] Quoted by Strutt, “Sports and Pastimes,” p. 166.
[819] In “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (v. 2), the Princess speaks of “a set of wit well play’d;” upon which Mr. Singer (“Shakespeare,” vol. ii. p. 263) adds that “a set is a term at tennis for a game.”
[820] Quoted by Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 449; see Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. ii. p. 445.
[821] “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 896.
[822] Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 208.
[823] “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 421.