[117] This phrase signifies take courage, or summon up resolution. It is at present always written in this manner; formerly it used, [very erroneously,] to be, take heart at grass; as in "Euphues," p. 18: "Rise, therefore, Euphues, and take heart at grasse, younger thou shalt never bee: plucke up thy stomacke, if love have stong thee, it shall not stifle thee."
Again, in Tarlton's "Newes out of Purgatory," p. 4: "Therefore taking heart at grasse, drawing more neere him," &c.
And Ibid., p. 24: "Seeing she would take no warning: on a day tooke heart at grasse, and belabour'd her well with a cudgel."
[118] Well-appointed is completely accoutred. So in "The Miseries of Queen Margaret," by Drayton—
"Ten thousand valiant well-appointed men;"
and in the "Second Part of Henry IV." act iv. sc. 1—
"What well-appointed leader fronts us here?"
—Mr Steevens's note on the last passage.
[119] [Old copy, not born.]
[120] See Wolfii "Opera," 1672, ii. 592.