"What must be; Caesar's prest for all."
See a note on "The Merchant of Venice," A. 1, S. 1.—S. Again
Churchyard's "Challenge," 1593, p. 80—
"Then shall my mouth, my muse, my pen, and all,
Be prest to serve at each good subject's call."
Cynthia's "Revels," A. 5, S. 4—
"I am prest for the encounter."
424. The reckoning. See Mr Steevens's note to "The First Part of King Henry IV.," A. 5, S. 3.
Again, in Churchyard's "Worthiness of Wales"—
"Behold besides, a further thing to note,
The best cheap cheare they have that may be found;
The shot is great when each man pais his groate,
If all alike the reckoning runneth round."
425. The third edition reads swynking. See note 26 to "Gammer Qurton's Needle," vol. ii.
426. In Sir John Hawkins's "History of Musick," vol. iii., p. 466, a passage, in Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Husbandry," 1580, is cited, in which this line occurs—
"The better brest, the lesser rest;"