But there are many authorities besides Shakespeare, in his "Antony and Cleopatra," for its employment. Gascoigne inserts it in the speech of Hercules in the "Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth": "A garboyel this in deede," ["Works" by Hazlitt, ii. 93]. Drayton also uses it in [his "Mortimeriados," 1596,] quoted in "England's Parnassus," p. 444—
"Such is the garboyle of this conflict then;
Brave Englishmen encountering Englishmen."
and T. Heywood, in his "Rape of Lucrece," 1608, talks of "the head of all these garboyles, the chief actor of that black sin," &c.—Collier.
[346] [Ride, perhaps a form of prick.]
[347] Formerly printed studient, and for the measure it must be read so.—Collier. [The form studient is legitimate, though uncommon, and has been restored.]
[348] [This form of address was borrowed from the university.]
[349] i.e., Subtleties. So in "Every Woman in her Humour," 1609, sig. H 4: "He has his pols and his œdypols, his times and his tricks, his quirks, and his quilits," &c.
Again, in Lyly's "Euphues," 1581, p. 56: "Not only the, quirks and quiddities of the Logicians, but also," &c.
See also Mr Steevens's note on "Hamlet," act v. sc. I.
[350] [Edits., fecks-law, of which I fail to comprehend the meaning, if any. Tha phrase firk of law occurs again at p. 329, and in the sense of a trick or sleight.]