[1298] "This damnable art mathematical" (Bp. Hooker, Works, 1: 330), meaning 'astrological.'

[1299] Either v. tr.: 'draws' the long bow; or v. intr.: 'ventures in imagination' a bow-shot beyond his capability.

[1300] Appendix [D], 3 b.

[1301] So Qtos. Do., Dy., W., ''gainst.' On 'guesse' for 'guests,' Dy. quotes Chamberlain's Pharonnida (1659), Bk. IV. C. III. p. 53: "The empty tables stood for never guess came there."

[1302] Q 1 has ll. 139-140 in prose; but Do., Dy., W., verse

[1303] Be abashed. So Tullie's Love: "Like Diana when she basht at Actæon's presence"; and Orpharion (Grosart's Greene, VII. 115 and XII. 50).

[1304] Line 156: Appendix [A], 3; and [D], 1.

[1305] Properly principal. In Bacon's day Brasenose College was not yet founded.

[1306] Wagner would read, "And hell and Hecat shall the friar fail," for "Hecate ist sonst stets zweisilbig." Wrong. Ward cites for the trisyllable, Shakesp., 1 H. VI., III. ii. 64, and Milton, Comus, v. 535.

[1307] bargain.