[295] Phocion, the celebrated Athenian patriot, b. 402 B.C. d. 317 B.C. Full particulars about him may be found in Mr. Grote's History of Greece, and in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Classical Biography.
[296] Orig. reads unnecessarily, and to be such one styll.
[297] The celebrated Latin poet. "Quintus Ennius," Gellius tells us (N. A. lib. xvii. cap. 17), "said he had three hearts, because he understood the Greek, Oscan, and Latin languages."
[298] Orig. reads coude.
[299] So far extends Berthelet's edition, of which the colophon is: Imprinted at London in Flete Strete in the house of Thomas Berthelet nere to the Cundite, at the sygne of Lucrece. ¶ Cum priuilegio. The remaining 26 tales are from the Ed. of 1567.
[300] Dormitory.
[301] During the Wars of the Roses. In The First Part of Edward IV., by Thomas Heywoud, 1600 (Shakesp. Soc. repr. p. 41), Hobs, the Tanner of Tamworth, says:—
"By my troth, I know not, when I speak treason, when I do not. There's such halting betwixt two kings, that a man cannot go upright, but he shall offend t'one of them. I would God had them both, for me."
[302] This word is in the original text printed twice by an oversight. I have struck out the duplicate.
[303] i.e. a person dwelling in the uplands or mountainous districts where the learning of the cities had not very deeply penetrated. Hence the word became synonymous with ignorant and uninformed. Alexander Barclay's fifth eclogue is "Of the Citizen and Uplandish Man." The poem of Jack Upland is printed in the old editions of Chaucer and in Wright's Political Poems and Songs, 1861, ii. 16. Mr. Wright assigns to it the date of 1401.