"Such reasons seeming plausible."
Warners Albion's England, p. 155. ed. 1612.
On l. 166. (G.):—
"We are a few of those collected here
That ruder tongues distinguish villager."
Beaumont and Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 5.
On l. 215. (G.) "Unblemished" was originally (Trin. Coll. Cam. MSS.) written "unspotted," perhaps from Drayton:—
"Whose form unspotted chastity may take,"
On l. 254. (G.) Add to Mr. Warton's note, that after the creation of Sir Robert Dudley to be Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth in 1564, "He sat at dinner in his kirtle." So says Stow in Annals, p. 658. edit. 1633.
On l. 290. (G.):—