III. "Yet, Urswick,
We'll not abate one penny, what in Parliament
Hath freely been contributed; we must not:
Money gives soul to action. Our competitor
The Flemish counterfeit, with James of Scotland,
Will prove what courage need and want can nourish,
Without the food of fit supplies."
Ford [1634], Perkin Warbeck, Act III. Sc. 1.
"Cuddy. Yes, I was ten days together there the last Shrove-tide.
"2nd Clown. How could that be, when there are but seven days in the week?
"Cuddy. Prithee, peace! I reckon stila nova as a traveller; thou understandest as a freshwater farmer, that never saw'st a week beyond sea. Ask any soldier that ever received his pay but in the Low Countries, and he'll tell thee there are Eight days in the week there hard by. How dost thou think they rise in High Germany, Italy, and those remoter places?"
Rowley, Decker, and Ford. Witch of Edmonton, Act III. Sc. 1.
"This passage is explained by the following lines of Butler:
'The soldier does it every day,
Eight to the week, for sixpence pay.'"
Note by the Editor, Hartley Coleridge, in the Glossary. Ed. London: Moxon, 1839.