and maimed soldiers and mariners, by a weekly the people were to obtain by their abolition.→ sum from every parish. The first of the kind. Ibid. p. 935: p. 942, fine speech of the Queen. -Ibid. p. 865 choose lovers, Saint Luke's to choose hus- | ing-bottle of sweet water in his hand, sprinkling bands."-CHAPMAN. Monsieur D'Olive, p. 409. himself." "Now are my valance up Imbost with orient pearl, my grandsire's gift. Now are the lawn sheets fumed with violets To fresh the pall'd lascivious appetite."— Ibid. p. 245. "WITHIN these few years (I to mind do call) The Yeomen of the Guard were Archers all. A hundred at a time I oft have seen With bows and arrows ride before the Queen, Their bows in hand, their quivers on their shoulders, Was a most stately sight to the beholders." TAYLOR'S Goose (W. P.) p. 108. In the year 1564, "one William Boonen, a Dutchman, brought first the use of coaches hither, and the said Boonen was Queen Elizabeth's coachman,-for indeed a coach was a strange monster in those days, and the sight of them put both horse and man into amazement. Some said it was a great crab shell brought out of China; and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples in which the cannibals adored the devil."-TAYLOR, The World runs on Wheels. Ibid. p. 240.1 "COSTLY attire of the new cut, the Dutch hat, the French hose, the Spanish rapier, the Italian hilt, and I know not what-the Spanish felt, the French ruff."-EUPHNES. mine me, you offer me great discourtesy. You must either think me very simple, or yourselves very subtle, if upon so small acquaintance, I should answer to such demands, as are neither for me to utter, being a subject, nor for you to know, being strangers. Know this, that an Englishman learneth to speak of men, and to hold his peace of the Gods!"—Ibid. "THE posies in your rings are always next to the finger, not to be seen of him that holdeth you by the hands."—Ibid. "Ir a taylor make your gown too little, you cover his fault with a broad stomacher; if too great, with a number of plaits; if too short, with a fair guard; if too long, with a false gathering."—Ibid. "THIS should be their order, to understand there is a King; but what he doth, is for the Gods to examine, whose ordinance he is, not for men, whose overseer he is."-Ibid. "THEY were served all in earthen dishes, all things so neat and cleanly, that they perceived a kind of courtly majesty in the mind of their host."-Ibid. "THEN the old man commanded the board to be uncovered, grace being said; called for stools, DISSOLUTE state of our Universities.-Ibid. and sitting by the fire, uttered the whole dissheets O and P. course of his love, &c."-Ibid. Benches therefore at the table. "To ride well (this old man says) is laudable, to run at the tilt, not amiss; to revell, much to be praised: which things as I know them all to be courtly, so for my part I account them necessary. For where greatest assemblies are of noble gentlemen, there should be the greatest exercise of true nobility. And I am not so precise, but that I esteem it as expedient in feats of arms and activity to employ the body, as in study to waste the mind. Yet so should the one be tempered with the other, as it might seem as great a shame to be valiant and courtly without learning, as to be studious and bookish without valour."-Ibid. "SUCH was the time then that it was as strange to love, as it is now common, and then less used in the court than it is now in the country. But having respect to the time past, I trust you will not condemn my present time, who am enforced to sing after their plain song that was then used, and will follow hereafter the crotchets that are in these days so cunningly handled. For the minds of lovers alter with the mad moods of the musicians; and so much are they within few years changed, that we account their old wooing and singing to have so little cunning that we esteem it barbarous; and were they living to hear our new quoyings (?) they would judge it to have so much curiosity, that they would term it foolish."-Ibid. "In times past they used to woo in plain terms, now in picked sentences." “I AM sorry, Euphnes, that we have no green rushes, considering you have been so great a stranger." He answers, "Fair Lady, it were unseemly to strew green rushes for his coming, whose company is not worth a straw." "USE thy book in the morning; thy bow after dinner, or what other exercise shall please thee." -Ibid. "GENTLEMEN and merchants feed very finely; and a poor man it is that dineth with one dish; and yet so content with a little, that having half dined, they say as it were in a proverb, that they are as well satisfied as the Lord Mayor of London, whom they think to fare best, though he eat not most."-Ibid. "THE attire they use is rather led by the imitation of others than their own invention, so that there is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of attire; now using the French fashion, now the Spanish, then the Moresco gowns, then one thing, then another."Ibid. "STRANGERS have green rushes, when daily guests are not worth a rush."—LILLY'S Sapho and Phao. "In the 2d of Elizabeth Lord Berkeley began the country) served to the table do well declare: whereof one was a whole boar, enclosed in a pale workmanly gilt, by a cook hired from Bristol."-Ibid. p. 189. RESERVATION of 1000 oaks for mast and shadow, where there was a privilege of common.-Ibid. p. 191. "THIS Lord sojourned and boarded at various times with Sir Thomas Russell of Strensham, and Sir John Savage of Barasser.”—Ibid. p. 198. "He used to board our popish servants who might otherwise have occasioned some trouble to him, with the old Duke of Norfolk, and afterwards with the Countess of Surrey."-Ibid. p. 203. "1584, Smyth, then seventeen years old, came from the Free School of Derby to attend Sir Thomas Berkeley (then nine years old) in his chamber; that time also came William Lison for the same intent, with hopes that one of us might benefit the other at our books. Here we all continued for two years more as servants and scholars with him. From thence he with his tutor, William Rygon and myself went to Magdalene College, Oxford, 1589.”—Ibid. p. 213. GAMBLING with servants, as now in Portugal. "HAVE weights, I advise thee, for silver and For some be in knavery now-a-days bold. WHEN was the turnspit dog introduced? to present her majesty with 10l. per annum Not in Tusser's time. Ibid. p. 255. yearly in gold, at New Year's tide, and his wife" Good diligent turnbroche, and trusty withall, with 51., which course she held during her life, Is sometime as needful as some in the hall."and this Lord the rest of the Queen's days; and were never unmindful of sending lamprey-pies, salmon, venison, red and fallow, and other small tokens, to Judges, great Officers of State, Privy Counsellor, and Lawyers, whereof he reaped both honour and profit, and one hundred times more than the charge."-FOSBROOKE'S Berkeley, p. 189. Trunk hose. WEARING a mistress's colours was as much "HIS Christmas he kept at Yate with great port and solemnity, as the extraordinary gilded dishes and vanities of cooks' arts (having none from a superstition concerning sympathy as for other guests but the gentlemen and rurality of |