buckled, another lac'd; an old rufty sword ta'en out of the town armory, with a broken hilt, and chapelefs, with two broken points: His horfe hip'd with an old mothy faddle, the stirrups of no kindred: befides, poffefs'd with the glanders, and like to mofe in the chine; troubled with the lampafs, infected with the fashions, full of windgalls, fped with spavins, raied with the yellows, paft cure of the fives, ftark fpoiled with the ftaggers, begnawn with the bots; fway'd in the back, and shoulder-fhotten; near-legg'd before ', and with a half-check'd bit, and a headstall of fheep's leather; which, being reftrain'd to keep him from ftumbling, hath been often burft, and now repair'd with knots: one girt fix times piec'd, and a

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3 that have been candle-cafes,] That is, I fuppofe, boots long left off, and after having been converted into cafes to hold the ends of candles, returning to their firft office. I do not know that I have ever met with the word candle-cafe in any other places, except the following preface to a dramatic dialogue, 1635, entitled, The Cafe is Alter'd, How? "I write upon cases, neither knife-cafes, pin-cafes, nor candle-cafes."

And again, in How to chufe a Good Wife from a Bad, 1608: "A bow-cafe, a cap-cafe, a comb-cafe, a lute-case, a fiddlecafe, and a candle-cafe." » STEEVENS.

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-infected with the fashions, paft cure of the fives,] Fafbions. So called in the West of England, but by the best writers on farriery, farcins, or farcy.

Fives. So called in the Weft: vives elsewhere, and avives by the French; a diftemper in horfes, little differing from the ftrangles. GRAY.

Shakespeare is not the only writer who uses fashions for farcy. So, in Decker's comedy of Old Fortunatus, 1600:

"Shad. What fhall we learn by travel?

"Andel. Fafbions.

"Shad. That's a beastly difeafe."

Again, in the New Ordinary, by Brome:

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My old beast is infected with the fashions, fashion-fick." Again, in Decker's Guls Hornbook, 16c9:-" Fashions was then counted a difeafe, and horfes died of it." STEEVENS.

-near-legg'd before,] I do not understand what is meant by this defcription, unless it fignifies that the horse moved his legs fo clofe together as to cut himself. STEEVENS.

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woman's

woman's crupper of velure', which hath two letters for her name, fairly fet down in ftuds, and' here and there pieced with packthread.

Bap. Who comes with him?

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Bion. Oh, fir, his lacquey, for all the world caparifon'd like the horfe; with a linen ftock on one leg, and a kerfey boot-hofe on the other, garter'd with a red and blue lift; an old hat, and The humour of forty fancies prick'd in't for a feather: a monfter, a very monfter in apparel; and not like a christian footboy, or a gentleman's lacquey.

Tra. "Tis fome odd humour pricks him to this fafhion;

Yet oftentimes he goes but mean apparell'd..
Bap. I am glad he is come, how foever he comes.

a crupper of velure,] Velure is velvet. Velours, Fr. So, in the World toffed at Tennis, 1620, by Middleton and Rowley: well-lined foldier (with valour

Come, my

"Not velure) keep me warm.

Again, in the Noble Gentleman, by B. and Fletcher:

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an old hat,

"Lin'd with velure." STEEVENS. -flock] i. e. ftocking. STEEVENS.

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old hat, and the humour of forty fancies prick'd in't for a feather:] This was fome ballad or drollery of that time, which the here ridicules, by making Petruchio prick it up in his footboy's old hat for a feather. His fpeakers are perpetually quoting fcraps and stanzas of old ballads, and often very obfcurely; for, fo well are they adapted to the occafion, that they seem of a piece with the rest. In Shakespeare's time, the kingdom was over-run with thefe doggrel compofitions. And he feems to have borne them a very particular grudge. He frequently ridicules both them and their makers with excellent humour. In Much Ado about Nothing, he makes Benedict fay, Prove that ever I lofe more blood with love than I get again with drinking, prick out my eyes with a ballad-maker's pen. As the bluntnefs of it would make the execution of it extremely painful. And again, in Troilus and Creffida, Pandarus in his diftrefs having repeated a very ftupid stanza from an old ballad, fays, with the higheft humour, There never was a truer rhime; let us caft away nothing, for we may live to have need of fuch a verfe. We fee it, we fee it. WARBURTON.

Bion. Why, fir, he comes not.
Bap. Didft thou not fay, he comes?
Bion. Who? that Petruchio came?

Bap. Ay, that Petruchio came.

Bion. No, fir; I fay, his horse comes with him on his back.

Bap. Why, that's all one.

Bion. Nay, by faint Jamy, I hold you a penny, A horse and a man is more than one, and yet not many.

Enter Petruchio, and Grumio 3.

Pet. Come, where be these gallants? who is at

home?

Bap.

3 Enter Petruchio and Grumio. Thus in the original play"Enter Ferando, bafely attired, and a red cap on his head." "Feran. Good-morrow, father: Polidor well met : "You wonder, I know, that I have staide so long.

"Alfon. Yea, marry fonne: we were almost perfuaded "That we should scarce have had our bridegroom here: "But fay, why art thou thus bafely attired?

"Feran. Thus richly, father, you should have faide; "For when my wife and I are married once,

"Shee's fuch a fhrew, if we should once fall out,
"Sheele pull my coftly futes over mine eares,
"And therefore am I thus attir'd a while:
"For many things I tell you's in my head,
"And none must know thereof but Kate and I;
"For we shall live like lambes and lions fure:
"Nor lambs to lions never were fo tame,
"If once they lie within the lions pawes,
σε As Kate to me, if we were married once:
"And therefore, come, lets to church prefently.
"Pol. Fie, Ferando! not thus attir'd: for fhame,
"Come to my chamber, and there fuite thyfelfe,
"Of twenty futes that I did never weare.

futes

"Feran. Tufh Polidor, I have as many "Fantastike made to fit my humor fo, "As any in Athens; and as richly wrought "As was the malfie robe that late adorn'd "The ftately legat of the Perfian king,

"And this from them I have made choife to weare.

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Bap. You are welcome, fir.

Pet. And yet I come not well.
Bap. And yet you halt not..
Tra. Not fo well apparell'd
As I wish you were.

Pet. Were it better, I fhould rush in thus.
But where is Kate? where is my lovely bride ?-
How does my father?-Gentles, methinks you frown:
And wherefore gaze this goodly company;

As if they faw fome wondrous monument,
Some comet, or unusual prodigy?

Bap. Why, fir, you know, this is your weddingday:

Firft were we fad, fearing you would not come;
Now fadder, that you come fo unprovided.
Fye! doff this habit, fhame to your estate,
An eye-fore to our folemn feftival.

Tra. And tell us, what occafion of import
Hath all fo long detain'd you from your wife,
And fent you hither fo unlike yourself?

Pet. Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear;
Sufficeth, I am come to keep my word,
Though in fome part enforced to digrefs 4;
Which, at more leifure, I will fo excufe
As you fhail well be fatisfied withal.

But, where is Kate? I ftay too long from her;
The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.
Tra. See not your bride in these unreverent robes;
Go to my chamber, put on cloaths of mine.
Pet. Not I, believe me; thus I'll vifit her.
Bap. But thus, I truft, you will not marry her.
Pet. Good footh, even thus; therefore have done
with words;

"Alfon. I prethee, Ferando, let me intreat, "Before thou go'ft unto the church with us,

"To put fome other fute upon thy backe.

"Feran. Not for the world, &c." STEEVENS.

to digrefs;] to deviate from any promife. JOHNSON.

To

To me fhe's marry'd, not unto my cloaths:
Could I repair what the will wear in me,
As I can change thefe poor accoutrements,
"Twere well for Kate, and better for myself.
But what a fool am I, to chat with you,
When I should bid good-morrow to my bride,
And feal the title with a lovely kiss?

[Exit. Pet. Gru. and Bion. Tra. He hath fome meaning in his mad attire: We will perfuade him, be it poffible,

To put on better ere he go to church.

Bap. I'll after him, and fee the event of this. [Exit. Tra. But, fir, our love concerneth us to add Her father's liking: Which to bring to pass, As I before imparted to your worship,

I am to get a man,-whate'er he be,

It fkills not much; we'll fit him to our turn,-
And he fhall be Vincentio of Pifa.;

And make affurance, here in Padua,
Of greater fums than I have promised.
So fhall you quietly enjoy your hope,
And marry fweet Bianca with confent.

Luc. Were it not that my fellow fchool-mafter
Doth watch Bianca's fteps fo narrowly,
'Twere good, methinks, to fteal our marriage;
Which once perform'd, let all the world fay-no,
I'll keep mine own, defpight of all the world.
Tra. That by degrees we mean to look into,
And watch our vantage in this business :-

5 Tra. But, fir, our love] Our is an injudicious interpolation. The first folio reads-But, fir, love concerneth us to add, Her father's liking-which I think, fhould be thus corrected :

But, fir, to her love concerneth us to add

Her father's liking.

We must fuppofe, that Lucentio had before informed Tranio in private of his having obtained Bianca's love; and Tranio here refumes the converfation, by observing, that to her love it concerns them to add her father's confent; and then goes on to propofe a fcheme for obtaining the latter. TYRWHITT.

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