Alas! the fweet woman leads an ill life with him; he's a very jealoufy man; fhe leads a very frampold2 life with him, good heart. FAL. Ten and eleven: Woman, commend me to her; I will not fail her. QUICK. Why, you fay well: But I have another meffenger to your worship: Mistress Page hath her hearty commendations to you too;—and let me tell you in your ear, fhe's as fartuous a civil modeft wife, and one (I tell you) that will not mifs you morning nor evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be the other and fhe bade me tell worship, that her husband is feldom from home; but, the hopes, there will come a time. I never knew a woman fo dote upon a man; furely, I think you have charms, la; yes, in truth. 2 your -frampold-] This word I have never seen elsewhere, except in Dr. Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, where a frampul man fignifies a peevith troublesome fellow. JOHNSON. In The Roaring Girl, a comedy, 1611, I meet with a word, which, though differently spelt, appears to be the fame : "Lax. Coachman. "Coach. Anon, fir! "Lax. Are we fitted with good phrampell jades ?” Ray, among his South and Eaft country words, obferves, that frampald, or frampard, fignifies fretful, peevish, cross, froward. As froward (he adds) comes from from; fo may frampard. Nafh, in his Praife of the Red Herring, 1599, fpeaking of Leander, fays: "the churlish frampold waves gave him his belly full of fish-broth." Again, in The Inner Temple Mafque, by Middleton, 1619: "tis fo frampole, the puritans will never yield to it." Again, in The Blind Beggar of Bethnal-Green, by John Day: "I think the fellow's frampell," &c. And, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Wit at feveral Weapons: "Is Pompey grown fo malapert, fo frampel?" STEEVENS. Thus, in The Ile of Gulls" What a goodyer aile you mother? are you frampull? know you not your own daughter?" G. 4 HENLEY, FAL. Not I, I affure thee; fetting the attraċtion of my good parts afide, I have no other charms. QUICK. Bleffing on your heart for't! FAL. But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife, and Page's wife, acquainted each other how they love me? QUICK. That were a jeft, indeed!—they have not fo little grace, I hope that were a trick, indeed! But mistress Page would defire you to fend her your little page, of all loves ;3 her husband has a marvellous infection to the little page: and, truly, mafter Page is an honeft man. Never a wife in Windfor leads a better life than fhe does; do what fhe will, fay what fhe will, take all, pay all, go to bed when the lift, rise when she lift, all is as the will; and, truly, the deferves it: for if there be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must fend her your page; no remedy. FAL. Why, I will. QUICK. Nay, but do fo then: and, look you, he may come and go between you both; and, in any 3 to fend her your little page, of all loves;] Of all loves, is an adjuration only, and fignifies no more than if the bad faid, defires you to fend him by all means. It is used in Decker's Honeft Whore, P. I. 1635 :- conjuring his wife, of all loves, to prepare cheer fitting," &c. Again, in Holinfhed's Chronicle, p. 1064: "Mrs. Arden defired him, of all loves, to come backe againe." Again, in Othello, A&t III: "the general so likes your mufick, that he defires you, of all loves, to make no more noise with it." A fimilar phrafe occurs in a Letter from Gilbert Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury. See Lodge's Illuftrations, &c. Vol. II. 101: "I earnestly defyred him, of all frendshipp, to tell me whether he had harde any thing to ye contrary." Again, ibid. "He charged me, of all love, that I fhould kepe this fecrete." STEEVENS. cafe, have a nay-word,4 that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to underftand any thing; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness: old folks, you know, have difcretion, as they fay, and know the world. FAL. Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's my purfe; I am yet thy debtor.Boy, go along with this woman.-This news diftracts me! [Exeunt QUICKLY and ROBIN. PIST. This punk is one of Cupid's carriers: 5— Clap on more fails; purfue, up with your fights; 4 -a nay-word,] i. e. a watch-word. So, in a fubfequent scene: "We have a nay-word to know one another," &c. STEEVENS. 5 This punk is one of Cupid's carriers :-] Punk is a plaufible reading, yet abfurd on examination. For are not all punks Cupid's carriers? Shakspeare certainly wrote: "This PINK is one of Cupid's carriers: And then the sense is proper, and the metaphor, which is all the way taken from the marine, entire. A pink is a veffel of the small craft, employed as a carrier (and fo called) for merchants. Fletcher ufes the word in his Tamer Tamed: "This PINK, this painted foift, this cockle-boat.” WARBURTON. So, in The Ladies' Privilege, 1640: "Thefe gentlemen know better to cut a caper than a cable, or board a pink in the bordells, than a pinnace at sea." A fmall falmon is called a falmon-pink. Dr. Farmer, however, obferves, that the word punk has been unneceffarily altered to pink. In Ben Jonfon's Bartholomew Fair, Juftice Overdo fays of the pig-woman: "She hath been before me, punk, pinnace, and bawd, any time these two and twenty-years." STEEVENS. 6 up with your fights;] So again, in Fletcher's Tamer Tamed: "To hang her fights out, and defy me, friends! "A well-known man of war." As to the word fights, both in the text and in the quotation, it was then, and, for aught I know, may be now, a common fea-term. Sir Richard Hawkins, in his Voyages, p. 66, says Give fire; fhe is my prize, or ocean whelm them, [Exit PISTOL. all! "For once we cleared her deck; and had we been able to have fpared but a dozen men, doubtlefs we had done with her what we would; for fhe had no close FIGHTS," i. e. if I understand it right, no small arms. So that by fights is meant any manner of defence, either small arms or cannon. So, Dryden, in his tragedy of Amboyna: 66 Up with your FIGHTS, "And your nettings prepare," &c. WARBURTON. The quotation from Dryden might at least have raised a sufpicion that fights were neither small arms, nor cannon. Fights and nettings are properly joined. Fights, I find, are clothes hung round the ship to conceal the men from the enemy; and clofe-fights are bulk-heads, or any other shelter that the fabrick of a fhip affords. JOHNSON. So, in Heywood and Rowley's comedy, called Fortune by Land and Sea: " -difplay'd their enfigns, up with all their feights, their matches in their cocks," &c. Again, in The Chriftian turned Turk, 1612: "Lace the netting, and let down the fights, make ready the shot," &c. Again, in The Fair Maid of the Weft, 1615: "Then now up with your fights, and let your enfigns, "Bleft with St. George's crofs, play with the winds." Again, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Valentinian: while I were able to endure a tempeft, "And bear my fights out bravely, till my tackle This paffage may receive an additional and perhaps a fomewhat different illuftration from John Smith's Sea-Grammar, 4to. 1627. In p. 58 he says: "But if you fee your chase strip himself into fighting failes, that is, to put out his colours in the poope, his flag in the maine top, his ftreamers or pendants at the end of his yards' arms, &c. provide yourfelf to fight." Again, p. 60: "Thus they ufe to ftrip themselves into their fhort failes, or fighting failes, which is only the fore fail, the maine and fore top failes, because the reft fhould not be fired or fpoiled; befides they would be troublesome to handle, hinder our fights and the ufing of our armes: he makes ready his clofe fights fore and aft." In a former paffage, p. 58, he has faid that "a fhip's clofe fights are fmall ledges of wood laid eroffe one another, like the grates of iron in a prifon's window, FAL. Say'ft thou fo, old Jack? go thy ways; I'll make more of thy old body than I have done. Will they yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expence of fo much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I thank thee: Let them fay, 'tis grofsly done; fo it be fairly done, no matter. Enter BARDOLPH. BARD. Sir John, there's one mafter Brook below would fain fpeak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath fent your worship a morning's draught of fack." betwixt the maine maft and the fore maft, and are called gratings or nettings," &c. STEEVENS. 7 one mafter Brook below would fain Speak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath fent your worship a morning's draught of fack.] It seems to have been a common custom at taverns, in our author's time, to fend presents of wine from one room to another, either as a memorial of friendship, or (as in the prefent inftance) by way of introduction to acquaintance. Of the existence of this practice the following anecdote of Ben Jonson and Bishop Corbet furnishes a proof: "Ben Jonfon was at a tavern, and in comes Bishop Corbet (but not fo then) into the next room. Ben Jonfon calls for a quart of raw wine, and gives it to the tapfter. Sirrah, fays he, carry this to the gentleman in the next chamber, and tell him, I facrifice my service to him.' The fellow did, and in those words. Friend,' fays Dr. Corbet, 'I thank him for his love; but 'pr'ythee tell him from me that he is mistaken; for facrifices are always burnt." Merry Paffages and Jeafis, MSS. Harl. 6395. MALONE. This practice was continued as late as the Restoration. In the Parliamentary Hiftory, Vol. XXII. p. 114, we have the following paffage from Dr. Price's Life of General Monk: "I came to the Three Tuns before Guildhall, where the general had quartered two nights before. I entered the tavern with a fervant and portmanteau, and asked for a room, which I had scarce got into but wine followed me as a prefent from fome citizens, defiring leave to drink their morning's draught with me.” REED. |