in question occurs in the old song. As to Halliwell's 300 Saracens hid in a broom field, the last word (field) is surely incompatible with groves. Besides, the same thing might happen, and indeed has happened, in a field of wheat. In The Morning Herald of 4 July 1861, there is an American account of 3000 rebels' concealed in a thick undergrowth and wheat fields.' This, however, would not warrant such a phrase as wheat-groves.—I must confess that Staunton's note with the quotation from Burton's Anatomy appears to me far more unhappy than Hanmer's alteration. Shakespeare says nothing of the blossom of the broom; he only speaks of its shadow. Shakespeare could not have been guilty of so farfetched an allusion, and such a perversion of language. I know of no passage in which the colour yellow is represented as ' especially congenial to lass-lorn bachelors.' Still, I am aware of several passages where yellow is mentioned as the colour of jealousy, but for the most part with reference to married people, not bachelors: I daresay, however, there are similar allusions to the jealousy of the unmarried also. Jokes about yellow hose, &c., are common enough. But in this passage from Burton the phrase refers neither to jealousy nor to unsuccessful love. Surely the context shows that here' give me my yellow hose again' means 'give me my bachelor's days again (when I wore yellow hose,—which were once in high fashion, and are still worn by the boys of Christ's Hospital,— and) when I was kissing and colling my intended, and not satiated with a wife'" (W. N. LETTSOM).

brown bill: see first bill.

Brownist, iii. 365: “The Brownists were so called from Mr. Robert Browne, a noted separatist in Queen Elizabeth's reign. See Strype's Annals of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii. pp. 15, 16, &c. In his Life of Whitgift, p. 323, he informs us, that Browne, in the year 1582,' went off from the separation, and came into the communion of the church'" (GREY). Browne died in 1630.

bruising irons of wrath-Thy, v. 445: "The allusion is to the ancient mace" (HENLEY), which was "formerly used by our English cavalry: see Grose on Ancient Armour, p. 53" (STEEVENS). bruit, a loud report, v. 302; vi. 99, 571.

bruit, to report loudly, vii. 111; bruited, iv. 317; v. 28; vii. 69. Brutus once-There was a, vi. 621; old Brutus' statue, vi. 630: Lucius Junius Brutus.

Brutus' bastard hand, v. 168: "Brutus was the son of Servilia, a Roman lady, who had been concubine to Julius Cæsar" (STEEVENS). bubukles, iv. 462: According to Johnson (Dict.), bubukle is “a red pimple;" according to Nares (Gloss.), “a corrupt word, for carbuncle, or something like it;" according to Halliwell (Dict. of Arch. and Prov. Words), "a botch or imposthume."

buck of the first head, a buck of the fifth year, ii. 192.

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buck-basket, a basket in which linen was carried to be bucked, i. 391 (twice): see the next article.

bucking, i. 383: To buck clothes means properly, I believe, to wash them in lie, and beat them, while wet, with a sort of flattened pole on a table or block ("Bucata . . . . lye to wash a buck." Florio's Ital. and Engl. Dict.; "To Buck Cloaths, lintea lixivio incoquere et rudibus cædere." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.); but we may gather from the present scene that the dirty linen of the Ford family was to be bucked in the river, and perhaps to be beaten on a stone, without the use of lie.

bucks, quantities of linen bucked at once (see above): she washes bucks here at home, v. 170.

buck-washing, i. 384: see above.

buckle, to join in close fight, to engage with, to encounter: buckle with me, v. 12; too strong for me to buckle with, v. 70; buckle with thee blows (deal blows with thee in close fight), v. 248; Be buckled with, v. 59.

buckle, to bend, to bow: buckle under life, iv. 318.

buckler, to defend: I'll buckler thee against a million, iii. 149; the guilt of murder bucklers thee, v. 158; buckler falsehood with a pedigree, v. 283.

bucklers-I give thee the, I yield thee the victory, I lay aside all thoughts of defence ("Je te le donne gaigné. I grant it, I yeeld it thee; I confesse thy action; I giue thee the bucklers." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict. sub “Gaigné”), ii. 138.

Bucklersbury in simple-time-Smell like, i. 382: Bucklersbury was formerly inhabited chiefly by druggists, who sold all sorts of herbs (simples), both green and dry.

buff-A fellow all in, ii. 34; in a suit of buff, ii. 35; And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance? iv. 211: Buff was formerly worn by serjeants and catchpoles: see durance, &c.

bug, a bugbear, iii. 452; v. 309; bugs, iii. 126; With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life (With "such multiplied causes of alarm, if I were suffered to live," CALDECOTT), vii. 201; vii. 713. building, fixture: This jewel holds his building on my arm, viii. 24 : see note 74, viii. 84.

bulk, trunk, breast ("Pettorata, a shocke against the breast or bulke.” Florio's Ital. and Engl. Dict.; "The Bulke of the bodie. Tronc, buste." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.): my panting bulk, v. 374; to shatter all his bulk, vii. 130; Beating her bulk, viii. 300. bulk, a kind of stall, board, or ledge outside a house, on which articles were set for sale ("Balcone . . . a bulke or stall of a shop." Florio's Ital. and Enyl. Dict.; "A Bulk (before a Shop), Appendix." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.): stand behind this bulk, vii. 454; stalls, bulks, windows, vi. 164.

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Bullen! No, we'll no Bullens... This candle burns not clear, v. 533-4: "There may be a play intended on the word Bullen, which is said to have been an ancient provincial name for a candle" (STAUNTON). bully-rook, i. 353, 364 (three times): "Messrs. Steevens and

Whalley maintain that the above term (a cant one) derives its origin from the rook in the game of chess; but it is very improbable that that noble game, never the amusement of gamblers, should have been ransacked on this occasion. It means a hectoring, cheating sharper, as appears from A new dictionary of the terms of the canting crew, no date, 12mo, and from the lines prefixed to The compleat gamester, 1680, 12mo, in both which places it is spelt bullyrock. Nor is Mr. Whalley correct in stating that rock and not rook is the true name of the chess-piece, if he mean that it is equivalent to the Latin rupes" (DOUCE): But in the above passages the Host uses bully-rook jocularly, certainly not as a term of reproach; and Coles has "A Bully {Fot, Vir fortis et animosus." Lat. and Fellow, Engl. Dict. (I may observe that "Bully-rock" occurs over and over again in Shadwell's Sullen Lovers: see his Works, vol. i. pp. 26, 37, 45, 46, 62, 69, 74, 83, 84, 101, 102, 108.)

bum is the greatest thing about you-Your, i. 462: An allusion to Pompey's large trunk-hose, round swelling breeches.

bung, a sharper, a pickpocket, iv. 344.

bunting-I took this lark for a, iii. 239: the Common Bunting, Emberiza miliaria: "The general resemblance of this Bunting to the Sky Lark in the colour of its plumage has given origin to another provincial name by which it is known, that of the Bunting Lark." Yarrell's Hist. of Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 481, sec. ed. burden bear-Sweet sprites, the, i. 189; belike it hath some burden, then? i. 269; that goes without a burden, ii. 114; sing my song without a burden, iii. 42; burden of my wooing dance, iii. 122; such delicate burdens of "dildos," &c. iii. 471: "The burden of a song, in the old acceptation of the word, was the base, foot, or under-song. It was sung throughout, and not merely at the end of the verse. Burden is derived from bourdoun, a drone base (French bourdon)." Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, &c. vol. i. p. 222, sec. ed. burdocks, a plant too well known to have been noticed here, had not Mr. Beisly, in his Shakspere's Garden, &c. pp. 142-3, quite misrepresented the reading of the old eds. in the following line, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, vii. 319, where burdocks is Hanmer's highly-probable correction for "hoar-docks” and “hordocks" of the quartos, and "Hardokes" and "Hardocks" of the folios Mr. Beisly, however, erroneously supposes that the early copies agree in having "harlocks" (which, in fact, is Farmer's conjecture), and says, "This I consider should be charlock[s] or carlock[s], the ancient name of wild mustard," &c.

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burgonet, or burganet, a close-fitting helmet, so called because invented by the Burgundians, v. 192, 193 (twice); vii. 511.

burn daylight, a proverbial expression derived from the lighting of candles or lamps by day, and applied to wasting time in superfluous acts, i. 361; vi. 420.

burning devil take them!—A, vi. 89: "Alluding to the venereal disease, formerly called the brenning or burning” (Mason).

burst, broke, broken: he burst his head, iv. 362; the glasses you have burst, iii. 105; hath been often burst, iii. 144; how her bridle was burst, iii. 151; Your heart is burst, vii. 377.

Burton-heath, iii. 110: Means, no doubt, Burton-on-the-heath, "a small village on the borders of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire" (KNIGHT).

bush-Good wine needs no, iii. 77 : "It appears formerly to have been the custom to hang a tuft of ivy at the door of a vintner. I suppose ivy was rather chosen than any other plant, as it has relation to Bacchus" (STEEVENS): The custom was of great antiquity : "The practice is still observed in Warwickshire and the adjoining counties, at statute-hirings, wakes, &c. by people who sell ale at no other time. And hence, I suppose [doubtless], the Bush tavern at Bristol and other places" (RITSON).

busiless, i. 207: see note 69, i. 247.

buss, to kiss, iv. 42; vi. 78.

but, unless, except: To think but nobly of my grandmother, i. 180 ; but I be deceiv'd, iii. 141, 164; But on this day let seamen fear no wreck, iv. 31; but goodman Puff, iv. 396; but Your comfort makes the rescue, vii. 554; But being charg'd, we will be still by land, vii. 573. but I shall lose the grounds I work upon, without losing the grounds, &c. iii. 255.

butcher's cur―This, v. 488: "Wolsey is said to have been the son of a butcher" (JOHNSON).

butt-You ruinous, vi. 81: "Patroclus reproaches Thersites with deformity, with having one part crowded into another" (JOHNSON). butt-shaft, "a kind of arrow, used for shooting at butts; formed

without a barb, so as to stick into the butts, and yet be easily extracted" (Nares's Gloss.), ii. 175; vi. 418.

buttery-bar, and let it drink-Bring your hand to the, iii. 332: The buttery-bar means the place in palaces and in great houses whence provisions were dispensed; and it is still to be seen in most of our old colleges: I do not answer for the correctness of the following explanation; "The bringing the hand to the butterybar, and letting it drink, is a proverbial phrase among forward Abigails, to ask at once for a kiss and a present. Sir Andrew's slowness of comprehension in this particular gave her a just suspicion,

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at once, of his frigidity and avarice. She therefore calls his hand dry; the moistness of the hand being a sign of liberality, as well in matters of love as money" (KENRICK).

buttons be disclos'd-Before their, Before their buds be opened, vii.

116.

buttons-'Tis in his, i. 380: "All that the Host means is, that Fenton has it in him to succeed: it is, as it were, buttoned up within his dress. There is no sort of allusion to bachelors' buttons," &c. (COLLIER).

buxom, lively, spritely, iv. 460; viii. 6.

buy and sell, to dispose of utterly, to over-reach, to betray: Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases, v. 490; bought and sold, ii. 24 ; iv. 70; v. 59, 451; vi. 28: "To be bought and sold in a company." Ray's Proverbs, p. 179, ed. 1768. (So Harman, in his Caueat or Warening for Common Cursetors, &c., 1573, "the leud lousey language.. wherewith they bye and sell the common people as they passe through the country." p. 64, reprint 1814; and Skelton, in his Magnyfycence,

"Why, was not for money Troy bothe bought and solde?"

Works, vol. i. p. 277, ed. Dyce.) buzzard, a common and inferior kind of hawk (Buteo vulgaris, -see Yarrell's Hist. of Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 82, sec. ed.): O slowwing'd turtle! shall a buzzard take thee? iii. 134; kites and buzzards, v. 354.

buzzard, a beetle (so named from its buzzing): Ay, for a turtle, -as he takes a buzzard, iii. 134.

'by, an abbreviation of aby (which see): Thou shalt 'by this dear, ii. 303.

by and by, immediately: That shall be by and by, i. 214; I'll be with

her by and by, i. 393; Now fetch me a stool hither by and by, v. 132. by the fool multitude- Meant, Meant of the fool multitude, ii. 374 : "The plain fact is (for it needs not many words) that the prepositions by and of are synonymous, and that our ancestors used them indifferently, as they were well justified in doing." Gifford's note on Jonson's Works, vol. i. p. 140.

by-drinkings, drinkings between meals, iv. 260.

by'r lady, by our Lady, ii. 111 (twice), 115; iii. 347; iv. 233, 240, 243, 252, 396; v. 388, 499; vi. 336, 405; vii. 143, 156.

by'r lakin, by our Ladykin, by our little Lady, i. 214; ii. 286.

C.

caddis-garter, iv. 234; caddisses, iii. 472: Caddis was worsted riband or galloon. ("Cruel, caddas, or worsted ribbon." The Rates of the Custome hovse, & c. 1582, sig. B v. "Caddas or Cruell riband." The Rates of Marchandizes, &c., n. d. sig. c 5.)