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apples, sweetings, and horse-plumbs; and for confections, a few carraways in a small sawcer, as if his worship's house had been a lousie inn." Works, vol. iii. p. 350).

carbonado, a piece of meat cut cross-wise for broiling, iv. 282;

vi. 211.

carbonado, to cut cross-wise for broiling: vii. 279; carbonadoed, iii. 273, 473.

carcanet, a necklace (Fr. carcan), ii. 21 (subsequently in the same play called a chain); captain (superior) jewels in the carcanet, viii. 375.

card-The shipman's, vii. 8: "The mariner's compass. Properly, the paper on which the points of the wind are marked." Nares's Gloss.: "Not the card of the mariner's compass, but what we now call a chart." Hunter's New Illust. of Shakespeare, vol. ii. p. 167 (where Hackluyt's Virginia Richly Valued, 1609, and Sir H. Mainwaring's Seaman's Dictionary, 1670, are quoted): "A Sea-card, charta marina." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict. (I find in Sylvester's Du Bartas,

"Sure, if my Card and Compasse doe not fail,

W' are neer the Port." The Triumph of Faith, p. 256, ed. 1641, where the original has "mon Quadrant et ma Carte marine.") card-We must speak by the, "We must speak with the same precision and accuracy as is observed in marking the true distances of coasts, the heights, courses, &c., in a sea-chart" (MALONE), 196.

card of ten see fac'd it with a card of ten.

vii.

cardecu, properly quart d'écu, "the fourth part of the gold [French] crown, and worth fifteen sols" (DOUCE), iii. 268, 276. carded his state, iv. 255: see note 87, iv. 299.

carduus benedictus, ii. 115: "Carduus Benedictus, or blessed thistle (says Cogan, in his Haven of Health, 1595 [but printed earlier]), so worthily named for the singular virtues that it hath .... This herbe may worthily be called Benedictus, or Omnimorbia, that is, a salve for every sore, not knowen to physitians of old time, but lately revealed by the speciall providence of Almighty God" (STEEVENS).

care killed a cat-What though, ii. 132: A proverbial expression: Ray gives "Care will kill a cat.” Proverbs, p. 84, ed. 1768. careers-Passed the: see passed the careers, &c.

careful hours, hours of care, of distress, ii. 51.

careful man-A, iii. 380: "I believe, means a man who has such a regard for his character, as to entitle him to ordination" (STEE

cares it be not done, " makes provision that it may not be done” (MA

LONE), viii. 11.

carl, a churl, a rustic, a peasant, a boor, vii. 711.

carlot, the same in signification as carl, iii. 53.

carnations: see gillyvors, &c.

carpet consideration—Knight dubbed on, iii. 373: Carpet knights were knights dubbed at court by mere favour,-not on the field of battle for their military exploits: our early writers constantly speak of them with great contempt; and carpet-knight became a term for an effeminate person.

carpet-mongers, equivalent to carpet-knights, effeminate persons (see preceding article), ii. 139.

carpets, table-covers of ornamental tapestry: the carpets laid, iii. 150.

carry coals, to put up with insults, to submit to any degradation ("Il a du feu en la teste. Hee is very chollericke, furious, or couragious; he will carrie no coales." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict. sub "Teste"): the men would carry coals, iv. 452; we'll not carry coals, vi. 388: "From the mean nature of this occupation, it seems to have been somewhat hastily concluded, that a man who would carry coals would submit to any indignity. Hence, to carry coals, in the sense of tamely putting up with an affront, occurs perpetually in our old writers, both serious and comic" . . . ." In all great houses, but particularly in the royal residences, there were a number of mean and dirty dependents, whose office it was to attend the woodyard, sculleries, &c. Of these (for in the lowest deep there was a lower still) the most forlorn wretches seem to have been selected to carry coals to the kitchens, halls, &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture, were then moved from palace to palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards, a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained." Gifford's notes on Jonson's Works, vol. ii. pp. 169, 179. (In Lyly's Midas mention is made of "one of the Cole house," sig. F 4, ed. 1592, i.e. one of the drudges about the palace of King Midas.)

carry out my side-Hardly shall I, vii. 335: "The bastard means, 'I shall scarcely be able to make out my game.' The allusion is to a party at cards, and he is afraid that he shall not be able to make his side successful" (MASON): In the phraseology of the card-table to set up a side was to become partners in a game; to pull or pluck down a side was to occasion its loss by ignorance or treachery; and to carry out a side was to carry out the game with success: see Gifford's note on Massinger's Works, vol. i. p. 150, ed. 1813; and note in my ed. of Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, vol. i. p. 343.

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carve too, and lisp--He can, ii. 220; she discourses, she carves, i. 354; carve her, drink to her, viii. 191: That carve is here used to describe some particular form of action,-some sign of intelligence and favour, was first shown by the late Joseph Hunter (New Illust. of Shakespeare, vol. i. p. 215), who observed that the word occurs in a very rare poetic tract, entitled A Prophecie of Cadwallader, last King of the Brittaines, by William Herbert, 4to, 1604, which opens with a description of Fortune, and of some who had sought to gain her favour;

'Then did this Queene her wandering coach ascend,

Whose wheels were more inconstant than the wind:

A mighty troop this empress did attend;

There might you Caius Marius carving find,

And martial Sylla courting Venus kind":"

To these lines adduced by Mr. Hunter I afterwards (in my Few Notes, &c. p. 20) added the following passages; "Her amorous glances are her accusers; her very lookes write sonnets in thy commendations; she carues thee at boord, and cannot sleepe for dreaming on thee in bedde." Day's Ile of Gulls, 1606, sig. D.

Drink to him, carve him, give him compliment;

This shall thy mistress more than thee torment."

Beaumont's Remedy of Love,-B. and Fletcher's Works, vol. xi. p. 483, ed. Dyce.

(Beaumont's Remedy of Love is a very free imitation of Ovid's Remedia Amoris; and, as far as I can discover, the only part of the original which answers to the preceding passage is,

"Hunc quoque, quo quondam nimium rivale dolebas,
Vellem desineres hostis habere loco.

At certe, quamvis odio remanente, saluta." v. 791):

More recently Mr. Grant White has still further illustrated the word carve. "Thus," he says, "in A very Woman, among the Characters published with Sir Thomas Overbury's Wife; 'Her lightnesse gets her to swim at the top of the table, where her wrie little finger bewraies carving; her neighbours at the latter end know they are welcome, and for that purpose she quencheth her thirst.' Sig. E3, ed. 1632. See also Littleton's Latin-English Lexicon, 1675; 'A Carver: - chironomus.' 'Chironomus:-One that useth apish motions with his hands.' 'Chironomia:-A kind of gesture with the hands, either in dancing, carving of meat, or pleading,' &c. &c."

carve for his own rage-To, "To supply food or gratification for his own anger" (STEEVENS), vii. 408.

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case, skin: a grizzle on thy case, iii. 389; though my case be a pitiful one, &c. (with a quibble), iii. 489.

case, to skin (a hunting term): ere we case him, iii. 254.

case, a pair, a couple: I have not a case of lives, iv. 451 (Compare

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this case of rapiers." Marlowe's Faustus,-Works, p. 89, ed. Dyce, 1858; "two case of jewels." Webster's White Devil,—Works, p. 46, ed. Dyce, 1857; a case of pistols." Middleton and W. Rowley's Spanish Gipsy,-Middleton's Works, vol. iv. p. 177, ed. Dyce). case of eyes?-What, with the, vii. 326: "The case of eyes," says Steevens, "is the socket of either eye;" and, to confirm his explanation, he cites from The Winter's Tale, “to tear the cases of their eyes," act v. sc. 2: but perhaps Rowe was right when he substituted "What, with this case of eyes?" i.e. with such a pair of no-eyes as this? See the preceding article.

case me in leather, i. 14: Dromio means, as a foot-ball is cased or covered.

cashiered-Was, as they say, i. 349: Here cashiered has been explained "carried out of the room," "turned out of company,"and "cleaned out :" eligat lector.

cask, a casket, v. 163.

Cassalis-Gregory de, v. 540: "Was the King's Orator, as he was

called in Rome, and, according to the household-books of Henry VIII., was in the receipt of a large annual salary for his services in various parts of Italy" (Collier).

Cassius-Your brother, vi. 632; my brother Cassius, vi. 675: "Cassius married Junia, Brutus's sister" (STEEVENS).

cassocks, loose outward military coats, iii. 265.

cast, to dismiss the state. . . . Cannot with safety cast him, vii. 379; Our general cast us thus early, vii. 404; cast in his mood (anger), vii. 411; That I was cast, vii. 469.

cast, used with a quibble between its two senses, "to throw" and "to vomit:" though he (drink) took up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast him, vii. 26; What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our way! viii. 22.

cast, to empty: His filth within being cast, i. 479: "To cast a pond is to empty it of mud" (JOHNSON).

cast, to cast up, to compute: Let it be cast, and paid, iv. 387. cast-lips of Diana, lips left off by Diana, iii. 49.

cast water, to find out diseases by inspecting the urine: cast The water of my land, vii. 65.

Castilian, a cant term, about the origin of which the commentators have uselessly puzzled themselves, i. 373.

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Castiliano volto, iii. 331: Equivalent to "put on your Castilian countenance, that is, your grave solemn looks" (WARBURTON). castle-I'll to my, v. 241: "Sandal Castle, near Wakefield in Yorkshire" (MALONE).

Castle in Saint Alban's-The, v. 195: see note 212, v. 229.

castle on thy head!-Wear a, vi. 89: "A close helmet, which covered the whole head, was called a castle [see note 76, vi. 366]” (WARBURTON): “Troilus doth not advise Diomed to wear a helmet on his head; that would be poor indeed, for he always wore one in battle; but to guard his head with the most impenetrable armour, to shut it up even in a castle, if it were possible, or else his sword should reach it” (HEATH).

castle-Writing destruction on the enemy's, vi. 317: see note 76, vi. 366.

castles mounted stand-Where, v. 126: see note 212, v. 229.

cat, and shoot at me-Hang me in a bottle like a, ii. 80: It appears that formerly cats (occasionally factitious ones) were hung up in baskets and shot at with arrows; also that, in some counties of England, they were enclosed, with a quantity of soot, in wooden bottles suspended on a line, and that he who could beat out the bottom of the bottle as he ran under it, and yet escape its contents, was the hero" of the sport; see Steevens's note ad l.: "It is still a diversion in Scotland to hang up a cat in a small cask or firkin, half filled with soot ; and then a parcel of clowns on horseback try to beat out the ends of it, in order to show their dexterity in escaping before the contents fall upon them." Percy's Rel. of A. E. Poetry, vol. i. p. 155, ed. 1794.

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cat-Here is that which will give language to you, i. 204: "Alluding to an old proverb, that good liquor will make a cat speak" (STEEVENS). cat i' th' adage-Like the poor, vii. 19: "The adage alluded to is, The cat loves fish, but dares not wet her feet;'

'Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantas'" (JOHNSON):

"It is among Heywood's Proverbs, ed. 1598, Q 2;

'The cat would eate fish, but she will not wette her feete'" (Boswell). cat-o'-mountain, a wild-cat, i. 225; cat-o'-mountain looks, i. 366 : "A term borrowed from the Spaniards, who call the wild-cat gatomontes" (DOUCE).

Cataian-A, i. 363; iii. 347: Meaning properly a native of Cataia or Cathay, i. e. China, is supposed to have become a cant term for a thief or sharper, because the Chinese were notorious for their skilful thieving; but in the second of the above passages it is certainly used playfully by Sir Toby as a term of reproach or contempt. catlings, lute-strings or violin-strings, made of cat-gut, vi. 61 hence the name of a musician, Simon Catling, vi. 461.