504 WHIFFLER—WHITE. whiffler, iv. 507: "The term is undoubtedly borrowed from whiffle, another name for a fife or small flute; for whifflers were originally those who preceded armies or processions as fifers or pipers. In process of time the term whiffler, which had always been used in the sense of a fifer, came to signify any person who went before in a procession" (DOUCE). while, until: While we return these dukes what we decree, iv. 113; Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come, iv. 172; while then, God b' wử you! vii. 241 (The word occurs with this meaning even in Defoe's Colonel Jack; "I could not rest night or day while I made the people easy from whom the things were taken,” p. 55, ed. 1738). whileas, while: Whileas the silly owner of the goods, &c., v. 113 (where by mistake is printed "While as"). while-ere, ere-while, some time before, i. 245. while the grass grows,—the proverb is something musty, vii. 372: Malone quotes this proverb in full from Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra, 1578, "Whylst grass doth growe, oft sterves the seely steede;" and from The Paradise of Daintie Devises, 1578 [first ed. 1576], I find it, with a variation, in Whitney's Emblemes, 1586; "While grasse doth growe, the courser faire doth sterue." p. 26. whiles, until: Whiles you are willing it shall come to note, iii. 384. whip of your bragg'd progeny―That was the, vi. 159: see note 52, vi. 159. whipping-cheer, iv. 402 : "Whipping-cheer, Verbera." “Verberi bus accipere, to give one whipping Chear." Coles's Lat. & Engl. Dict. whipstock, the stock or handle of a whip, sometimes put for the whip itself, iii. 336; ix. 34 (where, as Steevens observes, it means "the carter's whip"), 123. whist, still, hushed, i. 213. whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune—I'd, viii. 192: "Ajetter un oiseau. To cast, or whistle, off a hawke; to let her goe, let her flie." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.: "The falconers always let fly the hawk against the wind; if she flies with the wind behind her, she seldom returns. If therefore a hawk was for any reason to be dismissed, she was let down the wind, and from that time shifted for herself, and preyed at fortune" (JOHNSON). white-The; see clout: though you hit the white (with a quibbling allusion to the name Bianca), iii. 191. White Hart in Southwark—That you should leave me at the, v. 199 · WHITE-WICKED. 505 A quibble (white heart),—“that you should desert me like cowards:" The White Hart is described as having stood " on the east side of the Borough of Southwark, towards the south end;" see Cunningham's Handbook for London.. white herring-Two, Two fresh (opposed to red) herrings, viii. 75. white-livered, iv. 453; v. 437: "Pusillanime. Dastardly, cowardly, faint-hearted, white-liuered." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict. whitely, whitish: A whitely wanton, ii. 190 (In illustration of this passage, the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith, having remarked that "whiteness is a peculiar attribute of dark features," cites from Heywood's Troja Britannica, "That hath a whitely face, and a long nose, And for them both I wonderous well esteeme her." Cant. v. st. 74; "which lines," he says, "do not merely furnish an instance of the epithet 'whitely,' but, in such company as parallels Shakespeare's coupling of it with 'a wanton; " for "wantonness' and 'a long nose'" were considered by our early writers as near allied: see Shakespeare's Editors and Commentators, p. 4, note). whither, whithersoever: Whither I go, thither shall you go too, iv. 231; A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes! iv. 290. whiting-time, bleaching-time, i. 411. whitsters, bleachers of linen, i. 407. whittle, a small clasp-knife, vii. 92. whoobub, a hubbub, iii. 483; ix. 153; who, for whoever : "Who's a traitor, Gloster he is none,” v. 155. whoop, to exclaim with surprise: That admiration did not whoop at them, iv. 438. whooping-Out of all, Out of all measure, iii. 49 (Akin to this are the phrases Out of all cry and Out of all ho). whores indulgences to sin-Thou that giv'st, v. 18: The stews in Southwark were under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Winchester. wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather, &c.—As, i. 210: Here, of course, wicked must be explained "baneful:" but see note 29, i. 210: "The following passage in Batınan uppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, 1582, folio, will not only throw considerable light on these lines, but furnish at the same time grounds for a conjecture that Shakespeare was indebted to it, with a slight alteration, for the name of Caliban's mother Sycorax the witch. [?] "The raven is called corvus of Corax ... it is said that ravens birdes be fed with deaw of heaven all the time that they have no black feathers by benefite of age.' Lib. xii. c. 10. The 506 WIDE-WILD-GOOSE. 6 same author will also account for the choice which is made, in the monster's speech, of the South-west wind. [?] This Southern wind is hot and moyst .. Southern winds corrupt and destroy; they heat and maketh men fall into sicknesse.' Lib. xi. c. 3" (DOUCE): "Her [Sycorax's] name, I suppose it has been remarked before, is Greek. Psychorrhagia is the death-struggle; and Psychorrhax may be translated 'heartbreaker' (Yuxoppń§) " [?] (W. W. LLOYD). wide, wide of the mark: so wide of (deviating from) his own respect, i. 402; that he doth speak so wide, ii. 123; you are wide, vi. 55; Still, still, far wide, viii. 105; You're wide, ix. 162. wide o' the bow-hand, a good deal to the left of the mark, ii. 196. widow, to endow with a widow's right, i. 552. widowhood, estate settled on a widow, iii. 132. wife-Damn'd in a fair, viii. 132: see note 6, viii. 132. wight, a person, male or female, i. 371 (twice); ii. 165; iv. 432; viii. 162 (twice), 170; ix. 6; wights, vi. 80. wild, rash, precipitate: in an act of this importance 'twere Most piteous to be wild, iii. 429; a wild dedication of yourselves To unpath'd waters, iii. 481. wild into his grave—My father is gone, iv. 396: “My father is gone wild into his grave, for now all my wild affections lie entombed with him; and I survive with his sober spirit and disposition, to disappoint these expectations the public have formed of me" (THEOBALD). wild horses' heels-Present me Death on the wheel or at, vi. 205: The punishment of the wheel was not known at Rome; but we read of Mettius Tuffetius (miscalled Suffetius in Malone's note apud his Shakespeare, by Boswell, 1821) being torn asunder by quadriga driven in opposite directions: "However, as Shakespeare has coupled this species of punishment with another that certainly was unknown to ancient Rome, it is highly probable that he was not apprized of the story of Mettius Suffetius [sic], and that in this, as in various other instances, the practice of his own time was in his thoughts; for in 1594 John Chastel had been thus executed in France for attempting to assassinate Henry the Fourth" (MALONE): "Shakespeare might have found mention of this punishment in our ancient romances. Thus, in The Sowdon of Babyloyne," &c. (STEEVENS): (Compare too, 'Zef ony Crystyn be so hardy his [i.e. Mahownde's] feyth to denye, Or onys to erre ageyns his lawe; On gebettys with cheynes I xal hangyn hym heye, And with wylde hors the traytorys xal I drawe." 'King Herod,' in The Coventry Mysteries, p. 290, ed. Shak. Soc) wild-goose chase-The, vi. 415: "One kind of horse-race, which WILDERNESS—WIND. ... 507 resembled the flight of wild-geese, was formerly known by this name. Two horses were started together; and whichever rider could get the lead, the other was obliged to follow him over whatever ground the foremost jockey chose to go. That horse which could distance the other won the race. This barbarous sport is enumerated by Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy, as a recreation much in vogue in his time among gentlemen: ‘Riding of great horses, running at ring, tilts and turnaments, horse-races, wild-goose chases, are the disports of great men.' P. 266, edit. 1632, fol." HOLT WHITE). wilderness, wildness, wild growth: such a warpèd slip of wilderness, i. 505. wildly, disorderly: How wildly, then, walks my estate in France, iv. 66 : see walks my estate, &c. wild-mare-Rides the: see mare-Rides, &c. wilful-blame-Too, iv. 252: see note 75, iv. 252. will doth mutiny with wit's regard—Where, "Where the will rebels against the notices of the understanding" (JOHNSON), iv. 122. William cook, William the cook, iv. 390: compare Robin Ostler. wimpled, hooded, veiled, blindfolded, ii. 189. Winchester-goose, v. 18: a cant term for a certain venereal sore, because the stews in Southwark were under the jurisdiction of the "Thou art a most pernicious usurer; Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems Winchester-Some galled goose of, Some one suffering from the venereal disease, who would be galled by my words, vi. 127: see the preceding article. Wincot, the usual corruption of Wilmecote, a village near Stratford upon-Avon (where our poet's maternal grandfather, Robert Arden, lived: see Memoir of Shakespeare, i. 33), iii. 106; iv. 391. wind, to scent: if she wind you once, vi. 331. 508 WINDGALLS—WINDOW-BARS. windgalls, iii. 148: "In the neighbourhood of the fetlock there are occasionally found considerable enlargements, oftener on the hindleg than the fore-one, which are denominated wind-galls. Between the tendons and other parts, and wherever the tendons are exposed to pressure or friction, and particularly about their extremities, little bags or sacs are placed, containing and suffering to ooze slowly from them a mucous fluid to lubricate the parts. From undue pressure, and that most frequently caused by violent action and straining of the tendons, or, often, from some predisposition about the horse, these little sacs are injured. They take on inflammation, and sometimes become large and indurated. There are few horses perfectly free from them. When they first appear, and until the inflammation subsides, they may be accompanied by some degree of lameness; but otherwise, except when they attain a great size, they do not interfere with the action of the animal, or cause any considerable unsoundness. The farriers used to suppose that they contained wind-hence their name, wind-galls; and hence the practice of opening them, by which dreadful inflammation was often produced, and many a valuable horse destroyed. It is not uncommon for wind-galls entirely to disappear in aged horses." The Horse, by Youatt, p. 344, ed. 1848. windmill in Saint George's field—The, iv. 358: "It appears from the following passage in Churchyard's Dreame, a poem that makes part of the collection entitled his Chippes, 4to, 1578 [first ed., according to Ritson, 1565], that this windmill was a place of notoriety; 'And from the windmill this dreamd he, (STEEVENS): "In Faithorne's Map of London, 1658; an engraving so rare, that only one perfect copy is known to exist, in the Royal Library at Paris; we see more of Southwark than in any of our early maps. It delineates the entire line of houses from London Bridge to their termination in St. George's fields, and shows the Windmill beyond them. Beyond St. George's Church; a single row of houses line the highway, with small gardens; bounded by a continuous ditch; a rail crosses the road where the houses end; and all is open land beyond; the roadway being marked by a line of palings on both sides. Judging from the apparent length of the houses here represented; and the present state of the same locality; they appear to have terminated about the spot where Suffolk and Trinity street[s] branch off Blackman street; and the Windmill must have stood between there and Horsemonger Lane; nearly opposite the present King's Bench Prison" (FAIRHOLT). window-In at the, iv. 10: A proverbial expression applied to illegitimate children: Compare hatch-O'er the. window-bars-The, vii. 69 : “the lattice of her chamber” (JOHN SON): "It is barely possible that Timon... might... mean by |