70 CARVE-CASK. "And if thy rival be in presence too, Return all courtesies that he affords; 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 Re- "Hunc quoque, quo quondam nimium rivale dolebas, 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. E 3, 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. &e." carve for his own rage-To, "To supply food or gratification for his own anger" (STEEVENS), viii. 173. 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. 263. case, a pair, a couple: I have not a case of lives, iv. 451 (Compare "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, viii. 98: "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, ii. 17: Dromio means, as a foot-ball is cased or covered. cashiered-was, as they say, i. 365: Here cashiered has been explained "carried out of the room,"_" turned out of company," and "cleaned out :" eligat lector. cask, a casket, v. 176. CASSALIS-CAT. 71 Cassalis-Gregory de, v. 537: "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, vii. 128; my brother Cassius, vii. 184; sius married Junia, Brutus's sister" (STEEVENS). cassocks, loose outward military coats, iii. 280. cast, to dismiss : the state "Cas Cannot with safety cast him, viii, 137. Our general cast us thus early, viii. 167; cast in his mood (anger), viii. 176; That I was cast, viii. 244. 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. 233; What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our way! ix. 28. cast, to empty: His filth within being cast, i. 503: "To cast a pond is to empty it of mud" (JOHNSON). cast, to cast up, to compute: Let it be cast, and paid, iv. 391. cast-lips of Diana, lips left off by Diana, iii. 60. cast water, to find out diseases by inspecting the urine cast The water of my land, vii. 284, 285. Castilian, a cant term, about the origin of which the commentators have uselessly puzzled themselves, i. 398. Castiliano volto, iii. 318: Equivalent to "put on your Castilian countenance, that is, your grave solemn looks" (WARBURTON). castle-I'll to my, v. 233: "Sandal Castle, near Wakefield in Yorkshire" (MALONE). Castle in Saint Alban's—The, v. 217: see note 212, v. 217. castle on thy head !— Wear a, vi. 112: A close helmet, which covered the whole head, was called a castle [see note 76, vii. 258]” (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. 318: see note 76, vi. 318. castles mounted stand-Where, v. 127: see note 212, V. 217. cat, and shoot at me-Hang me in a bottle like a, ii. 79: 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 72 CAT-CAVIARE. 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. cat-Here is that which will give language to you, i. 232: "Alluding to an old proverb, that good liquor will make a cat speak" (STEEVENS). cat th' adage-Like the poor, vii. 223: 66 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. 262; cat-o'-mountain looks, i. 389: "A term borrowed from the Spaniards, who call the wild-cat gatomontes" (DOUCE). Cataian-A, i. 385; iii. 338: 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. 76; hence the name of a musician, Simon Catling, vi. 467. cats-Prince of, vi. 413; Good king of cats, vi. 426: see Tybalt, &c. cause, cause of quarrel,-a fashionable term in the science of duelling: The first and second cause will not serve my turn, ii. 173; found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause, iii. 89; a gentleman the first and second cause ("one who quarrels by the book," WARBURTON; and see book- We quarrel in print, by the), vi. 413. of cautel, craft, deceit ("Cautelle: A wile, cautell, sleight; a craftie reach, or fetch, guilefull deuise or endeuor; also, craft, subtiltie, trumperie, deceit, cousenage." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.), vii. 315; Applied to cautels ("Applied to insidious purposes, with subtelty and cunuing," MALONE), ix. 424. cautelous, insidious: cautelous baits, vi. 220. cautelous-Cowards, and men, vii. 130: Here "cautelous is cautious and wary at least to the point of cowardice, if not to that of insidiousness and trickery,” CRAIK. caviare to the general, vii. 350: Caviare is the roe of a kind of sturgeon, and of other fish, pickled, salted, and dried, which came, and still comes, from Russia: Hamlet means that the play in question was of too high a relish for the palates of the multitude. CEASE-CEREMONIES. 73 cease, to cause to cease, to stop: Particularities and petty sounds To cease, v. 216; would cease The present power of life, viii. 504; be not ceas'd With slight denial, vii. 27. cease, to decease, to die: both shall cease, without your remedy, iii. 300; Fall, and cease! viii. 120. censer in a barber's shop-Like to a, iii. 169: The censers formerly used in barbers' shops, to sweeten them with cheap perfumes, had, of course, their covers perforated. censer-Thou thin man in a, iv. 403: It has been supposed that the allusion is to one of the thin embossed figures in the middle of the pierced convex lid of a censer or fire-pan, in which coarse perfumes were burned to sweeten the atmosphere of the musty rooms in our author's days: but Mr. Grant White understands censer to mean some kind of cap. censure, judgment, opinion: my just censure, iii. 423; To give their censure, v. 33; To give his censure, v. 122; Durst wag his tongue in censure (in giving an opinion which of the two made the more splendid appearance), v. 469; Take each man's censure, vii. 316; in the general censure, vii. 321; the censure of the which one, vii. 362; In censure of his seeming, vii. 364; mouths of wisest censure, viii. 174; I may not breathe my censure, viii. 215; the strongest in our censure, ix. 41; To give your censures, v. 379; our just censures, vii. 286. censure, judicial sentence: Your heaviest censure, vi. 269; the censure of this hellish villain, viii. 247. censure, to pass judgment or opinion on: Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen, i. 287; censure me by what you were, V. 100; censure well the deed (" approve the deed, judge the deed good," JOHNSON), V. 157; censure me in your wisdom, vii. 159; By our best eyes cannot be censurèd ("estimated," MALONE), iv. 26; how you are censured here, vi. 166; how are we censured? ibid.; How, my lord, I may be censured, viii. 73; That censures (“estimates," MALONE) falsely, ix. 405. censure, to pass sentence judicially: That are to censure them, 110; 'Has censur'd him already, i. 473. century, a hundred said a century of prayers, viii. 477. : viii. century, a company of a hundred men: A century send forth, viii. 91; dispatch Those centuries to our aid, vi. 158. ceremonies, "honorary ornaments, tokens of respect" (MALONE): If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies, vii. 109: “By ceremonies must here be meant what are in the next speech of Flavius called 'Cæsar's trophies,' and are described in the next scene as 'scarfs' which were hung on Cæsar's images" (CRAIK). ceremonies, “omens or signs deduced from sacrifices or other cere 74 'CERNS-CHANGELING. monial rites" (MALONE): Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies, vii. 132; I never stood on ceremonies, vii. 137. 'cerns, concerns, iii. 182. certainty of this hard life-The, "The certain consequence of this hard life" (MALONE), viii. 481. certes, certainly, i. 247 ; ii. 50, 203; v. 470; viii. 132. cess-Out of all, Out of all measure, iv. 221 (A phrase of doubtful origin: Cotgrave gives "Sans cesse. Vncessantly ... also, excessively, immoderately, out of all cesse and crie." Fr. and Engl. Dict.). cesse, to cease, iii. 296 (Mr. Knight, who rightly, on account of the rhyme, retains this archaism, quotes an instance of it from Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida: but Shakespeare must have met with it in various books that were to him of recent date: e.g. in Phaer and Twyne's Eneidos; "This spoken, with a thought he makes the swelling seas to cesse, cestron, a cistern, ix. 198. -a fashion which descended to upper servants in great houses, and to stewards as badges of office; and these chains were usually cleaned by being rubbed with crumbs. chairs of order look you scour With juice of balm, &c.—The several, i. 448: "it was an article of our ancient luxury to rub tables, &c., with aromatic herbs" (STEEVENS). chalic'd, having cups (" It may be noted that the cup of a flower is called calix, whence chalice," JOHNSON), viii. 418. challenge, You shall not be my judge-Make my, v. 512: "Challenge is here a verbum juris, a law-term. The criminal, when he refuses a juryman, says 'I challenge him"" (JOHNSON). chamber-Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your, v. 384: "Lon don was anciently called Camera Regis" (POPE): "This title it began to have immediately after the Norman conquest. See Coke's 4 Inst. 243; Camden's Britannia, 374; Ben Jonson's Account of King James's Entertainment in passing to his Coronation, &c. [Jonson's Works, vol. vi. p. 428, ed. Gifford]" (REED). chamberers, men of intrigue, viii. 192. chambers, small pieces of ordnance: charged chambers (with a quibble), iv. 338; chambers go off, iv. 449, 451; chambers discharged, v. 491. champain, open country, iii. 351; champains, viii. 7. changeling, ii. 271, 274, 308: "Changeling is commonly used for |