CLEPE-CLOSURE. 85 pin,-see pin and clout,-the metaphor from archery with which the speech begins being continued here), i. 353. clepe, to call, vii. 320; clepes, ix. 256; clepeth, ii. 219; clept, vii. 243. clerkly, scholar-like, i. 297, 437 (twice); v. 154. cliff, a key in music (used equivocally): if he can take her cliff, vi. 106. cling thee-Till famine, vii. 289: Here cling is generally explained "shrink or shrivel: but it means, I suspect, "make the entrails stick together;" compare Donne, "As to a stomack sterv'd, whose insides meete," &c. clinquant, glittering, shining, v. 469. clip, to embrace: Clip dead men's graves, v. 178; let me clip ye In arms, vi. 156; here I clip The anvil of my sword, vi. 230; You elements that clip us round about, viii. 200; clip your wives, viii. 344; No grave upon the earth shall clip in it, viii. 380; To clip Elysium, ix. 243; clip me, ix. 430; clipp'd in with the sea, iv. 248; clipp'd his body, viii. 422; clipp'd about, viii. 511; she clipp'd Adonis, ix. 431; clippeth thee about, iv. 81; clipping her, iii. 500. cloister'd flight, vii. 246: “The bats wheeling round the dim cloisters of Queen's College, Cambridge, have frequently impressed on me the singular propriety of this original epithet" (STEEVENS). close, secret: a close exploit (act) of death, v. 417; close delations, viii. 187. close, secretly, by stealth: Which in a napkin being close convey'd, iii. 105. close as oak: see oak, &c. close your hands-Young princes, iv. 32: see clap thyself my love. close with, and close in with, "to come to an agreement with, to comply with, to unite with" (Johnson's Dict.), to fall in with: make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us? iv. 347; to close In terms of friendship with thine enemies, vii. 155; He closes with you in this consequence, vii. 333; He closes with you thus, ibid. : .; This closing with him fits his lunacy, vi. 354. closely, secretly, privately: go closely in with me, iv. 61; to keep her closely at my cell, vi. 483; we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, vii. 356. closeness, recluseness, privacy, i. 201. closure, an enclosure: the guilty closure of thy walls, v. 395; the quiet closure of my breast, ix. 249; the gentle closure of my breast, ix. 356. closure, a conclusion, an end: a mutual closure of our house, vi. 363. 86 CLOTHIER-COACH-FELLOW. clothier's yard, an arrow the length of a clothier's yard, viii. 96 (Arrows "a cloth-yard long" are frequently mentioned in our early writers). cloud in's face-He has a, viii. 306: Said of a horse "when he has a black or dark-coloured spot in his forehead between his eyes. This gives him a sour look, and being supposed to indicate an ill-temper is, of course, regarded as a great blemish" (STEEVENS). clouded, stained, defamed: My sovereign mistress clouded so, iii. 415. clout, the nail or pin of the target: he'll ne'er hit the clout, ii. 196; . 'a would have clapped & the clout at twelve score (he would have hit the clout at twelve score yards), iv. 353; & the clout, i the clout, viii. 96: "Clout," says Gifford, "is merely the French clou, the wooden pin by which the target is fastened to the butt. As the head of this pin was commonly painted white, to hit the white, and hit the clout, were, of course, synonymous: both phrases expressed perfection in art, or success of any kind." Note on Jonson's Works, vol. v. p. 309: It is not safe to differ from Gifford, who may have had some authority for the above statement concerning the clout or pin: from the passages, however, which I happen to recollect in our early writers I should say, that the clout or pin stood in the centre of the inner circle of the butts,-which circle, being painted white, was called the white,-that to "hit the white" was a considerable feat, but that to "hit or cleave the clout or pin" was a much greater one, though, no doubt, the two expressions were occasionally used to signify the same thing, viz. to "hit the mark.” clouted: see brogues, &c. cloy, to claw, to stroke with a claw: cloys his beak, viii. 492. clubs cannot part them, iii. 83; I'll call for clubs, if you will not away, v. 20; Clubs, clubs! these lovers will not keep the peace, vi. 295; I missed the meteor once, and hit that woman, who cried out "Clubs!” when I might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her succour, which were the hope o' the Strand, where she was quartered, &c., v. 571; Clubs, bills, and partisans! vi. 376: "It appears, from many of our old dramas, that, in our author's time, it was a common custom, on the breaking out of a fray, to call out ‘Clubs—clubs,' to part the combatants" (MALONE): "Clubs" was originally the popular cry to call forth the London apprentices, who employed their clubs for the preservation of the public peace: sometimes, however, they used those weapons to raise a disturbance, as they are described doing in the last but one of the passages above cited. clutch, to contract, to clasp close: to clutch my hand, iv. 34; extracting it clutched, i. 511. coach-fellow, a horse that draws in the same carriage with another, —an associate, i. 389. COALS-COCKLE. coals-Carry: see carry coals. coasteth to the cry-She, She advanceth to the cry, ix. 252. 87 coat, a coat of arms: an eye-sore in my golden coat, ix. 277; spirits of richest coat, ix. 421. coat is of proof-His: see second proof. cobloaf, vi. 35: see note 44, vi. 35. cock, a weather-cock: drown'd the cocks! viii. 62. cock, a cock-boat: Diminish'd to her cock,―her cock, a buoy, viii. 94. cock, a corruption of, or euphemism for God: Cock's passion, iii. 158; By cock, vii. 397. (This irreverent alteration of the sacred name was formerly very common: it occurs at least a dozen times in Heywood's Edward the Fourth, where one passage is "Herald. Sweare on this booke, King Lewis, so help you God, King Lewis. So helpe me Cock as I dissemble not." cock-A wasteful, vii. 35: see note 69, vii. 35. cock and pie—By, i. 369; iv. 390: A not uncommon oath, of uncertain derivation: cock has been understood to be the corruption of God (see above), and pie to mean the service-book of the Romish Church; which seems much more probable than Douce's supposition that this oath was connected with the making of solemn vows by knights in the days of chivalry during entertainments at which a roasted peacock was served up. cock-a-hoop!—You will set, vi. 397: Ray gives "To set cock on tr hoop," and remarks, "This is spoken of a Prodigal, one that takes out the spigget, and lays it upon the top [or hoop] of the barrel, drawing out the whole vessel without any intermission." Proverbs, p. 183, ed. 1768: Gifford (Note on Jonson's Works, vol. vi. p. 226) describes it as a phrase denoting the excess of mirth and jollity; and "suspects that it had a more dignified origin" than that just quoted from Ray: But it also was applied, as in our text, to insolence of language or bearing; and accordingly Coles (who seems to refer it to the bird cock) has "To be Cock-a-hoop, Ampullari, insolesco, cristas erigere." Lat. and Engl. Dict. cockatrice, an imaginary creature (called also basilisk), supposed to kill by its very look, v. 414; vi. 434; ix. 287; cockatrices, iii. 369. cockerel, a young cock, i. 219. cockle-Sow'd, ii. 218; The cockle of rebellion, vi. 193: Nares says that Shakespeare means "the Agrostemma githago of Linnæus, a weed often troublesome in corn-fields" (Gloss.); Mr. Beisly that he means "the Lolium temulentum, in his time called darnel, as well as cockle and cockle-weed" (Shakspere's Garden, &c., p. 130). 88 COCKLE-COD. cockle hat, vii. 396: The cockle-shell worn usually in the front of the hat was the badge of a pilgrim: "for the chief places of devotion being beyond sea, or on the coasts, the pilgrims were accustomed to put cockle-shells upon their hats, to denote the intention or performance of their devotion" (WARBURTON). cockled, inshelled, enclosed in a shell, ii. 216. cockles, cockle-shells, ix. 76. cock-light, twilight, ix. 185: see cock-shut time. cockney-This great lubber, the world, will prove a, iii, 377; as the cockney did to the eels, viii. 52: "There is hardly a doubt that it [the term cockney] originates in an Utopian region of indolence and luxury, formerly denominated the country of cocaigne. With us the lines cited by Camden in his Britannia, vol. i. col. 451, 'Were I in my castle of Bungey Upon the river of Waveney, I would ne care for the king of Cockeney,' ... whencesoever they come, indicate that London was formerly known by this satirical name; and hence a Londoner came to be called a cockney” (DOUCE): "The term cocknay appears in the Promptorium to imply simply a child spoiled by too much indulgence. . . There can be little doubt that the word is to be traced to the imaginary region 'ihote Cokaygne,' described in the curious poem given by Hickes, Gramm. A. Sax. p. 231, and apparently translated from the French. Compare 'le Fabliaus de Coquaigne,' Fabl. Barbazan et Méon. iv. 175. Palsgrave gives the verb 'To bring up lyke a cocknaye,' mignotter; and Elyot renders 'delicias facere, to play the cockney.' 'Dodeliner, to bring vp wantonly, as a cockney.' Hollyband's Treasurie. See also Baret's Alvearie. Chaucer uses the word as a term of contempt; and it occasionally signifies a little cook, coquinator." Way's note on the Prompt. Parv. p. 86: On the first of the above passages of ur text see note 101, iii. 377; in the second passage there is perhaps an allusion to some tale now not known. cock-shut time, v. 446: An expression signifying "twilight," because the net in which cocks, i.e. wood-cocks, were caught or shut in during the twilight, was termed a cock-shut; it being a large net, which, suspended between two long poles, and stretched across a glade or riding, was easily drawn together (“Twilight or Cock-shut time, either in the morning or the evening." Minsheu's Guide into Tongues, ed. 1617). cod's head for the salmon's tail—To change the, viii. 161: "¿.e. to exchange a delicacy for coarser fare. See Queen Elizabeth's Household Book for the 43d year of her reign: 'Item, the Master Cookes have to fee all the salmons' tailes,' &c. p. 296" (STEEVENS). CODDING-COISTREL. 89 codding spirit-That, "That love of bed-sports. Cod is a word still used in Yorkshire for a pillow" (STEEVENS), vi. 349. codling, iii. 327: "(A mere diminutive of cod) means an involucrum or kell, and was used by our old writers for that early state of vegetation, when the fruit, after shaking off the blossom, began to assume a globular and determinate form." Gifford's note on Jonson's Works, vol. iv. P. 24. cod-piece, an ostentatiously indelicate part of the male dress, which was put to several uses,—to stick pins in, to carry the purse in, &c., i. 314 (twice), 513; ii. 116; iii. 483; viii. 62, 63 (on the last of which passages, Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise man and a fool, Douce observes, "Shakespeare has with some humour applied the above name [cod-piece] to the Fool, who, for obvious reasons, was usually provided with this unseemly part of dress in a more remarkable manner than other persons"); cod-pieces, ii. 190. coffin, the raised crust of a pie: of the paste a coffin I will rear, vi. 358 ; compare custard-coffin. cog, to cheat, to wheedle, to lie, to load a die ("To cogge. Gaber, flater, afflater, sadayer . mensonger, et mentir, To cogge a Die. Casser la noisille." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.), i. 408, 409 (twice); ii. 138, 231; v. 351; vi. 212; vii. 88; cogging, i. 404; Come, both you cogging Greeks, vi. 121 (Steevens remarks, in opposition to Johnson, that here the epithet cogging "had propriety, in respect of Diomedes at least, who had defrauded him of his mistress. Troilus bestows it on both, unius ob culpam"); viii. 221. cognizance, a badge, v. 38; vii. 140 (as a plural); viii, 429. coign, a corner-stone at the exterior angle of a building (old Fr. coing), vi. 259; coign of vantage ("convenient corner," JOHNSON), vii. 220; the four opposing coigns (here "the author seems to have considered the world as a stupendous edifice, artificially constructed," MALONE), ix. 47. (The editors are at a loss for an example of coign in any other writer than Shakespeare. But compare "And Cape of Hope, last coign of Africa." Sylvester's Du Bartas-The Colonies, p. 129, ed. 1641, where the original has "angle dernier d'Afrique.") coil, bustle, stir, tumult, turmoil, i 206, 290; ii. 28, 114, 147, 302; iii. 221; iv. 20; vi. 321, 421; vii. 26; When we have shuffled off this mortal coil ("coil is here used in each of its senses, that of turmoil or bustle, and that which entwines or wraps round," CALDECOTT), vii. 358; ix. 149. coistrel, iii. 318; ix. 83: "A coystril is a paltry groom, one only fit to carry arms, but not to use them. So, in Holinshed's [Harrison's] Description of England, vol. i. p. 162: 'Costerels, or bearers of the armes of barons or knights,""&c. (TOLLET): Coistrel is often used |