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FAL. Reason, you rogue, reason: Think'ft thou, I'll endanger my foul gratis? At a word, hang no more about me, I am no gibbet for you :-go.-A fhort knife and a throng;-to your manor of Pickthatch,' go. You'll not bear a letter for me, you

Thus alfo Marston, in The Scourge of Villanie, Lib. III, fat. 8: Another, he

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"Her filver-handled fan would gladly be."

And in other places. And Bishop Hall, in his Satires, published 1597, Lib. V. fat. iv :

"Whiles one piece pays her idle waiting manne,

"Or buys a hoode, or filver-handled fanne."

In the Sidney papers, published by Collins, a fan is prefented to queen Elizabeth for a new year's gift, the handle of which was ftudded with diamonds. T. WARTON.

2 — A fbort knife and a throng;] So Lear: "When cut-purses come not to throngs.' WARBURTON.

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Part of the employment given by Drayton, in The Mooncalf, to the Baboon, feems the fame with this recommended by Falstaff: "He like a gypfey oftentimes would go,

"All kinds of gibberish he hath learn'd to know :
"And with a frick, a fhort ftring, and a noofe,
"Would show the people tricks at faft and loose,"

Theobald has throng inftead of thong. The latter feems right.

LANGTON. "I had no

Greene, in his Life of Ned Browne, 1592, fays: other fence but my Jhort knife, and a paire of purse-ftrings."

STEEVENS.

Mr. Dennis reads-thong; which has been followed, I think, improperly, by fome of the modern editors.

Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters, 1616, furnish us with a confirmation of the reading of the old copies: "The eye of this wolf is as quick in his head as a cutpurfe in a throng." MALONE. 3-Pickt-batch,] Is frequently mentioned by contemporary writers. So, in Ben Jonfon's Every Man in his Humour :

"From the Bordello it might come as well,

"The Spital, or PiЯ-hatch.”

Again, in Randolph's Mufes Looking-glass, 1638:

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the lordship of Turnbull,

"Which with my Pi-hatch Grange, and Shore-ditch farm," &c.

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rogue!-you stand upon your honour!-Why, thou unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do, to keep the terms of my honour precife. I, I, I myfelf fometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the

Pict-hatch was in Turnbull-freet:

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"In Pict-hatch, Turnbull-ftreet."

Amends for Ladies, a Comedy by N. Field, 1618. The derivation of the word Pict-hatch may perhaps be discovered from the following paffage in Cupid's Whirligig, 1607: ". -Set fome picks upon your hatch, and, I pray, profefs to keep a bawdyhoufe." Perhaps the unfeafonable and obftreperous irruptions of the gallants of that age, might render fuch a precaution neceffary, So, in Pericles Prince of Tyre, 1609: " if in our youths we could pick up fome pretty eftate, 'twere not amifs to keep our door hatch'd," &c. STEEVENS.

Pict-hatch was a cant name of fome part of the town noted for bawdy-houfes; as appears from the following paffage in Marston's Scourge for Villanie, Lib. III. fat. x ;

Looke, who yon doth go;

"The meager letcher lewd Luxurio.

"No newe edition of drabbes comes out,

"But feene and allow'd by Luxurio's fnout.

"Did ever any man ere heare him talke

"But of Pick-batch, or of fome Shoreditch baulke,

"Aretine's filth," &c.

Sir T. Hanmer fays, that this was " a noted harbour for thieves and pickpockets," who certainly were proper companions for a man of Piftol's profeffion. But Falstaff here more immediately means to ridicule another of his friend's vices; and there is some humour in calling Piftol's favourite brothel, his manor of Pickt-batch, Mariton has another allufion to Pickt-hatch or Pick-batch, which confirms this illuftration:

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"Hath forc'd him cleane forfake his Pick-batch drab.”
Lib. I. fat, iii. T. WARTON,

Again, in Ben Jonfon's Epig. XII, on Lieutenant Shift:
Shift, here in town, not meaneft among fquires

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"That haunt Pickt-batch, Merth Lambeth, and White fryers." Again, in The Blacke Boske, 1604, 4to. Lucifer fays" I proceeded towards Pickt-hatch, intending to beginne their frit, which (as I may fitly name it) is the very fkirts of all Brothel houfes." DoUCE,

left hand, and hiding mine honour in my neceffity, am fain to fhuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will enfconce your rags,+ your cat-amounta in looks, your red-lattice phrafes, and your bold-beating oaths, under the fhelter of your honour! You will not do it, you?

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PIST. I do relent; What would'ft thou more of man?

·enfconce your rags, &c.] A fconce is a petty fortification. To enfonce, therefore, is to protect as with a fort. The word occurs again in K. Henry IV. P. I. STEEVENS.

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red-lattice phrafes,] Your ale-house conversation.

JOHNSON.

Red lattice at the doors and windows, were formerly the external denotements of an ale-house. So, in A Fine Companion, one of Shackerley Marmion's plays: A waterman's widow at the fign of the red lattice in Southwark." Again, in Arden of Feversham, 1592:

"his fign pulled down, and his lattice born away." Again, in The Mijeries of inforc'd Marriage, 1607:

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'tis treafon to the red lattice, enemy to the fign-poft." Hence the prefent chequers. Perhaps the reader will exprefs fome furprize, when he is told that shops, with the fign of the chequers, were common among the Romans. See a view of the left-hand freet of Pompeii, (No. 9.) presented by Sir William Hamilton, (together with feveral others, equally curious,) to the Antiquary Society. STEEVENS.

The following paffage in Braithwaite's Strapado for the Divell, 1615, confirms Mr. Steevens's obfervation." To the true difcoverer of fecrets, Monfieur Bacchus.-Mafter-gunner of the pottle-pat ordnance,-prime-founder of red lattices," &c.

In King Henry IV. P. II. Falstaff's page, fpeaking of Bardolph, fays, "he called me even now, my lord, through a red lattice, and I could fee no part of his face from the window." MALONE.

This defignation of an ale-houfe is not altogether loft, though the original meaning of the word is, the fign being converted into a green lettuce; of which an inftance occurs in Brownlow Street, Holborn.-In The laft Will and Teftament of Lawrence Lucifer, the old Batchiler of Limbo, at the end of the "Blacke Booke," 1604, 410. is the following paffage: "watched fometimes ten houres together in an ale-house, ever and anon peeping forth, and Jampling thy nafe with the red Lattis." DOUCE.

Enter ROBIN.

ROB. Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.
FAL. Let her approach.

Enter Miftrefs QUICKLY.

QUICK. Give your worship good-morrow.
FAL. Good-morrow, good wife.

QUICK. Not fo, an't please your worship.
FAL. Good maid, then.

QUICK. I'll be fworn; as my mother was, the first hour I was born.

FAL. I do believe the swearer: What with me? QUICK. Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word

or two?

FAL. Two thoufand, fair woman; and I'll vouchfafe thee the hearing.

QUICK. There is one mistress Ford, fir;-I pray, come a little nearer this ways: I myself dwell with mafter doctor Caius.

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FAL. Well, on: Mistress Ford, you fay,

QUICK. Your worship fays very true: I pray your worship, come a little nearer this ways.

FAL. I warrant thee, nobody hears ;-mine own people, mine own people.

QUICK. Are they fo? Heaven bless them, and make them his fervants!

FAL. Well: mistress Ford;-what of her? QUICK. Why, fir, fhe's a good creature. Lord, lord! your worship's a wanton: Well, heaven forgive you, and all of us, I pray!

FAL. Mistress Ford;-come, mistress Ford,QUICK. Marry, this is the fhort and the long of it; you have brought her into fuch a canaries, as 'tis wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the court lay at Windfor,' could never have brought her to fuch a canary. Yet there has been knights, and lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches; I warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift after gift; smelling so sweetly, (all musk,) and fo rufhling, I warrant you, in filk and gold; and in fuch alligant terms; and in fuch wine and fugar of the best, and the faireft, that would have won any woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never get an eye-wink of her.—I had myself twenty angels given me this morning: but I defy all angels, (in any fuch fort, as they say,) but in the way of honesty :—and, I warrant you, they could never get her fo much as fip on a cup with the proudeft of them all and yet there has been earls, nay, which is more, penfioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her.

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canaries,] This is the name of a brisk light dance, and is therefore properly enough used in low language for any hurry or perturbation. JOHNSON.

So, Nafh, in Pierce Pennylefs his Supplication, 1595, fays: “ A merchant's wife jets it as gingerly, as if the were dancing the canaries." It is highly probable, however, that canaries is only a miftake of Mrs. Quickly's for quandaries; and yet the Clown, in, As you like it, says, "we that are true lovers, run into strange capers.' STEEVENS.

7 lay at Windfor,] i. c. refided there. MALONE.

8 earls, nay, which is more, penfioners ;] This may be illuftrated by a paffage in Gervafe Holles's Life of the First Earl of Clare. Biog. Brit. Art. HOLLES: "I have heard the earl of Clare fay, that when he was penfioner to the queen, he did not know a worse man of the whole band than himself; and that all the world knew he had then an inheritance of 4000l. a year," TYRWHITT.

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