thinges therein donn and performed to the good of my children and their Chrystian and godlie educacion, that, as by Goddes holie ordynaunce I haue bene their life father of their liefe, so God in mercye woulde vouchsaufe to bee the fynisher of their ioye in Heaven, wheare I truste to receaue them. And I doe hartelie praie my good and lovinge freindes Mr. Doctor Bancrofte and Mr. Doctor Cosen to be assistauntes to my executours and ouerseers thereof for the better performinge of all thinges therein; and I doe giue eche one of them a ringe of golde, thone with a deathes heade, and the other which Sir Fraunces Drake gaue me. And I doe geue to Mr. Warde a ringe of goulde that was my ffathers with a heade graven in yt. I giue to Nathaniell all my wearinge lynnen for my bodye, shirtes, bandes, handkerchers. In witnes whereof I haue hereto putt my hande and seale, and declared the same to be my testamente, so signed and sealed the daie and yeare aboue wrytten in the presence of Rich: Wigorn.

Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascriptum apud London, coram venerabili viro Magistro Willielmo Lewin, Legum Doctore, Curie Prerogatiue Cantuar. Magistro, Custode, siue Commissario, vicesimo secundo die mensis Junij anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo sexto, &c.

APPENDIX II.

THE WILL OF JUDGE BEAUMONT.

(From the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.)

In the name of God Amen, I Francis Beamounte, of Gracedew in the countie of Leicester, one of thee Queenes Majesties Justices of her heighnes Courte of Common Pleas, being sicke of bodie, but of good and perfect rememberaunce, thankes be to Almightie God, doe make and ordaine this my laste will and testamente in manner and forme followinge. First, I giue and bequeathe my soule to Almightie God, hopinge to be saued by the merrittes, death, and passion of Jesus Christe, and by no other meanes. Item, my bodye to be buryed at the discrecion of my executors. Item, I giue and bequeath vnto my daughter Elizabeth Beawmounte seaven hundered poundes of lawfull money of England; the same to be leyvied of the issues and proffittes of my tithes of Shepshed and Belton in the said countie of Leicester, after the rate of fowerscore poundes a yeare, for both the said tythes, to the vse of the saide Elizabeth, by Henrye Beawmounte of Colderton Esquier, or by such as the said Henry shall nominate or appoynt by his last will and testamente for that purpose. Item, I doe by this my present last will and testamente ordaine that the profittes and comodities of the tythe of Chaddesden in the countie of Derb., and the rentes, issues, profittes, and commodities of the lordshipp of Cottens in the said countie of Derb. shalbe levyed for the payment of my debtes, togither with my goodes and chattells, vntill the same be fullie contented and payed by my said executors. Item, I doe giue vnto William Harley, my oulde and faythefull servaunte, in consideracion of his good and paynefull service, a lease of the messuage or tenemente in Swannington in the said countie of Leicester, nowe in his occupacion, or of his assignes, with all the landes, closes, commons, proffites, and commodites to

the same belonginge, for the terme of twentie and one yeares from Michaelmas next comminge, paying the oulde and accustomed rente. Item, I doe giue vnto Richarde Hall my servaunte, in consideracion of his good service, howseroemeth in the Manner Howse of Normanton, and a close ther called the Parke, adioyninge to the sayed Mannor Howse, and thre acres of arable lande in every of the feildes of Normanton aforesaid, with commons answearable to the same, in the feilde and precinctes of Normanton aforesaide, for the tearme of eleauen yeares from the feast of the Annunciacion of our Ladye last paste. Item, I doe giue vnto John Copelande my servaunte, for his good service, during his life, one annuitie or yearelie rente of five markes, to be issuing oute of all my landes and tenementes. Item, I doe giue vnto Roberte Kirkly, James Hepe, and Robert Lingard, my servauntes, tenn poundes, to be equallie deuided amongest them. Item, my will and mind is, that Edwarde Sharpe, Mr. Robinson the person of Osgathorpe, Hughe Lowe, and John Smithe, or anie els whosoever that have taken anie groundes or closes of me for one and twentie yeares or lesse tearme, and have payed theire money for them, shall enioy the same closes and groundes according to theire bargaine and bargaines, albeit the same leases be not sealed. Item, I giue vnto John Wrighte and Gawin Grenolde, my servauntes, twentie nobles, to be equallie devided amongest them. And executors of this my last will and testamente, I nominate and appoynte Henry Beawmounte of Colerton in the said countie of Leicester, George Sherley of Staunton in the saide countie of Leicester, and Roberte Brokesley of Sholeby in the said countye of Leicester, Esquiers, executors of this my last will and testamente, the one and twentith daye of Aprill in the fortith yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne ladie Queene Elizabeth, &c. Item, I doe further giue vnto Phillipp Vincente and John Towne, my servauntes, in consideracion of theire goode service, twentie nobles a yeare a peece, to ech of them during theire lives, to be issuing out of all my landes and tenementes within the realme of England, to be payed equallie by even porcions at the feastes of St. Michaell tharkeangell and the Annunciacion of our blessed Lady St. Mary the Virgin, the first payment thereof to begin at the feast of St. Michaell tharcheangell next comminge. Item, I do giue vnto my servauntes, William Eyre, Humphrey Wooluerston, George Tate, and James Royle, twentye poundes, to be equallie deuided amongest them. Wittnesses Phillipp Vincent, Humfrey Woolferstone, William Eyre, George Tate, James Royle, Libbews Darby.

A Codicill to be annexed to the last will and testament of Frauncis Beawmounte, one of her Majesties Justices of her Highenes Court of Common Pleas, as followeth, vizt.

Vppon the two and twentith daye of Aprill, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo octavo, Regnique Domine nostre Regine Elizabeth, &c., quadragesimo, and in the morning of the same daye, the said Mr. Beawmount, being of perfect minde and memory, and purposinge to add some thinge vnto his last will and testamente made the daye next before, spake theise wordes or the like in effecte, that is to saye, I haue lefte somewhat oute of my will which is this, I will that my daughter Elizabeth haue all the jewells that were her mothers, beinge then and theire present diuerse and sonndry credible wittnesses.

Probatum fuit Testamentum, vnacum Codicillo, apud London, coram venerabili viro Magistro Johanne Gibson, Legum Doctore, Curie prerogat. Cant. Magistro, Custode, siue Commissario, octavo die mensis Maij, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo octauo, &c.

ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA.

P. xv. 66

VOL. I.

COMMENDATORY POEMS.

'Henry Moody, Baronet]" He also wrote verses to Massinger, on A New Way to pay Old Debts, prefixed to the 4to of that play.

P. xx. "John Pettus, Knight]" "He appears ", says Mr. P. Cunningham, "to have been buried in the Temple Church in 1685. New Survey of London, vol. ii. p. 574, 8vo. 1708 ".

THE WOMAN-HATER.

P. 22. "For a trutch sword, my naked knife stuck up ".-A critic in Churton's Lit. Register for April, 1845, observes that "Mr. Dyce's note on this is an admirable specimen of his fitness for the task of editing Beaumont and Fletcher", that "it is hardly necessary to say that there is no such word in the English language as a trutch-sword, nor any phrase bearing even a family resemblance to it", that "it is merely a misprint for hatched sword,' a phrase that occurs more than once in Beaumont and Fletcher, and even in this very volume", and he quotes (what I have myself cited in another note) an explanation of "hatch" from Holme's Acad. of Armoury.—I have only to say, that I am not without hopes of finding “trutch-sword" in some other early writer; and that, if the author had written "hatch'd sword”, I cannot see why the compositor should have blundered about an expression, which occurs repeatedly in these volumes.

PHILASTER.

P. 216. "The outlandish prince looks like a tooth-drawer ".-A proverbial expression. Ray gives "He looks like a Tooth-drawer, i. e., very thin and meagre". Proverbs, p. 65. ed. 1768.

P. 267. "her he killed in the eye] "That Theobald's explanation of this phrase is wrong, appears from other passages in our authors' plays, vol. vi. 466, vol. vii. 241.

VOL. II.

THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS.

P. 5. Prefatory remarks. "In 1637, Milton testified to the world his admiration of this drama by the various passages of Comus which are closely imitated from it". Comus was played at Ludlow Castle in 1634, though it was not printed till 1637.

P. 18. "Joseph Taylor]" He was buried at Richmond in Surrey on the 4th Nov., 1652 see note, vol. viii. 106.

P. 36. "wealth-alluring swain]" Compare The Faithful Friends, act ii. sc. 1, vol. iv. 224;

"while this right hand

From Mars-alluring favourites has forc'd
Unwilling victory ".

THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE.

P. 151. "by lady]" See note, vol. viii. 167.

P. 157. " and here 's money and gold by th' eye, my boy ".seems to be equivalent to-in abundance: see note, vol. ix. 44.

I find this song quoted in a Masque (never printed) presented on Candlemas-night at Cole-Overton, and written perhaps by Sir T. Beaumont (see note, p. xxiii. of the

Memoir);

"Puck. *

been thus long?

*

What newes abrode? where the vengeance haes thou

Bob. Why, goblin, Ile tell thee, boy; all over England, where hospitality downe [he sings],

Downe, downe it falls,

Downe, and arise, downe, and arise

it never shall ".

P. 223. "And some they whistled, &c.]" In Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, 1845, published for the Percy Society, is a version of the ballad here quoted, under the title of Lord Burnett and Little Musgrave: but I believe that the said volume is little more than a collection of forgeries.

P. 227. "Enter Ralph, with a forked arrow through his head."-This seems to be in ridicule of a stage-direction in The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of York, 1595;

"Enter Clifford wounded, with an arrow in his necke".

When Shakespeare re-wrote The True Tragedie, he omitted" with an arrow in his necke" see Third Part of K. Henry VI., act ii. sc. 6.

P. 243.

A KING AND NO KING.

"had she so tempting fair,

That she could wish it off, for damning souls]" So the passage has been amended by me; and the correction is certain. A critic, however, in Churton's Lit. Register for April, 1845, (proposing to read “had she so tempting fairness", &c.) laughs at my adducing from Midsummer-Night's Dream "Demetrius loves your fair ", as an example of fair in the sense of beauty: "no one," he says, "but Mr. Dyce needs be told that in Demetrius loves your fair', the word fair is placed, by the most common of all ellipses, for a fair one"!!! How is such a critic to be answered? Let the reader turn to the notes ad loc. in the Var. Shakespeare ; and also compare the following passages, among a dozen which might be cited ;—

"Take time, while time doth last;

Mark how faire fadeth fast". Farmer's English Madrigals,

1599, p. 48,-reprinted for the Percy Soc. by Mr. Collier (who observes," Faire in this line is used for fairness, as was very customary with most writers of the time", &c).

"The louely Lillie, that faire flower for beautie past compare,

Whom winters cold keene breath had kill'd, and blasted all her faire," &c.

Niccols's Induction to A Winters Nights Vision,-Mirror for

Magistrates, p. 556, ed. 1610.

P. 255.

"Tigranes, he has won but half of thee,

Thy body";

So the passage should be pointed. In some copies the comma has dropt out after "thee".

P. 316.

"Captain, thou art a valiant gentleman;

Abide upon 't, a very valiant man ".

I ought to have preserved the reading of the first 4to, "To abide upon 't ”,—i. e. my abiding opinion is. So in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2;

"Leon. To bide upon 't,-thou art not honest", &c.

and in Potts's Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, 1613; "the wife of the said Peter then said, to abide upon it, I thinke that my husband will neuer mend", &c. Sig. T 4.

THE MASQUE OF THE INNER-TEMPLE AND GRAY'S INN.

P. 463. "Merc. Behold the Statuas ", &c.

Should be pointed,

"Merc. Behold, the Statuas", &c.

THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE.

P. 532. "innovation]" In this sense it is several times used by Wither;
"They who did neither by their deeds or words,

By counsel, by their pens, or by their swords,
Begin those innovations in the state", &c.

Speculum Speculativum, 1660, p. 37.

VOL. III.

THE SCORNFUL LADY.

P. 3. Prefatory remarks, 1. 3. For "1615 "read" 1615-16 ".

P. 38. "E. Love. What would you with me, sir!"-An interrogation-point ought to follow these words.

P. 45. "up goes my rest]" The expression was not confined to the game of primero. See note, vol. vii. 82.

P. 76. "E. Love. Will you have more on't!"-Instead of the exclamationpoint put an interrogation-point.

P. 82. "To use those men most frowardly they love most?"-Instead of the interrogation-point, put an exclamation-point.

P. 87. "meeching] i. e. lurking, skulking”.—I ought to have added to this explanation" for amorous purposes," which the word frequently implies. Compare vol. x. 123.