Volume 1

A glossary, or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration, in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his contemporaries / [Robert Nares].

Robert Nares

Date:: 1882

Credit: A glossary, or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and allusions to customs, proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration, in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare, and his contemporaries / [Robert Nares]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$I say, I love; you slightly answer, 1: I say, you love; you peule me out a No: I say, I die; you echo me with I: Save me, I cry; you sigh me out a No. Must woe and I have nought but No and I? No I am I, if I no more can have; Answer no more, with silence make reply, And let me take myself what I do crave: Let No and /, with I and you be so ; Then answer No and I, and I and No. Idea 5. Line the tenth is nearly the same as the fourth cited from Shakespeare. As when the disagreeing commons throw About their house their clamorous I or No. Herrick, p. 360. In the modern editions of Shake- speare, I is generally changed to aye ; but in Whalley’s Ben Jonson the single vowel is retained, which the reader should recollect, or he will sometimes take it for the pronoun. I, the pronoun, was sometimes re- peated in colloquial use, as the French subjoin moi : Je n'aime pas cela, mot; “ I like not such a thing, I.” Some instances of it occur in Shakespeare, and many other writers. I’ll drink no more than will do me good, for no man’s pleasure, I. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 4. I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I. Rom. Jul., iii, 1. Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I. Ibid. Ironically: I am an ass, I! and yet I kept the stage in master Tarleton’s time. Induct, to B. Jons. Barth. Fair. I am none of those common pedants, I, That cannot speak without propterea quod. Bdwardll, 0. PL, ii, 342. For my disport I rode on hunting, I. Mirr. Mag., p. 52. I per se, as A per, se, &c.; I by itself: If then your I agreement want, Ijto your I must answer No. Therefore leave off your spelling plea, And let my I be I per se. Wit’s Interp., p. 116. ■f-JABISH. Perhapsamisprintfor^^A. To discourse him seriously is to read the ethics to a monkey, or make an oration to Caligula’s horse, whence you can only expect a wee-hee or jabish spurn. Twelve Ingenious Characters, 1686. JACK, 5. A horseman’s defensive upper garment, quilted and covered with strong leather. It is usually inter- preted a coat of mail, but some of the following quotations seem to prove otherwise. A kind of pitcher made of leather was similarly called a black jack, even in my memory. I have half a score jades that draw my beer carts; and every jade shall bear a knave, and every knave shall wear a jack, and every jack shall have a skull, and every skull shall shew a spear, and every spear shall kill a foe at Picket Pield. First P. of Sir J. Oldc., Suppl. to Sh., ii, 297- The bill-men come to blows, that, by their cruel thwacks, The ground lay strew’d with male and shreds of tatter’d jacks. Drayt. Polyolb., xxii, p. 1062. Their armour [in England] is not unlike unto that which in other countries they use, as corslets, Al- maine rivets, shirts of male, jackes quilted, and covered over with leather, fustian, or canvas, over thick plates of yron that are sowed to the same. Euph. Engl., P f 2, b. Their horsemen are with jacks for most part clad. Harr. Ariost., x, 73. The following, however, is an instance ol jack used for a coat of mail: Nor lay aside their jacks of gymold mail. Edw. Ill, i, 2, in CapclVsProlus. Unless the original copy had “jacks, or gymold,” which seems to me most probable. tBut with the trusty bow. And jacks well quilted with soft wool, they came to Troy. Chapm. II., iii. [^Zb be on the jack of any one, to attack him violently, evidently in allusion to the preceding word.] \Te ulciscar, I will be revenged on thee; I will sit on thy skirts: I will he upon your jacke for it. Terence in English^ 1614. t And our armie, joyning with the prince’s, wee made a gallant body; which made him sneake to his quar- ters at Openhan. And, as often as he stur’d, wee were on his jack. A. Wilson’s Autobiography. IMy lord lay in Morton College; and, as lie was going to parliament one morning on foot, a man in a faire and civill outward habit mett him, and jossel’d him. And, though I was at that time belaud bis lordship, I saw it not; for, if I had, I should have been upon his jack. Ibid. -fJACK-A-LANTERN. The ignis fa- tuus. I am an evening dark as night, Jack-with-the-lantern, bring a light. The Slighted Maid, p. 48. JACK-A-LENT. A stuffed puppet, dressed in rags, &c., which was thrown at throughout Lent, as cocks were on Shrove Tuesday. Thou cam’st but half a thing into the world, And wastmade up of patches, parings, shreds; Thou, that when last thou wert put out of service, Travell’d to Hamstead Heath on an Ash Wednesday, Where thou didst stand six weeks the Jack of Lent, Por boys to hurl three throws a penny at thee, To make thee a purse. B. Jons. Tale of a Tub, iv, 2, Six weeks are again mentioned as the duration of a Jack of Lent, in the following passage: Nay, you old Jack-a-Lent, six weeks and upwards, though you be our captain’s father you cannot stay there. Four Prentices, 0. PL, vi, 478. By which is meant, that the old man is come to the utmost extent of his utility and existence. The very children in the street do adore me; for if a boy that is throwing at his Jack-a-Lent chance to hit me on the shins, why, I say nothing but Tu quoque, smile, and forgive the child. Greene’s Tu Quoque, 0. PL, vii, 92. If I forfeit, Make me a Jack o’ Lent, and break my shins Foruntagg’d points and compters. B. f FI. Woman’s Prize, iv, 3. Jack-a-Lent occurs twice in the Merry Wives of Windsor; once merely as a I jocular appellation, iii, 3, and once as i$