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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$ness. It was supposed, and the notion was probably encouraged for the sake of promoting female industry, that when maidens were idle, worms bred in their fingers. Keep thy hands in thy muff, and warm the idle Worms in tliy fingers’ ends. B. fy- FI. Wom(in Hater, iii, 1. Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm. Prick’d from the lazy finger of a maid. Bom. and Jul., i, 4. \_To be sick of the idles, to be lazy.] tHodie nullam lineam duxi: I have beene siclce of the idles to day. Withals' Dictionary, ed. 1634, p. 558. fJEBERD. To jeopard. Heywood, 1556. fJELOUX. An old form of spelling jealous. TIP have made mejelonx of a god, no god. I’ll make them jeloux, I will wed (abroad) A people (yet) no people; and their brest Shall split', for spight, to see the nations blest. Du Bartas. f JENESTRAY. Phi. You forget his cover’d dishes Of jene-strayes, anA marmalade of lips, Perfum’d by breath sweet as the beanes first blos- somes. Suckling's Aglaura, 1638. JENERT’S BANK. The following pas- sage is probably corrupt. It has been conjectured that there was a bank called Jenert's, so famous as to be proverbial for security; but it remains to be shown that any country-bank existed in the seven- teenth century; much more that they were so comnjon as for one to be famous above the rest. A better reading seems to be wanted : How now, my old Jenert's hank my horse, My castle, lie in Waltham all night, and Not under the canopy of your host Blague’s house ? Merry Devil of Edm., O. PL, v, 300. Can it be a misprint, for Ermeii s bank, or the old Roman road passing through Edmonton, which might have been written Irminfs? Horse is not much more intelligible, as applied here. Should it not be house? speaking of his house as his castle. f J ENNET. A small Spanish horse. This tryall, Camilla, must be sifted to narrow points, lest in seeking to try your lover like a jennet, you try him like a jade. Lylie’s Euphues. To JEOBARD. Sometimes written for to jeopard ; probably from ignorance of the etymology. Yet I dare jeohard my cappe to fortie shillings, thou shalt have but a colde suite. Ulp. FulweVs Art of Flattery, II 3. To jeopard, itself, is not much in use. All the examples given in Todd’s Johnson, are of the seventeenth century, or earlier. JEOBERTIE, for jeopardy, in like man- ner. If you foil me, of which there is small jeobertie, I will send word to set them all at hbertie. Harr. Ariosto, xxxv, 44. To JEOPARD. To hazard or endanger. Not in use now. He was a prince right hardie and adventerous, not fearing to jeopard his person in place of danger. Holinsh., vol. i, 1. 3, col. 1. Iam compelled against my minde and will (as Pompey . the Great was) to jeopard the libertie of our country, to the hazard of a battel. North's Plut. Brutus, p. 1072. +Tbe forefrontes or frontiers of the ii. corners, what wythe fordys and shelves, and what with rockes, be very jeoperdous and daungerous. More's Utopia, 1551. JER-FAULCON, or GERFAULCON. A large and fine sort of hawk, said to come originally from the north; therefore by some called the Iceland falcon. Gyrofalco, low Latin ; ger- faulk, or gerfaut, French. Latham is abundant in its praise: A bird stately, brave, and beautifull to behold in the eye and judgement of man, more strong and power- full than any other used hawk, and many of them very bold, couragious, valiant, and very venturous, next to the slight-faulcon, of whose worthiness I have already sufficiently discoursed. Latham, B. i, ch. 16. The Gentleman’s Recreation is almost equally strong in its commendation ; p. 48 of the Treatise on Hawks. The following description of a contest of one of these birds with a heron, may be thought interesting: I saw once a jerfalcon let (lie at an heron, and observed with what clamour the heron entertained the sight and approach of the hawlte, and with what winding shift hee strave to get above her, labouring even by bemuting bis enemies feathers to make her flagge-winged, and so escape; but when at last they must needs come to an encounter, resuming courage out of necessity, hee turned face against her, and striking the hawke through the gorge with his bill, fell downe dead together with his dead enemie. Arthur Warwick's Meditations, part ii, p. 80. JERICHO seems to be used, in the following instance, as a general term for a place of concealment or banish- ment. If so, it explains the common phrase of wishing a person at Jericho, without sending them so far as Pales- tine. Who would to curbe such insolence, I know, Bid such young boyes to stay in Jericho Uutiil their beards were grow lie, their wits more staid. Heyw. Hierarchie, B. iv, p 208. JERONIMO. See Hieronimo. It is censured with Titus Andronicus in the following passage • He that will swear Jeronimo or Andronicus are the best plays yet, shall pass unexcepted at here, as a$