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
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    vice. Covetousness; then follows that of Prodigality, and his lady Pecunia. In the old play of Cambises, Ambi- dexter is expressly called the Vice, and represents the vice of Fraud, as he says himself, My name is Ambidexter, I signifie one That with, both hands can finely play. Orig. of Drama, i, 262. Fraud, covetousness, and vanity, the vices enumerated by Ben Jonson in the first quotation, were the most common. Vanity is even used for the Vice occasionally. See Vanity. Shakespeare gives us the Vice, Iniquity, and vanity, together, where prince Henry calls Falstaff That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that vanity in years. _ . 1 Hen. IV, ii, 4. By the formal vice in the following passage, we may now understand that Shakespeare meant the regular Vice, according to the form of the old dramas, which I believe no com- mentator has before explained: Tims like the formal vice, iniquity, I moralize, two meanings in one word. Rich. II, iii, 1. In the same manner he has a formal man, for a complete man, one regularly made. See Formal. For this reason the Vice is called old Iniquity, in a passage above cited, and here also: Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming, gets th’ opinion of a wit. B. Jons. Epigr., 115. He had before said of the subject of his epigram, that he was No vicious person, but the vice About the town, and known too, at that price. Ibid. See Vice. To INJURY, v., for to injure. Wherefore those that are in authoritie, yea and princes themselves ought to take great heed liow they injurie any man by word or deed, and whom they injurie, &c. Danet’s Comines, L 3. -jTNKHQRN. It was the custom for persons much employed in writing to carry ink, pens, &c., in a horn which could be attached to the person. Atramentarium. Cornet a encre. An inkpot, ink- botle, or inkhorne. Nomenclator, 1585. Long-coated, at his side Muckinder and inckhorne tied. Armin, Nest of Ninnies, 1608. Lose not your bookes, inkhorne, or pens, Nor girdle, garter, hat or band; Let shooes be ty’d, pin shirt-band close, Keepe well your points at any hand. Coote’s English Schoolemaster, 1632. INKHORNE TERMS. Studied expres- sions, that savour of the inkhorn. A very favorite expression, for a time. I know them that think rhetoric to stand wholly upon dark words; and he that can catch au inkliorne term by the tail, they count him to be a fine Englishman and a good rhetorician. Wilson’s Art of Rhet., in Cens. Lit., ii, p. 2. And to use an ynkhorne terme, or a strange word. Gasc., edit. 1575, Ep. iv, a.' Is not this better farre Than respice and precor, and such inkliorne tearmes As are intolerable in a common-wealth. The Weakest goes to the W., sign. E 1, b. In another place Gascoigne explains it: Epithetes and adjectives as smell of the inkhorne. Ep. iii, b. See also Hart’s Orthogr., f. 21. One author has changed it to incke- pot termes: To use many metaphors, poetical phrases in prose, or incke-pot termes, smelleth of affectation. Wright’s Passions of the Mind, in Cens. Liter., ix, p. 175. tThis is the cause of so many unlearned gentlemen, whych (as some say) they understand not the ynke- horne terms that are lately crept into our language. Institucion of a Gentleman, 1568. tNe had they terme of inkhorne, ne of penne. But plaine in speache, which gladly I espied. Thynne’s Debate between Pride and Lowliness. -f And write so humerous dogmaticall, To please my lord and lady What-d’ee-call, With inkehorne teams stiffe quilted and bumbasted. And (though not understood) yet are well tasted. Taylor’s Workes, 1630. tWherfore I mervaile how our English tongue hath crackt its credit, that it may not borrow of the Latine as wel as other tongues; and if it have broken, it is but of late, for it is not unknowen lo all men how many wordes we have fetclit from thence within these few yeeres, which, if they should be all counted inkpot tearmes, I know not how we should speak anie thing without blacking our mouths with inke. The Civile Conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo, by Pettie, 1586, INKHORNISM. A word apparently coined by Hall, from the preceding phrase. [Nares is wrong ; an exam- ple of the word has been quoted from Wilson’s Rhetorike, fol. 82, printed in 1553.] In mightiest inkhornisms he can thither wrest. Satires, i, 8. INKHORN-MATE, from the same allusion. A bookish or scribbling man. And ere that we will suffer such a prince, So kind a father of the common-weal, To be disgraced by an ink-horn mate. We, and our wives and children, all will fight. 1 Hen. VI, iii, 1. Alluding to the bishop of Winchester. fINLACED. Interlaced. Thou there wouldst carve thy name, inlaced with Th’ inhumane title which proclaims thee stil To be Amyntas the young hunter, and to love An enemy protest. Phillis of Scyros, 1655. INN, s. For a house or lodging in general. Used particularly in the phrase “to take up his inn.” See Take one’s ease. Now had the glorious sunne tune up his inne, And all the lamps of heav’n inlightened bin. Browne, Brit. Past., I, iii » 63.