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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    of Latin prayers to the people. This origin has been attempted to be re- futed, but is most probably right. See Brand’s Pop. Ant.,i, 394,4to ed. INTERCOMBAT, s. Fighting together. The combat granted and the day assign’d, They both in order of the field appeare, Most richly furnish’d in all martiall kinde, And at the point of intercombat were. Daniel, Civil Wars, B. i, 62. INTERDEAL, s. Traffic, intercourse ; dealing between different persons. The Gaulish speech is the very British, the which was very generally used here in all Brittaine,—and is yet retained of the Welshmen, Oornishmen, and Brittaines of France; though time working the alteration of all things, and the trading and inter deale with other nations round about have changed and greatly altered the dialect thereof. Spenser on Ireland, p. 355, Todd’s ed. To INTERESS. Certainly the original form of to interest; from interesser, French, It has been suggested, with great probability, that the t may have acceded to this and some other words, from a mistake of the preterite for the present tense. Thus, inter ess'd, or interess't, was declined again, and became, interested ; graffed, orgraff't, became grafted. So drown'd is also declined, by inaccurate speakers, and made drownded. To whose young love The vines of France, and milk of Burgundy, Strive to be inter ess’d. Lear, i, 1. But that the dear republick, Our sacred laws, and just authority, Are interess’d therein, I should be silent. B. Jons. Sejanus, iii, 1, p. 86. The word is found in this form, as late as in Dryden’s preface to his translation of the iEneid. See John- son. INTERESSE, 5. Interest. But wote thou this, thou hardy Titanesse, That not the worth of any living wight May challenge ought in heaven’s inter esse. Spens. F. Q., Canto vi of Book VII, St. 33. So also Halifax’s Misc., cited by Todd. INTEREST OF MONEY. The rate of interest has been gradually decreasing in this country in proportion to the increase of specie, and has been regu- lated by law, from time to time, as circumstances required or allowed. The statute of 37 Henry VIII, ch. 9, confined it to ten per cent., and so did the 13 Eliz., c. 8. By 21 Jac. I, c. 17, legal interest was reduced to eight per cent.; which, being men- tioned as quite recent in the Staple of News, marks the date of that play: My goddess, bright Pecunia, Altho’ your grace be fall’n, of two i’ the hundred. In vulgar estimation, yet am I Your grace’s servant still. B. Jons. Stap. of News, ii, 1. In the third scene of the same act it is more fully alluded to; but in the Magnetick Lady, ten per cent, is spoken of as the usual rate : There’s threescore thousand got in fourteen year, After the usual rate of ten i’ the hundred. Act ii, sc. 6. John a Coombe, therefore, who is censured as an usurer, took only the legal interest of his time, according to the epitaph, Ten in the hundred lies here engrav’d. The subsequent reductions of interest were, to six per cent., 12 Car. II, c. 13; and to five, 12 Anne, St. 2, c. 16. We may here observe, that the epitaph above cited was long attributed tte Shakespeare by Rowe and others, but is now considered as belonging to Richard Brathwaite, in whose Remains (published 1618) it occurs as his. There are proofs sufficient that it could not be Shakespeare’s. See vol. i, p. 80, ed. 1813. Variations are found in all the copies of it, but the most remarkable is in Aubrey’s, who makes Combe exact twelve per cent., when ten only was legal. Ten in the hundred the devill allowes, But Combes will have twelve, he sweares and vowes 5 If any one askes who lies in this tombe, Hoh [probably Ho Ho] quoth the devill, tis my John a Combe. Letters from the Bodl., vol. iii, p. 538. INTERGATORY, s. Interrogatory; apparently the original word. Let us go in, And charge us there upon interyatories, And we will answer all things faithfully. Gra. Let it be so; the first intercjatory, &c. March, of Fen., v, 1. Slight, he has me upon interyatories: nay, my mother shall know how you use me. B. Jons. Cynth. Rev., iv, 4. The modern editions have interroga- tories ; but the folio of 1616 reads it as above. In the following passage, also, intergatorg makes the verse per- fect, and therefore was probably the ■word written, though not authorized by any edition ; for Mr. Tyrwhitt was mistaken in saying that it is so in the first folio.