1176. Of playe; exercise of attentio; of memory; of dissimulation; of discretio.

I bring a trumpet to awake his ear,

To set his sense on the attentive bent. (Tr. Cr. i. 3.)

His valour is sauced with discretion. (Ib. i. 2.)

(Compare the remarks on exercise in Ess. Of Regimen of Health and Advt. of Learning, iv. 3; on gymnastics, &c., with Tr. Cr. i. 2, 272–276.)

1177. Of many hands, or of receyt; of few; of quick return; tedious; of present judgment; of uncertain yssue.

Discontented members, the mutinous parts

That envied his receipt. (Cor. i. 1.)

They are the people's mouths, and we their hand. (Ib. iii. 1.)
Quick words. (Tw. G. Ver.)

Quick wit. (Tw. G. Ver. i. 1; M. Ado, ii. 1, v. 2; L. L. L. v. 1.)
Cheer his grace with quick and merry words. (R. III. i. 3.)
He calls me traitor: I return the lie.
Make most fair return of greetings.

(Per. ii. 5.)

(Ham. ii. 2.)

The quick comedians extemporally will stage us.

(Ant. Cl. v. 2.)

It is a good thing in discourse . . to intermingle . . . jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say, to jade anything too far. (Essay Of Discourse.)

He's as tedious as a tired horse. (1 Hen. IV. iii. 1.)

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. (John, iii. 4.)

Come, you are a tedious fool. (M. M. ii. 1.)

Those tedious old fools. (IIam. ii. 2.)

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

(Ham. i. 2.)

I may fear her will recoiling to her better judgment.

(Oth. iii. 3.)

The effect of judgment is oft the cause of fear. . . .
Our very eyes are sometimes like our judgments, blind.

(Cymb. iv. 2.)

The issue of your proper wisdoms. (Tr. Cr. ii. 2.)

Ham. To what issue will this come?

Mar. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hor. Heaven will direct it. (Ham. i. 4.)

(See also Tr. Cr. i. 3, 324–331.)

1178. Several playes or ideas of play. Frank play, wary play; venturous, not venturous; quick, slowe.

Now the king drinks to Hamlet. Come, begin;

And you the judges bear a wary eye. (See the fencing, Ib.)

Never heard I of warlike enterprise

More venturous or desperate. (1 Hen. VI. ii. 1.)

A man daring, bold, and venturous. (Hen. VIII. i. 2.)

Be yare in thy preparation,

For thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. (Tw. N. iii. 4.)
These quick blows of Fortune's. (Tim. Ath. i. 1.)

When thou art in the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another. (Tr. Cr. ii. 1.)

Slow in pursuit. (Mid. N. D. iv. 1.)

1179. Oversight; dotage.

You do draw my spirits from me

With new lamenting ancient oversights. (2 Hen. IV. ii. 3.)

Let his disposition have that scope

That dotage gives it. (2 Hen. IV. i. 4.)

O, sir, you are old
Nature in you stands on the very verge

d;

Of her confine; you should be ruled and led
By some discretion, that discerns your state
Better than you yourself..

All's not offence that indiscretion finds
And dotage terms so. (Ib. ii. 4.)

(See No. 1095.)

1180. Betts; lookers on; judgment.

Ham. Six Barbary horses against six French swords. That's the French bet against the Danish. Why is this imponed,' as you call it.

Osr. The king, sir, hath laid that in a dozen passes between yourself and him he shall not exceed you three hits; he hath laid on twelve for nine.

Ham. I will this

...

I dare you to this match. one. (Cymb. i. 5.)

(Ham. v. 2, and ib. 1. 270–274.)

...

It is no lay... I'll have it

King. Set me on the stoups of wine upon that table;
If Hamlet give the first or second hit . . .

The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath. . .
Come, begin, and you the judges bear a wary eye.

Ham. One.

Laer. No.

Ham. Judgment. (Ham. v. 2.)

A looker-on sometimes sees more than the gamester.

1181. Groome-porter.

(Let. in reply to the King, 1617.)

Butts. I'll show your grace the strangest sight.

His grace of Canterbury,

Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,

Pages, and footboys . . .

A man of his place . . . at the door too, like a post with packets. (Hen. VIII. v. 2.)

King. Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,

This good man-few of you deserve that title

This honest man, wait like a lousy foot-boy

At chamber door? (Ib. v. 3.)

1182. Christmas; inventio for hunger.

1183. Oddes; stake; sett.

Hercules himself must yield to odds. (3 Hen. VI. iii. 1.)

'Tis odds beyond arithmetic. (Cor. iii. 1.)

Ham. You know the wager?...

Your grace hath laid the odds

O' the weaker side.

King. I do not fear it. I have seen you both;
But since he is bettered, we have therefore odds. (Ham. v.

Mine honour's at the stake.

(Tw. N. iii. 1; AW's W. ii. 1; Ham. iv. 4.)

My reputation's at stake. (Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)

I lay down my soul at stake. (Oth. iv. 2.)
I and another,

So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance
To mend it, or be rid of it. (Macb. ii. 1.)

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. (Ham. i. 4.)

Set your entreatments at a higher rate. (Ib. i. 3.)

2.)

1184. He that folowes his losses and giveth soone over at wynnings will never gayne by playe.

A that way accomplished courtier would hazard the winning both of first and last. (Cymb. i. 4, and ii. 3, 1.)

Learn me how to lose a winning match.

(R. Jul. iii. 1; Tw. N. Kins. i. 3, 30.)

1185. Ludimus incauti studioque aperimur ab ipso.Ovid, Ars Am. iii. 371. (We play incautiously, and our character is revealed in the eagerness of our pursuit.)

1186. He that playeth not the beginning of a game well at tick tack, and the later end at Yrish shall never wynne.

I should be sorry to be thus foolishly lost at a game of ticktack. (M. M. i. 2.)

1187. Frier Gilbert.

1188. Ye lott; earnest in old time, sport now as music out of church to chamber.

As by lot God wot. (IIam. ii. 2.)

The Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Green Sleeves.'

(Mer. Wiv. ii. 1.)

He sings psalms to hornpipes. (W. T. iv. 2.)

I could bid good-night until to-morrow. (Ib. ii. 2.) ('Good-morrow' ninety-six times in the plays. Tw. N. Kins. iii. 6, 16, 17.)

1190. Good swoear (i.e. soir).

('Good-even,' eleven times in the Plays; and Two. N. Kins. iv. 2, 115.)

1191. Good travaile.

To us, this life is travelling a-bed. (Cymb. iii. 2. Sonn. xxvii.)

1192. Good matens. (From Bon matin).

The glow-worm shows the matin near. (Ham. i. 5.)

1193. Good betimes, bonum mane.

When you have given good-morning to your mistress, attend the queen. (Cymb. iii. 3.)

(Good-day fourteen times.)

1194. Bon iouyr Bon iour Bridegroome.

Signor Romeo, bonjour. (R. Jul. ii. 3.)

We'll give your grace bonjour. (Tit. And. i. 2.)

Bonjour, Monsieur le Beau. (4. Y. L. i. 2.)

1195. Good day to me and good morrow to you.

? Good-night, my noble lord. I think it is good-morrow, is

it not?

Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock. (1 H. IV. ii. 4.)

Good-day, good-day. . . . Aye, and good next day too.

...

(Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)

On the back of this folio is written, Formularies and Elegancies.' 2 Since the Introductory Chapter of this book was sent to the press, an earlier instance has been found of the use of 'Good-morrow' than any which is noted at pp. 64 and 85. See Appendix J.