io- s.v. FEB. io, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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" I terme it follie ; for, as Man, hee [Christ] had
no reason to doe any such rash and inconsiderate
action ; and, as God, hee had no neede to play the
Tumbler, and to flie in the aire." P. 89.
" This is a short and cutted kind of speech." P. 99.
"Seeing one that wisht them all good, hugg'd them ynder his wing." P. 101.
" King Balacks Messengers had so greased his [Balaam's] fists with good gold." P. 110.
" Whereas the Adulterer was by all adiudged to be a happie and a fortunate man, that by good hap he had escaped out of the hands of Justice, either by flight, or greasing the Officers in the fist." P. 117.
" Nothing will down with them but quelques- choses, made dishes, and pleasing sauces for the Palate."-P. 124.
" No man will spare his enemie, if he can catch him vpon the hip." P. 130.
" He that pretends a Captains place, the gouern- ment of a Garrison Towne, or the keeping of a Fort, frets and fumes, when he knowes he hath done the State good seruice in the Warres, to see a Carpet Knight, that can better vse a Violl than a Sword, lead a measure with a Ladie than a Band of men, be preferred, and himselfe put by." P. 163.
"Philon saith, That he [Moses] was a King, a Lawgiuer, a Prophet, & a Priest. Gregorie Nazi- anzen, Saint Augustine, and Saint Hierome jumpe together in that point." P. 209.
" Elias in that furious whirlewind, in that terrible earthquake, and that fearefull fire, wrapt himselfe vplike a bottome of yarne, and lay close to the earth." P. 217-
" The pleasures hee tooke therein, clapt wings to his feet."- P. 219.
41 The metaphor is taken from those that run, when as the one trips vp the others heeles." P. 224.
tk What greater snare than that pit-fall which was prepared as a punishment for Tantalus, who standing vp to the chinne in water, could yetneuer come to quench his thirst." P. 233.
" Salomon commending a manly mettled woman, sayes. That she cloathed herselfe with Purple and with Silke." P. 234. [John Boys in his ' Workes,' 1629 (p. 297), speaks of "a woman endued with manly courage and carriage.]
"But if what Vanitie will egge thee vnto, thou shalt be poore." P. 236.
" What doth this poore Rogue make here, send him packing, that I may see him no more." P. 239.
" I am not so desperate as to cast my selfe wilfully away, when as I may sleepe in a whole skinne." P. 247.
" When shee [Delilah] had her purpose she cared not a pin for him." P. 277.
"But he [Shimei] no sooner saw him [David] flie from Jerusalem halfe naked, and with one sliooe off (as they say) and another on." P. 277-
'"Art thou greater than our Father Jacob ?' said the Samaritane woman ; calling Jacob Father, as long as the Jewes power and prosperitie lasted ; but no sooner downe the wind, but they wind their neckes out of the coller, acknowledging neither friendship nor kindred." I*. 277.
" And as the Cough of the lungs is eased with a clap on the back, so is the sinners heart, when Sinne hammers vpon it." P. 279.
" Hug him in her armes, and spred out the lapnefc
of her garment for him." P. 285.
"A Rogue that hath neuer a shoo to his foot, nor a rag to his tayle."-P. 291.
"For if the Deuill be still pulling him [the- preacher] by the sleeue, what good crop can he- render vnto God, of his Hearers?" P. 293.
" They whip a young theefe for stealing but ten, Royals, and let a greater scape scot-free." P. 299.
" Herod desired to see our Sauiour Christ, but he- would not step a foot out of doores to looke after him." P. 325.
"The Nazarits would not wagge a jot, to goe see our Sauiour Christ, hauing so short a journev as they had to make." P. 325.
"It vexed the Prophet, and made him grow wearie of them, that sitting lazing on their tayles- at home in their houses, they should send to know his mind." P. 325.
"Being in that great danger as thou art, doosfc thou stand off, doost thou hang taile, and wilt nob make a little more to come vnto thy Sauiour?" P. 325.
"Many men are like vnto your Ferrets or your Bloud-hounds, they go nosing and hunting after faults in other mens grounds." P. 338.
" Yet when their wits are thus a wooll-gathering.'*" P. 338.
" Where that nose is taken to be somewhat of the longest, which goes nosing and senting after other mens Hues and actions : and that of the shortest, which quickely takes snuflfe, and frets and. fumes at the wagging of a Feather." P. 339.
The Horse that carrieth himselfe well and handsomely with one bridle, it is needlesse to clap two." P. 339.
" It is lost labour to correct a Scorner, and such a. one as makes but a sport & Maygame of sin." P. 340.
"Lucian sayth, that our hart is a white, or mark& whereat shafts be shot." P. 341. "He that gouernes, must fix his eye vpon this White." P. 594.
"And albeit the washing of the hands was a. verie light fault, yet one little and another little comes in the end to make a mickle." P. 357.
" He beeing appointed by God to punish Adul- terers & Murdrers, they might not tit him in the teeth." P. 358. " Notwithstanding all this Absalon titteth him in the teeth." P. 424.
" With this deceit he [Jacob] grieued both hia. father and his brother, but he was paid at length in his owne coyne." P. 361.
"Thou sneezest, hee that is next vnto thee puts of his hat, not that that does hinder thy farther sneezing, but because it is a Tradition, and a receiued custome so to do." P. 365.
" Of those that weare one of Linsey-woolsie." P. 365.
"Their conscience was a verie Dung-mixen, they were faire without, but foule within." P. 367.
" For that the people were much affectioned to this outward asperousnesse and strict - seeming course of life." P. 367.
"Abhorring her former lewd life, shee turned ouer a new leafe." -P. 400.
"But the truth is, that Walls haue eyes as well as eares." P. 415.
" Others stickt not to siy, the weakest still goea - to the wall."-P. 417.
