12 s. ix. SEPT. n, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 225 Paid for beere bread and tobaccho att the George the same daye . . . . 00 03 04 Paid George Moore the Glazier for worke att Church for 11 foote of new leading & simenting at 4d p foote . . . . O'J 03 08 More to him for 30 quarrells of new glasse 00 02 04 Paid Jeames Souldine for Ironworke for a payer of whole culvering wheeles for trim- ing Musketts swords & other things as p bill appeereth 03 00 00 Paid Mr : Thomas Cooper for curing the Widd Burwoods daughters legg . . . . 00 15 00 Paid Mr : Thomas Johnson money laid out for sick people that were shutt up from the fust of September 1646 untill the 5th of October then next following with some other chardges as p bill appeereth the some of 04 18 01 Paid George Moore for putting in 6 quarrells of new glasse at Church on the lucorne 00 00 06 Paid Mr : Bakers man for writeing the Inventory of the goodes of Willm Greene deceased 00 02 00 Paid Roger Ball he being Constable money that he paid for the burying of Widd Blosses Childe 00 04 00 More to him for a legg of Mutton and sheeps portnance he delivered to Nicholas . Bettered that house being shutt upp 00 01 04 Paid Robert Harper money laid out for warding & for victualls for people that were shutt up as p Bill appeereth February : 1 : 1646 . . 01 09 00 Paid Peter Buck Collector : for the Towne of Hastlewood for the viccarage to a Rate made the 20th of June 1646 for the Mar- shalcies and impressing & carrying of soul- diers and other chardges for the viccarage 00 01 00 More to him paid to a Rate made the 17th : of September 1646 for the Collecting the some of 1H : 1 7s : 9d for the demolishing the Garrisons and for the releife of the pro- testants in Ireland for the viccarage 00 00 10 ARTHUR T. WINN. Aldcburgh, Suffolk. (To be concluded.} A WEBSTER-MIDDLETON PLAY: 'ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE.' (See 12 S. ix. 181, 202.) Act V., sc. i. THIS is wholly Webster's. We have a typical sample of the sententious, super- elegant diction affected by the gallants and well-bred personages of his later plays in the passage of verse dialogue between George Cressingham and the elder Franklin with which the scene opens. After the entry of George (the apprentice) all three speak in prose. p. 487. George has been discharged by his master and is much excited in conse- quence. Franklin asks him w.hat is the matter, and he replies : I may turn soap-boiler, I have a loose body : [ am turn'd away from my master. For this coarse pleasantry compare, in }he speech of one of the madmen in ' The Duchess of Malfy,' IV. ii. : All the college may throw their caps at me, I have made a soap-boiler costive. p. 490. Saunders, steward to Sir Francis Cressingham, counsels George Cressingham to adopt a profession, suggesting the law or divinity," adding: I have heard you talk well, and I do not think but you'd prove a singular fine churchman. George Cressingham responds : I should prove a plural better, if I could attain to fine benefices. a laborious jest already used in ' The Devil's Law Case," III. iii. (III. 62) : [Jolenta to Romelio :] Nay, I will get some singular fine churchman Or though he be a plural one, shall affirm He coupled us together. p. 492. Sir Francis Cressingham is in despair at the abject dependence upon his wife to which she has reduced him : O my heart's broke ! weighty are injuries That come from an enemy, but those are deadly That come from a friend,* for we see commonly Those are ta'en most to heart. Webster harps upon this sentiment in ' The Fair Maid of the Inn.' In Act II., sc.i., of this play, Cesario has been w r ounded in a duel with his friend Mentivole. Cesario's father greets the physician's announcement that the wound is only a trivial one, with : O, but from a friend, To receive this bloody measure from a friend, . . . 'tis that which multiplies The injury. And when the wounded man's mother and sister enter, and the physician again affirms that the wound is " but a scratch," the sister replies : But he received it from a friend And the unkindness ta'en from that may kill him.
- Mr. William Wells (who, I am pleased to find,
had independently come to the conclusion that ' Anything for a Quiet Life ' is partly Webster's) has drawn my attention to the resemblance between these lines and the following, from one of Flamineo's speeches in ' The White Devil,' V. i. (II. 119-20) : "Those are found weighty strokes which come from th' hand But those are killing strokes which come from th' head."
