This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...= to espy, Nonne Pr. Ta. 1. 467. See note to 1. 1733. 1. 1726. Can but smal, know but little. Cf. 'the compiler is smal learned'; Old Plays, ed. Hazlitt, i. 10.--M. Cf. coude = knew in 1. 1735. 1. 1733-To honoure; this must be read tonoure, like texpounden in 1. 1716. 1. 1739. To scholeward; cf. From Bordeaux ward in the Prologue, 1. 397---M. 1. 1749. The feeling against Jews seems to have been very bitter, and there are numerous illustrations of this. In Gower's Conf. Amant. bk. vii, a Jew is represented as saying--'I am a Jewe, and by my lawe I shal to no man be felawe To kepe him trouth in word ne dede.' In Piers the Plowman, B. xviii. 104, Faith reproves the Jews, and says to them--'Je cherles, and jowre children. chieue thrive" shal je neure, Ne haue lordship in londe. ne no londe tylye tilt But al bareyne be. & vsurye vsen, Which is lyf bat owre lorde. in alle lawes acurseth.' See also P. P1., C. v. 194. Usury was forbidden by the canon law, and those who practised it, chiefly Jews and Lombards, were held to be grievous sinners. Hence the character of Shylock, and of Marlowe's Jew of Malta. 1. 1751. Honest, honourable; as in the Bible, Rom. xii. 17, &c. 1. 1752. Swich, such. The sense here bears out the formation of the word from so-like.--M. 1. 1753. Your, of you. Shakespeare has 'in your despite,' Cynib. i. 6. 135; 'in thy despite,' I Hen. VI, iv. 7. 22. Despite is used, like the Early and Middle English maugre, with a genitive; as maugre b«, in spite of thee, in Havelok, 11. 1128, 1789.--M. 1. 1754-'Which is against the respect due to your law.' Cf. 'spretaeque iniuria formae'; iEneid, i. 27. 1. 1761. I give an omitted stanza here, from Wordsworth's modernised version:--'I say that him into a pit they threw, A loathsome pit, whenc...