[1] [For early instances and uses of the verb _actuate_ see N.E.D.]
[2] Deabus _artificibus_ similes, as S. WALKER (_Criticisms on
Shakespeare_, vol. i. p. 96) gives it well.
[3] [The word is a derivative of O. Fr. _artillier_ = Late Lat.
_articularius_, a form of doubtful origin. Dr. Murray hesitates between
_articulum_, dimin. of _ars_, _artem_, and _articulus_, joint, see
N.E.D.]
[4] [_Assassins_ is the rendering adopted in R.V.]
[5] [_Astonish_ represents an O. Fr. *_estonnir_, _estonniss_-,
used for _estoner_, Late Lat. *_ex-tonare_, to stupefy as with a
thunderbolt.]
[6] [Of course the words _authentic_ and _author_ (_authority_) are
entirely unrelated: αὐθεντικός is from αὐθέντης (= αὐτο- self + ἑντης),
whereas _author_ is O. Fr. _autor_, Lat. _auctorem_, cp. _augēre_, to
make, to grow.]
[7] [See however on this point N.E.D.]
[8] ‘Non grati victima sacri.’
[9] ‘_Rough_ Clifford’ he is called a few lines before.
[10] ‘Concealers be such as find out concealed lands, that is such
lands as privily are kept from the king by common persons, having
nothing to shew for them.’--COWELL, _The Interpreter_, s. v.
[11] [This story rests on the sole authority of Gifford, the editor of
Ben Jonson. For further information see N.E.D.]
[12] [This is a gloss on Spenser’s line, ‘Nor in all Kent nor in
Christendome,’ which repeats a very common proverbial saying.]
[13] [It has been revived; for examples see N. E. D.]
[14] [The words _deal_ and _dole_ probably owe their difference of form
to an original slight variation of suffix (-_li_, -_lo_), see Kluge
(s. v. _teil_).]
[15] Vinegar.
[16] ‘Qui se _harlotos_ appellant’ are the important words in Henry
the Third’s letter to the Sheriff of Oxfordshire, requiring their
dispersion.
[17] For the cognates of ‘loiter’ see Franck’s Dutch Etym. Dict. (s. v.
_leuteren_).
[18] One would willingly know a little more of this phrase ‘lucid
interval,’ which had evidently about the time of the first of my
quotations recently come into the language, but from what quarter,
whether from the writings of physicians or naturalists, or from what
other source, I am unable to say. Of its recent introduction I find
evidence in the following passage:--‘The saints have their _turbida
intervalla_, their ebbing and flowing, their full and their wane; but
yet all their cloudings do but obscure their graces, not extinguish
them. All the goodness of other men that seem to live, are but _lucida
intervalla_, they are good but by fits.’ (PRESTON, _Description of
Spiritual Death and Life_, 1636, p. 73.) No one would have used this
Latin phrase in a sermon had ‘lucid interval’ been already familiar in
English, or had ‘lucidum intervallum’ not already somewhere existed.
The word ‘interval,’ it may be here remarked, was only coming into use
at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Holland in his _Pliny_
uses, but using explains it; while Chillingworth still regards it as
Latin, and writes ‘intervalla.’
[19] Edward, George, Richard, and Edmund.
[20] ‘Taryinge, _morosus_.’--Catholicon.
[21] There is allusion here to the Latin proverb Medice vivere est
misere vivere.
[22] In heaven.