In falling out with that or this, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. The wrong, than others the right way; 30 As if they worshipped God for spite. In them, in other men all sin. But when he went to dine or sup, THE OPPOSITION IN THE LONG PARLIAMENT. Are these the fruits o' th' protestation, Which all the saints, and some, since martyrs, Did they for this draw down the rabble, And make all cries about the town 10 Join throats to cry the bishops down? Set up their throats with hideous shout. Church discipline, for patching kettle : Botchers left old clothes in the lurch, Of pudding-pies, and gingerbread; 4. Garters: Mr. Garnett refers garter to Celtic gar tas, shank tie. We get it, however, from Fr. jarretière. 21. Botchers, those who botched, or rudely mended old clothes. Left...... in the lurch: a metaphor from the gaming table, where the phrase means to gain every point before your opponent makes one; fr. Fr. lourche, Ger. lurz (Wedgwood). Instead of kitchen-stuff, some cry A gospel-preaching ministry; And some for old suits, coats, or cloak, 30 No surplices nor service-book. A strange harmonious inclination Of all degrees to reformation. 30. Surplices: Fr. surplis (or surpelis), th. fr. Lat. superpelliceus, It. pellicia, from which pellisse also is taken. John Dryden. 1631-1700. (History, p. 125.) 109. From the 'ANNUS MIRABILIS.' LONDON AFTER THE FIRE. Methinks already from this chymic flame, 5 Already labouring with a mighty fate, 10 She shakes the rubbish from her mounting brow, More great than human now, and more august, Before, she like some shepherdess did show, 1. Chymic: this spelling of chemic is due to a supposed derivation from Gk. Xvμós, sap, which is still maintained to be the correct one. Diez gives Arabic al-kîmîa; others, Xnuía, one of the ancient names of Egypt. 20 Now like a maiden queen she will behold, From her high turrets, hourly suitors come; 17. Queen: Cuen in O. E. meant wife, lady; and comparative philology decisively pronounces it to have originally meant mother, Sk. gani, Gk. yvvý, Goth. quino; just as, according to the same authority, king, O. G. chuning, O. E. cyning signified father, Sk. ganaka, from gan, to beget; the same root, common to both words, being found in Lat. gigno, genitor, &c. King is ordinarily taken to be a formation made up of the patronymic termination -ing and cyn-race, nation. It would thus mean "son of the race." 20. Doom, judgment. See note 12, p. 20. 110. From the 'ODE TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ANN KILLEGREW.' O gracious God! how far have we 10 (Nay, added fat pollutions of our own,) T' increase the steaming ordures of the stage? 15 Her wit was more than man; her innocence a child. 8. Lubrique, uncertain, unsteady, fr. Lat. lubricus, slippery. 10. Ordures: It. ordo, O. Fr. ord, ugly-from which comes It. orduratake their origin from Lat. horridus. 12. Atone, meant originally to make at one, to reconcile, and sometimes to be at one, to harmonize; as in As You Like It, v. 4, "Then is there mirth in heaven, When earthly things made even Atone together." 20 When in mid-air the golden trump shall sound, The judging God shall close the book of fate; For those who wake, and those who sleep; And foremost from the tomb shall bound, 20. Assizes: something definitely fixed or appointed is the radical meaning of this word; fr. assise part. of assire, to place (and that from Lat. assidere). Thus the word, in either singular or plural, means a court held upon a day fixed beforehand, a tax, a decree (as in the "Assize of Clarendon "); and even the university sizer got his name from the sizes, or fixed allowances of necessaries, he once received. "To scant my sizes" is a phrase used by King Lear, ii. 4. 28. Harbinger, originally one who goes before and prepares harbourage or lodg-. ing for another, now one who simply announces another's coming. 111. ON MILTON. Three poets, in three distant ages born, 112. From ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.' CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY (ACHITOPHEL). Of these the false Achitophel was first; |