1 rogue! -youstand upon your honour! -Why,thon unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do, to keep the terms of my honour precife, I, I, I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the 1 Pit-hatch was in Turnbull-ftreet : your whore doth live "In Pia-hatch, Turnbull-fhreet." Amends for Ladies, a Comedy by N. Field, 1618. The derivation of the word Pifl-hatch may perhaps be discovered from the following passage in Cupid's Whirligig, 1607: "-Set some picks upon your hatch, and, I pray, profess to keep a bawdyhouse." Perhaps the unseasonable and obstreperous irruptions of the gallants of that age, might render fuch a precaution neceffary. So, in Pericles Prince of Tyre, 1609: " - if in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatch'd," &c. STEEVENS. Pia-hatch was a cant name of some part of the town noted for bawdy-houses; as appears from the following passage in Marston's Scourge for Villanie, Lib. III. fat. x: Looke, who yon doth go; "The meager letcher lewd Luxurio. - Sir T. Hanmer fays, that this was " a noted harbour for thieves and pickpockets," who certainly were proper companions for a man of Pistol's profeffion. But Falstaff here more immediately means to ridicule another of his friend's vices; and there is fome humour in calling Pistol's favourite brothel, his manor of Pickt-hatch. Marston has another allufion to Fickt-hatch or Pick-hatch, which confirms this illustration: "His old cynick dad "Hath forc'd him cleane forfake his Pick-hatch drab." Again, in Ben Jonfon's Epig. XII. Lib. I. fat. iii. T. WARTON. on Lieutenant Shift: " Shift, here in town, not meanest among squires " That haunt Pickt-hatch, Mersh Lambeth, and White fryers." Again, in The Blacke Booke, 1604, 410. Lucifer fays- “ [ proceeded towards Pickt-hatch, intending to beginne their first, which (as I may fitly name it) is the very skirts of all Brothelhouses." DOUCE. 4 left hand, and hiding mine honour in my neceffity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will ensconce yourrags, your cat-amountain looks, your red-lattice phrafes, and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour! You will not do it, you ? PIST. I do relent; What would'st thou more of mân? 4-enfconce your rags, &c.] A Sconce is a petty fortification. To enfconce, therefore, is to protect as with a fort. The word occurs again in K. Henry IV. P. 1. STEEVENS. - red-lattice phrases, Your ale-house conversation. JOHNSON. Red lattice at the doors and windows, were formerly the external denotements of an ale-house. So, in A fine Companion, one of Shackerley Marmion's plays:--" A waterman's widow at the fign of the red lattice in Southwark." Again, in Arden of Feversham, 1592 : his fign pulled down, and his lattice born away." Again, in The Miseries of inforc'd Marriage, 1607: "-'tis treason to the red lattice, enemy to the sign-post." Hence the present chequers. Perhaps the reader will express some furprize, when he is told that shops, with the sign of the chequers, were common among the Romans. See a view of the left-hand street of Pompeii, (No. 9.) presented by Sir William Hamilton, (together with feveral others, equally curious,) to the Antiquary Society. STEEVENS. The following passage in Braithwaite's Strapado for the Divell, 1615, confirms Mr. Steeven's observation. -" To the true discoverer of fecrets, Monfieur Bacchus. - Mafter-gunner of the pottle-pot ordnance, -prime-founder of red lattices," &c. In King Henry IV. P. II. Falstaff's page, fpeaking of Bardolph, fays, " he called me even now, my lord, through a red lattice, and I could fee no part of his face from the window." MALONE. This designation of an ale-house is not altogether loft, though the original meaning of the word is, the sign being converted into a green lettuce; of which an instance occurs in Brownlow Street, Holborn. - In The last Will and Testament of Lawrence Lucifer, the old Batchiler of Limbo, at the end of the "Blacke Booke, 1604, 4to. is the following passage: " - watched sometimes ten houres together in an ale-house, ever and anon peeping forth, and Sampling thy nose with the red Lattis." DoUCE. Enter ROBIN. ROB. Sir, here's a woman would speak with you. FAL. Let her approach. Enter Mistress QUICKLY. QUICK. Give your worship good-morrow. FAL. Good maid, then. QUICK. I'll be sworn; as my mother was, the first hour I was born. FAL. I do believe the swearer: What with me? QUICK. Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?. FAL. Two thousand, fair woman; and I'llvouchfafe thee the hearing. QUICK. There is one mistress Ford, fir; — I pray, come a little nearer this ways:-I myfelf dwell with master doctor Caius. FAL. Well, on: Mistress Ford, you fay, QUICK. Your worship fays very true: I pray your worship, come a little nearer this ways. FAL. I warrant thee, nobody hears; -mine own people, mine own people. QUICK. Are they fo? heaven bless them, and make them his servants! FAL. Well: mistress Ford; - what of her? QUICK. Why, fir, she's a good creature. Lord, lord! your worship's a wanton: Well, heaven forgive you, and all of us, I pray! FAL. Mistress Ford; -come, mistress Ford, QUICK. Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you have brought her into such a canaries, as 'tis wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the court lay at Windfor, could never have brought her to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches; I warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift after gift; smelling so sweetly, (all musk,) and fo rushling, I warrant you, in filk and gold; and in fuch alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of the best, and the fairest, that would have won any woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never get an eye-wink of her. - I had myself twenty angels given me this morning: but I defy all angels, (in any fuch fort, as they say,) but in the way of honesty:-and, I warrant you, they could never get her so much as fip on a cup with the proudest of them all: and yet there has been earls, nay, which is more, penfioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her. Y 6-canaries,] This is the name of a brisk light dance, and is therefore properly enough used in low language for any hurry or perturbation. JOHNSON. So, Nafh, in Pierce Pennyless his Supplication, 1595, says: "A merchant's wife jets it as gingerly, as if she were dancing the canaries." It is highly probable, however, that canaries is only a mistake of Mrs. Quickly's for quandaries; and yet the Clown, in As you like it, fays, we that are true lovers, run into strange capers." STEEVENS. lay at Windfor,] i. e. refided there. MALONE. -earls, nay, which is more, pensioners; ) This may be illuf trated by a passage in Gervase Holles's Life of the First Earl of Clare. Biog. Brit. Art. HOLLES: "I have heard the earl of Clare say, that when he was a pensioner to the queen, that he did not know a worfe man of the whole band than himself; and that all the world knew he had then an inheritance of 40001. a year." TYRWHITT. Barrett, in his Alvearie, or Quadruple Diaionary, 1580, says, that a pensioner was " a gentleman about his prince, alwaie redic, with his speare." STREVENS. 4 FAL. But what says the to me? be brief, my good she Mercury. QUICK. Marry, she hath receiv'd your letter; for the which the thanks you a thousand times: and she gives you to notify, that her husband will be absence from his house between ten and eleven. FAL. Ten and eleven? QUICK. Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and fee the picture, she says, that you wot of; 9 master Ford, her husband, will be from home. Alas! the fweet woman leads an ill life with him; he's a very jealoufy man; she leads a very frampold* life with him, good heart. Pensioners were Gentlemen of the band of Penfiomers. - "In the month of December," (1539) says Stowe, Annals, p. 973, edit. 1605, "were appointed to waite on the king's perfon fifty Gentlemen, called Penfioners, or Speares, like as they were in the first yeare of the king; unto whom was affigned the fumme of fifty pounds, yerely, for the maintenance of themselves, and everie man two horfes, or one horse and a gelding of fervice." Their dress was remarkably splendid, and therefore likely to attract the notice of Mrs. Quickly. Hence, (as both Mr. Steevens and Mr. T. Warton have observed] in A Midsummer Night's Dream, our author has felected from all the tribes of flowers the golden-coated cowflips to be penfioners to the Fairy Queen: "The cowflips-tall her pensioners be, " In their gold coats spots you fee;" &c. MALONE. 9-you wot of;] To wot is to know. Obfolete. So, in King Henry VIII: " - wot you what I found?" STEEVENS. 2 --frampold) This word I have never feen elfewhere, ex cept in Dr. Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, where a frampul man fignifies a peevish troublesome fellow. JOHNSON. In The Roaring Girl, a comedy, 1611, I meet with a word, which though differently spelt appears to be the fame: "Lax. Coachman. "Coach. Anon, fir! " Lax. Are we fitted with good phrampell jades?" Ray, among his South and East country words, observes, that frampald, or frampard, lignifies fretful, peevish, cross, froward. As froward (he adds) comes from from; fo may frampard. Nafh, in his Praise of the Red Herring, 1599, speaking of Leander, fays: "the churlish frampold waves gave him his belly full of ithbroth." |