Appendix. Proverbs, Quaint Sayings, Out-of-the-way Words and Phrases, allusions to Customs, &c., &c. Perhaps some of the expressions in the explanations may be considered too vulgar; but I cannot see how better to illustrate old vulgar (common) sayings than by parallel modern vulgar sayings. It will be better, in many cases, to refer to the page and read the whole passage where an unusual word or expression occurs: this will frequently make the meaning pretty clear, and this is why several words and phrases are merely quoted with the page number, without any comment. For the most part, the meanings of the unusual words and phrases are attempted to be illustrated only by parallel passages from other writers, in accordance with the advice of Quintilian : "It is not inugh for hym to haue red poetes, but all kyndes of wryting must also be sought for, not for the histories only, but also for the propretie of wordes, which comunely doo receiue their auctoritie of noble auctours."-Sir T. Elyot's Governour (1537), f. 57. • It was thought this would be better than giving a formidable array of references to Cotgreve's, Bosworth's, Nare's, and other Dictionaries, the common practice of most makers of Glossaries. Redubbe ... ... ... ... ... PAGE V., xviii., 21 To repair, mend, redress, to re-do-up; and is a form of the old English word "Dub," to do-up, which, again, is very likely from the French "ADDOUBER, to dress, patch, mend, to set fitly together." "He was therwith asswaged of his fury, and reduced in to his fyrst astate of reason: in suche wise, that in redoubing his rage, and that there by shuld not remaine to him any note of reproche, he reteining his fiers & stourdy countenaunce, so |