That it was
rough and outlandish is apparent from the reprimand of Sir Thomas.
{29a} By this deposition it would appear that Shakspeare had formed
the idea, if not the outline, of several plays already, much as he
altered them, no doubt, in after life.
{39a} The greater part of the value of the present work arises from
the certain information it affords us on the price of small needles
in the reign of Elizabeth. Fine needles in her days were made only
at Liege, and some few cities in the Netherlands, and may be
reckoned among those things which were much dearer than they are
now.
{39b} Mr. Tooke had not yet published his Pantheon.
{44a} This was really the case within our memory.
{45a} It was formerly thought, and perhaps is thought still, that
the hand of a man recently hanged, being rubbed on the tumour of the
king's evil, was able to cure it. The crown and the gallows divided
the glory of the sovereign remedy.
{46a} And yet he never did sail any farther than into Bohemia.
{50a} Smock, formerly a part of the female dress, corresponding
with shroud, or what we now call (or lately called) shirt of the
man's. Fox, speaking of Latimer's burning, says, "Being slipped
into his shroud.
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