eir modern ears: "Had none, my Lord!" Though
the mode of speech be very common, yet, to deprive future editors of all
excuse for ever again depraving the genuine text of our national Bible, I
shall make no apology for accumulating a string of examples:

"_Fort._ Oh, had I such a hat, then were I brave!
Where's he that made it?

_Sol._ Dead: and the whole world
Yields not a workman that can frame the like.

_Fort._ _No does?_"
"Old Fortunatus," _Old English Plays_, vol. iii. p. 140., by Dilke:

who alters "No does?" into _None does?_ thinking, I presume, that he had
thereby simplified the sentence:

"_John._ I am an elde fellowe of fifty wynter and more,
And yet in all my lyfe I knewe not this before.

_Parson._ _No dyd_, why sayest thou so, upon thyselfe thou lyest,
Thou haste euer knowen the sacramente to be the body of Christ."
_John Bon and Mast Person._

"_Chedsey._ Christ said 'Take, eat, this is my body;' and not 'Take ye,
eat ye.'

_Philpot._ _No did_, master doctor? Be not these the words of Christ,
'Accipite, manducate?' And do not these words, in the plural number,
signify 'Take ye, eat ye;' and not 'Take thou, eat thou,' as you would
suppose?"--Foxe's _Acts and Monuments_, vol. vii. p. 637., Cattley's
edition.

"_Philpot._ Master Cosins, I have told my lord already, that I will
answer to none of these articles he hath objected against me: but if
you will with learning answer to that which is in question between my
lord and me, I will gladly hear and commune with you.

_Cosins._ _No will_ you? Why what is that then, that is in question
between my lord and you?"--_Id._, p. 651.

"_Philpot._ And as I remember, it is even the saying of St. Bernard
[viz. The Holy Ghost is Christ's vicar on earth (_vic-arius_), and a
saying that I need not to be ashamed of, neither you to be offended at;
as my Lord of Durham and my Lord of Chichester by their learning can
discern, and will not reckon it evil said.

_London._ _No will?_ Why, take away the first syllable, and it soundeth
Arius."--_Id._ p. 658.

"_Philpot._ These words of Cyprian do nothing prove your pretensed
assertion; which is, that to the Church of Rome there could come no
misbelief.

_Christopherson._ Good lord, _no doth_? What can be said more
plainly?"--_Id._, p. 661.

Again, at p. 663. there occur no less t