ones, and thou
shall translate them."

[253] _Deft_ is handy, dexterous. So in "Macbeth," act iv. sc. 1--

"Thyself and office _deftly_ show."

See note on "Macbeth," edit. 1778.--_Steevens_.

[254] [Concert.]

[255] [Summoners, officers of the old ecclesiastical court.]

[256] [Ignorant of arts.]

[257] A _jangler_, says Baret, is "a jangling fellowe, a babbling
attornie. _Rabula, ae_, mas. gen. [Greek: Dikologos]_ Vn pledoieur
criard, une plaidereau_."

[258] This speech is in six-line stanzas, and _beforn_ should rhyme to
_morn_, as it does in the old copies, which were here abandoned.
--_Collier_.

[259] i.e., "Going. _Gate_, in the Northern Dialect, signifies a way;
so that _agate_ is at or upon the way."--Hay's "Collection of Local
Words," p. 13, edit. 1740.

[260] Here again, as in the passage at p. 354, we have _arms_ for
_harms_. In the old copies this speech of the Herald is printed as
prose.--_Collier_.

[261] A monster feigned to have the head of a lion, the belly of a goat,
and the tail of a dragon.

[262] "If at any time in Rolls and Alphabets of Arms you meet with this
term, you must not apprehend it to be that fowl which in barbarous
Latine they call _Bernicla_, and more properly (from the Greek)
_Chenalopex_--a creature well known in Scotland, yet rarely used in
arms; but an instrument used by farriers to curb and command an unruly
horse, and termed Pastomides."--Gibbons's "Introductio ad Latinam
Blasoniam," 1682, p. 1.

[The allusion here is to the barnacle of popular folk-lore and
superstition, which, from a shell-fish, was transformed into a
goose.--See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," iii. 309.]

[263] [A reference to the belief in prodigies reported from Africa.
"Africa semper aliquid oportet novi."--S. Gosson's "School of Abuse,"
1579. See also Rich's "My Ladies Looking-glass," 1616, sig. B 3.]

[264] [Edits. give this speech to the Herald.]

[265] [The head.]

[266] A celebrated puppet-show often mentioned by writers of the times
by the name of the Motion of Nineveh. See Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew
Fair," act v. sc. 1; "Wit at Several Weapons," act i.; "Every Woman in
her Humour," 1609, sig. H, and "The Cutter of Coleman Street," act v.
sc. 9.

[267] So in "Twelfth Night," act i. sc. 1.

"That strain again; it had a dying _fall_."--_Steevens_.

[268] [Edits., _bitter_.]

[269] [See Dyce's "Beaumont and Fletcher," ii. 225, note.] Theobald
observes in his