,"
December--

"My head _besprent_ with hoary frost I find."

And Fairfax's "Tasso," cant. xii. st. 101--

"His silver locks with dust he foul _besprent_."

Again in Milton's "Comus," l. 542--

"Of knot grass dew _besprent_."

[81] Harbour.

[82] Old copy, _hasteth_.

[83] Habiliments, _S.P_.

[84] Unrevenged. [The more correct form would be _unwroken_.] So in Ben
Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour," act ii. sc. 4--

"Would to heaven,
In _wreak_ of my misfortunes, I were turn'd
To some fair water nymph."

In "Sejanus his Fall," act iv.--

"Made to speak
What they will have to fit their tyrannous _wreak_."

In Massinger's "Fatal Dowry," act iv. sc. 4--

"But there's a heaven above, from whose just _wreak_
No mists of policy can hide offenders."

In his "Very Woman," act i.

"And our just _wreak_, by force or cunning practice
With scorn prevented."

See also Mr Steevens's note on "Coriolanus," act iv. sc. 5. "Moriamur
_in ultae_?"--Virgil's "Aeneid," lib. iv.--_Steevens_.

[85] Sorrow. Again, act v. sc. 3--

"His death, her woe, and her avenging _teen_."

And in Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis"--

"More I could tell, but more I dare not say,
The text is old, the orator too green.
Therefore in sadness now I will away,
My face is full of shame, my heart of _teen_."

[86] Old copy, _but hell_.

[87] _Untrimmed locks_ are locks dishevelled or undressed. _Trim_, in
the language of the times, was frequently used for dress. So in
Massinger's "Emperor of the East," act ii. sc. 1--

"Our Eastern queens, at their full height bow to thee,
And are, in their best _trim_, thy foils and shadows."

See also Mr Steevens's note on "King John," act iii. sc. 3.

[88] Alluding to a custom of which mention is made in Genesis, chap.
xxiv. 9--"And the servant put his _hand_ under the _thigh_ of Abraham
his master, and _sware_ to him concerning that matter." The same form
was likewise observed by Jacob and Joseph when they were dying. Some
mystery is supposed to be couched under this practice. The most
probable, at least the most decent, supposition is, that it was a token
of subjection or homage from a servant to his lord, when the former
solemnly promised to perform whatever should be commanded by the
latter.--_Steevens_.

[89] The following account of Lodge and his works is very imperfect.
See the Shakespeare Society v