ss corrupts it to _tilly-fally_:
"Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me: your ancient swaggerer comes not
in my doors."

As a further illustration of the use of this word, Singer quotes a
conversation between Sir Thomas More and his wife, given in Roper's
Life: "Is not this house, quoth he, as nigh heaven as my own? To whom
she, after her accustomed homely fashion, not liking such talk,
answered, Tylle-valle, Tylle-valle."

_Westward, ho._ This was one of the exclamations of the watermen who
plied on the Thames, and is used by Viola in "Twelfth Night" (iii. 1).
Dyce[979] quotes from Peel's "Edward I." to illustrate the use of this
word:

"_Queen Elinor._ Ay, good woman, conduct me to the court,
That there I may bewail my sinful life,
And call to God to save my wretched soul.
[_A cry of 'Westward, ho!'_
Woman, what noise is this I hear?

_Potter's Wife._ An like your grace, it is the watermen that call for
passengers to go westward now."

[979] "Glossary," p. 497; see Nares's "Glossary," vol. ii. p. 952.

Dekker took the exclamation "Westward, ho!" for the title of a comedy;
and Jonson, Chapman, and Marston adopted that of "Eastward, ho!" for one
jointly written by them a few years afterwards.

_Fools._ Mr. Douce, in his essay "On the Clowns and Fools of
Shakespeare," has made a ninefold division of English fools, according
to quality or place of employment, as the domestic fool, the city or
corporation fool, the tavern fool, the fool of the mysteries and
moralities. The last is generally called the "vice," and is the original
of the stage clowns so common among the dramatists of the time of
Elizabeth, and who embody so much of the wit of Shakespeare.

A very palpable distinction is that which distinguishes between such
creatures as were chosen to excite to laughter from some deformity of
mind or body, and such as were chosen for a certain alertness of mind
and power of repartee--or, briefly, butts and wits. The dress of the
regular court fool of the middle ages was not altogether a rigid
uniform, but seems to have changed from time to time. The head was
shaved, the coat was motley, and the breeches tight, with, generally,
one leg different in color from the other. The head was covered with a
garment resembling a monk's cowl, which fell over the breast and
shoulders, and often bore asses' ears, and was crested with a coxcomb,
while bells hung fr