he boy that did the murder."[910]

[910] See Nares's "Glossary," vol. i. p. 44.

We may compare the expression, "to look babies in the eyes," a common
amusement of lovers in days gone by. In Beaumont and Fletcher's "Loyal
Subject" (iii. 2), Theodore asks:

"Can ye look babies, sisters,
In the young gallants' eyes, and twirl their band-strings?"

And once more, to quote from Massinger's "Renegado" (ii. 4), where
Donusa says:

"When a young lady wrings you by the hand, thus,
Or with an amorous touch presses your foot;
Looks babies in your eyes, plays with your locks," etc.

Another old term for the eyes was "crystal," which is used by Pistol to
his wife, Mrs. Quickly, in "Henry V." (ii. 3):

"Therefore, _caveto_ be thy counsellor.
Go, clear thy crystals;"

that is, dry thine eyes.

In "Romeo and Juliet" (i. 2), the phrase is employed by Benvolio:

"Tut! you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself pois'd with herself in either eye:
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
Your lady's love against some other maid."

It also occurs in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Double Marriage" (v. 3),
where Juliana exclaims:

"Sleep you, sweet glasses!
An everlasting slumber crown those crystals."

The expression "wall-eyed" denotes, says Dyce ("Glossary," p. 486),
"eyes with a white or pale-gray iris--glaring-eyed." It is used by Lucius
in "Titus Andronicus" (v. 1):

"Say, wall-ey'd slave, whither wouldst thou convey
This growing image of thy fiend-like face?"

In "King John" (iv. 3), Salisbury speaks of "wall-eyed wrath."

Brockett, in his "Glossary of North Country Words," says: "In those
parts of the north with which I am best acquainted, persons are said to
be _wall-eyed_ when the white of the eye is very large and to one side;
on the borders 'sic folks' are considered lucky. The term is also
occasionally applied to horses with similar eyes, though its wider
general acceptation seems to be when the iris of the eye is white, or of
a very pale color. A _wall-eyed_ horse sees perfectly well."

_Face._ A common expression "to play the hypocrite," or feign, was "to
face." So, in "1 Henry VI." (v. 3), Suffolk declares how:

"Fair Margaret knows
That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign."

Hence the name of one of the characters in Ben Jonson's "Alchemist." So,
in the "Taming of th