here are in
like kind; 'spintext', 'lacklatin', 'mumblematins', all applied to
ignorant clerics; 'bitesheep' (a favourite word with Foxe) to such of
these as were rather wolves tearing, than shepherds feeding, the flock;
'slip-string' = pendard (Beaumont and Fletcher), 'slip-gibbet',
'scapegallows'; all names given to those who, however they might have
escaped, were justly owed to the gallows, and might still "go upstairs
to bed".

{Sidenote: _Obsolete Compounds_}

How many of these words occur in Shakespeare. The following list makes
no pretence to completeness; 'martext', 'carrytale', 'pleaseman',
'sneakcup', 'mumblenews', 'wantwit', 'lackbrain', 'lackbeard',
'lacklove', 'ticklebrain', 'cutpurse', 'cutthroat', 'crackhemp',
'breedbate', 'swinge-buckler', 'pickpurse', 'pickthank', 'picklock',
'scarecrow', 'breakvow', 'breakpromise', 'makepeace'--this last and
'telltruth' (Fuller) being the only ones in the whole collection wherein
reprobation or contempt is not implied. Nor is the list exhausted yet;
there are further 'dingthrift' = prodigal (Herrick), 'wastegood'
(Cotgrave), 'stroygood' (Golding), 'wastethrift' (Beaumont and
Fletcher), 'scapethrift', 'swashbuckler' (both in Holinshed),
'shakebuckler', 'rinsepitcher' (both in Bacon), 'crackrope' (Howell),
'waghalter', 'wagfeather' (both in Cotgrave), 'blabtale' (Racket),
'getnothing' (Adams), 'findfault' (Florio), 'tearthroat' (Gayton),
'marprelate', 'spitvenom', 'nipcheese', 'nipscreed', 'killman'
(Chapman), 'lackland', 'pickquarrel', 'pickfaults', 'pickpenny' (Henry
More), 'makefray' (Bishop Hall), 'make-debate' (Richardson's _Letters_),
'kindlecoal' (attise feu), 'kindlefire' (both in Gurnall), 'turntippet'
(Cranmer), 'swillbowl' (Stubbs), 'smell-smock', 'cumberwold' (Drayton),
'curryfavor', 'pinchfist', 'suckfist', 'hatepeace' (Sylvester),
'hategood' (Bunyan), 'clutchfist', 'sharkgull' (both in Middleton),
'makesport' (Fuller), 'hangdog' ("Herod's _hangdogs_ in the tapestry",
Pope), 'catchpoll', 'makeshift' (used not impersonally as now),
'pickgoose' ("the bookworm was never but a _pickgoose_"){162}, 'killcow'
(these three last in Gabriel Harvey), 'rakeshame' (Milton, prose), with
others which it will be convenient to omit. 'Rakehell', which used to be
spelt 'rakel' or 'rakle' (Chaucer), a good English word, would be only
through an error included in this list, although Cowper, when he writes
'rakehell' ("_rake-hell_ baronet") evidently regarded it as belonging to