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" He that shall live this day , and see old age , Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends , And say—to-morrow is Saint Crispian . " " Shall witness live in brass "—( Act iv . sc . 2 . )
, Brass plates in memory of those " gone before" are always interesting , and the inscriptions upon them are not obliterated so readily as on stone , by the hand of time . There are several curious brasses in churches in Hampshire ; two in Alton Church bear the following : —
" Of your Charity pray for ye soul of Richard Clarke , which deceased the XVI . day of April / in the year of our Lord God tf & CQCLXXXV . ; and for the soul of Margery , his daughter , late the wife of Richard Fylder , the which deceased the XXV . day of April , in the year of our Lord God , mdxxxiv . " Whose soul , Jesu , have mercy . Amen . "
" Here under lyeth Xopher Walaston , who sometime was groom of the chamber , and one of the yostregere unto the late Kings and Queens of famous memory , Henry VIII ., Edward VL , Philip and Mary , and to our Sovereign Lady , Elizabeth , the Queen ' s Majesty , that now is , which Xopher departed this miserable world the xvi . day of the month of Janury , Anno Domini a ^ LX !!! , "
It will be as well to say that a yostregere , or an astringer , was a gentleman falconer , who contributed to the entertainment of royalty . The custom of placing memorial windows in churches , and brasses beneath them , is of late somewhat revived .
« _—— We will come to them , And make them shirr away , as swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings . "—( Act iv . sc . 7 . )
"We select these lines merely to show that " skirr away" is not , as some interpret it , " scout away . " A spy who is sent to observe the enemy ' s movements does not go about his work hastily . To skirr is doubtless to scour , to send or scuddle , to scuttle ; or as the schoolsboy , abbreviating the last-mentioned word , says , to scut , or cut away . In this play , which notwithstanding the beauties of the chorus is so
inferior to the preceding one , we have other words lost , or slightly changed in form ; among them may be mentioned " braggard , " which has lost the letter J , and received t instead \ " christom " ( chrisom ) ; " shog ( shove ) off ; " " ancients" ( ensigns who bear the colours ) ; <' fat-brained , " and " cut-purse . " Thus far have we dared to comment upon the words of Shakespeare , notwithstanding the fierce lines which an old gentleman wrote in a first folio of The Gentleman ' s Magazine , 1816 : —
" Goode frende , for Shakespeare ' s sake forheare To marre one jotte that ' s written here ; Bless'd bee they that rightlie conn him , And cursecl they that comment on him /'
Hereafter we shall again have recourse to Shakespeare , but architecture demands our attention ; and we trust , in describing several noble works of art , to interest our readers who are skilled in the science of Masonry . ( To be continued . )
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" He that shall live this day , and see old age , Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends , And say—to-morrow is Saint Crispian . " " Shall witness live in brass "—( Act iv . sc . 2 . )
, Brass plates in memory of those " gone before" are always interesting , and the inscriptions upon them are not obliterated so readily as on stone , by the hand of time . There are several curious brasses in churches in Hampshire ; two in Alton Church bear the following : —
" Of your Charity pray for ye soul of Richard Clarke , which deceased the XVI . day of April / in the year of our Lord God tf & CQCLXXXV . ; and for the soul of Margery , his daughter , late the wife of Richard Fylder , the which deceased the XXV . day of April , in the year of our Lord God , mdxxxiv . " Whose soul , Jesu , have mercy . Amen . "
" Here under lyeth Xopher Walaston , who sometime was groom of the chamber , and one of the yostregere unto the late Kings and Queens of famous memory , Henry VIII ., Edward VL , Philip and Mary , and to our Sovereign Lady , Elizabeth , the Queen ' s Majesty , that now is , which Xopher departed this miserable world the xvi . day of the month of Janury , Anno Domini a ^ LX !!! , "
It will be as well to say that a yostregere , or an astringer , was a gentleman falconer , who contributed to the entertainment of royalty . The custom of placing memorial windows in churches , and brasses beneath them , is of late somewhat revived .
« _—— We will come to them , And make them shirr away , as swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings . "—( Act iv . sc . 7 . )
"We select these lines merely to show that " skirr away" is not , as some interpret it , " scout away . " A spy who is sent to observe the enemy ' s movements does not go about his work hastily . To skirr is doubtless to scour , to send or scuddle , to scuttle ; or as the schoolsboy , abbreviating the last-mentioned word , says , to scut , or cut away . In this play , which notwithstanding the beauties of the chorus is so
inferior to the preceding one , we have other words lost , or slightly changed in form ; among them may be mentioned " braggard , " which has lost the letter J , and received t instead \ " christom " ( chrisom ) ; " shog ( shove ) off ; " " ancients" ( ensigns who bear the colours ) ; <' fat-brained , " and " cut-purse . " Thus far have we dared to comment upon the words of Shakespeare , notwithstanding the fierce lines which an old gentleman wrote in a first folio of The Gentleman ' s Magazine , 1816 : —
" Goode frende , for Shakespeare ' s sake forheare To marre one jotte that ' s written here ; Bless'd bee they that rightlie conn him , And cursecl they that comment on him /'
Hereafter we shall again have recourse to Shakespeare , but architecture demands our attention ; and we trust , in describing several noble works of art , to interest our readers who are skilled in the science of Masonry . ( To be continued . )