8 made themselves all men of hair; they call them 8 — all men of hair;] Men of hair, are hairy men, or fatyrs. A dance of fatyrs was no unusual entertainment in the middle ages. At a great feftival celebrated in France, the king and fome of the nobles perfonated fatyrs dreffed in clofe habits, tufted or fhagged all over, to imitate hair. They began a wild dance, and in the tumult of their merriment one of them went too near a candle and fet fire to his fatyr's garb, the flame ran inftantly over the loofe tufts, and spread itfelf to the drefs of thofe that were next him; a great number of the dancers were cruelly fcorched, being neither able to throw off their coats nor extinguish them. The king had fet himfelf in the lap of the dutchefs of Burgundy, who threw her robe over him and faved him. JOHNSON. Melvil's Memoirs, p. 152, edit. 1735, bear additional teftimony to the prevalence of this fpecies of mummery: "During their abode [that of the embaladors who affembled to congratulate Mary Queen of Scots on the birth of her fon] at Stirling, there was daily banqueting, dancing, and triumph. And at the principal banquet there fell out a great grudge among the Englifhmen: For a Frenchman called Baftian devifed a number of men formed like fatyrs, with long tails, and whips in their hands, running before the meat, which was brought through the great hall upon a machine or engine, marching as appeared alone, with muficians clothed like maids, finging, and playing upon all forts of inftruments. But the fatyrs were not content only to make way or room, but put their hands behind them to their tails, which they wagged with their hands in fuch fort, as the Englishmen supposed it had been devised and done in derifion of them; weakly apprehending that which they fhould not have appeared to understand. For Mr. Hatton, Mr. Lignifh and the moft part of the gentlemen. defired to fup before the queen and great banquet, that they might fee the better the order and ceremonies of the triumph: but fo foon as they perceived the fatyrs wagging their tails, they all fat down upon the bare floor behind the back of the table, that they might not fee themfelves derided, as they thought. Mr. Hatton said unto me, if it were not in the queen's prefence, he would put a dagger to the heart of that French knave Bastian, who he alledged had done it out of defpight that the queen made more of them than of the Frenchmen." REED. The following copy of an illumination in a fine Mf. of Froiffart's Chronicle preferved in the British Museum, will ferve to illustrate Dr. Johnson's note, and to convey fome idea, not only of the manner in which thefe hairy men were habited, but alfo of the rude fimplicity of an ancient Ball-room and Masquerade. See the story at large in Froiffart, B. IV. chap. lii. edit. 1559. Douce. 8 felves faltiers: and they have a dance which the wenches fay is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are not in't; but they themselves are o'the mind, (if it be not too rough for some, that know little but bowling,') it will please plentifully. SHEP. Away! we'll none on't; here has been too much homely foolery already :-I know, fir, we weary you. POL. You weary those that refresh us: Pray, let's fee these four threes of herdsmen. SER. One three of them, by their own report, fir, hath danced before the king; and not the worst of the three, but jumps twelve foot and a half by the fquire.❜ SHEP. Leave your prating; fince these good men are pleased, let them come in; but quickly now. SER. Why, they stay at door, fir. [Exit. 8 -they call themselves faltiers:] He means Satyrs. Their drefs was perhaps made of goat's fkin. Cervantes mentions in the preface to his plays that in the time of an early Spanish writer, Lopè de Rueda, "all the furniture and utenfils of the actors confifted of four fhepherds' jerkins, made of the skins of sheep with the wool on, and adorned with gilt leather trimming: four beards and periwigs, and four paftoral crooks ;-little more or lefs." Probably a fimilar fhepherd's jerkin was ufed in our author's theatre. MALONE. gallimaufry] Cockeram, in his Dictionarie of bard words, 12mo. 1622, fays, a gallimaufry is " a confused heape of things together." STEEVENS. 9 -bowling,] Bowling, I believe, is here a term for a dance of fmooth motion, without great exertion of agility. JOHNSON. The allufion is not to a smooth dance, as Johnfon fupposes, but to the smoothness of a bowling green. M. MASON. 3 by the fquire.] i. e. by the foot-rule: Efquierre, Fr. See Love's Labour's Loft, Vol. V. p. 344, n. 9. MALONE. CLOWN. If I were not in love with Mopfa, thou should'ft take no money of me; but being enthrall'd as I am, it will alfo be the bondage of certain ribands and gloves. Mop. I was promised them against the feast; but they come not too late now. DOR. He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars. Mop. He hath paid you all he promised you: may be, he has paid you more; which will fhame you to give him again. CLOWN. Is there no manners left among maids? will they wear their plackets, where they should bear their faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or kiln-hole," to whistle off thefe fecrets; but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests? 'Tis well they are whispering: Clamour your tongues, and not a word more. Stowe informs us, that " about the fixteenth yeare of the queene [Elizabeth] began the making of fteele poking-flicks, and untill that time all lawndreffes ufed fetting ftickes made of wood or bone." See Vol. IV. p. 486. STEEVENS. 7 kiln-bole,] The mouth of the oven. The word is fpelt in the old copy kill-hole, and I fhould have fuppofed it an intentional blunder, but that Mrs. Ford in The Merry Wives of Windfor defires Falstaff to " creep into the kiln-hole;" and there the fame falfe fpelling is found. Mrs. Ford was certainly not intended for a blunderer. MALONE. Kiln-hole is the place into which coals are put under a ftove, a copper, or a kiln in which lime, &c. are to be dried or burned. To watch the kiln-hole, or ftoking-hole, is part of the office of female fervants in farm-houfes. Kiln, at least in England, is not a fynonyme to oven. STEEVENS. 8 Clamour your tongues,] The phrafe is taken from ringing. When bells are at the height, in order to ceafe them, the repetition of the strokes becomes much quicker than before; this is called clamouring them. The allufion is humourous. WARBURTON. MOP. I have done. Come, you promifed me a tawdry lace, and a pair of sweet gloves.' The word clamour, when applied to bells, does not fignify in Shakspeare a ceafing, but a continued ringing. Thus used in Much ado about Nothing, Act V. fc. ii: Ben. 66 If a man do not ere& in this age his own tomb e'er he dies, he shall live no longer in monument, than the bell rings and the widow weeps. Beat." And how long is that, think you? Ben. " Question? why an hour in clamour, and a quarter in rheum." GREY. Perhaps the meaning is, Give one grand peal, and then have done. "A good Clam" (as I learn from Mr. Nichols) in fome villages is used in this fenfe, fignifying a grand peal of all the bells at once. I fufpect that Dr. Warburton's is a mere gratis dictum. In a note on Othello, Dr. Johnson fays, that" to clam a bell is to cover the clapper with felt, which drowns the blow, and hinders the found." If this be fo, it affords an eafy interpretation of the paffage before us. MALONE. Admitting this to be the fenfe, the difputed phrafe may answer to the modern one of-ringing a dumb peal, i. e. with muffled bells. STEEVENS. 9 -you promifed me a tawdry lace,] Tawdry lace is thus defcribed in Skinner, by his friend Dr. Henfhawe: "Tawdrie lace, aftrigmenta, timbriæ, feu fafciolæ, emtæ Nundinis Sæ. Etheldredæ celebratis: Ut rectè monet Doc. Thomas Henfhawe." Etymol. in voce. We find it in Spenfer's Paftorals, Aprill: "And gird in your waft, "For more fineneffe, with a tavdrie lace." T. WARTON. So, in The Life and Death of Jack Straw, a comedy, 1593: "Will you in faith, and I'll give you a tawdrie lace. Tom, the miller, offers this prefent to the queen, if he will procure his pardon. It may be worth while to obferve, that these tawdry laces were not the ftrings with which the ladies faften their stays, but were worn about their heads, and their waifts. So, in The Four P's. 1569: "Brooches and rings, and all manner of beads, Again, in Drayton's Polyolbion, fong the second: "Of which the Naides and the blew Nereides make |