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Taylor says &quot; rush out,&quot; from the Anglo-Saxon &quot; rean&quot; to flow; 

 but there seems no necessity for such an etymology. We should 

 think not ! Chapman, like Pope, made his first sketch from the 

 French, and corrected it by the Greek. Those who would 

 understand Chapman s English must allow for traces of his 

 French guide here and there. This is one of them, perhaps. The 

 word is etymologically unrelated to array. It is merely the old 

 French o^lltreer^ a derivative of ultra. It means they pass 

 beyond their gates even to your fleet/ He had said just before 

 that formerly your foes durst not a foot address without their 

 ports? The word occurs again II. xxiii. 413. 



When none, though many kings put on, could make his vaunt, he led 

 Tydides to renewed assault or issued first the dike. (II. viii. 217.) 



Tydides. He led Tydides, i.e. Tydides he led. An unusual 

 construction. Not in the least. The old printers or authors 

 sometimes put a comma where some connecting particle was 

 left out. We had just now an instance where one took the place 

 of so. Here it supplies that. None could make his vaunt 

 that he led (that is, was before) Tydides. We still use the 

 word in the same sense, as the leading horse in a race. 



And all did wilfully expect the silver-throned morn. (II. viii. 497.) 



Wilfully willingly, anxiously. Wishfully, as elsewhere in 

 Chapman. 



And as, upon a rich man s crop of barley or of wheat, 

 Opposed for swiftness at their work, a sort of reapers sweat. 



Opposed standing opposite to one another for expedition s 

 sake. We hope Mr. Hooper understood his own note, for it 

 baffles us utterly. The meaning is simply pitted against 

 each other to see which will reap most swiftly. In a note (II. xi. 

 417) we are told that the etymology [of lucern\ seems uncertain. 

 It is nothing more than a corruption of the old French leucerve 

 (loup-cervier] . 



I would then make-in in deed and steep 

 My income in their bloods. (II. xvii. 481.) 



c Income communication, or infusion, of courage from the Gods. 

 The word in this sense Todd says was a favourite in Cromwell s 

 time. A surprising note! Income here means nothing more 

 than onfall, as the context shows. 



To put the best in tire. (II. xvii. 545.) 



Ure use. Skinner thinks it a contraction of usura. It is 

 frequent in Chaucer. Todd gives examples from Hooker and 

 L E strange. The word is common enough, but how Mr. 

 Hooper could seriously quote good old Skinner for such an 



