Notes and Illustrations. ea 
tus, Anglice, a cokenay.’—Halliwell. ‘ Cockney, niais, mignot.’— 
Sherwood. The Fr. cogueliner, to dandle, cocker, fedle, pamper, 
make a wanton of a child, leads us in the right direction.”—Wedg- 
wood, Etymol. Dict. ‘A cockney, a childe tenderly brought up; a 
dearling. Cockering, mollis illa educatio quam indulgentiam voca- 
mus.”—Baret’s Alvearie, 1580. 
94. In chapter 62 of the First Part of this work, p. 139, we had 
a comparison between good and bad husbandry, and we are here 
presented with a contrast between good and bad huswifery. 
94. 2. Compare Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. sc. 3, 57: 
‘With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery.” 
94. 8. “Good huswiferie canteth.” The ed. of 1573 reads 
« franteth,” the meaning of which is ‘‘to be careful, economical.” 
95. 1. For boys the practice of music would be degrading, except 
as a profession; and even for girls, however fashionable it may be, 
it is generally worse than useless, as it occupies that time which 
ought to be devoted to much more important purposes.—M. 
2. ‘* Least homelie breaker,” etc., that is, lest an inexperi- 
enced teacher ruin the mind of the pupil, as an unpractised horse- 
breaker will spoil a promising colt. 
95. 3. ‘Well a fine,” a phrase meaning to a good purpose, a 
good result. 
95. 5. ‘‘Cocking Mams,” that is, over-indulgent mothers. “A 
father to much cockering, Pater nimis indulgens.”—Baret’s Alvearie, 
1580. See Note to 92. 4. 
‘‘ Shifting Dads,” that is, fathers who are constantly shifting their 
children from one school to another. 
97. 1. “‘Assone as a passenger comes to an Inne the Host or 
Hostesse visit him; and if he will eate with the Host or ata 
common table with others, his meale will cost him sixe pence, or 
in some places but foure pence (yet this course is lesse honourable 
and not used by gentlemen) ; but if he will eate in his chamber he 
commands what meate he will, according to his appetite, and as 
much as he thinkes fit for him and his Sem gen ”—Fynes Moryson’s 
Hinerary, 1617, Part LL. p. 151. 
97. 3. “To purchase linne.” To purchase. Lynn, ‘by petty 
savings, seems to have been a proverbial mode of expression, used 
in ridicule of stinginess. 
97. 5. ‘‘ You are on the high way to Needham.”’—Ray. 
98. 1. The braggadocios and coxcombs of the day would use 
their daggers to carve with, which were perfectly harmless for any 
other purpose. Forks were yet strangers to an English dinner- 
table. Knives were first made in England, according to Anderson, 
in 1563. A meat-knife of Queen Elizabeth’s, mentioned in Nichols’ s 
‘« Progresses,” had “a handle of white bone and a conceyte in ite 
In the same work we read of ‘‘a dozen of horn spoons in a bunch, a 
as the instruments ‘‘ meetest to eat furmenty porage with all ; ” also 
