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between bis knees. In 1572 Queen Bess was a guest in Ohar- 
lecote and three years after w 7 as feted at Kenilworth—and the 
festivities in both places were so near that the stripling might 
have reached them: both on foot. Hot long afterward it is sup¬ 
posed that his holiday excursion to see a play in Coventry gave 
birth to his phrase “out-herod Herod.” 3 Ho such glimpse of 
high life would fail to enrich the word-hoarder or gleaner 
with happy expressions—and more of them: than were dreamed 
of by other observers who hearing heard not and seeing saw 
not. 
Verbal augmentations there must have been out of school- 
hours in village gardens and rural walks, most of all when 
school-years were over. What a gap between his last flogging 
for playing truant and the flight to London. Deer stealing was 
the crowming escapade of Bohemianism during much of the 
seven years before it. How many a dramatic word betrays its 
3 In connection wiih “out-herod” the section of N. E. D. issued in 
April, 1903, shows such pervasive divergencies between the vocabulary 
of Shakespeare and that of Bacon as will not let us believe that both 
names can belong to the same man. It shows numerous verbs formed 
with the prefix “out,” and cites illustrations from Shakespeare of 
fifty-four of this number. For thirty-eight of these Shakespeare is the 
earliest and for nine of them he is the only authority which has been 
discovered. On the other hand in only one or at most two instances 
has Bacon been found first to use any of these terms. It seems prob¬ 
able that the more we study N. E. D. the contrasts between the diction 
of these two writers will make it very clear that the words of the one 
were copied from books—while the other’s were original being brought 
into books from speech that had not been before written—and often 
not even coined from its primitive elements. 
This remarkable series of verbs was furnished in advance of entire 
publication to the Nation, as follows: Those in italic occur first in 
Shakespeare; those in small capitals first and alone in him; outbed, 
outbrag, outbrave (first in special sense) outbreath, outturn, oui- 
crafty, outdare, outdo, outdweul, outface, outfly, outfrowx, outgo, out¬ 
grow, otjt-herod, out jest, outlaw, outlive, outlook , outlustre, outnight, 
outparamour, outpeer, outpray, outprize, outride, outroar, outrun, out- 
scold, outscorn, outsell, outshine, outsleep, outspeak, outsport, out- 
stand, outstare, outsay, outstretch, outstrike, outstrip, outsweeten, out¬ 
weigh, outswear, outswell, outtalk, out-tongue, outvenom, outvie, out- 
villian, outvoice, outwear, outwork, outworth. Bacon’s list is at most 
only outcompass and outshoot. 
