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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ... Thus the quaint Ariel of Shakspeare is neither the brisk nor dexterous, as it has been rendered, but the spruce, or neatly adorned Ariel. It cannot, therefore,be admitted that fon is a word of unknown origin. It is still retained in Chaucer's sense, in the expressonsfond, fond of" Contrariwise he said to the Christians they were fande to believe that Jesus, so dierly beloved of God, and borne of a virgine, should suffer those villanies and tormentes of the Jews." Fardie of Faciouns, p. 216--" Many fond talkes goe abroade of the original cause of this fier." Denne's Report ot the Burning of St.Paule's steeple." HANCELLED. Godwyn, 1. 49, cut off destroyed. Chat. "Hancelled from erthe these Normanne Hyndes sballc bee." The long Latin quotation from Skinner, which Mr. Tyrwhitt justly supposes Chatterton did not understand, renders it very improbable that he mistook the piece " cut, off" of that author, for destroyed, and made use of it accordingly. Hemj-e henise, in Bens. v. a. s. signifies calcatio, a spurning with the foot: there-, fore henej-elleb or hancelled (for Skinner spells it both with c and s) occurs in the above line with great propriety. Spurned, kick'd from earth these Norman hinds shall „ i be. It may be easily conceived how ban-. cell orhansell, and handsel), or more properly hand-seal, came to be confounded. Hansel, still in common use, is probably derived from the ancient custom of concluding or sealing a bargain by 'striking the hands together; which in the Fardle of Faciouns is called hand-scale: "Let them give the firste hand-scale of the things that the law commandeth them to bring." Fol. 307. Hancelled and hanselled, are distinct words, which Skinner confounds. Kersey, Coles, and Bailey, mark the first (o)...
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