Henry V.;
but whether chases were marked and a hazard invented, and to which of
our hazards that hazard would answer, are questions which we cannot
solve, and which doubtless never troubled 'sweet Will' for one single
moment."

Sir Harris Nicolas prints in his appendix a ballad on the story of the
tennis balls, "obligingly communicated by Bertram Mitford, of Mitford
Castle, in Northumberland, Esquire, who wrote it from the dictation of a
very aged relative." He also gives another version, from what source
derived is not stated. The Roxburghe collection of ballads at the
British Museum contains yet a third version, which, as it differs in
many respects from the other two, is printed as an appendix to these
Notes. Judging from the type, the date of the Museum broadside would
appear to be about 1750, and the piece itself can hardly be earlier than
the eighteenth century.

Page 21, l. 18 [Stz. 34]. "_Iacks._" --Machines for planing metal.

Page 21, l. 19. "_An olde Fox._" --Sword, so called, it is said, from
the figure of a fox anciently engraved upon the blade; or, as Nares
suggests, from the name of some celebrated cutler. "Thou diest on point
of fox" (Shakespeare, "Henry V.," act iv., sc. 4).

Page 21, l. 23. "_Fletcher._" --An arrow-maker (_flechier_), with which
trade the manufacture of bows, properly the business of the _bowyer_,
was naturally combined. The frequency of the name in our own day might
be alleged in proof of the ancient importance of the industry, but in
most cases it is probably derived from _flesher_, a butcher.

Page 22, l. 1 [Stz. 36]. "_The Light-horse and the Bard._" --A _barded_
horse (French _bardelle_, a pack-saddle) is one with the body entirely
covered with armour. "For he was _barded_ from counter to tail" ("Lay of
the Last Minstrel").

Page 23, l. 17 [Stz. 42]. "_The scarlet Iudge might now set vp his
Mule._" --"Judges and serjeants rode to Westminster Hall on mules;
whence it is said of a young man studying the law, 'I see he was never
born to ride upon a _moyle_' ('Every Man out of his Humour,' ii. 3);
that is, he will never be eminent in his profession" (Nares). It is an
odd example of the mutations of ordinary speech that if we now heard of
a judge setting up a mule, we should understand the exact contrary of
what was understood by Drayton. A modern writer would more probably have
said, set _down_.

Page 23, l. 25 [Stz. 43]. "_By this, the Counsell of this Warre had
met._" --A c