Note 145 — ILLUSTRATIONS.

Thus Lydgate, infra,

“For they shall play with Harflete, A game at tynes, as y wene, Mine engynes that bethe so kene They shall be sett besyde this hill, Over all Harflew that they may sene For to loke if they play well; Go we to game be Godys grace, Myne children ben redy everych on Every greet gonne that there was, In his mouth he hadde a ston.”

But Shakspeare’s expressions are still more similar to those of an inedited Chronicler of the period: “And whan the kyng had hard ther wordis and the answere of the dolphynne, he was wondre sore agreved and right evell assayd towarde the Frensshmen, and toward the kyng and the Dolphynne, and thought to avenge hym upon them as sone as Good wold send hym grace and myght, and anon lette make tenys ballis for the Dolpynne in all the hast that they myght be made; and they were grete gonne stones for the Dolpynne to play wythall.” Cottonian MSS. Claudius A. viii.