Note 345 — ACTUS I, SCÆNA 1.
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Barry uses this word garboils in a sense to which it was not usually applied. The Rev. Mr Todd, in his edition of Dr Johnson's Dictionary, says, "Bishop Hall has rendered Virgil's arma, i.e., battles, by the word garboil." This is a mistake, for Hall is laughing at Stanihurst for having so done in his attempted hexameter translation of the Æneid—
"Give me the number'd verse that Virgil sung, And Virgil's self shall speak the English tongue; Manhood and garboiles shall he chaunt with changed feet," &c.
—B. i. sat. 6.
But there are many authorities besides Shakespeare, in his "Antony and Cleopatra," for its employment. Gascoigne inserts it in the speech of Hercules in the "Princely Pleasures of Kenilworth": "A garboyel this in deede," ["Works" by Hazlitt, ii. 93]. Drayton also uses it in [his "Mortimeriados," 1596,] quoted in "England's Parnassus," p. 444—
"Such is the garboyle of this conflict then; Brave Englishmen encountering Englishmen."
and T. Heywood, in his "Rape of Lucrece," 1608, talks of "the head of all these garboyles, the chief actor of that black sin," &c.—Collier.