Note 268 — POEMS. BY GEORGE CAVENDISH.
Reading edition
——“least I shold fall In the daynger of the learned and honorable sort.”
That is, “lest I should encounter their censure, or fall into the control of their severe judgment.” The phrase has its origin from the barbarous Latin in dangerio, and is common to Chaucer and our elder writers as well as to Shakspeare and his cotemporaries.