No More Learning

]

[Footnote 24: _Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English_. ]

[Footnote 25: Cited in Collier. (I give my authority where I do not quote
from the original book. )]

[Footnote 26: The word occurs in a letter of Mary Boleyn, in Golding, and
Warner. Milton also was fond of the word. ]

[Footnote 27: Though I find Worcester in the _Mirror for Magistrates_. ]

[Footnote 28: This was written twenty years ago, and now (1890) I cannot
open an English journal without coming upon an Americanism. ]

[Footnote 29: The Rev. A. L. Mayhew of Wadham College, Oxford, has
convinced me that I was astray in this. ]

[Footnote 30: _Dame_, in English, is a decayed gentlewoman of the same
family. ]

[Footnote 31: Which, whether in that form, or under its aliases
_witch_-grass and _cooch_-grass, points us back to its original Saxon
_quick_. ]

[Footnote 32: And, by the way, the Yankee never says 'o'nights,' but uses
the older adverbial form, analogous to the German _nachts_. ]

[Footnote 33: Greene in his _Quip for an Upstart Courtier_ says, 'to
_square_ it up and downe the streetes before his mistresse.
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