. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. hat time, the use was, with little bucklers,and with broad swords, to strike, and not tothrust; and it was accounted unmanly to strikeunder the girdle. This passage from Carletonappears to be an inaccurate statement fromDarcies Annals of Elizabeth, wherein it is saidthat Rowland York was the first that broughtinto England that wicked and perniciousfashion to fight in the fields, in duels, with arapier called a tucke, only for the thrust, & distinguishes between the rapier gene-rally, and the tucke for the thrust. It a
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. hat time, the use was, with little bucklers,and with broad swords, to strike, and not tothrust; and it was accounted unmanly to strikeunder the girdle. This passage from Carletonappears to be an inaccurate statement fromDarcies Annals of Elizabeth, wherein it is saidthat Rowland York was the first that broughtinto England that wicked and perniciousfashion to fight in the fields, in duels, with arapier called a tucke, only for the thrust, & distinguishes between the rapier gene-rally, and the tucke for the thrust. It appears,however, from other authorities, that the rapierwas in use in the time of Henry VHI.; andDouce holds that it is impossible to decidethat this weapon, which, with its name, wereceived from the French, might not have beenknown as early as the reign of Henry IV., oreven of Richard 11. 2 Scene II.— I will not lend thee a penny. This passage requires no comment; but someof our readers may be pleased with the repre-sentation of the silver penny of ^ Scene II.— Coach after coach. There appears little doubt that the coach firstappeared about 1564; although the questionwas subsequently raised whether the devilbrought tobacco into England in a coach, or elsebrought a coach in a fog or mist of thus describes the introduction of thisnovelty, which was to change the face of Eng-lish society: In the year 1564, GuilliamBoonen, a Dutchman, became the queens coach-man ; and was the first that brought the use ofcoaches into England. After a while, diversgreat ladies, with as great jealousy of the queensdispleasure, made them coaches, and rid up anddown the countries in them, to the great admi-ration of all the beholders; but then by littleand little they grew usual among the nobilityand others of sort, and within twenty yearsbecame a great trade of coach-making. Inlittle more than thirty years a Bill was broughtinto Parliament to restrain the excessive useof c
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