" [See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," iii. 39,
et seq.]
[467] Pretty or clever. So in Warner's "Albion's England," b. vi. c. 31,
edit. 1601--
"There was a _tricksie_ girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray."
The word is also used in Shakespeare's "Tempest," act v. sc. 1. See Mr
Steevens's note thereon.
[468] This is one of the most common, and one of the oldest, proverbs in
English. Ulpian Fulwell['s play upon it has been printed in our third
volume.] It is often met with in our old writers, and among others, in a
translation from the French, printed in 1595, called, "A pleasant Satyre
or Poesie, wherein is discovered the Catholicon of Spain," &c., the
running title being "A Satyre Menippized." It is to be found on pp. 54
and 185. Having mentioned this tract, we may quote, as a curiosity, the
following lines, which probably are the original of a passage for which
"Hudibras" is usually cited as the authority--
"Oft he that doth abide
Is cause of his own paine;
But he that flieth in good tide
Perhaps may fight againe."
--_Collier_.
[469] [A word unnoticed by Nares and Halliwell. The latter cites
_haust_, high, doubtless from the French _haut_.
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