The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes : With the Corrections And Illustrations of Various Commentators V.1
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] This hemirtich is a bur- lefque on a pafTage in Tmnbiirlaine^ or The Scythian Shepherd, cf which a more particular account is given in one of the notes to Henry IF. St e evens. 5 ■ for gcurd, and fullam hclds : y/;/^high and low beguiles the rich and peer.'] Fullam is a cant term for falfe dice, high and Icnv. Tcrriano, in his Italian dictionary, interprets Fife by falfe dice, high and lonv men, hip-h fullams and lo-iv fulla?ns. Johnfon, in his Every Man out of his Humciir, quibbles upon this... cant term. Who, he frnje? He keeps high men and low men, he has a fair living at fullam. As for gourd, or rather aor^, it was another initru- ment of gaming, as appears from Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady. And thy dry bones can reach at nothing novo, but GORUS or nine-pins. Warburton. In the London Prodigal I find the following enumeration of falfe dice. ** I bequeath two bale of falfe dice, videlicet, *' high men and low men, fulloms, Hop cater- traies, and other *' bones of funftion." In Mon/ieurD' Olive, a comedy, by Chapman, i6c6, the^cr^, the fullam, cLwd the fop-cater tree, are mentioned.
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