“They could not speak; and so I left them both,
    To bear this tidings to the bloody king.”—­Id., Richard III.

UNDER NOTE II.—­OF FIXED NUMBERS.

“Why, I think she cannot be above six foot two inches high.”—­Spect., No. 533.  “The world is pretty regular for about forty rod east and ten west.”—­Ib., No. 535.  “The standard being more than two foot above it.”—­BACON:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Standard.  “Supposing (among other Things) he saw two Suns, and two Thebes.”—­Bacon’s Wisdom, p. 25.  “On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty three foot by thirty nine.”—­Sheffield’s Works, ii, 258.  “Three pound of gold went to one shield.”—­1 Kings, x, 17.  “Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that sessions.”—­The Friend, x, 389.  “And, truly, he hath saved me this pains.”—­Barclay’s Works, ii, 266.  “Within this three mile may you see it coming.”—­SHAK.:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Mile.  “Most of the churches, not all, had one or more ruling elder.”—­Hutchinson’s Hist. of Mass., i, 375.  “While a Minute Philosopher, not six foot high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe.”—­Berkley’s Alciphron, p. 151.  “The wall is ten foot high.”—­Harrison’s Gram., p. 50.  “The stalls must be ten foot broad.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 201.  “A close prisoner in a room twenty foot square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty foot southward, not to walk twenty foot northward.”—­LOCKE:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Northward.  “Nor, after all this pains and industry, did they think themselves qualified.”—­Columbian Orator, p. 13.  “No less than thirteen gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assizes, and executed.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 333.  “The king was petitioned to appoint one, or more, person, or persons.”—­MACAULAY:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 194.  “He carries weight! he rides a race!  ’Tis for a thousand pound!”—­Cowper’s Poems, i, 279.  “They carry three tire of guns at the head, and at the stern there are two tire of guns.”—­Joh.  Dict., w.  Galleass.  “The verses consist of two sort of rhymes.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 112.  “A present of 40 camel’s load of the most precious things of Syria.”—­Wood’s Dict., Vol. i, p. 162.  “A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutiae.”—­S.  Barrett’s Gram., Tenth Ed., Pref., p. iii.

   “So many spots, like naeves on Venus’ soil,
    One jewel set off with so many foil.”—­Dryden.

    “For, of the lower end, two handful
    It had devour’d, it was so manful.”—­Hudibras, i, 365.

UNDER NOTE III.—­OF RECIPROCALS.