INT

INTER- illud obtineret. (Ypodigma Neustria, apud Camdeni
Anglica, &c. 520.)

DICT.

INTER¡ESS.

Canon of the Concilium Frisin

gense.

A. D.

Of the method of issuing and observing Interdicts in the XIIIth century many particulars are to be gathered from the Decretals of Gregory IX. How much their rigour had become relaxed during the lapse of two centuries may be determined from the following declaration, with which we shall conclude, of the Concilium Frisingense, held under Eugenius IV. in 1440. It is most full and explicit. Quoniam Juris apices non omnibus innotescunt, ad uberiorem Sacerdotum instructionem et salubrem informationem, qualiter Sacerdotes Interdicti 1440. tempore se gerere debeant et habere, præsenti declaramus Statuto, quod Interdicti tempore, tam ab homine quam a Jure prolati, tam sani quam infirmi sunt ad remedium paternè admittendi, nisi fuerint Interdicti et excommunicati, vel quorum dolo, culpâ, concilio, favore aut auxilio latum extitit Interdictum; quibus tantùm viaticum et baptisma parvulorum conceduntur. Nullus jungatur vel tradatur Ecclesiastica Sepulturæ, præter Clericos qui servaverunt Interdictum, nisi tales sunt qui nominatim excommunicati, Interdicti, vel suspensi fue

⚫rint.

Qui vero Clerici non fuerint hujusmodi sententiis innodati, sine pulsatione campanarum, constantibus quibusdam solemnitatibus, cum silentio tumulentur. Insuper Sacerdotes populum habentes, sine scrupulo conscientiæ, semel in hebdomada, viros et mulieres possunt ad Ecclesiam convocare, necnon ipsis exponere Verbum Dei: Mulieres post partum non inthronizentur cum solemnitate Psalmi et Orationum, nuptiæ sic non benedi

DICT.

INTER

FERE.

cantur, nec aquâ benedictá populus solemnitèr aspergatur. INTER-
Singulis diebus Missa in Ecclesiis celebrentur, et alia
quævis divina Officia, sicut priùs, submissâ tamen voce,
januis clausis omninò, quibuslibet excommunicatis, Inter-
dictis, ac omnibus aliis, nisi super hoc privilegium ex-
hibeant speciale, exclusis, ministris Altaris duntaxat
exceptis. Campanis non pulsatis bini, vel insimul tres,
Horas Canonicas simul legere possunt, ita quod foris
seu extra Ecclesiam nullatenus audiantur. In Festivi-
tates verd Natalis Domini, Paschæ, Pentecostes, et As-
sumptionis Beatæ Virginis gloriosa, a Vesperis vigilia-
rum earundem, usque ad Vesperas earundem Festivitatum
inclusivè, campana pulsentur, et, januis apertis, altâ
voce, divina officiosa solemnitèr celebrentur, excommuni-
catis prorsùs exclusis, sed Interdictis admissis, sic tamen
quod illi propter quorum excessum Interdictum hujusmodi
est prolatum, Altari nullatenus appropinquent; nec in
illis Festivitatibus sepeliantur corpora mortuorum, neque
vivis et sanis illis diebus Sacramentum Eucharistiæ
ministretur.

The framers of the Reformatio Legum, which was
intended to form the Code of our English Ecclesiastical
Law, and to supersede the Canon Law, saw the neces-
sity of retaining the power of the keys if they designed
to preserve wholesome discipline. Accordingly, Excom-
munication in cases of extremity was still preserved;
but the penalty of Interdict appears to have been abo-
lished, since in collective bodies there is a variety of
individuals not equally offending, and it is not just that
the innocent should suffer together with the guilty.

INTERE'SS, v.
I'NTERESS, n.
I'NTEREST, V.
I'NTEREST, n.

Fr. interesser; It. interessare; Sp. interessar, Lat. interesse, tó be between, (inter and esse.) To interess or interest, as the Lat. verb interest. (And see Disinterest.)

To be of consequence or importance; to concern, to involve the concerns, the good or ill; to affect or influence; to move or engage the feelings or affections.

Interest, the noun, says Skinner, Fonus vel potius fenus, sic dictum quod intersit ejus, qui dat mutuò ut aliquid lucri accipiat. And see the Quotation from Smith.

And the knowen truth shal make you free. But the Jewes not perceiving that Christ ment of that libertee which the gospell teacheth, which libertee doeth not chaunge any worldly aduauncement, as to deliuer the bodie from the intresse that the maister hath ouer it.

Udall. John, ch. viii.

Anjou, a Dutchy, Main, a County great,

Of which the English long had been possest;
And Manus, a city of no small receit,

To which the duke pretended interest.

Drayton. The Miseries of Queen Margaret.

But his grace saith, he will neither buy peace with dishonour, nor take it vp at interest of danger to ensue.

Bacon. King Henry VII. fol. 54. That such divisions as rise from variety in matters of religion, all men presume themselves interressed alike, and so are farther spread. Strype. Life of Whitgift, Anno 1597.

Such is Scipio (subject for tragedy) restoring the Spanish bride, whom he either loved, or may be supposed to love; by which he gained the hearts of a great nation to interress themselves for Rome, against Carthage.

Dryden. Works, vol. iii. p. 314. Poetry and Painting.

If they argue, that our notion of God arises not from nature and reason, but from the art and contrivance of politicians; that argument itself forces them to confess, that 'tis manifestly for the interest of humane society, that it should be believed there is a God.

Clarke. On the Attributes, p. 4.

Now the project to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem was a public transaction, the most notorious and interesting of that age. Warburton. Works, vol. viii. p. 89. Of Julian's attempt to rebuild the Temple, book i. ch. v.

That [revenue] derived from it [stock] by the person who does not employ it himself, but lends it to another, is called the interest, or the use of money. It is the compensation which the borrower pays to the lender, for the profit which he has an opportunity of making by the use of the money.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, vol. i. book i. ch. vi. p. 70. INTERFERE, Fr. entreferir; Lat. inter-ferire; INTERFERENCE, -to strike between, to hacke one INTERFE'RING, n. foote or legge against the other, And Cotgrave, Fr. entre

as a horse doth. Minshew.

E

INTER- ferir, to interchange some blows; to strike or hit, at once, one another; also to interfere, as a horse.

FERE. INTER

To strike one within another, against another; to be JACENT, in the way of one another; to impede, to oppose, to clash, to thwart, to intermeddle.

Shall Parthia (shall it to our shame be known)
Revenge Rome's wrongs, ere Rome revenge her own?
Our war no interfering kings demands,
Nor shall be trusted to Barbarian hands.

Rowe. Lucan. Pharsalia, book viii.

At first one may often observe the little saline concretions to lie in rows, sometimes strait enough, and sometimes more or less crooked, with differing coherencies and interferings.

Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 606. Of Human Blood.
The new academy was entirely sceptical; it professed a way of
philosophising, in which there was no room for any one to interfere
with his own opinions; or, indeed, to have any.

Warburton. Works, vol. iii. p. 108. The Divine Legation, book iii.
sec. 3.

This circumstance, which is urged against the bill, becomes an
additional motive for our interference; lest we should be thought to
have sold the blood of millions of men, for the base consideration of
money.

Burke. Works, vol. iv. p. 12. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill.
In truth, it is not the interfering or keeping aloof, but iniquitous
intermeddling, or treacherous inaction, which is praised or blamed by
the decision of an equitable judge.

Id. Ib. vol. vii. p. 155. On the Policy of the Allies.
INTERFLUENT, Lat. interfluens, present parti-
ciple of interfluere, to flow between or among.

Flowing, or floating, between or among.

We shall not now examine, whether the spring of the air depend
upon the springy structure of each aerial corpuscle, as the spring of
wool does upon the texture of the particular hairs it consists of, or
upon the agitation of some interfluent subtile matter.
Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 503. Of Air and Ascent of Water by
Cold, &c.

After the year 500, for one century, or thereabouts, the Saxon
forces were employed in subsiding the midland parts of Britain, inter-
jacent between their two first established colonies, or kingdoms, ir
the south, or Kent, and in the north, or about Northumberland.
Sir Wm. Temple. Works, vol. iii. p. 94. History of England. In.
troduction.

INTERJANGLE, from inter, and jangle, q. v.
To make a dissonant, discordant noise, one with
another; to talk or chatter noisily.

And for the divers disagreeing cords

Of inter-jangling ignorance, that fill

The dainty ears, and leave no room for words,
The worthier minds neglect, or pardon will.

Daniel. Musophilus.

INTERJECT, Fr. interjecter; Lat. interjicere, INTERJECTION. to throw between or among, (inter, and jacere, to throw or cast.)

To throw or cast, to put or place, between or among; to introduce hastily, to rush between.

For Interjection, in Grammar, see GRAMMAR, vol. i.
p. 173.

Dij vestram fidem, O good Lord, it standeth always in the place of
an interjection of meruayling, and not of callyng on.
Udall. Flowres, p. 98.
This done, he filled the double and triple intervals; cutting from
them also certain parcels from thence, which he interjected between
these.

Holland. Plutarch, fol. 855. Creation of the Soul.
But Athryilatus, the physician, a Thasian born, interjected some
stay of farther searching into this cause.
Id. Ib. fol. 564. Of Symposiaques, book iv.
His [the flatterer] speeches are full of wondring interjections, and
INTERFOLIATED, i. e. interleaved, q. v. (folium, all his titles are superlative, and both of them seldome ever but in

a leaf.)

And for the latter, so much as I conceive is necessary, I will take
care to send you wth ye interfoliated copy. I

Evelyn. Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 279. Letter to Mr. Place, 17th August,
1696.

INTERFUSED, Lat. interfundere, interfusum, to
pour between or among, (inter, and fundere, to pour.)
Poured between or among; interspersed.

The kingdom of China is in all parts thereof interfused with com-
modious riuers.

Hakluyt. Voyages, &c. vol. ii. part ii. fol. 89. A Description of China.
How first began this Heav'n which we behold
Distant so high, with moving fires adorn'd
Innumerable, and this which yeelds or fills
All space, the ambient aire wide interfus'd,
Imbracing round this florid Earth.

Milton. Paradise Lost, book vii. 1. 89.

Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there :
Ice upon ice, the well-adjusted parts
Were soon conjoin'd, nor other cement ask'd
Than water interfus'd to make them one.
Cowper. The Task, book v.
INTERJA'CENT, Lat. interjacens, present par-
INTERJACENCY. Sticiple of interjacere, to lie be-
tween, (inter, and jacere, to lie.)

Lying between or among; placed or situated be

tween or among.

Whereas its fluctuations are but motions subservient; which windes, stormes, shores, shelves, and every interjaceney irregulates.

Sir Thomas Brown. Vulgar Errours, book vii. ch. xvii, Various observations, made at the feet, tops, and interjacent parts of high mountains, might perchance somewhat assist us to make an

presence.

Hall. Works, vol. i. fol. 173. Of the Flatterer. As I am cholerick, I forbeare not only swearing, but all interjections of fretting, as pugh! pish! and the like.

Tatler, No. 111.

Your lordship, and your grace! what school can teach

A rhet'ric equal to those parts of speech?
What need of Homer's verse, or Tully's prose,
Sweet interjections! if he learn but those?

Cowper. Tirocinium.
INTERIM, Lat. interim, which Vossius thinks may
be (inter eam, i. e. rem.) Applied to
The time between, the mean time.

Betweene the acting of a dreadfull thing,
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dreame.

Shakspeare. Julius Cæsar, fol. 114.
They drew up all the points of Religion in a book, which was best
known by the name of the Interim, because it was to last during
that interval, till a General Council should meet in Germany.
Burnet. History of the Reformation, Anno 1548.
His hands in the interim remain tied to do it at one precise time,
nor is he at liberty to advance the happy event one moment sooner.
Search Light of Nature, vol. ii. part iii. ch. xxvi. p. 210.
The INTERIM, referred to in the citation given above
from Burnet, was the name borne by a system of doc-
trine, drawn up by order of the Emperor Charles V., in
1548, in the hope of adjusting the Religious dissensions
of Germany. The Diet of Augsburgh had in vain pe-
titioned the Pope, Paul III., to bring back to Trent the
Prelates attendant upon the General Council, who,
under the pretext of the plague, had retired to Bologna,

INTERJACENT.

INTERIM.

*

INT

INTERIM. where they were more immediately under the control
of the Papal authority, and further removed from the
Upon the refusal of this
terror of the Imperial arms.
prayer, Charles employed Julius Pflug, Bishop of
Naumburgh, Michal Helding, titular Bishop of Sidon,
and suffragan of Mentz, and John Islebe Agricola, a
Protestant Divine, preacher to the Elector of Branden-
burgh, whose fidelity to his own Church was more than
suspected, to frame an Instrument upon the model of
one presented to the Diet of Ratisbon, in 1541. The
Theology of this system, contained in XXV Articles,
was in all points that of the Romish Church, the peculiar
doctrines and even rites of which were strictly retained.
The only two deviations from its rule which were per-
mitted, were, that the Cup was allowed to be adminis-
tered in the Eucharist, to such Provinces as before-
hand had been accustomed to receive it, and that married
Priests, who still refused to put away their wives, were
not prohibited from the performance of their Ecclesias-
tical duties. These concessions, however, were broadly
stated to be but for temporary indulgence, and allowed
only in consideration of the weakness of those who were
not yet prepared for a more wholesome discipline.

The name Formula ad Interim was given to this
system, because it contained regulations to continue in
force only until the time at which a free General Coun-
cil might be held. By collusion with the Archbishop
of Mentz, who assumed to himself the right of conveying
the general voice of the Assembly, the Emperor obtained
the seeming approbation of the Diet, on the 15th of
May, to its Articles, which in all respects were most
opposite to their wishes; and he then prepared to enforce
it as a decree of the Empire. But at the dissolution of
the Diet it was equally disapproved both by Papists and
Protestants: the former proudly and peremptorily re-
jecting any approach to conciliation, the latter justly
alarmed at the total abandonment of their Faith. At
Rome it was condemned as impious and profane: but
the Pope [himself, with great political sagacity, disco-
vered the error which Charles had committed in thus
irritating all parties; and rejoiced in the certain ultimate
downfall of a measure, which it was unnecessary that
he should openly combat, since it contained in itself the
seeds of its own destruction.

The Emperor persisted in executing its provisions. But the Interim was rejected by several of the German Princes; especially by John, Marquess of Brandenburgh, and by the heroic John Frederick, Elector of Saxony, who, regardless of his captivity and of the increased rigour with which he was visited in consequence of his opposition, refused to betray the cause to which his whole life had been devoted. Bucer, when consulted by the Elector of Brandenburgh, pronounced it to be downright Popery a little disguised. The Imperial cities also opposed themselves, and Strasburgh, Constance, Bremen, Magdeburgh and many other lesser towns remonstrated with Charles against this violence to their consciences. The little town of Linda (near Constance) professed general obedience, but protested that it could not agree to the Interim without incurring eternal damnation. The Emperor's reply was conveyed by the military occupation of Augsburgh and Ulm, the abolition of the form of Government existing in those

* Agricola is characterised as follows, by Michielius, Noster primo, deinde suus, tandem Pontificiorum-homini Epicuræo similior quam pio Theologo. (Syntagma Hist. Eccl. 733.)

IN

towns, and the appointment of an administration de- INTERIM.
voted to his own views, the members of which, as their
first act, swore to observe the Interim. An apparent TERIOR.
compliance with his demands was the immediate result
of these vigorous and despotic measures; the ultimate
effect of them, and the emancipation thereby of many of
the German States from the Papal yoke, belong to
another portion of our Work.

But it may be here briefly observed, that the promul-
gation of the Interim gave rise to a controversy which
unhappily impeded the progress of the Reformed doc-
Maurice, the new Elector of Saxony, discussed
trines.
its reception in an Assembly of Divines at Leipsic. In
this Synod the too gentle temper of Melancthon betrayed
him into unwary and unbecoming concessions. He placed
among things indifferent, and in which, therefore, com-
pliance was due, Justification by Faith alone, the neces-
sity of good works to salvation, the number of the
Sacraments, the jurisdiction of the Pope and Bishops,
extreme unction, and many other rites of the Romish
Church. On these points he was vehemently opposed
by Flacius and other Lutherans; and the controversy
which thus arose, and which for many years distracted
the Reformers, is known in Ecclesiastical History under
the name of the Adiaphoristic Controversy. (ådíápopos,
indifferent.) The sentiments of Melancthon may be
found in Das Leipziger Interim, republished by Biekius,
in 1721, in Das dreyfache Interim; and the History of
its promulgation is detailed by Sleidanus, xx.; Fra Paolo,
Hist. Concilii Trid. iii. ad ann. 1548; Burnet, History of
the Reformation, part ii, book i. ad ann. 1548; Mosheim,
Cent. xvi. sec. i. ch. iv. 3, 4. and sec. iii. part ii. ch. i. 28;
Robertson, History of Charles V., book ix. ad ann. 1548;
and the authorities cited by the two last-named Writers.
INTERJOIN, from inter, and join, q. v. Lat. jungere.
To join between or among; one with another.
So fellest foes,

Whose passions, and whose plots haue broke their sleep
To take the one the other, by some chance,
Some tricke not worth an egge, shall grow deere friends
And inter-ioyne their yssues.

INTERIOR, adj.
INTERIOR, n.
INTERNAL,
INTERNALLY.

ward.

Shakspeare. Coriolanus, fol. 21.
Fr. interieur; It. interiore;
Sp. interior; Lat. interior; Fr.
interne; It. and Sp. interno;
Lat. internus, from interus, in-

Inward, towards the middle or centre.

Rather desiryug soner to die, the lenger to liue, and perauenture for this cause, that her interiour iye sawe priuily, and gaue to her a secrete monicion of the great calamities and aduersities, whiche then did Hall. Edward IV. The tenth Yere. hang ouer her hed.

Oh, that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your neckes, and make but an interiour survey of your good selues.

Shakspeare. Coriolanus, fol. 8.

I sing the name which non can say
But touch'd with an interior ray;

The name of our new peace.

Crashaw. Sacred Poems. The Name of Jesus.
What many men desire,-that Many may be meant
By the foole multitude that choose by show,
Not learning more then the fond eye doth teach,
Which pries not to th' interior.

Shakspeare. The Merchant of Venice, fol. 172.
The divine nature sustains and interiourly nourisheth all things.
Donne. History of the Septuagint, p. 205.
Howell.
The midland towns are most flourishing, which shows that her
riches are intern, and domestick.
E 2

IN. TERIOR.

INTER-
LARD.

INT

INTER- minute they had signed was in some places dashed and interlined, they
LINE. might make new dashings and interlineations, therefore he prayed the
president to command the beadle to bring him the minute that he said
INTERLO- was conform to the original.
CUTION.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, Anno 1530.

At the end, the register and clerk of the court do not only attest it
with their hands and marks, but reckon up the number of the laws,
with the interlinings that are in every page.
Id. Ib. Anno 1529.

Nor has remembrance been unfrequently compared to reading a
written memorandum, which being obliterated gives us imperfect
information or none at all, or being erased or interlined in our absence

leads us into mistakes.

Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. part i. ch. ii. p. 293.

I have looked into Pagnin's interlineary version, and find that the
Latin translation will enable you to form a just idea of this criticism.
Law. Theology of Religion, p. 81.

Of these lines, and of the whole first book, I am told that there
was yet a former copy, more varied, and more deformed with inter-
lineations.

Johnson. Works, vol. xi. p. 77. Life of Pope.
INTERLINK, from inter, and link, q. v.
derives link from Ger. ge-lenck, annulus [catenæ, and
this from lenck-en, flectere, to bend.

IN T

The recitative consequently is of two kinds, narrative and interlo- INTERLO-
CUTION.
Jago. Adam. An Oratorio.
cutory.
It is easy to observe, 'that the judgment here given is not final, but
merely interlocutory; for there are afterwards further proceedings to
be had, when the defendant hath put in a better answer.

Blackstone. Commentaries, book iii. ch. xxiv.
An INTERLOCUTORY judgment, in Law, as in the cita-
tion above from Blackstone, is a judgment given in the
middle of a cause, on some intermediate plea, which does
not complete the suit; or it is an incomplete judgment
whereby the right of the Plaintiff is established, but the
quantum of damages is not ascertained. In such case
a Writ of Inquiry issues to the Sheriff who summons a
Jury to inquire damages. In the Court of Chancery, if
an issue of fact arises and is directed for trial at common
Law by the Court, an Interlocutory decree or order is
made for that purpose; so, too, an INJUNCTION is gene-
rally-grounded upon an Interlocutory Order.

INTERLO'PE, v. Interlopers (says Skinner) are
-traders who exercise their trade
INTERLOPER,
Skinner
INTERLO'PING. contrary to the laws of merchan-
dise; from the Lat. preposition inter, and the Dutch
loopen, to run; those who run in between and intercept.
the commerce of others.

To connect one with another, (as the links of a chain.)

That commonwealth, was so strongly jointed, and with such infinite
combinations interlinked, as one nail (or other ever held up the ma-
Daniel. Defence of Rhyme.
jesty thereof.

For of her barons brave, and ladies fair,
(Who had they been elsewhere most fair had been)
Many an incomparable lovely pair,

With hand in hand were interlinked seen,
Making fair honour to their sovereign queen.
Davies. On Dancing.

The fair mixture in pictures causes us to enter into the subject
which it imitates, and imprints it the more deeply into our imagination
and our memory: these are two chains which are interlinked, which
contain, and are at the same time contained.

INTERLOCUTION,
INTERLOCUTOR,

Dryden. Dufresnoy,

Fr. interlocution; It. in-terlocutione; Sp. interlocucion; Lat. interlocutio, (inter, and loqui, to speak ;) Gr. Aéy-eiv.

INTERLOCUTORY.

A speaking between or among, one another; between or among different persons; one after another; talk or conversation.

A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution,
shewes slownesse..

Bacon. Essay 32. p. 197. Of Discourse.
Sometime the plainest and most intelligible rehearsall of them [the
Psalms] yet they sauour not, because it is done by interlocution, and
with a mutuall returne of sentences from side to side.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, book v. sec. 37.
And the interlocutors with Jesus having finished their embassy of
death (which they delivered in formes of glory representing the ex-
cellencies of the reward together with the sharpnesse of the passage
and interval) departed, leaving the apostles full of fear, and wonder
and extasie.

Taylor. The Great Exemplar, part iii. sec. 11. fol. 430.
These interlocutorie formes of speech what are they else but most
effectuall, partly testifications, and partly inflammations of all pietie?
When and how this custome of singing by course came vp in the
Church, it is not certainly known.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, book v. sec. 39.

Nor need I make the interlocutors speak otherwise than freely in
a dialogue, wherein it was sufficiently intimated, that I meant not to
declare my own opinion of the arguments proposed, much less of the
whole controversy itself.

Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 462. The Sceptical Chymist. Preface."
The interlocutor in the Tusculans is mark'd by the letter A, as Cicero
is by M.
Bentley. Of Free-thinking, p. 236.

To come in between ; to intrude, to invade.

In which number I doe not include those private inter-lopers intelligence, that lye abroad only to feed some vaine cameleons at home with the ayre of newes, for no other purpose save idle discourse.

Hall. Works, vol. i. sec. 2. fol. 640. Quo Vadis?

The king, inflam'd with her love the more for that he had been so long defrauded and robb'd of her, resolv'd not only to recover his intercepted right, but to punish the interloper of his destin'd spouse.

Milton. Works, vol. ii. fol. 95. History of England, book v.
You should have given so much honour then to the word preacht,
as to have left it to God's working without the interloping of a
liturgy baited for them to bite at.

Id. Ib. vol i. fol. 85. Animadversions upon the Remonstrants' De-
fence.

His majesty and 'council seem to have put some discountenance
upon that opinion, by the liberty or connivance given, for so many
years past, to the interloping trade.

Sir Wm. Temple. Works, vol. iv. p. 87. Letter to the Governor
and Company of Merchant Adventurers, March 26, 1675.

They see plainly, whatever privileges are allowed your company at Dort will be given by the other towns, either openly or covertly, to all those interlopers who bring their woollen manufacture directly Id. lb. p. 88. thither.

But Hymen, when he heard her name,
Call'd her an interloping dame.

Cotton. Life.

Vision 8.

Lat. inter-lud-ere, to play between; inter, and lud-ere, to play. Something played between, (sc. the parts of the regular drama, the main or principal entertainment.) Such were the auncient interludes, So wher they liked than.

Drant. Horuce.

But first I'll tell you, by this honest ale,

In

Satire 10. book i.

conceit this is a pretty tale;
my
And if some handsome players would it take,
It (sure) a pretty interlude would make.

Drayton. The Moon-Calf.

What a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be soon guest by what we know of the corruption and bane which they suck in daily from the writings and interludes of libidinous and ignorant poetasters.

Milton. Works, vol. i. fol. 61. The Reason of Church Government ̧ urg'd against Prelaty, book ii.

They make all their schollers play-boyes! Is't not a fine sight, to see all our children made enterluders?

Ben Jonson. The Staple of Newes. The third Intermeane after the third Act.

INTER-
LUDE.