Chapter XI: Part 11

[253] Not marked in old ed.

[254] See note [85] in vol. II.

[255] I suspect that we should read "my humour," and that the rest of the speech should be given to Flavia.

[256] The small bowl--the "Jack"--at which the players aimed in the game of bowls.

[257] Old ed. "_Scil_."

[258] Old ed. "_Sernulus_."

[259] An allusion to the _Sententiae Pueriles_ of Dionysius Cato, a famous old school-book.

[260] Not marked in old ed.

[261] Old ed. "minited."

[262] The first words of a charming song printed in Bateson's _Madrigals_, 1604. Here is the song as I find it printed in the excellent collection of _Rare Poems_ (1883) edited by my honoured friend, Mr. W.J. Linton:--

"Sister, awake! close not your eyes!
The day its light discloses:
And the bright Morning doth arise
Out of her bed of roses.

See! the clear Sun, the world's bright eye,
In at our window peeping!
Lo, how he blusheth to espy
Us idle wenches sleeping.

Therefore, awake, make haste, I say,
And let us without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the park a-maying."

[263] "A sort of game played with cards or dice. Silence seems to have been essential at it; whence its name. Used in later times as a kind of proverbial term for being silent."--_Nares_.

[264] Embrace.

[265] Cf. _Titus Andronicus_, v. 1, "As true a dog as ever fought at head." In bear-bating dogs were incited by the cry _To head, to head_! See my edition of Marlowe, iii. 241.

[266] Artery.

[267] The sword of Sir Bevis of Southampton; hence a general term for a sword.

[268] Lint applied to wounds.

[269] The mixture of muscadine and eggs was esteemed a powerful provocative.

[270] A corruption of _Span_. "buenos noches"--good night.

[271] Old ed. "_Philantus_."

[272] Old ed. "earely."

[273] Bellafront in Pt. II. of _The Honest Whore_, iv. 1, says-- "I, though with face mask'd, could not scape the _hem_."

[274] Old ed. "let."

[275] Old form of _pish_.

[276] _Guard_ = fringe. The coats of Fools were _guarded_.

[277] "Till death us _de_part"--so the form stood in the marriage-service; now modernised to "do part."

[278] Quean.

[279] Not marked in old ed.

[280] Not marked in old ed.

[281] I have added the bracketed words; the sense requires them.

[282] A musical term.--"The running a simple strain into a great variety of shorter notes to the same modulation."--_Nares_.

[283] Not marked in old ed.

[284] Old ed. "Ye faith."

[285] Old ed. "valley."

[286] Old ed. "_Flau_."

[287] Old ed. "_Tul_."

[288] "Fortune, my foe, why doest thou frown on me?" is the first line of an old ballad.

[289] Not marked in old ed.

[290] Old ed. "Tis."

[291] "Unreadie" = undressed.

[292] To the christening.

[293] There is no stage-direction in the old ed.

[294] Old ed. "foole."

[295] "Duns the mouse"--a proverbial expression. See Dyce's _Shakespeare Glossary_.

[296] Old ed. "a close."

[297] Not marked in old ed.

[298] i.e. _bezzling_, tippling.

[299] "Well nigh whittled, almost drunke, somewhat _overseen_." --_Colgrave_.

[300] Not marked in old ed.

[301] Contracted.

[302] An allusion to the proverbial expression, _Wit without money_.

[303] An old form of "apron."

[304] The citizens of London continued to wear flat caps (and encountered much ridicule in consequence) long after they were generally disused.

[305] Not marked in old ed.

[306] Not marked in old ed.

[307] Old form of _digestion_.

[308] Old ed. "Philantus."

[309] More.

[310] Old ed. "_Phylantus."

[311] Quy. "and, swilling those bowels [bowls], Death did," &c.?

[312] Old ed. "him himselfe."

[313] See note [288].--In old ed. the words are given to _Grac_.

[314] See note [295].

[315] Hip-bone.

[316] Old ed. "are are."

[317] Virg. _Ecls_. iv. 1. 49. _Bovis_ is of course an intentional misquotation for _Jovis_.

[318] Honest.

[319] Old ed. "prig"; but on p. 375 we have "a mad merie grig."

[320] The _City of Niniveh_ and _Julius Caesar_ were famous puppet-shows.

[321] Not marked in old ed.

[322] Old ed. "and."

[323] Old ed. "_Cittie Wife_."

[324] This speech is printed as verse in the old ed.

[325] Old ed. "witnesses."