Chapter C: CUSTANCE. Now will I in too, for I think, so God me mend,

This will prove some foolish matter in the end. [_Exeat._

FOOTNOTES:

[87] The idea is borrowed from Alexander's celebrated reply to
Parmenio.--_Cooper._

[88] A night has passed between the first and second acts.--_Cooper._

[89] A tune: generally a mournful one.

[90] A flageolet.

[91] A lute, or guitar.

[92]

"What have ye of the Lord Dakers?
He maketh vs _Jacke Rakers_;
He says we are but crakers."

--Skelton's _Why come ye not to Court?_

See also the same author's "Speke Parrot."--_Cooper._

[93] _Passe-temps_, pastime, sport. So in act iv., sc. vi.--

"Do ye think, Dame Custance,
That in this wooing I have meant ought but _pastance_?"

Again, act v., scene 2--

"Truly, most dear spouse, nought was done but for _pastance_."

--_Cooper._

[94] [Shaken.]

[95] [In the original, D. Doughty is made to go out.]

[96] [Perhaps a sort of allusion to the proverb, To go to Rome with a
mortar on one's head.]

[97] A Lombard's touchstone, to try gold and silver. See "Richard
III.," act iv., sc. 2.--_Cooper._

[98] A proverbial expression, relating to a still common
practice.--_Cooper._

[99] Tib and Annot would seem to enter here.--_Cooper._

[100] A fit usually means the division of a ballad, but here it is to
be understood as a song.--_Cooper._

[101] _i.e._, _Abide_ the consequences, rue, or suffer for. See "A
Midsummer Night's Dream," act iii., sc. 2.--_Cooper._

ACTUS III., SCÆNA 1.

MATTHEW MERRYGREEK.