Chapter XXII: Part II: , Queen Elizabeth, when she christened the Royal Exchange,

after it had been built by Sir T. Gresham, changed its name from the _Burse_, which it had been previously called--

"Proclaim through every high street of this city,
This place be no longer called a Burse,
But since the building's stately, fair, and strange,
Be it for ever call'd the Royal Exchange."

Sig. H 2. The terms were afterwards often used indifferently, and Pisaro, just before, calls the _Exchange_ the _Burse_.

[496] _Away_ is omitted in the two last impressions.

[497] [A quibble on _antique_ and _antic_.]

[498] This word seems to have puzzled our dictionary-makers very needlessly. Mr Todd quotes Skinner, who derives it from _top and turf_: the etymology is very simple, and will be acknowledged the instant it is stated: _topsy-turvy_ is only an abbreviation of _topside t'other way_, or the upper end of anything turned downwards--_i.e._, bottom upwards. Archdeacon Nares got as far as _top side_, but _turvy_, he acknowledged, set his ingenuity at defiance.

[499] A proverbial expression. _Mowing_ is a corruption of mouthing.

[500] A common term of abuse at that period, derived from the clowns or fools, and in reference to their dress.

[501] _i.e._, By our Ladykin.

[502] Walgrave, abstracted, does not perceive that Pisaro has gone out, for which Harvey laughs at him, _Many Pisaros here_! In the same sense, in act v., Laurentia says, _Many Balsaros I_.

[503] Meaning Mathea.

[504] Gibberish is no doubt derived from _gibber_, and it means idle nonsense. Whether _gibber_ comes from _geber_, as Dr Johnson contends, must remain in doubt.

[505] [Old copies, _we_.]

[506] "The blind eats many a fly," was proverbial, and, according to Henslowe's Diary, formed the title of a play by Thomas Heywood, under date of November 1602. [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 359.]