Chapter VI: Part II: ," 1600, sig. M 3

"But it was not you
At whom the fatal _enginer_ did aim."

Ben Jonson uses it in his "Cataline," act iii. sc. 4--

"The _enginers_ I told you of are working."

[51] A well-known instrument of torture.

[52] Dekker, in his "Bellman of London," sig. H 2, explains _foist_ to
be a pickpocket; and instances of the use of it in this sense, and as
a rogue and cheater, may be found in many of our old writers.

[53] It will be recollected that Brainworm, in "Every Man in his
Humour," is represented upon a wooden leg, begging in Moorfields, like
an old soldier. [See further in Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iv.
38-40.]

[54] This passage, among others, is quoted by Steevens in a note to
"Twelfth Night," to show that _cut_, which also means a _horse_, was
employed as a term of abuse. In "Henry IV., Part I.," Falstaff, for
the same purpose, uses _horse_ as synonymous with _cut:_ "Spit in my
face, and call me _horse_."

[55] [_i.e._, Furtively.]

[56] [An allusion to the romance entitled "The Mirror of Knighthood."]

[57] She has just referred to the well-known work "The Mirror of
Knighthood," and by _Bevis_ she means Bevis of Hampton. _Arundel_ was
the name of his horse, and _Morglay_ of his sword. Morglay is often
used for a sword in general.

[58] In the old copy it is printed _pinkanies_, and from what follows
it seems that the expression has reference to the redness of Sir
Abraham's eyes from soreness. The following passage is to the same
effect: "'Twould make a horse break his bridle to hear how the youth
of the village will commend me: 'O the pretty little _pinking nyes_ of
Mopsa!' says one: 'O the fine fat lips of Mopsa!' says
another."--Day's "Isle of Gulls," 1606, sig. D 4.

Shakespeare ("Antony and Cleopatra," act ii. sc. 7), speaks of "plumpy
Bacchus with _pink eyne;_" and Lodge, in "The Wounds of Civil War,"
has _pinky neyne_, [vii. 167.] In both these instances drinking is
supposed to have occasioned the redness.