Chapter XXXI: Epilogue (2)

_I will_] Old ed. “ile:” and in next line but one,
“about.”

# 454:

_primero_] An old and favourite game at cards: see
Singer’s _Researches into the Hist. of Playing Cards_,
p. 244 sqq.

# 455:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 456:

_call it_] Old ed. “calt.”

# 457:

_I’d_] Old ed. “I had.”

# 458:

_trug_] i.e. trull. The word is not very common: “nor
(shall I speake plainely) please the _Trugge_ his
mistresse, without he goe to the Apothecaries,” &c.
GREENE’S _Quip for an Upstart Courtier_, sig D 3, ed.
1620.

# 459:

_gallant_] Old ed. “Gallants.”

# 460:

_fall_] See note, p. 218.

# 461:

_frippery_] This word has been rightly explained by
Gifford and others as—a place where old clothes are
exposed for sale: but here the profession of frippery
seems to be meant; compare Chapman;

"D’OL. Now your profession, I pray?
FRIP. _Fripperie_, my lord, or as some tearme it,
_Petty Brokery_."

MONSIEUR D’OLIVE, 1606, sig E 4.

# 462:

_and you make you ready_] i.e. if you dress yourself:
compare p. 57 and note.

# 463:

_changed_] Old ed. “chande.”

# 464:
PRI. _But, mass, sir_] Old ed. “Ar. _But_ maister.”

# 465:

_prevent_] See note, p. 49.

# 466:

_I’m_] Old ed. “I am.”

# 467:

_lins_] i.e. ceases.

# 468:

_mark_[_s_]] A mark was 13_s._ 4_d._

# 469:

_rize_] i.e. rose.

# 470:

_Nor ceas’d_, &c.] All the latter part of this speech
is prose in the old ed.: as to the arrangement of it,
the reader must be aware that imperfect lines
frequently occur in the blank verse of our early
dramatists: see, for instance, the speeches of
Katherine to her suitors in next scene.

# 471:

_censur’d me_] i.e. held me in their opinion.

# 472:

_not_] Old ed. “nor.”

# 473:

_in the Knight’s ward_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.—The
old ed. gives the passage thus: “_I am sure he is fast
inough? and Andrew Lucifer’s Rapier and dagger, in the
knights ward, with the embost_,” &c.

# 474:

_hangers_] i.e. fringed and ornamented loops attached
to the girdle, in which the weapons were suspended.

# 475:

_than_] Old ed. “them.”

# 476:

_your wrongs_] May be right: but qy. “you wrong.”

# 477:

_perfection_] Old ed. “perfections.”

# 478:

_commend_] Old ed. “command.”

# 479:

_Vouchsafe_, &c.] Old ed. thus:

“Vouchsafe vnequalld Virgin whereon I iustly kept,
Accept this worthlesse fauor from your seruants
arme, the hallowed beades,
The true and perfect number of my sighs.”

# 480:

_likes_] See note, p. 47.

# 481:

_purchase_] See note, vol. i. p. 319.

# 482:

_I’ve_] Old ed. here and in the next line but five, “I
haue.”

# 483:

_push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 484:

_when_] See note, vol. i. p. 362.

# 485:

_Savoy_] i.e. the Savoy: see Stowe’s _Survey_, b. i.
p. 210, and b. iv. p. 106, ed. 1720.

# 486:

_inward_] i.e. intimate.—The old ed. gives to Pursenet
the words “gentleman; his parts deserve it.”

# 487:

_Piping hot_, &c.] The first part of this speech
relates to Fitsgrave, who has joined the “gallants”
under the name of Bouser; the second part to Bungler.

# 488:

_clip_] i.e. embrace.

# 489:

_viols_] See note, p. 11.]

# 490:

_Pax_] See note, p. 24.

# 491:

_respectively_] i.e. respectfully: compare vol. i. p.
425.

# 492:

_You’re_] Old ed. “You are.”

# 493:

_they’ll_] Old ed. “they will.”

# 494:

_Exit_] Is not marked in old ed.: but, as far as I
understand the scene, it seems necessary.

# 495:

_queasy_] i.e. squeamish.

# 496:

_I’m ... I’ve_] Old ed. “I am ... I have.”

# 497:

_he_] I have not altered this stage-direction, as I am
not sure who is meant by the word _he_. Primero (see
p. 234) had desired the Boy to “be ready for the
song.”

# 498:

_no affliction_] Qy. “not a fiction.”

# 499:
PRI. _My wits_, &c.] I suspect that this speech ought
to be divided thus:

"PRI. ’Slife, he’s in a sick trance!
GOL. My wits must not stand idle:
A cheat or two," &c.

# 500:

_and it_] i.e. if it. Old ed. “an’t.”

# 501:

_and so_] Old ed. “_and_ has _so_.”

# 502:

_never_] Old ed. “nere.”

# 503:

_Pax_] See note, p. 24.

# 504:

_Goldstone_] Old ed. “Bouser,” which is Fitsgrave’s
assumed name,—the author, I suppose, having merely
written G., which the printer took for B.

# 505:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 506:

_You’ve_] Old ed. “You have.”

# 507:

_miss it_] i.e. let it go.

# 508:

_nobles_] See note, p. 17.

# 509:

_I’m_] Old ed. “I am.”

# 510:

_were it_] Old ed. “wer’t.”

# 511:

_you’ll_] Old ed. “you will.”

# 512:

_respectively_] See note, p. 235.

# 513:

_Mermaid_] A famous tavern in Cornhill, frequented by
Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, &c.

# 514:

_Mitre_] Another celebrated tavern, in Bread Street,
Cheapside: it was afterwards removed to Fleet Street.

# 515:

_Faith_, &c.] This speech is given in old ed. to
Goldstone; but it disagrees with what he has just
said.

# 516:

_push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 517:

_Boy_, &c.] What I have here given to Pursenet is in
the old ed. part of the speech of _All_.

# 518:

_toward_] See note, p. 177.

# 519:

_tire-men_] i.e. dressers belonging to the theatre,—as
it seems from what follows.

# 520:

_Look you ... out forty_] Given to Pursenet in old ed.

# 521:

_come_] Old ed. “comes.”

# 522:

_pullen_] i.e. poultry.

# 523:

_nobles_] See note, p. 17.

# 524:

_More censure_] i.e. a higher opinion.

# 525:

_they’re_] Old ed. “they are.”

# 526:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 527:

_What made you_] i.e. what business had you?

# 528:

_you_] Old ed. “your.”

# 529:

_’Tween_] Old ed. “Turne.”

# 530:

_populous_] i.e. prevalent, common,—or, perhaps,
abundant.

# 531:

_With which thou ever_, &c.] After this line the old
ed. has “_Exeunt_.

_Enter Fitsgraue._

FITSG. My pocket pickt,” &c.;

and after his conversation with the servant and _exit_
(no new scene being marked),

“_Taylb._ Oh the parting of vs twaine, 14“ᚬ_Enter
Whore Gal._
Hath causde me mickle paine,” &c.

But the scene between Fitsgrave and the servant
intervenes here so awkwardly, that I have ventured to
make a transposition.

# 532:

_mickle_] i.e. great.

# 533:

_Enter Fitsgrave_, &c.] See note in preceding page.

# 534:

_I’ve_] Old ed. “I have.”

# 535:

_you belong to me_, &c.] Is the text corrupted here,
or is something wanting?

# 536:

_stoln_] Qy., for the sake of the rhyme, "lorn,"—i.e.
lost.

# 537:

_Scene III._, &c.] Concerning the transposition of the
preceding scene, see note, p. 246.—In the old ed. the
present scene follows the exit of Primero with Tailby
(see p. 247) thus:

“_Pri._ Come, you shall see how tis alterd now? I do
not thinke
but you’le like her. _Exit._
_Pri._ Where be your liueries? _Enter all at once._
1. They attend without.” &c.
The commencement of act iii., which the old ed. does
not mark, might have taken place here, had not the
preposterous length of act iv. in that ed. obliged me
to divide it into the iii. and iv. acts.

# 538:

_the Mitre_] See note, p. 240.—The entertainment given
by “the gallants” to Primero and his ladies is
supposed to be just over.

# 539:

_alchemy_] See note, vol. iv. p. 122.

# 540:

_chatterer_] Old ed. “quarter her.”

# 541:

_Pax_] See note, p. 24.

# 542:

_slight_] i.e. contrivance, artifice.

# 543:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 544:

_Exit Vintner_, &c.] We are of course to suppose that
Goldstone, while talking with the vintner, contrives
to “shift away the beakers by a slight,” and leave in
their places the “alchemy knaves” which Fulk had
brought to him: but as I do not understand how the
trick was executed, I have not ventured to add any
stage-directions.

# 545:

_Fit._] Old ed. “_Gold._”

# 546:

_I’ve_] Old ed. “I have.”

# 547:

_angel_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 548:

_rose-noble_] i.e. a gold coin (stamped with a rose)
worth sixteen shillings.

# 549:

_cracked in the ring_] “The gold coin of our ancestors
was very thin, and therefore liable to crack. It
still, however, continued passable until the crack
extended beyond the _ring_, _i.e._ beyond the inmost
round which circumscribed the inscription; when it
became _uncurrent_, and might be legally refused.”
GIFFORD—note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. vi. p. 76.

# 550:

_pax_] See note, p. 24.

# 551:

_Tai._] Old ed. “_Purs._”

# 552:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 553:

_thine_] Old ed. “mine.”

# 554:

_will be ever one_] Old ed. “_will be ever_ be _one_.”

# 555:

_again_] i.e. against.

# 556:

_Hist_] Old ed. “Pist.”

# 557:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 558:

_Pur._ &c.] Old ed. “All.”

# 559:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 560:

_again_] See note, p. 255.

# 561:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 562:

_hatcht_] i.e. engraved.

# 563:

_hangers_] See note, p. 227.

# 564:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 565:

_snibbed_] i.e. snubbed—a form of the word which
sometimes occurs.

# 566:

_Haff_, &c.] So old ed.—the spelling being intended to
express the broken utterance of the speaker.

# 567:

_Fie_, &c.] The old ed. gives this speech, “_Fie_ ath
_these_,” &c., without any prefix.

# 568:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 569:

_come_] Old ed. “comes.”

# 570:

_word_] i.e. motto.

# 571:

_Gol._] Old ed. “_Purs._,” which the next speech of
Pursenet shews to be wrong: but, perhaps, the prefix
should be “Fulk.”

# 572:

_Fit._] Old ed. “_Fulk._”

# 573:

_disgest_] Frequently found in our old writers for
_digest_.

# 574:

_cross-biter_] i.e. cheater.

# 575:

_royals ... as many with spurs_, &c.] i.e.
spur-royals—gold coins (with a star on the reverse
resembling the rowel of a spur) worth fifteen
shillings.

# 576:

_Sec. D. What’s_, &c.] Old ed. gives “Drawer, what’s
to be done, sirs?” as part of Goldstone’s speech.

# 577:

_near all_] i.e. touches all nearly—if, indeed, that
be the right reading. Old ed. “meere _all_.”

# 578:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 579:

_Pur. Faith_, ] Given in old ed., as one speech,
to Pursenet.
_Gol. Nay_, &c.]

# 580:

_yon_] i.e. yonder.

# 581:

_Here, sir_] Not knowing how this second piece of
knavery is managed (see note, p. 251), I have not
attempted to supply any stage-directions. Goldstone
seems to have removed the goblet from the place where
it “hung” (see p. 261), and to have hid it somewhere,
till all except himself and Fulk had left the room.

# 582:

_Act III._] Old ed. “Actus 4:” see note, p. 248.

# 583:

_be ready_] i.e. dress himself: compare p. 224 and
note.

# 584:

_toward_] See note, p. 177.

# 585:

_I’m_] Old ed. “I am.”

# 586:

_Combe Park_] Lands so called in the parish of
Kingston upon Thames: see Manning and Bray’s _Hist.
of Surrey_, vol. i. p. 401.—In _The Black Book_
(reprinted in the last vol. of Middleton’s _Works_),
Lucifer makes “a high thief on horseback” the
“keeper of Combe Park.”

# 587:

_purchase_] See note, vol. i. p. 319.

# 588:

_Scene II._] Here in the old ed. no new scene is
marked: after Pursenet had spoken the words “there
will I meet him,” and thrown a scarf over his face
(see what follows), the audience were to suppose that
the stage represented Combe Park: vide note, p. 147.

# 589:

_ne’er_] Old ed. “never.”

# 590:

_injury_] So in _The Wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll_,
1600;

“Ashamed that you should _iniurie_ your estate
To kneele to me.”
Sig. H 2.

# 591:

_marks_] See note, p. 226.

# 592:

_any_] Has a word, which followed this, dropt out?

# 593:

_covetous_] Old ed. “courteous.”

# 594:

_purchase_] See note, vol. i. p. 319.

# 595:

_spur-royals_] See note, p. 260.

# 596:

_fire-drakes_] i.e. a sort of fire-works.

# 597:

_thy_] Qy. “my.”

# 598:

_pasture_] Qy. “pastime.”

# 599:

_her_] Old ed. “him.”

# 600:

_hist_] Old ed. “pist.”

# 601:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 602:

_pax_] See note, p. 24.

# 603:

_I’ve_] Old ed. “I have.”

# 604:

_know_] Old ed. “knowes.”

# 605:

_standing_] A word that followed this seems to have
dropt out.

# 606:

_again_] See note, p. 255.

# 607:

_I’m_] Old ed., “I am.”

# 608:

_Enter Fitsgrave and Gentleman_] Old ed. “_Enter two
Gentlemen_:” but one of them is certainly Fitsgrave,
who has put into the hands of his companion the letter
which Pursenet had dropt: see the last line of sc. ii.
of this act. Besides, the first speaker here declares
that he has found “_three_ of the gallants;” and
Fitsgrave, in act iv. sc. 5, says,

"The broker-gallant and the cheating-gallant,
_Now I have found ’em all_."

# 609:

_shame_] Qy. “charm.”

# 610:

_faints_] Old ed. “faires.”

# 611:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 612:

_Yea, at your book so hard_] Perhaps it is hardly
worth noticing, that, in the _Third Part of Henry
VI._, act v. sc. 6, Gloster says to Henry,

“Good day, my lord: _what, at your book so hard_?”

# 613:

_Ex for ex_] Can this expression mean “_ecce_, for
example?”

# 614:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 615:

_are_] Old ed. “were.”

# 616:

_Mitre-night_] See note, p. 248.—Had the giving of
suppers to these ladies at the Mitre grown now to a
custom?

# 617:

_struggling_] Old ed. “he thumps.”

# 618:

_lined_] May be right,—but qy. “limed.”

# 619:

_a chrisom_] i.e. an infant,—one who dies within the
month of its birth, and is buried in the _chrisome_, a
white cloth, an emblem of Christian innocency, which
was thrown over it at baptism, and which it was to
wear till the mother came to be purified, when the
cloth was returned to the church.

Before the Reformation, in the old baptismal office,
the _chrisom_ cloth was put on the child’s head, to
prevent, according to Ducange _in Chrismate_, the holy
oil (χρισμα) from running off.

Compare Shakespeare’s _Henry V._ act ii. sc. 3, where
dame Quickly says of Falstaff, "’a made a finer end,
and _went away an it had been any christom child_."

# 620:

_watchet_] i.e. light blue.

# 621:

_Enter a Servant_, &c.] The old ed. (in which the
commencement of act iv. is marked much earlier, see
note, p. 263) has, “_In the midst of the musick enter
one bringing in_,” &c.

# 622:

_Wigmore’s galliard_] Is frequently mentioned by our
early writers: see a galliard minutely described,
note, vol. i. p. 65.

# 623:

_the chamber_] After these words the stage-direction
in the old ed. is, “_The musicke plaies on a while,
then enter Tailbee his man after trussing him_.”

# 624:

_trussing him_] i.e. tying his points: see note, vol.
i. p. 367.

# 625:

_now down_] Old ed. “nowne.”

# 626:

_that’s_] Old ed. “whats.”

# 627:

_All-holland-tide_] i.e. All-hallows-tide: see note,
p. 165.

# 628:

_Take_] Old ed. “Takes.”

# 629:

_disgested_] See note, p. 259.

# 630:

_lead_] Old ed. “lend.”

# 631:

_at her house_] Old ed. “at home, _at her house_;” see
notes 241 and 244, p. 134.

# 632:

_Gol._] Old ed. “_Bung_.”

# 633:

_fig-frails_] i.e. fig-baskets.

# 634:

_steaks_] Compare vol. i. p. 336, where, as the
present passage shews, the reading “_steaks_ of
velvet” is right.

# 635:

_Pax_] See note, p. 24.

# 636:

_hangers_] See note, p. 227.

# 637:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 638:

_filed_] i.e. polished.

# 639:

_men’s_] Qy. "mends"—i.e. helps.

# 640:

_The Middle Aisle_, &c.] See note, vol. i. p. 418.

# 641:

_ram’s head_] As a crest, I suppose.

# 642:

_I’d know_] Old ed. “I knew.”

# 643:

_Do you walk, sir_?] Is in the old ed. the conclusion
of Pursenet’s speech, whose exit with the Boy is not
marked. As we subsequently learn (see pp. 297, 298)
that the sharper had succeeded in his design on
Pyamont’s gold, by falling into a pretended swoon, I
cannot help suspecting that a portion of this scene
has dropt out, and that the incident of the swoon took
place here on the stage, after Pursenet had tried all
other means of surprising Pyamont’s caution.

# 644:

_guess_] i.e. guests: see note, vol. i. p. 326.

# 645:

_vild_] See note, vol. i. p. 94.

# 646:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 647:

_a’ life_] See note, vol. i. p. 272.

# 648:

_jealous_] See note, p. 216.

# 649:

_Why, ye shall see a pretty story of a humour_] These
words are given to Bungler in the old ed.

# 650:

_stay_] Old ed. “stray.”

# 651:

_maple-faced_] Whether this epithet is to be explained
rough-faced, or brown-faced, or broad-faced, seems
doubtful: see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_,
vol. vi. p. 156.

# 652:

_goldsmith_] When this drama was written, and indeed
long after, goldsmiths acted as bankers:

“_Enter Trainsted with a purse of gold in his hand._
TRAINST. I have been with my goldsmith, and am well
furnished to start hence.” Sir E. Howard’s _Man of
Newmarket_, 1678, act i. sc. i.

# 653:

_how often I swooned_] See note, p. 291.

# 654:

_a good caudle_, &c.] Here again (see note, p. 151),
Middleton seems to consider _caudle_ and a _cullis_ as
the same thing. According to ancient receipts, fine
gold and orient pearl are among the ingredients of the
latter.

# 655:

_are_] Old ed. “is.”

# 656:

_I’d_] Old ed. “I would.”

# 657:

_conveyance_] i.e. sleight of hand,—a delicate term
for stealing.

# 658:

_I’ve_] Old ed. “I have.”

# 659:

_carkanet_] i.e. a collar of jewels, a necklace.

# 660:

_laid_] See note, p. 11.

# 661:

_goldsmith_] Old ed. “goldsmits.”

# 662:

_leese_] i.e. lose—(lose sight of Goldstone, I
presume).

# 663:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 664:

_spur-royals_] See note, p. 260.

# 665:

_I’ve_] Old ed. “I have.”

# 666:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 667:

_Let go, ’tis_] Old ed. “lets _go_ this.”

# 668:

_I’m glad in my soul, sir_] In the old ed. this speech
is followed by a word printed in italics,—"_Gnawes_,"—
which I presume is a stage-direction.

# 669:

_spur-royals_] See note, p. 260.

# 670:

_look, a’ ’s way_] Old ed. “lookt asway.”

# 671:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 672:

_Admirable_] Old ed. “Admirall.”

# 673:

_likes_] See note, p. 47.

# 674:

_stag’d_, &c.] Old ed. “_sta’gde? why what lacks
Bowser, are you too well, too safe, an absolute
scholler._”

# 675:

_We shall thrive_] An imperfect couplet: see notes, p.
7 of this vol., p. 424 of vol. i.

# 676:

_Pur._ _Little master Bouser_, &c.] Old ed. “_All._
_Little maister Bowser, sweete maister Bowser welcome
ifaith._”

# 677:

_properties_] i.e. necessaries for the scene: in
strict theatrical language, however, the term is
applied to things, not to persons.

# 678:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 679:

_A Chamber_] The commencement of the scene would
lead us to suppose that the place of action is
Primero’s house: but that Fitsgrave’s friends should
conceal themselves in a gallery there, to watch the
proceedings of “the gallants,” is surely somewhat
absurd.

# 680:

_twilight_, _twitter-lights_] Are, I believe,
synonyms; and perhaps one of them ought to be
struck out of the text. The latter is a word of
rare occurrence; but we find it in our author’s
_More Dissemblers besides Women_, “Come not till
_twitter-light_,” act iii. sc. 1; and in the old
play called _Wily Beguilde_, “What mak’st thou
heere this _twatter light_?” Sig. E 3, ed. 1623.

# 681:

_You have a privilege from your hat_, &c.] An allusion
to some regulation about dress, which I cannot
explain: the reader may turn to Strutt’s _Dress and
Habits_, &c., vol. ii. p. 316.

# 682:

_bean-flour bags_] Compare Eugenia’s speech in _The
Old Law_, vol. i. p. 38.

# 683:

_others_] Old ed. “us.”

# 684:

_Third C._] Is perhaps the “Novice.”

# 685:

_When that good news_, &c.] Is given to “3.” in old
ed.

# 686:

_Goldstone_, &c.] So the lines are divided in the old
ed.: the measure is lost in the corruption of the
text.

# 687:

_So will I_] Is given to “3.” in old ed.; but the
Third Court. had “set her affections” on Tailby.

# 688:

_Here’s my_, &c.] Is given to “4.” in old ed.

# 689:

_Bun._] Old ed. "3."—but Bungler, as we find, is one
of the party.

# 690:

_First G._ _What’s this?_ _Sec. G._ _Fooh_, &c.] One
speech, given to “1.” in old ed.

# 691:

_word_] See note, p. 258.

# 692:

_high-men_] A cant term for false dice loaded so as
always to produce high throws.

# 693:

_Bun._] Old ed. “3:” see note in the preceding page.

# 694:

_unvalued_] i.e. invaluable.

# 695:

_Pythagorical rascal_] Compare p. 85 and note.

# 696:

_This is my crown_, &c.] An imperfect couplet: see
notes, p. 7 of this vol., p. 424 of vol. i.

# 697:

_be contained_] i.e. restrain yourselves—be not so
impatient.

# 698:

_First the_, &c.] Given as part of Pursenet’s speech
in old ed.

# 699:

_Right, sir_] Given to Fitsgrave in old ed.

# 700:

_unvalued_] See note, p. 314.

# 701:

_The Welsh leiger_] Compare p. 88 and note. _Leiger_
is a resident or ambassador at a foreign court.

# 702:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 703:

_Fit._] Old ed. “_Bungl._”

# 704:

_Fit._] Old ed. “_Purs._”

# 705:

_Pur._] Old ed. “_Boy_.”

# 706:

_Proceed_] Is part of the Boy’s speech in old ed.

# 707:

_Boy_] Old ed. “_Fits._”

# 708:

_Boy_] Old ed. “_Fits._”

# 709:

_corporis_] Old ed. “corpus.”

# 710:

_Pur._] Qy. “_Pri._”

# 711:

_shrieve_] i.e. sheriff: old ed. “Sheerse.”

# 712:

_charms_] Old ed. “swarmes.”

# 713:

_bandora_] A musical instrument resembling a guitar:
see Sir J. Hawkins’ _Hist. of Music_, vol. iii. p.
345.

# 714:

_Enter the Masque_, &c.] Here, and a little after, I
have given the stage-direction as it stands in the old
ed., with some additions between brackets.

# 715:

_tell me_] i.e. acknowledge—if there be no corruption
of the text.

# 716:

_you’re_] Old ed. “you are.”

# 717:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 718:

_under covert-baron_] See note, vol. i. p. 370.

# 719:

_Fit._] This prefix has dropt out in old ed.

# 720:

_Whom_] Old ed. “To _whom_.”

# 721:

Prefixed to the ed. of 1640.

# 722:

_twenty years_] A mistake: see p. 327.

# 723:

_J. S._] For whom the ed. of 1640 is printed.

# 724:

_I was as well given_, &c.] "Imitated from
Shakespeare’s _First Part of K. Henry IV._ act iii.
sc. 3, where Falstaff says, ‘I was as virtuously given
as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough: swore
little; diced not above seven times a-week; went to a
bawdy-house not above once in a quarter—of an hour;
paid money that I borrowed, three or four times; lived
well, and in good compass: and now I live out of all
order, out of all compass.’" REED.

# 725:

_the flag’s down_] “On the tops of our ancient
theatres were flags, which we may suppose to have been
taken down during the season of Lent, when plays were
not suffered to be represented.” STEEVENS.

# 726:

_no knight since one thousand six hundred_] “Alluding
to the number of necessitous people who were created
knights by king James after his accession.” REED.

# 727:

_the glory of his complement_] “i.e. the number of his
servants. We still say of a ship full manned, that she
has her full _complement_.” STEEVENS.

# 728:

_blue coats_] See note, p. 26.

# 729:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 730:

_fathoms_] See note, vol. i. p. 415.

# 731:

_first_] Dodsley and his editors read “_first_ rate.”

# 732:

_wittol_] i.e. tame cuckold.

# 733:

_to which himself gives aim_] i.e. which himself
directs: see Gifford’s note on Massinger’s _Works_,
vol. ii. p. 28, ed. 1813, where this passage is cited,
and where the difference between the expressions _cry
aim_ and _give aim_, both taken from archery, is
accurately shewn: “he who _gave aim_ was stationed
near the butts, and pointed out, after every
discharge, how wide or how short the arrow fell of the
mark.”

# 734:

_shirt_] Old eds. “skirt.”

# 735:

_common place_] A pun, I presume,—common-pleas.

# 736:

_slight_] See note, vol. i. p. 441.

# 737:

_throw_] Old eds. “throwes.”

# 738:

_opinion_] “i.e. reputation.” REED.

# 739:

_recover’d_] Qy. “discover’d:” compare the third line
of Harebrain’s next speech.

# 740:

_There’s_] Old ed. “There is.”

# 741:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 742:

_There’s_] Old ed. “there is.”

# 743:

_the leather-winged bat_] From Spenser’s _Faerie
Queene_, b. ii. c. xii. st. 36.

"_The lether-winged batt_, dayes’ enimy."

# 744:

_Hero and Leander_, _Venus and Adonis_] The two
well-known poems of Marlowe and Shakespeare.

# 745:

_the Resolution_] A once-celebrated (and excellent)
work by Parsons the Jesuit, of which there are several
editions. The title of the ed. now before me is, _A
Book of Christian exercise apperteining to Resolution,
that is, shewing how that wee shoulde resolue our
selues to become Christians indeed. By R. P._ &c.
1585. 12mo. _Second Part_, 1591. 12mo. The 9th chapter
of Part I. Book 1. of the former portion treats of
hell-punishments.

# 746:

_I will_] Old eds. “Ile.”

# 747:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 748:

_Family_] i.e. the Family of Love: see p. 103.

# 749:

_She’s round with her, i’faith_] “i.e. she speaks
plainly, in earnest to her.” STEEVENS.

# 750:

_they’re_] Old ed. “they are.”

# 751:

_slights_] See note, vol. i. p. 441.

# 752:

_coted_] i.e. quoted.

# 756:

_Fondly_] i.e. foolishly.

# 753:

_I’ve_] Old ed. “I have.”

# 754:

_th’ Master’s side_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.

# 755:

_to the third pile_] An allusion to the finest kind of
velvet, called _three-pile_. “It seems to have been
thought,” says Nares, quoting the present passage,
“that there was a three-fold accumulation of the outer
substance, or pile.” _Gloss._

# 757:

_Pollcut_] So ed. 1640: ed. 1608, “Pelcut.”

# 758:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 759:

_pair of organs_] i.e. the old expression for _an
organ_.

# 760:

_Pooh!_ Laughs] Old eds. “Laughs, puh.”

# 761:

_call in my chief gentleman i’ th’ chain of gold_]
“Stewards of noblemen and gentlemen of property used
formerly to wear a gold chain.” REED.

# 762:

_bastard_] i.e. a sweet Spanish wine: there were two
sorts, white and brown.

# 763:

_lord’s_] Old eds. “loue’s.”

# 764:

_blue coats_] See note, p. 26.

# 765:

_house_] Old eds. “houses.”

# 766:

_pair_] See note, p. 346.

# 767:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 768:

_consort_] i.e. company of musicians.

# 769:

_A song_, &c.] During which, the audience were to
suppose that Sir Bounteous was feasting his guests.

# 770:

_Mawworm, Hoboy, and others_] Old eds. “_and his
consorts_ [i.e. companions] _toward his lodging_.” I
originally marked this scene “_a bed-chamber_;” but
Sir Bounteous seems to accompany Follywit only to the
door of his sleeping apartment.

# 771:

_for_] i.e. for fear of.

# 772:

_champion_] See note, p. 73.

# 773:

_champers_] i.e., perhaps, horses (bridle-_champers_).
Nares’s conjecture (in _Gloss._), that “_champers_” in
this passage means _eaters_, seems very absurd.

# 774:

_gilt_] Compare p. 197, where see note.

# 775:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 776:

_dag’s end_] “i.e. at a distance, as by a _sword_ or
_pistol_ advanced against me. _Dag_ is an ancient
word, signifying either the one or the other.”
STEEVENS. Most commonly it means _pistol_; see vol. i.
p. 249.

# 777:

_blacks_] “The common term formerly for mourning.”
REED.

# 778:

_a noble_] See note, 17.

# 779:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 780:

_chief gentleman i’ th’ chain of gold_] See note, p.
347.

# 781:

_Exeunt_] Is not marked in the old eds., which, after
Hoboy’s speech, have a stage-direction, “_Enter with
Sir Bounteous in his night-gowne_.”

# 782:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 783:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 784:

_a knight of Windsor_] “i.e. one of the poor knights
of Windsor.” REED.

# 785:

_purchase_] See note, vol. i. p. 319.

# 786:

_lie_] Old eds. “lies.”

# 787:

_take me with you, lady_] See note, p. 22.

# 788:

_sect_] See note, p. 134.

# 789:

_let gold_, &c.] See note, p. 298.

# 790:

_Footman_] That is, one of Follywit’s companions in
disguise: see p. 345.

# 791:

_risse_] i.e. risen.

# 792:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 793:

_commodity_] i.e. advantage, profit.

# 794:

_Enter_, &c.] The only stage-direction in old eds. is
“_Curtens drawn_.” See note, vol. i. p. 264.

# 795:

_spur-royals_] See note, p. 260.

# 796:

_guess_] i.e. guests: see note, vol. i. p. 326.

# 797:

_Exit_] After Mawworm’s speech in ed. 1640 is the
following stage-direction, “_A Song, sung by the
musitians, and after the Song, a Country dance, by the
Actors in their Vizards to a new footing_.”

# 798:

_swag_] i.e. sink down,—in the balance.

# 799:

_And so deflowers her that was ne’er deflower’d_] The
same play upon words we find in _Romeo and Juliet_, A.
4. S. 5.

——“See, there she lies,
_Flower_ as she was, _deflowered_ by him.
Death is my son-in-law,” &c. REED.

# 800:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 801:

_vild_] i.e. vile: see note, vol. i. p. 94.

# 802:

_luxury_] i.e. lewdness.

# 803:

_where_] i.e. whereas.

# 804:

_The Courtesan_, &c.] Old eds. “_The Curtizan on a
bed, for her counterfeit fitt._”

# 805:

_foot-cloth_] See note, vol. i. p. 396. “It is
observed by Mr. Steevens, that anciently _the
housings_ of a horse, and sometimes a horse himself,
were denominated _a foot-cloth_.” REED.

# 806:

_spiny_] i.e. thin, slender: see note, vol. i. p. 174.

# 807:

_refocillation_] “i.e. restoration of strength by
refreshment.” STEEVENS.

# 808:

_Ah, hah_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “Ah.”

# 809:

_that same oil of mace is a great comfort to both the
counters_] See note, vol. i. p. 392. “A pun, alluding
to the maces which were carried by the serjeants or
varlets when they arrested people.” REED.

# 810:

_angel_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 811:

_purchase_] See note, vol. i. p. 319.

# 812:

_in_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “of.”

# 813:

_band_] Ed. 1640, “hand.”

# 814:

_scab_] So ed. 1640. Not in first ed.

# 815:

_officers_] Ed. 1640, “_officers_ and Projectors.”

# 816:

_I’d_] Old eds. “I would.”

# 817:

_e’er_] Old eds. “euer.”

# 818:

_minute_] So 1640. Ed. 1608, “munit.”

# 819:

_have_] Old eds. “hath.”

# 820:

_snobbing_] i.e. violent sobbing. Todd, in his ed. of
Johns. _Dict._, gives “To _Snub_, to sob with
convulsion.”

# 821:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 822:

_cullis_] See notes, pp. 151, 298.

# 823:

_A Room_] In the house of one of Follywit’s friends,
as we learn during the scene.

# 824:

_muss_] “i.e. scramble.” REED.

# 825:

_rose-nobles_] See note, p. 253.

# 826:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 827:

_I’ve_] Old eds. “I haue.”

# 828:

_For his blanch’d harlot_] “i.e. his harlot, whose
skin is _made white_ by the use of cosmetics.”
STEEVENS.

# 829:

_gentleman_, &c.] See note, p. 347.

# 830:

_rounded_] i.e. whispered.

# 831:

_The rest_] Old eds. “_All._”

# 832:

_I’ve_] Old eds. “I haue.”

# 833:

_chinclout_] i.e. a sort of muffler, which covered the
lower part of the face: see Douce’s _Illust. of
Shakespeare_, vol. ii. p. 75.

# 834:

_kind_] i.e. nature.

# 835:

_making ready_] i.e. dressing: see note, p. 224.

# 836:

_half moons_] "The edition of 1640 has '_periwigs_,'
as if it was not then understood why they were called
_half moons_." COLLIER.

# 837:

_Cue_] “i.e. Kew.” REED.

# 838:

_a flag_] See note, p. 332.

# 839:

_bony scribes_] Ed. 1640, “_bony scribes_ and bony
rags.”

# 840:

_Brothel_] Old eds. "Once-Ill"—which was, no doubt,
the name originally given by Middleton to this
character, and which, through an oversight, had
remained unaltered in some parts of the MS. used for
the press.

# 841:

_ready_] i.e. dressed: see note, p. 224.

# 842:

_much like your German clock_] An allusion to the
cumbrous and complicated machinery of our first
clocks, which came from Germany: see Gifford’s note,
B. Jonson’s _Works_, iii. 432.

# 843:

_Enter Succubus in the shape of Mis. Harebrain_] Old
eds. have “_Enter the Diuell in her shape_,” but
prefix _Succubus_ to his speeches. Concerning the evil
spirits called _Succubæ_,

————"that are said
To put on feminine feature....
. \. . . . . .
To draw men headlong with them to perdition,"

see that very curious work by Heywood, _The Hierarchie
of the Blessed Angels_, 1635, pp. 500, 542.

# 844:

_Shield me_, &c.] “See _Hamlet_. [‘Angels and
ministers of grace defend us.’ Act i. sc. 4.]”
STEEVENS.

# 845:

_tic’d_] i.e. enticed.—Old eds.

“_Was I_ entis’st _for this? to be soone reiected_.”

# 846:

_her_] i.e. of the hour—which I notice, because in the
margin of an old copy now before me, some reader has
conjectured “our.”

# 847:

_fadom_] i.e. fathom—so written for the sake of the
rhyme.

# 848:

_Seiz’d_] "Both the quartos read _seard_; and again,
_seare_ [first ed. ‘_ceare_’] in the next line. The
alteration by Mr. Dodsley." REED. Compare p. 178 and
note.

# 849:

_Harebrain_] Old eds. here, and the next speech,
“Hargraue,” a name which Middleton had once given to
this lady, and which he had neglected to alter in some
parts of the MS. used by the printer: see also note,
p. 404.

# 850:

_bums_] See note, vol. i. p. 432.

# 851:

_a linen cloth about her jaw_] i.e. the chinclout: see
p. 381 and note.

# 852:

_It was suspected much in Monsieur’s days_] “By
_Monsieur’s days_, I apprehend, the author means the
time when the duke of Anjou resided in England. That
prince, brother to Charles the Ninth, king of France,
on the encouragement he had received from Queen
Elizabeth, visited the English court in the year 1581,
and expected to have been united to her majesty in
marriage. The queen, however, after many affected
delays, broke off the treaty; and the duke was obliged
to return to his own country, with the disgrace of a
direct refusal. _Monsieur’s days_ are mentioned again
in _The Blacke Booke_, 1604, sign. C. ‘—let mercers
then have conscionable thumbs when they measure out
that smooth glittering devil, sattin, and that old
reveller, velvet, in the _days of Monsieur_, both
which have devoured many an honest field of wheat and
barley.’” REED. The piece just cited is by Middleton,
and will be found in the last vol. of the present
work. So too in Marmyon’s _Fine Companion_, 1633, “Two
or three dances, as old as _Mounsier_.” Sig. G 2.

# 853:

_queasy_] i.e. squeamish.

# 854:

_know_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “knew.”

# 855:

_cullis_] See notes, pp. 151, 298.

# 856:

_chain_] See note , p. 381.

# 857:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 858:

_Pusha_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 859:

_I’ve_] Old eds. “I haue.”

# 860:

_Onyx cum prole, silexque_] “From _Propria quæ
maribus_.” STEEVENS.

# 861:

_pudding_] i.e. tobacco made up in a particular form.

# 862:

_vild_] Altered in the eds. of Dodsley’s Old Plays to
the modern spelling “vile,” which destroys the (very
poor) play on words.

# 863:

_waft_] i.e. flavour.

# 864:

_Knocking within_] Old eds. “Master Penitent Once-Ill
_knocking within_:” see note, p. 384.

# 865:

_Harebrain_] Here, and throughout the scene, she and
her husband are called “Hargraue” in the old eds.: see
notes, pp. 388, 404.

# 866:

_likes me_] “i.e. pleases me.” REED.

# 867:

_assum’d thee formally_] “i.e. assumed thy form.”
REED.

# 868:

_periwig_] When this play was written, _periwigs_ were
much worn by ladies.

# 869:

_clips_] “i.e. embraces.” REED.

# 870:

_his_] Old eds. “her.”

# 871:

_e’er_] Old eds. “euer.”

# 872:

_e’er I’ve_] Old eds. “euer I haue.”

# 873:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 874:

_by your favour, ladies_] "The players of James the
First’s time seem to have been as censurable for
addressing the audience as any of their successors
since. This speech is evidently not intended for the
bawd, who now enters _alone_. In the same manner sir
Bounteous speaks to the auditors, when he says, ‘An
old man’s venery is very chargeable, my masters;
there’s much cookery belongs to’t.’ [p. 390.]" REED.

# 875:

_peevish_] i.e. foolish.

# 876:

_have_] Old eds. “has.”

# 877:

_made women_] i.e. women whose fortunes are made.

# 878:

_hole_] i.e. hide.

# 879:

_She’ll_] Old eds. “she will.”

# 880:

_restraint upon_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “_restraint_
on’t _upon_.”

# 881:

_maid_] Old eds. “man.”

# 882:

_fear thee_] “i.e. affright thee.” REED.

# 883:

_resolv’d_] See note, p. 39.

# 884:

_no curious wooer_] For “_curious_” Dodsley chose to
substitute “_furious!_” and Reed remarks that
"_curious_ is probably the genuine reading; it may
mean _inquisitive, prying!_"—_No curious wooer_ is, no
wooer that uses nice, elegant, elaborate phrase.

# 885:

_trow_] See note, p. 26.

# 886:

_take her e’en_] Old eds. “_eene take her_.”

# 887:

_hundred_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “_hundred pound_.”

# 888:

_e’er_] Old eds. “euer.”

# 889:

_All Hollantide_] See note, p. 165.

# 890:

_clip_] See note, p. 397.

# 891:

_Enter Sir Bounteous_, &c.] Old eds. “_Enter_ busilie
_Sir Bounteous Progresse_ for the feast.”

# 892:

_blue coats_] See note, p. 26.

# 893:

_Harebrain_] Here, and in the next speech of sir
Bounteous, also in all the prefixes to Harebrain’s
speeches in the following scene, the old eds. have
“Shortrod;” one of the names which Middleton gave to
the character, before he finally changed it to
_Harebrain_: see note, p. 388.

# 894:

_share_] See Mr. Collier’s remarks “on the payment of
actors,” _Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry_, vol. iii. p.
427: there were whole sharers, three-quarter sharers,
half sharers, &c.

# 895:

_bastard_] See note, p. 347.

# 896:

_your_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “you.”

# 897:

_Mitre_] See note, p. 240.—In justice to Reed (see
note in the last ed. of Dodsley’s _Old Plays_), I must
observe, that _my_ copy of the first ed. has “Niter.”

# 898:

_Buz_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “Buzy.”

# 899:

_Pox_] Old eds. “post.”

# 900:

_pilfer_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “Gilfer.”

# 901:

_thee_] So ed. 1640. First ed. "him."

# 902:

_her_] So ed. 1640. First ed. "him."

# 903:

_Whew, whew_] So ed. 1640. First ed. "When, when,"
which, after all, may be right, as an exclamation of
impatience for the performance of the play: see notes,
vol. i. pp. 289, 361.

# 904:
FOL. _Excellent well, sir_] So ed. 1640. Not in first
ed.

# 905:

_and ne’er_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “and speake nere”.

# 906:

_shares_] See note, p. 406.

# 907:

_Har._] Old eds. in the prefixes to his speeches
throughout this scene, “Shortrod:” see note, p. 404.

# 908:

_ycleped_] i.e. called.

# 909:

_like a bold Beacham_] _As bold as Beauchamp_ is a
proverbial expression, said to have originated in
the valour of Thomas, first earl of Warwick of that
name, “who (says Ray, after Fuller), in the year
1346, with one squire and six archers, fought in
hostile manner with an hundred armed men, at Hogges
in Normandy, and overthrew them, slaying sixty
Normans, and giving the whole fleet means to land.”
_Proverbs_, p. 219, ed. 1742.—Follywit, however,
seems to allude to one of the characters in a
celebrated drama, produced before 1600, called _The
bold Beauchamps_, which is frequently mentioned by
our early writers: it no longer exists. The author
of the false _Second Part of Hudibras_, 1663, canto
1. (in some lines quoted by Collier, _Hist. of Engl.
Dram. Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 425), attributes it to
Heywood; but his authority is of little weight.

# 910:

_ah, hah_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “_ah_.”

# 911:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 912:

_send for him to a supper_] “The custom for the
prostitutes at a theatre afterwards to sup with the
players, though not to invite them home to supper, is
alluded to in Field’s _Amends for Ladies_, 1639 [act
iii. sc. 4—first ed. in 1618]: a Drawer says, ‘I have
been at Bess Turnup’s, and she swears all the
gentlewomen went to see a play at the Fortune, and are
not come in yet; and she believes they _sup with the
players_.’” COLLIER.

# 913:

_two-penny room_] Or two-penny gallery: see Collier’s
_Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 343.

# 914:

_full of gentlemen_] That it was a common practice for
youths of fashion to sit on stools upon the stage
during the performance, is known from many passages of
our old literature.

# 915:

_trow_] See note, p.26.

# 916:

_A_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “Ha.”

# 917:

_vild_] See note, p. 393.

# 918:

_ditch_] i.e. worthless, vile. Ed. 1640 has “_an_
excellent _example for all_ dizzy _constables_.”

# 919:

_lets you_] “i.e. hinders you.” REED.

# 920:

_Gum._] So ed. 1640. First ed. “Nub.”

# 921:

_aches_] A dissyllable: see notes, vol. i. pp. 28, 45.

# 922:

_I’m ... I’m_] Old eds. “I am ... I am.” This line
makes a couplet with what follows.

# 923:

_Faith, they were some counterfeit rogues ... they
said they’d play_ The Slip] “We have here a play
upon words very common in our ancient writers, and
which will be totally unintelligible, unless it is
remembered that _a slip_ was formerly the name of a
piece of _counterfeit_ money.... Robert Greene’s
_Thieves falling out, True Men come by their own_:
‘And therefore he went and got him certain _slips_,
which are _counterfeit_ pieces of money, being
brass, and covered over with silver, which the
common people called _slips_.’” REED. See also
Gifford’s note on Ben Jonson’s _Works_, vol. vi. p.
77.

# 924:

_mark_] See note, p. 226.

# 925:

_push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 926:

_kneeling after the play_] It was formerly the custom
for the players, at the conclusion of the play, to
kneel down and pray for their patrons: the royal
companies for the king or queen, those of noblemen for
the particular lord to whom they belonged.

# 927:

_vild_] See note, p. 393.

# 928:

_How_] So ed. 1640. First ed. “Home.”

# 929:

_properties_] See note, p. 308.

# 930:

_A prize, a prize_] Old eds. “_a_ peece, _a_ peece,”
which in Dodsley’s _Old Plays_ is altered to “a peace,
a peace.”

# 931:

_I’ve_] Old eds. “I haue.” This line is meant to form
a couplet with the conclusion of Sir Bounteous’s
speech and Harebrain’s question.

# 932:

_what is she for a fool_] i.e. what fool is she: see
Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. iii. p.
397.

# 933:

_mark_] See note, p. 226.

# 934:

_We’ve_] Old eds. “We have.”

# 935:

_Exeunt omnes_] Ed. 1640 has “_Exeunt._

“_The end of the fifth and last Act: marching over
the Stage hand in hand._”

# 936:

_The Catch_, &c.] Not found in first ed., is printed
on the last leaf of ed. 1640.

# 937:

_Aristippus_] A sort of wine: see Randolph’s drama
called _Aristippus, or the Jovial Philosopher_, 1635.

# 938:

_The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith. Commonly
Called Mal Cutpurse. Exactly Collected and now
Published for the Delight and Recreation of all
Merry disposed Persons._ _London_, 1662, 12mo.
Prefixed to it is her portrait in a male dress
(with an eagle, a lion, and an ape beside her),
under which are these lines;

“See here the Presidesse o’th pilfring Trade,
Mercuryes second, Venus’s onely Mayd,
Doublet and breeches, in a Un’form dresse,
The Female Humurrist, a Kickshaw messe:
Heres no attraction that your fancy greets,
But if her Features please not, read her Feats.”

Of this rare and curious volume a portion at
least seems to be authentic.

# 939:

Note on _Twelfth Night_, act i. sc. 3,—
_Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), vol. xi. p. 357.

# 940:

Note on _id._, ibid.

# 941:

Smith’s _Lives of Highwaymen, &c._ vol. ii. p.
142, ed. 1719.

# 942:

See a note, signed N., _From a MS. in the
British Museum_, (what a reference!) in
Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, vol. xii. p. 398, ed.
1780.

# 943:

_Biog. Hist. of Engl._ vol. ii. p. 408, ed.
1775.

# 944:

Note on _Twelfth Night_, act i. sc. 3,—Malone’s
_Shakespeare_ (by Boswell), vol. xi. p. 356.

# 945:

This excellent comedy has been reprinted by Mr.
Collier in a supplementary volume to Dodsley’s
_Old Plays_.

# 946:

“Mulsack the chimney-sweeper” is mentioned as
one of Moll’s companions in her _Life_, p. 82.

# 947:

_were_] Old ed. “was.”

# 948:

_termers_] Here Reed cites a passage from
Dekker’s _Belman of London_, concerning those
rogues that “_are called_ TERMERS _and they ply
Westminster-hall: Michaelmas Terme is their
harvest_:” see also my note, p. 107. I may
observe, however, that _termer_ did not always
mean a person of ill repute: “with a countrey
gentleman or _Tearmer_.” _Greene’s Ghost
Haunting Conicatchers_, 1626, sig. D 3.

# 949:

_for sixpence_] “The price of a play at this
time.” _Id._

# 950:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 951:

_vast theatre_] i.e. the Fortune, in Golden or
Golding Lane, St. Giles’s, Cripplegate. It was
built by Henslowe, and Alleyn (the founder of
Dulwich College), in 1599-1600. It was eighty
feet square on the outside, and fifty-five feet
square within. It was destroyed by fire in 1621.
See Collier’s _Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry_,
vol. iii. p. 302.

# 952:

_beside_] Old ed. “besides.”

# 953:

_a trencher_] "At this time pewter was not introduced
into common use. Our ancestors were content with
wooden trenchers, and these were even to be found at
the tables of our nobility and persons of good
fashion. Among the orders for household servants,
devised by John Haryngton, 1566, and renewed by his
son, 1592, it is directed, ‘That no man waite at the
table without _a trencher_ in his hand, except it
be uppon good cause, on paine of 1_d._’ _Nugæ
Antiquæ_, vol. ii. p. 267, ed. 1779. See also the
_Northumberland Household-Book_, p. 354. _Trenchers_
are still used in some colleges and inns-of-court,
particularly in Lincoln’s-Inn." REED.

# 954:

_falling bands_] See note, p. 218.—“In Evelyn’s
_Discourse on Medals_, 1697, p. 108, is the head of
Charles I. crowned, in the garter-robes, and wearing
_a falling band_; ‘which new mode,’ says Mr. Evelyn,
‘succeeded the cumbersome ruff: but neither did the
bishops or judges give it over so soon, the Lord
Keeper Finch being, I think, the very first.’” REED.

# 955:

_ingeniously_] i.e. sincerely: _ingenious_ is
frequently used for _ingenuous_ by our old writers:
“reasons ... which, I must _ingeniously_ confesse,
were both many and weighty.” Brathwait’s _Honest
Ghost_, 1658, p. 46.

# 956:

_dined_] Old ed. “dyed.”

# 957:

_bond_] Was formerly synonymous with _band_. See
notes, vol. i. pp. 245, 481.

# 958:

_marks_] See note, p. 226.

# 959:

_that_] Old ed. “that’s.”

# 960:

_Adam Bell_] An outlaw, famous for his archery: see
the beautiful ballad of _Adam Bel, Clym of the Cloughe
and Wyllyam of Cloudesle_, of which the most correct
text is in Ritson’s _Pieces of An. Pop. Poetry_.

# 961:

_naughty pack_] In a note on this passage Reed says,
“a _pack_ was formerly a name given to a lewd woman,”
and that “it was also sometimes applied to the male
sex.” The fact is, _naughty pack_ was a term of
reproach applied commonly both to men and women.

# 962:

_fond_] i.e. foolish.

# 963:

_baffle_] Meant formerly to treat with insult, or
mockery, or contempt. “Our names should be _baffuld_
on euery booke-sellers stall.” Nash’s _Pierce
Pennilesse_, sig. D 4, ed. 1595. “When he had
_baffuld_ mee in print throughout England.” Nash’s
_Haue with you to Saffron-walden_, sig. T 2, 1596.

“Prithee, good Fido, goe and baffull him:
Put an affront vpon him.”
Marmyon’s _Fine Companion_, sig. F, 1633.

# 964:

_watermen_] “Taylor the water-poet asserts, that at
this time, between Windsor and Gravesend, there were
not fewer than forty thousand watermen.” REED.

# 965:

_goll_] A cant term for hand—fist, paw.

# 966:

_roaring boy_] See prefatory matter, p. 427.

# 967:

_what is’t you lack_] See note, vol. i. p. 447.

# 968:

_minces tobacco_] When this play was written tobacco
was sold by apothecaries:

"Or in th’ Apothicaryes shop bee seene
To wrap Druggs, or to dry Tobacco in."

_Certain Elegies, with [Fitz Geffrey’s] Satyrs
and Epigrams_, 1620, sig. G 4.

# 969:

_bankrout_] i.e. bankrupt.

# 970:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 971:

_striker_] i.e. wencher.

# 972:

_as a naked boy in a phial_] “I suppose he means an
abortion preserved in spirits.” STEEVENS.

# 973:

_make_] Old ed. “makes.”

# 974:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 975:

_bear her in hand_] i.e. keep her in expectation.

# 976:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 977:

_But is this, &c._] “She gives him money, and he
pretends that he receives only tobacco from Mrs.
Gallipot.” COLLIER.

# 978:

_drink_] To _drink_ (i.e. smoke) tobacco was a very
common expression.

# 979:

_Paul’s_] See note, vol. i. p. 418.

# 980:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 981:

_the twelvepenny-stool gentlemen_] i.e. gentlemen who
pay twelvepence for a stool to sit upon the stage
during the performance: see note, p. 412. This is one
of the passages which led Malone to think that
“persons were suffered to sit on the stage only in the
private playhouses (such as Blackfriars, &c.)” _Hist.
Acc. of Engl. Stage_, p. 78—_Shakespeare_ (by
Boswell), vol. iii.: but Mr. Collier has shewn that
the practice was not confined to private theatres:
_Hist. of Engl. Dr. Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 352.

# 982:

_hench-boy_] i.e. page.

# 983:

_mouse_] See note, p. 137.

# 984:

_resolve_] i.e. satisfy.

# 985:

_gear_] i.e. stuff.

# 986:

_saveguard_] i.e., properly, a sort of large
petticoat, worn by women over the other clothes, to
protect them from soiling.

# 987:
GOS. _Moll, Moll!_ ]One speech in old ed., with the
GREEN. _Pist, Moll!_ ]prefix "_All._"—The exclamation
“pist” again occurs at p. 468. I unnecessarily altered
it into “hist” at p. 268.

# 988:

_beholding_] See note, vol. i. p. 441.

# 989:

_buona roba_] See note, vol. i. p. 258.

# 990:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 991:

_sew_] Old ed. “sowes.”

# 992:

_Brainford_] The old form of _Brentford_.

# 993:

_push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 994:

_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.

# 995:

_Saint Antling’s bell_] See note, vol. i. p. 503.—“At
St. Antholin’s church there used to be a lecture early
in the morning, which was much frequented by the
puritans of the times.” REED.

# 996:

_spittle_] i.e. hospital. “The reuenge was common as
the Law, or as the blowes of a _Spittle_ whore.” _The
Owles Almanacke_ (by Dekker), 1618, p. 18.—Gifford
wished to make a distinction between _spittle_ and
_spital_ (note on Massinger’s _City Madam_, act iii.
sc. 1); but see Todd’s Johnson’s _Dict._, and Nares’s
_Gloss._ in v.

# 997:

_burgh_] Or _burre_ is “a broad ring of iron behind
the handle [of a tilting lance], which burre is
brought into the sufflue or rest, when the tilter is
ready to run against his enimy, or prepareth himself
to combate or encounter his adverse party.” R. Holme’s
_Acad. of Armoury_, cited by Nares, _Gloss._ in v.

# 998:

_the high German’s size_] So afterwards, in act iii.
sc. 1, Moll exclaims,

"a name which I’d tear out
From _the high German’s_ throat &c.,

where Reed remarks, “He seems to have been noted for
his extraordinary strength, and is probably the same
person mentioned in _The Curtaine Drawer of the
World_, 1612, 4to. p. 27. ‘Aske but this Curtaine
Drawer and he will tell you, that few there are, and
those escape very hardly like the bird out of the
snare, like _the German_ out of Woodstreet, or those
that commit murder, or like him that escapes the
hangman from the tree of execution.’” Nares (_Gloss._
in _German_, _High_,) says, he was "probably a tall
German, shown for a sight ... I do not agree with the
editor [Reed], that the same person is meant by the
German ‘who escaped out of Woodstreet.’ The _high
German_ must have been some man generally known for
strength or size; that the same person should also
have had a very narrow escape from Wood Street, is
possible to be sure, but very improbable. Perhaps the
_high German_ was the famous fencer, whose feats are
thus recorded: ‘Since the _German fencer_ cudgelled
most of our English fencers, now about 5 moneths
past.’ ["a moneth past"—in my copy, p. 7.] _Owle’s
Almanacke_ [by Dekker], publ. 1618, p. 6. High German
may, however, be only in opposition to low German, or
Dutch; as, for a long time, _high German_ quack
doctors were in repute."

# 999:

_same wine_] i.e. bastard: see note, p. 347.

# 1000:

_pist_] See note, p. 460.

# 1001: