Part I
._ act ii. sc. 4.
# 422:
_Poppin_] Old ed. “Exigent:” see note, p. 194.
# 423:
_suppositor doctor_] See note, p. 161.
# 424:
_thereon_] Old ed. “therein.”
# 425:
_Poppin_] Old ed. “Exigent:” see note, p.194.
# 426:
_Dry._] Old ed. “_Club_.”
# 427:
_Pis._] What place is indicated by this abbreviation, I cannot pretend to determine.
# 428:
_doctor_] Old ed. "proctor"—but that part is assumed by Dryfat.
# 429:
_grincomes_] See note, p. 121.
# 430:
_Poppin_] Old ed. “Exigent:” see note, p. 194.
# 431:
_colour_] See note, p. 184.
# 432:
_blot in your tables_] An expression drawn from games played with the tables: “beware of _blotting_,” says the _Complete Gamester_, p. 155, ed. 1674.
# 433:
_limb-lifter_] Old ed. “Timelifter:” but compare _A Handefull of Pleasant Delites_, &c., 1584, “a lustie _lim lifter_,” p. 18, reprint.
# 434:
_runs at his wife’s ring_] See note, vol. i. p. 390.
# 435:
_Poppin_] Old ed. “Exigent:” see note, p. 194.
# 436:
_have_] Old ed. “hath.”
# 437:
_enjoinment_] Old ed. “enioyntment.”
# 438:
_Dry._ _The very_, &c.] Old ed.
"DRY. { _The very same_: your _are welcome to our Club_ CLUB. { _Lawe_."
# 439:
_Epilogue_] Is, of course, spoken by Gerardine.
# 440:
_touch_] i.e. touchstone.
# 441:
_Presenter, or Prologue_, &c.] Except that I have inserted between brackets the names of the “gallants,” I have given this strange Induction as it stands in the old ed. The latter part of it, “Now, for the other,” &c., seems to be an address to the reader; though perhaps it was spoken by the Presenter.
# 442:
_Frippery discovered_, &c.] In the old ed. the only stage-direction here is “_Enter a fellow_,” and the prefixes to the dialogue which follows are _Frip._, 1., 2., 3., and 4.—Till the entrance of Primero, the scene in the old ed. is a mass of confusion.
# 443:
_jealous_] i.e. suspiciously afraid: so afterwards in this play: “Ah, but I am _jealous_ you will not keep your countenance, i’faith.”
# 444:
_casting-bottle_] i.e. bottle for casting, or sprinkling, liquid essences and perfumes, often mentioned by our early dramatists; its use was not confined to ladies.
# 445:
_hose_] i.e. breeches.
# 446:
_I’ll come to you presently_] These words, which in the old ed. form part of the preceding speech, are, I suppose, addressed to the second fellow.
# 447:
_angels_] See note, vol. i. p. 250.
# 448:
_and_] i.e. if.
# 449:
_falls_] i.e. falling bands, which lay flat upon the dress from the neck.
# 450:
_gentlewomen’s_] Old ed. “gentlewomans.”
# 451:
_nobles_] See note, p. 17.
# 452:
_do_] Old ed. “does.”
# 453:
_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 .