Chapter XXXIV: Act V: Scene I (3)

_have at your plum-tree_] So in Nash’s _Haue with you
to Saffron-Walden_, 1596; “Yea Madam Gabriela, you are
such an old ierker, then Hey ding a ding ... _haue at
your plum-tree_.” Sig. R 4.

# 604:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 605:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 606:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 607:

_put up_] i. e. sheathe my sword.

# 608:

_byrlady_] See note, p. 9.]

# 609:

_were_] Old ed. “was.”

# 610:

_the_ ——] So old ed., a blank being left for some
word.

# 611:

_oil of ben_] “‘_Been_ or _behen_, in pharmacy,
denotes a medicinal root, celebrated, especially among
the Arabs, for its aromatic, cardiac, and alexiterial
virtues.’ Chambers’s _Dictionary_. The same writer
says, there are two kinds of _been_, white and red,
and that they are both brought from the Levant, and
have the same virtues, being substituted for each
other.” REED.

# 612:

_posts_] See note, p. 58.

# 613:

_beholding_] See note, p. 286.

# 614:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 615:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 616:

_and]_ i. e. if.

# 617:

_stamp_] i. e. “halfpenny.” REED.

# 618:

_borne me in hand_] i. e. kept me in expectation.

# 619:

_could_] Old ed. “would.”

# 620:

_what are you ... for a coxcomb_] i. e. what coxcomb
are you? compare vol. ii. p. 421, and note.

# 621:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 622:

_i’ th’ Hole_] See note, vol. i. p. 392.

# 623:

_You may go; who lets you_] Given in old ed. to
Ricardo: _lets_, i. e. hinders.

# 624:

_against the hair_] See note, vol. i. p. 163.

# 625:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 626:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 627:

_blue coats_] In which they were to disguise
themselves as servants: see note, p. 146.

# 628:

_cock-shoot_] Properly, _cock-shut_—was a large net,
suspended between two poles, employed to catch, or
_shut_ in, woodcocks, and used chiefly in the
twilight—hence _cock-shut_ came to signify twilight.
(See Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. vi.
p. 473.) Perhaps “_a fine cock-shoot evening_” means
here—a fine evening for taking our game.

# 629:

_chamberlin_] So written for the sake of the rhyme.

# 630:

_purchase_] See note, p. 199.

# 631:

_keep_] Old ed. “keeps.”

# 632:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 633:

_A song_] The songs are frequently omitted in the
printed copies of our early dramas; but the present
direction seems to mean, that the actor who played
Latrocinio was to sing a few words of any song he
might choose.

# 634:

_agen_] See note, p. 182

# 635:

_perceiverance_] Or as the word is usually found,
_perceivance_--i. e. power of perceiving. Old ed.
“perseverance.”

# 636:

_at Philip_] i. e. when one calls to it _Philip_--a
familiar name for a sparrow.

# 637:

_sirrah_] See note, p. 44.

# 638:

_mar’l_] i. e. marvel.

# 639:

_whittles_] i. e. knives. Old ed. “whistles,” a
reading which did not startle preceding editors.

# 640:

_prodigious_] See note, p. 5.

# 641:

_fond_] i. e. foolish.

# 642:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 643:

_conceit_] i. e. quickness of apprehension.

# 644:

_ask that seriously_] Thus improved in Dodsley’s _Old
Plays_, and Weber’s _B. and F._, “_ask_ me _that_
question _seriously_!”

# 645:

_both_] i. e. shirts and smocks: see our author’s
_More Dissemblers besides Women_, act i. sc. 4.

# 646:

_child of Egypt_] i. e. gipsy.

# 647:

_resolve_] i. e. satisfy, convince.

# 648:

_make him ready_] i. e. dress himself: compare p. 35.

# 649:

_agen_] See note, p. 182.

# 650:

_Byrlady_] See note, p. 9.

# 651:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 652:

_a’ life_] See note, p. 348—altered, in Dodsley’s _Old
Plays_ and Weber’s _B. and F._, to “I love a wrangling
life!”

# 653:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 654:

_copy_] “i. e. plenty, a sense in which Ben Jonson
frequently used _copy_, from _copia_. Hence we may
infer that he wrote this portion of the play. The
next scene is in his best manner.” COLLIER. Surely
in the text “copy upon copy” is to be understood of
law-papers.

# 655:

_to quit_] i. e. to be even—equal with.

# 656:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 657:

_gally-gascoyns_] “i. e. wide hose or slops”
[trousers]. REED.

# 658:

_Le’ me see,
I’ll send him a whole musket-charge of
gunpowder_, &c. &c.]

So in _The Honest Lawyer. Acted by the Qveenes
Maiesties Servants. Written by S. S._ 1616. 4to.;

“VALENTINE. What is’t Sir, that my Art cannot
extend to?
GRIPE. The stone, the stone: I am pittifully
grip’d with the stone....
VALENTINE. ...
Let’s see. Me thinks a little Gun-powder
Should haue some strange relation to this fit.
I haue seene Gun-powder oft driue out stones
From Forts and Castle-walls,” &c. Sig. F 2.

Concerning this passage, see my remark, p. 340.

# 659:

_byrlady_] See note, p. 9.

# 660:

_the first part written last_] “This alludes to the
first and second parts of historical plays and
tragedies, which had been so much in fashion. It has
been ascertained in more than one instance, that the
first part of a successful play was written after the
second had met with applause.” COLLIER.

# 661:

_Byrlady_] Se note, p. 9.

# 662:

_hose_] i. e. breeches—altered in Dodsley’s _Old
Plays_, and Weber’s _B. and F._, to “coat!”

# 663:

_space_] Altered by editors to “pace”—but, I believe,
wrongly.

# 664:

_Byrlady_] See note, p. 9.

# 665:

_scald_] See note, p. 15.

# 666:

_Over I was_] i. e. above, beyond what I was—absurdly
altered by Weber to “As e’er _I was_.”

# 667:

_we_] Old ed. “he.”

# 668:

_come off roundly_] i. e. pay well.

# 669:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 670:

_The fig_, &c.] See the latter part of Gifford’s note
on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. i. p. 51, and Douce’s
_Illust. of Shakespeare_, vol. i. p. 492.

# 671:

_yellow bands_] i. e. bands dyed with _yellow starch_,
which was once very fashionable, and is said to have
been invented by Mrs. Turner, who was executed Nov.
1615, for having been concerned in the murder of Sir
Thomas Overbury, and wore at the gallows a ruff of her
favourite colour,—the hangman, we are told, having his
bands and cuffs also yellow. Hence the epithet
“hateful” in the text. Yet B. Rich, in _The Irish
Hubbub_, declares that “yellow starcht bands ...
beganne even then [i. e. immediately after Mrs.
Turner’s death] to be more generall than they were
before;” and they were certainly worn in 1621: see
note on _Albumazer_—Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, vol. vii.
p. 133, last ed.

# 672:

_hose_] i. e. breeches.

# 673:

_sirrah_] See note, vol. ii. p. 491.

# 674:

_beholding_] See note, p. 286.

# 675:

_being_] Qy. “blessing?”

# 676:

_mere_] i. e. whole.

# 677:

_Byrlady_] See note, p. 9.

# 678:

_mutton_] See note, p. 102.

# 679:

_hackney-man_] In Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, and Weber’s
_B. and F._, “_hackney-coachman!_”

# 680:

_come_] Old ed. “came.”

# 681:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 682:

_prettiest_] Old ed. “pretiliest.”

# 683:

_lin_] i. e. cease.

# 684:

_sadness_] i. e. seriousness.

# 685:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 686:

_chain of gold_] See p. 402.

# 687:

_resolv’d_] i. e. convinced, satisfied.

# 688:

_feeling_] Altered, in Dodsley’s _Old Plays_, to
“felling,” which Weber _corrected_ into “selling.”

# 689:

_conditions_] See note, p. 292.

# 690:

_master_] Old ed. “me” (a misprint for M.).

# 691:

_Thou hast no charge_, &c.] See p. 373.

# 692:

_Here they come_, &c.] Gifford observes that there is
a somewhat similar incident in _The New Inn_—note on
Ben Jonson’s _Works_, vol. v. p. 433, where he cites
the present passage very incorrectly.

# 693:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 694:

_here_] After this word, the old ed. has “_Exeunt_,”
and gives the next speech of Ricardo, on another page,
as “_Epilogue_,”—which in fact it is.

# 695:

_do_] Old ed. “do’s.”

# 696:

_William Rowley_] Whose name stands together with Middleton’s on the
title-pages of several plays, is generally considered as a dramatist
of the third class. He appears also to have been an actor,—one of the
company of players belonging to the Prince of Wales,—and to have
excelled more in comedy than tragedy. An alteration of his best piece,
_A New Wonder, a Woman never vext_, was performed with success at
Covent Garden theatre in 1824.

# 697:

_other_] Old eds. “t’other.”

# 698:

_niceness_] i. e. scrupulousness.

# 699:

_give aim_] See note, vol. ii. p. 335.

# 700:

_consort_] See note, vol. ii. p. 350—equivalent here
to _concert_.

# 701:

_shooting at these butts ... pricks ... rove_] A
succession of puns. The _prick_ was the point or mark
in the centre of the butts: to _rove_ meant to shoot
an arrow with an elevation, not point blank.

# 702:

_disgest_] Frequently used for _digest_ by our old
writers.

# 703:

_twixt_] Old eds. “Betwixt.”

# 704:

_cousin_] See note, vol. i. p. 499.

# 705:

_diminiting_] i. e. diminishing.

# 706:

_parle_] i. e. parley.

# 707:

_armorer_] Old ed. “armourers.”

# 708:

_Col.’s Fr._] Old eds. “Capt. friend.”

# 709:

_brabbling matter_] i. e. matter of broil.

# 710:

_before me_] An exclamation: so towards the conclusion
of this act, Russell says,

——“_'Fore me_, and thou lok’st half-ill indeed!”

# 711:

_enter in_] i. e. shew in—but qy. “_enter_ 'em?” So at
p. 81, “I would not _enter_ his man,” &c.

# 712:

_beshrow_] i. e. (as ed. 1622 has) “beshrew.”

# 713:

_good_] i. e. as Shylock explains it, _sufficient_—in
a pecuniary sense.

# 714:

_remora_] “The Latin name of a fish that adheres to
the sides and keels of ships, and retards their way.”
Whalley’s note, Ben Jonson, _Works_, vol. ii. p. 442,
ed. Gifford.—The word is often used by our early
dramatists. See p. 269 of this vol.

# 715:

_beget_] Old ed. “begets.”

# 716:

_footcloth_] See note, vol. i. p. 396.

# 717:

_'fore me_] See note, p. 459.

# 718:

_murdering-piece_] Was the name of a very destructive
piece of ordnance: see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v.
Shakespeare uses the word, _Hamlet_, act iv. sc. 5.

# 719:

_fears_] i. e. frightens.

# 720:

_frailty_] First ed. “fraileto;” ed. 1622, “frailtie
to.”

# 721:

_resolve_] i. e. assure, satisfy, convince.

# 722:

_vild_] See note, vol. ii. p. 393.

# 723:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 724:

_censure_] i. e. opinion.

# 725:

_conditions_] i. e. dispositions.

# 726:

_vild_] See note, vol. ii. p. 393.

# 727:

_vild_] See note, vol. ii. p. 393.

# 728:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 729:

_mistress_] Old eds. “Master”—the original MS. having
had merely “M.”

# 730:

_fine_] Old eds. “fiue.”

# 731:

_Points_] Old eds. “Appoints.”

# 732:

_yellow_] i. e. jealousy: see note, p. 134.

# 733:

_what’s_] So ed. 1622. First ed. “what.”

# 734:

_circular_] i. e. roundabout.

# 735:

_niceness_] See note, p. 451.

# 736:

_make yourself unready_] i. e. undress yourself:
compare pp. 35, 396, and notes.

# 737:

_jugal_] i. e. nuptial.

# 738:

_have_] Old eds. “has.”

# 739:

_whisper_] i. e. whisper to your brother the cause of
my] sorrow.

# 740:

_Cornish hug_] A particular lock, practised by the
Cornish wrestlers.

# 741:

_Chough, a Cornish gentleman_] Old eds. “Chawgh,” &c.—
Chough or chuff is a sea-bird, generally thought a
stupid one, common in Cornwall: and a _Cornish chough_
appears to have been a name for a silly fellow from
the country;

“For here I might obserue _a Country gull_,
Whose fathers death had made his pockets full,
Mount Ludgate-hill to buy a Spanish felt,
Pull out his money, bid the Knaue go tel’t.
Notes from Black-fryers I presently might gather,
For now _this Cornish Chough_ mourns for his father
In a Carnation feather,” &c.
Brathwait’s _Honest Ghost_, 1658, p. 167.

# 742:

_Red-shanks_] An appellation of contempt given to the
Scottish Highlanders and to the native Irish. “Both
summer and winter (except when the frost is most
vehement), going always bare-legged and bare-footed,
our delight and pleasure is not only in hunting of
red-deer, wolves, foxes, and graies [i.e. badgers],
whereof we abound and have great plenty, but also in
running, leaping, swimming, shooting, and throwing of
darts. Therefore in so much as we use, and delight
so to go always, the tender delicate gentlemen
of Scotland call us _Redshanks_.” MS. quoted by
Pinkerton—_Hist. of Scot._ vol. ii. p. 396.

# 743:

_quarrels_] A play on the word—squares of glass in
windows.

# 744:

_beholding_] See note, p. 286.

# 745:

_the Mount_] i. e. St. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall.

# 746:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 747:

_you’ll_] So ed. 1622. First ed. “you.”

# 748:

_the roaring school_] See act iv. sc. 1.—_Roarers_,
or _roaring-boys_ (repeatedly mentioned by our
early dramatists), were the bullying bucks who, in
Middleton’s time and long after, infested the streets
of London. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to remark, that
the picture of them in the present play is a comic
exaggeration; and that “roaring” was never reduced to
a science, or taught in a school.

# 749:

_roaring Meg_] See note, vol. i. p. 263.

# 750:

_near 'em_] i. e. in the Tower.

# 751:

_the bears_] In Paris Garden, Southwark: see note,
vol. i. p. 407.

# 752:

_Hercules and thou_, &c.] I recollect no mention
elsewhere of these worthies having been “on the
Olympic Mount together;” but for an account of the
wrestling between Corineus and the giant Goemagot, or
Gogmagog, see A. Thompson’s translation of Jeffry of
Monmouth’s _British History_, p. 35, and Drayton’s
_Poly-olbion, First Song_, p. 12, ed. 1622.

# 753:

_come_] Old eds. “com’d.”

# 754:

_Turk, though not worth tenpence_] So in
Dekker’s _Satiromastix_, 1602, “wilt fight,
_Turke-a-tenpence_?” sig. H 2; and in Dekker and
Webster’s _Westward Ho_, 1607, the great Turk is
called “_the ten-penny_ infidel:” see my ed. of
Webster’s _Works_, iii. 95.

# 755:

_Insufferably_] Old eds. “Insufferable.”

# 756:

_remembrance_] To be read as if written
_rememberance_: but qy. “remembrancer?”

# 757:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 758:

_first esteem’d_] This scene, and nearly the whole of
the first scene of the second act, are given in the
_Spec. of Engl. Dram. Poets_ by Lamb, whose remarks on
them are too weighty to be omitted here: “The insipid
levelling morality to which the modern stage is tied
down would not admit of such admirable passions as
these scenes are filled with. A puritanical obtuseness
of sentiment, a stupid infantile goodness, is
creeping among us, instead of the vigorous passions,
and virtues clad in flesh and blood, with which
the old dramatists present us. Those noble and
liberal casuists could discern in the differences,
the quarrels, the animosities of man, a beauty
and truth of moral feeling, no less than in the
iterately inculcated duties of forgiveness and
atonement. With us all is hypocritical meekness. A
reconciliation scene (let the occasion be never so
absurd or unnatural) is always sure of applause. Our
audiences come to the theatre to be complimented
on their goodness. They compare notes with the
amiable characters in the play, and find a wonderful
similarity of disposition between them. We have a
common stock of dramatic morality, out of which a
writer may be supplied, without the trouble of copying
it from originals within his own breast. To know the
boundaries of honour, to be judiciously valiant, to
have a temperance which shall beget a smoothness in
the angry swellings of youth, to esteem life as
nothing when the sacred reputation of a parent is to
be defended, yet to shake and tremble under a pious
cowardice when that ark of an honest confidence is
found to be frail and tottering, to feel the true
blows of a real disgrace blunting that sword which the
imaginary strokes of a supposed false imputation had
put so keen an edge upon but lately; to do, or to
imagine this done in a feigned story, asks something
more of a moral sense, somewhat a greater delicacy of
perception in questions of right and wrong, than goes
to the writing of two or three hackneyed sentences
about the laws of honour as opposed to the laws of the
land, or a common-place against duelling. Yet such
things would stand a writer now-a-days in far better
stead than Captain Ager and his conscientious honour;
and he would be considered as a far better teacher of
morality than old Rowley or Middleton if they were
living.” P. 136.

# 759:

_Reduce_] i. e. Bring back.

# 760:

_stings_] Old eds. “strings.”

# 761:

_fro_] Or frow—i. e. woman.

# 762:

_for_] Old eds. “from.”

# 763:

_quit_] i. e. requite.

# 764:

_condition_] See note, p. 469.

# 765:

_No_] Old eds. “Not” (a misprint for “Noe”).

# 766:

_Is’t_] Old eds. “If.”

# 767:

_Achilles’ spear_] So in Shakespeare’s _Second Part of
Henry VI._;

“Whose smile and frown, like to _Achilles’ spear_,
Is able with the change to kill and cure.”
Act v. sc. 1.

# 768:

_niceness_] See note, p. 451.

# 769:

_certes_] i. e. certainly.

# 770:

_agrees_] I have not altered this word into the
plural, because a rhyme is intended.

# 771:

_sleights_] i. e. artifices.

# 772:

_When in a new glass_, &c.]

“Flet quoque, ut in speculo rugas adspexit aniles,
Tyndaris.”
Ovid. _Met._ xv. 232.

In _The Second Part of the Iron Age_, 1632, by
Heywood, Helen strangles herself, after surveying the
ruins of her beauty in a looking-glass.

# 773:

_canker_] i. e. wild rose, or dog-rose.

# 774:

_earns_] i. e. _yearns_, grieves. So Lilly;

“Their sad depart would make my hart to _earne_.”
_The Woman in the Moone_, sig. c ii. 1597.

So Spenser also writes the word.

# 775:

_The Roaring School_] See note, p. 485.

# 776:

_the Colonel’s Friend_] Old eds. “_the Colonels_
Second”—i.e. one of the gentlemen who attended the
Colonel in the duel with Captain Ager; and who (if I
rightly understand the last lines of this scene) has
set up for a teacher of “roaring” during peace-time.

# 777:

_do_] Old eds. “does.”

# 778:

_welkin_] i. e. sky.

# 779:

_cheat_] Was certainly wheaten bread of the second
sort; but qy., is the word used here for a fine sort
of bread—as it seems also to be in a passage quoted by
Nares, _Gloss_, in v.?

# 780:

_First Roar._] Old eds. “2. Roar.”—but he is _second_
only with reference to the person who spoke last.

# 781:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 782:

_tables_] i. e. tablets, memorandum-books.

# 783:

_bronstrops_] In _A Cure for a Cuckold_, by Webster
and W. Rowley (first printed in 1661), is the
following passage, which appears to contain an
allusion to _A Fair Quarrel_;

“_Pettifog_. ...This informer comes into Turnbull
street to a victualling-house, and there falls in
league with a wench.

_Compass._ A tweak or bronstrops? _I learned that name
in a play._”

See my ed. of Webster’s _Works_, iii. 327.

Both _tweak_ and _bronstrops_ (the former being a word
of more frequent occurrence than the latter) seem to
be equivalent to punk; but in act iv. sc. 4 of the
present play, a distinction is made between them:
“mayst thou first serve out thy time as a _tweak_
[harlot], and then become a _bronstrops_ [bawd] as she
is.”

# 784:

_obtrect_] i. e. slander.

# 785:

_fucus_] Equivalent, perhaps, to painted jade: our
early writers repeatedly use this Latin term to
signify the colours with which ladies improved their
complexions.

# 786:

_Trim._] First ed. “Chau.” Sec. ed. “Sec.”

# 787:

_Dislocate thy bladud_] i. e., I suppose, draw thy
sword. The reply of the Usher, “Bladud shall conjure,”
&c., seems to allude to the story of King Bladud, who
was famous for “his craft of nygromancy:” see _Mirror
for Magistrates_, I. 106. ed. Haslewood, and note
there.

# 788:

_gentlemen_] Old eds. “gentleman.”

# 789:

_choughs_] See note, p. 481.

# 790:

_whiffler_] i. e. whiffer, puffer—of tobacco, which
Vapour sold. “Taking the _whiff_” (an expression of
which the meaning is uncertain) was one of the
accomplishments of a smoker: see B. Jonson’s _Every
Man out of his Humour—Works_, ii. 9, 97. ed. Gifford.

# 791:

_mark_] A play on the word—a _mark_ was 13_s._ 4_d._

# 792:

_roll ... pudding_] Tobacco made up in particular
forms; so were _ball_, _leaf_, &c., mentioned
presently in the epitaph.

# 793:

_rosemary_] Used at funerals: see note, vol. i. p.
231.

# 794:

_censure_] i. e. opinion.

# 795:

_enters_] The only stage-direction in old eds. is
“_Enter the Colonels Sister, meeting the Surgeon._”

# 796:

_chilis_] Old eds. “Chillis.” “Also out of the
gibbosyte or bounch of the liuer there issueth a veyne
called concaua or _chilis_,” &c. Vigon’s _Workes of
Chirurgerie_, 1571, fol. ix.

# 797:

_œsophag_] Old eds. “orsophag.”

# 798:

_syncope_] Old eds. “syncops.”

# 799:

_tumefaction_] Old eds. “turmafaction.”

# 800:

_sarcotic_] Old eds. “sarcotricke.”

# 801:

_opoponax_] Old eds. “apopanax.”

# 802:

_sarcocolla_] Old eds. “sacrocolla,” which, perhaps
(see the lady’s reply), was an error of the author,
not of the printer.

# 803:

_ginglymus_] Old eds. “Guiguimos.”

# 804:

_enemies fly_] Old eds. “enemy flies.”

# 805:

_First Fr. of Col._ [_reads_] Old eds. “1 Liefetenant
_reads_”—but the person called here _Lieutenant_ is
one of the Colonel’s two friends who had acted as his
seconds in the duel: towards the conclusion of the
play we find,

“_Enter Colonel with his two Friends_,”

and presently after,

“COL. O _Lieutenant_,” &c.

The other friend who attended him in the duel, having
figured in the preceding scene as a teacher of
roaring, is not present, it should seem, in the sick
chamber.

# 806:

_mark_] See note, p. 512.

# 807:

_vild_] See note, vol. ii. p. 393.

# 808:

_the other_] Old eds. “_the_ tother.”

# 809:

_a noise of “hem” within_] Compare p. 205, where
Bellafront says that during her days of vice, when she
appeared in the street, “though with face mask’d,” she
“could not scape the _hem_.”

# 810:

_hem_, _evax_, _vah_] Latin interjections.

# 811:

_carnifexes_] i. e. scoundrels—Lat. _carnifex_, a
hangman, or rogue.

# 812:

_are_ Old. eds. “is.”

# 813:

_bulchins_] Or _bulkins_—i. e. bull-calves.

# 814:

_bronstrops_ ... _fucus_] See notes, p. 508.

# 815:

_my country breeds no poison_] The captain’s country
was Ireland: see note, p. 177.

# 816:

_O Toole_] Was a person notorious for his romantic
bravery, vanity, and eccentricity. There is a rare
print of him—_Arthurus Severus O Toole None-such, Æt.
80_—representing an old man in armour, carrying in his
hand a sword ornamented with crowns, and having at
bottom verses,

“Great Moguls landlord, both Indies king,” &c.

It was prefixed to the first edition of a poem by
Taylor, 1622, _To the Honour of the Noble Captaine O
Toole_, which is reprinted in the water-poet’s Works,
1630. In this ironical panegyric his exploits against
the Irish rebels are celebrated;

“Thou shewdst thy selfe a doughty wight at Dublin:
When Irish Rebells madly brought the trouble in,
At Baltimore, Kinsale, at Corke and Yoghall,” &c.

But his own country was not the only one in which O
Toole figured; he served as a volunteer, and displayed
his courage and absurdities in various parts of
Europe. The _Argument_ to the poem just quoted informs
us, that his “Youth was Dedicated to Mars and his Age
to Westminster, which ancient Cittie is now honour’d
with his beloued Residance.”

# 817:

_tweaks_] Equivalent to punks:

“A rare sense-seazing _Tweake_.”
Brathwait’s _Honest Ghost_, 1658, p. 95,

in which work the word also occurs at pp. 110, 111,
173, 262. Brome uses it in a very different sense: “O
they are a brace of subtle dry Tweakes” [i. e.
whoremongers], says Careless, speaking of Thrivewell
and Saveall,—_A Mad Couple well matched_, sig. E 2,
(_Fiue New Playes_,) 1653.

# 818:

_apple-squire_] See note, p. 232.

# 819:

_provant_] i. e. provender, provision.

# 820:

_flat-caps_] See note, p. 58.

# 821:

_gander-mooners_] i. e. married gallants—
“_Gander-month_, that month in which a man’s wife lies
in,” &c. &c. Grose’s _Clas. Dict. of the Vulgar
Tongue_.

“I’le keep her at the least this _Gander-moneth_,
While my fair wife lies in,” &c.
Brome’s _English-Moor_, p. 40—_Fiue New Playes_,
1659.

# 822:

_sweet-breasted_] i. e. sweet-voiced.

# 823:

_golls_] See note, p. 23.

# 824:

_squire_] See note, p. 232.

# 825:

_may I see_, &c.] i. e. may I see thee carted: vide
note, p. 238.

# 826:

_footmen ... Irish dart_] See note, p 131. An allusion
to the darts carried by the Irish running footmen
occurs at p. 176. In Field’s _Amends for Ladies_, 1618
(reprinted by Mr. Collier in a supplementary volume to
Dodsley’s _Old Plays_), is a stage-direction, “Enter
Maid, like _an Irish foot-boy with a dart_,” act ii.
sc. 3, where the editor observes, “the dart ... was
perhaps intended as an indication of the country from
which they came, as being part of the accoutrements of
the native Irish: thus, in the description of the
dumb-shew preceding act ii. of _The Misfortunes of
Arthur_, we find the following passage; ‘after which
there came a man bare-headed, with long black shagged
hair down to his shoulders, apparelled with an Irish
jacket and shirt, having an Irish dagger by his side,
and a dart in his hand.’”

# 827:

_barber’s basins_] See note, p. 238.

# 828:

_ruff starched yellow_] See note, p. 422.

# 829:

_tweak ... bronstrops_] See notes, pp. 508, 527.

# 830:

_Alas, he has ... their graves_] Forms part of
Chough’s speech in old eds.—_kept the door_, i. e.
been a pander.

# 831:

_three_] Old eds. “two.”

# 832:

_Brandon_] From a tract dated 1649, and entitled _The
Last Will and Testament of Richard Brandon_, &c. (the
executioner who is supposed to have beheaded King
Charles the First: see Ellis’s _Letters Ill. of Engl.
Hist._ vol. iii. p. 341, Second Series), we learn that
“he was the only son of Gregory Brandon, and claimed
the Gallows by inheritance,” p. 7. The Brandon
mentioned in the text was probably Gregory.

# 833:

_lancepresadoes_] i. e. the lowest officers of foot,
under the corporals: see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v.
_Lancepesado_ (for the word is variously written), and
my note on Webster’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 269.

# 834:

_but_] Old eds. “by.”

# 835:

_You are_, &c.] Ed. 1622 has “_You_ that _are_,” &c.

# 836:

_escape_] First ed. “pursue,” the compositor’s eye
having caught the word immediately above. The line is
wanting in ed. 1622.

# 837:

_rosemary_] Used at weddings. See note, vol. i. p.
231.

# 838:

_while_] i. e. until.]

# 839:

_peevish niceness_] i. e. foolish scrupulousness.

# 840:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 841:

_bastard_] See note, p. 45.

# 842:

_tenty-nine_] i. e. ten and nine.—Perhaps it is
unnecessary to remark, that what Chough has just said,
“this is the nineteenth of August, look what day of
the month ’tis,” is intended to exhibit the confusion
of his ideas.

# 843:

_the word_] i. e. the motto, or short sentence,
annexed to each day.

# 844:

_Bretnor_] This person was a celebrated pretender to
soothsaying and an almanac-maker: see Gifford’s note
on B. Jonson’s _Devil is an Ass—Works_, vol. v. p. 17.
He is again mentioned in our author’s _Inner Temple
Masque_.

# 845:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 846:

_the Mount_] See note, p. 482.

# 847:

_bastard_] See note, p. 45.

# 848:

_Pe’ryn_] i. e. Penryn.

# 849:

_Ivel_] Or Yeovil. Old eds. “Euill.”

# 850:

_Wookey-Hole_] Old eds. “Hoc-kye _hole_.”

# 851:

_Mauz avez_] Is this Cornish?

# 852:

_a_] So ed. 1622. Not in first ed.

# 853:

_wine and sugar_] Formerly sugar was almost always
mixed with wine.

# 854:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 855:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 856:

_charm_] i. e. make silent (as if by a strong charm).

# 857:

_for and_] An expression which sometimes occurs in
old poetry: so in Skelton’s second poem _Against
Garnesche_ (_Harl. MS. 367_);

“Syr Gy, Sir Gawen, Sir Cayus, _for and_ Sir Olyuere.”

# 858:

_Pancridge_] A corruption of _Pancras_: “Otherwise
they must keepe aloofe at _Pancredge_, and cannot
come neare _the liberties_,” &c. Nash’s _Pierce
Pennilesse_, sig. E 4, ed. 1595.

# 859:

_prevented_] i. e. anticipated.

# 860:

_gastrolophe_] Probably a misprint for “gastroraphe;”
see the quotation from Sharp’s _Surgery_ in Todd’s
Johnson’s _Dict._ v. _Gastroraphy_.

# 861:

_sutures_ ] Old eds. “surteures.”

# 862:

_kind_] Ed. 1622 “_kind_ of”—wrongly, I believe.

# 863:

_unvalu’d_] i. e. invaluable.

# 864:

_of_] i. e. on: so a little after, “I take him _of_
thy word.”

# 865:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 866:

_I dare believe her. Face_] Was altered by the editor
of 1816 to “_I dare believe her_ faith.” Compare
Shakespeare, _First P. of Henry VI._, act v. sc. 3;

“That Suffolk doth not flatter, _face_, or feign.”

# 867:

_slights_] i. e. artifices.

# 868:

_wish_] Old ed. “with.”

# 869:

_censures_] i. e. judgments.

# 870:

_agen_] See note, p. 182.

# 871:

_Hei mihi_] “The young hypocrite alludes here to a
well-known line in Ovid. [_Met._ i. 523]” Editor of
1816.—Old ed. “Heu _mihi_.”

# 872:

_fond_] i. e. foolish.

# 873:

_where_] i. e. whereas.

# 874:

_Page_] As the name of the lady who is thus disguised
is not given, I have followed the old ed. in
designating her _Page_.

# 875:

_hangers_] See note, vol. ii. p. 227.

# 876:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 877:

_on a balcony_] Old ed. “above,” which meant on the
upper stage: see note, vol. ii. p. 125.

# 878:

_agen_] See note, p. 182.

# 879:

_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied.

# 880:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 881:

_of cross_] “Across, I presume.” Ed. of 1816.

# 882:

_Page_] See note, p. 562.

# 883:

_ka me, ka thee_] i. e. “if you’ll do me one favour,
I’ll do you another. Mr. Gifford believes it to be a
Scotch proverb.” Editor of 1816. See Jamieson’s _Et.
Dict. of Scott. Lang._ (_Suppl._) in v. _Kae_.

# 884:

_keep cut with_] “i. e. follow the example of. The
word is used by Sterne, in the same sense, in the 5th
vol. of his _Tristram Shandy_.” Editor of 1816.

# 885:

_byrlady_] See note, p. 9.

# 887:

_canions_] Or _cannions_—equivalent here to breeches.
“_Cannions_ of breeches,” says Minsheu, so called
“because they are like cannons of Artillery, or Cans
or pots.” _Guide into the Tongues_, 1617.—“_Cannions_,
boot-hose tops.” Kersey’s _Dict._—According to Strutt,
“ornamental tubes or tags at the ends of the ribbands
and laces, which were attached to the extremities of
the breeches.” _Dress and Habits_, &c. vol. ii. p.
263. See also my note on Webster’s _Works_, vol. iii.
p. 165.

# 888:

_All your young gallants_, &c.] Compare p. 394.

# 889:

_Cupid is Venus’_] Forms part of a song in our
author’s _Chaste Maid in Cheapside_, act iv. sc. 1,
where, however, the 8th and 9th lines are not found.

# 890:

_sweet a breasted_] i. e. sweet a voiced.

# 891:

_gain_] Qy. “guile?”]

# 892:

_fellow_] Old ed. “fellows.”

# 893:

_the_] Altered by editor of 1816 to “thy”—perhaps
rightly.

# 894:

_tall_] i. e. fine, great.

# 895:

_Good fellow_, &c.] Compare vol. ii. p. 21, and note.

# 896:

_conceit_] See note, p. 393.

# 897:

_tents_] A play on the word.—_Tent_, say the
dictionaries, is “a roll of lint put into a sore:” but
according to the old books of surgery, _tents_ were
also made of various other materials: see Vigon’s
_Workes of Chirurgerie_, &c., 1571, fol. cxiii.

# 898:

_Page_] See note, p. 562.

# 899:

_and_] i.e. if.

# 900:

_toy_] i.e. trifle.

# 901:

_hose_] i. e. breeches.

# 902:

_no sweet villain_] See note, vol. i. p. 169.

# 903:

_twitterlight_] i. e. twilight: compare vol. ii. p.
309, and note.

# 904:

_to_] i. e. in comparison with—altered by the editor
of 1816 to “as.”

# 905:

_lin_] i. e. cease.

# 906:

_make him ready_] i. e. dress himself: compare pp. 35,
396.

# 907:

_truss his points_] See note, p. 319.

# 908:

_urchin_] Signified both a hedgehog and a particular
kind of fairy or spirit. In the present passage,
“prick’d” would seem to refer to the former, “pinch’d”
to the latter—the two significations being perhaps
confounded in the author’s mind.

# 909:

_dandiprat_] “This term is, in all probability,
derived from a small coin of that name.” Editor of
1816.—_Dandiprat_, a dwarf, a little man, a word of
uncertain origin, evidently gave the name to the coin:
see note, vol. i. p. 246.

# 910:

_dive-dapper_] Or _didapper_—i. e. dab-chick.

# 911:

_squall_] Seems to mean here—effeminate thing: see
note, p. 55.

# 912:

_byrlady_] See note, p. 9.

# 913:

_fondness_] i. e. foolishness.

# 914:

_fond_] i. e. foolish.

# 915:

_My blood dances_] “Is the only part of the speech in
the original given to Lactantio; the first part is
there the conclusion of the cardinal’s.” Editor of
1816.

# 916:

_book’d it_] i.e. pretended to be devoted to books.
Compare p. 561.

# 917:

_to seek_] i. e. at a loss.

# 918:

_waste_] Was altered to “_miss’d_” by the editor of
1816, who thinks “there can be no doubt of the
propriety of the alteration.”

# 919:

_vild_] See note, vol. ii. p. 393.

# 920:

_Byrlady._] See note, p. 9.

# 921:

_condition_] See note, p. 292.

# 922:

_colon_] i. e. the largest of the human intestines.

# 923:

_The rendezvous of the Gipsies_] From Andrugio’s
mention of “this _house_,” the scene would seem to be
laid within doors; yet the meeting between Aurelia’s
father, the governor, and the gipsies, appears to be
accidental, and to take place in the open air.

# 924:

_plunge_] i. e. strait, difficulty.

# 925:

_And so ... money_] So these three lines stand in old
ed.: nor do I see how the metre can be rectified by
any arrangement.

# 926:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 927:

_woman_] Old ed. “one _woman_.”

# 928:

_scorn your motion_] Compare vol. i. p. 172, and note.

# 929:

_pullen_] i. e. poultry.—Old ed. “pully,” which,
indeed, may be another form of the word.

# 930:

_dells_] See note, vol. ii. p. 538.

# 931:

_sport_] Qy. “_snort_”—as before.

# 932:

_Ousabel_, &c.] So this gibberish is divided in old
ed., rhymes, perhaps, being intended.

# 933:

_magot-o'-pie_] i. e. magpie.

# 934:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 935:

_money_, &c.] “This is an allusion to a popular
superstition, that the fairies, from their love of
cleanliness, used at night to drop money into the
shoes of good servants as a reward.” Editor of 1816.

# 936:

_table_] See note, p. 116.

# 937:

_dell_] See note, vol. ii. p. 538.

# 938:

_pullen_] i. e. poultry.

# 939:

_slights_] i. e. dexterous tricks.

# 940:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 941:

_Wit, whither will thou_] A kind of proverbial
expression: it occurs in Shakespeare’s _As you like
it_, act iv. sc. 1; where see Steevens’s note.

# 942:

_in dock, out nettle_] “The words '_in dock, out
nettle_,' allude, I believe, to a practice still
sometimes found among children, of laying the leaf of
the butter-dock upon a place that has been stung by a
nettle, and repeating, as a kind of charm, the words
'_in dock, out nettle_,' as long as the application is
continued.” Editor of 1816.—Compare Sir Thomas More;
“and thus playe in and out, like _in docke out netle_
that no man shoulde wytte whan they were in and whan
they were oute.” _Workes_, 1557, fol. 809. In our text
the words are used with some punning allusion.

# 943:

_sirrah_] See note, p. 44.

# 944:

_canter_] Compare vol. ii. pp. 536, 539.

# 945:

_cross_] i. e. silver coin: see note, vol. i. p. 246.

# 946:

_cough o’ th’ lungs_] i. e. “the symptoms of age and
infirmity in the lover proposed by the father.” Editor
of 1816.

# 947:

_dell_] See note, vol. ii. p. 538.

# 948:

_censure_] i. e. judgment.

# 949:

_Page_] See note, p. 562.

# 950:

_sprawling_] “As applied to the voice seems devoid of
meaning; perhaps we should read _squalling_.” Editor
of 1816.

# 951:

_fond_] i. e. foolish.

# 952:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 953:

_condition_] See note, p. 292.

# 954:

_up_] Old ed. “_up_ to.”

# 955:

_puck-foist_] i. e. “a sort of mushroom filled with
dust.” Editor of 1816.

# 956:

_censure_] i. e. opinion.

# 957:

_niceness_] See note, p. 451.

# 958:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 959:

_condition_} See note, p. 292.

# 960:

_passion_ i. e. grief.

# 961:

_Page_] See note, p. 562.

# 962:

_who_] Old ed. “whose.”

# 963:

_Why_, _when_] See note, p. 164.

# 964:

_ela_] i. e. the highest note in the scale of music.

# 965:

_Why_, _when_] See note, p. 164.

# 966:

_A large_, _a long_] Characters in old music—one large
contained two longs, one long two breves.—The editor
of 1816 observes, that he does not remember to have
seen the name of the first note any where else; it is
not, however, a very uncommon word;

“But with _a large_ and _a longe_,
To kepe iust playne-songe,
Our chaunters shalbe the Cuckoue,” &c.
Skelton’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_.

# 967:

_prick-song_] i. e. music written or _pricked_ down,
full of flourish and variety, opposed to _plain song_,
which was melody without ornament.

# 968:

_Song_] See note, p. 385.

# 969:

_alamire_] i. e. “the lowest note but one in Guido
Aretino’s scale of music.” Todd’s _John. Dict._ in v.

# 970:

_foot-cloth_] See note, p. 197.

# 971:

_coranto pace_] i. e. a very swift pace: a _coranto_
was a quick and lively dance.

# 972:

_scourse_] Or _scorce_—i. e. exchange.

# 973:

_barber ... cittern_] See note, vol. i. p. 174.

# 974:

_lavoltas_] See note, vol. i. p. 261.

# 975:

_Metereza_] Or _metreza_—is, as Nares observes
(_Gloss_, in v.), a sort of Frenchified Italian, found
in our old dramatists.

# 976:

_His_] Old ed. “’Tis.”

# 977:

_brave_] i. e. finely dressed.

# 978:

_starches yellow_] See notes, pp. 134, 422.

# 979:

_coranto_] See note, p. 627.

# 980:

_handfulls_] Altered by editor of 1816 to the more
correct form “hands full.”

# 981:

_passa-measures galliard_] A corruption of _passamezzo
galliard_. “The _Passamezzo_,” says Sir John Hawkins,
“(from _passer_, [_passare?_] to walk, and _mezzo_,
the middle or half,) is a slow dance, little differing
from the action of walking. As a galliard consists of
five paces or bars in the first strain, and is
therefore called a cinque-pace, the _passamezzo_,
which is a diminutive of the galliard, has just half
that number, and from that peculiarity takes its
name.” _Hist. of Music_, vol. iv. p. 386. In another
place of the same work, vol. ii. p. 134, Sir John
states that “every _pavan_ has its _galliard_, a
lighter kind of air made out of the former,” which,
observes Nares (_Gloss._ in v. _Pavan_), “leads
to the suspicion that _passy-measure pavan_ and
_passy-measure galliard_ were correlative terms, and
meant the two different measures of one dance.”

# 982:

_boy! dainty, fine springal!_] Old ed. “Boys—_Dainty
fine_ Springals;” but here Nicholao is the only
dancer: and so afterwards (p. 633), when he again
dances, Sinquapace exclaims “_dainty_ stripling!”—
_Springal_, i. e. youth, lad.

# 983:

_fortuna della guerra_] Old ed. “Fortune de la
guardo.” Editor of 1816 gives “fortune de la guerre.”

# 984:

_&c._] See note, vol. i. p. 252.

# 985:

_hose_] i. e. breeches.

# 986:

_sinquapace_] Properly _cinque-pace_: see note, p.
631.

# 987:

_coranto_] See note, p. 627.

# 988:

_her_] Old ed. “his.”

# 989:

_showrly_] i. e. surely—Aurelia affecting a rustic or
gipsy dialect.

# 990:

_likes_] i. e. pleases.

# 991:

_byrlady_] See note, p. 9.

# 992:

_property_] In Shirley’s _Wedding_ (_Works_, vol. i.
p. 397), “_property_ of your lust” is explained by
Gifford, “disguise, cloak for it.” In the present
passage, therefore, it may mean “the cloak for your
love to Lactantio;” but I believe it signifies nothing
more than—a thing to use at will for your convenience:
compare p. 598, l. 14.

# 993:

_temple_] “By ‘this temple’is meant her person: the
expression is taken from Scripture, but is rather too
solemn for the occasion.” Editor of 1816.

# 994:

_Page_] See note, p. 562: she enters, probably, on
some sign given by the duchess. The old ed. has no
stage-direction here.

# 995:

_villain_] Old ed. “villainy.”

# 996:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 997:

_womankind_] Old ed. “women_kind_.”

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Transcriber’s Note

The author shifted between prose speech and blank verse, sometimes in mid-speech. In this rendering, verse sections are given without blank lines between speeches, with an indentation for each speech.

Stage directions, except for entrances, can be:

in-line
in the middle of a line and delimited with ‘[ ]’,

end of line
right-justified on the same line (where there is room), with
only the leading ‘[’,

next line
right-justified on the following line, where there is
insufficent room, with a hanging indent, if necessary.

The same convention is followed here. Since this version is wider than the original, most directions are on the same line as the speech.

Entrances were centered and separated slightly from lines above and below. This is rendered here as a full blank line.

The footnote scheme used lettered references, repeating a-z. On numerous occasions, letters were repeated, and sometimes skipped. The numeric resequencing of notes here resolves those lapses. Footnotes are sometimes referred to directly in a footnote by its letter designation. The few direct references to a lettered note use the new numeric value.

Footnotes frequently refer to other notes, usually only by referring the the page where they can be found. Sometimes those cross-references are not accurate and the correct location cannot be ascertained. They are left unlinked.

Note 568 (_when_]) refers to a note on p. 164 of Volume I. The correct reference is to p. 164 in the current volume.

Note 1172 on p. 539 seems to refer to itself.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

223.35 See note, p. 1[0/9]8. Wrong page.
327.31 _when_] See note, [vol. i.] p. 164. Removed.
547.33 _Dict._ v. _Gastroraphy_.[”] Removed.

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THE HONEST WHORE.

Vol. iii. p. 9, l. 16.

_Curs’d be that day for ever_, &c.] In a note on Shakespeare’s _King John_, act iii. sc. 1, Henderson has pointed out the resemblance between this speech of Hippolito and that of Constance which begins,

“A wicked day, and not a holy day!” &c.

Vol. iii. p. 42, l. 20.

“CAS. Please you be here, my lord? [_Offers tobacco._”

This appears to have been the customary expression on such an occasion: in _Wine, Beere, Ale, and Tobacco, Contending for Superiority, a Dialogue_, we read,

“_Enter Tobaco._

_Tobaco._ Be your leaue gentlemen—wilt _please you be here_, sir?”

Sig. C 4. ed. 1630.

Vol. iii. p. 60, last line.

_ningle_] I have observed, in my note, that all the eds. except that of 1605 have “mingle.” Nares (who had not seen that rare edition), citing this passage, gives _Mingle_ in his _Gloss._ as a legitimate word; but I do not recollect to have met with such a form.

Vol. iii. p. 80, l. 26.

_turn Turk_] “Was,” says Gifford, “a figurative expression for a change of condition, or opinion.” Note on Massinger’s _Works_, vol. ii. p. 222, ed. 1813.

Vol. iii. p. 83, l. 9.

_orangado_] Should be “oringado” or “eringado:” _oringo_ was an old form of _eringo_.

Vol. iii. p. 91, l. 7.

“_A sister’s thread_, i’faith, had been enough.”

In Ford’s _Lady’s Trial_ is the same expression:

“A flake, no bigger than _a sister’s thread_,”

which Gifford too hastily altered to “a _spider’s_ thread,” _Works_, vol. ii. p. 306.—That “sister’s” is not a misprint, there can be no doubt: it seems to be a form of _sewster’s_.

“At euery twisted _thrid_ my rock let fly
Unto the _sewster_.”

B. Jonson’s _Sad Shepherd_—_Works_, vol. vi. p. 282, ed. Giff.

Vol. iii. p. 108, l. 25.

_We see you, old man, for all you dance in a net_] An allusion to the proverbial saying, “You dance in a net, and think nobody sees you.” Ray’s _Proverbs_, p. 5, ed. 1768.

Vol. iii. p. 115, l. 21.

_Bow a little_] i. e. bend your hand a little: so in _The Spanish Gipsy_, Alvarez, while telling the fortune of Louis, says to him, “Bend your hand thus:” see vol. iv. p. 149.

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THE SECOND PART OF THE HONEST WHORE.

Vol. iii. p. 152, l. 12.

_I’ll fly high, wench, hang toss!_] In this passage, says Gifford, “_toss_ is used in a way that would induce one to think it meant low play, or a hazard of petty sums.” Note on Massinger’s _Works_, vol. iii. p. 160, ed. 1813.

Vol. iii. p. 197, l. 9.

_a cob_] “A [silver] _Cob_ of Ireland, or a Peece of Eight, is worth four shilling eight pence. It is a Spanish Coin, not round but cornered, or nuke shotten, and passith according to its weight for more or less.” R. Holme’s _Ac. of Armory_, b. iii. c. ii. p. 30.

Vol. iii. p. 199, l. 3.

_Must I be fed with chippings? you’re best get a clapdish, and say you’re proctor to some spittle-house_] “It was once,” says Gifford, “the practice for beadles and other inferior parish officers, to go from door to door with a clap-dish, soliciting charity for those unhappy sufferers, who are now better relieved by voluntary subscriptions.” Note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. i. p. 44.

Vol. iii. p. 200, l. 3.

_old Cole_] Is the name of the sculler in the puppet-show of _Hero and Leander_, introduced into B. Jonson’s _Bartholomew Fair_, act v. sc. 3: see _Works_, vol. iv. p. 509 (note), and p. 520, ed. Gifford.

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THE WIDOW.

Vol. iii. p. 354, l. 3.

_improv’d_] Is right; meaning, as it frequently does, proved.

Vol. iii. p. 373, l. 22.

_And they’re both well provided for, they’re i’ th’ hospital_] “_Hospital_” ought to have been printed with a capital letter: for though the scene of the play is laid in Italy, yet the allusion (as Gifford observes, note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. i. p 41), is to Christ’s Hospital, whither, when it was first established, the foundlings taken up in the city were sent for maintenance and education.

Vol. iii. p. 383, l. 19.

_Come, my dainty doxies?_] I neglected to notice that this song is found entire in our author’s _More Dissemblers besides Women_: see p. 606 of the same volume.

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A FAIR QUARREL.

Vol. iii. p. 510, l. 11.

_from the six windmills to Islington_] “The third great Field from Moorgate, next to _the six Windmills_.” Stow’s _Survey_, b. iii. p. 70, ed. 1720.

Vol. iii. p. 514, l. 17.

_a quadrangular plumation_] Compare Vigon’s _Workes of Chirurgerie_, &c., 1571, where, treating of “tentes, lyntes, and bolsters” for wounds, he tells us that “some [_bolsters_] _bene quadrate_;” and a little after, “some moreouer vse _bolsters made of fethers_,” fol. cxiii.