[182] 'Lacrymae'--one of the many allusions to John Dowland's musical work of that name. [183] 'Laugh and lay down' (more usually written 'lie down') was the name of a game at cards. A prose-tract by 'C.T.,' published in 1605, is entitled 'Laugh and Lie Down: or the World's Folly.' The expression, it need hardly be said, is often used in a wanton sense. [184] 4to. joyes. [185] Quy. prove. [186] Much of this scene is found, almost word for word, in colloquy 4 of John Day's _Parliament of Bees_. [187] One of the characters in the _New Inn_ is Fly, 'the Parasite of the Inn'; and in the _Virgin Martyr_ (ii. 2) we also find the word 'fly' used (like Lat. musca) for an inquisitive person. In the text I suspect we should read 'fly-about' for flye-boat. [188] 'Blacke gard' was the name given to the lowest drudges who rode amongst the pots and pans in royal processions: vid. Gifford's _Jonson_, II. 169. [189] The compositor seems to have been dozing: the word 'Vaw' points to the reading 'Vaward,' and probably the passage ran--'this the Vaward, this the Rearward.' [190] 'Totter'd' i.e. tatter'd. Cf. _Richard II_. (iii. 3) 'the castle's totter'd battlements' (the reading of the 4to.; the Folios give 'tatter'd'). In _King John_ (v. 5) I think, with Staunton, that the expression 'tott'ring colours' means 'drooping colours' rather than, as usually explained, 'tattered.' [191] 'Spurn-point--An old game mentioned in a curious play called _Apollo Shroving_, 12mo., Lond. 1627, p. 49.' Halliwell. [192] 'Grandoes'--I find the word so spelt in Heywood's _A Challenge for Beauty_--'I, and I assure your Ladiship, ally'de to the best Grandoes of _Spaine_.' (_Works_, v. 18.) [193] 4to. _Albia_. [194] Cornego is telling the Captain to 'duck'--to make his bow--to Onaelia. [195] Nares quotes from the _Owles Almanacke_, 1618, p. 6, an allusion to this worthy,--'Since the _German fencer_ cudgell'd most of our English fencers, now about 5 moneths past.' [196] It is hardly necessary to remind the reader that 'bastard' was the name of a sweet Spanish wine. [197] 'Goll'--A cant expression for 'hand': it is found continually in our old writers. [198] The words 'Some scurvy thing, I warrant' should no doubt be given to Cornego. [199] The conversation between Onaelia and the Poet very closely resembles, in parts, _Character_ 5 of John Day's _Parliament of Bees_. [200] 4to lanch. [201] 'The Hanging Tune' i.e. the tune of 'Fortune my Foe,' to which were usually sung ballads relating to murders. The music of 'Fortune my Foe,' is given in Mr. Chappell's 'Popular Music of the Olden Time'; and the words may be seen in the 'Bayford Ballads' (edited by Mr. Ebsworth, our greatest master of ballad-lore). [202] Cf. Dekker's _Match me in London_ (Dramatic Works, iv. 180)--