[48] "One being condemned to be shot to death for a rape: the maid [sic] in favour of his life was content to beg him for her husband. Which being condiscended unto by the Judge, _according to the lawe of Spaine in that behalfe_: in steps me the hangman all in a chafe and said unto the Judge. Howe (I pray you, sir) can that be, seeing the stake is already in the ground, the rope, the arrowes, the Archers all in a readines, and heere I am come for him." (Anthony Copley's _Wits, Fits, and Fancies_, 1614, p. 120.) Here is another merry tale, with rather more point in it, from the same collection:--"A fellow being to suffer, a maide came to the gallowes to beg him for her husband, according as the custome of _Spaine_ dispenceth in that case. The people seeing this said unto the fellow: Now praise God that he hath thus mercifullie preserv'd thee, and see thou ever make much of this kinde woman that so friendly saves thy life. With that the Fellow viewing her and seeing a great skarre in her face, which did greatlie disfigure her, a long nose, thin lips and of a sowre complexion, hee said unto the Hangman: On (my good friend) doe thy duty: Ile none of her." (p. 160.) [49] Cf. _Rom. and Jul_., I., iii., 76, "Why, he's a man of wax," where Dr. Ingleby (who has no doubt learnt better by this time) once took the meaning to be, "a man of puberty, a proper man." Steevens happily compared Horace's "_cerea_ Telephi brachia." [50] The old spelling for "bawbles." [51] "Slug. A ship which sails badly." Halliwell. I cannot recall another instance of the use of the word in this sense. [52] The "trundle-bed" (or "truckle-bed") was a low bed moving on castors. In the day-time it was placed under the principal or "high" bed: at night it was drawn out to the foot of the larger bed. Vid. Nares, sub "truckle bed" and "trundle bed." [53] The reading of the MS. is unintelligible. For _All_. I would read _Alq_., and for "Law you?"--by a very slight change--"Love you?" (the question being addressed to Henrico). Then what follows is intelligible. [54] "Flay" is usually, if not always, written "flea" in old authors. [55] MS. "For 3 hellish sins:" the word "For" is no doubt repeated from _Fer_. [56] The passage might be tortured into verse, somewhat as follows:-- "Nay but Shall I not be acquainted with your designe? When we must marry, Faith, to save charges of two wedding dinners, Lets cast so that one day may yield us bridegroome,-- I to the daughter, thou to the mother." [57] We ought, no doubt, to read "professed,"--a trisyllable. [58] An allusion is intended to the tailor's "hell,"--the hole under the counter. [59] _Vide_ note on Vol. I., p. 175. [60] MS. tracning.