"Many gentlemen Are not, as in the days of understanding, Now satisfied without a jig, which since They cannot, with their honour, call for after The Play, they look to be serv'd up in the middle: Your dance is the best language of some comedies And footing runs away with all; a scene Express'd with life of art and squared to nature Is dull and phlegmatic poetry." --Works (ed. Gifford and Dyce), ii. 339. [86] MS. him. [87] The name of the musician, I suppose; but the reading of the MS. is somewhat illegible. [88] The passage at first ran as follows: "Umh, how long have I slept, or am I buried and walke in Elizium as the poets faine? Goe to, where are they? in the ayre? I can percieve nothing nor remember anything has been don or said!" [89] '_Grimes_. Soe, now retire a little. Ile play him one fitt of mirthe on my trebble to rouse him. _Ext_.' These words occur in the left-hand margin. Probably they should stand here in the text 'Ext.' may mean either '_exeunt_' (musicians) or '_exit_' (_Grimes_ to disguise himself). [90] 'Who are these! ha! the towne waits? why, how now, my masters, whats the matter, ha?'--Passage cancelled in MS. [91] 'Bakside' is a correction (in the MS.) for 'buttock.' [92] "Here Gent[lemen], share this amongst yee and pray for Grimes." These words (addressed to the musicians) follow in the MS. but have been scored through. [93] The MS. gives "aurescion." [94] The reading of the MS. seems to be "inuolute." Mr. Fleay suggests "invocate." [95] The repetition of 'loath' in the next line is suspicious. [96] The arrangement of the verse is not easy: perhaps we should read-- 'Wishes for husband. A proper Gent[leman]; Ime happy She has made so iuditious an election.' Our author usually makes a trisyllable of "gentleman"; here it counts only as a monosyllable. [97] Between this word and the next there is a mark of omission in the MS., and the words "t'were Sir" have been written above. [98] What follows, to the entrance of _Thurston_, is marked to be omitted. I have thought fit to restore it to the text. "Here's Mr. _Thurston,"_ concludes Clariana's speech. [99] Cf. a similar passage in Glapthorne's _Wit in a Constable_ (Works, I. 182):-- "a limber fellow, Fit onely for deare _Nan_, his schoole-fellow, A Grocer's daughter borne in _Bread-street_, with Whom he has used to goe to _Pimblico_ And spend ten groats in cakes and Christian ale." From Shirley we learn that the apprentices took their pleasure in the mild form of treating their sweethearts to cream and prunes:-- "You have some festivals, I confess, but when They happen, you run wild to the next village, Conspire a knot and club your groats apiece For cream and prunes, not daring to be drunk." (_Honoria and Mammon_, v. i.).