[210] The actors' names, "Mr. Rob." and "Mr. Rice," are written in the right-hand margin. [211] A term of contempt, like "poor John." [212] To set up one's rest, meant, as has been abundantly shown by Shakespearean commentators, to stand upon one's cards at _primero_; but the word "pull" in this connexion is not at all easy to explain. The general sense of the present passage is plain: "Is my life held in such paltry esteem that slaves are allowed to gamble for it as for a stake at cards?" We have nowhere a plain account of _primero_. When the "Compleat Gamester" was published (in 1674) the game had been discontinued. The variety of quotations given by Nares, under _Primero_ and _Rest_, is simply distracting. There are two passages (apud Nares) of Fletcher's bearing on the present difficulty:-- "My _rest is up_, wench, and I _pull_ for that Will make me ever famous." _Woman's Prize_, I. 2. "Faith, sir, my _rest is up_, And what I now _pull_ shall no more afflict me Than if I play'd at span-counter." _Monsieur Thomas_, IV. 9. Dyce accepts Nares' suggestion that _pull_ means to _draw a card_; but if a player is standing on his cards, why should he want to draw a card? There is an old expression, to "pull down a side," i.e. to ruin one's partner (by bad play); and I am inclined to think that to "pull at a rest" in _primero_ meant to try to pull down (beat, go beyond) the player who was standing on his cards. The first player might say, "My rest is up"; the other players might either discard or say, "See it"; then the first player would either "revie" it (cover with a larger sum) or throw up his cards. At length--for some limitation would have been agreed upon--the challenger would play his cards, and the opponents would "pull at his rest"--try to break down his hand. I am not at all sure that this is the proper explanation; but _pull_ in the text cannot possibly mean _draw a card_. [213] The body of Leydenberg was not exposed until two days after Barneveld's execution. [214] Charles I. was particularly anxious that these trained bands should be made as efficient as possible, In the "Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as the Remembrancia" (printed for the Corporation of the City of London, 1878) there are several letters from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mayor on this subject (pp. 533-9). The Directions sent round to the Lord Lieutenants (An. 1638) concerning the Trained Bands of the several counties are given in Rushworth's _Historical Collections_, Part 2, vol. i. p. 790. [215] An allusion, of course, to Bardolph's famous definition of "accommodated" (2 _Henry IV_., iii. 2).