[25] I can make nothing of this word, and suspect we should read "cry." [26] Quy. flewed (i.e. with large chaps)? Perhaps (as Mr. Fleay suggests) flocked = flecked. [27] Old ed. "fathers." [28] i.e. had I known. "A common exclamation of those who repented of anything unadvisedly undertaken."--Nares. [29] 4to. "tell." [30] Equivalent to a dissyllable (unless we read "damnèd"). [31] Baynard's Castle, below St. Paul's, was built by a certain Baynard who came in the train of William the Conqueror. It was rebuilt by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and was finally consumed in the Great Fire of London. [32] Perhaps this speech should be printed as verse. [33] Own. [34] 4to. "this." [35] 4to. "This." [36] 4to. "misguiseth." [37] _White_ was a term of endearment,--as in the common expression _white boy_. [38] 4to. "ease-dropping." [39] Dwell. [40] Deformed, ugly (lit. branded with an iron). [41] Cf. Middleton's _Trick to Catch the Old One_, V. 2:-- "And ne'er start To be let blood _though sign be at heart_;" on which passage Dyce remarks that "according to the directions for bleeding in old almanacs blood was to be taken from particular parts under particular planets." [42] Is admitted to "benefit of clergy." Harrison, in his _Description of England_, tells us that those who "are saved by their bookes and cleargie, are burned in the left hand, vpon the brawne of the thombe with an hot iron, so that if they be apprehended againe, that marke bewraieth them to have beene arraigned of fellonie before, whereby they are sure at that time to have no mercie. I doo not read that this custome of saving by the booke is vsed anie where else then in England; neither doo I find (after much diligent inquirie) what Saxon prince ordeined that lawe" (Book II. cap. xi.). See the article _Clergie_ in Cowell's _Interpreter_ (1637). [43] Brand. [44] Therefore acted by the Queen of Bohemia's Company who at that time occupied the Cockpit.--F.G. Fleay. [45] Some seven or eight years ago I pointed out in _Notes and Queries_ that the idea of this droll incident was taken from a passage of Timaeus of Tauromenium (see Athenaeus, _Deipnosoph_., ii. 5); but others--as I afterwards learned--had anticipated my discovery. [46] This and the following speech are marked for omission in the MS. [47] The words "Not so, frend," are scored through. [48] The words "_Frenshe_ monster" are scored through. [49] "Makarel" = maquerelle (a bawd). [50] This passage illustrates 2 _Henry IV_., iv. 2:--"This Doll Tearsheet should be some _road_." See my note on Middleton's _Your Five Gallants_ (Works, vol. iii. p. 220). [51] Small boats with narrow sterns (Fr. pinque). Cf. Heywood's _I Edward IV_.:--"Commend me to blacke _Luce_, bouncing _Bess_, and lusty _Kate_, and the other pretty morsels of man's flesh. Farewell, _pink_ and pinnace, flibote and carvel, _Turnbull_ and _Spittal_" (Works, i. 38). [52] Fast-sailing vessels (Span, filibote).