[88] "Who ever lov'd," &c.--A well-known line from Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_. [89] There is no stage-direction in the MS. [90] Adulterous.--So Heywood in _The English Traveller_, iii. 1,-- "Pollute the Nuptiall bed with _Michall_ [i.e. mechal] sinne." Again in Heywood's _Rape of Lucreece_, "Men call in witness of your _mechall_ sin." [91] This speech is scored through in the MS. [92] "Whytinge mopp" = young whiting. The term was often applied to a girl. See Nares' _Glossary_. [93] In the MS. follow two lines that have been scored through:-- "And not deteine, for feare t'bee to my cost, Though both my kisse and all my paynes be lost." [94] _Widgeon_ (like _woodcock_) is a term for a simpleton. [95] In the MS. follow two lines which have been so effectually scored through that I can only read an occasional word. [96] In the MS. follows a cancelled passage:-- "_Mild_ Had not thy greater fraught bin shipt with myne We had never been oversett. _Sarl_. I rather think Had ... when fyrst the shippe began to dance ... thrown all the curst Lading over-board Wee had still light and tight." [97] The word _burn_ is frequently used in an indelicate sense. [98] Keys of the virginal (a musical instrument resembling a spinnet). [99] This speech is scored through in the MS. [100] The words "Heeres sweet stuffe!" are scored through. [101] This line is scored through. [102] Kill. [103] In the left-hand margin of the MS. is a stage-direction in advance:--"_Fellowes ready. Palestra, Scribonia, with Godfrey, Mildew, Sarly_." [104] Not marked in the MS. [105] MS. "when." [106] In the left-hand margin of the MS. is a note:--"_Gib: Stage Taylor_." [107] "Too arch-pillers" = two desperate ruffians. "Pill" = ravage, plunder. [108] "_Il a esté au festin de Martin baston_, he hath had a triall in _Stafford Court_, or hath received Jacke Drums intertainment." --_Colgrave_. [109] From this point to the entrance of Raphael the dialogue is scored through in the MS. [110] The reading of the MS. is doubtful. [111] "Guarded" = trimmed, ornamented. [112] This speech is scored through in the MS. [113] Not marked in the MS. [114] Not marked in the MS. [115] "Anythinge for a quiett lyfe"--a proverbial expression: the title of one of Middleton's plays. [116] So I read at a venture. The MS. appears to give "Inseinge." [117] Not marked in the MS. In the right-hand margin is written "clere," i.e., clear the stage for the next act. [118] A _fisgig_ was a sort of harpoon. [119] "Poore Jhon" = inferior hake. [120] This and the two following speeches are marked for omission in the MS. [121] A nickname (from the apostle Peter) for a fisherman. [122] A small box or portmanteau. [123] Owns. [124] This speech and the next are marked for omission. [125] Fish-baskets. [126] The rest of the speech is marked for omission. [127] Bawd. [128] i.e., _Exeunt Palestra, Scribonia, and Godfrey: manet Ashburne_.