[129] In the MS. follows some conversation which has been scored through:-- "_Fisher_. Yes, syrrahe, and thy mayster. _Clown_. Then I have nothing at this tyme to do with thee. _Fisher_. Marry, a good motion: farewell and bee hangde. _Clown_. Wee are not so easly parted.--Is this your man?" [130] The following passage has been scored through in the MS.: "[_Ashb_.] Say, whats the stryfe? _Clown_. Marry, who fyrst shall speake. _Fisher_. Thats I. _Clown_. I appeale then to the curtesy due to a stranger. _Fisher_. And I to the right belonging to a ... what ere he says." [131] The MS. is broken away. [132] Penny. [133] The date has been scored through in the MS.: the number after "6" has been turned into "3," but seems to have been originally "0." In the margin "1530" is given as a correction. [134] Not marked in the MS. [135] This dialogue between Ashburne and the Clown is closely imitated from _Rudens_, iv. 6. [136] The words "Nowe ... scurvy tune" are scored through. [137] Old form of _digest_. [138] The words "will for mee" are a correction in the MS. for "at this tyme." [139] The MS. has:-- "Hee's now where hee's in Comons, wee ... ... Heare on this seate (nay hold your head up, _Jhon_, Lyke a goodd boy), freely discharged our selfes." In the first line "Hee's now where hee's" has been altered to "Hee's where hee is," and the two next lines have been cancelled. [140] The reader will remember a somewhat similar incident in the _Jew of Malta_, iv. 3, and in a well-known tale of the _Arabian Nights_. [141] In the left-hand margin of the MS. is written "_Fry: Jo: nod_."--i.e., Friar John totters from the blow. Beneath "nod" is the word "arras," which has been scored through. [142] i.e., I have't. [143] The exclamation of old Hieronimo's ghost in Kyd's _Spanish Tragedy_. Cf. Induction to _Warning for Fair Women_:-- "Then, too, a filthy whining ghost Lapt in some foul sheet, or a leather pilch, Comes screaming like a pig half stick'd, And cries, _Vindicta_!--Revenge, Revenge!" [144] "_Bases_, s.pl.--A kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from the middle to about the knees, or lower, worn by knights on horseback."--_Nares_. [145] In the right-hand margin is written "_Fact: Gibson_"--Gibson being the name of the actor who took the Factor's part. [146] Not marked in the MS. [147] _Quart d'écu_--a fourth part of a crown. [148] A quibble on the _aurum potabile_ of the old pharmacists. --F.G. Fleay. [149] In the MS. is a marginal note, "_Stagekeepers as a guard_." [150] Sarleboyes' speeches are scored through in the MS. [151] This speech is scored through. [152] Mopper of a vessel. [153] A not uncommon corruption of _Mahomet_. [154] "Sowse" = (1) halfpenny (Fr. sou), (2) blow. In the second sense the word is not uncommonly found; in the first sense it occurs in the ballad of _The Red Squair_--