"It greivit him sair that day I trow With Sir John Hinrome of Schipsydehouse, For cause we were not men enow He counted us not worth a _souse_." We have this word again on p. 208, "Not a _sowse_ less then a full thousand crownes." [155] Prison. [156] A quibble. "Points" were the tags which held up the breeches. [157] This line is scored through. [158] Old form of _convert_. [159] _Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as the Remembrancia_ (printed for the Corporation of London in 1878), pp. 215-16. [160] See _Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1611-18, p. 207. [161] See Gilford's note on _The Devil is an Ass_, ii. 1; _Remembrancia_, p. 43; _Cal. of State Papers, Domestic_, 1611-18. [162] Quy. "true"? [163] Esteem, weigh. [164] The old ed. gives: "Ile trie your courage--draw." The last word was undoubtedly intended for a stage-direction. [165] Equivalent, as frequently, to a dissyllable. [166] Exclamations. [167] Vile. [168] Not marked in the old ed. [169] Old ed. "fate." [170] Old ed. "brought." [171] Old ed. "wood."--"_Anno 35 Reginae (Eliz.)_ ... A License to _William Aber_, To Sow _Six Hundred_ Acres of Ground with _Oade_ ... A Patent to _Valentise Harris_, To Sow _Six Hundred_ Acres of Ground with _Woade_."--Townshend's _Historical Collections_, 1680, p. 245. [172] See my remarks in the Introduction. [173] So the old ed. The metrical harshness may be avoided by reading "And by this sword and crownet have resign'd" (or "And by this coronet and sword resign"). [174] Owns. [175] Old ed. "Gorges."--I suppose there is an allusion, which must not be taken too literally, to the story of Candaules and Gyges (see Herodotus, lib. i. 8). [176] This is the unintelligible reading of the old ed.--"This action, _sure_, breeds" &c., would be hardly satisfactory. [177] Lucian tells a story of a youth who fell in love with Praxiteles' statue of Aphrodite: see _Imagines_, § 4. He tells the story more elaborately in his _Amores_. [178] Concert. [179] Old ed. "denie." [180] Before this line the old ed. gives the prefix "_Val_." Perhaps a speech of Montano has dropped out. [181] Old ed. "although no a kin." [182] Old ed. "_light_ fall soft." Probably the poet originally wrote "light," and afterwards wrote "fall" above as a correction (or "light" may have been caught by the printer's eye from the next line). [183] _Doorkeeper_ was a common term for a pander. [184] Skin. [185] Old ed. "crowne."--My correction restores the sense and gives a tolerable rhyme to "heare." Cf. p. 262. "And in this Chaire, prepared for a Duke, Sit, my bright Dutchesse." [186] Old ed. "_Exit_." [187] Old ed. "have her honour." [188] In the Parliament of 1601 Sir Walter Raleigh and others vigorously denounced the exportation of ordnance. See Townshend's _Historical Collections_, 1680, pp. 291-5. [189] "Letters of Mart" = letters of marque. [190] Old ed. "now." [191] Old ed. "when." ("Then" = than.)