[245] Not marked in old ed. [246] Breeches that came below the garters. [247] I am unable to mend this passage. [248] Old ed. "looke."--Perhaps we should read "With him--ah, looke! looke!--the bright," &c. [249] Old ed. "if they twang." [250] Not marked in old ed. [251] This is Mr. Fleay's correction for old ed.'s "Conceale." [252] Old ed. "In on the scale." [253] Not marked in old ed. [254] See note [85] in vol. II. [255] I suspect that we should read "my humour," and that the rest of the speech should be given to Flavia. [256] The small bowl--the "Jack"--at which the players aimed in the game of bowls. [257] Old ed. "_Scil_." [258] Old ed. "_Sernulus_." [259] An allusion to the _Sententiae Pueriles_ of Dionysius Cato, a famous old school-book. [260] Not marked in old ed. [261] Old ed. "minited." [262] The first words of a charming song printed in Bateson's _Madrigals_, 1604. Here is the song as I find it printed in the excellent collection of _Rare Poems_ (1883) edited by my honoured friend, Mr. W.J. Linton:-- "Sister, awake! close not your eyes! The day its light discloses: And the bright Morning doth arise Out of her bed of roses. See! the clear Sun, the world's bright eye, In at our window peeping! Lo, how he blusheth to espy Us idle wenches sleeping. Therefore, awake, make haste, I say, And let us without staying, All in our gowns of green so gay Into the park a-maying." [263] "A sort of game played with cards or dice. Silence seems to have been essential at it; whence its name. Used in later times as a kind of proverbial term for being silent."--_Nares_. [264] Embrace. [265] Cf. _Titus Andronicus_, v. 1, "As true a dog as ever fought at head." In bear-bating dogs were incited by the cry _To head, to head_! See my edition of Marlowe, iii. 241. [266] Artery. [267] The sword of Sir Bevis of Southampton; hence a general term for a sword. [268] Lint applied to wounds. [269] The mixture of muscadine and eggs was esteemed a powerful provocative. [270] A corruption of _Span_. "buenos noches"--good night. [271] Old ed. "_Philantus_." [272] Old ed. "earely." [273] Bellafront in Pt. II. of _The Honest Whore_, iv. 1, says-- "I, though with face mask'd, could not scape the _hem_." [274] Old ed. "let." [275] Old form of _pish_. [276] _Guard_ = fringe. The coats of Fools were _guarded_. [277] "Till death us _de_part"--so the form stood in the marriage-service; now modernised to "do part." [278] Quean. [279] Not marked in old ed. [280] Not marked in old ed. [281] I have added the bracketed words; the sense requires them. [282] A musical term.--"The running a simple strain into a great variety of shorter notes to the same modulation."--_Nares_. [283] Not marked in old ed. [284] Old ed. "Ye faith." [285] Old ed. "valley." [286] Old ed. "_Flau_." [287] Old ed. "_Tul_."