[288] "Fortune, my foe, why doest thou frown on me?" is the first line of an old ballad. [289] Not marked in old ed. [290] Old ed. "Tis." [291] "Unreadie" = undressed. [292] To the christening. [293] There is no stage-direction in the old ed. [294] Old ed. "foole." [295] "Duns the mouse"--a proverbial expression. See Dyce's _Shakespeare Glossary_. [296] Old ed. "a close." [297] Not marked in old ed. [298] i.e. _bezzling_, tippling. [299] "Well nigh whittled, almost drunke, somewhat _overseen_." --_Colgrave_. [300] Not marked in old ed. [301] Contracted. [302] An allusion to the proverbial expression, _Wit without money_. [303] An old form of "apron." [304] The citizens of London continued to wear flat caps (and encountered much ridicule in consequence) long after they were generally disused. [305] Not marked in old ed. [306] Not marked in old ed. [307] Old form of _digestion_. [308] Old ed. "Philantus." [309] More. [310] Old ed. "_Phylantus." [311] Quy. "and, swilling those bowels [bowls], Death did," &c.? [312] Old ed. "him himselfe." [313] See note [288].--In old ed. the words are given to _Grac_. [314] See note [295]. [315] Hip-bone. [316] Old ed. "are are." [317] Virg. _Ecls_. iv. 1. 49. _Bovis_ is of course an intentional misquotation for _Jovis_. [318] Honest. [319] Old ed. "prig"; but on p. 375 we have "a mad merie grig." [320] The _City of Niniveh_ and _Julius Caesar_ were famous puppet-shows. [321] Not marked in old ed. [322] Old ed. "and." [323] Old ed. "_Cittie Wife_." [324] This speech is printed as verse in the old ed. [325] Old ed. "witnesses." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., by Editor: A.H. Bullen