"Our informant assured us that--'Shakespeare as had a playus nigh there, used to use that wery 'ouse; him as writ the Merchant of Venice, Money, and the Forest of Bondy.' Our kind friend was interrupted by a companion, who said, 'Not Bondy: him didn't write that.' 'I won't give up Money, because the Merchant of Venice is all about Money. You better say he didn't write Richard the Third and Richard the Fourth.' "We gladly retired before our historic doubts were confirmed by this traditional scholar, about this double Gloucester. His companion, as we thought rather aptly, but churlishly remarked, 'cheese it,' for they were both getting grumpy, and after this duplicate, we were fearful a fifth or a sixth might appear. But the house itself, one among the oldest in Southwark, we considered worthy a sketch, and, as our guide told us, ought to be '_perpetrated_.' He said he could pull a bit, but draw he couldn't; but he did--that is, four-pence for beer." [3] PRICK-SONG, music pricked or noted down, full of flourish and variety.--_Halliwell._ [4] NOISE.--A set, or company of musicians. "_These terrible noyses, with threadbare cloaks_,"--_Decker's Bellman, of London_, 1608. [5] _Pie-Poudre._ A court formerly held at a fair for the rough-and-ready treatment of pedlars and hawkers, to compel them and those with whom they dealt to fulfil their contracts. This court arose from the necessity of doing justice expeditiously, among persons resorting from distant places to a fair or market. It is said to be called the court of _pie-poudre, curia, pedis pulverizate_, from the dusty feet of the suitors, or, as Sir Edward Coke says, because justice is there done as speedily as dust can fall from the feet. [6] _The Tune of Wotton Towns End_, is the same as "Peg a' Ramsey," mentioned by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, and is at least as old as 1589. It is also in "Robin Good-Fellow: His Mad Pranks, And Merry Jests, Full of Honest Mirth, &c., 1628."