“You codshed, you _cracke-rope_, you chattering pye.” --_Apius and Virginia_, sign. B. Again in that very rare play, “The Two Italian Gentlemen”-- “Then let him be led through every streete in the town, That every _crackrope_ may fling rotten egs at the clown.” --_Collier_. [See also Tarlton’s “Jests,” 1611 (“Old English Jest-Books,” ii., p. 211).] [86] [Old edition, _which_.] [87] [Old editions have _monckes_.] [88] [Old editions have _pantacle_.] I suppose he means to say a _pantofle_--_i.e._, a slipper. Perhaps he begins his attack with a kick.--_S._ The second edition reads-- “Even heere with a _faire_ pantacle I will you disgrace,” an epithet not found in the oldest copy, and hardly consistent with the supposition that _pantacle_ means _pantofle_.--_Collier_. [Probably, a slap on the face.] [89] _Geve_, second edition. [90] More properly _touch-box_. While match-locks, instead of fire-locks, to guns were used, the _touch-box_, at which the match was lighted, was part of the accoutrement of a soldier. “When she his flask and _touch-box_ set on fire.” Line of an author, whose name I cannot at this time recollect.--_Steevens_. [91] A Dottrel is a silly kind of bird which imitates the actions of the fowler, till at last he is taken. If the fowler stretches out a leg, the bird will do so to. So, in Butler’s “Character of a Fantastic (_Remains_, vol. ii., p. 132)”: “He alters his gate with the times, and has not a motion of his body that (_like a Dottrel_) he does not borrow from somebody else.” See also Jonson’s “Devil is an Ass,” iv., 6, and Dyce’s “Beaumont and Fletcher,” iii., 79, and v., 64. [92] [Original here has _Cobex epi_. Colliers used to be nick-named _Carry-coals_. See Hazlitt’s “Proverbs,” p. 98.] [93] [Do up, open.] [94] [For the supply of the court, or _Bouche de la cour_.] [95] _It was you_, first edition. [96] _Doth_, second edition].