408. i.e., _Cyprus_; thin stuff of which women's veils were made. So in Shakspeare's "Winter's Tale," A. 4, S. 3-- "Lawn as white as driven snow, _Cyprus_ black as any crow." Again, in "Twelfth Night"-- "A _cyprus_, not a bosom Hides my poor heart."--_S_. 409. i.e., Rollers in which infants were _swathed_. So, in "Timon of Athens"-- "Had thou, like us, from thy first _swath_," &c.--_S_. 410 _Uprising_, edit. 1569. 411. _Frontal_, Fr., a _frontlet_, or _forehead band_.--_Cotgrave_. A _frontlet_ is mentioned as part of a woman's dress in Lyly's "Midas," 1592: "Hoods, _frontlets_, wires, cauls, curling-irons, periwigs, bodkins, fillets, hair laces, ribbons, rolls, knotstrings, glasses," &c. See also Mr Steevens's note on "King Lear," A. 1, S. 4. 412. Ruffs or bands for women. See Glossary to Douglas's "Translation of Virgil." 413. Little bodkins or puncheons.--_Cotgrave_, voce _pinçonnet_. 414. _It_, edit. 1569. 415. _Prycke_, 1st edit. 416. _They be_, edit. 1569. 417. _Wood_ signifies _mad, furious_, or _violent_. So, in Aseham's "Toxophilus" [1545, repr. Arber, p. 56], "Howe will you thinke that such furiousness, with _woode_ countenaunce and brenning eyes, with staringe and bragging, with heart redie to leape out of the belly for swelling, can be expressed ye tenth part to the vttermost" (Churchyard's "Worthiness of Wales," p. 103, Evans's edit., 1776). "It flowes with winde, although no rayne there bee. And swelles like sea, with waves and foming flood: A wonder sure to see this river Dee, With winde alone, to wax so wild and _wood_, Make such a sturre, as water would be mad, And shewe such life, as though some spreete it had." 418. _Swere_, edit. 1569. 419. _Wyl_, edit. 1569. Neither edition reads _wyl_, nor _wil_, but _wolde.--Collier_. 420. The oldest copy has it "as _nyche_ as ye wyll," and the edition of 1569, "as nie as ye wilt;" perhaps the meaning is "as _much_ as you will."--Collier. [More probably _nice_, which word seems to have borne a somewhat different pronunciation formerly. Compare a passage in Ingelend's "Disobedient Child"-- "Even as to a greate man, wealthy and ryche, Service and bondage is a harde thynge, So to a boye, both dayntie and _nyce_," where _nyce_ must be pronounced _nyche_, though not so spelled.] 421. _Fall_, 1st edit. 422. Pay down. 423. Ready; _pret_, Fr. So in "Caesar and Pompey," 1607: "What must be; Caesar's _prest_ for all." See a note on "The Merchant of Venice," A. 1, S. 1.--_S_. Again Churchyard's "Challenge," 1593, p. 80-- "Then shall my mouth, my muse, my pen, and all, Be _prest_ to serve at each good subject's call." Cynthia's "Revels," A. 5, S. 4-- "I am _prest_ for the encounter." 424. The reckoning. See Mr Steevens's note to "The First Part of King Henry IV.," A. 5, S. 3.