[236] Old copy, _whaler_. [237] Old copy, _or_. [238] Jury. Compare Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," ii. 149. [239] Here probably the word means literally _briber_; but _bribour_ also means _a thief_. See Way's edition of the "Promptorium," p. 50, and Halliwell in _v. Brybe_ and _brybour_. [240] Old copy, _intided_. [241] In the old copy, this and the following line are transposed, and some of the speeches are wrongly addressed. [242] Old copy, _in_. [243] Old copy, _none_. [244] Old copy, _hanged_. [245] Old copy, _neder_. [246] Old copy, _ever_. [247] Swoon. [248] See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iv. 239. The term _goldylocks_, curiously enough, seems to have been in early use in a contemptuous or bad sense. [249] Old copy, _bid_. [250] Old copy, _exhorting_. [251] Old copy, _yea_. [252] Old copy, _is_. [253] Old copy, _cam me mery?_ [254] This marginal note has partly been cut off by the binder:-- resyng, _answer- ing other t always_ staff, , ysing to _other_. [255] Reprove. [256] The colophon is: Imprinted at London, in Paules Churche yearde at the Sygne of the Swane by John Kyng. [257] From the time he calls. [258] A young deer. "_Tegge or pricket, saillant_"--Palsgrave's _Eclaircissement_, 1530 (edit. 1852, p. 279). [259] Jerks with the whip. [260] Old copy, _wourne_. [261] i.e., Mankind, masculine, furious. [262] Stranger. A more usual form is _fremed_. [263] The meaning seems to be obvious enough; but the word is not to be found in our glossaries. [264] Halliwell mentions this word; but none of his interpretations suits the present context. [265] Old copy, _stomachere_. [266] Defile. [267] Abided. [268] Old copy, _even_. [269] Old copy, _as_. [270] Old copy, _once_. [271] Referring to the speech below. In the old copy this direction is printed in the margin, and such is, no doubt, its most suitable position. [272] Old copy, _once our_. Perhaps we ought to read _sour_. [273] Staffing or forcing, the same kind of thing as we now know under the name of _forced_ meat. [274] Old copy, _Mido_. [275] Servant. [276] Jolly, Fr. _joli_. [277] Forestalled. [278] Wretches. [279] Lose no time. [280] Late. [281] _To have on the petticoat_ is a phrase of very unusual occurrence, of which the sense may, without much difficulty or risk of error, be collected from the context. [282] Ragan and the others must be supposed to be at the back of the stage, out of Esau's sight; but they come forward severally, and plead for themselves. [283] Run. [284] i.e., Old witch. But compare Halliwell, _v. Mab_. [285] Old copy, _Rebecca_. [286] A word of contempt often used in our old comedies, as we now employ _chap_. [287] _In the old copy this line is improperly given to Isaac_.