M. MERRY. Ye are another yourself, sir, the Lord us both save; Albeit in this matter I must your pardon crave. Alas! would ye wish in me the wit that ye have? But, as for my fault, I can quickly amend: I will show Custance it was I that did offend. R. ROISTER. By so doing her anger may be reformed. M. MERRY. But if by no entreaty she will be turned, Then set light by her, and be as testy as she, And do your force upon her with extremity. R. ROISTER. Come on therefore; let us go home in sadness. M. MERRY. That if force shall need, all may be in readiness.[137] And as for this letter, hardily let all go; We will know, whe'er she refuse you for that or no. [_Exeant amb._ FOOTNOTES: [102] Truepenny goes out here, but the old copy omits his _exit_.--_Cooper._ [103] [Original, _her_.] [104] [Shield.] [105] A fool or blockhead. See act v., scenes 2 and 5. "Cough me a fool" is common in old plays.--_Cooper._ [106] A bird-bolt, a short, thick arrow, with a blunt head, chiefly made use of to kill rooks. It appears to have been looked upon as an emblem of dulness. So in Marston's "What you Will," 1607-- "Ignorance should shoot His gross-knobb'd _bird-bolt_." [107] [Chop-logic.] [108] "The divell is in th' _orloge_, the houres to trye: Searche houres by the sun, the devylls dyall will lie." --Heywood's _Proverbs_. --_Cooper._ [109] A jostle. [110] Mocked or devised for a lout. See "First Part of Henry VI.," act iv., scene 3.--_Cooper._ [111] A proverbial expression of heedless jollity. See the Induction to the "Taming of the Shrew," where _Sly_ exclaims: "_Paucas pallabris_; let the world slide; Sessa!"--_Cooper._ [112] See the Psalmody at the end of the Comedy.--_Cooper._ [113] Executor. [114] See the end of the Comedy.--_Cooper._ [115] [Swoon.] [116] [Original, _courage_.] [117] Voice. [118] Walking with an air or swing. [119] Formerly applied to any kind of obeisance, either of man or woman.--_Cooper._ [120] [Original gives this line to Merrygreek.] [121] The re-entry is not marked in the old copy.--_Cooper._ [122] See the fourth song at the end of the Comedy.--_Cooper._ [123] _i.e._, If you will have us, have us.--_Cooper._ [124] This is the passage quoted by T. Wilson in his "Rule of Reason, conteinyng the arte of Logique," printed by Grafton in 1551.--_Cooper._ [125] [Jesus.] [126] In faith: from the French, _foy_.--_Cooper._ [127] In earnest--heartily. So in Marlow's "Rich Jew of Malta," 1633, act ii., sc. 3 [sign. E 2, _verso_]-- "I have laugh'd _a good_ to see the cripples Goe limping home to Christendome on stilts."--_Cooper._