C. CUSTANCE. Not now, but when I need to send, I will be bold. [_Exeat._ I thank you for these pains. And now I will get me in. Now Roister Doister will no more wooing begin. [_Ex._ FOOTNOTES: [138] Welfare. Udall uses the word in this sense in his letter to the Cornish men.--_Cooper._ [139] In seriousness. [140] In jest. [141] Disliked or resented. See "Antony and Cleopatra," act iii., scene 4.--_Cooper._ [142] So in "The Maid's Metamorphosis," 1600; "In vain, I fear, _I beat my brains_ about." These expressions have the same signification as the "_Cudgel thy brains no more about it_," of the _First Gravedigger_ in "Hamlet."--_Cooper._ [143] A pitiful, worthless fellow. See "Winter's Tale," act ii., sc. 3.--_Cooper._ [144] No matter. [145] These words, not in the old copy, are necessary for the rhyme.--_Cooper._ [146] His entrance is not marked in the original.--_Cooper._ [147] Cuff. In Tim Bobbin's "Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect," a _coil_ is explained by "a lump raised on the head by a blow." See also Brockett's "Glossary of North Country Words."--_Cooper._ [148] [Passion.] [149] _I can._ See _ante_. [150] Slower, graver. [151] Now, once for all. [152] _i.e._, So fierce. A sow at certain seasons is said _to go to brim_-- "They foughten _breme_ as it were bolles two." --_Cooper._ Chaucer, _Knight's Tale_, line 1701. [153] Allow. [154] A sheep. Cotswold (pronounced Cotsold) is an old word for a sheepcote. Hence the name of the hills in Gloucestershire.--_Cooper._ [155] To assemble. It is used by Bacon in his "History of Henry the Seventh," p. 68, fol. 1629.--_Cooper._ [156] [Old copy, _and_.] [157] [Abide by the bargain.] [158] _i.e._, Be not reconciled to her.--_Cooper._ [159] A small gun, perhaps a corruption of _popgun_.--_Cooper._ [160] The exit and re-entry of Dobinet are not marked in the old copy.--_Cooper._ [161] To protect or guard. In "Richard II.," act i., sc. 3, the expression is-- "Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive!"--_Cooper._ [162] T. Trusty is the prefix to this and the following line in the old copy, but it must be an error.--_Cooper._ [163] [Put for _mass_, as _Gog_ for _God_, &c.] [164] [An idea perhaps borrowed from the interlude of "Thersites," where we have the ludicrous incident of the snail. Udall has drawn Ralph Roister Doister somewhat on the model of "Thersites," except that in Roister Doister the man's good nature and singleness of character win our regard, whereas the other is a contemptible braggart without any redeeming trait.] [165] See "Two Gentlemen of Verona," act. iv., scene 4.--_Cooper._ [166] _Mankind_ is used by Shakespeare and other writers of his time as an adjective, in the sense of masculine.--_Cooper._