"Giv't us weele pledge, nor shall a man that lives In charity refuse it, I will not be so old As not be grac't to honour Cupid, giv't us full. When we were young, we could ha _trold_ it off. Drunke down a Dutchman." --Marston's _Parasitaster or The Fawne_, act. v. "Now the cups _trole_ about to wet the gossips whistles, It pours down, I faith, they never think of payment." --_A Chast Mayd in Cheap-side_, p. 34. [208] Add. [209] See Dekker's Description of an Abraham-man, _supra_. [210] _To swink_ is to work or labour; as in Spenser's "Fairy Queen," B. II., cant. vii., st. 8. "For which men sweat and _swink_ incessantly." Again in "Comus," l. 293-- "And the _swinkt_ hedger at his supper sat." Also in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Prol., l. 184-- "What schulde he studie, make himselven wood, Uppon a book in cloystre alway to powre, Or _swinke_ with his hands, and laboure, As Austin byt? how schal the world be served? Let Austyn have his _swynk_ to him reserved." And in "Pierce Plowman's Vision"-- "Hermets an heape with hoked staves, Wenten to Walsingham, and her wenches after. Great loubees and long, that loth were to _swinke_, Clothed hem in copes, to be knowen from other." [211] Will. [212] Old copy, _than_. [213] In the 14th of Queen Elizabeth, 1572, an Act of Parliament passed, by which very heavy penalties were inflicted on all rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars. Among others, who are therein described and directed to be deemed such, are idle persons going about feigning themselves to have knowledge in phisnomie, palmestrie, or other abused sciences, whereby they bear the people in hand that they can tell their destinies, deaths, and fortunes, _and such other like fantastical imaginations_. This statute seems to be alluded to here by Diccon, and will serve to confirm the later date of the play; and at the same time prove the forgery of that assigned to it by Chetwood. [214] Fetched. [215] Old copy, _syme_. [216] "Ut mulieres solent ad mingendum."--_S._ [217] To. [218] Can. [219] I con him no thanks for it, occurs in Shakspeare's "All's Well that Ends Well," and Mr Steevens says it means, "I shall not thank him in studied language." I meet with the same expression in Nash's "Pierce Pennilesse," &c.-- "I believe he _will con thee little thanks for it_." Again, in "Wily Beguiled," 1606-- "I _con_ master Churms _thanks_ for this." Again, in "Anything for a Quiet Life": "He would not trust you with it, I _con_ him thanks for it."