[107] Middleton uses _squall_ for a wench in his "Michaelmas Term" and in "The Honest Whore," edit. Dyce, i. 431, and iii. 55. Here it evidently means a person of the male sex. [When used of men, a little insignificant fellow, a whipper-snapper. Presently we see that Lentulo was referring to the Duke's son.] [108] [Cuckoldy. A loose form of expression.] [109] [Bomelio, in his disguise, is made to talk bad French and Italian, as well as English; this had been done in the ease of Dr Caius who, however, only spoke broken English. The nationality of Bomelio is therefore doubtful; but these _minutiae_ did not trouble the dramatists of those days much.] [110] [Old copy, _Vedice_--an unlikely blunder.] [111] Pedlar's French, often mentioned in our old writers, was the cant language of thieves and vagabonds. "When every peasant, each plebeian, Sits in the throne of undeserv'd repute: When every pedlar's French Is term'd Monsigneur." --"Histriomastix," 1610, sig. E2. [112] [i.e., Tarry _for_ me. So in the title of Wapull's play, "The Tide tarrieth no Man."] [113] Beat. See Nares, 1859, in _v_. Lambeake. Mr Collier refers us to the "Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays," 1833, p. 80, Gabriel Harvey's "Pierces' Supererogation," 1593, and to "Vox Graculi," 1623. [114] Come to be hanged. [115] Old copy, _slave_. [116] The following scene reminds us of the ancient story of the "Physician of Brai." [117] Sure. [118] Old copy, _flight_. Mr Collier suggested _sight_. [119] He bites like the pestilence. [120] Penulo makes his _exit_ (though not marked in the old copy), and the stage then represents some place near the cave of Bomelio, who enters with Fidelia. [121] Old copy, _then_. [122] Mr Collier printed _come of_. [123] Old copy, _oft been_. [124] Old copy, _O_. [125] Old copy, _my favour_. [126] Old copy, _for_. [127] Old copy, _her_. [128] Above this line Mercury's name is inserted as the speaker: as it seems, unnecessarily. [129] Old copy, _Venus_. [130] Old copy, _Fortune_. It is Mercury who afterwards cures Bomelio. [131] Old copy, _replaies_. [132] Old copy, _Hot's_. [133] Old copy, _my_. [134] Old copy, _But_, which would seem to convey the exact reverse of what Phizanties intends--that he did not know Hermione's birth, but, presuming him to be of obscure birth, did not wish him to marry Fidelia. [135] Old copy, _But_. [136] Old copy, _end_. [137] [Evidently a proverbial expression, of which the import can only be obscurely gathered from the context. _Nock_ is the same, of course, as _hock_.] [138] [There was a second edition, presenting considerable variations, generally for the better, in 1592. See Hazlitt's "Handbook," 1867, p. 466.] [139] [For _stuff_ the edit, of 1592 substitutes _wares_.] [140] This division is omitted in the edition of 1592, and it seems unnecessary. [141] [Old copy, _his_.] [142] [Sweetheart, mistress.] [143] [Old copy, _often_.]