[144] [We should now say, "as fast _as_;" but the form in the text is not uncommon in early literature.] [145] An intentional corruption, perhaps for _importance_. [146] Adventures. [147] Swaggerer, hence the well-known term, _swash-buckler_, for a roaring blade. [148] In the snare: What care I who gets caught? [149] "_What care I to serve the Deuill,"_ &c., edit. 1592. [150] Edit. 1584 has _boniacion_. [151] [Old copies, _but_.] [152] [A simpleton or bumpkin.] [153] [A term of contempt, of which the meaning is not obvious. It might seem to indicate a person employed in attending to a house of office.] [154] A bully. [155] _i e, pox_. [156] Old copies, _alone_. [157] _Vile_. [158] _Your lives so farre amisse_, edit. 1592. [159] [Scrupulous.] [160] [Old copies, _Fraud_.] [161] [Dissimulation.] [162] [Edit. 1592, _Iwis_.] [163] Edit. 1584, _shift it_. [164] This speech stands as follows in edit. 1592--"Gramercie, Usury; and doubt not but to live here as pleasantly, And pleasanter too: but whence came you, Symonie, tell me?" [165] _Doubt not, fairs ladie_, edit. 1592. In the next line but two, edit. 1592 has _certainly_ for "I perceaue," and the last two lines of the speech run as follows-- "And seeing we are so well setted in this countrey, Rich and poore shall be pincht, whosoever come to me." [166] When this drama was reprinted in 1592, the interval between 1584 and that date made it necessary to read 33 _years_ for "26 yeares" in this line. It is a curious note of time. [167] [This is given in the old copies, _sarua voulra boungrace_, but surely _Mercatore_ was not intended to blunder in his own language.] [168] [Scald.] [169] Omitted in edit. 1584. [170] _I think so_ is omitted in the second 4to. [171] [Signed.] [172] _Studied late_ is omitted in first 4to. [173] _At all_ is not in second 4to. [174] [Old copies, _kettels_.] [175] Possibly a personal allusion to somebody sitting "in the corner" of the theatre; or it may have been to some well-known character of the time. Farther on, Simplicity alludes to some boy among the audience. [176] [Not in _edit. 1581_] [177] [_I think youle make me serve_, edit. 1592.] [178] [_And prosperous be they to thee_, edit. 1592.] [179] [_And dine with me_, edit. 1592.] [180] [_Thankes_, edit. 1592, omitting _I give you_.] [181] [Old copies, _am_.] [182] [Testy. Halliwell spells it _testorn_. Old copies, _testren_.] [183] [Clarke, in his "Paroemiologia," 1639, has the proverb "He blushes like a black dog."] [184] [Old copies, _you_.] [185] [Edit. 1584 has _very_, and second 4 deg. _well_, the true reading, as Mr Collier suggests, being that now given in the text.] [186] [_Priest_, edit. 1592.] [187] [_Neuter_.] [188] [Miracle.] [189] [i.e., in good style.] [190] [Edit. 1584 has _must_.] [191] This line is omitted in edit. 1592. [192] [Will.]