[193] For _parliament_ we are to understand _parament_, i.e., apparel, referring to the gowns he carries. Beaumont and Fletcher use the word _paramentos_-- "There were cloaks, gowns, cassocks, And other _paramentos_," --"Love's Pilgrimage," edit. Dyce, xi. 226. _Paramento_ is Spanish, and means ornament, embellishment, or sometimes any kind of covering. [194] [In the old copies this direction is inserted wrongly six lines higher up.] [195] [Old copies, _hastily_, the compositor's eye having perhaps caught the word from the stage-direction just above.] [196] [These three words are not in second 4 deg.] [197] [A proverbial expression. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 210. So, in the "Spanish Tragedy," vol. v. p. 84: "I am in a sort sorry for thee; but if I should be hang'd with thee, I cannot weep."] [198] [Old copies, _thy_.] [199] Mr Collier's suggestion; both the old copies, _gracious_. [200] [The first 4 deg. has _can_ for _should_, and _say_ for _'ssay_ or _essay_. The second 4 deg. reads _lying_ for _living_.] [201] [Old copy, _drudge_.] [202] Edit. 1592 has _availeth_. See St Matthew xvi. 26. [203] [A synonym for a drubbing.] See "All's Well that Ends Well," act iii. sc. 6, when this passage is quoted in illustration of "John Drum's entertainment," as it is called by Shakespeare. The expression was equivalent to _drumming out_. [204] Second 4 deg. has _array_. Mr Collier thinks _beray_ was intended by the writer as a blunder on the part of the clown. [205] First 4 deg., _seeke_. [206] [The clown is addressing one of the audience.] [207] [Edit. 1584, _the_.] [208] [This word is omitted in first 4 deg.] [209] [_I tell ye_, not in edit. 1592.] [210] _Tell me what good ware for England you do lacke_, edit. 1592. [211] According to "Extracts from the Stationers' Registers," i. 88, William Griffith was licensed in 1563-4 to print a ballad entitled "Buy, Broomes, buye." This maybe the song here sung by Conscience. A song to the tune is inserted in the tract of "Robin Goodfellow," 1628, 4 deg., but no doubt first published many years earlier. [212] [So both the 4 deg.s, but Mr Collier suggests _soften_.] [213] _Play, and_ are not in the second 4to. [214] [The writer seems here to have intended an allusion to Scogin, whose "Jests" were well-known at that time as a popular book.] [215] [_I think_, omitted in second 4to.] [216] A strong kind of cloth so called, and several times mentioned in Shakespeare. See "Henry IV." Part I., act i. sc. 2; "Comedy of Errors," act iv. se. 3, &c.--_Collier_. [217] _The Venetians came nothing near the knee. Venetians_ were a kind of hose, or breeches, adopted from the fashions of Venice. [218] [First 4to reads, _not agree_.] [219] [A pun, probably, upon _alms_ and _arms_.] [220] [Old copy, _tables_.] [221] [So old copies; but the period named before was _three months_.] [222] [Old copies, _seeme_.]