[223] See Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost," edit. Collier, ii. 306 and 360; Beaumont and Fletcher's "Monsieur Thomas," edit. Dyce, vii. 364. Thomas Nash, in his "Strange Newes," 1592, sig. D 3, uses _no point_ just in the same way, as a sort of emphatic double negative.--"No point; _ergo_, it were wisely done of goodman Boores son, if he should go to the warres," &c. [224] [The worst wonder is.] [225] [Compassionate.] [226] [Not in first 4to.] [227] The learned Constable refers, of course, to Love, who has already been on the stage in a vizard at the back of her head: see earlier; _Enter_ LUCRE, _and_ LOVE _with a vizard, behind_. [228] [Old copies, _sacred_. This was Mr Collier's suggestion.] [229] [Old copies, _ye_.] [230] [Alluding to the "Three Ladies of London," 1584.] [231] [Old copy, _Pompe hath_.] [232] [Old copy, _place_.] [233] [The bells attached to the falcon, the _impress of Pleasure_.] [234] Referring to the chains of gold formerly worn by persons of rank and property. [235] Alluding to the manner in which ballad-sellers of that day used to expose their goods, by hanging them up in the same way that the three lords had hung up their shields. [236] [Foolish, maudlin.] [237] [Except.] [238] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 265-6.] [239] The best, and indeed what may be considered the only, account of Tarlton the actor precedes the edition of his Jests, reprinted for the Shakespeare Society in 1844. [240] [Videlicet.] [241] [Ignorant.] [242] [Alluding to some wood engraving of Tarlton, which Simplicity had in his basket. To the reprint of "Tarlton's Jests," by the Shakespeare Society, are prefixed two wood-cuts, made from a drawing of the time of Elizabeth, and no doubt soon after the death of Tarlton of the plague in 1588.] [243] [Preferment.] [244] An ejaculation, apparently equivalent to _God_. [245] The first purchase made in the day--the ballad which Wit had bought of Simplicity. [246] Espial. The word occurs again further on. [247] [Probably a reference is intended to the proverbial expression about Mahomet and the mountain.] [248] An ambry or aumbry is a pantry or closet. The next line explains the word. [249] [Old copy, _lent_.] [250] [Old copy, _might_.] [251] [Old copy, _might_.] [252] Old copy, _tormented_. [253] [Old copy, _unmask'd_.] [254] Old copy, _our_. [255] i.e., A pack of cards; the expression was very common; _deck_, five lines lower, was often used for _pack_. [256] [Old copy, _from_.] [257] The wimple is generally explained as a covering for the neck, or for the neck and shoulders; but Shakespeare ("Love's Labour's Lost," act iii. se. 1) seems to use it as a covering for the eyes also, when he calls Cupid "This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy." Steevens in his note states that "the wimple was a hood or veil, which fell over the face." The passage in our text, and what follows it, supports this description of the wimple.