[289] There must be some corruption here, or the author was not very anxious to be correct in his classical allusions. [290] Lies to the king. The word _lese_ is more generally used as a substantive. [291] [_Jug_ is a leman or mistress. Mr Collier remarks that this passage clears up] the hitherto unexplained exclamation in "King Lear," act. i. sc. 4: "Whoop, Jug, I love thee."--The Tinker's _mail_, mentioned in the preceding line, is his wallet. _Trug_, in the following line, is equivalent to _trull_, and, possibly, is only another form of the same word: Middleton (edit. Dyce ii. 222) has the expression, "a pretty, middlesized _trug_." See also the note, where R. Greene's tract is quoted. [292] In one copy the text is as we give it, and in another the word is printed _Ideal_, the alteration having been made in the press. Possibly the author had some confused notion about _Ida_; but, if he cared about being correct, the Queen of Love did not "dally with Endymion." [293] [Thalia.] [294] [Old copy, _Idea_; a trissyllable is required for the rhythm.] [295] [Old copy, _kept_.] [296] [Bond.] [297] [Old copy, _Abstrauogant_.] [298] [Old copy, _peely_.] [299] [Cakes. Old copy, _cats_.] [300] [A Knight of the Post was a person hired to swear anything--a character often mentioned in old writers.] [301] Some persons, not merely without reason, but directly against it, treat _vild_ and _vile_, and consequently vildly and _vilely_, as distinct words. _Vild_ and _vildly_ are blunders in old spelling, only to be retained when, as now, we give the words of an author in the very orthography of that date. We profess here to follow the antiquated spelling exactly, that it may be seen how the productions in our volume came originally from the press: but when spelling is modernised, as it is in the ordinary republications of our ancient dramatists, &c., it is just as absurd to print "vile" _vild_, as to print "friend" frend or "enemy" _ennimy_.--_Mr Collier's note in the edition of_ 1851. [302] Shakespeare has the word "exigent" for _extremity_, and such seems to be its meaning here, and not the legal sense; the Knight says that the good name of his predecessors for housekeeping shall never be brought into extremity by him. [303] [Wary, aware.] [304] [Old copy, _Squire_.] [305] [Old copy, _for fourtie_.] [306] An early instance of the use of an expression, of frequent occurrence afterwards and down to our own day, equivalent to going without dinner. See Steevens's note to "Richard III." act iv. sc. 4, where many passages are quoted on the point. [307] [Old copy, _ope_.] [308] The copy of this play in the British Museum has here "_Scinthin_ maide;" but another, belonging to the Rev. A. Dyce, "_Scythia_ maide," a reading we have followed, and, no doubt, introduced by the old printer as the sheets went through the press.