[222] Edits., _better_,--the eye of the original compositor having caught the word above. [223] A term of the game. [224] i.e. _Hit_. [225] Here, probably, Mistress Goursey should make her exit. [226] i.e., We cannot help it. [227] So second edit. First edit., _Afford_. [228] The author probably wrote, "_I_ do _impart_:" compare the next line. [229] [Old copies, _tick_.] [230] i.e., Taught her to tread the ring,--to perform various movements in different directions within a ring marked out on a piece of ground: see Markham's "Cheap and Good Husbandry," &c. p. 18, sqq. edit. 1631. [231] [_Campagne_.] A form of _campaign_ common in our early writers. [232] i.e., Wilt thou wear, &c.: _point_ means one of the tagged laces which were used in dress to attach the hose or breeches to the doublet, &c. [233] So second edit. First edit., _th'art_. [234] [Old copies read _when_.] [235] So second edit. First edit., _in the_. [236] So second edit. Not in first edit. [237] [Meaning a tavern of that name.] [238] Sheathe your sword. [239] Edits., _me_. [240] [Old copy, _He's_.] Read, for the metre, _He is_. [241] i.e., Quality, disposition. [242] [Old copies, _he'll_.] Read, for the metre, _he will_. [243] [Fine worsted.] [244] [Old copies, _his hat, and all green hat_.] [245] [Old copies, _indirect_.] [246] Edits., _vassailes_. [247] So second edit. First edit., _women's_. [248] Qy. _for an_? [249] [Old copies, _She's_.] Read, for the metre, _She is_. [250] A corruption of God's. [251] [Old copies, _pale_.] [252] Edits., _apprehend_, but certainly Mall had spoken with sufficient plainness. [253] i.e., Nature. [254] So second edit. First edit., _nay_. [255] The common dress of a serving-man. [256] Edits., _you_, which, perhaps, is the right reading, some word having dropp'd out after it. Qy. thus-- 'MRS BAR. Mistresse flurt, you _mean_, Foule strumpet, light a loue, short heeles! Mistresse Goursey Call her,' &c. --_Dyce_. [But _yea_ seems to be the more likely word.] [257] So second edit. First edit., _tell_. [258] i.e., Vile. [259] Edits., _forlorn_. [260] Qy., _Mother, he loves_? [261] So second edit. First edit., _the_. [262] So second edit. First edit., _Thaust_. [263] i.e., Refuse. [264] So second edit. First edit., _Gads_. [265] Edits., _His_. [266] Qy., _Franke_ he is _young_? Compare the preceding line but one. [267] i.e., By our lady. [268] i.e., Miserly persons. [269] The author probably wrote _neuer was_. [270] i.e., Honest men. [271] So second edit. First edit., _ma_. [272] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 128.] [273] So second edit. First edit., _faith in_. [274] Edits., _some_. [275] Edits., _treason_. [276] i.e., Vomits: a common pun in old dramas. [277] i.e., Easily. [278] Edits., _But_. [279] So second edit., First edit., _cehape_. [280] Read, for the metre, _He is_.