[435] A play on the double meaning of the word, an old game and the act of kissing. [436] [Obtain.] [437] [Old copy, and former edits., _bear_.] [438] See note to "Gammer Gurton's Needle" [ii. 202]. [439] In 1662, when this play was either first printed or reprinted, it would have been absurd to talk of _America_ as _new_ or newly discovered.--_Collier_. [440] [This passage reminds us of No. 60 in "A C. Mery Talys," Hazlitt's "Jest Books," i. 87.] [441] See note to "Damon and Pithias" [iv. 21]. [442] Old copy, _work_.--_Pegge_. [443] i.e., O Lord. [444] i.e., So happen in the issue. So in Ben Jonson's "New Inn," act iv. sc. 4-- "You knew well It could not _sort_ with any reputation Of mine." And in Massinger's "Maid of Honour," act ii. sc. 1-- "All _sorts_ to my wishes." [445] Old copy, _for_.--_Pegge_. [446] i.e., _As lief they as I_. So in "Eastward Hoe:" "I'd as _live_ as anything I could see his farewell."--_Collier_. [447] It is observed by Dr Warburton (note on "Romeo and Juliet," act i. sc. 1), that to _carry coals_ was a phrase formerly in use to signify _bearing of injuries_; and Dr Percy has given several instances in proof of it. To those may be added the following from Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour," act v. sc. 3: "Take heed, Sir Puntarvolo, what you do; _he'll bear no coals_, I can tell you, o' my word." [448] i.e., Akercock, as he is called in the preceding scenes. See a later note to this play [p. 442 _infrâ_].--_Collier_. [449] _Suppose_ is here used in the sense of _conjecture_ or _apprehension_. Gascoigne translated a comedy of Ariosto, and called it "The Supposes." The employment of the verb for the substantive in the present instance is an evidence of the antiquity of this play. The following parallel is from Gascoigne's Prologue: "The verye name wherof may peraduenture driue into euerie of your heades, a sundrie _Suppose_, to _suppose_ the meaning of our _supposes_."--_Collier_. [450] i.e., Plot or contrivance. Tarlton produced a piece called "The Plat-form of the Seven Deadly Sins;" and in "Sir J. Oldcastle," by Drayton and others, first printed in 1600, it is used with the same meaning as in the text, viz., a contrivance for giving effect to the conspiracy. "There is the _plat-form_, and their hands, my lord, Each severally subscribed to the same." --_Collier_. [451] [A common proverb.] [452] [The ordinary proverb is, "The devil is _good_ when he is pleased."] [453] The Italian for _How do you do_?