[454] _Skinker_ was a _tapster_ or _drawer_. Prince Henry, in "The First Part of Henry IV." act ii. sc. 4, speaks of an _underskinker_, meaning an _underdrawer_. Mr Steevens says it is derived from the Dutch word _schenken_, which signifies to fill a cup or glass. So in G. Fletcher's "Russe Commonwealth," 1591, p. 13, speaking of a town built on the south side of Moscow by Basilius the emperor, for a garrison of soldiers, "to whom he gave priviledge to drinke mead and beer, at the drye or prohibited times, when other Russes may drinke nothing but water, and for that cause called this newe citie by the name of Naloi, that is, _skinck_, or _poure in_." Again, in Marston's "Sophonisba," iii. 2-- "Ore whelme me not with sweets, let me not drink, Till my breast burst, O Jove, thy nectar _skinke_." And in Ben Jonson's "Poetaster," act iv. sc. 5-- "ALB. I'll ply the table with nectar, and make 'em friends. "HER. Heaven is like to have but a lame _skinker_." And in his "Bartholomew Fair," act ii. sc. 2: "Froth your cans well i' the filling, at length, rogue, and jog your bottles o' the buttock, sirrah; then _skink_ out the first glass ever, and drink with all companies." [455] Suspicion. [456] [Be in accord with reason.] [457] [Old copy, _call'st_.] [458] Similar to this description is one in Marlowe's "Edward II.," act i. [459] Old copy, _are_. [460] [Old copy, _knew_.] [461] See note to "Cornelia" [v. 188]. [462] In Shakespeare's "Coriolanus," Sicinius asks Volumnia, "Are you mankind?" On which Dr Johnson remarks that "_a mankind woman_ is a woman with the roughness of a man; and, in an aggravated sense, a woman _ferocious, violent, and eager to shed blood_." Mr Upton says _mankind_ means _wicked_. See his "Remarks on Ben Jonson," p. 92. The word is frequently used to signify _masculine_. So in [Beaumont and Fletcher's] "Love's Cure; or, The Martial Maid," act iv. sc. 2-- "From me all _mankind_ women learn to woo." In Dekker's "Satiromastix"-- "My wife's a woman; yet 'Tis more than I know yet, that know not her; If she should prove _mankind_, 'twere rare; fie! fie!" And in Massinger's "City Madam," act ii. sc. 1-- "You brach, Are you turn'd _mankind_?" [463] [Old copy, _strumpets_.] [464] Whether I will or not. This mode of expression is often found in contemporary writers. So in Dekker's "Bel-man of London," sig. F 3: "Can by no meanes bee brought to remember this new friend, yet _will hee, nill he_, to the taverne he sweares to have him." It may be worth remark that it is also found in "Damon and Pithias," from which the character of Grim is taken. [465] [Old copy, _reake_.] [466] Sometimes called _Pucke_, alias _Hobgoblin_. In the creed of ancient superstition he was a kind of merry sprite, whose character and achievements are recorded in a ballad printed in Dr Percy's "Reliques of Ancient Poetry." [See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," iii. 39, et seq.]