[191] [All the editions except 1657, _bidden_, and all have _arms_ for _harms_.] [192] Presently, forthwith. [193] [Edits., _wax_.] [194] Some of the old copies [including that of 1607] read-- "Here lies the sense that _lying_ gull'd them all." --_Collier_. [195] Auditus is here called _Ears_, as Tactus is before called _Deed_.--_Pegge_. [But see note at p. 349.] [196] Circles. So in Milton-- "Throws his steep flight in many an airy wheel." --_Steevens_. [197] [It is _Mendacio_ who speaks.] [198] Old copies, _Egyptian knights_. Dr Pegge's correction. [199] [Edits., _I_.] [200] [Edits., _safe_.] [201] A pun; for he means _Male aeger_.--_Pegge_. [202] The [first edit.] gives the passage thus: _brandish no swords but sweards of bacon_, which is intended for a pun, and though bad enough, need not be lost.--_Collier_. [203] _Glaves_ are swords, and sometimes partisans.--_Steevens_. [204] Lat. for phalanxes.--_Steevens_. [205] [Edits., _dept_.] [206] Mars. [207] See Note 2 to the "First Part of Jeronimo," [v. 349]. [208] [Edits., _kist_. The word _hist_ may be supposed to represent the whistling sound produced by a sword passing rapidly through the air.] [209] i.e., Exceeds bounds or belief. See a note on "The Merry Wives of Windsor," act iv. sc. 2.--_Steevens_. [210] "_Graecia mendax_ Audet in historia."--_Steevens_. [211] [His "History," which is divided into nine books, under the names of the nine Muses.] [212] i.e., Whispered him. See note to "The Spanish Tragedy," [vi. 10.] [213] [Peter Martyr's "Decades."] [214] A luncheon before dinner. The farmers in Essex still use the word.--_Steevens_. So in the "Woman-hater," by Beaumont and Fletcher, act i. sc. 3, Count Valore, describing Lazarillo, says-- "He is none of these Same Ordinary Eaters, that'll devour Three breakfasts, as many dinners, and without any Prejudice to their _Beavers_, drinkings, suppers; But he hath a more courtly kind of hunger. And doth hunt more after novelty than plenty." Baret, in his "Alvearic," 1580, explains _a boever_, a drinking betweene dinner and supper; and _a boïer_, meate eaten after noone, a collation, a noone meale. [215] See Note 19 to "The Ordinary." [216] [In 1576 Ulpian Fulwell published "The First Part of the Eighth Liberal Science, Entituled Ars Adulandi."] [217] This word, which occurs in Ben Jonson and some other writers, seems to have the same meaning as our _numps_. I am ignorant of its etymology.--_Steevens_. [Compare Nares, 1859, in _v_.] [218] i.e., Other requisites towards the fitting out of a character. See a note on "Love's Labour Lost," vol. ii. p. 385, edit. 1778. --_Steevens_.