[329] "This comedy (as Langbaine improperly calls it) has been a great part of it revived by Mrs Behn, under the title of 'The Town Fop, or Sir Timothy Tawdry.'" [330] These were among the articles of extravagance in which the youth of the times used to indulge themselves. They are mentioned by Fennor, in "The Compters Commonwealth," 1617, p. 32: "Thinkes himselfe much graced (as to be much beholding to them) as to be entertained among gallants, that were wrapt up in sattin suites, cloakes lined with velvet, that scorned to weare any other then beaver hats and gold bands, rich swords and scarfes, silke stockings and gold fringed garters, or russett bootes and _gilt spurres_; and so compleate cape ape, that he almost dares take his corporal oath the worst of them is worth (at least) a thousand a yeare, when heaven knows the best of them all for a month, nay, sometimes a yeare together, have their pockets worse furnished then Chandelors boxes, that have nothing but twopences, pence, halfe pence, and leaden tokens in them." [331] The following quotation from the "Perfuming of Tobacco, and the great abuse committed in it," 1611, shows, in opposition to Mr Gilchrist's conjecture, that _drinking_ tobacco did not mean extracting the juice by chewing it, but refers to drawing and drinking the smoke of it. "The smoke of tobacco (the which Dodoneus called rightly Henbane of Peru) _drunke_ and _drawen_, by a pipe, filleth the membranes (_meninges_) of the braine, and astonisheth and filleth many persons with such joy and pleasure, and sweet losse of senses, that they can by no means be without it." In fact, to _drink_ tobacco was only another term for smoking it.--_Collier_. [332] Alluding to the colour of the habits of servants. [333] i.e., Owns. See note to "Cornelia" [v. 232]. [334] The omission of this stage direction, which is found in the old copies, rendered what follows it unintelligible. Perhaps _Who list to have a lubberly load_ is a line in some old ballad.--_Collier_. [335] [Anthony Munday.] [336] A custom still observed at weddings. [337] _Himself_, omitted by Mr Reed, and restored now from the old copy of 1611.--_Collier_. [338] [Edits., _pugges_.] [339] [Edits, read-- "They are _sovereigns_, cordials that preserve our lives." [340] See Mr Steevens's note on "Othello," act ii. sc. 1. [But compare Middleton's "Blurt, Master Constable," 1602 ("Works," by Dyce, i. 280).] [341] [Edits., _his_. Even the passage is now obscure and unsatisfactory.] [342] [Separate.] This is obviously quoted from the marriage ceremony: as Mr Todd has shown, the Dissenters in 1661 did not understand _depart_ in the sense of _separate_, which led to the alteration of the Liturgy, "till death us _do part_." In the "Salisbury Manual" of 1555 it stands thus: "I, N, take thee, M, to my wedded wyf, to have and to holde fro this day forwarde, for better for wors, for richer for poorer, in sicknesse and in hele, tyl deth us _departe_."--_Collier_.