In Wilson's "Discourse uppon Usurye," 1572, the subsequent passage occurs:--"Thus master merchant, when he hath robbed the poore gentleman and furnisht him in this manner to get a little apparel upon his back, girdeth him with this pompe in the tail: Lo, sayethe hee, yonder goeth a very strong stowt gentleman, for _he cariethe upon his backe a faire manour, land and all_, and may therefore well be standard-bearer to any prince Christian or heathen." [364] [Chicken.] [365] The place most commonly used for exposing the heads of traitors. [366] [Edits.-- "O! but what shall I write? Mine own excuse." [367] [Edits., _large, full_.] [368] [Edits., _appearance, and so as they are, I hope we shall be, more indeer'd, intirely, better, and more feelingly acquainted_.] [369] [Either whets their appetite, or prostrates them. The speaker alludes probably to the early forenoon meal then in vogue.] [370] The line was formerly mispointed, and misprinted thus-- "Then live a strumpet. Better be unborn." Clare means, that it were better never to have been born than to live a strumpet.--_Collier_. [371] Edit. 1611, _would_; and in the next line, _did_. [372] [Edits., _That_.] [373] [Edits., _writes_.] [374] Pitiless, without pity. [375] [Edits., _her_.] [376] [This line is assuredly corrupt, but the true reading is a matter of question.] [377] [Edits., _and_.] [378] Their exit is not marked, but as their re-entrance is noticed afterwards, it is to be presumed that they followed, the old man out. [379] Perhaps misprinted for _haven_.--_Collier_. [380] _Example by, &c_.--second and third edits. [381] [Edits.], _stare_-wearer, which means no doubt _stair_-wearer, or wearer of the stairs by going up and down them so frequently at call. --_Collier_. [382] [Edit. 1607, _ha't for you_.] [383] "_Red lattice_ at the doors and windows were formerly the external denotements of an alehouse; hence the present _chequers_." Mr Steevens observes (note to "Merry Wives of Windsor," act ii. sc. 2) that "perhaps the reader will express some surprise when he is told that shops with the sign of the _chequers_, were common among the Romans. See a view of the left-hand street of Pompeii (No. 9) presented by Sir William Hamilton (together with several others equally curious) to the Antiquary Society." [Compare "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 277-8.] Marston, in the "First Part of Antonio and Mellida," act v., makes Balurdo say: "No, I am not Sir Jeffrey Balurdo: I am not as well known by my wit as an _alehouse_ by a _red lattice_." [384] i.e., Defiles. See note on "Macbeth," edit. 1778, iv. 524. --_Steevens_. [385] [See note at p. 470.] [386] The first edit, reads, _and any man else and he_. [387] Three different departments of a prison, in which debtors were confined according to their ability or incapacity to pay for their accommodations: all three are pretty accurately described by Fennor in "The Compter's Commonwealth," 1617.