WAL. By Master Pisaro's leave, monsieur, I'll mumble you, Except you learn to know whom you speak to: I tell thee, François, I'll have (maugre thy teeth) Her that shall make thee gnash thy teeth to want. PIS. Yet a man may want of his will, and bate an ace of his wish. But, gentlemen, every man as his luck serves, and so agree we. I would not have you fall out in my house. Come, come, all this was in jest: now let's to't in earnest--I mean with our teeth, and try who's the best trencher-man. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [493] _Alvaro the Italian_ is also mentioned, but he does not enter till some time afterwards. [494] By _Master Strangers_ he means the "other merchants," as he knows Delion and Vandal. [495] According to Heywood's, "If you know not me, you know nobody," Part II., Queen Elizabeth, when she christened the Royal Exchange, after it had been built by Sir T. Gresham, changed its name from the _Burse_, which it had been previously called-- "Proclaim through every high street of this city, This place be no longer called a Burse, But since the building's stately, fair, and strange, Be it for ever call'd the Royal Exchange." Sig. H 2. The terms were afterwards often used indifferently, and Pisaro, just before, calls the _Exchange_ the _Burse_. [496] _Away_ is omitted in the two last impressions. [497] [A quibble on _antique_ and _antic_.] [498] This word seems to have puzzled our dictionary-makers very needlessly. Mr Todd quotes Skinner, who derives it from _top and turf_: the etymology is very simple, and will be acknowledged the instant it is stated: _topsy-turvy_ is only an abbreviation of _topside t'other way_, or the upper end of anything turned downwards--_i.e._, bottom upwards. Archdeacon Nares got as far as _top side_, but _turvy_, he acknowledged, set his ingenuity at defiance. [499] A proverbial expression. _Mowing_ is a corruption of mouthing. [500] A common term of abuse at that period, derived from the clowns or fools, and in reference to their dress. [501] _i.e._, By our Ladykin. [502] Walgrave, abstracted, does not perceive that Pisaro has gone out, for which Harvey laughs at him, _Many Pisaros here_! In the same sense, in act v., Laurentia says, _Many Balsaros I_. [503] Meaning Mathea. [504] Gibberish is no doubt derived from _gibber_, and it means idle nonsense. Whether _gibber_ comes from _geber_, as Dr Johnson contends, must remain in doubt. [505] [Old copies, _we_.] [506] "The blind eats many a fly," was proverbial, and, according to Henslowe's Diary, formed the title of a play by Thomas Heywood, under date of November 1602. [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 359.] ACT III., SCENE I. _Enter_ FRISCO.