[19] From this passage it should seem that Italian tailors in Field's time wore peculiarly wide and stiff ruffs, like a _wheel_ of lace round their necks. Nothing on the point is to be found in R. Armin's "Italian Taylor and his Boy," 1609. The Tailor in "Northward Ho!" 1607, sig. D 3, speaks of "a Cathern (Katherine) _wheel_ farthingale," but the farthing-gale was a hoop for the petticoats. [20] [_Backyard_ usually, but here the phrase seems to mean rather a house in the rear.] [21] The old stage direction here is only _Exit Inno_. [22] _Bombard_ strictly means a piece of artillery, but it was metaphorically applied to large vessels containing liquor: in this sense it may be frequently found in Shakespeare and other dramatists of his day. [23] _i.e._, The gunpowder treason of 5th Nov. 1605. [24] [Meaning, a character. _Old_ is frequently used in this sort of sense.] [25] Sir Abraham quotes from "The Spanish Tragedy," and Kate detects his plagiarism; [but the passage in that drama is itself a quotation. See vol. v.p. 36.] ACT II., SCENE 1. _Enter_ NEVILL, _like a parson_. NEV. Thus for my friend's sake have I taken orders, And with my reason and some hire beside Won the known priest, that was to celebrate This marriage, to let me assume his place; And here's the character of his face and beard. By this means, when my friend confronts the maid At the church-door (where I appointed him To meet him like myself; for this strange shape He altogether is unwitting of), If she (as one vice in that sex alone Were a great virtue) to inconstancy past Join impudency, and slight him to his face, Showing a resolution to this match, By this attempt it will be frustrate, And so we have more time, though but 'till night, To work, to speak with her, or use violence; For both my blood and means are at his service. The reason, too, I do this past his knowledge Is, that his joy may be the more complete; When being resolv'd she's married and gone, I can resolve him otherwise. Thus I know Good deeds show double that are timely done, And joy that comes past expectation. _Enter_ SCUDMORE _in tawny_. Yonder he comes, dead in his melancholy. I'll question him, and see if I can raise His spirit from that it restless rests upon: He cannot know me. Ho! good morrow, sir.