WELL. Drawer, take your plate. For the reckoning there's some of their cloaks: I will be no shot-log to such. DRAWER. God's blessing o' your heart for thus ridding the house of them. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [97] [Old copy, _wants, and_.] [98] [Old copy, _no_.] [99] Both the old copies read, _that carries a double sense_, but it is clearly a misprint. [100] The Widow means that Master Pert walks as if he were made of _wires_, and _gins_ were usually composed of wire. [101] So in "The Fatal Dowry," Liladam exclaims, "Uds light! my lord, one of the purls of your band is, without all discipline, fallen out of his rank," act ii. sc. 2. These little phrases may assist in tracing the authorship of different parts of a play by distinct authors. [102] [Old copy, _his_.] [103] [This name, given to one of the _roarers_, is a corruption of _pox_. We often meet with the form in the old plays.] [104] The _Fortune_ Theatre [in Golden Lane] was built in 1599 by Edward Allen, the founder of Dulwich College, at an expense of £520, and in the Prologue of Middleton and Dekker's "Roaring Girl" it is called "a _vast_ theatre." It was eighty feet square, and was consumed by fire in 1621. [105] A pottle was half a gallon. [106] He means that he wishes he had _insured_ his return, as he would as willingly be at the Bermudas, or (as it was then called) "The Isle of Devils." In a note on "the still vexed Barmoothes" ("Tempest," act i. sc. 2), it is shown that _the Bermudas_ was a cant name for the privileged resort of such characters as Whorebang and his companions. The notions entertained by our ancestors of the Bermudas is distinctly shown in the following extract from Middleton's "Anything for a Quiet Life," 1662, act v.; [Dyce's edit., iv. 499.] _Chamlet_ is troubled with a shrewish wife, and is determined to leave England and go somewhere else. He says-- "The place I speak of has been kept with thunder, With frightful lightnings' amazing noises; But now (the enchantment broke) 'tis the land of peace, Where hogs and tobacco yield fair increase. . . Gentlemen, fare you well, I am for the Bermudas." [107] "The _jack_, properly, is a coat of mail, but it here means a buff _jacket_ or _jerkin_ worn by soldiers or pretended soldiers."