WID. So should you, woman, would you be rul'd by me. Come, we'll dine together; after walk abroad Unto my suburb garden,[60] where, if thou'lt hear, I'll read my heart to thee, and thou from thence Shall learn to vex thy cares with patience. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [31] [This play was first reprinted by Dilke in his "Old English Plays," 1816.] [32] The word _factor_ is here used in a more limited sense than at present, as Richard and George appear to have been the exclusive servants of the other two. [33] So Titania, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"-- "We have laugh'd to see the sails conceive, And grow _big-bellied_ with the wanton wind." [34] [Old copy and Dilke, _envy_.] [35] These are, I believe, the private marks of the merchants to denote the value of their goods, a sort of cipher known only to themselves. They may, however, allude to the marks affixed to the different packages in which the pieces were contained. [36] _Argosies_ [were ships chiefly used for commercial purposes, but also occasionally employed in what was known at Venice as the mercantile marine. They were of large size. The origin of the word is doubtful; but it probably comes from _Argo_, the name of the vessel which sailed, according to tradition, in the Argonautic cruise.] Gremio, in the "Taming of the Shrew," talks of an _argosy_ which he would settle on Bianca, and then tauntingly asks-- "What, have I chok'd you with an _argosy_?" [37] [Anticipate.] [38] _Pigeon-holes_ seems to have been the game which is sometimes called _trow-madame_, or _trol-my-dames_. See Steevens's note on "The Winter's Tale," act iv. sc. 2; and in Farmer's note on the same passage, the reader will find a description of the manner of playing it. [See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 325.] [39] [This expression is repeated lower down, or it might have been supposed that a word was wanting to complete the sense. As it is, the meaning can be easily guessed at.] [40] _Roarer_ was the common cant word for the swaggering drunkard of our poet's age. Its occurrence is sufficiently common. So in Dekker's play, "If it be not a Good Play, the Devil's in it"-- "Those bloody thoughts will damn you into hell. SOU. Do you think so? What becomes of our _roaring boys_ then, _that stab healths one to another_?" [41] [A play may be intended on _rob_ and _Robert_.] [42] This seems a cant expression, as Brewen several times uses it. [43] [Old copy and Dilke, _long enclosed_.] [44] [In the old copy and Dilke this speech is printed as prose. The old copy reads _that's--can hardly_.] [45] Our poet here evidently alludes to a passage in the First Epistle to St John, chap. iii. ver. 10. [46] _i.e._, Idle tales.