[199] [This passage is quoted in the editions of Beaumont and Fletcher, to illustrate a passage in the "Custom of the Country," (see below) but it is questionable, perhaps, whether the allusions here are to be taken quite seriously.] [200] See note to "The Ordinary" [xii., 300.] [201] See note to "The Ordinary" [xii., 316.] [202] [An allusion which I cannot explain. It has no connection with Chettle's play.] [203] Prynne's book, mentioned before. [204] [See a note in Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," ii. 153.] [205] [A curious little illustration of contemporary civic usages.] [206] Alluding to an automaton, like those at St Dunstan's, Fleet Street. See notes on Shakespeare's "King Richard III.," edit. 1778, p. 113, vol. vii.--_Steevens._ [207] [Nares, in his "Glossary," 1859, in _v._, seems to say that this is the only passage where this phrase occurs. Fortunately it is explained for us. But its origin is obscure.] [208] [The name given to the women who attended on the chambers in the inns-of-court. It is not obsolete.] [209] In the third year of James I., rose-_rials_ (or _royals_) of gold were coined at 30s. apiece, and _spur-rials_ at 15s. each. For _Harry-groats_, see note to "The Antiquary," _post_. [210] So Chapman, in his "Hymn to Hymen," at the end of the "Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn," 1613-- "Let such glances fly, As make stars shoot to imitate her eye." --_Collier._ [211] [Probably the arras in the room represented some scene in the siege of Troy.] [212] The art of weaving tapestry was brought into England by William Sheldon, Esq., about the end of the reign of Henry VIII. (See Dugdale's "Warwickshire," p. 584.) In the time of James I., a manufacture of tapestry was set up at Mortlake, in Surrey, and soon arrived at a high degree of excellence. King James gave £2000 towards the undertaking; and Sir Francis Crane erected the house to execute the design in. Francis Cleyn painted for the workmen, and to such a pitch of perfection had the art been carried, that Archbishop Williams paid for the four seasons, worked, I suppose, for hangings, £2500.--(Walpole's "Anecdotes," ii. 21-128.) _Mortlake tapestry_ continued long in repute, and is mentioned in Oldham's Satire in imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal-- "Here some rare piece Of Rubens or Vandyke presented is: There a rich suit of _Mortlack tapestry_, A bed of damask or embroidery." [213] [_i.e._, Added to.]