[40] _Copesmate_ Dr Johnson conjectures to be the same as _copsmate_, a companion in drinking, or one that dwells under the same _cope_, or house. I find the word used in "The Curtain-Drawer of the World," 1612, p. 31, but not according to either of the above explanations. "Hee that trusts a tradesman on his word, a usurer with his bond, a phisitian with his body, and the divell with his soule, needes not care who he trusts afterwards, nor what _copesmate_ encounters him next." _Copesmate_, I believe, means only _companion_, a word which was used both in a bad and good sense by our ancestors. To _cope_ is to meet with, to encounter. Thus Hamlet-- "As e'er my conversation _cop'd_ withall." _--Steevens._ Again, in Wither's "Abuses Stript and Whipt," 1613, bk. ii. s. 1-- "Nay be advised (quoth his _copesmate_) harke, Lets stay all night, for it grows pest'lence darke." [41] See note to "Gammer Gurton's Needle," [iii. 178], and also the notes of Dr Percy, Mr Steevens, and Mr Tollet, to the "First Part of King Henry IV.," act i. sc. 2. [42] [A constant allusion in our old plays.] [43] This reply, and the preceding question of Randall, were omitted by Dodsley and Reed. [44] [It is still a common expression, that a person will "see his _grandmother_" after taking so and so.] [45] Mr Reed allowed it to stand _continuance_ instead of _discontinuance_, which made nonsense of the passage.--_Collier._ [46] See note to "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 3, vol. x. edit. 1778.--_Steevens._ [47] [Old copy and former editions, _pigme_. The peony is very apt to be nipped by the frost, and so to be pinched up; hence Sim's similitude.] [48] One of the miscellaneous collections of songs and poems, formerly published, called "Garlands." The names of a great number of these, and, amongst the rest, "The Garland of Good-will," by T. D., [1604,] are enumerated in [Hazlitt's "Handbook," 1867, art. Garlands, Deloney, &c.] [49] [A play on the similarity between _lye_ and _lie_, the former being the dregs or lees of beer.] [50] [_Moll_ and _Malkin_ are the same, of course. Ear-lack, just after, plays on the meanings of the words _bed_ and _stuff_.] [51] _Flechier_, Fr., a maker of arrows. We have still the Fletchers' Company in the city of London. [52] [The Poultry in Wood Street is meant.] [53] [Former edits., _Tributie_.] [54] [The "Mirror of Knighthood," better known as the "Knight of the Sun," a romance in nine parts, translated into English by Margaret Tyler and others, between 1579 and 1601. Complete sets are of the greatest rarity. The bibliography of the work may be seen in Hazlitt _v._ Knight of the Sun.] It appears that Thomas Este, the printer, [originally] undertook the publication of this work, which is executed by different translators, and dedicated to different patrons. Margaret Tyler (_thine to use_, as she says at the conclusion of her address to the reader) having no concern with any part but the first.--_Steevens._