[235] An _aunt of the suburbs_ was synonymous with _bawd_. See [Dyce's Middleton, i. 444.] [236] [From the context, evidently a place of entertainment, a kind of restaurant. Perhaps the modern Glass-House Street may fix the site.] [237] _i.e._, The bill of the mortality by the plague. The theatres were sometimes closed, in consequence of the prevalence of the disease. Such was the case in the latter end of the reign of Elizabeth. See note to Nash's "Summer's Last Will and Testament [viii. 15]."--_Collier._ [238] [The folio reads _hogough_.] [239] [In old copy this word forms part of the next sentence.] [240] [Probably a tavern so called.] [241] [The weight inserted in a bowl.] [242] This probably is the same tavern mentioned in "A Match at Midnight," act i.: "My master means the _sign of the Devil_," &c.--_Collier._ [243] [_i.e._, It is presumed, put a quart of sack into your head at my expense. He afterwards gives him an angel. A _half-moon_ was an old cant term for a wig. See Dyce's Middleton, ii. 382.] [244] _i.e._, _Who_ can that be? In this manner the word _who_ is pronounced in some parts of the kingdom, particularly in the county of Kent.--_Pegge._ [245] _i.e._, The Tailor, who very suddenly got drunk, and as suddenly drowsy.--_Collier._ [246] Jolly makes his _exit_ at the same time, and returns again where his entrance is marked.--_Collier._ [247] [Probably Faithful's Christian name was _Moll_, which Jolly pronounces _Mull_.] [248] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 141.] [249] [This word was perhaps then, as now, understood in a cant sense.] [250] [A crowd had assembled outside, it appears, inquisitive to know what was going on within.] [251] [Old copy, _thy_.] [252] [A proverbial expression for a simpleton.] [253] [In how stately a fashion she carries herself.] [254] [Drunken, from the Dutch _op zee_, which means literally _at sea_, and thence drunk, like our own _half-seas-over_.] [255] [Summoner.] [256] [A play on words.] [257] [Alluding to the common expression, Fools have fortune.] [258] [The folio, _you he_.]