=16=, 207. =his woodden dagger.= The Elizabethan jester carried the wooden dagger or sword, which was often one of the properties of the "Vice" in the later Moralities and the Interludes. =17=, =Pyra.= Though this character is mentioned here and elsewhere among the _Dramatis Personæ_, she takes no part in the dialogue. =17=, 2. _that English virgin:_ apparently Annable, who is the Duchess of Guise's lady-in-waiting (cf. III, 2, 234-40). =18=, 15. =what's that to:= what has that to do with. =18=, 16-27. =Assure you . . . confusion to it.= With this encomium on Elizabeth and her Court compare Crequi's account of Byron's compliments to the Queen (_Byron's Conspiracie_, IV, 1). =19=, 36. =Which we must not affect:= which change, however, we must not desire to take place. =19=, 39-43. =No question . . . as they.= The travelled Englishman's affectation of foreign attire is a stock theme of Elizabethan satire. Cf. (e. g.) _Merch. of Ven._ I, 2, 78-81. =19=, 44. =travell.= A pun on the two senses, (1) journey, (2) labour, the latter of which is now distinguished by the spelling "travail." =21=, 85. =Tis leape yeare.= F. G. Fleay (_Biog. Chron._ I, 59) considers that this refers "to the date of production, as Bussy's introduction at Court was in 1569, not a Leap Year," and that it "fixes the time of representation to 1604." See _Introduction_. =22=, 110. =the groome-porters.= Chapman here transfers to the French Court an official peculiar to the English Royal Household till his abolition under George III. The function of the groom-porter was to furnish cards and dice for all gaming at Court, and to decide disputes arising at play. =23=, 123. =the guiserd.= The play on words here is not clear; "guiserd" may be a variant of "gizzard," in which case it would mean the Duke's throat. This is more probable than a "jingling allusion . . . to goose-herd or gozzard," which Dilke suggests. =23=, 124. =are you blind of that side:= unguarded and assailable in that direction. =23=, 130. =Accius Nævius:= the augur who cut a whetstone in pieces in presence of Tarquinius Priscus. =23=, 133. =mate:= either _match_ or _put down_, _overcome_. The latter sense is more probable, with a punning allusion to the use of the word in chess, at which Guise seems to be engaged with the King. Cf. l. 184. =23=, 135-36. =of the new edition:= of the recent creation. An allusion to the lavish creation of knights by James, shortly after his accession. =24=, 141-42. =y'ave cut too many throats.= An allusion to Guise's share in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. Contrast the references to the episode in _The Revenge_, II, 1, 198-234. =24=, 149. =the Knights ward.= Dilke thought that the allusion here was to the "poor knights of Windsor," but it really refers to a part of the "Counter" prison in London. Cf. _Eastward Hoe_, V, 2, 54, where Wolf says of Sir Petronel Flash, "The knight will i' the Knights-Ward, doe what we can, sir." (See Schelling's note.)