_Your (Gosson) for exempting._--'Your' may be mere carelessness for 'you,' or Lodge may have at one time meant to write, 'your exempting yourself.' P. 38. Last line of quotation of course _contemnas_ and _nam_. P. 41. Probably the printer gave _Silius Italicus_ his _v_. P. 44. _Pappe with an hatchet_ has been much discussed. The sense, which is not unlike 'giving him his gruel,' is clear enough, and any number of explanations of the form occur. _Patch._ Cf. Shylock's 'The _patch_ is kindly.' P. 45. _Huffe, Ruffe, and Snuffe._--Characters in Preston's _Cambyses_. It cannot be necessary to annotate each of the plays on words of which "grating" for "greeting" is the first, and which occur throughout. P. 46. _Ale dagger_, may refer to the custom of drinking with swords on the table. P. 47. _Scaddle_ is unannotated by Mr. Maskell, and does not appear in other dictionaries, even in that of Professor Skeat. But that excellent scholar, with his usual kindness, has given me a note on it. It is the A.S. _scadol_ from 'scathe,' and means 'mischievous,' with a secondary sense of 'thievish,' and a tertiary one of 'timid' or 'skulking.' It is here probably used in a combination of all these. _Dydoppers_ = 'didappers,' 'dabchicks.' P. 51. _Bastard_ senior and junior are polite references to _Martin_ senior and _Martin_ junior, two of the pseudonyms set to the Marprelate pamphlets. P. 52. _Elderton._--A theatrical manager. P. 53. _Three a vies._--A 'vie' is a single stake or game at cards, or anything else. 'Three a vies' therefore equals our 'best of three.' 'Passage,' a game with dice. 'Stabbing' was a form of cogging. 'Cater-tray,' four and three. 'Cater-caps,' trencher-caps. P. 54. _Dicker of leather._--A bundle of ten skins. _Woodsere._--Probably, as Mr. Maskell suggests, the sap that sputters from green faggots. P. 56. _Lambacke_ = 'thrash.' P. 58. _Bull._--Perhaps the hangman. P. 64. _Aptots_ = 'Indeclinables.' P. 65. _Næme_, also 'eme' or 'eame' = 'uncle.' P. 66. _Kixes_ or kexes.--Dry stalks of hemlock. P. 68. _Pistle._--The common shortened form for 'epistle' much used by the Martinists. P. 71. _Liripoope._--The _liripipium_, or long academic hood. _Chiuerell_ = 'doe-leather.' P. 72. _Comedies._--Anti-Martinist plays are known to have existed, but are quite lost. P. 76. _Muzroule_ or musroule.--A nose-band. _Port mouth._--I presume a kind of twitch. _Mubble fubbles_ = 'dumps,' 'blues.' P. 77. _Hauncing_ = 'tipping.' P. 79. _Celarent_ and _ferio_.--This play on the _memoria technica_ of logical mood and figure is ingenious. _Ora whine meg._--Sometimes given as 'Over a whinny meg.' Name of a tune. P. 80. _Bullen._--A vigorous pamphleteer of the preceding age. P. 84. Title. _Wit and Will_ is the first of the 'five discourses.' Below, in the second motto, 'Vir_e_s' should of course be 'vir_u_s,' being no doubt a mere misprint. P. 86.