Messrs. Steevens and Whalley maintain that the above term (a cant one) derives its origin from the _rook_ in the game of chess; but it is very improbable that that noble game, never the amusement of gamblers, should have been ransacked on this occasion. It means _a hectoring, cheating sharper_, as appears from _A new dictionary of the terms of the canting crew_, no date, 12mo, and from the lines prefixed to _The compleat gamester_, 1680, 12mo, in both which places it is spelt _bully-rock_. Nor is Mr. Whalley correct in stating that _rock_ and not _rook_ is the _true_ name of the chess piece, if he mean that it is equivalent to the Latin _rupes_. SCENE 3. Page 333. PIST. O base _Gongarian_ wight! It is already shown that this is the same as _Hungarian_. It simply means a _gipsy_. The parts of Europe in which it is supposed that the gipsies originally appeared were Hungary and Bohemia. In Act IV. Scene 5, of this play, the host in the like cant language calls Simple a _Bohemian Tartar_; and Munster in his _Cosmography_ informs us that the Germans denominated the _gipsies Tartars_. SCENE 3. Page 333. FAL. I am glad I am so acquit of this _tinder box_. There is a great deal of humour in this appellation. Falstaff alludes to Pistol's rubicund nose, which, like the above utensil, carried fire in it. SCENE 3. Page 333. PIST. Young ravens must have food. Either Shakspeare or the adage, if it be one, has borrowed from scripture. See _Psalm_ cxlvii. 9. or _Job_ xxxviii. 41. SCENE 3. Page 337. Note 4. To the instances adduced by Mr. Steevens in this note, of particular phrases in old theatrical characters, may be added that of Murley in _Sir John Oldcastle_, who is continually prefacing his speeches with "fye paltry, paltry, in and out, to and fro upon occasion." This practice has been revived in our modern comedies. SCENE 4. Page 347. CAIUS. You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby: come take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to de court. It was the custom, in Shakspeare's time, for physicians to be attended by their servants when visiting their patients. This appears from the _second part_ of Stubs's _Anatomie of abuses_, sign. H. 4 b., where, speaking of physicians, he says, "For now they ruffle it out in silckes and velvets, with _their men attending upon them_, whereas many a poor man (God wot) smarteth for it." Servants also carried their masters' rapiers: "Yf a man can place a dysh, fyll a boule and _carrie his maister's rapier_, what more is or can be required at his handes?"--Markham's _Health to the gentlemanly profession of a serving-man_, sign. F. 3. ACT II. SCENE 1. Page 357. MRS. FORD. ... to the tune of _Green sleeves_.