Line 101. _I pre, sequor._--Literally, "Go before, I follow." The porter supplies a free translation in the words "one of your consorte." Cf. the use of the phrase "to be hail-fellow-well-met with anyone." Line 109. _Condolent_ here means _expressing sorrow_. For this sense see Wood, Ath. Oxon. (R)--"His vein for ditty and amorous ode was deemed most lofty, condolent, and passionate." Line 110. _Suffocat._--The porter's substitute for _sufficit_; though, strictly speaking, the _o_ should be long. Line 111. _I tickle them for a good voice._--Besides the ordinary metaphorical meaning of to flatter, _tickle_ sometimes = to serve one right, to make one pay for a thing. For this sense see 1 _Henry IV._ ii. 4, 489, "I'll tickle ye for a young prince, i' faith;" and cf. _Ibid._ ii. 1, 66. Probably the expression has a similar force here. Line 114. _Butterd beare._--Ale boiled with lump-sugar, butter, and spice. Line 122. _Act in conye._--The adjective _incony_, with the apparent sense of fine, delicate, is used twice by Costard in _Love's Labour's Lost_ (iii. 136, iv. 1, 144) and also in Marlowe's _Jew of Malta_, iv. 5--"While I in thy incony lap do tumble." Other examples are rare, and I have not found any instance of an adverbial use. A second, though much less probable interpretation of the passage is suggested by the frequent use of _cony_ as a term of endearment to a woman (cf. Skelton's _Eleanor Rummyng_, 225--"He called me his whytyng, his nobbes, and his conny"). If, however, "act in conye" were equivalent to "act as woman," _i.e._ take a female part, examples of analogous constructions should be forthcoming. Line 129. _Lovely._--Here used in the sense of loving, tender. Cf. _Taming of the Shrew_, iii. 2, 125--"And seal the title with a lovely kiss." Line 156. _All and some._--An expression meaning everyone, everything, altogether: "For which the people blisful, _al and somme_, So cryden" ... (CHAUCER, _Anelida and Arcite_, i. 26.) "Thou who wilt not love, do this; Learne of me what Woman is. Something made of thred and thrumme; A meere botch of all and some." (HERRICK, _Hesperides_, i. 100.) Line 160. _Cappes a thrumming._--Cf. _Knight of the Burning Pestle_, iv. 5-- "And let it ne'er be said for shame that we, the youths of London, Lay thrumming of our caps at home, and left our custom undone." To _thrum_ = to beat in the Suffolk dialect. Line 167. _Shrimpe._--This use of the word in the sense of child, offspring (or possibly as a term of endearment, "little one") is not common. It was generally employed contemptuously, and meant a dwarfish or stunted creature, as in 1 _Henry VI._ ii. 3, 23. See, however, _Love's Labour's Lost_, v. 2, 594. Line 193. _Oddes_ here = contention, quarrel. For this sense compare-- "I cannot speak Any beginning to this peevish odds." (_Othello_, ii. 3, 185.) and also _Henry V._ ii. 4, 129, and _Timon of Athens_, iv. 3, 42.