Line 590. _Rooke_ = cheat or sharper, and is used as a general term of contempt. See _Every Man in his Humour_, i. 5, 89,--"Hang him, rook!" The host of the Garter frequently addresses his familiars as "bully-rook." See _Merry Wives of Windsor_, i. 3, 2; ii. 1, 200, 207, 213. Line 611. _Forfeiture._--Properly, something lost on engagement, or in consequence of the breach of an obligation. Cf. _Merchant of Venice_, i. 3, 165; iv. 1, 24, 122. Here the word is used in a modified and more general sense. Line 641. _Ast._--Cf., in 1592, G. Harvey's _Pierces Superer_, 57,--"He ... bourdeth, girdeth, asseth, the excellentest writers." Line 644. _Scindifer._--So MS., possibly for _scimitar_. Line 649. _Whineard_, a sword or hanger (Halliwell):-- "His cloake grew large and sid And a faire whinniard by his side." (_Cobler of Canterburie_, 1608, sig. E, ii.) Line 658. _Stingian._--So MS. for _Stygian_. Line 668. _Lovd._--So MS., possibly for _livd_. Line 670. _Vild._--So MS. for _vile_ or _wild_. Lines 677, 678. _Christall_ and _cherrye_ reversed. Line 683. _Headye_, rash, impetuous. See 1 _Henry IV._ ii. 3, 58, and _Henry V._ i. 1, 34. Line 686. _Dicker._--Ten of any commodity, as ten hides of leather, ten bars of iron, etc. This word comes from the late Latin _dicra_ (_dicora, decora, dacra, dacrum_), classical Latin _decuria_, meaning ten hides, occasionally ten of other things. "Also that no maner foreyn sille no lether in the seid cite, but it be in the yelde halle of the same, paying for the custom of every _dyker_ i.d." (_English Guilds_, ed. by Toulmin Smith, p. 384). For the wide use of the word in Western and Northern Europe, cf. O. Norse _dekr_, ten hides, M. H. G. _decker_, ten of anything, especially hides. Modern German _decker_ = ten hides. Line 688. _How_ here = however, as in _Venus and Adonis_, 79; 1 _Henry IV._ v. 2, 12; and _Much Ado about Nothing_, iii. 1, 60. Line 703. _Seas._--MS. has _sea_. Line 711. _Pinke._--A word found in the northern dialects for "to peep slyly." Cf. the adjective _pink_, winking, half-shut; "Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne" (_Antony and Cleopatra_, ii. 7, 121). Line 734. _My grandam ... earth._--Cf. 1 _Henry IV._ iii. 1, 34. Line 735. _Randome._--The verb random, to stray wildly, is more frequently found with the original spelling _randon_ (French _randoner_, to run rapidly), which became altered, possibly by analogy with _whilom_ and _seldom_, possibly by a process of change similar to that which converted _ranson_ to _ransom_. Sackville writes:--"Shall leave them free to randon of their will." NOTES TO THE APPENDIX. I. Line 32. (_i_) is here equivalent to _id est_. Lilly gives the examples of lines 52, 53 (in which the same abbreviation here occurs) with the words written in full. Line 48. _Repente._--A play on the meaning of the English and the form of the Latin word _repente_ is clearly intended.