[388] Cf. Reinhardstoettner, _Plautus_, etc., 671: _Capitano Spavento viene con li musici per far una mattinata a Isabella_. [389] specimen. [390] On Mumblecrust, etc., see Appendix _D_. [391] Interrupting Mage. [392] Better fare than usual. See Harrison's _Description of Engl._ in Holinshed's _Chron._ 1, 168 (ed. 1587). [393] Note the fondness for proverbs, a trait taken from life and often to be found in later plays.--Sherwood: To whurre, whurle (or yarre) as a dog, _Gronder comme un chien_. Cooper: scolding. It is perhaps = whirr, whirret (slashing, slash)? [394] Cf. III. iii, 102; Heywood's _Proverbs_, 1, ch. 2 (p. 6); Camden's _Proverbs_, 276, 277, etc. [395] Apparently vv. 17, 18. [396] Heywood's _Proverbs_, 2, ch. 7. Patten: a wooden shoe that made a great clattering. [397] Wager; cf. _G. G. N._, I. iii, 20; I. iv, 47. [398] entering. [399] Sherwood: _Une vieille charougne_. A tough toothlesse trot, etc. [400] The same song is alluded to in _A pore Helpe_ (Hazlitt's _Early Pop. Poetry_, 3, 253). [401] stitch. [402] Cf. _whippit_ (in Halliwell): to jump about, etc. In _A Treatise shewing ... the Pryde and Abuse of Women Now a Dayes_ (c. 1550): "With whippet a whyle lyttle pretone, Prancke it, and hagge it well," etc. [403] E. has comma. [404] Murray's earliest quotation for 'here away,' etc., is from 1564. [405] Sherwood: _Bon mesnagier_. [406] bring to an end. [407] yield it you = reward. [408] I had; I wot. The dialect (generally southern, but occasionally also northern) used by rustic characters in the earlier plays; _e.g._ in _G. G. N._, _Trial of Treasure_, _Like will to Like_, etc. [409] Cf. _G. G. N._ v. 211; Heywood, _Prov._ 2, ch. 7; Camden, _Prov._ 268. [410] mincing, coy. [411] Cf. the whispering scene in the _Trial of Treasure_. [412] Cf. the slave of Polymachæroplagides in Plaut. _Pseudolus_. [413] Hazlitt: intentional nonsense for '_nobis miscebetur_[!] _miserere_.' Liturgical words muttered indistinctly and used here jocosely. Heywood: "betweene you and your Ginifinee _Nycebecetur_" (_Prov._ 1, ch. 11, p. 57 = 'What's her name?' _Nescio quid dicitur?_). [414] Cf. 'spoke,' V. v, 5; and 'take,' III. iii, 135. [415] make (Hazlitt). [416] avise, advise. [417] R.'s oaths are generally not so strong; I count in _G. G. N._ 48 oaths beginning with, By Gog's, Cocks, etc. [418] For the rhyme's sake; cf. Wilson's _Rhetorique_, 202: _Reticencia_, A whisht or warning to speake no more. [419] These lines are assigned to R. in E. [420] Cf. Sherwood: _Grison_, gray with age, ... grizle. [421] This part of the scene is the reverse of Plaut. _Miles_, v. 1000 _seq._, where Pal. has difficulties in keeping Pyrg. from falling in love with the servant. [422] Cf. _G. G. N._ p. 252. [423] 'Is it not she?' cf. v. 88; II. iv, 14. Elliptical construction, cf. Heywood, _Johan_, ll. 26 and 624. [424] friendly (Cotgr.). [425] Cf. Chaucer's _Miller's Tale_, 3268, Skelton, etc. [426] C., 'to' spare.