In _Twelfth Night_, act iv. sc. 2, Shakespeare makes the Clown use _bibble-babble_ in a similar sense; but afterwards in the same drama, act v. sc.1, _brabble_ is put for "a brawl." This word is no doubt the same as the "pribbles and prabbles" which Sir Hugh uses more than once in the _Merry Wives of Windsor_. See act v. sc. 5. P. 60. _Of hym that payde his dette with crienge bea._--Compare the story of "the subtility of Kindlewall the lawyer repayed with the like craft," printed in _Pasquil's Jests_, ed. Gilbertson, n. d. 40. P. 65. _All to._--I fear that I too hastily adopted the self-suggested notion that the former words might be read more properly as one word, and in the sense which I indicated. Perhaps as _all to_ or _al to_ is not uncommonly used by early writers in this way, though the meaning in the present case is not particularly clear, it may be better to restore the original reading. P. 67. _Of the Inholders wyfe and her ii lovers._--See Rowlands' _Knave of Clubbs_, 1600, ed. Rimbault, p. 25. P. 67. _Daungerous of her tayle._ So in the _Schole-house of Women_, 1542, the author says:-- "Plant them round with many a pin, Ringed for routing of pure golde, Faire without, and foule within, And of their tailes have slipper holde." P. 70. _Of Mayster Vavasour and Turpin his man._ "A Lawyer and his Clerk riding on the Road, the Clerk desired to know what was the chief Point of the Law. His Master said, if he would promise to pay for their Suppers that Night, he would tell him; which was agreed to. Why then, said the Master, good Witnesses are the chief Point in the Law. When they came to the Inn, the Master bespoke a couple of Fowls for Supper; and when they had Supped, told the Clerk to pay for them according to Agreement. O _Sir_, says he, where's your witness."--_Complete London Jester_, ed. 1771, p. 102. P. 72. One of _Pasquil's Jests_ is "how mad Coomes, when his wife was drowned, sought her against the stream." It is merely a new application of the present anecdote. P. 75. _Of the foole that thought hym selfe deed._--A story of a similar character occurs in _The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinarie, or, the Walkes in Powles_, 1604, (repr. 1841, p. 19), where "mine Host" gives an account of "how a yong fellow was even bespoke and jested to death by harlots." P. 93. _He fell to a nyce laughyng._ _Nice_, in the sense of _foolish_, is also used by Gower, who likewise employs the substantive _nicete_ in a similar way:-- "But than it were a _nicete_ To telle you, how that I fare!" _Confessio Amantis_, lib. vi. Chaucer employs the word in a similar sense very frequently. In the _Cuckoo and the Nightingale_, is the following passage:-- "To telle his might my wit may not suffice, For he can make of wise folks ful nice."