And Hogsdone, Islington, and Tothnam-court, For cakes and cream had then no small resort. Tottenham Fields were until a comparatively recent date a favorite place of entertainment. =1. 1. 13 a tonning of Ale=, etc. Cf. _Sad Shep._, _Wks._ 6. 276: The house wives tun not work, nor the milk churn. =1. 1. 15 Spight o’ the housewiues cord, or her hot spit.= ‘There be twentie severall waies to make your butter come, which for brevitie I omit; as to bind your cherne with a rope, to thrust thereinto a red hot spit, &c.’--Scot, _Discovery_, p. 229. =1. 1. 16, 17 Or some good Ribibe ... witch.= This seems to be an allusion, as Fleay suggests, to Heywood’s _Wise-Woman of Hogsdon_. The witch of that play declares her dwelling to be in ‘Kentstreet’ (Heywood’s _Wks._ 5. 294). A ribibe meant originally a musical instrument, and was synonymous with rebec. By analogy, perhaps, it was applied to a shrill-voiced old woman. This is Gifford’s explanation. The word occurs again in Skelton’s _Elynour Rummyng_, l. 492, and in Chaucer, _The Freres Tale_, l. 1377: ‘a widwe, an old ribybe.’ Skeat offers the following explanation: ‘I suspect that this old joke, for such it clearly is, arose in a very different way [from that suggested by Gifford], viz. from a pun upon _rebekke_, a fiddle, and _Rebekke_, a married woman, from the mention of Rebecca in the marriage-service. Chaucer himself notices the latter in E. 1704.’ =1. 1. 16 Kentish Towne.= Kentish Town, Cantelows, or Cantelupe town is the most ancient district in the parish of Pancras. It was originally a small village, and as late as the eighteenth century a lonely and somewhat dangerous spot. In later years it became noted for its Assembly Rooms. In 1809 Hughson (_London_ 6. 369) called it ‘the most romantic hamlet in the parish of Pancras.’ It is now a part of the metropolis. See Samuel Palmer’s _St. Pancras_, London, 1870. =1. 1. 17 Hogsden.= Stow (_Survey_, ed. Thoms, p. 158) describes Hogsden as a ‘large street with houses on both sides.’ It was a prebend belonging to St. Paul’s. In Hogsden fields Jonson killed Gabriel Spenser in a duel in 1598. These fields were a great resort for the citizens on a holiday. The eating of cream there is frequently mentioned. See the quotation from Wither under note 1. 1. 11, and _Alchemist_, _Wks._ 4. 155 and 175: ----Ay, he would have built The city new; and made a ditch about it Of silver, should have run with cream from Hogsden. Stephen in _Every Man in_ dwelt here, and so was forced to associate with ‘the archers of Finsbury, or the citizens that come a-ducking to Islington ponds.’ Hogsden or Hoxton, as it is now called, is to-day a populous district of the metropolis.