Halliwell says (_L. L. L._, ed. Furness, p. 85): ‘An open shed or shop, forming a protection against the weather. The house in which Shakespeare was born had a penthouse along a portion of it.’ In Hollyband’s _Dictionarie_, 1593, it is spelled ‘pentice,’ which shows that the rime to ‘Juventus’ is probably not a distorted one. =1. 1. 52 thy doublet all belly.= ‘Certaine I am there was neuer any kinde of apparell euer inuented that could more disproportion the body of man then these Dublets with great bellies, ... stuffed with foure, fiue or six pound of Bombast at the least.’--Stubbes, _Anat._, Part 1, p. 55. =1. 1. 54 how nimble he is!= ‘A perfect idea of his activity may be formed from the incessant skipping of the modern Harlequin.’--G. =1. 1. 56 the top of Pauls-steeple.= As Gifford points out, Iniquity is boasting of an impossible feat. St. Paul’s steeple had been destroyed by fire in 1561, and was not yet restored. Several attempts were made and money collected. ‘James I. countenanced a sermon at _Paul’s Cross_ in favor of so pious an undertaking, but nothing was done till 1633 when reparations commenced with some activity, and Inigo Jones designed, at the expense of Charles I., a classic portico to a Gothic church.’--Wh-C. Lupton, _London Carbonadoed_, 1632, writes: ‘The head of St. Paul’s hath twice been troubled with a burning fever, and so the city, to keep it from a third danger, lets it stand without a head.’ Gifford says that ‘the Puritans took a malignant pleasure in this mutilated state of the cathedral.’ Jonson refers to the disaster in his _Execration upon Vulcan_, _U. 61_, _Wks._ 8. 408. See also Dekker, _Paules Steeples complaint_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 4. 2. =1. 1. 56 Standard in Cheepe.= This was a water-stand or conduit in the midst of the street of West Cheaping, where executions were formerly held. It was in a ruinous condition in 1442, when it was repaired by a patent from Henry VI. Stow (_Survey_, ed. Thoms, p. 100) gives a list of famous executions at this place, and says that ‘in the year 1399, Henry IV. caused the blanch charters made by Richard II. to be burnt there.’ =1. 1. 58 a needle of Spaine.= Gifford, referring to Randolph’s _Amyntos_ and Ford’s _Sun’s Darling_, points out that ‘the best needles, as well as other sharp instruments, were, in that age, and indeed long before and after it, imported from Spain.’ The tailor’s needle was in cant language commonly termed a _Spanish pike_. References to the Spanish needle are frequent. It is mentioned by Jonson in _Chloridia_, _Wks._ 8. 99; by Dekker, _Wks._ 4. 308; and by Greene, _Wks._ 11. 241. Howes (p. 1038) says: ‘The making of Spanish Needles, was first taught in England by Elias Crowse, a Germane, about the eight yeare of Queene Elizabeth, and in Queen Maries time, there was a Negro made fine Spanish Needles in Cheape-side, but would neuer teach his Art to any.’