=1. 2. 27 his hard names.= A long list of the ‘diverse names of the divell’ is given in _The Discovery_, p. 436, and another in the Second Appendix, p. 522. =1. 2. 31, 2 I long for thee. An’ I were with child by him, ... I could not more.= The expression is common enough. Cf. _Eastward Hoe_: ‘Ger. As I am a lady, I think I am with child already, I long for a coach so.’ Dekker, _Shomakers Holiday_, _Wks._ 1. 17: ‘I am with child till I behold this huffecap.’ The humors of the longing wife are a constant subject of ridicule. See _Bart. Fair_, Act 1, and Butler’s _Hudibras_, ed. 1819, 3. 78 and note. =1. 2. 39 A thousand miles.= ‘Neither are they so much limited as Tradition would have them; for they are not at all shut up in any separated place: but can remove millions of miles in the twinkling of an eye.’--Scot, _Discovery_, Ap. II, p. 493. =1. 2. 43 The burn’t child dreads the fire.= Jonson is fond of proverbial expressions. Cf. 1. 6. 125; 1. 6. 145; 5. 8. 142, 3, etc. =1. 3. 5 while things be reconcil’d.= In Elizabethan English both _while_ and _whiles_ often meant ‘up to the time when’, as well as ‘during the time when’ (d. a similar use of ‘dum’ in Latin and of ἕ ος in Greek).--Abbot, §137. For its frequent use in this sense in Shakespeare see Schmidt and note on _Macbeth_ 3. 1. 51, Furness’s edition. Cf. also Nash, _Prognostication_, _Wks._ 2. 150: ‘They shall ly in their beds while noon.’ =1. 3. 8, 9 those roses Were bigge inough to hide a clouen foote.= Dyce (_Remarks_, p. 289) quotes Webster, _White Devil_, 1612: --why, ’tis the devil; I know him by a great rose he wears on’s shoe, To hide his cloven foot. Cunningham adds a passage from Chapman, _Wks._ 3. 145: _Fro._ Yet you cannot change the old fashion (they say) And hide your cloven feet. _Oph._ No! I can wear roses that shall spread quite Over them. Gifford quotes Nash, _Unfortunate Traveller_, _Wks._ 5. 146: ‘Hee hath in eyther shoo as much taffaty for his tyings, as would serue for an ancient.’ Cf. also Dekker, _Roaring Girle_, _Wks._ 3. 200: ‘Haue not many handsome legges in silke stockins villanous splay feet for all their great roses?’ =1. 3. 13 My Cater.= Whalley changes to ‘m’acter’ on the authority of the _Sad Shep._ (vol. 4. 236): --Go bear ’em in to Much Th’ acater. The form ‘cater’, however, is common enough. Indeed, if we are to judge from the examples in Nares and _NED._, it is much the more frequent, although the present passage is cited in both authorities under the longer form. =1. 3. 21 I’le hearken.= W. and G. change to ‘I’d.’ The change is unnecessary if we consider the conditional clause as an after-thought on the part of Fitzdottrel. For a similar construction see 3. 6. 34-6.