=1. 3. 27 Vnder your fauour, friend, for, I’ll not quarrell.= ‘This was one of the qualifying expressions, by which, “according to the laws of the duello”, the lie might be given, without subjecting the speaker to the absolute necessity of receiving a challenge.’--G. Leigh uses a similar expression. Cf. note 2. 1. 144. It occurs several times in _Ev. Man in_: ‘_Step._ Yet, by his leave, he is a rascal, under his favour, do you see. _E. Know._ Ay, by his leave, he is, and under favour: a pretty piece of civility!’ --_Wks._ 1. 68. ‘_Down._ ’Sdeath! you will not draw then? _Bob._ Hold, hold! under thy favour forbear!’ --_Wks._ 1. 117. ‘_Clem._ Now, sir, what have you to say to me? _Bob._ By your worship’s favour----.’ --_Wks._ 1. 140. I have not been able to confirm Gifford’s assertion. =1. 3. 30 that’s a popular error.= Gifford refers to _Othello_ 5. 2. 286: _Oth._ I look down towards his feet,--but that’s a fable.-- If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee. Cf. also _The Virgin Martyr_, Dekker’s _Wks._ 4. 57: --Ile tell you what now of the Divel; He’s no such horrid creature, cloven footed, Black, saucer-ey’d, his nostrils breathing fire, As these lying Christians make him. =1. 3. 34 Of Derby-shire, S^r. about the Peake.= Jonson seems to have been well acquainted with the wonders of the Peak of Derbyshire. Two of his masques, _The Gipsies Metamorphosed_, acted first at Burleigh on the Hill, and later at Belvoir, Nottinghamshire, and _Love’s Welcome at Welbeck_, acted in 1633 at Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, the seat of William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, are full of allusions to them. The Devil’s Arse seems to be the cavern now known to travellers as the _Peak_ or _Devil’s Cavern_. It is described by Baedeker as upwards of 2,000 feet in extent. One of its features is a subterranean river known as the Styx. The origin of the cavern’s name is given in a coarse song in the _Gypsies Met._ (_Wks._ 7. 357), beginning: Cocklorrel would needs have the Devil his guest, And bade him into the Peak to dinner. In _Love’s Welcome_ Jonson speaks again of ‘Satan’s sumptuous Arse’, _Wks._ 8. 122. =1. 3. 34, 5. That Hole. Belonged to your Ancestors?= Jonson frequently omits the relative pronoun. Cf. 1. 5. 21; 1. 6. 86, 87; 3. 3. 149; 5. 8. 86, 87. =1. 3. 38 Foure pound a yeere.= ‘This we may suppose to have been the customary wages of a domestic servant.’--C. Cunningham cites also the passage in the _Alchemist_, _Wks._ 4. 12; ‘You were once ... the good, Honest, plain, livery-three-pound-thrum, that kept Your master’s worship’s house,’ in which he takes the expression ‘three-pound’ to be the equivalent of ‘badly-paid’. =1. 4. 1 I’ll goe lift him.= Jonson is never tired of punning on the names of his characters.