=1. 4. 5 halfe a piece.= ‘It may be necessary to observe, once for all, that the _piece_ (the double sovereign) went for two and twenty shillings.’--G. Compare 3. 3. 83, where a hundred pieces is evidently somewhat above a hundred pounds. By a proclamation, Nov. 23, 1611, the piece of gold called the Unitie, formerly current at twenty shillings was raised to the value of twenty two shillings (S. M. Leake, _Eng. Money_ 2. 276). Taylor, the water-poet, tells us that Jonson gave him ‘a piece of gold of two and twenty shillings to drink his health in England’ (_Conversations_, quoted in Schelling’s _Timber_, p. 105). In the _Busie Body_ Mrs. Centlivre uses _piece_ as synonymous with _guinea_ (2d ed., pp. 7 and 14). =1. 4. 31 Iust what it list.= Jonson makes frequent use of the subjunctive. Cf. 1. 3. 9; 1. 6. 6; 5. 6. 10; etc. =1. 4. 43 Ô here’s the bill, S^r.= Collier says that the use of play-bills was common prior to the year 1563 (Strype, _Life of Grindall,_ ed. 1821, p. 122). They are mentioned in _Histriomastix_, 1610; _A Warning for Fair Women_, 1599, etc. See Collier, _Annals_ 3. 382 f. =1. 4. 50 a rotten Crane.= Whalley restores the right reading, correctly explained as a pun on Ingine’s name. =1. 4. 60 Good time!= Apparently a translation of the Fr. _A la bonne heure_, ‘very good’, ‘well done!’ etc. =1. 4. 65 The good mans gravity.= Cf. Homer, _Il._, Γ 105: ἄξετε δὲ Πριάμοιο Βίην. Shak., _Tempest_ 5. 1: ‘First, noble friend, let me embrace thine age.’ _Catiline_ 3. 2.: ‘Trouble this good shame (good and modest lady) no farther.’ =1. 4. 70 into the shirt.= Cf. Dekker, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 244: ‘Dice your selfe into your shirt.’ =1. 4. 71 Keepe warme your wisdome?= Cf. _Cyn. Rev._, _Wks._ 2. 241: ‘_Madam, your whole self cannot but be perfectly wise; for your hands have wit enough to keep themselves warm._’ Gifford’s note on this passage is: ‘This proverbial phrase is found in most (sic) of our ancient dramas. Thus in _The Wise Woman of Hogsden_: “You are the wise woman, are you? You _have wit to keep yourself warm enough_, I warrant you”’. Cf. also _Lusty Juventus_, p. 74: ‘Cover your head; For indeed you have need to keep in your wit.’ =1. 4. 72 You lade me.= ‘This is equivalent to the modern phrase, you do not spare me. You lay what imputations you please upon me.’--G. The phrase occurs again in 1. 6. 161, where Wittipol calls Fitzdottrel an ass, and says that he cannot ‘scape his lading’. ‘You lade me’, then, seems to mean ‘You make an ass of me’. The same use of the word occurs in Dekker, _Olde Fortunatus_, _Wks._ 1. 125: ‘I should serue this bearing asse rarely now, if I should load him’. And again in the works of Taylor, the Water Poet, p. 311: ‘My Lines shall load an Asse, or whippe an Ape.’ Cf. also _Bart. Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 421: ‘Yes, faith, I have my lading, you see, or shall have anon; you may know whose beast I am by my burden.’