=1. 4. 83, 4 But, not beyond=, =A minute, or a second, looke for=. The omission of the comma after _beyond_ by all the later editors destroys the sense. Fitzdottrel does not mean that Wittipol cannot have ‘beyond a minute’, but that he cannot have a minute beyond the quarter of an hour allowed him. =1. 4. 96 Migniard.= ‘Cotgrave has in his dictionary, “_Mignard_--migniard, prettie, quaint, neat, feat, wanton, dainty, delicate.” In the _Staple of News_ [_Wks._ 5. 221] Jonson tries to introduce the substantive _migniardise_, but happily without success.’--G. =1. 4. 101 Prince Quintilian.= The reputation of this famous rhetorician (c 35-c 97 A. D.) is based on his great work entitled _De Instiutione Oratoria Libri_ XII. The first English edition seems to have been made in 1641, but many Continental editions had preceded it. The title Prince seems to be gratuitous on Jonson’s part. He is mentioned again in _Timber_ (ed. Schelling, 57. 29 and 81. 4). =1. 5. 2= Cf. _New Inn_, _Wks._ 5. 323: ‘_Host._ What say you, sir? where are you, are you within? (_Strikes_ LOVEL _on the breast_.)’ =1. 5. 8, 9. Old Africk, and the new America, With all their fruite of Monsters.= Cf. Donne, _Sat._, _Wks._ 2. 190 (ed. 1896): Stranger ... Than Afric’s monsters, Guiana’s rarities. Brome, _Queen’s Exchange_, _Wks._ 3. 483: ‘What monsters are bred in _Affrica_?’ Glapthorne, _Hollander_, _Wks._, 1874, 1. 81: ‘If _Africke_ did produce no other monsters,’ etc. The people of London at this time had a great thirst for monsters. See Alden, _Bart. Fair_, p. 185, and Morley, _Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair_. =1. 5. 17 for hidden treasure.= ‘And when he is appeared, bind him with the bond of the dead above written: then saie as followeth. I charge thee N. by the father, to shew me true visions in this christall stone, if there be anie treasure hidden in such a place N. & wherein it now lieth, and how manie foot from this peece of earth, east, west, north, or south.’--Scot, _Discovery_, p. 355. Most of the conjurers pretended to be able to recover stolen treasure. The laws against conjurers (see note 1. 2. 6) contained clauses forbidding the practice. =1. 5. 21 his men of Art.= A euphemism for conjurer. Cf. B. & Fl., _Fair Maid of the Inn_ 2. 2: ‘_Host._ Thy master, that lodges here in my Osteria, is a rare man of art; they say he’s a witch. _Clown._ A witch? Nay, he’s one step of the ladder to preferment higher; he’s a conjurer.’ =1. 6. 10 wedlocke.= Wife; a common latinism of the period. =1. 6. 14 it not concernes thee?= A not infrequent word-order in Jonson. Cf. 4. 2. 22. =1. 6. 18 a Niaise.= Gifford says that the side note ‘could scarcely come from Jonson; for it explains nothing. A niaise (or rather an _eyas_, of which it is a corruption) is unquestionably a young hawk, but the niaise of the poet is the French term for, “a simple, witless, inexperienced gull”, &c. The word is very common in our old writers.’