Sir Thomas Overbury gives the following description of ‘a Phantastique:’ ‘He withers his clothes on a stage as a salesman is forced to do his suits in Birchin Lane; and when the play is done, if you mark his rising, ’tis with a kind of walking epilogue between the two candles, to know if his suit may pass for current.’ Morley, p. 73. Stephen Gosson (_School of Abuse_, p. 29) says that ‘overlashing in apparel is so common a fault, that the verye hyerlings of some of our plaiers, which stand at reversion of vi^s by the weeke, jet under gentlemens noses in sutes of silke.’ =1. 6. 37, 8 For, they doe come To see vs, Loue, as wee doe to see them.= Cf. _Induction_ to _The Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 151: ‘Yes, on the stage; we are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.’ _Silent Woman_, _Wks._ 3. 409: ‘and come abroad where the matter is frequent, to court, ... to plays, ... thither they come to shew their new tires too, to see, and to be seen.’ Massinger, _City Madam_, _Wks._, p. 323: _Sir. Maur._ Is there aught else To be demanded? _Anne._ ... a fresh habit, Of a fashion never seen before, to draw, The gallants’ eyes, that sit upon the stage, upon me. Gosson has much to say on the subject of women frequenting the theatre. There, he says (p. 25). ‘everye man and his queane are first acquainted;’ and he earnestly recommends all women to stay away from these ‘places of suspition’ (pp. 48 f.). =1. 6. 40 Yes, wusse.= _Wusse_ is a corruption of _wis_, OE. _gewis_, certainly. Jonson uses the forms _I wuss_ (_Wks._ 1. 102), _I wusse_ (_Wks._ 6. 146), and _Iwisse_ (_Wks._ 2. 379. the fol. reading; Gifford changing to _I wiss_), in addition to the present form. In some cases the word is evidently looked upon as a verb. =1. 6. 58 sweet Pinnace.= Cf. 2. 2. 111 f. A woman is often compared to a ship. Nares cites B. & Fl., _Woman’s Pr._ 2. 6: This pinck, this painted foist, this cockle-boat. Cf. also _Stap. of News_, _Wks._ 5. 210: She is not rigg’d, sir; setting forth some lady Will cost as much as furnishing a fleet.-- Here she is come at last, and like a galley Gilt in the prow. Jonson plays on the names of Pinnacia in the _New Inn_, _Wks._ 5. 384: ‘_Host._ Pillage the Pinnace.... _Lord B._ Blow off her upper deck. _Lord L._ Tear all her tackle.’ Pinnace, when thus applied to a woman, was almost always used with a conscious retention of the metaphor. Dekker is especially fond of the word. _Match me in London_, _Wks._ 4. 172: --There’s a Pinnace (Was mann’d out first by th’ City), is come to th’ Court, New rigg’d. Also Dekker, _Wks._ 4. 162; 3. 67, 77, 78.