It is to these passages that Carlyle refers in his _Past and Present_: ‘A certain degree of soul, as Ben Jonson reminds us, is indispensable to keep the very body from destruction of the frightfulest sort; to ‘save us,’ says he, ’the expense of salt.’ Bk. 2, Ch. 2. ‘In our and old Jonson’s dialect, man has lost the _soul_ out of him; and now, after the due period,--begins to find the want of it.... Man has lost his soul, and vainly seeks antiseptic salt.’ (Simpson in _N. & Q._, 9th Ser. 4. 347, 423.) To the same Latin source Professor Cook (_Mod. Lang. Notes_, Feb., 1905) attributes the passage in _Rabbi Ben Ezra_ 43-45: What is he but a brute Whose flesh has soul to suit, Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play? and Samuel Johnson’s ‘famous sentence recorded by Boswell under June 19, 1784: “Talking of the comedy of _The Rehearsal_, he said: ‘It has not wit enough to keep it sweet.’”’ =1. 6. 97 the walks of Lincolnes Inne.= One of the famous Inns of Court (note 3.1.8). It formerly pertained to the Bishops of Chichester (Stow, _Survey_, ed. 1633, p. 488a). The gardens ‘were famous until the erection of the hall, by which they were curtailed and seriously injured’ (Wh-C.). The Tatler (May 10, 1709, no. 13) speaks of Lincoln’s Inn Walks. =1. 6. 99 I did looke for this geere.= See variants. Cunningham says: ‘In the original it is _geere_, and so it ought still to stand. Gear was a word with a most extended signification. Nares defines it, “matter, subject, or business in general!” When Jonson uses the word _jeer_ he spells it quite differently. The _Staple of News_ was first printed at the same time as the present play, and in the beginning of Act IV. Sc. 1, I find: “_Fit._ Let’s _ieere_ a little. _Pen._ Ieere? what’s that?”’ It is so spelt regularly throughout _The Staple of News_, but in _Ev. Man in_ 1. 2 (fol. 1616), we find: ‘Such petulant, geering gamsters that can spare No ... subject from their jest.’ The fact is that both words were sometimes spelt _geere_, as well as in a variety of other ways. The uniform spelling in _The Staple of News_, however, seems to indicate that this is the word _gear_, which fits the context, fully as well as, perhaps better than Gifford’s interpretation. A common meaning is ‘talk, discourse’, often in a depreciatory sense. See Gloss. =1. 6. 125 Things, that are like, are soone familiar.= ‘Like will to like’ is a familiar proverb. =1. 6. 127 the signe o’ the husband.= An allusion to the signs of the zodiac, some of which were supposed to have a malign and others a beneficent influence. =1. 6. 131 You grow old, while I tell you this.= Hor. [_Carm._ I. II. 8 f.]: Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas, carpe diem.--G. Whalley suggested: Fugit Hora: hoc quod loquor, inde est. --Pers. _Sat._ 5.