Arthur Wilson (_Life of King James I._, p. 28), writing of the disorderly state of the city in 1604, says: ‘Divers _Sects_ of _vitious Persons_ going under the Title of _Roaring Boyes_, _Bravadoes_, _Roysters_, &c. commit many insolences; the Streets swarm night and day with bloody quarrels, private _Duels_ fomented,’ etc. Kastril, the ‘angry boy’ in the _Alchemist_, and Val Cutting and Knockem in _Bartholomew Fair_ are roarers, and we hear of them under the title of ‘terrible boys’ in the _Silent Woman_ (_Wks._ 3. 349). Cf. also Sir Thomas Overbury’s _Character of a Roaring Boy_ (ed. Morley, p. 72): ‘He sleeps with a tobacco-pipe in his mouth; and his first prayer in the morning is he may remember whom he fell out with over night.’ =3. 3. 71 the vapours.= This ridiculous practise is satirized in _Bart. Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 3 (see also stage directions). =3. 3. 77 a distast.= The quarrel with Wittipol. =3. 3. 79 the hand-gout.= Jonson explains the expression in _Magnetic Lady_, _Wks._ 6. 61. You cannot but with trouble put your hand Into your pocket to discharge a reckoning, And this we sons of physic do call _chiragra_, A kind of cramp, or hand-gout. Cf. also Overbury’s _Characters_, ed. Morley, p. 63: ‘his liberality can never be said to be gouty-handed.’ =3. 3. 81 Mint.= Until its removal to the Royal Mint on Tower Hill in 1810, the work of coinage was carried on in the Tower of London. Up to 1640, when banking arose, merchants were in the habit of depositing their bullion and cash in the Tower Mint, under guardianship of the Crown (see Wh-C. under _Royal Mint_, and _History of Banking in all the Leading Nations_, London, 1896, 2. 1). =3. 3. 86-8 let ... hazard.= Merecraft seems to mean: ‘You are in no hurry. Pray therefore allow me to defer your business until I have brought opportune aid to this gentleman’s distresses at a time when his fortunes are in a hazardous condition.’ The pregnant use of the verb _timing_ and the unusual use of the word _terms_ for a period of time render the meaning peculiarly difficult. =3. 3. 106 a Businesse.= This was recognized as the technical expression. Sir Thomas Overbury ridicules it in his _Characters_, ed. Morley, p. 72: ‘If any private quarrel happen among our great courtiers, he (the Roaring Boy) proclaims the business--that’s the word, the business--as if the united force of the Roman Catholics were making up for Germany.’ Jonson ridicules the use of the word in similar fashion in the Masque of _Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists_. =3. 3. 133 hauings.= Jonson uses the expression again in _Ev. Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 29, and _Gipsies Met._, _Wks._ 7. 364. It is also used in _Muse’s Looking Glasse_, _O. Pl._ 9. 175. =3. 3. 147 such sharks!= Shift in _Ev. Man in_ is described as a ‘threadbare shark.’ Cf. also Earle, _Microcosmography_, ed. Morley, p. 173. =3. 3. 148 an old debt of forty.= See 2. 8. 100.