=3. 3. 206, 7 Come, gi’ me Ten pieces more.= The transaction with Guilthead is perhaps somewhat confusing. Fitzdottrel has offered to give his bond for two hundred pieces, if necessary. Merecraft’s ‘old debt of forty’ (3. 3. 149), the fifty pieces for the ring, and the hundred for Everill’s new office (3. 3. 60 and 83) ‘all but make two hundred.’ Fitzdottrel furnishes a hundred of this in cash, with the understanding that he receive it again of the gold-smith when he signs the bond (3. 3. 194). He returns, however, without the gold, though he seals the bond (3. 5. 1-3). Of the hundred pieces received in cash, twenty go to Guilthead as commission (3. 3. 155). This leaves forty each for Merecraft and Everill. =3. 3. 213 how th’ Asse made his diuisions.= See _Fab._ cix, _Fabulae Aesopicae_, Leipzig, 1810, _Leo, Asinus et Vulpes_. Harsnet (_Declaration_, p. 110) refers to this fable, and Dekker made a similar application in _Match me in London_, 1631, _Wks._ 4. 145: _King._ Father Ile tell you a Tale, vpon a time The Lyon Foxe and silly Asse did jarre. Grew friends and what they got, agreed to share: A prey was tane, the bold Asse did diuide it Into three equall parts, the Lyon spy’d it. And scorning two such sharers, moody grew, And pawing the Asse, shooke him as I shake you ... And in rage tore him peece meale, the Asse thus dead, The prey was by the Foxe distributed Into three parts agen; of which the Lyon Had two for his share, and the Foxe but one: The Lyon (smiling) of the Foxe would know Where he had this wit, he the dead Asse did show. _Valasc._ An excellent Tale. _King._ Thou art that Asse. =3. 3. 214 Much good do you.= So in _Sil. Wom._, _Wks._ 3. 398: ‘Much good do him.’ =3. 3. 217 And coozen i’ your bullions.= Massinger’s _Fatal Dowry_, _Wks._, p. 272, contains the following passage: ‘The other is his dressing-block, upon whom my lord lays all his clothes and fashions ere he vouchsafes them his own person: you shall see him ... at noon in the Bullion,’ etc. In a note on this passage (_Wks._ 3. 390, ed. 1813) Gifford advanced the theory that the _bullion_ was ‘a piece of finery, which derived its denomination from the large globular gilt buttons, still in use on the continent.’ In his note on the present passage, he adds that it was probably ‘adopted by gamblers and others, as a mark of wealth, to entrap the unwary.’ Nares was the next man to take up the word. He connected it with ‘_bullion_; Copper-plates set on the Breast-leathers and Bridles of Horses for ornament’ (Phillips 1706). ‘I suspect that it also meant, in colloquial use, copper lace, tassels, and ornaments in imitation of gold. Hence contemptuously attributed to those who affected a finery above their station.’