Dyce (B. & Fl., _Wks._ 7. 291) was the first to disconnect the word from _bullion_ meaning uncoined gold or silver. He says: ‘_Bullions_, I apprehend, mean some sort of hose or breeches, which were _bolled_ or _bulled_, i. e. swelled, puffed out (cf. _Sad. Shep._, Act 1. Sc. 2, _bulled_ nosegays’).’ The _NED._ gives ‘prob. a. F. _bouillon_ in senses derived from that of “bubble.”’ Besides the passages already given, the word occurs in B. & Fl., _The Chances_, _Wks._ 7. 291: Why should not bilbo raise him, or a pair of bullions? _Beggar’s Bush_, _Wks._ 9. 81: In his French doublet, with his blister’d (1st fol. _baster’d_) bullions. Brome, _Sparagus Garden_, _Wks._ 3. 152: --shaking your Old Bullion Tronkes over my Trucklebed. _Gesta Gray_ in Nichols’ _Prog. Q. Eliz._ 3. 341 A, 1594: ‘A bullion-hose is best to go a woeing in; for tis full of promising promontories.’ =3. 3. 231 too-too-vnsupportable!= This reduplicated form is common in Shakespeare. See _Merch. of Ven._ 2. 6. 42; _Hamlet_ 1. 2. 129; and Schmidt, _Dict._ Jonson uses it in _Sejanus_, _Wks._ 3. 54, and elsewhere. It is merely a strengthened form of _too_. (See Halliwell in _Sh. Soc. Papers_, 1884, 1. 39, and _Hamlet_, ed. Furness, 11th ed., 1. 41.) Jonson regularly uses the hyphen. =3. 4. 13 Cioppinos.= Jonson spells the word as if it were Italian, though he says in the same sentence that the custom of wearing chopines is Spanish. The _NED._, referring to Skeat, _Trans. Phil. Soc._, 1885-7, p. 79, derives it from Sp. _chapa_, a plate of metal, etc. ‘The Eng. writers c 1600 persistently treated the word as Italian, even spelling it _cioppino_, pl. _cioppini_, and expressly associated it with Venice, so that, although not recorded in Italian Dicts. it was app. temporarily fashionable there.’ The statement of the _NED._ that ‘there is little or no evidence of their use in England (except on the stage)’ seems to be contradicted by the quotation from Stephen Gosson’s _Pleasant Quippes_ (note 1. 1. 128). References to the chopine are common in the literature of the period (see Nares and _NED._). I have found no instances of the Italianated form earlier than Jonson, and it may be original with him. He uses the plural _cioppini_ in _Cynthia’s Revels_, _Wks._ 2. 241. See note 4. 4. 69. =3. 4. 32 your purchase.= Cf. _Alch._, _Wks._ 4. 150, and _Fox_, _Wks._ 3. 168: ‘the cunning purchase of my wealth.’ Cunningham (_Wks._ 3. 498) says: ‘Purchase, as readers of Shakespeare know, was a cant term among thieves for the plunder they acquired, also the act of acquiring it. It is frequently used by Jonson.’ =3. 4. 35 Pro’uedor.= Gifford’s change to provedoré is without authority. The word is _provedor_, Port., or _proveedor_, Sp., and is found in Hakluyt, _Voyages_, 3. 701; G. Sandys, _Trav._, p. 6 (1632); and elsewhere, with various orthography, but apparently never with the accent.