=3. 4. 43 Gentleman huisher.= For the gentleman-usher see note 4. 4. 134. The forms _usher_ and _huisher_ seem to be used without distinction. The editors’ treatment of the form is inconsistent. See variants, and compare 2. 7. 33. =3. 4. 45-8 wee poore Gentlemen ... piece.= Cf. Webster, _Devil’s Law Case_, _Wks._ 2. 38: ‘You have certain rich city chuffs, that when they have no acres of their own, they will go and plough up fools, and turn them into excellent meadow.’ Also _The Fox_ 2. 1: --if Italy Have any glebe more fruitful than these fellows, I am deceived. As source of the latter Dr. L. H. Holt (_Mod. Lang. Notes_, June, 1905) gives Plautus, _Epidicus_ 2. 3. 306-7: nullum esse opinor ego agrum in agro Attico aeque feracem quam hic est noster Periphanes. =3. 5. 2 the row.= Stow (_Survey_, ed. 1633, p. 391) says that Goldsmith’s Row, ‘betwixt _Breadstreete_ end and the Crosse in _Cheap_,’ is ‘the most beautifull Frame of faire houses and shops, that be within the Wals of _London_, or elsewhere in England.’ It contained ‘ten faire dwelling houses, and fourteene shops’ beautified with elaborate ornamentation. Howes (ed. 1631, p. 1045) says that at his time (1630) Goldsmith’s Row ‘was much abated of her wonted store of Goldsmiths, which was the beauty of that famous streete.’ A similar complaint is made in the _Calendar of State Papers_, 1619-23, p. 457, where Goldsmith’s Row is characterized as the ‘glory and beauty of Cheapside.’ Paul Hentzner (p. 45) speaks of it as surpassing all the other London streets. He mentions the presence there of a ‘gilt tower, with a fountain that plays.’ =3. 5. 29, 30 answering= =With the French-time, in flexure of your body.= This may mean bowing in the deliberate and measured fashion of the French, or perhaps it refers to French musical measure. See Gloss. =3. 5. 33 the very Academies.= See note 2. 8. 20. =3. 5. 35 play-time.= Collier says that the usual hour of dining in the city was twelve o’clock, though the passage in _Case is Altered_, _Wks._ 6. 331, seems to indicate an earlier hour: Eat when your stomach serves, saith the physician, Not at eleven and six. The performance of plays began at three o’clock. Cf. _Histriomastix_, 1610: Come to the Town-house, and see a play: At three a’clock it shall begin. See Collier, _Annals_ 3. 377. Sir Humphrey Mildmay, in his Ms. Diary (quoted _Annals_ 2. 70), speaks several times of going to the play-house after dinner. =3. 5. 39 his Damme.= _NED._ gives a use of the phrase ‘the devil and his dam’ as early as Piers Plowman, 1393. The ‘devil’s dam’ was later applied opprobriously to a woman. It is used thus in Shakespeare, _Com. Err._ 4. 3. 51. The expression is common throughout the literature of the period.