=4. 2. 63 What vile Fucus is this.= The abuse of face-painting is a favorite subject of satire with the moralists and dramatists of the period. Stubbes (_Anatomy of Abuses_, Part 1, pp. 64-8) devotes a long section to the subject. Dr. Furnivall in the notes to this passage, pp. 271-3, should also be consulted. Brome satirizes it in the _City Wit_, _Wks._ 2. 300. Lady Politick Would-be in the _Fox_ is of course addicted to the habit, and a good deal is said on the subject in _Epicoene_. Dekker (_West-ward Hoe_, _Wks._ 2. 285) has a passage quite similar in spirit to Jonson’s satire. =4. 2. 71 the very Infanta of the Giants!= Cf. Massinger and Field, _Fatal Dowry_ 4. 1: ‘O that I were the infanta queen of Europe!’ Pecunia in the _Staple of News_ is called the ‘Infanta of the mines.’ Spanish terms were fashionable at this time. Cf. the use of _Grandees_, 1. 3. It is possible that the reference here is to the Infanta Maria. See Introduction, p. xviii. =4. 3. 5, 6 It is the manner of Spaine, to imbrace onely, Neuer to kisse.= Cf. Minsheu’s _Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues,_ pp. 51-2: ‘_W._ I hold that the greatest cause of dissolutenesse in some women in England is this custome of kissing publikely.... _G._ In Spaine doe not men vse to kisse women? _I._ Yes the husbands kisse their wiues, but as if it were behinde seuen walls, where the very light cannot see them.’ =4. 3. 33 f. Decayes the fore-teeth, that should guard the tongue;= etc. Cf. _Timber_, ed. Schelling, 13. 24: ‘It was excellently said of that philosopher, that there was a wall or parapet of teeth set in our mouth, to restrain the petulancy of our words; that the rashness of talking should not only be retarded by the guard and watch of our heart, but be fenced in and defended by certain strengths placed in the mouth itself, and within the lips.’ Professor Schelling quotes Plutarch, _Moralia, de Garrulitate_ 3, translated by Goodwin: ‘And yet there is no member of human bodies that nature has so strongly enclosed within a double fortification as the tongue, entrenched within a barricade of sharp teeth, to the end that, if it refuses to obey and keep silent when reason “presses the glittering reins” within, we should fix our teeth in it till the blood comes rather than suffer inordinate and unseasonable din’ (4. 223). =4. 3. 39 Mad-dames.= See variants. The editors have taken out of the jest whatever salt it possessed, and have supplied meaningless substitutes. Gifford followed the same course in his edition of Ford (see Ford’s _Wks._ 2. 81), where, however, he changes to Mad-dam. Such gratuitous corruptions are inexplicable. Cf. _Tale Tub_, _Wks._ 6. 172: Here is a strange thing call’d a lady, a mad-dame. =4. 3. 45 Their seruants.= A common term for a lover. Cf. _Sil. Wom._, _Wks._ 3. 364.