=4. 4. 38, 9 makes a Lady of sixty Looke at sixteen.= Cunningham thinks this is a reference to the _In decimo sexto_ of line 50. =4. 4. 39, 40 the water Of the white Hen, of the Lady Estifanias!= The Lady Estifania seems to have been a dealer in perfumes and cosmetics. In _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 166, we read: ‘Right Spanish perfume, the lady Estifania’s.’ Estefania is the name of a Spanish lady in B. & Fl.’s _Rule a Wife_. =4. 4. 47 galley-pot.= Mistresse Gallipot is the name of a tobacconist in Dekker’s and Middleton’s _Roaring Girle_. =4. 4. 50 In decimo sexto.= This is a bookbinder’s or printer’s term, ‘applied to books, etc., a leaf of which is one-sixteenth of a full sheet or signature.’ It is equivalent to ‘16mo.’ and hence metaphorically used to indicate ‘a small compass, miniature’ (see _Stanford_, p. 312). In _Cyn. Rev._, _Wks._ 2. 218, Jonson says: ‘my braggart in decimo sexto!’ Its use is well exemplified in John Taylor’s _Works_, sig. L_1 v^{0/1}: ‘when a mans stomache is in Folio, and knows not where to haue a dinner in Decimo sexto.’ The phrase is fairly common in the dramatic literature. See Massinger, _Unnat. Combat_ 3. 2; Middleton, _Father Hubburd’s Tales_, _Wks._ 8 64, etc. In the present passage, however, the meaning evidently required is ‘perfect: ’spotless,’ and no doubt refers to the comparative perfection of a sexto decimo, or perhaps to the perfection naturally to be expected of any work in miniature. =4. 4. 52 Virgins milke for the face.= Cf. John French, _Art Distill._. Bk. 5. p. 135 (1651): ‘This salt being set in a cold cellar on a marble stone, and dissolved into an oil, is as good as any _Lac virginis_ to clear, and smooth the face.’ _Lac Virginis_ is spoken of twice in the _Alchemist_, Act 2, but probably in neither case is the cosmetic referred to. See Hathaway’s edition, p. 293. Nash speaks of the cosmetic in _Pierce Pennilesse_, _Wks._ 2. 44: ‘She should haue noynted your face ouer night with _Lac virginis_.’ =4. 4. 55 Cataputia.= Catapuce is one of the laxatives that Dame Pertelote recommended to Chauntecleer in Chaucer’s _Nonne Preestes Tale_, l. 145. =4. 4. 63 Doe not you dwindle.= The use of _dwindle_ in this sense is very rare. _NED._ thinks it is ‘probably a misuse owing to two senses of _shrink_.’ It gives only a single example, _Alch._, _Wks._ 4. 163: ‘Did you not hear the coil about the door? _Sub._ Yes, and I dwindled with it.’ Besides the two instances in Jonson I have noticed only one other, in Ford, _Fancies chaste and noble_, _Wks._ 2. 291: ‘_Spa._ Hum, how’s that? is he there, with a wanion! then do I begin to dwindle.’