=4. 4. 172 Shee must not lose a looke on stuffes, or cloth.= It being the fashion to ‘swim in choice of silks and tissues,’ plain woolen cloth was despised. =4. 4. 187 Blesse vs from him!= Preserve us. A precaution against any evil that might result from pronouncing the devil’s name. Cf. _Knight of the Burning Pestle_ 2. 1: Sure the devil (God bless us!) is in this springald!’ and Wilson, _The Cheats_, Prologue: No little pug nor devil,--bless us all! =4. 4. 191, 2 What things they are? That nature should be at leasure= =Euer to make ’hem!= Cf. _Ev. Man in_, _Wks._ 1. 119: ‘O manners that this age should bring forth such creatures! that nature should be at leisure to make them!’ =4. 4. 197 Hee makes a wicked leg.= Gifford thinks that _wicked_ here means ‘awkward or clownish.’ It seems rather to mean ‘roguish,’ a common colloquial use. =4. 4. 201 A setled discreet pase.= Cf. 3. 5. 22; 2. 7. 33; and Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 238: ‘Walke vp and downe by the rest as scornfully and as carelesly as a Gentleman-Usher.’ =4. 4. 202 a barren head, Sir.= Cf. 2. 3. 36, 7 and 4. 2. 12. Here again we have a punning allusion to the uncovered head of the gentleman-usher. ‘It was a piece of state, that the servants of the nobility, particularly the gentleman-usher, should attend bare-headed.’ Nares, _Gloss._ For numerous passages illustrating the practice both in regard to the gentleman-usher and to the coachman, see the quotations in Nares, and Ford, _Lover’s Melancholy_, _Wks._ 1. 19; Chapman, _Gentleman-Usher_, _Wks._ 1. 263; and the following passage, _ibid._ 1. 273: _Vin._ I thanke you sir. Nay pray be couerd; O I crie you mercie, You must be bare. _Bas._ Euer to you my Lord. _Vin._ Nay, not to me sir, But to the faire right of your worshipfull place. A passage from Lenton (see note 4. 4. 134) may also be quoted: ‘He is forced to stand bare, which would urge him to impatience, but for the hope of being covered, or rather the delight hee takes in shewing his new-crisp’t hayre, which his barber hath caused to stand like a print hedge, in equal proportion.’ The dramatists ridiculed it by insisting that the coachman should be not only bare-headed, but bald. Cf. 2. 3. 36 and Massinger, _City Madam_, _Wks._ p. 331: ‘Thou shalt have thy proper and bald-headed coachman.’ Jonson often refers to this custom. Cf. _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 232: Such as are bald and barren beyond hope, Are to be separated and set by For ushers to old countesses: and coachmen To mount their boxes reverently, etc. _New Inn_, _Wks._ 5. 374: _Jor._ Where’s thy hat?... _Bar._ The wind blew’t off at Highgate, and my lady Would not endure me light to take it up; But made me drive bareheaded in the rain. _Jor._ That she might be mistaken for a countess? Cf. also _Mag. La._, _Wks._ 6. 36, and _Tale Tub_, _Wks._ 6. 217 and 222.