=4. 4. 204 his Valley is beneath the waste.= ‘Waist’ and ‘waste’ were both spelled _waste_ or _wast_. Here, of course, is a pun on the two meanings. =4. 4. 206 Dulnesse vpon you! Could not you hit this?= Cf. _Bart. Fair_, _Wks._ 4. 358: ‘Now dullness upon me, that I had not that before him.’ =4. 4. 209 the French sticke.= Walking-sticks of various sorts are mentioned during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ‘In Chas. II.’s time the French walking-stick, with a ribbon and tassels to hold it when passed over the wrist, was fashionable, and continued so to the reign of George II.’ (Planché). =4. 4. 215, 6 report the working, Of any Ladies physicke.= In Lenton’s _Leasures_ (see note 4.4.134) we find: ‘His greatest vexation is going upon sleevelesse arrands, to know whether some lady slept well last night, or how her physick work’d i’ th’ morning, things that savour not well with him; the reason that ofttimes he goes but to the next taverne, and then very discreetly brings her home a tale of a tubbe.’ Cf. also B. & Fl., _Fair Maid of the Inn_ 2. 2: ‘_Host._ And have you been in England?... But they say ladies there take physic for fashion.’ Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2. 255, speaks of ‘a country gentleman that brings his wife vp to learne the fashion, see the Tombs at Westminster, the Lyons in the Tower, or to take physicke.’ In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson’s time ‘fanciful or artful wives would often persuade their husbands to take them up to town for the advantage of _physick_, when the principal object was dissipation.’ =4. 4. 219 Corne-cutter.= This vulgar suggestion renders hopeless Pug’s pretensions to gentility. Corncutters carried on a regular trade (see _Bart. Fair_ 2. 1.), and were held in the greatest contempt, as we learn from Nash (_Four Letters Confuted_, _Wks._ 2. 211). =4. 4. 232 The Moone.= I. e., see that the moon and zodiacal sign are propitious. =4. 4. 235 Get their natiuities cast!= Astrology was a favorite subject of satire. Cf. Massinger, _City Madam_ 2. 2; B. & Fl., _Rollo Duke of Normandy_ 4. 2, etc. =4. 5. 31, 2 his valour has At the tall board bin question’d.= _Tall board_ is, I think, the same as _table-board_, a gaming-table. In Dyce’s edition of Webster’s _Devil’s Law Case_ (_Wks._ 2. 38) we read: ‘shaking your elbow at the table-board.’ Dyce says in a note that the old folio reads _Taule-board_. _Tables_ is derived from Lat. _Tabularum lusus_ › Fr. _Tables_. The derivation, _table_ › _tavl_ › _taul_ › _tall_, presents no etymological difficulties. A note from Professor Joseph Wright of Oxford confirms me in my theory. The passage seems to mean that Merecraft was accused of cheating, and, his valor not rising to the occasion, his reputation for honesty was left somewhat in doubt. =4. 6. 38-41 intitle Your vertue, to the power, vpon a life ... Euen to forfeit.= Wittipol is ‘wooing in language of the pleas and bench.’ Cf. 4. 7. 62.