=4. 6. 42 We haue another leg-strain’d, for this Dottrel.= See variants, and note 2. 2. 49, 50. =4. 6. 49 A Phrentick.= See note 5. 8. 91-2. =4. 7. 37-40.= See variants. Gifford silently follows Whalley’s changes, which are utterly unwarrantable. Cunningham points out the wrong division in 37, 8. The scansion is thus indicated by Wilke (_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p. 3): Of a/ most wor/thy gen/tleman./ Would one Of worth/ had spoke/ it: whence/ it comes,/ it is Rather/ a shame/ to me,/ ͝ then/ a praise. The missing syllable in the third verse is compensated for by the pause after the comma. This is quite in accordance with Jonson’s custom (see Wilke, p. 1 f.). =4. 7. 45 Publication.= See 3. 3. 137. =4. 7. 54 I sou’t him.= See variants. Gifford says that he can make nothing of _sou’t_ but _sought_ and _sous’d_, and that he prefers the latter. Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the same as _shue_, ‘to frighten away poultry,’ and Cunningham accepts this without question. There seems, however, to be no confirmation for the theory that the preterit was ever spelt _sou’t_. Wright’s _Dialect Dictionary_ gives: ‘_Sough._ 19. to strike; to beat severely,’ but the pronunciation here seems usually to be _souff_. Professor Wright assures me that _sous’d_ is the correct reading, and that the others are ‘mere stupid guesses.’ =4. 7. 62 in possibility.= A legal phrase used of contingent interests. See note 4. 6. 38, 9. =4. 7. 65 Duke O’ Shore-ditch.= ‘A mock title of honour, conferred on the most successful of the London archers, of which this account is given: When Henry VIII became king, he gave a prize at Windsor to those who should excel at this exercise, (archery) when Barlo, one of his guards, an inhabitant of Shoreditch, acquired such honor as an archer, that the king created him _duke of Shoreditch_, on the spot. This title, together with that of marquis of Islington, earl of Pancridge, etc., was taken from these villages, in the neighborhood of Finsbury fields, and continued so late as 1683. Ellis’s _History of Shoreditch_, p. 170. The latest account is this: In 1682 there was a most magnificent entertainment given by the Finsbury archers, when they bestowed the title of _duke of Shoreditch_, etc., upon the most deserving. The king was present. _Ibid._ 173.’--Nares, _Gloss_.