II, ii, 17. _serue_--G. and S. read _served_, which is certainly correct. Not only is there nothing throughout the play to suggest that Beaumelle’s mother is still alive, but she herself has just spoken of “you two my women” (l. 11). II, ii, 18. _a peepe out_--a “pip” [old spelling _peepe_] is one of the spots on playing cards, dice, or dominoes. The allusion is to a game of cards called “one-and-thirty”; thirty-two is a pip too many. II, ii, 21-2. _the mother of the maydes_--a title properly applied to the head of the maids of honour in a Royal household. II, ii, 22. _mortifie_--there is a significant ambiguity to the word Bellapert uses. It means “bring into subjection,” “render dead to the world and the flesh;” it formerly had also a baleful meaning: “to kill;” “to destroy the vitality, vigor, or activity of.” II, ii, 32. _vanuable, to make you thus--valuable_ is used in its generic sense of _value-able_, _of sufficient value_. II, ii, 71. _turn’d in her varieties_--G., S. read: _trimm’d in her varieties_--i. e., “decked in her varieties [varied aspects].” But adherence to the Q. is possible, with the meaning, “fashioned in her varieties.” II, ii, 82. _walkes not vnder a weede_--i. e., “wears not a garment,” “is not in existence.” II, ii, 88. _Tissue_--a rich kind of cloth, often interwoven with gold or silver. So again in II, ii, 175. II, ii, 89. _a three-leg’d lord_--the meaning is that Young Novall cannot independently “stand upon his own legs,” but requires the triple support of himself, Liladam, and Aymer. II, ii, 96. _musicke house_--a public hall or saloon for musical performances. II, ii, 99-100. _in the Galley foyst_, etc.--a Galley-foist was a state barge, especially that of the Lord Mayor of London. This, however, can hardly be the meaning of the word here, used as it is in connection with _Bullion_, which were trunk-hose, puffed out at the upper part, in several folds; and with _Quirpo_, a variant of _cuerpo_--i. e., _in undress_. “Galley-foist” may be the name of some dress of the period, so-called for its resemblance to the gaily bedecked Mayor’s-barge. But it is not unlikely, as Mason suggests, that _The Galley-foist_ and _The Bullion_ were the names of taverns of that day; or else of houses of public resort for some kind of amusement. II, ii, 104. _skip_--so in all texts. But Field has elsewhere (_Woman is a Weathercock_, II, i.): “and then my lord ... casts a suit every quarter, which I _slip_ into.” It is probable that the word was the same in both passages,--though whether _skip_ or _slip_ I have no means of determining. II, ii, 119. _St Omers_--more properly, _St. Omer_, a town of northern France. A College of Jesuits was located there, and the point of Novall’s comparison is perhaps an allusion to the mean appearance of Jesuit spies who would come from thence to England on some pretext, such as to see their friends during the Christmas season.