p. 248 _to knip._ To clip. (Dutch ‘knippen’, to cut, snip.) _N.E.D._ neglecting this passage, only gives the meaning as to bite or crop (grass) of cattle. It appends two quotations having this sense--the one from Dunbar’s _Poems_ (1500-20), the second from Douglas, _Aeneis_ (1513). +ACT II: Scene ii+ p. 252 _Mundungus._ Shag, or rank tobacco. cf. Sir R. Howard, _The Committee_ (folio, 1665), ii: ‘A Pipe of the worst Mundungus.’ Shadwell, _The Humourists_ (1671), iii, speaks with contempt of ‘bottle ale ... and a pipe of Mundungus.’ Johnson in his _Dictionary_ (1755) has: ‘Mundungus. Stinking tobacco. A cant word.’ +ACT II: Scene iv+ p. 261 _a Bob._ cf. Prologue, _The False Count_ (Vol. III, p. 100), ‘dry bobs,’ and note on that passage, pp. 479-80. p. 263 _barbicu._ Better ‘barbecu’. An Americanism meaning to broil over live coals. Beverley, _Virginia_, III, xii (1705), thus explains it: ‘Broyling ... at some distance above the live coals [the Indians] & we from them call Barbecuing.’ cf. Pope, _Imitations of Horace_, Sat. ii, 25, 26:-- _Oldfield_ with more than Harpy throat endued Cries, ‘Send me, Gods, a whole hog barbecued!’ +ACT III: Scene i+ p. 264 _De-Wit._ ‘To De-Wit’ = to lynch. The word often occurs; it is derived from the deaths of John and Cornelius De Wit, opponents of William III (when stadt-holder). They were murdered by a mob in 1672. cf. ‘to godfrey’ = to strangle, from the alleged murder of Sir Edmond Bury Godfrey[1] in 1678. Crowne, _Sir Courtly Nice_ (1685), II, ii, has: ‘Don’t throttle me, don’t _Godfrey_ me.’ The _N.E.D._ fails to include ‘to godfrey’. [Footnote 1: It is now pretty certainly established that this melancholist committed suicide.] p. 265 _Dalton’s Country-Justice._ A well-known work by the celebrated lawyer Michael Dalton (1554-1620). It was long held in great repute and regarded as supremely authoritative. On a page of advertisements (Some Books printed this Year 1677. For _John Amery_, at the _Peacock_, against St. _Dunstan’s Church_ in _Fleet-street_) in the _Rover I_ (4to 1677), occurs ‘_The Country Justice_, Containing the practice of the Justices of the Peace, in and out of their Sessions, with an Abridgment of all Statutes relating thereunto to this present Year 1677. By _Michael Dalton_ Esq; _Fol._ price bound 12s.’ cf. _The Plain Dealer_ (4to 1676), III, i: _Widow Blackacre._ Let’s see Dalton, Hughs, Shepherd, Wingate. _Bookseller’s Boy._ We have no law books. p. 266 _a Cagg._ Now corrupted to ‘Keg’, a small cask. cf. _Cotgrave_ (1611), ‘Encacquer’ to put in to a little barrell or cag. _N.E.D._ quotes this present passage. +ACT IV: Scene i+