[337] The expression "in decimo sexto" is used in reference to the company of the Children of the Chapel, acting at Blackfriars. Cf. Middleton's _Father Hubburd's Tales_ (_Works_, ed. Bullen, viii. 64):--"But for fear I interrupt this _small actor in less than decimo sexto_, "&c. The Children's Company at the Blackfriars seems to have appropriated Jeronimo, _i.e._, _The Spanish Tragedy_, in which the King's Company at the Globe had an interest; whereupon the King's Company retaliated by acting Malevole, _i.e. The Malcontent_. The expression "Malevole _in folio_" means "_The Malcontent_ acted by _men-actors_."--Dyce did not understand the passage. [338] A proverbial saying. "L. S." in the Shakespeare Society's _Papers_, ii. 85 (1847), quotes from Plutarch's Symposium, v. 1:--"For upon what other account should men be moved to admire _Parmeno's sow_ so much as to pass it into a proverb? Yet 'tis reported that Parmeno, being very famous for imitating the grunting of a pig, some endeavoured to rival and outdo him. And when the hearers, being prejudiced, cried out, 'Very well, indeed, but nothing comparable to Parmeno's sow,' one took a pig under his arm and came upon the stage; and when, tho' they heard the very pig, they still continued, 'This is nothing comparable to Parmeno's sow,' he threw his pig amongst them to show that they judged according to opinion and not truth" (Creech's translation). Phædrus has a fable on the subject. [339] Halfpennies. [340] Forbid. [341] "This is a pleasant exaggeration on the part of Sly. There were in all, as Stow tells, 'ten fair dwelling-houses and fourteen shops.' See 'Goldsmiths' Row' in _Handbook of London_, ed. 1850.--_P. Cunningham_ (_Notes and Queries_, 2d ser. vol. i. 71). [342] The old ed. "he." [343] These lines are a translation by Gabriel Harvey's younger brother John, of some lines of Petrarch, Son. cliii. They are quoted with two other "lusty hexameters" in a letter of Gabriel Harvey to Spenser. See Grosart's edition of Gabriel Harvey, i. 89-90. [344] Rogue. [345] Box. [346] It was the practice for gallants to smoke in the theatre. "Fie, this stinking tobacco kills me!" says the citizen's wife, in _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_, to the gallants smoking on the stage: "Would there were none in England! Now, I pray, gentlemen, what good does this stinking tobacco do you? nothing, I warrant you: make chimnies o' your faces!" [347] This stage direction is printed as part of the text in old ed. [348] "This seems intended as a burlesque [?] on the epilogue to _As You Like It_."--_Reed._ _DRAMATIS PERSONÆ._