[349] In the margin of old eds., opposite the title, is printed
"_Vexat censura columbas_." (Juvenal, _Sat._ ii. 63.)
[350] So ed. 1.--Ed. 2. "ragged."
[351] "I suppose this is a word coined from _tod_, a certain
weight of sheep's wool. He seems willing to intimate that the
duke, &c., are _mutton_-mongers. The meaning of _laced mutton_ is
well known."--_Steevens._--Not at all satisfactory.
[352] Old eds. "Howle againe"--printed as part of the text.
[353] So ed. 2.--Ed. 1. "pray."
[354] "Within herself"--added in ed. 2.
[355] "The church"--added in ed. 2.
[356] "Of"--added in ed. 2.
[357] Omitted in ed. 2.
[358] Omitted in ed. 2.
[359] "I am weary ... now"--added in ed. 2.
[360] There is an allusion to the old superstition (which Ben
Jonson has amusingly illustrated in _The Devil is an Ass_, v. 5),
that a person possessed by the devil was able to converse in
various tongues.
[361] A term of contempt for a sordid old man.--Cf. _The Widow_,
ii. 2:--"Hear you me that, _old huddle_" (Middleton, v. 165).
[362] Ed. 2. "Penlolians."
[363] "_Monkeys_, apes, stellions, lizards, wasps, ichneumons,
swallows, sparrows, muskins, hedge-sparrows _feed on spiders_,"
says Dr. Muffet in one of his delightful chapters on spiders in
_The Theater of Insects_ (Topsel's _Nat. Hist._, ed. 1658, p.
1073).
[364] The housings of a horse.
[365] Mistress (_Ital._).
[366] Added in ed. 2.
[367] The cry of the ape-ward when the ape was to climb the pole
and display his feats of agility.
[368] The sport of Running at the Ring, in which the tilter tried
to drive the point of his spear through a suspended ring.
[369] This word is used in the _Duchess of Malfi_, ii. 1:--"The
_fins_ of her eyelids look most teeming blue!"
[370] "Greater than Great, great, great, great Pompey! _Pompey
the Huge!_"--_Love's Labour Lost_, v. 2.
[371] Cuckold (_Ital._).
[372] Unshell.
[373] Obscene exclamation (from the Italian).
[374] "Nay, to select ... freeze but to think it" (ll.
146-188).--This passage was added in ed. 2.
[375] See Skeat's _Etym. Dict. s._ KICKSHAWS.
[376] For "should show" old ed. gives "shue should."
[377] This speech was added in ed. 2.
[378] Ed. 2. "in middest."
[379] Added in ed. 2.
[380] "O the father ... my dear Castilio" (ll. 256-303).--This
passage was added in ed. 2.
[381] Old ed. "on."
[382] Old ed. "burstes."
[383] An allusion to Baldessar Castiglione, author of the famous
book of manners, _Il Cortese_, which was translated into English
(in 1561) by Sir Thomas Hoby.
[384] Ed. 1. "insinuating."
[385] Ed. 1. "lights."
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