[454] "In 1579 was published a book, entitled _Physic against Fortune, as well prosperous as adverse, contained in two Books. Written in Latin by Francis Petrarch, a most famous poet and oratour, and now first Englished by Thomas Twyne._ 4to. B. L."--_Reed._ [455] This seems to be a fictitious book, but some of the old divines chose titles quite as quaint. One of Thomas Becon's works is entitled _The Pomander of Prayer_. [456] Ed. 1. "complaints." [457] What follows, down to the entrance of Malevole (l. 156), was added in ed. 2. [458] It was a common superstition that this shell-fish turned itself into a solan-goose. See _Nares' Glossary_. [459] A horrid instrument of torture by which the legs were crushed. In Milloeus' _Praxis Criminis Persequendi_, Paris, 1541, fol., there is a blood-curdling representation of a victim undergoing this torture. The instrument was never used in England; but was frequently applied in France and Scotland to extort confession from criminals. [460] Old ed. "herlakeene." [461] Concerning Welshmen's pride in their gentility, see Middleton, iii. 23 (_note_). [462] Fine crape. [463] Old ed. "fowl."--The word _fowl_ seems to have been pronounced _fool_ (Middleton, vi. 249). Perhaps the reading "fowl" (after the mention of "woodcock") should be retained, as some sort of joke may have been intended. [464] Hymen was usually represented in masques with a saffron robe. [465] Old eds. "cloake" and "cloke." [466] "So in Shakespeare's _Lucrece_: 'O _Opportunity_, thy guilt is great! · · · · · · · Thou foul abettor! thou notorious _bawd_!'"--_Dyce._ So Heywood:-- "Win _Opportunity_, She's the _best bawd_."--_Fair Maid of the West_, i. 1. [467] Ed. 2. "O Ithacan." [468] Some copies of ed. 1. "faind." [469] Snubs, rebukes. Cf. Middleton's _Five Gallants_, ii. 3:--"Push! i'faith, sir, you're to blame; you have _snibbed_ the poor fellow too much." [470] Ed. 2. "itself." [471] "_Hor._ [_within_] _Hillo, ho, ho_, my lord! _Ham. Hillo, ho, ho_, boy! come, bird, come. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · _art thou there, truepenny_?"--_Hamlet_, i. 5. [472] Ed. 2. "thou." [473] Ed. 2. "dooth."