_Ant._ O, 'tis no matter whither, but let's fly. Ha! now I think on't, I have ne'er a home, No father, friend, or country to embrace These wretched limbs: the world, the all that is, 300 Is all my foe: a prince not worth a doit: Only my head is hoisèd to high rate, Worth twenty thousand double pistolets, To him that can but strike it from these shoulders. But come, sweet creature, thou shalt be my home; My father, country, riches, and my friend, My all, my soul; and thou and I will live,-- Let's think like what--and you and I will live Like unmatch'd mirrors of calamity. The jealous ear of night eave-drops our talk. 310 Hold thee, there's a jewel; and look thee, there's a note That will direct thee when, where, how to fly. Bid me adieu. _Mel._ Farewell, bleak misery! _Ant._ Stay, sweet, let's kiss before you go! _Mel._ Farewell, dear soul! _Ant._ Farewell, my life, my heart! [_Exeunt._ [77] A proverbial expression: gastêr ôtas ouk echei. [78] A familiar form of address. [79] Slipper. [80] The stick which held the gunner's match. [81] "Case of rapiers"--pair of rapiers. [82] All the editions give "Bessicler's;" but this is evidently a misprint. Rosicleer was the brother of the Knight of the Sun, and he figures prominently in the group of romances published under the _Mirror of Knighthood_ (7 pts., 1583-1601). He had an excellent suit of armour, which proved very serviceable in his combats with giants. [83] Dilke, in 1814, says that featherbeds were still used to protect the men from the fire of the enemy. As to the use of cables I refer the reader to Sir William Monson's _Naval Tracts_ (_Collection of Voyages and Travels_, 1704, iii. 358), where in the directions "How to preserve the men in fighting" it is stated:--"I prefer the coiling of cables on the deck, and keeping part of the men within them...; for the soldiers are in and out speedily upon all sudden occasions to succour any part of the ship, or to enter an enemy, without trouble to the sailors in handling their sails or to the gunners in playing their ordnance." [84] A twisted band worn round the hat. In _Every Man out of his Humour_ (1599), the "cable-hatband" is mentioned as a novelty of the latest fashion:--"I had on a gold cable hat-band _then new come up_." [85] Ruff, falling-band. [86] "So in _King Henry VIII._:-- 'Let the music knock it.'"--_Dilke._ [87] A quick lively dance.