_Pier._ I will. Sound Lydian wires, once make a pleasing note 380 On nectar streams of your sweet airs to float. _Ant._ Here ends the comic crosses of true love; O! may the passage most successful prove! [160] Cool.--To _keel the pot_ was to stir the contents gently in order to keep them from boiling over. [161] Motto. [162] So ed. 1602.--Ed. 1633 "thou wilt." [163] A familiar form of address. [164] A sort of velvet. [165] In _Every Man out of his Humour_, iv. 4, after Fastidious Brisk has been describing the damage done to his finery in a duel, Carlo observes--"I wonder he speaks not of his _wrought shirt_." Gifford remarks--"The linen, both of men and women, was either so worked as to resemble the finest lace, or was ornamented by the needle with representations of fruits, flowers, passages of history, &c." [166] Ed. 1602 "price." [167] This play was acted by the Paul's Children, whose voices were carefully trained: hence the frequent introduction of songs. [168] See note 2, p. 51. [169] "Their _corkèd shoes_ to bear them high."--Stephen Gosson's _Pleasant Quips, &c._ [170] See note 6, p. 48. [171] "Slip"--counterfeit coin. [172] "Do me right and dub me knight."--Part of an old catch. So Silence in _2 Henry IV._, v. 3:-- "Do me right And dub me knight, Samingo." Again in Nashe's _Summer's Last Will and Testament_:-- "_All. Monsieur Mingo for quaffing did surpass, In cup, in can, or glass._ _Bac._ Ho, well shot a toucher, a toucher. _For quaffing Toy doth pass In cup, in can, or glass._ _All. God Bacchus, do him right, And dub him knight._" [173] Old eds. "mine." [174] Old eds. "Millane;" but Galeatzo, son of the Duke of Florence, was the suitor whom Piero had chosen. Cf. p. 91:-- "Young Florence prince, to you my lips must be, For a remittance of your interest." [175] Wide loose breeches. [176] "Ruffled boot."--See notes on Middleton, i. 26, viii. 70. [177] Motto. [178] "'Speak pure fool.'--This is idiomatic, and is in sense equivalent to, 'I will speak like a pure fool.' Thus in _Othello_, act ii., 'Drunk? and speak parrot?'--that is, talk foolishly or idly like a parrot."--_Halliwell_. [179] Old form of "bauble." [180] The highest note in the scale.--Cf. Nashe's _Christ's Tears over Jerusalem_ (_Works_, ed. Grosart, v. 188):--"No, no, either you must _strain your wits an ela above_ theirs," &c. The form of expression is not uncommon. [181] A red lattice was the distinguishing mark of a tavern. [182] "Flyboat" (Span. filibote)--a fast-sailing vessel.