[223] "Black-guard"--the kitchen-drudges. [224] "And who not, shall"--omitted in ed. 3. and some copies of ed. 1. [225] "Would"--omitted in ed. 3. and some copies of ed. 1. [226] So Dilke.--Old eds. "costly." [227] Pilchard.--"If Cornish pilchards, otherwise called _fumadoes_, be so saleable as they are in France, Spain, and Italy," &c.--Nash's _Lenten Stuff_. [228] Ed. 3. and some copies of ed. 1. "maidens." [229] Ed. 1. "laide."--Ed. 3. "layd." [230] Omitted in ed. 3. [231] Large sleeves, stuffed with wool, hair, &c. [232] Ed. 3. and some copies of ed. 1. "follow." [233] Shelling. [234] Ed. 3. "upon fair Madonna." [235] Ed. 3. "were." [236] Ed. 3. and some copies of ed. 1. "as." [237] Ed. 3. and some copies of ed. 1. "doubtlest." [238] "With a wet finger"--nimbly, easily. [239] Eds. 1. and 3. "place and place." [240] Probably a hit at Ben Jonson, who in _Volpone_ (acted in 1605) makes _laughter_ rhyme with _slaughter_:-- "E'en his face begetteth laughter, And he speaks truth free from slaughter" (i. 1). [241] Eds. 1. and 2. "philosopher." [242] So ed. 3.--Eds. 1. and 2. "foole." [243] Eds. 1. and 3. omit "Indeed," and read "_In fatis agimur_." [244] So ed. 2.--Eds. 1. and 3. "in riches." [245] Ed. 1. "on." [246] "_Basilus manus_"--corrupt Spanish (for _besár los manos_). Cf. Dyce's _Beaumont and Fletcher_, viii. 77; _Old Plays_, ed. Bullen, ii. 114, iv. 316, &c. [247] Possibly there is an allusion to the execution of Sir Everard Digby, who, for his share in the Gunpowder Plot, was drawn, hanged, and quartered on 30th January 1606. Cf. Middleton, i. 255. [248] _Lanch_ was an old form of _lance_. Cf. 1 _Tamburlaine_, i. 2:-- "And either _lanch_ his greedy thirsting throat, Or take him prisoner." [249] Omitted in eds. 1. and 3. [250] Ed. 2. "hir." [251] Ed. 1. "heard some so try." [252] Omitted in eds. 1. and 3. [253] Eds. 1. and 3. "cuckolds, and decently and stately enough." [254] I have followed the reading of ed. 2. Eds. 1. and 3. read:--"O that we could get one another with child, Fawn, or like flies," &c. [255] The reader will recall a famous passage of Sir Thomas Browne's _Religio Medici_:--"I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of union: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life." Montaigne has some reflections of a similar kind. See also the complaint in Euripides' _Hippolytus_, ll. 616-24. [256] "Might"--omitted in ed. 1. [257] "Hams"--omitted in eds. 1. and 3. [258] Ed. 1. "face."--Ed. 3. "fate."