_Lav._ I must give notice to an odd pedant, as we pass, of my nuptials: I use him, for he is obscure, and shall marry us in private. I have many enemies, but secresy is the best evasion from envy. 300 _Qua._ Holds it to-morrow? _Lav._ Ay firm, absolute. _Lam._ I'll say amen if the priest be mute. _Qua._ Epithalamiums will I sing, my chuck. Go on--spend freely--out on dross, 'tis muck. [_Exeunt._ [422] A sort of coarse cloth.--"By this heaven I wonder at nothing more than our gentlemen ushers, that will suffer a piece of serge or _perpetuana_ to come into the presence."--_Cynthia's Revels_, iii. 2. [423] "A kind of loose drawers or stockings worn outside the legs over the other clothing."--_Halliwell._ [424] "Mignon.--A minion, favourite wanton, _dilling_, darling."--_Cotgrave._ [425] _Pudding_ tobacco is frequently mentioned by the dramatists. Cf. _Cynthia's Revels_, ii. 1:--"Never kneels but to pledge healths, nor prays but for a pipe of _pudding-tobacco_." Probably it was tobacco compressed into a solid shape. [426] From numerous passages it appears that it was regarded as a piece of affectation to use the word _protest_. See Dyce's _Shakesp. Glossary_. [427] Ed. 1. "You." [428] Chamlet (or camlet) was a mixed stuff of wool and silk. [429] "'_Party per pale_' is a term in heraldry denoting that the field or ground on which the figures that make up a coat of arms are represented, is divided into two equal parts by a perpendicular line; and Quadratus means that the external appearances of the two sexes are, in Simplicius, divided with equal exactness."--_Dilke._ [430] Old eds. "you." [431] I beseech the reader to make "tears" equivalent to a dissyllable and not pronounce "Heracl[=i]tus" as "Heracl[)i]tus." [432] Formerly it was in the sovereign's power to grant to any petitioner the care of the person and estates of a subject who had been legally proved to be an idiot.