[433] Marston has made a slip here: he has confused the hyena with the panther. "The panther or pardal," says Topsel, "smelleth most sweetly, which savour he hath received from a divine gift, and doth not only feel the benefit of it himself, but also bewray it unto other beasts; for when he feeleth himself to be hungry and stand in need of meat, then doth he get up into some rough tree, and by his savour or sweet smell, draweth unto him an innumerable company of wild goats, harts, roes, and hinds, and such other beasts, and so upon a sudden leapeth down upon them when he espieth his convenient time. And Solinus saith that the sweetness of his savour worketh the same effect upon them in the open fields, for they are so mightily delighted with his spotted skin and fragrant smell that they always come running unto him from all parts, striving who shall come nearest to him to be satisfied with the sight; but when once they look upon his fierce and grim face they all are terrified and turn away" (_History of Four-footed Beasts_, ed. 1658, p. 451). [434] The name of a piece of ordnance. [435] An exclamation of impatience. [436] Tadpole.--"Cavesot. A _pole-head_ or bull-head; the little black vermine whereof toads and frogs do come."--_Cotgrave._ [437] Dilke reads "cheval," and Mr. J. R. Lowell (in _My Study Windows_) approves of the emendation. I suspect that "Chirall" is a corruption of the name of some horse famous in one of the old romances.--_Curtal_ (= docked horse) would be preferable to _cheval_. [438] We have had in _Parasitaster_ (p. 212) a travesty of this line of _Richard III_. So in the _Scourge of Villainy_:-- "A man! a man! a kingdom for a man!" Again in _Eastward Ho_:-- "A boat! a boat! a full hundred marks for a boat!" [439] A bacchanalian exclamation of uncertain origin. [440] _Kinsader_ was the pseudonym under which Marston published his _Scourge of Villainy_. [441] If the text is not corrupt, "more battle fate" must mean "more prosperous fortune." _Battle_ and _batful_, applied to land, had the meaning--_fertile_, _fruitful_. [442] Old eds. "and sting-blister."--I suspect that Marston first wrote "stinge," and afterwards corrected it into "blister,"--the printer keeping both words. [443] See note 2, p. 348. [444] A familiar form of address. [445] Snubs. [446] Ed. 1. "tender-reach'd." [447] A particular manner of smoking tobacco. In the Character of the Persons prefixed to _Every Man out of his Humour_ it is said of Cavaliero Shift--"His chief exercises are _taking the whiff_, squiring a cockatrice, &c." We learn from the _Gull's Horn-book_ (Dekker's _Works_, ed. Grosart, ii. 242) that it was part of a gallant's education to be skilled in _taking the whiff_.