[539] From the _Battle of Alcazar_, 1594 (attributed to
Peele):--"Feed then and faint not, fair Calipolis." Pistol in 2
_Henry IV._ quotes the line as it is given by Marston.
[540] See note 4, p. 355. [Transcriber's Note: Footnote [452]]
[541] _i.e._, cover or embroider thickly. Cf. Guilpin's
_Skialetheia_, epigr. 53:--
"He wears a jerkin _cudgell'd_ with gold lace,
A profound slop, a hat scarce pipkin-high."
[542] Half-a-crown was a somewhat extravagant price for an
ordinary. Two shillings or eighteenpence was the usual price for
a good ordinary.
[543] _Hatch'd sword_ was a sword with an engraved hilt.
[544] See note, vol. i. p. 36.
[545] _Cheator_ was a cant term for a rogue who made his living
by cheating at dice.--"Cheating Law--or the art of winning money
by false dice: those that practise this study call themselves
_cheators_, the dice cheaters, and the money which they purchase
cheats."--Dekker's _Bellman of London_ (_Works_, ed. Grosart,
iii. 117).
[546] Throws at dice.
[547] "_He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother's
smock_,--saying of any one remarkable for his success with the
ladies."--Grose's _Class. Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue_.
[548] _i.e._, copiousness.--Ben Jonson was fond of using the word
_copy_ in this sense.
[549] Simplicius seems to be trying to recall some passage of
_Euphues_.
[550] Old eds. "boyes."
[551] Plunder.
[552] "This may be an allusion," says Dilke, "to a superstition
still existing in a degree among sailors, that to whistle during
a storm will increase its violence." No such allusion is
intended. The "whistle" is the boatswain's whistle.
[553] Old eds. "crownes."
[554] Old eds. "ADRIAN."
[555] Ed. 1. "stut."
[556] Ed. 2. "thirsting."--Spenser has _thrist_ and _thristy_
(for _thirst_ and _thirsty_).
[557] Cf. _Jul. Ceas._, i. 2:--"Let me have men about me that are
fat," &c.
[558] _i.e._, the report that you were dead.
[559] Old eds. "_Adri._"
[560] Cf. _Second Part of Antonio and Mellida_, v. 2:--
"Force the plump-lipp'd god
Skip light lavoltas in your full-sapp'd veins."
[561] Old eds. "sweete" and "sweet."
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Text was not wrapped so that line numbers would be consistent with the
original text.
Punctuation, use of hyphens, and accent marks were standardized.
Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. In Footnote [431],
the letter 'i' with a macron is indicated '[=i]' and 'i' with a breve is
indicated '[)i]'.
Footnotes were numbered sequentially, indented, and moved to the end
of the scene to which they pertain. There are three anchors for
Footnote [487], and two for Footnotes [488] and [559].
Phrases in Greek were transliterated.
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