[129] Cf. Dekker and Webster's _Northward Ho_ (1606), iv. 3:-- "_Bell._ But what say you to such gentlemen as these are? "_Bawd._ Foh! they, as soon as they come to their lands, get up to London and like squibs that run upon lines, they keep a spitting of fire and cracking till they ha' spent all; and when my squib is out what says his punk? foh, he stinks!" [130] "Ship of Fools"--an allusion to Sebastian Brandt's famous work, translated by Alexander Barclay. [131] "Bear brain" = be shrewd, wary. [132] Eds. 1. and 3. "farre found." [133] Old eds. "If that they could have," &c. (The speech is printed as prose in old eds.) The "far-famed friar" is of course Friar Bacon. See the extract from _The Famous History of Fryer Bacon_ appended to Dyce's edition of Robert Greene's _Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay_. [134] Ed. 2. "hill." [135] Defame. "Mesdire. To _deprave_, reproach, revile, rayle on," &c.--_Cotgrave._ [136] Ed. 2. "all, all." [137] Old eds. "one." [138] Old eds. "and." [139] Ed. 2. "oppresse." [140] Ed. 2. "to." [141] Old eds. "Ferazees." [142] So ed. 2.--Ed. 1. "princes;" ed. 3. "princesse." [143] Ed. 2. "you." [144] Eds. 1. and 3. "sute." [145] "_Abricot_, the abricot or _apricocke_ plum."--_Cotgrave._ [146] Eds. 1. and 3. "have thy broth." [147] Old eds. "Baldus."--Lælius Balbus was a noted informer in the days of Tiberius. When he was banished (A.D. 37) there was great rejoicing because "_truci eloquentia habebatur, promptus adversum insontes_" (Tacitus, _Ann._ vi. 48). [148] Quy. "light"? [149] "The allusion is to the story of Bel and the Dragon in the Apocrypha."--_Dilke._ [150] Eds. 1. and 3. "false." [151] Eds. 1. and 3. "head." [152] Eds. 1. and 3. "follow him second.... Serv'd his," &c. [153] Old eds. "Hercules." [154] Eds. 1. and 3. "workes." [155] Old eds. "only eyed." [156] Ovid, _Amores_, xv. 36. [157] See Dyce's _Shakesp. Glossary_. [158] The meaning is--"And yet I contrive to keep my fool," &c. [159] See note, p. 20. [Transcriber's Note: Footnote [27]] [160] So the old eds.; but quy. "soote" (sweet)? ACT II. SCENE I. _A banqueting-hall._ HEROD _and_ NYMPHADORO _with napkins in their hands, followed by Pages with stools and meat_.