[589] There is no allusion to Will Kempe's famous dance from London to Norwich, as that feat was performed in 1600. _Kempe's jig_ was the name of a popular dance; and there was a ballad that bore the same title. [590] So in the Induction to the _Malcontent_:--"I am one that hath seen this play often: I have most of the jests here in my table-book."--Dekker, in the _Gull's-Horn Book_, advises a gallant to "hoard up the finest play-scraps you can get, upon which your lean wit may most savourly feed for want of other stuff, when the Arcadian and Euphuized gentlewomen have their tongues sharpened to set upon you!" [591] The italicised words are technical terms in fencing. I cannot find the term _finctures_, but it doubtless has the meaning _feints_(otherwise called _falses_). [592] The reference is to Vincentio Saviolo, a famous Italian master of fence, author of _Vincentio Saviolo his Practise in two Bookes. The first intreating of the use of the Rapier and Dagger. The Second of Honor and Honorable Quarrels_, 1595, 4to. [593] In _Every Man in his Humour_ Cob speaks of Bobadil as a "_Burgullian_ fencer"; and Dekker in the Preface to _Satiromastix_ says that "Horace [Jonson] questionless made himself believe that his _Burgonian_ wit might desperately challenge all comers, and that none durst take up the foils against him." In each case the allusion is to the Bastard of Burgundy who was overthrown at Smithfield in 1467 by Anthony Woodville. There is doubtless the same allusion in the present passage. [594] The _pommado_ was the vaulting on a horse (without touching the stirrups) and the _pommado reversa_ was the vaulting off again. [595] Omitted in ed. 1598. [596] Ed. 1598 "dares." [597] Pick-hatch (in Clerkenwell) and Shoreditch were the head-quarters of whores. [598] _Puttana Errante_ is the title of a poem (by Lorenzo Veniero) falsely ascribed to Aretino. The same title was sometimes given to _Dialoghi di Rosana e Ginevra_. See Preface to vol. i. of _Les Ragionamenti ou Dialogues du divin Pietro Aretino_, Paris, 1882. [599] (1) Ajax; (2) A jakes.--The joke is of constant occurrence. [600] Ed. 1599 "his." [601] _i.e._, with long ears, or tags. [602] "Trot a ring."--See note 1, vol. i. p. 111. [603] Ed. 1598 "slave." [604] "Remors de l'estromac, _The upbraiding of the stomacke_."--_Cotgrave._ [605] Snubbed. TO EVERLASTING OBLIVION.[606]