[41] "This alludes to a scene in the tragedy of _Mulleasses the Turke_, 1610, by Mason, where Borgias appears as a ghost, and is addressed by Mulleasses in these words:-- 'Illusive ayre, false shape of Borgias, Could thy vaine shadow worke a feare in him That like an Atlas under went the earth, When with a prim and constant eye he saw Hell's fifty-headed porter; thus I'd prove Thy apparition idle. [_Runnes at Borgias._ _Borg._ Treason! I live.'"--_Reed._ [42] A parody of an old ballad. See Evans' _Old Ballads_, i. 283 (1810); Chappell's _Popular Music of the Olden Time_, i. 241. [43] Not marked in old ed.--She leaves the stage while Security and Quicksilver are conversing; and presently (p. 37) returns. [Transcriber's note: after line 177, above scene.] [44] Cf. _Merchant of Venice_, i. 1:-- "My wind, cooling my broth, Would blow me to an ague, when I thought What harm a wind too great at sea might do." [45] A jocular term for _cuckolds_. [46] Nickname for a fisherman (one who followed the occupation of the apostle Peter). [47] "A hollie wand or _riding wand_. Houssine."--_Cotgrave._ [48] Used with a quibble. _Frail_ was a basket for figs, raisins, &c. [49] In _Lanthorn and Candlelight_ (1609) Dekker mentions this extraordinary commodity:--"After a revelling, when younger brothers have spent all, or in gaming have lost all, they sit plotting in their chambers with necessity how to be furnished presently with a new supply of money. They would take up any commodity whatsoever, but their names stand in too many texted letters in mercers' and scriveners' books. Upon _a hundred pounds' worth of roasted beef_ they could find in their hearts to venture, for that would away in turning of a hand; but where shall they find a butcher or a cook that will let any man run so much upon the score for flesh only?" (_Works_, ed. Grosart, iii. 231.) [50] "Foisting hound" = a dog with an evil smell. [51] "There is comprehended under the curs of the coarsest kind a certain dog in kitchen service excellent. For when any meat is to be roasted _they go into a wheel_, which they turning round about with the weight of their bodies so diligently look to their business that no drudger nor scullion can do the feat more cunningly: whom the popular sort hereupon call turnspits."--Topsel's _History of Four-footed Beasts_, ed. 1658 (p. 139). [52] The old ed. gives "poynados" (= poniards), which modern editors strangely retain. _Ponado_ (_panado_) was a caudle made of bread, currants, sack, eggs, &c. ACT III. SCENE I. SECURITY'S _house_.