[86] Lady Mary Ramsey, second wife of Sir Thomas Ramsey (who was lord mayor in 1577). She was a benefactress of Christ's Hospital and other institutions: she died in 1596. See Stow's _Annales_, ed. 1720, i. 278. [87] There is an allusion to Heywood's play, _If you know not me you know nobody_. The _First Part_ was printed in 1605; the _Second Part_ in 1606. In the prologue to the _First Part_ Heywood mentions that the play had enjoyed extraordinary popularity; and from the same source we gather that it had been written some considerable time before the date of publication. The _Second Part_ is largely taken up with the building of Gresham's Royal Exchange. Lady Ramsey is one of the characters. [88] A theatrical term for a profitable performance. See Middleton, iii. 134. [89] _I.e._, set officers in ambush to arrest them. [90] Mean rascal. [91] An indelicate observation.--"Vessifier. To breed a _fyste_, to make breake wind, or let a _fyste_."--_Cotgrave._ [92] A proverbial expression.--"J'aymeroy autant tirer un pet d'un asne mort, que, &c.--I would as soone undertake to _get a fart of a dead man_, as, &c."--_Cotgrave._ [93] Where pirates were hanged. [94] "You might carry an M. under your girdle" = you might have the civility to use the term _Master_. Cf. Heywood's _A Maidenhead well Lost_, iii. 2:-- "_Wife._ Sirrah. _Clown._ Madam. _Lan._ Why dost view me thus? _Clown._ To see if the tailor that made your gown hath _put ne'er an M. under your girdle_: there belongs more to beaten satin than _sirrah_." [95] A game at cards. [96] Old ed. "so." [97] Presumption, arrogance.--Ben. Jonson has this French word in _Cynthia's Revels_, v. 2. Nares quotes an instance from Chapman's _Monsieur d'Olive_. [98] Schemer. ACT V. SCENE I. _Gertrude's lodging._ _Enter_ GERTRUDE _and_ SINDEFY. _Ge._ Ah, Sin! hast thou ever read i' the chronicle of any lady and her waiting-woman driven to that extremity that we are, Sin? _Si._ Not I, truly, madam; and if I had, it were but cold comfort should come out of books now. _Ge._ Why, good faith, Sin, I could dine with a lamentable story, now. _O_[99] _hone, hone, o no nera!_ &c. Canst thou tell ne'er a one, Sin? _Si._ None but mine own, madam, which is lamentable enough: first to be stolen from my friends, which were worshipful and of good accompt, by a prentice, in the habit and disguise of a gentleman, and here brought up to London, and promised marriage, and now likely to be forsaken, for he is in possibility to be hanged! 14