[i.04] With this main-plot Heywood has interwoven a subordinate and independent story. To dwell upon this under-plot would be superfluous. Yet I may point out that it is borrowed from an Italian Novella by Illicini, the incidents of which Heywood carefully transferred to English scenes. In like manner _The Captive_, consists of a main-plot borrowed from the _Mostellaria_ of Plautus and an under-plot adapted from a novella of the Neapolitan, _Masuccio_. See my _Shakspere’s Predecessors_ (p. 462), and a letter written by me to the _Academy_ (Dec. 12, 1885). A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS FOOTNOTES. [1.01] #“The Shaking of the Sheets”# a popular tune to which many ballads ware set. Here a _double entente_ is intended. [1.02] #“In a good time that man both wins and woos, That takes his wife down in her wedding shoes.”# a proverbial saying. [1.03] #frets# the points at which a string is to be stopped in a lute or guitar.--_Halliwell_. [1.04] #hoigh# out of all bounds. [1.05] #angels# gold coins. [1.06] #be stirring early with the lark to-morrow# did Heywood remember Shakespeare’s “Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk”? [1.07] #crash# a merry bout. [1.08] #“Rogero”, “The Beginning of the World”, “John come kiss me now.”...# the tunes here mentioned are all more or less familiar from other passages in the old dramatists. [1.09] #sowse# we have here a number of not very intelligible terms borrowed from falconry. “At the sowse” was said of a bird when the hawk swooped straight down upon it. [1.10] #gets# booty. [1.11] #jesses# the short leather straps round the hawk’s legs. [1.12] #querre# perhaps from the German _quer_=oblique. [1.13] #merlin# a small species of hawk. [1.14] #attach# arrest. [1.15] #seen# versed. [1.16] #censured on# to censure, in legal language, means to pass judgment on. [1.17] #enter over the stage# they evidently pass through the gallery above and leave the stage to Wendoll. [1.18] #to bring him on his way# _i.e._ to accompany him. [1.19] #beholding# beholden. [1.20] #miching# sneaking or stealing into. [1.21] #bed-roll# _i.e._ bead roll. [1.22] #from the grate# alluding obviously to the debtors’ prisons; the lines remind us at once of _Pickwick_. [1.23] #wooden knife# with which the scraps were swept into the voider or basket. [1.24] #carpet# _i.e._ table-cover. [1.25] #play the good husband# _i.e._ be frugal. [1.26] #before your beard# _i.e._ before you had a beard. [1.27] #make-bate# promoter of quarrels. [1.28] #a pair of cards# _i.e._ pack of cards. [1.29] #well said# _i.e._ well done. [1.30] #noddy# said to have been something like cribbage; of the other games mentioned accounts are easily accessible, while it would be superfluous to comment on the various quibbles. [1.31] #quean# in the now obsolete sense of a whore. [1.32] #cross# piece of money. [1.33] #remember# _i.e._ remind.