[2.25] #Little Davy, Cutting Dick# contemporary bravos of note. [2.26] #prick-song# music noted down. [2.27] #capricious# witty. [2.28] #jowl of ling# the fish so-called, which had been served to the guests in the Portcullis. [2.29] #skillets# small metal pots. [2.30] #sod# boiled. [2.31] #pitch# height: properly a hawking term. [2.32] #motion# propose. [2.33] #king’s lieutenant# more properly, queen’s lieutenant. [2.34] #dissolutely# he means “resolutely.” Slender makes the same blunder (_Mer. Wives_, i., 1). [2.35] #craze# burst. [2.36] #brave# fine. [2.37] #Aragoosa# query “Saragossa,” which produces a large quantity of common wine. [2.38] #peter-see-me# a sweet Spanish wine from the Pedro Ximenes grape. [2.39] #charnico# a sweet wine grown in the neighbourhood of Lisbon. [2.40] #bastard# bastard was the name of a sweet Mediterranean wine: a time-honoured joke. [2.41] #punks# prostitutes. [2.42] #table# picture. [2.43] #ging# the old form of “gang.” [124.2] #I sound it not# _i.e._, I cannot fathom your meaning. [2.45] #engines# all instruments of torture. [2.46] #bragging Thrasos# _i.e._ boasters, Thraso being a braggart in one of Terence’s plays. [2.47] #censures# sentences. [2.48] #taste# test. [2.49] #changed my copy# made a complete change. [2.50] #ging# gang. [2.51] #conceit# idea. [2.52] #poor-john# salt-fish. [2.53] #Hautboys long# _i.e._ they are to play for some time so as to admit of fresh stage arrangements for the coming scenes. [2.54] #carvel# or caravel, a small light ship. [2.55] #vail# lower. [2.56] #ought# owned. [2.57] #fights# defences placed round a vessel to protect the combatants. [2.58] #You that made Paul’s to stink# an allusion to the unsavoury exploit of a Spaniard, often referred to at this period. [2.59] #peruse# examine. [2.60] #habited# dressed. [2.61] #commerce# intercourse. [2.62] From Kyd’s oft-referred-to _Spanish Tragedy_. [2.63] #angels# _i.e._ coins. [2.64] #cunning quiddit# subtle point. [2.65] #generosity# _i.e._ people well-born. [2.66] #moorian# negro: perhaps a play on the word “murrain” is intended. THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER FOOTNOTES. [3.01] #_Histrio-Mastix_# by William Prynne: published in 1633. The full title of this bitter Puritan treatise was _Histrio-Mastix, the Player’s Scourge, or Actor’s Tragædie_. [3.02] #censure# judge. [3.03] #censure# judgment. [3.04] #where# _i.e._ whereas. [3.05] #jack# which made the spit turn; it had been recently introduced. [3.06] #buttery hatch# a term still used in the Universities. [3.07] #speck ... whig# a species of inferior drink, made from whey, and drunk by the lower classes in place of small beer. The exact nature of “speck” is unknown. [3.08] #indenture# bond. [3.09] #burnt wine# burnt wine, it will be remembered, was much affected by Pepys. [3.10] #consort# _i.e._, concert.