[3.11] #reaks# pranks. [3.12] #lanching# _i.e._, lancing. [3.13] #soul# the dark spongy substance inside a fowl’s back.--_Halliwell_. [3.14] #shrewd# sharp or bitter. [3.15] #alfarez# ensigns (Spanish). [3.16] #rebellings# _i.e._ ravelins (Sp. _rebellin_). [3.17] #possess# inform. [3.18] #novel# _i.e._ novelty. [3.19] “This piece of pleasant exaggeration gave rise to the title of Cowley’s Latin play, _Naufragium Joculare_, and furnished the idea of the best scene in it.”--_Charles Lamb_. [3.20] #atone# make up, appease. [3.21] #bill# a kind of halbert, carried by the watchmen of the period. [3.22] #Bermoothes# “Bermoothes” is the usual form of “Bermudas” in the old dramatists. [3.23] #durance# confinement. [3.24] #prodigious# _i.e._ portentous. [3.25] #countervail# counterbalance. [3.26] #break their day# fail to pay at the appointed time. [3.27] #use# interest. [3.28] #grange# the word seems to have implied “loneliness.” [3.29] #happiness# good fortune. [3.30] #motion# proposal. [3.31] #singularity# singleness. [3.32] #mechal# adulterous. [3.33] #private me no privates# like Shakespeare’s “but me no buts.” [3.34] #attach# charge with. [3.35] #bottle# bundle; Cotgrave has: “_boteler_, to botle or bundle up, to make into botles or bundles.” [3.36] #Privy# _i.e._ Privy Council. [3.37] #disable# disparage. [3.38] #picked# pitched. [3.39] #mainprize# a technical term: a writ of mainprize was sent to the sheriff, directing him to take sureties for a prisoner. [3.40] #shrievalty# it was customary for the sheriff to have posts in front of his house, to which notices were affixed. [3.41] #Chavelah?# the clown’s form of the French phrase _qui va là?_ [3.42] #banquet# _i.e._ a dessert. [3.43] #whilst I find something to say to this# he refers to the bottle. [3.44] #orators# this must be taken as a verb. [3.45] #no quarrels to unkindness# no quarrels are so bitter as those caused by unkindness. [3.46] #goes in at one door, and comes out at another# the old stage was wanting in moveable scenery. The audience had to suppose that when Young Geraldine re-entered, he was outside Mistress Wincott’s chamber. [3.47] #tester# a sixpence. [3.48] #rot-gut# cheap ale. [3.49] #fox you all# make you all drunk. [3.50] #like brave Orlando# alluding to “Orlando Furioso.” [3.51] #gullery# trickery. [3.52] #withdraw# the old edition adds “behind the arras.” [3.53] #windings and indents# schemes, shifts. [3.54] #piece# gun. [3.55] #Fortune play-house# the first theatre of this name, built by Henslowe and Alleyn, was burnt down in 1621: another theatre was erected on the site in 1622, and in old views of the latter a rudely carved figure, presumably of Fortune, is noticeable on the front of the house.--(See frontispiece to Dekker’s Plays in this series.) [3.56] #voted# _i.e._ chosen.